I know a fellow from Pakistan named Fali Engineer. He was the national leader of Pakistan for several years and was trained by Maharishi to teach TM and by Satyannand to teach the TM sidhi program. Fali told me that he taught both TM and Sidhis there without the Puja. Hmmmm , interesting, no? M was quite fond of Fali and I'm pretty darned sure Fali wasn't acting on his own. Pretty sure M gave permission to teach TM and Sidhis without Puja due to Pakistan being a Muslim nation and Muslims might be offended by Puja. Some how, I don't think M would have given permission to do this if the *teaching* wouldn't take. But... who knows?
On Wednesday, March 26, 2014 6:39 AM, "lengli...@cox.net" <lengli...@cox.net> wrote: Are we talking about the same "reason" [given] here? As I understand it (paraphrasing), there are several issues addressed by the TM teacher performing the TM pujja at the start of teachign TM, including: 1) it gives Maharishi a spiritual loophole where teh TM teacher dedicates teh entire TM teaching process to Maharishi's teacher, thereby sidestepping the issue where someone of Maharishi's caste can't be a "guru." 2) it reminds the teacher that there's a "Tradition of Masters" that the teacher is acting on behalf of, and that he should behave accordingly. 3) the actual ritual is supposed to create a samadhi-in-action state so that teh TM teacher is performing the all-important first step of teaching TM as, at last for that instant, an enlightened sage. Have I missed any purpose that you believe is relevant? L
