Can't help you with this one Buck and I admit to think it is more than silly to get upset or even question how people dress. Haven't you been abroad ? Do you get upset when you see an Egyptian or Indian dressed in robes ? Let people dress however they want and if someone has a problem with that they need to change their thinking and become more broadminded. A checking would help. You could organize mass checkings in your area and turn these silly prejudices completely around in a matter of weeks.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : This is all an interesting consideration about Transcendental Meditation. Very much like Brahmananda Saraswati, our Guru Dev, meditators here characteristically are very practical, down to earth and real in their spirituality. You have read the discourses of Guru Dev, Maharishi's teacher? People here are quite experienced spiritually. For instance meditators well know that if there is no useful shakti in something presented as spiritual then they will mostly go on to the next satsanga. Yes, there is a wide disheartenment in the old community of TM teachers and meditators with the specialness a Raja stick in TM. Even the TM.org is hiding the gold foil hats and robes of the Rajas. What were they thinking coming in to that meeting in full regalia? Certainly they considered it. That would have been a good question to have asked of Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam [MAR], CEO and Teacher of all of TM from the open Microphone at the meeting and heard an explaination of their need to wear that stuff in public. Nablusoss, you seem to have been around that more than anyone posting here. Maybe you can take a whack at the reasoning that they would come to visit America dressed like that. After morning meditation right now I got some work today with my livestock to move them out to green pastures and I don't got time towards to representing that POV on behalf of them here. Alex is related to it, may be he has some insight about the 'why' of gold foil hats. It is a question everyone asks about the meeting, “did they wear the hats?”. Notably, John Hagelin did not wear that stuff. That proly took some guts. Personally I am partial to a golden straw Amish broad brimmed hat for summer work. Out standing in his fields, -Buck Nablusoss1008 writes: Buck, if they are so small-minded about how someone dress (!) something must be not right with their practice. Such a narrow-mindedness is unhealthy and indicates that something not right is going on in the top floor. I can't understand how they can express such silliness, take a look at what the Indians just did:http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-27031180These http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-27031180These people in Fairfield really, really needs a checking to get out of those small boundries which obviously are bothering them. You know that group-checkings are easy to do, why don't you organize it ? Yes, the Raja part of TM is such a small circle in TM and of the larger TM community but people do wonder if they are going to keep doing it. When you talk to meditators in the community there is a general disheartenment that those guys wear that stuff representing the movement and the meditating community here. Generally you ask people here if they are meditators and the meditators respond saying, “yes, but not that.. .”, pointing in the general direction of campus and Vedic City.-Buck Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: !Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam is Coming to Fairfield! Afterwords, out in the Dome entry area and on the sidewalks to the parking areas as the meeting closed and people left: a big WTF reaction was, that they actually came wearing the gold foil hats and robes and stuff. I can't say that Alex's brother or some of those others following after Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam also in full regalia did not necessarily look or seem particularly ethereal in the cult outfit. Though that might have just been the bad light on them. It did sort of look and feel like The Return of the King set for The Lord of the Rings. It was just a little narcissistic. However, Hagelin and our other movement dignitaries seated on stage facing the crowd were dressed secular in suits and such. Generally was dignity and was all more corporate than cult. Lots of good people with high-mindedness and well-intentioned. Deserves only a watching and of course transparency to see. It was a good meeting of the remaining meditating community. -Buck in the Dome mjackson74 asks: What did he say about the relationship of the US movement to Girish? No, he was not asked about that so did not get to that. Uptown that readily gets asked by meditators but it was not asked last night for him to comment on. Nobody spoke about that. That as a larger community question Is still unresolved, as in not spoken to. -Buck sharelong60: Nablusoss, here in the states some FFers hie off in winter to a place in Florida called Vero Beach. Probably not as nice as Nice (-: Anyway, yes the meeting was good, though it went a little too late for my preference. imo Dr. Nader embodies a loving heart and brilliant mind and down to earth practicality. I think Maharishi chose wisely when he chose him. nablusoss1008 writes: Very nice report Buck, thanks for posting. I'll soon have a community meeting myself in Nice where I'm contemplating buying a house. Seems there are quite a few meditators down there in the sun :-) The Meeting.Was a Nice meditating community meeting. Non-meditators and townies would not have understood a lot of it. Though nothing was said that they could not have heard. It had some meditation news, some theoretical type of knowledge related to consciousness and meditation, some celebration, John Hagelin was a fun and witty MC, Bevan called in with some nice comments. We all got to sing the TM happy birthday song at a point in the end to our university's vice president. It was all nice. Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam, CEO of all of TM, acquitted himself very well. Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam and some of our TM Raja arrived in full regalia, in the hats and outfits having been driven to the Dome in their stretch limo. Context.After Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam was introduced briefly he spoke fondly of the Domes in Fairfield and their purpose. After that he turned to the open microphones for questions to answer. A usual sequence of touched community characters jumped to the mics. Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam did a really fine job of handling that. Journalistically, earlier in the day in town asking and surveying around of what questions people would like to have asked of Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam, in rapid-fire people easily asked about the lack of transparency and financial statements, our relationship with Girish Varma, the Pundits, the Domes. Other than the fact that none of these questions or concerns of substance got much of a chance to be asked it was a good meditator meeting. He said he'll be back,Jai Guru Dev,-Buck [ This meeting tonite is incredibly extremely really important for all of Transcendental Meditation.Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam, CEO of all of TM, will speak to the meditating community. Meeting with the Fairfield Meditating Community In the Golden Dome this Thursday evening, April 17, starting at 8:00 p.m. . .
