A bullshitter to the very end!
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On Mon, 4/28/14, salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi interview excerpts
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, April 28, 2014, 3:38 PM
He would have
made a great PR man for any company. It's hard
to get one over on him I think because of that relentless
positivity.
The only
reason he admits to being a snake oil salesman here is
because he didn't really understand the question, even
though most of his products are snake
oil!
My
favourite quip of his was in the interview with an Israeli
journalist who was trying to find a way of saying he
wasn't that impressed but couldn't get anything past
Marshy. He had learned TM some years previously at the
request of his mother who was really into it. He told Marshy
that his mother complimented him on how well he looked
because of TM every time she saw him but that he'd quit
meditating after a few days and didn't have the heart to
tell her!
And Marshy
said "There, see what benefits you can get after just a
few days!"
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
<awoelflebater@...> wrote :
I am no
big fan nor am I any big dissenter of MMY's but he did a
bang up job of running circles around this reporter who
seems to have been hell-bent on somehow belittling and
bringing Maharishi down with this interview. The harder this
reporter pressed the more MMY played with him. I loved
this.
---In
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dickmays@...> wrote
:
REPORTER:
"You're not doing much to disabuse me of the notion
that you're just a P.T. Barnum of the psychic
set."
MAHARISHI:
"What does this mean?"
REPORTER:
"That you're a natural salesman."
MAHARISHI:
"Very right. I think I have something
salable."
REPORTER:
"What are you selling?"
MAHARISHI:
"Natural law and the simplest level of consciousness
where everything
is spontaneously supported by nature. If people buy this
product,
they're better off."
* * * * * *
*
REPORTER:
"Why don't you raise money and distribute it to
needy people? Would
this not be a more effective way to bring about
change?"
MAHARISHI:
"No, no, it's not the money that can make one
happy."
REPORTER:
"How can Third World people think about their
consciousness when they're hungry?"
MAHARISHI:
"By using that hardware of the cosmic computer, if they
use their brain
properly -- this is the Technology of the Unified Field --
the infinity
of nature will make them capable of not only earning their
ordinary
bread but very first-class
bread."
* * * * * *
*
REPORTER:
"What do you think about the arms race and nuclear
war?"
MAHARISHI:
"Arms race will not be the cause of nuclear war. Stress
will
be the cause of nuclear war. Stress is the greatest enemy of
life, and
that we can eliminate completely."
* * * * * *
*
REPORTER:
"You have written that by meditating, man brings out
his own sense of divinity in himself."
MAHARISHI:
"Right, we can talk divinity."
REPORTER:
"What about someone like Hitler. If he had
meditated?"
MAHARISHI:
"He would have been more positive."
REPORTER:
"You really think you can change people's natures
by meditating?"
MAHARISHI:
"The world is already a changed situation. One would
not know
what would have happened between the power blocs if
Transcendental
Meditation was not raising the consciousness of the
world."
* * * * * *
*
REPORTER:
"What do you do for play?"
MAHARISHI:
"The whole life is play."
REPORTER:
"What do you do for amusement?"
MAHARISHI:
"Oh, this is great amusement when I talk about the
unified field, laws
of nature, when I hear so many people are starting the
courses. I am
doing two things. One, creating a softness in world
consciousness.
Second, training leadership."
* * * * * *
*
REPORTER:
"Is what you are doing a game?"
MAHARISHI:
"It's a game."
REPORTER:
"Do you ever sit back and say, 'I've been
playing this game for 25 years. I'm a millionaire. Gee,
I'm a good player?'"
MAHARISHI:
"I don't play in the past. I always play in the
present for a good future."
* * * * * *
*
REPORTER:
"Do you want to take over the world?"
MAHARISHI:
"I have taken over already!"
REPORTER:
"How do you expect people to take you
seriously?"
MAHARISHI:
"I don't because that is damage to my own message.
Serious means under stress."
REPORTER:
"You don't think that you're just pulling off a
beautiful job of fooling people?"
MAHARISHI:
"Those people who don't know better are always
fools, but they will become better thinkers, better knowers
with this
message."
REPORTER:
"Are you a snake-oil salesman?"
MAHARISHI:
"What is a snake oil?"
REPORTER:
"A panacea. Something that will solve all the ills of
the world."
MAHARISHI:
"Then this is it!"
* * * * * *
*
REPORTER:
"If we sent in an outside person not connected with you
to take pictures [of Yogic Flying]?"
MAHARISHI:
"No one is not connected with me."
REPORTER:
"Where did you get your modesty?"
MAHARISHI:
"It's simplicity."
* * * * * *
*
REPORTER:
"Do people create when they're sitting around
feeling happiness bubble
up? How do you explain geniuses like Dostoevski who lived a
miserable
life and created very much?"
MAHARISHI:
"He could have created much more if the environment was
less stressed."
REPORTER:
"But he wrote about stress. He would have had nothing
to write about if there hadn't been
stress."
MAHARISHI:
"One could write about a pond, but that doesn't
justify the existence of the pond or its
utility."
* * * * * *
*
REPORTER:
"But you claim credit for meditating suffering
away?"
MAHARISHI:
"Right. Exactly."
REPORTER:
"Have you no shame?"
MAHARISHI:
"No shame, no weakness, no failure."
End of
interview
~Washington
Post -- November
1983~
* * * * * *
*
TM Media
Alert (Israel):
"Meital Dohan bringing TM to
Israeli soldiers" -- ConcertBlogger.com
(Posted on TM.org) -- April 10,
2014
http://tmhome.com/experiences/meital-dohan-bringing-tm-to-israeli-soldiers/
Jai Guru Dev
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