From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 12:52 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Puja Pictures™
I'm not sure when this painting first appeared, except that I do not remember every seeing it -- either in its version with Maharishi or without -- up to the point when I bailed from the TMO. That is, 1977 or so. I'm pretty sure the first place I ever saw it or heard anything about it was here on FFL. Francis Knight painted it. British woman. _____ From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com <mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 7:37 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Puja Pictures™ Did you have the tradition painting at your puja? I just had the GD portrait. Come to think of it, we had a massive holy tradition painting without Maharishi in it at both academies I lived in. And I remember thinking the one with him in it was a bit rubbish when I first saw it. Like they'd added him in that pose to associate him with the others but in a fake devotional way rather than the "I'm just as good as them" way that they - and undoubtably he - liked to be thought of. Or is my memory bad and he's always been there? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> , <LEnglish5@... <mailto:LEnglish5@...> > wrote : Well, we all know what the original painting that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi commissioned to show his position within the Shankaran tradition looks like: http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg <http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg> <http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg> http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg <http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg> View on www.meru.ch Preview by Yahoo Here's the version used by students of Thom Knoles when they teach "Vedic Meditation": There will be no levitating. Expect no unicorns. <http://www.popsugar.com.au/fitness/photo-gallery/36184832/image/36202196/levitating-Expect-unicorns> <http://www.popsugar.com.au/fitness/photo-gallery/36184832/image/36202196/levitating-Expect-unicorns> <http://www.popsugar.com.au/fitness/photo-gallery/36184832/image/36202196/levitating-Expect-unicorns> There will be no levitating. Expect no unicorns. My second meeting with Matt was another one-on-one. Matt warned me that there would be a ceremony to start, during which I would be given a mantra... <http://www.popsugar.com.au/fitness/photo-gallery/36184832/image/36202196/levitating-Expect-unicorns> View on www.popsuga... Preview by Yahoo And here's the version used by devotees of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-parampara1.jpg <http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-parampara1.jpg> <http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-parampara1.jpg> http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-... <http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-parampara1.jpg> View on bawandinesh... Preview by Yahoo No violation of copyright obviously, even though the original painting was commissioned BY Maharishi and was his own design, from what I understand.