I sincerely thank the disciplic line responsible for the meditation that has brought me to a world in this world that I could not even have dreamt of. How grateful am I!
However, I do not agree with much of the certain knowledge spoken by the masters that comes from the East except in parallel principle. For example, I do not believe in ever-recurring earthly reincarnation, but rather believe that a spirit can help and aid a being in the flesh many hundreds of years before incarnating themselves (just one incarnation), hence sometimes a fragment of a memory is forced through to the marvellous lump of intricately woven fat we call the brain, and it seems to that person that he or she has lived before on earth in a body of flesh. There are a number of teachings of Maharishi for which I have similar alternative reasoning which makes more sense to me and which I feel is of a more certain source. This is one reason I simply can never be someone who believes every word that comes from the lips of a master. As I have had nothing to do with the TM Movement since 1985, I now see that Britain (or is it England) somehow upset Maharishi for a while. Am I correct in this? If so, what is so bad about the British compared to others nations? I heard MMY in an interview with a pushy Australian interviewer and I’m sure I heard MMY blaming the British again for bad things in that country? Perhaps I have misheard but I was getting the impression that MMY harboured some kind of dislike of a race, perhaps because it played a part in moving India away from its existing ideals and culture? Also, looking at the early supposed TTC training script (unless it has been doctored to provide a falsehood), I notice that the giving of the mantra should be done in such a way as to make the initiate feel that they are getting a unique mantra that nobody else has. Now, I can understand why this would be beneficial, but in my mind, this is not 100% honest. Is such white lie-ing really necessary or am I just being unfair or have I got my facts wrong? I would prefer to just know the truth, that it is done by age or whatever way it is done. I wanted to find MMY perfect and omniscient, but this kind of thing leads me to believe that I am not wrong to disbelieve the absolute truths that masters speak. So it would seem that in FFL speak, I am a “non-believer”. While I do love the people I knew in the Movement and relished being among them, I really would find it impossible to sit there and listen to everything I hear from the leaders if they are what I understand to be “true believers” for the reasons I have given. Peace! So much gratitude for my meditation technique!
