R G Barjee Your question was whether John Lennon might have been right after all, when he suggested that he had been made a fool of. It is a good question and on reflection it deserves a proper answer, although it's interesting that the topic is now about whether or not the bungalow was grand (by local standards it most certainly was) or whether there was a helipad there.
In The Beatles' 'Sexy Sadie' & John Lennon's 'The Maharishi Song' I Lennon definitel appears to have been unstressing, as Vaj rightly points out, and he was looking for targets to vent his rage against Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who he obviously felt had overstretched himself in teaching about a state of cosmic consciousness, yet was unable to understand why John Lennon no longer wished to remain on his ashram. But yes, to an extent I agree with his line, although I prefer the one taken by Ringo some years later where he said he felt Maharishi told them stories. But surely it is beyong dispute that MMY took everyone for a ride, on the magic carpets of their individual imaginations which he fed with anything that came into to his head, about getting so much bliss, money, success, cosmic consciousness, siddhi powers, levitating maybe..... I think history will rate him as a 'false prophet', though to his credit he did get people thinking about the topic of meditation. But I reckon his teaching placed way too much emphasis on the repetition of the mantras, the names of gods. When I was learned to meditate, I was taught that it is about 'diving' and 'letting go' and savouring the inner silence of no- thoughts, and I learned that from my TM teachers, in 'Maharshi's kutir', near the helipad, Maharishi Ashram, via Rishikesh, U P, India. Jai Guru Deva. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was just thinking, to myself? > Was John Lennon right, when he wrote the line: > > "Maharishi... > > What have you done? > You made a fool of everyone..." > > "We gave you everything, > Just to sit at your table, > And you turned out to be just like everyone? > Maharishi, what have you done?" > > I love(d), Mr. Lennon, and his wonderful genius. > I also love Maharishi, and his wonderful genius. > > R. G. > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs.Try it free. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
