Yeah, i find it particularly interesting because he was there and can write about it from having been there. It is an important letter that tells us things. Regardless.
-Doug in FF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Bill (William)Simmons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/109749 > > > > > Earl Kaplan: The Truth April 16, 2004 Dear residents of Fairfield, > Heavenly Mountain, the Spiritual Center, and whomever else may want > to read this letter: Over the past several years my brother, his > family and I have been attacked verbally, emotionally, spiritually > and financially for leaving the TM movement. I have not said anything > during this time, not wanting to fight with anyone. However, I have > now come to realize, for the sake of those who want to listen and for > my sake as well, to clear my conscious of all that I have learned, > heard and known, that I must share the knowledge that has come to me. > We should all be free to listen to our hearts, to follow our own > inner voice and not to be subject to a movement and a so- > called "spiritual master" who rules through lies, fear and deceit. > This letter is really for those of you who have been feeling that > something is wrong. Remember in the Matrix when Trinity told Neo they > had been looking for him because they knew that he could just feel > there was something missing, something out of order but he just > couldn´t figure out what. Well, that is how it started to be for me > and TM. I knew something was wrong. I remembered that when I started > I was promised enlightenment in 5-7 years. I remember in 1975 > Maharishi promising that now that there were all these governors that > there would be world peace. I remember in 1977 at the end of the > siddhis course Maharishi saying that is was just the hard knots of > stress in the environment that needed to be cracked before we all > started to fly and that he would call us back in a few years when we > were ready to take off. I remember in the early 90´s, Maharishi told > my brother that if we built the spiritual center that he would fill > it up with 1000 Purusha and 1000 Mother Divine. He said as soon as we > finished the buildings and he moved Purusha and Mother Divine there > that people would start to fly, they would go into enlightenment. He > also told me that if I gave him enough money for his India project > that he would create a 10,000 group that would bring world peace > right away. For 30 years I listened and responded and devotedly > donated more money to Maharishi´s project than anyone ever had. I had > this deep yearning to try to help mankind. I wanted to help create a > peaceful world and I wanted to gain my own inner enlightenment. I > never wanted any public attention and for many years no one even knew > I was the leading donor for the movement. After I had given all this > money and waited patiently for the results that Maharishi had > promised, I started to wake up. I started to realize that I had been > misled. WE ALL HAD! Where are the 7000 pundits Maharishi had raised > hundreds of millions of dollars for and had repeatedly promised to > bring to the U.S.? Where is the world peace he promised us all those > years. Where is there one person who has gotten enlightened in the TM > movement? Maharishi said eve a person in Cosmic Consciousness can > perform the siddhis successfully and fly. In unity consciousness the > prescriptions of Patanjali are not needed to get the results, they > just happen. Please show me one or two people who can fly, who can > perform the siddhis successfully, who are truly enlightened and I > will admit that I am wrong. But really, no one in the TM movement can > do so. The true believers in the TM movement actually become incensed > when you ask them to give you a concrete demonstration of their > abilities. The truth that I have come to realize is that the > enlightenment that some of these TM people think they have is just a > total delusion. There is no real substantive proof because there is > no valid spiritual experience. The TM experience is an illusory > experience, a sort of dream state brought about by using a technique > that traps one in one´s own mind. Since I retired three years ago I > have been researching spiritual techniques. I have spoken with a > number of holy men from various traditions. I have traveled to India > and met with enlightened Swamis and visited many of the sacred and > holy cities. I have spoken with pundits who were in charge of the > pundit groups. I have spoken with Dr. Triguna and other individuals > who had been high in the TM organization. I interviewed members of > Guru Dev´s family. I spoke with people in the TM movement who had > looked at some of the financial records of the TM organization and I > have spoken with investment people who said they have been in charge > of investing some of the movement´s assets. I have spoken with old > time skin boys (Maharishi´s personal assistants) and old course > participants who were involved with Maharishi sexually (verified by > the old skin boys). I have had the good fortune to come across > wonderful alternative healing practices that really work and > wonderful spiritual practices that are taught by the real > representatives of age-old traditional lineages. I have been shocked > to discover the secrets behind the real TM organization and the > secrets behind Guru Dev´s death. I have read an extended interview > from the real Shankaracharya in which the true traditional spiritual > teaching of jyotir math is discussed. I have talked with many higher > up people from the TM movement and many people outside the TM > movement and all the discussions point to the same thing. Maharishi > Mahesh Yogi has pulled off the biggest spiritual scam in modern > history. He has successfully diverted a large group of sincere > spiritual seekers from the real spiritual path. He has accumulated > hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars in assets for his > family, the Shrivastavas. He has not only made up his name (he is not > a Maharishi) but he has made up a meditation practice which is a > mechanical and repetitive in nature and which leads to brain washing > by occult powers and a siddhi practice which has nothing to do with > Patanjali. He has brought to the west a watered down version of > ayurveda and a skewed version of Shtapatya Veda. Finally, if you look > at all the poor people on Purusha and Mother Divine who are anemic > and have advanced stages of osteoporosis, you will know that he has > ruined many lives. The true believers in the TM movement will tell > you these are all lies. They will tell you that even though they may > be suffering from cancer or be penniless, they maybe 50 years old, > childless and living with their parents, they may have had much > better experiences 25 years ago than they do today, they will insist > to you that Maharishi is a God and it is their shortcomings that have > caused them to be in such a predicament. Well let me tell you, these > poor people are totally brainwashed. I feel bad for all of them. But > sympathy is no longer acceptable. I want to share my experiences so > that maybe you can wake up. You don´t need to be trapped in the > Matrix. There are so many wonderful, loving people in the world and > so many spiritually advanced souls walking the earth. Unfortunately, > there aren´t too many in the TM movement. This version of my story > really starts about three years ago. I was sitting with Maharishi > privately, because at the time I had an open invitation to come to > Vlodrop and sit with Mahesh whenever I wanted to. At that time I knew > that Mahesh had many tens of millions of dollars, the money he needed > to create a 10,000 group. He was talking about building big > buildings, buying airlines, etc. etc. I said, Maharishi, since you > have the money and supposedly you have enough pundits, why don´t you > create a 10,000 group in India and then the world will experience > peace and the TM movement will gain great support of the laws of > nature and our other activities will work out. Mahesh looked at me > like I was crazy and said "Earl, if we created the group then we > don´t know if it would create world peace or not. We would have to > have the group and then see what the effect it has." I have to tell > you, this sort of shocked me after Mahesh for years had been raising > hundreds of millions of dollars for his world peace groups. To be > perfectly honest, though, this response was somewhat in line with the > other responses he had been making to me. When I would ask him > spiritual questions he never had answers more than what he offered in > the seven steps. Or he might launch into one of his hour long > circular discussions of the Ved and creation or the Ved and human > physiology. I finally started to realize, Mahesh doesn´t really > understand the spiritual process and if I wanted to get enlightened I > better take responsibility for the process and seek out people who > had been successful in getting others enlightened and who really knew > what was going on. So, I started to read and research the subject > (two things Mahesh told us never to do, otherwise we might confuse > ourselves) and I spoke with numerous people and these are the things > I have learned that I think are the most important: 1. Even though > Guru Dev, he never gave Mahesh spiritual instruction and he never > taught him to teach others. In fact, he told Mahesh he would never > have anything to do with anything other than material success. 2. > There are many strange events around Guru Dev´s death. The real > current Shankaracharya and Guru Dev´s nephew and two Swami´s > independent of each other had very similar stories. It is believed > that Mahesh had Guru Dev poisoned. During the funeral he then went > back to Jyotir Math and stole the most powerful spiritual artifact > Guru Dev had created, a gold and jeweled Shri Yantra. Mahesh, after > traveling throughout India, found a man who could activate the outer > portions of the Shri Yantra. This gave Mahesh certain occult powers > and control over certain astral beings. Mahesh then created a > meditation technique and certain mantras that would help people blank > their minds. In this blank state (which has nothing to do with > transcendence that is talked about in the yoga sutras) these astral > beings would brainwash these meditators into certain beliefs and > certain actions. In addition, Mahesh would put blocks on people´s > nervous systems to block their Kundalini from firing and to siphon > off their energy. Now I know this sounds pretty wild but think about > it for a while. Why do so many meditators have such a dazed and > confused look about them? Why do meditators find it so hard to focus? > Why do most people who have been in the movement for thirty years > admit that their best experiences in TM were in the seventies and > since then meditations have been going downhill? Why are so many > people asleep in the dome? Why do you need to lie down and rest 10- 30 > minutes after you have meditated? Why is there so much unstressing? > Why are so many meditators so sensitive? They have to go to sleep on > time. They can´t watch movies: they have to be careful about their > diet. They can´t stand loud noises. They get tired in the middle of > the day. It is not for the reasons you have been told. It is not > because you are experiencing a refinement of the nervous system. Your > physiology is getting weaker. It is because the process of TM is > sucking you very life energy out of you. After you meditate in the > dome you have to lie down just to recover. When you do proper > spiritual practice as discussed in the yoga sutras (and which I have > studied), you jest need a minute or two to regain an outward > direction and then you can get on with your activity with a very > clear mind and very good energy. 3. TM is not really a spiritual > practice. It does give good rest to a lot of people who lead busy > lives, but it does not necessarily rejuvenate the physiology. To > understand this point you have to start to read the spiritual texts. > You have to understand the yoga sutras and you have to study the > Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the major treatise on Hatha Yoga. Many older TM > meditators (from the seventies) started TM and were interested in > getting enlightened. They were interested in spiritual evolution. > Mahesh with his practice and teaching has done an amazing thing. He > has diverted the focus and efforts of a large group of spiritual > seekers and made it so impossible for them to have spiritual progress > that most of them have really lost interest in the idea of getting > enlightened. This was one of Mahesh´s true purposes in teaching TM > (his other two being to make billions of dollars and suck energy from > his followers). He has succeeded very well. In studying the basic > Hindu texts and various other Tantric texts, I have come to > understand that spiritual evolution is not a complicated process. The > Hatha Yoga Pradipika talks about eh eight limbs of yoga. The first > two, Yama and Niyama are really about living a good life. That is the > basis for spiritual evolution. You live a loving, purposeful life. > You are directed in your activity, you look after your family and > friends, and you do good. In terms of spiritual practice, you have a > balance of proper asana positions, pranayama techniques, hand mudras > (which enliven certain brain centers) and meditation practice to > bring about a holistic growth. The whole point of these practices is > to enliven or wake up your kundalini shakti. This term is basic to > any discussion of spiritual evolution. Every person has this latent > energy in them referred to as kundalini (not creative intelligence, > please!). This energy, which lays dormant in the lower chakra, needs > to be awakened. It needs to travel up the sushumna enlivening the > various charkas until it travels to the crown chakra and reunites > with Shiva (pure consciousness). This is the real experience of > unity, the reuniting of Shiva and Shakti. It is an experience beyond > space and time. It is not the experience of silence moving into > silence that the million dollar course participants and Mahesh talk > about. It is the genuine spiritual experience discussed in all the > scriptures of eternal bliss consciousness. The proper physical > breathing and mental practices, done diligently, have a holistic > effect in improving one´s life very quickly. The purpose of spiritual > practice is to improve one´s life, not to make one a slave to that > spiritual practice. Most of the long term meditators I have talked to > tell me that TM has not brought them good experiences for many years. > The ones who have branched out and learned good yoga practices and > found good alternative healers seem to be making some progress, a lot > more than those who are diligently following Mahesh´s programs. 4. In > traditional spiritual teaching in India, an enlightened teacher takes > on a few students and gives them a very unique and particular set of > practices (asanas, pranayama, hand mudras and meditation techniques) > that are geared just for that person. Each person has a different set > of practices because each person has a unique physiology, psychology > and spiritual make up. The teacher´s responsibility is to help the > student with his practices so that both his worldly life and > spiritual life improve quickly. The spiritual practices a person is > given are like a combination that allow the kundalini shakti to be > directed up the sushumna and reach makara point, the chakra of the > upper brow. This is the beginning of a seeker´s spiritual life > because only the 6th and 7th charkas are considered the spiritual > charkas and have to do with spiritual experience. The first five > charkas have to do with material life so experience dealing with > charkas is material experience. Because most TM meditators have not > had this type of kundalini rising, they are still caught in the > material world and have not really begun their spiritual > transformation. What brings about spiritual transformation and the > refinement of a person´s physiology, psychology and overall life is > the infusion of divine light into their being. The establishment of > the kundalini shakti at makara creates a situation whereby the > shakti, each person´s own inner divine goddess, starts to take over > and direct a person´s growth. Only then is real spiritual progress > possible. Only when the divine light begins to be seen and infused > into a person does real progress take place. In the yoga sutras of > Patanjali yoga is defined as spiritual absorption. When one meditates > properly they do not experience blank mind. What happens is that a > person learns to turn their attention within (pratyahara) and then > through one pointed focus on a proper mantra (dharana) they quickly > start to become absorbed in the divine light, the self-effulgent > self. With the right practice this progress takes place in a matter > of days, weeks or months, not decades. If you do not have the right > practice then it will take lifetimes to have real progress. 5. I > cannot prove this, but I have spoken with a number of people high up > in the TM organization and with investment advisors of the TM > organization and they have all told me the same thing, Mahesh has > accumulated billions of dollars in assets for his family. 6. Mahesh > is not a spiritually enlightened Vedic master. I know this is a > really hard one to believe and the last one I let go of, but it is > the truth. First of all, the darshan which people experience and the > experience people have around Mahesh has nothing to with how > spiritually enlightened people are. It is true that Mahesh has strong > presence, but so do movie actors and famous athletes. Enlightened > people usually don´t project energy like Mahesh does. They keep it > more to themselves. Also, people have amazing visual experiences and > bliss experiences around Mahesh. But I have now come to see they are > illusory. They are an occult trick Mahesh uses to brainwash his > disciples. In reality, Mahesh is not interested in spiritual things. > In the sixties and early seventies he had sex with a series of > girlfriends. I have spoken with some of them in detail. Why do you > think the Beatles left? It was because Mahesh put a move on Mia > Farrow. She didn´t make it up: he really went after her. Mahesh has > been interested in power, in the accumulation of money, and in women. > Why does he live in a big house, own helicopters, airplanes, etc? Why > does he spend most of his time involved in business planning about > making money? It is because he is a businessman who has the desires > that other wealthy businessmen have. His spiritual front is his scam > and the way he gets people to give him their time and money. 7. The > TM-Sidhi program has nothing to do with Patanjali´s teaching. I was > on the course when Mahesh made up the program. He simply experimented > with different sutras until he came up with something he thought > would work. Do you really think that Patanjali had people do the > sutras in English? It is not Mahesh´s genius that he figured it all > out. If you really want to know about the yoga sutras why don´t you > buy four or five of the translations and see what the top scholars > have to say. The first thing you will find out is that the proper > mantra to be repeated in meditation practice (and this is exactly > Swaroopanand, the real Shankaracharya after Guru Dev says) includes > the pranava, which is Om, at the beginning and end with the name of > your personal deity in between. There is nothing wrong with the > repetition or saying the word Om, it is the holiest of sounds and > only brings good to life. Mahesh is the only so-called spiritual > master I know of who has instilled fear in his disciples about saying > Om. I think the problem Mahesh had in people repeating Om is that in > the presence of its repetition astral beings lose their power and any > evil influence is redirected back to its source. One other important > point is that the mechanical repetition of a mantra without meaning > or devotion brings no spiritual progress whatsoever. This point is > referred to in the yoga sutras and in many discussions of great > spiritual teachers. The mechanical repetition of some meaningless > word brings no opening of the heart, no love in one´s life, and no > unfoldment of true spiritual values. Haven´t you ever wondered why so > many people in the TM movement seemed so heartless, especially the > administrators the early courses? It was because their mechanical > repetition of a meaningless word was actually closing their heart, > not opening it. That is why so many people in the TM movement have > suffered a sort of disassociation with so much of their life where > they don´t have the same feelings they used to. It´s not because they > are more highly evolved, it is because they are disconnected from > their hearts. 8. There are no pundits and there will never be a group > coming over to the U.S. I spoke with people who had helped organize > the early group that was actually in existence but was disbanded long > ago. I also spoke with one of the pundits who were in charge of > training the pundit boys (the students). There are hardly any real > pundits (there used to be around 15) because the movement would use > them and then not pay them. I even spoke with Mahesh who personally > told me he would never send real pundits to the U.S. because once > they got here they would get better paying jobs. He said they would > only send the pundit boys because then they could control them. It > turns out several years ago my brother actually got approval from the > U.S. State Department to bring a group of one or two thousand pundits > to Heavenly Mountain. When it came time for the TM movement in India > to give the U.S. Embassy the names of the pundits who would be coming > over, we got word back that Maharishi had changed his mind and felt > it was not a good time to send them. We realized then that the pundit > thing was just a scam to raise money and since have had this verified > by a number of different people. 9. Mahesh installed his own > Shankaracharya keeps him on the payroll. This way when he sends > people to India he sends them to his own Shankaracharya who tells > people whatever Mahesh wants them to hear. The real Shankaracharya > was chosen by the other Shankaracharyas and sits at important > spiritual meetings with them. They will not even allow themselves to > be seen in the same hall with Mahesh´s Shankaracharya, lest someone > get the wrong idea. 10. Mahesh wants your money and he wants it > badly. After I had donated so much money and fulfilled all of my > commitments, a friend of mine heard Mahesh ranting about the fact > that he had not gotten the last half of my fortune. I warn you all, > Mahesh will keep milking you for every penny he can get from you > until he bleeds you dry and then he will discard you as so much dead > wood. 11. The TM organization will stop at nothing to protect their > secrets and to smear anyone who tries to get in their way. My brother > is now the number one enemy of the movement. Before that, Deepak was > the number one enemy. There is always a number one enemy. If you > really want to understand the dealing of Mahesh and the TM movement, > please read "The Guru Papers, Masks of Authoritarian Power" by Joel > Kramer and Diana Alstad. Reading this one book will go a long way to > helping you liberate yourself from the years of brainwashing and > mental anguish you have suffered at the hands of the TM movement. 12. > Mahesh has told everyone never to talk to psychics. I have finally > realized why. My brother and I have talked to a number of very well > known psychics in the U.S. and we have been amazed. Most of them have > never even heard of Maharishi and when they put their attention on > him they say the same thing. They find he is a very dark and evil > being. They talk about his greed, his sexual liaisons and his need > for power and to control his disciples. They talk about astral beings > he controls who are able to control other people´s minds. These same > psychics can tell you all about your life and things that have > happened. I am not into talking to psychics but I think it is > interesting how Mahesh always steered us clear of them. We thought it > was for our protection, when in reality it was because Mahesh didn´t > want you to hear what they had to say about him. Mahesh deals with > psychic and occult powers as opposed to the celestial realms and > gaining real knowledge. He doesn´t want you to know about this. 13. > Finally, I have known some very enlightened children who, upon > meeting Mahesh, would comment that what they saw was an evil demon in > disguise. At the time I thought they were unstressing. But now I see > what was really happening. Mahesh puts on this guise of being a warm > and loving spiritual master when in reality he is after money, power > and control. These children would actually see his real form, a form > most of us are not able to see. 14. Why are people in the TM movement > told that if they want to make some real spiritual progress then they > have to meditate every day longer and longer periods of time, they > have to be far away from normal people, they have to eat certain > things, do certain things, live certain ways? It is because TM is not > a real spiritual practice: it is a cult. In real practice you start > to feel the brotherhood of all mankind. As you become more > established in the Self you have more flexibility. Less and less > affects you in a negative way. You become less dependent on your > outside environment and more dependent on who you are. You are able > to see the joy in all situations and be more and more in the moment. > Are you trapped in a cult? Are most of your friends TM meditators. Do > you live in a Shtapatya Vedic house? Do you donate money to the TM > movement? Do you not feel so good unless you go to the dome? Do you > read other discussions of spiritual texts or do you feel that would > be wrong to expose yourself to other´s opinions. Do you feel a little > funny about your family members because they don´t meditate, they eat > meat: they haven´t come across the true knowledge yet? Do you feel TM > is the highest knowledge and really the only way? Does your mind > create circular arguments in discussing your own evolution or > spiritual knowledge to make the point that everything Maharishi says > is exactly right? Do you feel a little bit sorry for other people who > haven´t quite realized that TM is the truth, the light, the only way > to God? Do you think that even though you haven´t gotten enlightened > yet that it is just around the corner and you know that some day it > is coming. Or else, by now it doesn´t matter because you know that > some day Maharishi will take care of all that? Do you feel sorry for > me that I have fallen off the path?! Fellow spiritual seeker, I say a > prayer for you that one day you can wake up and take back the > responsibility for your own spiritual progress and for your own life. > The world is a wonderful place and there are so many wonderful people > from so many different walks of life. There are so many successful > paths to God to Love and to Self-Realization. Mahesh´s influence and > power have diminished significantly. So many people in Fairfield are > starting to wake up from a thirty year dream to recapture their life > and to enjoy what is left of this turn on earth. Good luck! With > sincere prayers and an open heart everyone can find the truth. But > you have to start to look! With love and gratitude to all my friends > and acquaintances in Fairfield. One day may you say to yourself, for > many years I was a seeker, but now I can honestly say I have become a > finder. Love, Earl P.S. Some of the things I have said are pretty far > out, but let me ask you this. If you have been meditating for thirty > years, do you feel you are making progress or do you just hope one > day things will get better. Is your body feeling healthier now than > it was 30 years ago? Are you more limber and more energetic or do you > have growing health concerns. If you are feeling better, is it from > TM or is it because you have started doing Pilates or a yoga practice > given to you by someone else or some other good form of exercise. > Considering all the meditation you have done and all the ayurveda > you´ve done and all the yagyas you´ve done, don´t you think you > should be feeling great? Most people who have invested thirty years > into something don´t want to give it up. Maybe when you were a > teenager TM got you off drugs. Maybe teaching TM gave you a good > direction in life. But come on, that was 30 years ago. TM isn´t > working, the TM organization is dying, Mahesh is literally dying and > becoming irrational as well, and you´re wasting your life. You can > heal your body. You can improve your spiritual process. But if you > continue to do what you´ve been doing for 30 years in the prime of > your life and it hasn´t worked, I can tell you, its not going to work > any better the next thirty years. So good luck, you can wake up. You > can disconnect from the Matrix and start to become a real person. It > is not too late, but as Vasishtha said in the Yoda Vasishtha, it is > only through your own self-effort that you will make progress on the > spiritual path. I pray for you all. To make a transition is not as > easy thing, but I can guarantee you, it´s worth it! Earl Kaplan As > most of you probably know, I was by far the biggest donor in the > history of the TM movement. For many years I donated money privately > and never sought to have public knowledge of this. I had become very > successful and wanted to try to help the world by donating money to > build the Spiritual Center of America and later to help create a > 7,000 group in India. Maharishi (or better I call him Mahesh, since > Mahesh paid some pundits to give his that title) promised David and I > that if we built the Spiritual Center, he would fill it with 1000 > Purusha and 1000 Mother Divine. He said once this was done that > people would gain enlightenment, that they would have mastery over > the siddhis and that world peace would be created. He also promised > me that if I donated money to India he would create a 10,000 group > that would automatically create world peace. These were just a few of > the many promises Mahesh made to me that he never was able to follow > through with. Most true followers in the TM movement believe that it > is okay for Mahesh to lie, cheat and steal because he is an > enlightened sage and anything he does is in accord with the laws of > nature. I have to tell you that the laws that apply to Mahesh are the > same that apply to each of us. If you lie and cheat and steal you > suffer the consequences. Why is any man above being a good righteous > person? I don´t think they are. The amazing things I have learned > over the past three years have helped liberate me from a cult > mentality that runs rampant in the TM movement. If you are reading > this thinking, "poor Earl, he is such a deluded soul," then I feel > sorry for you because you are indeed caught in the matrix of delusion > that old Mahesh has so successfully spun over the last 30 years. Why > did Triguna leave the movement? Why did Deepak get kicked out? Why > have most of the heads of the TM movement, including many of Mahesh´s > personal secretaries, been thrown out or fled? They have seen what > really goes on behind the scenes and I can tell you first hand, it´s > not pretty. The things I have learned from talking with family > members of Guru Dev, doctors, Mahesh´s private secretaries, previous > heads of the TM movement, and various India swamis and holy men are > these: 1. The TM movement is really a financial movement that has > made Mahesh´s family, the Shrivastava family extremely rich and > powerful in India. 2. The TM practice and the TM Siddhi practice were > made up by Maharishi. They were not given to him by Guru Dev or > Patanjali and they have nothing to do with traditional spiritual > process. 3. Real spiritual process involves the awakening of the > kundalini Shakti. There are a number of books on Kundalini vidya and > tantra that make the process very clear. The kundalini is awakened in > the base chakra: it goes up the sushumna enlivening the chakras until > it reaches the first spiritual chakra, makara (or the chakra at the > top of the forehead. From this point the inner shakti (the divine > light, Mother Divine, etc.) refines and heals the physiology and > strengthens the inner constitution until she can travel to the top > chakra, sahashrara, and merge with Shiva in a oneness experience > beyond space and time, the experience of asma-prajnata-smadhi. The > inner kundalini is awakened through various practices which are > spelled out very clearly in ashtanga yoga. You must have the proper > asana postures, pranayama techniques, hand mudras and mantra practice > if you want to improve your spiritual process. You must also lead a > good life, be a good person, do proper action and meditate properly. > 4. I did TM for 32 years and I found the longer I did TM and the > closer I got to Mahesh, the worse I felt. I now understand why that > was. Most people won´t believe the reasons so I can only share with > you what I have learned. I am not trying to convince anyone. 5. I was > one of the most financially successful TM meditators of all time. I > am a simple, good person. All I did was simply try to help out and it > is still my goal to help the world and help the people in it gain > spiritual evolution. 6. The people at Purusha and Mother Divine are > generally in terrible health and they do not look good. Many of the > women have osteoporosis and many of the men are anemic and with other > vitamin deficiencies. They are sincere spiritual seekers who are > going nowhere fast. 7. When we started TM in the 60´s and 70´s we > were told we would gain CC in 5-8 years. Mahesh also said that > someone in CC can do any siddhi and gain the results Patanjali > described. I have never met one person in the TM movement who was > enlightened. I recently spoke with an old friend who lives in > Heavenly Mtn. I asked him to show me just three people who could > prove they were enlightened. He balked at the offer. The truth is, no > one in the TM movement, including Mahesh is enlightened. No one can > do the siddhis. If you can present three people to me who have > mastered the siddhis then I´m sure the board of the Spiritual Center > would work out a harmonious transfer of the land in North Carolina. > The experiences that TM people have are illusory. They are based on > some kind of dream reality. Mahesh is a master of deception. The poor > people in the TM movement are completely deluded about their > accomplishment of spiritual evolution. After 30 years can´t people > wake up and see the truth? Don´t be scared! There is a wonderful life > out there waiting to be lived. (Earl Kaplan) > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! 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