On Dec 15, 2006, at 6:52 PM, Jason Spock wrote:
I think this '5 year' promise MMY made in the 1960's is a tragic mistake on Maharishi's part. First he said TM is all that is necessary and then, later on, he started making more and more exotic demands.Maharishi should have never made that kind of promises.
Well the real question is "was M. being hopeful and optimistic for 'all the flowers in his garden'" or did he have his mind on some prize and some material gain?
It's a great thing to hope the best for your students, but it's quite another thing to hope you'll sell more mantras.
There are some questions we just have to accept that we can never answer. We have to embrace to tension of paradox and then relax that tension. We may never know in our waking lives whether or not M's mission to deliver meditation to many, many people was a positive force overall or, in the balance, negative. But at least we can hope (as Shukra69 [IIRC] once 'pined) that his overall effect was positive and partially avataric (a descent of the divine into the human). At least I hope that was the case. I really do.
But I do watch that unresolved tension in my own awareness while I shine whatever brightness I can towards the best for everyone. That's really all any of us can do.
