Re: [FairfieldLife] "If you're so enlightened, you should know"

[Peter]

Obviously experiencing the Divine in MMY but also that
pesky personality comes in to muck-up the works.

--- Jonathan Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>   
> The Tonight Show 14 May 1968  Joe Gargoyle: “Listen
> now, I have something in common with both of you. I
> met the guru, the Maharishi. And I noticed that he
> went out with an act—the Beach Boys. And it folded.”
>   JOHN : “Yeah. Right.”
>   JG: “What do you think of the Yogi as an act?”
>   JOHN : “Yeah. Well, we found out that we made a
> mistake there.”
>   PAUL : “We tried to persuade him against that, you
> know. I thought it was a terrible idea.”
>   JOHN : “We believe in meditation, but not the
> Maharishi and his scene. But that’s a personal
> mistake we made in public.”
>   JG: “When did you find out it was a mistake?”
>   JOHN : “Well, uhh, I can’t remember the date, you
> know, but it was in India. And meditation is good,
> and it does what they say. It’s like exercise or
> cleaning your teeth, you know. It works, but uhh,
> we’ve finished with that bit.”
>   ED McMAHON: “Has he changed? Is that what…”
>   JOHN : “Well, no. I think it’s just that we’re
> seeing him a bit more in perspective, you know, ‘cuz
> we’re as naive as the next person about alot of
> things.”
>   PAUL : “We get carried away with things like that,
> though. I mean, we thought he was… uhh… magic, you
> know—just floating around and everything. Flying.”
>   JG: “Do you think the kids in America have turned
> him off?”
>   JOHN : “Well, it could be something to do with it.
> But I wouldn’t say, ‘Don’t meditate’ to them,
> because alot of them would get a great deal from
> it.”
>   PAUL : “You know, the system is more important
> than all those things.”
>   JOHN : “He’s surrounded with, it seems like, the
> old establishment that we know so well.”
>   JG: “Are you saying, ‘Meditate, but not with the
> Yogi’?”
>   PAUL : (long pause) “Yeah. I mean, he’s good.
> There’s nothing wrong with him. But we think the
> system is more important than all the two-bit
> personality bit. You know, he gets sort of treated
> like a big star. He’s on the road with the Beach
> Boys, and it’s all that scene. And also… It folds,
> you know. That’s the silly thing.”
>   (laughter)
>   TB: “Does he giggle as much as…”
>   JOHN : “Yes. It’s his natural asset.”
>   (laughter)
>   JOHN : “Well, you see, it depends on what way
> you’re looking at it at the time. If it’s not
> getting on your nerves, it’s ‘Oh, what a happy
> fellow.’ It depends how you feel when you look at
> him.”
>   JG: “I had him on the show, and he just giggled
> and giggled the whole time. I figured there was
> something, maybe my tie was loose. Who was the first
> one that met the Yogi?”
>   JOHN : “We all met him at the same time.”
>   JG: “Can you tell us the circumstances?”
>   JOHN : “Well, he was just doing a lecture in
> London at the Hilton. So we all went and we thought,
> ‘What a nice man.’ And we were looking for that. You
> know, everybody’s looking for it, but we were
> looking for it ‘that day’ as well. And then we met
> him and he was good, you know. He’s got a good thing
> in him. And we went along with it.”
>   JG: “But now, you just got off the train, huh?”
>   JOHN : “Right. Nice trip thank you very much.”
>   (laughter)
> 
>  
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