Great post; thanks for posting this ! In my time in the Movement I have seen so many things out of the ordinary that it could fill a book. I also know a lady who swears sh e saw Maharishi not walking up the stair but gliding in the air. The Blad brothers also capured at least 1 such incident on tape, long before Maharishi introduced the Sidhis. When his blue, english limosine finally caved in, the back seat was taken to MERY Press where people had waitinglist for meditating in it. Apparently the meditations on that seat was extraordinary powerful. The list of extraordinary happenings with Maharishi is very long indeed. But I can see why he does not make it public for anyone to see; it would create a wrong focus, away from his teaching, it would turn him into some kind a sircus artist. Also I think those who have an intuition, and think perhaps they know the greatness of this Saint do not need such "proofs". And those who are not interested would not belive what they saw anyway, so why bother ?
> > More West than East. I think the ratioanlist movement hit the west > harder than India (you have never been there I guess). In India if you > believe in God, you pretty much believe in miracles. If you don't > believe in divine intervention (which is sort of always outside of the > scientific paradigma), what's the point? Any great saint will be > judged according to if he can perform miracles. Look at Shirdi Sai > Baba, the greatest and best known of all the Gurus's. His spiritual > career started with a miracle (he transformed water inro oil). No > temple, where not miracles are attributed to. > > So if you talk about 'mainstream religious types', you must be talking > about the ones you know - that is in the west, maybe in TV - certainly > not in rural India. Each time I come to India I hear stories of mirales. > > I just met a man who met Maharsishi in 1954-58, before he came to the > west, and he attributed what he called a miracle to Maharishi (In this > case its up to interpretation to call it a miracle, Maharshi caught a > plane in Madras even though he was 2 hours late - and so was the > plane. One might call this also a coincidence or simply sychronocity). > Anyway, for him this was a proof that he is a great divine master. (He > also narrated that Maharishi initiated 200 people on that day, > announced himself 3 hours before to arrive with a party of 15 people > and that no rooms were there, when he came just some people moved out > and the rooms were there - he was a hotel owner at the time. He still > feels devoted to Maharishi. It is interesting to meet people from this > time. Maharishi had a meditation hall constructed in this place where > I and several friends went out to meditate sometimes, also friends who > had no TM-connection felt it was a good place to meditate. There is a > tree in front of the hall - Maharishi built the hall near the tree as > he felt it was supportive of meditation - another extraphysical feat.) > > When I was in Gujarat, somebody told me of a lake where at Shivaratri > Sadhus jump in to never come out again - they simply disappear. > Obviously there are million onlookers. I was told that the whole lake > was searched through by researchers and they didn't find anything > (holes to hide, corpses etc) This is not to say that I can attest any > of this, or that there couldn't be any rationalist explanation, but it > tells you that miracle-stories and religious life are closely > interwoven in India, and certainly you are looking at this topic with > a western cultural lense of an already rationalised religion. >
