--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey T3inity, > > That was really an interesting post! Sounds like you are really deep > into Indian culture. I would love to visit again.
Thanks, yes I am, I really love it. Visit again, you will see much has changed, much is just the same. Cities have changed a lot, newer roads, all the new car types, more expansive hotels, but still unbelievable cheap given the conversion rates. Everybody has cell phones now, even our Riksha driver, and its a good idea to get a local SIM, was the best idea on this trip. And rural India is still the same, has hardly changed AFAICtell. > I know that MMY has deviated from the traditional teachers in India > and caught flack for it from the traditional guys. I was wondering if > Guru Dev also exhibited this trait. I may be wrong and your post > certainly makes a case for that. I don't think Guru Dev deviated. Maharishi largly paved the way for the new middle class gurus, he was the model case as I see it. His concept is very successful and copied by others. One more detail that I found interesting talking to Narayan Ayer was: There seemed to be a concern about Maharishi not wearing orange and his acceptance in the west. Vivekananda seemed to be a role model for Maharishi, also interesting as he started out in Kanya Kumari, where Vivekananda swam to an island and had his famous vision of creating a sannyasi order and going to America. So the concern was there if he would be accepted as an Indian teacher not wearing orange but white - but it worked. As for the famous /infamous watered-down argument, I am fed up with it, because there is nothing that you couldn't make a bit more compliceted, especially the sience of Mantras, but all the scriptures at least that I read stress on simplicity and devotion. Maharishi paved the way, and thats what he wanted to do, and he knew he did it, thats okay in my eyes.
