On Enlightenment, Maharishi, Enlightenment, and the Present.

[Guest guest]

Ken, and All, I don't really know how to point fingers at Maharishi exactly. It

seems everywhere I point I could connect with something that bothers me. I

guess it's similar to a bad break up where the previously loved person takes on

the mien of a demon.

 

I do appreciate that Maharishi came to the US and taught TM. I really do

appreciate it. It was my first steps towards yes, understanding Hinduism. But

first love isn't necessary the truest, though it may be most passionate. Higher

love stems from greater maturity, which I am only starting to develop.

Maharishi's hold on his followers is very possesive and jealous, and bound to

destroy its own bonds. I can't tell you how many times I've seen jealous,

possesive relationships destroy what both parties though of as "the ultimate

love." Where there are too many constraints then life itself breaks the

boundaries. Life knows no boundaries. Where transcendence is the goal then any

movement will be outgrown. Even the guru will be outgrown.

 

And like when kids grow and rebel, and some parents don't undertand that it's

nature's way of cutting the emotional umbilical, so also people will fight

against Maharishi's hold on them. Mainly because that's the only way for the

movement to really integrate. By movement, I think I mean movement of pure

consciousness, not TM movement. Because the former is supposed to be the latter

though each gets the other confused with itself sometimes.

 

Again, I still do TM. Though I have long ago disabused myself of the notion that

Movement knows best. I meditate for as long as I desire, whenever. And since

TMO wouldn't let me be a teacher, I have made myself one. I went back to the

roots, back to the interested devata, and asked them personally if I could teach

and they said yes. Siva, and Lakshmi both have an interest in bringing all

spiritual people to fruition as enlightened beings. I think in Buddhism they

would have the names Samantabhadra and Tara.

 

My foremeost gripe with Maharishi is that on the one hand what he says is true,

the world is overheating emotionally and is ripe to self destruct through war.

But on the other hand, this tells me that Maharishi should be expending his

influence not for creating pundit groups and rich synchophants, but instead

bringing his individual followers to enlightenment asap. Each person in TMO

should be practicing Rudrabhisheka with lingam, and wearing rudraksha, and

performing pujas. The force of the real TMO was always the true believers. And

it is they who have been pushed away, irreplaceably with the schenanagans. Only

the most incredulous are left, or will be soon.

 

I see this as a great waste at a very bad time. This lack of wisdom goes hand

in hand with creation of a cult of sheep, who aren't being led to enlightenment

but are treated as cash cows and servants for a new priestly caste undertaking.

The hostility towards Maharishi is not to him as a human, because I still love

him some ways, but it's towards him as the iron fisted demogogue, usurping

people of the world from their rightful inheritance of full blown enlightenment.

 

Yes groups of perpetual pundits would be good for Hindus, for devas, for

divodasas. However it may not be good for democracy and human rights. The

solution is not abuse of rights of the weak to benefit the whole, but placing

the means into the hands of the weak to make them responsible for the

beneficience of the divine. Which is what is happening anyway, which is what

Siva and Lakshmi want me to tell you, which is that again, we all are

individually responsible for enlightenment, to the degree to which we want it.

If you haven't gotten on your knees and begged the creator for it then do you

really want it? If you have then prepare to receive it as the time is at hand

for all the people on earth to meet their goal, higher or lower.

 

It's the greatness of the moment beyond all other mental constructs that is

telling me always to make haste to become enlightened, make haste, because

tomorrow chemical warfare will rot our bodies and minds and we wont be able to

make further progress. Nuclear armegeddon will waste the earth and travel and

we won't be able to visit saints any more, or get holy items like rudraksha from

India. The Lamas and Swamis will be landlocked in the Himalayas, and the herbs

will stop flowing.

 

I am therefore always fighting against people that are saying that Maharishi is

the source of their enlightement when in fact he represents some of it, but we

are responsible for our enlightenment. Maharishi is an expression of our

collective desire to enlighten the world, nothing more. For real enlightenment

we only need BE. And our senses will develop until we see the divine

everywhere, within and without. It is incumbent upon us all to wake up. And

for this Maharishi could help more if he would keep people focusing on the here

and now and not the then and there.

 

The devata realm cannot stop human destruction. They can persuade and inspire

but the ultimate choice is ours uniquely. Therefore pundit camps are beneficial

but they are no substitute for individual enlightenment. For this reason I get

tired on Maharishi's carrot and stick routine. It just seems wrong. Because the

time is now to arise. (Feels good to say these things, after waiting so many

lifetimes.)

 

All of you, you may be much more important than you presently know. Look

within. Pray. Arise. The time is now. (People have said this for thousands of

years, right? The time is now. The time is still now. The benefit of Kali yuga

is to make us realize this one thing.)