Statues of Gurus [Mahesh Yogi]

[Guest guest]

, "Mary Ann"

<buttercookie61> wrote:

> [....]

> BTW does anyone know what the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is doing these

> days? How old is he? Sorry for my ignorance - he may even be dead

> for all I know. Someone in my office -- a bankruptcy attorney, no

> less -- was referring to him judgmentally as someone who bilks

> people. That seems to be a common fear or belief. But on what is it

> based re the Maharishi?

 

Sarlo's [very idiosyncratic] Guru Rating Service lists his birthdate

as 1917; it appears he's still alive.

 

For recent news articles pertaining to the TM movement, see the Rick

Ross Institute.

The RRI is a database of information about cults, destructive cults,

controversial groups and movements.

 

http://www.rickross.com/groups/tm.html

 

For summary/background info and links to pro and anti-Mahesh Yogi web

pages, see Sarlo's website:

Sarlo's Guru Rating Service

http://www.globalserve.net/~sarlo/RatingsM.htm#mahesh

[Note: Sarlo is an Osho devotee]

[Guest guest]

In high school many moons ago people from the Maharishi Mahesh

Yogi's university came to speak to the students in Contemporary

Thought Class. That was a class taught by a man who was so forward

in his thinking, he told me Thomas Mann's Death in Venice was a

condemnation of homosexuality. Thank goodness for Mr. Cawley, my

English teacher, who said: "He told you that? That is not true.

Thomas Mann was a moralist, but his point was about the suppression

of life energy, and that to suppress life energy has dire

consequences."

 

Anyway, there was a panel of MMY students speaking to us, and they

played a video of MMY. None of us had ever heard his voice before,

and I was looking at a friend of mine when MMY began to speak. His

voice was very high and lilting, and my friend's face contorted in

surprise and amusement, then quickly returned to normal. I burst

into uncontrollable laughter at that spectacle of her face having

shown so much so quickly and then gone blank, and I could not stop

laughing the entire class period. I put my head down on my desk, and

continued to convulse quietly.

 

Needless to say, Mr. Contemporary Thought was not amused, but one of

the students said to me, when I approached after class and

apologized for what may have been perceived as rudeness: "Don't

apologize for laughter. Laughter is a beautiful thing."

 

What passes for "sanity" in our world today is itself questionable.

I took a look at the RRI site and it seems typical; not itself

indicative of anything. Re Osho, I do think he went insane - that

is, way off center to the detriment of self and others. I don't know

about MMY, though. My question to the Maharishi now would be: from

wherever the money is at the moment, where is it going to?

 

I personally feel it is way more valuable to be with the breath, to

be fully present in the inhale/exhale, in harmony with the

experience of the expansion/contraction caused by electromagnetism,

as someone pointed out earlier. From there, one's own awareness

grows.

 

Mary Ann

 

 

 

, "msbauju" <msbauju>

wrote:

> , "Mary Ann"

> <buttercookie61> wrote:

> > [....]

> > BTW does anyone know what the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is doing

these

> > days? How old is he? Sorry for my ignorance - he may even be

dead

> > for all I know. Someone in my office -- a bankruptcy attorney,

no

> > less -- was referring to him judgmentally as someone who bilks

> > people. That seems to be a common fear or belief. But on what is

it

> > based re the Maharishi?

>

> Sarlo's [very idiosyncratic] Guru Rating Service lists his

birthdate

> as 1917; it appears he's still alive.

>

> For recent news articles pertaining to the TM movement, see the

Rick

> Ross Institute.

> The RRI is a database of information about cults, destructive

cults,

> controversial groups and movements.

>

> http://www.rickross.com/groups/tm.html

>

> For summary/background info and links to pro and anti-Mahesh Yogi

web

> pages, see Sarlo's website:

> Sarlo's Guru Rating Service

> http://www.globalserve.net/~sarlo/RatingsM.htm#mahesh

> [Note: Sarlo is an Osho devotee]