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There is another
possibility on this phenemenon that presents itself
for serious consideration (and this post is also my
commentary on the 'degree of separation' thread
below). There is a meaningful section somewhere in
the links about 'faquir chand' (I've probably
mutilated his name beyond recognition). Anyway, he
was part of the Rhadosahmi tradition and discussed
by Professor Lane. Well a few people had visions of
him during a wartime experience where he literally
came to them and suggested a path to safety. Later
they ran into him and did their version of
pranaming and devoting to him. Well in VERY
UN-RAWATLIKE FASHION, he disavowed knowledge, took
no credit for it, etc.
However no one denied that this happened.
Certainly pockets of enormous goodness, care,
love, and kindness were experienced under the
umbrella of this 30+ year experience of Premie
life. An experience that in retrospect must be
included in a long historical list of 'false
messiahs'(and a minor one at that; though one's own
false messiah is never a minor figure). While I
agree with Mike's assessment of the Maharaji
movement being 'bollocks' from stem to stern just
based on his failure to walk the hundred steps,etc.
(and knowing him personally, I congratulate him on
graduating from the Rawat School of Self
Limitation! It certainly was no Hogwarts ), it
doesn't discredit the growth we each experienced in
that stage of our human adventure process.
In that enviornment of total trust,many
wonderful and cosmic events transpired. 'How could
that be', we ask ourselves. Well for one thing, we
are part of a big universe, with all sorts of
interconnected bandwidths. And this universe, that
we are indeed part of, is quite capable of
performing in ways that are beyond our current
scope or understanding. This is addressed
intelligently by many (including our regular
irregular Ms. Darling at www.motherwave.com).
Well there seems to be a level of ourselves what
inter-locutes with this larger universe. Many call
it the higher self. Its function is to provide
stimuli and events - digestible to our own
particular customized intelligence - that forward
our overall progress into the Big Love, God, All
That Is, whetver you want to call it. At whatever
speed we program into it. So images that we might
have of Maharaji ( or faquir chand, or the 'good
maharaji' dissolving in the thread below) are all
containers that we - in conjunction with our higher
self - manifested to move along our ongoing self
realization.
Another interesting article by Lane where he
'gave knowledge' in his college student class
(without any aspirant program or any pre-technique
brain-'wash'ing) gave results where participants
experienced a wide range of 'beings' appearing in
their 3rd eye during the light technique. These
beings were by and large the reigning concept of a
wise/divine man for each student. Students without
a concept of a savior generally didn't see anything
but 'light'.
So when we bought the 'Maharaji is THE ...(fill
in the blank) of our lives' belief system, his
image was overlaid onto all spiritual experience.
And since the Universe we live in as a functioning
and conscious part is LOADED with ecstacy, joy,
wisdom, and love that puts Bahkti in the 'cheap
high' category, we will (if we desire) continue to
grow and get new overlays and belief systems that
will facilitate wondrous growth. As most have
outgrown Maharaji being the filter for their own
experience of self, our own higher self will become
a useful focusing tool for us consciously
attracting better 'operating systems' of
consciousness. Maharaji, when we each bought into
him, was at that point the largest conception of
God or our self that we could entertain or imagine.
I'm sure we can all do quite a bit better the next
time we ask the 'genie'(genie within us =
genius)for a better connection to Source.
I recieved an undeniable (tho inadvertant)
benefit from the Maharaji Spiritual Illusion
Programme. For over two decades, I absolutely and
unabashedly reserved a place in my neurologic
electro-magnetic circuitry for a DIVINE human
being. This acceptance on my part allowed me for
intermittant periods, to hold MY SELF in the same
level of consciousness that I was projecting that
Maharaji had attained (I mean he did say he was
permanently in perfect god consciousness, back in
the day).
When the Maharaji bubble burst for me, I was
left with a decision. I could throw the whole thing
out - after all, it was obviously totally fucked
up. OR allow that same spiritual current that I had
become accustomed to having in my life (because as
a 'true devotee', I had maintained that God
frequency in my own life) to run through my inner
and outer life without an intermediary. This led me
into a 'lemons to lemonade' scenario, as I embraced
my divinity not only intellectually and
philosophically, but Energetically as well.
The Energetic frequency that each of us have
earned ( Mike with your 30 years of meditation
)praying to whatever false god we did is Spiritual
Currency indeed. And like the Euro, it can be spent
or invested in many new 'countries of spirit' that
we shall attract to us in our lives ahead.
To me I feel there is only one guru or
initiation - if that is what we call it. And that
is our own divine,or Higher level of self. Our one
pointed devotion - if it existed - will bring us
deeper and deeper into this true Brindaban of our
Authentic Self. The gurus,standins, wisemen or
conmen we attract to ourself are just training
wheels on the Unicycle we were trying to turn into
a bicycle built for two.
While things are very strange indeed during the
deconstruction period of a full blown belief system
like Maharajism, it is comforting to that the
entire universe is biased to our full awakening
into Joy. And whether it happens in the 1st 5th or
15th round, I assure all that YOU will emerge
victorious. By reclaiming your personal divinity,
personally invested in the spiritual Enron of your
youth.
As Anth so aptly said in his journey. It wasn't
that M wasn't the living Lord, he was !. Just like
each and every one of us. All. A race of Gods in
Bods.
And that, my friend,is no hallucination.
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