Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is Dead

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is Dead

Founder of TM [Transcendental Meditation] from Jabalpur, M.P is no more from

Feb 5, 2008. He died in his Norway HQs.

He told his patrons "My job is over, for which I have come, I am retiring"

on January 12, his 91st birthday. He could not exactly tell his day of death.

In Tamilnadu, even normal mortals with true devotion to God have known to have told their heirs of their day of demise. It is a divine gift.

It is also recorded in History that some simple Tamil souls have dug up their own cemetery and told everyone of their date of demise and went on the same day.

So I think this Yogi may not be as gifted as other devout simple souls of India.

He gave us disciples like Deepak Chopra.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepak_Chopra

www.Chopra.com is his website. .Com means commercial that says in a nutshell about his Spiritualism based on his Materialism.

Anyhow, the matter is…

We Indians know the feat of Vivekananda, who was the first monk to visit US and convince them of Hinduisms' importance.

But later age sages are numerous, namely

Swami Yogananda ["Autobiography of an Yogi"]

Rajneesh alias Osho,

Swami Prabupadhanandha [ISKON],

Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh

Swami Sri Sri Ravishankar [Art of Living Foundation]

Jagad Guru Jakki Vasudev [Isha Yoga]

Sugabodhanada

Vedhathri Maharishi [Vazhga Vazhamudan]

Mata Amritanandmayee

In this non-exhaustive list joins this Muni too.

So, when I was fortunately introduced to this Yogi's disciple's instruction in the year 1988 at my Arulmigu Palani Andavar Polytechnic, Palani for a meagre fee of Rs.60, I was frankly sceptical.

That time, I was an Atheist –due to my maternal uncle's malefic influence.

I doubted the process of Transcendental Meditation in which the teacher told me to use the photo of the Maharishi and pray him.

The teacher told us this icon worship is just to induce the process, so we can use any icon which we like to worship.

The teacher also whispered a special mantra in my ears after checking my "Nadi".

He said the mantra should not be spoken loudly; not to be written or disclosed to anyone & it has to be thought of repeatedly inside the mind, which is the way to do the TM. Till date I remember my special mantra, and keep it a secret.

But the use of icon, worship and a special mantra all these were antagonistic to my Atheistic mind at that time.

Nevertheless, I continued doing the TM, as I had faith in Indian Healing Systems.

Along the process of repetition of the mantra, our thoughts vanish, and then mantra also vanishes. Now our "Being" is cruising in the universe.

I used to do the TM till 1990. But I could not see any great results, so slowly I stopped practising.

Now, with lot of turmoils in my life, still I keep going because of frequent practise of my own kind of Dhyana or Meditation or may be TM – I don't know what.

Spiritual awakening is required for any human being.

It is glad that the departure of the Yogi is a time of retrospection and reinvigoration.

I urge you to read these pages and get some shot of TM, folks!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharishi_Mahesh_Yogi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation

http://www.tm.org

Pasupathi Kumarappan.
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