From: mikenews@access.digex.com (Mike Doughney)
Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental
Subject: Re: List/Review of Books about TM and Ayurveda
Summary: Time to quote the source directly.
Date: 21 Jul 92 06:17:26 GMT
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In article <1992Jul16.183850.568@imagen.com> avi@dragon.imagen.com writes:
>
>>In article <1992Jul13.224511.14392@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Robert E. McGrath replies:

>>>I note that the reading list is about 20 books of religion and 3 of "science".  
                                                     ^^^^^^^^           ^^^^^^^
>Religion ? What religion ? Since when is self-development a religion ? 
>Observing the fanaticism of some of us attacking BOOKS they have NEVER read much
>less understood, and labeling them as "religious" or unscientific, WITHOUT ever 
>laying an eye on them - is what I call: a religion ...
>

From "The Science of Being and Art of Living" by His Holiness
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, which if I recall is near the beginning of this
reading list...
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Page 276

THE PERSONAL ASPECT OF GOD

God in personal form is the supreme Being of almighty nature.  It is
not 'It' but can only be 'He' or 'She'.  'He' or 'She' has a specific
form, a specific nature, certain attributes and certain qualities.  To
some the personal God is 'He' and to others 'She'.  Some say It is both
'He' and 'She', but certainly It is not 'It' because of the personal
character.  'It', we have seen, belongs only to the impersonal aspect
of God.

The personal aspect of God necessarily has form, qualities, features
and likes and dislikes; and, having the ability to command the entire
existence of the cosmos, the process of evolution and all in creation,
the personal God is Almighty.

God, supreme, almighty Being, in whose person the process of evolution
finds fulfilment, is at the highest level of creation.  ...
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Page 304

The mechanical path to God-realization as found in transcendental
meditation is so simple and comprehensive in its results that it
attracts all lovers of God and seekers after truth proceeding on any of
the paths to God-realization, intellectual, emotional, physiological
or psycho-physiological.  It is so graceful that anyone treading any
path in life will find it comforting and elevating.  It supports and
strengthens any path to fulfilment, any path to the great goal of
God-realization. 
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I have read the book; sure as hell looks like a religious text to me,
once you decide not to ignore certain chapters, particularly the last
one.  My copy's for sale, by the way. 

On the subject of religious texts and the Movement: can anyone here
comment on why the second volume of Maharishi's translation of the
Bhagavad-Gita was not released to the general public, at least this
was true as of 1983.

>
>>>Robert E. McGrath
>
>--Avi
>avi@imagen.com

Mike Doughney, former meditator
Not speaking for my company, above this line, anyway...
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