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Jonathan: Maharaji's current message is no different than his message thirty years ago. Sure, the packaging might be different. But, at its core, the thread remains the same: when the master barks, the obedient dogs had better come running.
Premie Response: That's right, Jonathan, the constant message is look for your answers within.
If the message is truly to look within, then why does Maharaji lead his life emphasizing the external, like his possessions and his own conspicuous consumption?
I'm a firm believer in leaders who practice what they preach. A leader acts duplicitously when they encourage their followers to seek their answers within, while the leader himself leads a life of material greed.
It's funny: these days, Maharaji casts himself as a business leader. But his wealth emanates from followers who have been told, in one form or another, to donate their personal possessions to Maharaji for their own internal happiness. All the while, Maharaji turns those singular donations into an enormous personal fortune that he neither earned nor deserved.
If you seek inner happiness, Premie Response, then you ought to know that your objective is not shared by your leader. Your inner happiness is a mere by-product of Maharaji's gold-digging, Western exploits, not his Eastern mysticism.
Jonathan
Modified by Jonathan at Wed, Jan 12, 2005, 16:44:52
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