Hi, reporter,

There is a lot to be said for feeling peaceful inside and for living a full and enjoyable life, so if you find this with Maharaji, then that's fine.

I have difficulty with your comments about Perfect Masters, however.

By your understanding of things, you seem to me to be equating the 'perfection' which Maharaji IYO teaches with the said feeling of peace inside.

However, by any normal definition, perfection is quite different from a state of being peaceful.

Most people would say that being a perfect human was very much reflected in one's attitude to other humans, yet Maharaji's premies seem extremely adept at undermining one another or being absolutely indifferent to each others' welfare if this disturbs them in their total breath concentration or just in assiduously following the teacher.

In fact, the premie community officially jacked in the notions of brotherhood and sisterhood about 20 years back and replaced it with the central goal of feeling personally good at any cost.

It seems to me, reporter, that if you can compare the example of Pavarotti, or, if you were Lewis in an earlier incarnation, Jimi Hendrix, to the 'Perfect Master' then you are in serious trouble.

Producing good guitar riffs or trolling a decent Nessum Dorma may not require one to live an exemplary life otherwise, but to be 'Perfect' (which we all know the phrase Perfect Master means) or even to teach anything which can be defined as human perfection, involves a heap of other considerations.

Any state of human perfection would have to embody the most perfect of universally accepted human values, attitudes and ethics, and yet Maharaji never even mentions such things.

If you see Maharaji's teaching as helping people to feel peace within, that's one thing, but to equate this with anything to do with perfection is totally different, and if you don't see this fundamental difference, then you're in  trouble.

Incidentally, I would seriously doubt that John Macgregor has 'returned to Knowledge.' All anyone can say there is that he issued some statements most likely designed to get his persecutors off his back, which hardly represents a return to K.