07/09/2026
Dear friends,
This morning we had an interesting conversation at home with a dear friend I thought it would be good to share it, about the misuse of knowledge by some for mercantile, or let's say rakshasic, purposes. A word came up in the conversation that struck me when we were talking about the TMO and its leadership: "colonization of knowledge."
Yes, indeed. Skillfully, codes of conduct, moral codes, and codes of discipline were insidiously promulgated and encouraged by this organization. This was done behind a smokescreen, as they proclaimed themselves the holders of Vedic knowledge, as if this organization held the keys to humanity's evolution. So yes, it has colonized the Vedic vocabulary, sacred knowledge. It dictated codes of conduct and promoted fake news to create the illusion of success in bringing about world peace, with the results we see today.
It constantly invents miracle products and "high-speed" meditation techniques to achieve a goal that isn't very clear but always extremely expensive.
Finally, there's the sacrosanct commandment: not to be "negative" with others, but really, especially with the organization that claims to be the mother of all virtues, under penalty of burning in hell—I'm barely exaggerating. I was told one by a lady from Fairfield.
But also, through this very means, this organization has made its members dependent on a lifestyle and a rhetoric that only serves its leaders, intellectually and financially impoverishing those who believed in the initial project of lasting peace for humankind.
Every day, we see, in the vast majority of cases, not people who should be fulfilled in their spiritual quest, but lost souls who haven't been able to fully enjoy their lives because they accepted remaining dependent on a deadly dogma.
Maharishi has nothing to do with this. Because its teaching seems very clear to me.
Those who left this organization while maintaining their spiritual quest are happy, fulfilled, independent, and have seen their consciousness blossom freely, regardless of any threats, whatever they may have been. So the TMO, like a sect, always does very well—I don't mean, of course, the TMO is a cult, isn't it?—has colonized minds and, more seriously, preempted a hostile takeover of Vedic knowledge for fallacious reasons.
The good news is that when there is an awakening, when the meditator realizes they don't need to be bound hand and foot to such a structure, life lived to the fullest is very real. Often, many of us have thought it necessary to sacrifice our lives as normal human beings, evolving in a normal society, to be more "spiritually" evolved. And sometimes, unfortunately, we've even been lost in a guilty condescension, judging non-meditators as lost to Vedic knowledge.
So, an egregor, draining the energy of sincere beings, emerged, having no connection whatsoever with the Veda. You see, the Veda gives, it doesn't take, it forbids nothing; it is your light, and this light belongs to no one, and certainly not to the courts or to a few self-proclaimed "royal courtiers" who claim to possess all truths.
In fact, it is likely that all those still dependent on this movement, in a spirit of decolonization, would embrace the support of Nature and the Veda, and would be far more powerful. For unless we are blind, we can clearly see that this organization achieves nothing, or very few tangible results, for the obvious reason of the distortion of Knowledge. Too many of our friends have wasted precious time searching in a myth for higher states of consciousness that are already present within them. Finally, I am not writing this in anger. I passed that stage several years ago. But it is important to speak out when things are adharmic. I am not one of those who are afraid to speak out, even if things seem harsh. The worst kind of negativity is remaining silent in the face of obvious wrongdoing. This doesn't mean I possess the absolute truth, however, in the world of relativity, there are undeniable and irrefutable facts confirming the misappropriation of spiritual knowledge for questionable ends.
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All the best,
And yes .
Jai Guru Dev 🌹🙏