Rejoicing In Maharihi's Highest Trancending in this his present incarnation

It is with grave sadness many of us say goodbye to the greatest teacher of the most supreme Meditation technique ever made available to we seven billion sojourners of this brief span of existence upon satellite earth. However we must tread cautiously in our bereavement because we bereave selfishly for ourselves and ourselves alone. We bereave the loss of the Guru we have learned to love and admire simply because in our own selfish way we would desire to keep him with us solely for our benefit alone. We should rather greatly rejoice that the Maharishi has ascended to the Highest Transcendental, the Highest God and Unitive Consciousness and absorption into the Light of pure Being which we still strive to briefly taste and simply to grasp some minute understanding of.

Maharishi has not left us. He is here. He is in his teaching which was instilled in us, in his love which transformed us, in his unfolding lotus of unknowing knowingness, and in his being lovingly saturating our beingness.

Before I had even been informed of Maharishi's graduation into the Higher realms of being I was in deep meditation when I felt a definite presence approach me.
My eyes closed I could still somehow see who was approaching me and it was unmistakably Mahesh. I am not prepared to judge or to ascertain if it was an archetype emerging from my collective consciousness or some actual message some unexplained way from the Guru. I was beyond questioning or doubting. This image which appeared as the Maharishi tenderly spoke and told me he had "not been fully informed enough by the others about the Natural Stress Relief Meditation Movement but", he continued, "but my blessing and approval is upon it, it is perfumed by the essence of my teaching, and I send my love and blessing that it may flourish. Transcend thought and then your thinking mind, the conscious mind becomes consciousness. When it goes beyond thought then it transcends thought and becomes consciousness. This consciousness is pure consciousness. The nature of this pure consciousness is bliss.---the Absolute. This is true Being." After my meditation session I remembered most every word and wrote it down immediately as best as my frail memory could recall it. For three hours after this experience I could neither talk nor understand any conversation my wife or friends directed toward me. I was engulfed in bliss and bliss alone. It was shortly after this I was informed of the news that Maharishi had made, in this present life, his final transcending to pure bliss of Eternal Beingness. Was this an hallucination as the result of tremendous release of stress, the most fantastic of borderline lucid dreams, or did I indeed have an experience that defies all logic and science? For right now I am consumed with the reality of it and all I can say is "Congratulations Maharishi for so gracefully ascending to that which we all fleetingly experience from time to time as we journey toward the Beingness that we have forgotten that we are. DionysiusCW