Forty Years with Maharishi
The Purusha of Togetherness
by Josie Fauerso
Maharishi’s last gift to us was one of an amazing all inclusiveness. Everyone was invited to attend his funeral celebration in India. We came together in the tens of thousands—hundreds of thousands if you count the people connected to the video cast of the events and millions is you count the people who read about it through the newspapers. This astonished me. I expected it all to be secretive and exclusive. Maharishi had spent the last 10 or so years of his life in Vlodrop, Holland, available to most of us only through teleconferencing and conference calls.
My husband, Paul, and I had known Maharishi for forty years. We met him on our honeymoon, which was our first meditation course with him at Squaw Valley, in Lake Tahoe, California. In the ensuing years, we became teachers of Transcendental Meditation and worked for him in various ways. When the word came of his passing in the beautifully worded press release, we all felt a cacophony of feelings. The invitation to attend the celebrations in India came and we decided, yes, how perfect, how divine, how impossible on a moment’s notice. But it happened. We went with our daughter, Joey who felt a great commitment to be there.
I did not begin to remember Maharishi, I began to experience my relationship with him all over again. It was not new, it was intimately familiar, singularly profound and infinitely nourishing. It also felt like incredible loss. We were with so many of our old friends who had been around all along. We were with the luminaries of Maharishi’s movement, the Rajas and Chief Ministers, and Directors as well as children of friends, faculty members of Maharishi University of Management, well wishers, and world travelers. Of all the amazing accomplishments of Maharishi’s life, his ability to simultaneously relate on the most profound, intimate level to so many people is certainly something of a miracle. We all felt our own private and profound relationship with our Master. And then we began to feel a Purusha, a wholeness, which filled the dark void of the physical loss of Maharishi. It grew and grew, and we all began to realize that this was his legacy— this beautiful Purusha of togetherness of our consciousness. Through all of the amazing, incredible, transformative events—the viewing of His Holiness as he was in state, the funeral procession and celebration, the collection of his ashes and the release into the holy rivers, first in Allahabad and then in Varanasi—in the same spot where Guru Dev’s body had been let go—our connection to Maharishi’s infinite unbounded consciousness was and is enlivened—our connections to his world movement revitalized. Americans who were in India and on the video casts feel a great desire to help our Raja, John Hagelin, and to continue this Purusha of Consciousness to honor Maharishi and all that he is.
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