Letter
from John Lennon to Christians on the subject of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and Transcendental Meditation
– undated
(1967-68)
John Lennon's letter to Christians
on the subject of Maharishi & Transcendental Meditation
written late1967-early1968
Dear Christians,
The only
way to answer your questions is to meditate yourself and
experience it – you can only find out so much by reading. A
guru is a teacher – thats what the word means –
he’s certainly a teacher. His idea of helping the world is to
help everyone
– its no good feeding people who are just going to be hungry
again in a few months – the point is change the situation
which causes starvation disease etc – the cause is people
– governments politics-you-me –
everything must be changed so that the less fortunate aren’t.
Theres enough food etc for everyone in the world – so where
is it? People destroy it for ‘economic
reasons’…
I believe Maharishi
wants publicity
– why shouldn’t he? The only way to get a message
over to everyone is to publicise it – that is the 20th
century. If Jesus was here now don’t you think he’d
be on T.V.?
You ask me to try God – thats
what meditation is about – experiencing God. ‘The
Kingdom of Heaven is within’ said Jesus – and he
meant within which is where the mantra takes your mind. Sure the system
is scorned in India and elsewhere so is God so is everything scorned by
someone or other – its doesn’t mean its bad does it?
Anyway as I said – try it
– it won’t harm you – you do not have
to be rich to do it – you do not
have
to go to India to do it – you just DO IT.
With love
John
Lennon
P.S. excuse paper I don’t seem to have anything else.
