Pictures at the time in Prashanti, it will never be the same in the West, not in New York, not in here.
As we looked at old pictures, it is time past with Sai Baba, and that is not New York, and it will never be, because it is Prashanti Nilayam, the abode of highest peace.
The elephant is the symbol of ignorance. Becoming a TM-teacher the same night in sleep there was a big elephant, dark, and he had a vacuum cleaner in the trunk, and he went into a jumbojet, the TM-movment to clean the world. The symbol of ignorance showed that it was established now, hidden behind appearing knowledge it was nothing but ignorance.
The small young elephant gets attached to a chain, and he is later not able to get free when he is grown up because he doesn't realize his power.
Seeing the elephant was nothing less than that, no more reflection, no more thinking, because everything was replaced and learnt by heart, and the understanding had become repetition of the mantra and technique.
TM is the chain, they will never get free, they live on the intelligence level of an elephant.
When I went to New Delhi, I hoped Maharishi would make it all right, and prove me wrong, because I didn't want to give all that up, but no - I was right, it was confirmed, not corrected, and there were clouds of dark dust in the air above the houses people meditated.
It was shock, and I left for good, but to understand that - shit, how much time it takes.