Call Me Brian
By Raj on 01/25/2010 in Uncategorized
Growing up the first born son in a South Asian family, I got used to being quite the little prince. I wanted the privileges of primogeniture to carry on forever. When people asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I responded with the full spectrum of acceptable answers: Doctor! Lawyer! Accountant! Dentist! Quantity Surveyor! Secretly, though, I wanted to be a prince. From what I saw of the British royal family, it seemed a job that involved a great deal of adulation, cash, and cars, and not terribly much work.
I mention this because recently a trickle, and then a flood, of email has come asking me whether I’m Maitreya – the leader of a movement that might be able to save the planet from itself. Some swift Googling and dipping into strange forums informs me that Maitreya is a leader foretold in a range of religions. Those who think that I might be the new prince of peace have been reading things from Share International.
So what, according to Share International, does Maitreya do? Through a doctrine of sharing, fraternity, social justice and cooperation, he (and it does seem to be a he, not a she) brings humanity back from economic and ecological collapse through new forms of spiritual community.
As it happens, I do think that sharing, fraternity, justice and cooperation are terrific things. I also think that prioritising the needs of the poor, hungry and oppressed is a non-negotiable part of a sustainable future. There are other similarities. The picture of Maitreya above shows the Buddhist avatar holding a water bottle, and I’m never far from mine. Apparently, stuttering is the mark of something esoteric, though I’m not entirely sure what that is. Finally, just as foretold, I did indeed fly from India to London in 1977, although the plane ride was a return trip from a holiday with my family.
Unfortunately, from I think that’s where the resemblances end. It frustrates me only a little less than it might disappoint those looking for Maitreya that, in fact, I’m just an ordinary bloke. I always wanted to be a Prince of Something. But when opportunity comes knocking, it turns out it’s to get me to sign for a package for some other dude.
It’s sad, too, that the thinking I advocate is pretty straightforward. One doesn’t need a messiah to show how capitalism has damaged our relationships, society, ecology, body politic and future. We have to reclaim it through grassroots organizing against capital, a commitment to human rights, gender equality, redistribution, and shared democratic control of the world’s resources. It’s like the end of The Meaning of Life (skip to 4:17) in which, finally, the meaning of life is revealed to be
try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.
But that’s not the Monty Python scene that most immediately comes to mind. Instead, it’s this rather good bit from The Life of Brian, one that Python (Monty) productions granted me leave to quote from in my last book, Stuffed and Starved, and which I still think contains all one needs to know about how we need to create social change together.
Sadly, I’m not the Messiah. I’m just a very naughty boy.
Hello Brian,
Hopefully, we can all transcend these petty differences and begin to look for ways to bring all of the people of the world the respect and liberty they have long deserved.
Keep up the good work!
Thank you,
Michael
Good Evening! How Many Languages Does Raj Know? Thank You!
hey “the truth”
S25:V30 Then the Messenger will say: “O my Lord! truly my people took this Qur’an for just foolish nonsense.”
If you say “the truth is from God” then you’re not God
Could change that to “…a movement that might be able to save a beautiful planet of 1.7 million species from one species on that planet”.
Hi Raj,
I am chasing down some candidates for the antichrist in my leisure time and found a boaster, who said there is no God. Of course this is just a joke, but I am really concerned that You approve the explanation of the sense of life to be
“try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations”.
How can it be that You want to explain, how the world can be saved, but have no ability to explain the sense of life?
Best Regards
Ralf Biermann
I like the idea of giving you more time to watch Monty Python; I wouldn’t mind that myself. Seriously, you are very down on capitalism but make no mention of the greatest issues to the world; millions killed by socialist and totalitarian governments. Come on, do you truly think that this world would have been better had the US and GB not been able (through their resources from capitalism) to block Germany twice from mad escapades of war, or keep the USSR at bay through the cold war (even though the USSR’s killing of their own middle class made Nazi germany look like boy scouts – socialism/fascism at its best). The number of citizens that China exterminated widely varies but all agree it to be the worst slaughter in history; or perhaps the Muslim purging of Muslims/christians/infidels in general that goes on even today. I think that without all of these to contend with, human society would gladly work toward the goals you hold dear. Capitalism has fueled the greatest efforts of the modern era to save those in need around the world. Fix the parts that don’t work, don’t shoot the horse because the rider fell off.
- Oh, and you are not an ordinary bloke; you are well spoken and receive media attention. You have great responsibility (regardless of all the nuts out there) to speak responsibly. Whether I consider you to be correct in your thinking or not (polar opposite actually), never fail to speak your mind. Here in the US, I think much of our troubles would have been avoided if our leaders were simply honest regardless of their viewpoint. I want to fire everybody right now.
And what does Benjamin Creme have to say about that “Naughty Boy Brian”? You are about to be exposed.
@Ralf Biermann. The real problem is not what Raj is doing or saying. The problem is that most people do not believe in no God. If a man talk about peace or avoid fatty food where is the problem?
@Richard Downey. The capitalism, the communism and the socialist are ok if the governors are honest! The real problem is not the capitalism but the corruption. When capitalism becomes corrupt turns into Fascism! The Fascism promotes war everywhere (Libya, Afganistan, Iraq, soon Sirya and Iran) because a few family take money by the wars!
I invite you to study the fascism and Mussolini story. I think that you will be able to understand that we are living in a totalitarian system.
I agree that the communism was not perfect, specially when started the corruption
Hey ‘TruthIsFromGod’, and now that you have a video, on your own YouTube channel, proving by that Maitreya’s voice that he is NOT Raj Patel? The man has a voice of that guy from the 21th Century Fox, nothing to do with Raj’s, come on…get real…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuAvGh4gDsY (I don’t know what’s more scary, the bg music or his voice… LOL)
Hey Raj (or Brian? LOL), it’s your voice, isn’t it? (LOL)
Your voice filtered by a Darth Vader mask! (LOL)
In fact, I think it’s the guy who played Darth Vader, is him connected to that Share International? (LOL) THINK: BENJAMIN CREME STATES THAT MAITREYA ‘CAME BACK’ TO THE WORLD IN 1977, EXACTLY THE YEAR THEY RELEASED THE FIRST STAR WARS MOVIE! BINGO! (LOL) DARTH VADER IS MAITREYA!
I can even see that Maitreya being introduced to the world on october 21 (Harold Camping told it so! LOL), coming down with his ’spacecraft’ (Vader’s Imperial Star Destroyer?) and wearing a Darth Vader mask, in order to reproduce that voice played at Creme’s lectures. (ROTFL)
Oh my God! (LOL) Good that people isn’t skeptical like me, or that Maitreya wouldn’t have a chance! It’s so counterfeited that I no longer have any objection about he being called Christ! (LOL)
Call him Vader! (LOL)
To ‘TruthIsFromGod’ and people related,
Stop disturbing Raj, people, Creme already said Raj is not Maitreya and even disliked the way Raj don’t support his talk on ‘the need of a messiah’ (I’m with Raj, I’m a sort of anarchist, no messiah is necessary, on the contrary, we should be saved from the saviours, that’s the only salvation we need).
I suggest you watch carefully the following videos – the first one showing a lecture by Creme in which an audio message by Maitreya is played and the second one showing a few words by Joseph Emmanuel, the self-claimed Maitreya of the Maitreya.org – for you to compare if the voice is not very similar at least:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afKiAVW6mAc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C2kWssmfrY
I think the voice is very similar, and if that’s the guy, it’s all about a much bigger counterfeit than people think, because what’s about that black guy who staged the ‘messiah’ in Kenya then? Creme says that it was a sort of alternative body created by Maitreya, and that the voice played at the lectures is his real voice, the voice of the man in his own body, himself. A man who can create different bodies for himself even being living in his own ‘main’ body… Sounds very yogic, and Joseph Emmanuel was taught by P. R. Sarkar (Ananda Marga), his guru, who gave him the spiritual name Maitreya.
And here’s a guy whose voice fits exactly with that of Creme’s lecture and who claims to be Maitreya, from his own channel, check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nUD0CtzQgY
He still doesn’t show his face, and he is counting his apparitions the same way Creme does regarding his Maitreya, and he seems to speak in many different languages.
There are the guys for you to ponder about, fellows. Raj is definitely not that one.
Peace
Raj Patel exposed as Maitreya again and again… Allah has fully exposed the horrible devil/Jinn that you are:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGGLByuRI3s
Raj Patel exposed as Maitreya again and again… Allah has fully exposed the horrible devil/Jinn that you are:
(USA/Canada version):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSHegpvxi8E
why are you blocking my comments?
Raj Patel exposed as Maitreya again and again… Allah has fully exposed the horrible devil/Jinn that you are:
(USA/Canada version):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSHegpvxi8E
the biggest liar that the world never seen before !
Ok guys,
today see this video, next week i will show you the real face of the horrible devil/Jinn. I have a picture that totally exonerates Raj
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSHfc6efCrU
It is obvious that you are religious fanatics and fools the Americans are going to destroy if they continue with their estupideses .. There is no God outside of you fools, there is no God is yourself .. GOD IS ALL gafos not grab these books the Bible, the Koran Torat and toilet paper and use them to remove their excrement anus ONLY I AM GOD BUT GOD THERE aRE NOT sO IF YOU STILL KILLING IDIOTS cease to be GOD, GOD IS GOD OF LIVING PRO NO NOTHING of martyrs killed IGNORANT CHAO
It is obvious that you are not no messiah and no one is no messiah, this plot and play the CIA is riding on the revolutions in the Arab countries and because of the leaders of the monotheistic religions that are engendered in this secret plan will wipe out a large part of the world population … ALL FOR THE STUPID FAITH IN AN IMAGINARY FRIEND.
I’m sad too but people will die of the AMERICANS WITH SPACECRAFT CALL U UFO: Over a gullible people make them see demons and horses of the apocalypse with hologram effect and topple the government and so they planted consecutively nations in their new world domination system called: NEW WORLD ORDER
And believers of lies are the good land to perform this operation successfully.
We’re waiting here in VENEZUELA make us look the same just a hologram of this going to go but to shoot the ship with our artillery system are not going to trust the technology we rely on people just to see him shoot .. .
THIS HAS TO END LIE THOSE SHIPS ARE IN THE WORLD WAR II GERMAN TECHNOLOGY TO MATCH THE NUCLEAR BOMB AND KEEP THEM FOOLED AROUND THE PLANET AND THE PEOPLE inept MORE BELIEVERS OF RELIGIONS TO SHAME FOR HUMANITY
Will die by an imaginary friend.
THERE IS NO GOD IDIOTS …
IT’S ALL LIES
hi,
anyone can be the antichrist.
it’s important to save your lifes and your honnor.
Don’t follow’up the antichrist, but follow up God the One.
Uriel
Raj Patel, aka Maitreya at the Rubin Meseum of art:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pC-Kc35fng
Raj Patel(Maitreya) exposed as a Jinn, devil, shetan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_vEcMN9ZqE
Philip Glass, Karen Armstrong, Oliver Sacks, Mike Nichols, Bill Viola, Ken Burns, Sandra Bernhard, Michael Cunningham, Robert Wilson, Laurie Anderson, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, Peter Sellars …. your workers are exposed shetan Maitreya Raj Patel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QveIL-WIhec
Eh eh, here we go!
This is the link that shows you the real face of the horrible devil/Jinn
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4u9VkjbfDvU/THbJNr7cnEI/AAAAAAAAA3E/JUffSnNTpxE/s1600/0.jpg
If you are able to go into teleportation, than you are the Maitreya.
To “truthisfromgod”
I think it is quite rude to go onto someone else’s website and call that person a devil. You are a religious fanatic. Your manner of making your point is very untactful to say the least. Even though you are a follower of Islam, do you really think you will get people interested in your religion by accusing them like this? Do you think when you go about telling Hindus and Christians and followers of any religions who you are trying to convert that they are satanic that they will want to listen to you?
And even if Raj Patel was the maitreya…how would you explain that the maitreya is still being channeled by Benjamin Creme if he is actually Raj Patel? Does the maitreya then leave Raj and temporarily possess Creme? And even so, do you really think you can take on satan in this manner? – satan is probably laughing at you right now! satan likes to cause strife amongst people and you are being his puppet.
Don’t you think that this sort of personal attack and harassment can result in legal action against you?
I don’t even know Raj Patel and I am not interested in the maitreya. But I am merely horrified at some of these posts here.
Even if a people follow a certain religious belief which is exclusive, they can still show respect and love and kindness towards others.
I’m the Antichrist!! Leave Raj Patel Alone – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtOzw9Ux3Gs – Happy Xmas
Leave poor Brian alone, I’m the Antichrist !! – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtOzw9Ux3Gs