--- In [email protected], "Paul Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > At night he lay down outside Guru Dev's door."17 > > > > [Quote from Raj Varma, made in early 1968 and extracted from 'The Way > > to Maharishi's Himalayas' by Elsa Dragemark.] > > For anyone who has visited India, it is a very common sight to see > people lie on the floor. > > But anyway, I have come to view MMY's uncle 'Dr' Raj Varma's remarks > with some caution since observing that the major part of his 1980 > book 'Strange Facts About a Great Saint' was derived from a direct > translation of Rameshwar Tiwari's 1965 Hindi biography of Guru Dev and > parts of a 1950 compilation of Guru Dev quotations. This creates the > illusion to the casual reader that he has contributed a fresh > biography. Seemingly his biographical notes, contained in Elsa > Dragemark's book, also stem from Rameshwar's precious biography.
*************** You describe Rameshwar's biography as "precious," which implies that you consider it to be factual and authoritative, yet somehow when material from that book appears in "Strange facts about a great saint" it somehows becomes suspect? This is nonsense. It may be fair to accuse Varma of plagiarism (which is a commonplace in the book world -- among many others, famous historian Stephen Ambrose plagiarized considerably http://slate.msn.com/id/2072336/ ), but the underlying facts whether attributed properly in an academic way or not remain uncontested. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
