on 5/25/05 6:14 PM, vashtirama at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> on 5/25/05 12:10 AM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >>> so, he was able to maintain an active sex life AND work 18 hours > days? >> >> Apparently so. Did you ever hang around him? Extraordinary energy and >> creativity. Fulfilled most of the claims of the introductory lecture. > > I just heard from one of MMY's secretaries
Just now? >that he needed sleep like > normal people. Sometimes he did function on very little sleep which in > itself is not magical. Once he was so sleep-deprived that he asked for > help in being propped up in such a way in public, with dark glasses, > that he could doze. I've been in meetings where he fell asleep, but the dark glasses story seems improbable. He did wear make up so he would look less tired, or so I was told. >Maybe he had a wacky sleep-schedule, but from what > I've just heard, it was not in a way that set him above other people > with wacky sleep-schedules. > I spent decades thinking M only needed 2 hrs of sleep every night. He > may have gotten by on that little sometimes, but apparently needed > more. Could be. He often didn't emerge until later in the day, so maybe he was sleeping. But I saw him pull all-nighters and then work through the next day and evening. He definitely had an extraordinary level of energy. Amma goes days at a time - some say weeks - without sleeping. And it's verifiable because she's in full public view, giving darshan round the clock. 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/
