Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ideas for independent teachers

[Llundrub]

No offense spraig, but your old friend and your backward thinking self are boring pundits. I frankly have had annop. Perhaps with luck someday you might have something original to add to a conversation, but I really doubt it.   ----- Original Message ----- From: sparaig To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 12:43 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ideas for independent teachers Well, me old friend Annop Chandola once commented that the universe had done the world a favor by not letting MMY retreat into Shankaracharyahood because his leaving India to found the TM organization made him far more powerful and influential than simply becoming another Shankaracharya would have done. And, if you think any other teacher in India would have been able to pull off what MMY has done, I'd like to sell you a river in Egypt. Oh wait, you've already bought it, I see... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "claudiouk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If all along the cosmic task had been to train 40,000 or so pundits > to a high degree of competence within the true "tradition" surely > this would not require a detour lasting 50 years > involving "householders" and "Westerners". Had MMY remained in India, > been one of the many gurus there that seem to thrive without much > difficulty, amassed a following of 5+ million in a land of about a > billion, and perhaps have found an Indian "Wallace" equivalent to > kick start scientific interest in TM there (as already happening for > Yoga)... etc.. Morever it might have ended up, like for the Buddha, > primarily a monastic order. Was there REALLY a need for all this > circus act? > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is a really good question. > > This is the question I was addressing when I talked the other day > >about the upside of the pundits. It will really be these guys who > >will > > preserve the true tradition. Unless people take the time to train > > themselves in the texts behind this tradition, they would be > >clueless. > > Why? Because when you were taught SCI you were not given the source > >for > > these teaching.  Nor were you given the source behind many of the > > advanced lectures. The science of the gap, the sandi, is all in > > Sanskrit. In other words, the real tradition has been hidden behind > >a > > facade of scientific materialism and dispensed. The only real > option is > > to bootleg the SCI tapes and the advanced lectures, etc. > > > > And how will you train new teachers without all of the video and > audio > > tapes? > > > > Another issue is who will teach the advanced techniques? > > > > The very real upside of the pundits--even if it ends up being only > half > > of the number stated--the upside is they have the full knowledge of > the > > tradition AND the practices. So it's a good thing that they are > > learning what they are learning. The karma-kanda aspect of M.'s > > teaching really is only preserved by Brahmins--and that represents > a > > significant part since what he teaches is essentially karma yoga > for > > householders. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' 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 the Yahoo! Terms of Service.