On Sep 24, 2007, at 6:10 PM, jim_flanegin wrote:
> Ron, is the reason you mentioned 'cognizing the vedas' because of
the
> rumor spread by TB's (probably purushoids) that Mahesh 'cognized
the
> Vedas'? This is one of many self-perpetuated myths the org puts
forth
> to help justify devotion/investment despite waning interest.
>
I never heard Maharishi say he had cognized the Vedas, nor did I
hear anyone say this about Maharishi. Wasn't his translation of, and
commentary on the Bhagavad Gita enough!?? Next you'll be telling us
he wrote the encyclopedia brittanica...:-)
Well Jimbo, you just ain't been around! :-)
It's a rather common TMO myth IME. I actually thought it had faded
away, until I heard it here a while back. A friend of Rick's stated
back in May (on FFL):
"You FEEL more comfortable reducing Maharishi to a relative
personality, with flaws like all of us, who may know less about Vedic
knowledge than some gay cowboy named Dana or Oscar or LeRoy who went
to India and studied with the Hindu status quo; you don't FEEL
comfortable seeing Maharishi as an embodiment of pure knowledge, the
only Rishi in history who has cognized all the vedas, because that
would not fit into your world view and that is not how you feel
comfortable with yourself."
