--- In [email protected], "off_world_beings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <<<While he was there, he asked that particular Shankaracharya (who > had just initiated him into meditation) if that Maharishi who was > with the Beatles was legitimate. That particular Shankaracharya > laughed and said, "He was my first choice for my sucessor, but they > wouldn't allow it due to the caste laws." >>> > > I think this post along with others (like the one about the palm > leaf reader who said that Maharishi is who he says he is), and the > one where Paul McCartney in 2001 spoke of how nice it was being with > Maharishi in India in the 60's, saying that Maharishi was the real > thing, and that a lot of teachers or gurus of that time were going > around in Rolls Royces, with actresses, but that Maharishi had done > none of that. http://www.tm-ireland.org/news.htm > And George Harrison in 1977 says: > ""All Maharishi ever gave me was good advice and he gave > me the technique of meditation which is really wonderful."..... > "Well you know, John went through a negative thing moreso > than I did with the Maharishi. I can see now much clearer what > happened, and there was just alot of ignorance that went down. > Maharishi was fantastic and I admire him, like Prabhupada, for being > able, in spite of all the ridicule, to just keep going. > http://beatlesnumber9.com/ghcraw.html > > These statements, put together really point to the truth of the > situation, rather than all this silly gossip and fundamentalist > anti-TM fetish that goes on on this board.
Sounds to me more like you just prefer the statements that reinforce what you wish to believe. :-) There *are* people in the world who can be grateful to a person for the things he might have taught them that were valuable, but at the same time be aware of his human side, and his failings, without the need to put the person on some kind of unrealistic pedestal. "Fundamentalist anti-TM fetish" sounds like the kind of epithet a person would hurl if he wanted to avoid dealing with the possibility that what these folks are saying is true. And what if everything they are saying IS true. So what? If Maharishi was boinking the entire cheerleading squad of the Dallas Cowboys, rolling around naked on piles of money, would that alter for you in *any* way the value you place on TM or its value in your life? If it would, I suspect that this says more about you than it does Maharishi. Unc 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/
