--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], Peter Sutphen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry to hear about Satyanand passing away. He was one cool yogi. > > Since we're telling "Maharishi stories," here's a good > one that involved Sattyanand, told to me by Jerry Jarvis. > > It was during a trip to India, and Jerry and Maharishi > and Sattyanand were traveling together, and had to catch > a train. Maharishi and Sattyanand got on the train, but > Jerry, who was schlepping all the baggage, did not. He > was still on the platform when the train started to pull > out of the station. > > So Maharishi reached up and pulled the Emergency Stop > handle. The train screeches to a halt and all hell > breaks loose. Jerry scrambles onto the train and is > standing there with Maharishi when squads of Indian > conductors and police come into the car, searching for > the culprit who illegally stopped the train. Everyone > in the car is staring at the three of them. > > The police walk up and ask Maharishi, who they didn't > know as anyone except Yet Another Guy In A Dhoti, "Who > pulled the cord?" According to Jerry, Maharishi didn't > hesitate for an instant. He pointed to Sattyanand and > said, "He did." > > The police dragged Sattyanand away and he spent the > night in jail. According to Jerry, when he caught up > with them in the next town, Maharishi and Sattyanand > just couldn't stop laughing about it, for days. > > Now THAT is a sweet story that I like... > > Unc
I've heard this story from several sources - it's probably true. The reason that Satyanand, and not Jarvis, had to spend the night in jail was beacuse they where going to a lecture where a young american would be slightlt more useful than "just another fellow in a dhoti" :-) 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/
