--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jun 21, 2008, at 12:46 PM, John M. Knapp, LMSW wrote: > > >> Except, of course, that the "billions" are in the > >> custody of the TMO. He didn't do much for himself > >> with them, did he? > >> > > > > > > Ummm, did you not get the memo about his golden toilets? > > > > I saw them at Livingston Manor. I've been told they were there in > > Europe as well. > > > > Just a symbol of what the Maharishi did with his billions. > > And an appropriate one. :-) > > There are a number of common myths about Maharishi and the > TMO and the idea that he was this renunciate living totally > unattached to his enormous wealth is another and just plain > bunk.
Hard to say whether or not it's bunk when it's so unclear what this statement of the "myth" even means in practical terms. Photos of his house in Vlodrop are not exactly a state secret. Nobody thinks he lived in a mud hut. He obviously lived in comfort. > His obsessions with silk, his completely wooden Mansion at > Vlodrop (built with no nails), elaborate preparations of > honey, drugs from his own drug company--such a list could > go on and on. And proves what, exactly? As I pointed out to Boo, there's a whole host of things that rich people typically own or spend money on that MMY didn't. Nor, of course, did he retire as most people do. The danger in not mentioning these rather > obvious lies is that the TMO, as PR agent extraordinaire, > would simply re-write it's own false history and leave > that dishonest edifice as a "real" one. Better come up with some *real* lies, Vaj, if you want to make your point. > Even if that means taking the airbrush to some old photos, > these people don't care. Have airbrushes been taken to any old photos that you know of? > Consider just a few of the myths that have been fully > debunked here on FFL: > > -that MMY, because he was enlightened, only slept a couple > of hours a night. False, perpetuated as true. > -that TM in unique. False, perpetuated as true. > -that TM is effortless. False, perpetuated as true. > -TM is great because the research says so. False, perpetuated > as true. Actually, none of these have been conclusively been shown to be false, as Vaj knows.
