--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The story of Anoop CHandola hearing from the Shankaracharya of the > > North that MMY was his first choice to be his sucessor is > Chandola's > > own story. > > And completely irrelevant to reality. :-) > > It's a "See...somebody 'important' thinks Maharishi is > cool" story, like trotting out stories of how Larry King > still thinks well of him, as if that settles things. > > > He never learned official "TM." He learned meditation from > > Swami Shantananda Shankaracharya,as did his family. The local TM > > center always invited him to all functions, however. > > > > Joyce Weaver's story about Satchananda squishing a bug was a first- > > hand account as far as I know. Ditto with MMY yelling at some > > workers. Virginia Duncan, whom I *think* was the one who told it to > > me, was on one of the earliest TTCs in India. > > And equally irrelevant to reality. The stories "mean" > something only to people who believe they "mean" > something. > > Stories are sometimes used to inspire. Sometimes they > are used as a club, as someone tells a story that "means" > something to someone else, to get them to shut up and > believe the things that they want you to believe. Look > at the use of "storytelling" in modern politics. The > minute Bush starts telling a story about "Gladys Filch, > who lived in Bumfuck, Iowa, and who..." you *know* he's > trying to sell you something, and doesn't have any facts > to back up what he's trying to sell you. :-) > > Unc
You know there is someone with a similiar story to your friend, Lawson, in my area. Indian Professor - spent some time with Maharishi, sat on the stage with him at a few conferences etc. Was taught meditation by his Guru. We used to have him give advanced lectures sometimes. I asked him if he asked Maharishi if he should change over to TM. Maharishi told him to keep doing what he was doing. That was very telling to me. Things are often less rigid than we think they are. Studied sanskrit with him for a while, long before it was popular in the movement... JohnY 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/
