--- In [email protected], "wvansant111" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What do you guys know about Dr. Maha Patra? He's teaching meditation >in > my area by donation and a friend of mine went. Everything she >described > sounds exactly like TM and he said he was very close to Maharishi and > really loves him. thoughts? >
He is actually probably highly knwoledgable as a vedic mediation teacher. Is also very much part of the TM story. In different ways his name always seems to transit the long story with maharishi. He is probably fine and as good or better as any in-experienced skinny westen re-certified TM teacher to teach transcending meditation. He is just not asscociated with TM-org. There is an advantage in tbat given the general lack of intregrity of the TM-org and all the corruption. Kind of like the Catholic Church now that way now. In listening, the TM-org has yet to set their ethics and integrity out there in front of people now that Maharishi is gone. No clear break from the past. Maha Patra is clearly a symbol of the past performance of the TM-org and how people were handled when it came too close to calling the integrity of Maharishi and the money. Maha Patra got ejected when he got too ethical about the money with Maharishi. There is a story there. He probably teaches meditation fine. He is Indian and lived with Maharishi a long time. Jai Guru Dev, -Doug in Iowa
