Re: [FairfieldLife] The sweet & inspiring report about dear Prudence of Rishikesh THEN and NOW

Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:43:20 -0700

Great story! I must admit to being a little bit "star struck" when I met Prudence in 1973 or '74. She and her husband (Al Bruns?) came to the center in LA in search of initiation forms for someone she had initiated. All the forms were buried in the basement of the Gayley Center and I was a tad irritated when someone came into my office with the news that "a couple wanted some old forms from the basement." When I entered the lobby and they introduced themselves, my mood changed and after a long search, found what they needed.

Rick Archer wrote:

Dear Shaasa,

Namaste. Finally I'm hearing from someone connected with TM. This is what I
am looking for: diversity in VFA. I am very interested to hear your insights
on anything we discuss. The more points of view offered, the better. We'll
all learn.

Perhaps some of you know of this song by the Beatles, "Dear Prudence"? It's
about a young woman at Maharishi's place in Hrishikesh in 1968 who got so
absorbed in her meditation that she would not come out of her little cabin.
So John Lennon and George Harrison, bless their souls, went to her cabin to
try to get her to come out and associate with the others at the meditational
retreat. Prudence refused to come out, so absorbed she was to
meditate---even the Beatles couldn't tempt her away from it!?

As a teenager growing up in California, I loved the song, "Dear Prudence",
and I also knew the story behind it. I thought, who is this person who is so
absorbed in meditation that she refuses to hang out with the Beatles? They
were all there. I also thought, there must be something to this TM.?

When I did my undergrad at Berkeley Prudence Farrow, the sister of the
actress Mia Farrow, the Beatle's Prudence, was a senior in the South Asian
department. Late in life, she had decided on a career in academia. Prudence
and I had classes together in Sanskrit and Hinduism, and we became very good
friends, studying Sanskrit together , many, many evenings. She is one of
Maharishi's first disciples in America, and a TM teacher. She still does her
meditation every day, more than forty years after meeting Maharishi. She
does not do it out of duty, she does it because she finds it spiritually
satisfying.?

Prudence is really like my older sister. We stay in contact, and she is
still helping me in my work. She has become a great Sanskrit scholar, and is
now busy writing her dissertation on the philosophy of Sri Sankaracarya. She
is one of the foremost instruments of the Vedic rishis in the West.?

All of this happened because Prudence studied meditation with Maharishi.

Of course, my emails to her begin with "Dear Prudence,"....

She preferred meditation to playing with the Beatles. I think that's rather
distinctive.?

Gressett.
 



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