--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 6/20/05 2:26 PM, marekreavis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Question re "immolated himself"(!): literally? > > Yes. > > >Do you know the > > reason why? > > He got very out of balance. I don't know much more than that.
I was there when it happened. Obviously he got some mental problems and because of that, the Purusha board wanted to sent him away. People with mental problems are usually put away from the higher storeys, because the administration was afraid people would jump out of the window. So they put him into a room at the basement. There was this huge pile of foam matresses stored in the room where he was, which he put to flame. It was a shock to everybody, because Sten was a really nice guy. I even worked with him together, he was working in production, paste up, and I was supervising there. I had not he slightest idea that he had some problem. What really triggered the suicide was the fact that he was very much ad odds with his family, and despararetly didn't want to go home. We all attended his funeral and Peter Warburthon gave a flaming speech. Officially it was only an accident, but word of the real reason got around quickly. > > >Do you know what the consequences were? And how Global > > Good News dealt with self-immolation Maharishi's basement? I guess with over 200 people meditating many hours every day for many years, things can happen. I heard that many yogis and Sadhus in the Himalaya have mental problems too. Vivekananda said that out of 100 people trying to realize God 90 will give up easily, 9 will go crazy and only one will succeed. For me Stens death was sad, but I don't look down on him in any way. He has done a lot of good in this incarnation, and maybe he just avoided wasting a lot of time in the rest of it. 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/
