Thanks for the feedback. He and I were always buddies on courses, took walks together and stuff. So I was sad to hear the news. I hear that every year in Rishikesh lots of people are carted away to mental hospitals who go crazy doing sadhana.
on 6/20/05 3:49 PM, t3rinity at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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 > > > > > > -- Rick Archer SearchSummit 1108 South B Street Fairfield, IA 52556 Phone: 641-472-9336 Fax: 815-572-5842 http://searchsummit.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/
