--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > > On Behalf Of authfriend > > Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 8:09 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Robes of Silk, Feet of Clay/Judith Bourque > > > > --- In [email protected] > > <mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com> , "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > Nabby wrote: > > > > > Is that so ? You're greatly misinformed. > > > > Rick wrote: > > > > > Watch the Larry King interview > > > > > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0icNZnUxYo0> > > > > > This was taped quite late in his life. King > > > > > asked him if he had any children, and he said > > > > > he was a monk. > > > > Nabby wrote: > > > > How can you claim that He was not a monk at this > > > > time ? > > > > Rick wrote: > > > > That wasn't King's question. He asked whether MMY > > > > had any children. They might have been 40 years > > > > old for all King knew. MMY's answer was that he > > > > was a monk, which implied that he didn't have > > > > children for that reason. > > > > Nabby wrote: > > > So now Dr. Smear, the king of rumour, Rick Archer > > > claim that Maharishi has fathered a child. > > > > Rick wrote: > > > I'm not claiming anything of the sort. All I'm > > > saying this that his answer to Larry King's > > > question about whether he had any children was that > > > he didn't because he was/is a monk. We're > > > discussing the point because you claimed that he > > > didn't claim to be a monk, despite that fact that > > > throughout his life, he did often claim to be one. > > > > Nabby never said MMY didn't claim to be a monk, Rick. > > > > He seemed to be saying that MMY admitted a hiatus in his > > monasticism. > > He said explicitly that MMY was *brahmacharya*--including > at the time of the King interview--for all but a short > period. > > And a claim to be a monk, FWIW, is not necessarily a claim > to be celibate. It virtually always means one doesn't have > a family (partner and children), however. > > King asked if MMY had children as a delicate way of > asking if he was celibate, but MMY chose to interpret the > question literally, which he surely had a right to do. > Whether one is celibate is a rather personal question-- > none of King's business--and MMY was under no obligation, > IMHO, to respond directly to what King's question had > only implied. (Although, if King had asked him, "Are you > celibate?" he could have honestly responded that he was. > Just not if King had asked him, "Have you always been > celibate?") > > I could certainly be wrong, but I'm guessing he was very > careful as to what he said about his sexual status, > allowing folks to *assume* things that weren't the case > without telling outright falsehoods.
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