It's impressive isn't it? Whole layers of information that had always confused me fell into place reading it. For the first time, I feel like I might have the measure of the man and his own awareness of his weaknesses.
That he behaved in completely inappropriate ways regarding sex and money are obvious. He used and abused many people, men and women. That he had a sincere desire to do good in the world, and in fact did do good in the world is also obvious. It's a classic paradox....utterly fascinating, at least to me. --- In [email protected], "Paul" <at_man_and_brah...@...> wrote: > > I have read this book, too, and agree with others that Judith did a great > job. It puts a lot of stuff in perspective. To what Rick said below, Andy > Kaufman also tried to get Maharishi to discuss sex, really pushing him. > Maharishi gave a similar answer that he just didn't know about this topic. > > In Paul Mason's The Maharishi, he's quoted as telling someone, regarding some > question related to sex, "Water the fruit, enjoy the fruit." Sounds like a > bit of first-hand knowledge of the mechanics of sex. > > > > > --- In [email protected] > > <mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com> , "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > > [I wrote:] > > > > 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. > > > > > > Not true. At Poland Spring (July 1970), in the midst of > > > MMY's "sexual phase" a guy named Michelangelo Salcedo got > > > up to the mic and told MMY he was interested in the sexual > > > revolution. MMY cut him short, saying that he was a monk, > > > it wasn't his field, and he didn't know anything about it. > > > > That's not very convincing as an example of an outright > > falsehood, Rick. > > > > That MMY was having his own private sexual revolution > > didn't mean he knew anything about the sexual revolution > > in society that Salcedo was interested in. > > > > (Do you think Salcedo had heard rumors of MMY's sexual > > activities and was slyly hinting about them to see what > > MMY would say?) > > > > No. I think he was just interested in sex and he wanted MMY to talk about > > it. But on the subject of MMY's sexuality, there's no doubt, if you were > > around him any amount of time, that he identified himself as a celibate monk > > and never indicated otherwise, and that he encouraged others to adopt that > > lifestyle (Purusha and Mother Divine, and their precursors). > > >
