--- In [email protected], "Michael Flatley" <untilbeyond@...> wrote: > > Do you see him as a charlatan? > > Your assessment is that money was VERY important to him. > > If that's true, then every time he said he didn't care > about money, then it was a lie, and personal integrity > meant very little to him.
You asked this of Vaj, Michael, but I'll answer, from my own perspective. I don't see Maharishi as a charlatan, because that word to me connotes "conscious awareness of deceit." My honest impression of Maharishi is that he did not have the ability to self-assess, and thus determine that he was *possibly* being deceitful. My assessment of him is that he just acted, assuming that it would be correct. Lying would be just as natural to him as telling the truth, because both would be spontaneous, and thus (in his view), the will of Nature or the three gunas or whatever. I don't happen to agree with his view. I think that his actions were completely the result of his own decisions and his own will, not "Nature's" or "the three gunas'," and that he bears all the responsi- bility for the results of those actions.
