On 04/05/2011 10:03 AM, Vaj wrote: > > On Apr 5, 2011, at 12:17 PM, Peter wrote: > >> I also wonder if he had some sort of cognitive impairment the last >> 15-20 years or so. Things became progressively stranger and stranger >> as time went by. The rajas were really the final straw that destroyed >> any sort of credibility the TMO/MMY ever had. > > > It seemed to me to just be the same senile dementia so common in the > elderly. Possibly some depression as well, based on how he would fly > off the handle; really rather an irritable old man.
Got to be a drag to preach immortality and have your body fall apart over a fondness for ice cream. Not unusual for Indians to have a tendency towards diabetes in old age. A little more care and he could have gone out winning! But that often means living a boring life (as Chopra put it).