Thanks for finding this Alex, I mistakenly thought this was from the Dick Cavett interview so I was chasing my own google tail looking for this quote!
--- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley" <j_alexander_stanley@...> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@> > wrote: > > > > Although Maharishi didn't go around calling himself Bal > > Brahmachari Maharishi Mahesh Fredrico, Jesus Fernando Yogi, he > > did refer to himself as being a monk, or a renunciate many many > > times, sometimes in my presence personally. > > From 2002: > > http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0205/12/lklw.00.html > > KING: We'll take a break and come back with our remaining moments with > Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, right after these words. > > (COMMERCIAL BREAK) KING: In our remaining moments with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, > let's talk about yourself. > > Do you have a family? > > MAHARISHI: The world is my family. I count them... > > KING: You have no children of your own? > > MAHARISHI: That is what a family means -- all the children of the world. > > KING: I know, but I'm just asking if you have children from your loins. > > MAHARISHI: I am a single person. I'm a Purusha. I'm a -- what do you call it > -- Sanyasi, if you understand the word. I'm a monk, if you understand it... > > KING: You're a bachelor. > > MAHARISHI: ... monk. >
