Whoa. Now you got me thinking I should have JUST NOT SAID ANYTHING AT ALL. I 
mean in reply to Ravi Yogi.
Still, bless him—I think his love for his guru (Amma) seems genuine.
But the threat to my self-prestige (my necessary egoism) seems to have come to 
nothing after reading this.
Those Indian gods, they play their music on the instruments of  human beings.

--- In [email protected], turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajradhatu@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I believe Ravi did an interview at Buddha at the Gas Pump where  
> > > he talked about his enlightenment.
> > > 
> > > http://batgap.com/ravi-chivukula/
> > 
> > It is worth pointing out that as far as I remember
> > Ravi has since said on two different occasions that 
> > his entire interview was a put-on, and that he was 
> > taking advantage of Rick's naivete. I don't remember 
> > the exact messages in which he said this, and don't 
> > consider him worth my time to look it up, but I'm 
> > sure someone could if they wanted. Just providing 
> > this information to help you know who and what 
> > you're dealing with.
> 
> Someone looked it up, found one instance, and sent 
> it to me. It was from post #279237. When dealing
> with Ravi, consider the source, MZ...
> 
> Me:
> > > To date, like MMY, Jim has NOT demonstrated anything to
> > > back up his claims that he (and other claimants to the
> > > throne of enlightenmentitudeness) is "special." He seems
> > > to me to be the most ordinary of human beings, someone
> > > who at one point in his life grew tired of being a nobody
> > > and figured out that if he just made a bunch of claims to
> > > gullible people, a certain percentage of them would treat
> > > him as "special," just because he claimed to be. Same with
> > > Ravi. He, too was an absolute nobody until he suckered
> > > Rick in with some parroted spiritual bullshit and a similar
> > > claim to be self realized.
> 
> Ravi:
> > Again enlightenment is nothing about feeling special or 
> > demonstrating anything, though some of them do which is 
> > entirely optional. 
> > 
> > You are at least partially right about me - I totally 
> > suckered Rick into an interview, my story ended long 
> > time back. I'm just a liar making up stories since I 
> > have no more stories left to project. I make up new 
> > stories to engage in playful fun to make fun of 
> > pimps(egoistics) like you totally fascinated with their 
> > whores(intellects) and can't seem to entertain the 
> > possibility of a life outside the 'hood(small self).
>


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