And yet the people who run the university don't know where the missing kids are
nor do they give a rat's ass - and you think these guys are worth supporting?
What are you going to say to some of the families when the mom's and dad's come
to FAirfield looking for their missing boys? Are you gonna tell 'em - Gee I
dunno, but its all for a worthy cause supported by high minded individuals?
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On Mon, 1/27/14, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The New Maharishi Effect: 10% Missing Pundits
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, January 27, 2014, 6:21 PM
Why? Benefit?
Because when you look at the brain wave signatures of
chanting the
veda in sanskrit then the vedic chanting seems is a third
technique
along with TM and the TM-sidhis that demonstrates the
global
coherence of evident
spirituality. So, when it was recently
not possible to
bring westerners to the front to meditate in a large enough
group then it
was an obvious solution to the deficit Dome numbers to
augment the
group numbers by outsourcing to the pundit group. That was
paid for and
sustained by generous donations of high-minded people. It
is a very
large altruistic project with complex logistics and people
in it playing
out. The intent is good and there are a lot of hands
involved. It
ain't over yet. Aside from all that, this is about
modern science
and cultivating spirituality. Vedic Science. Get over it.
-Buck
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...>
wrote:
I agree with what
you say.
I understand the attitude of the MUM folks not wanting to
look for the missing pundits in training - its just like
their attitude towards everyone else - if you aren't
working for us, making money for us or giving us good free
PR we don't give a crap about you.
The thing I can't figure out is why they recruit the
boys to start with. It takes some money to feed,m house and
transport them to the US - the only money I know of are the
ongoing solicitations from Hagelin and other TMO big shots
to give money to bring the pundits over here, and I know
they claim it takes a couple million to do that. But aside
from that, I don't see how it benefits the TMO to keep
recruiting the boys.
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On Mon, 1/27/14, TurquoiseB <turquoiseb@...>
wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The New Maharishi Effect: 10%
Missing Pundits
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, January 27, 2014, 4:47 PM
I simply cannot wait to see how
the TM and TMO apologists here deal with this, and try to
make excuses for it. Items I'd like to see them deal
with are highlighted in red below.
Can you say "We told you so?" We did, many times
here on FFL. You didn't listen.
The most fascinating part for me is that because of the
"delayed payment" scam, it is likely that the
GCWP
has ever paid out a single penny of the $150 per
month payments promised to the parents of these runaway
kids. And never will. That's a scheme that Maharishi
himself would have been proud of thinking up. Maybe he
did.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
Michael Jackson
wrote:
>
> This is the full article from Hi India - more
detailed
than the al jazerra snipett - sordid stuff on the part of
the TMO if true:
>
> Vedic Pandits go 'missing' in US, reports Hi
India
> IANS Chicago, January 26, 2014 | UPDATED 16:36 IST
>
> In a shocking revelation, as many as 163 Indians,
most
of them brought to the US as teenagers from villages in
northern India to be trained into Vedic Pandits by two
institutions set up by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi of
transcendental meditation fame, appear to have gone
missing
over the last 12 months.
>
> Of the 1,050 young Indians brought to the Maharishi
Vedic City and the Maharishi University of Management in
Fairfield, Iowa, 163 - some of them just 19 years old -
have
gone missing in the last one year, Hi India, a
Chicago-based
weekly newspaper for the Indian community, reported in its
latest issue.
>
> Both the Vedic city and the university are owned by
the
late Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's family. According to the
report, the management running
these places did not even care to trace the missing
people.
>
> Even the Global Country of
World Peace (GCWP), one of the many teaching centres set
up
by the India-born spiritual guru, does not know about the
plight or flight of these Vedic scholars called 'world
peace professionals'.
>
> "They have jumped the fence for immigration
purposes or for chasing their American Dream," the
newspaper quoted the varsity bosses as saying.
>
> The GCWP runs a Vedic Pandit programme claiming to
"bring about peace on earth where there will be no
war".
>
> Under the project to recruit Maharishi Vedic Pandits,
publicity literature is distributed
in Indian villages, mostly in Hindi speaking areas, among
people living under the poverty line. Children
are enrolled with the permission of their parents, who are
promised that their wards would be
given education up to 12th standard, after which
they would be turned into Pandits or masters of the art of
Hindu religious rites and services.
>
> After some 10 to 15
years, the qualified Pandits are supposed to
have a choice to either remain with the organisation and
make a living, or leave the centre and work outside on
their
own.
>
> Investigations by Hi India
have found that the kids of the programme, enrolled at the
tender age of five years, were rarely provided education
beyond fifth standard. After investigation by the
newspaper, it came to light that these Vedic Pandits
were brought to the US from India
and were kept in makeshift trailer homes to be guarded by
round-the-clock guards.
>
> When contacted, most officials
of the Maharishi's Fairfield complex refused to
comment. Only one of them suggested that these
students might have "run away for immigration
purposes".
>
> According to one Pandit, before the visa application
at
the US embassy in India, a contract
is prepared and signed by the organization and the
concerned
Pandit for rules, regulations and compensation.
The Pandits are initially sent to the US for two years,
and
thereafter, either their visa is extended for six more
months or they are sent back and recalled for two more
years.
>
> According to the report, a
contract is drafted in English but the copy is neither
given
to Pandits nor is it translated or explained to the
fifth-grader emigrants who do not even understand English.
The contract states that they will be given $50
compensation
while in the US and another $150 in India. This $150 is
not given on a monthly basis to the families of the
Pandits
but, rather, is considered as bond money.
>
> "If the Pandit
'behaves well', his so-called compensation for two
years is given to him or his family on his return from the
US. The contract is prepared in a way to obtain
visa," the report said.
>
> According to the newspaper, if
the management of the Vedic City finds out that some
Pandits
are desperate to leave the US, a mock travel plan is
chalked
out and the Pandits are taken in a van to Chicago's
O'Hare airport and dropped at the entry gate.
After asking them to wait till the aircraft arrives while
the van driver goes around and comes back in a short
while.
>
> According to one Pandit who was about to flee,
"some of the strong-willed Pandits run away from the
airport for better prospects and the rest of them are
picked
up by the driver and taken back to the Vedic City".
>
> According to sources in the
Indian consulate in Chicago, in a situation where an
Indian
passport holder is considered or presumed gone missing and
his passport is left behind, it has to be returned
immediately to the nearest Indian mission which has to
also
be informed about the circumstances in which the Indian
citizen went missing.
>
> The Chicago consulate,
however, says the GCWP has never returned or deposited any
passport and neither has it shared any missing person
information. According the sheriff's
department and police department of Fairfield, Iowa,
no missing person report has
ever been filed by the GCWP.
>
>
> Read more at:
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/vedic-pandits-go-missing-in-us/1/339928.html
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Mon, 1/27/14, Joe geezerfreak@... wrote:
>
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] The New Maharishi Effect:
10%
Missing Pundits
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, January 27, 2014, 3:52 PM
>
>
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2014/01/indian-vedic-students-go-missing-us-20141275127398488.html
