--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Premanand Paul Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi - I know of only the one brother. But I am concerned about the > contention that there is a 'tradition' in India of not talking > about saints - a bizarre claim.
I don't believe anybody made that claim. The claim was that there is a tradition in India of not talking about saints' *lives*, i.e., their day-to-day doings, especially before they became saints--the point being that their importance does not lie in the details of their mundane lives. Odd that you've never run across it, because I have, in a number of non-TM contexts. Of course, that there is such a tradition doesn't mean it's always going to be honored, particularly in the case of *departed* saints. It seems to be more of a matter of keeping followers from obsessing over the unimportant details of the master's relative existence; although naturally, as you have been at some pains to remind us, it *could* be used to focus attention away from embarrassments of one sort or another. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Need Help? Get Help! Tools and Strategies for Healthy Drug-Free Living</a>. http://us.click.yahoo.com/wI.OUB/dbOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
