--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer > <fairfieldlife@> wrote: > > on 4/10/06 9:04 AM, Michael Dean Goodman at Tantra@ wrote: > > > > > > Never having seen Maharishi touched, especially so > > > enthusiastically and explosively, we asked him something > > > naive like "Wasn't it strange to have someone touching > > > you like that - how do you maintain your purity?" > > > Maharishi replied: "I just stayed on my Self", > > > which seemed to answer more than we had asked. > > > > Nice account, but I find this last paragraph odd, in light > > of how much touching he enjoyed in private (of course you > > guys didn't know that at the time), and also the implication > > that Muktananda was impure such that a hug from him would > > sully Maharishi. > > I found it rather odd, too, especially having heard > the Muktananda version of the story. Obviously, if > Muktananda said what my friend said he did, the only > thing he felt in the situation was compassion.
(Or, that's the only thing he wanted his listeners to think he felt.) It's funny, but it's entirely possible to understand what each of them said as a completely accurate, noncontradictory descriptions of what had happened between them. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/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/
