>
> Perhaps its because MMY's tradition apparently doesn't hold with doing
> charitable works
> the way Christianity does, so anyone trying to emulate MMY's behavior in this
> regard
> rather than following his advice of practicing their own religion, would be
> "off the
> program."
Not true. Many past and contemporary Hindu gurus emphasize selfless service
to the less fortunate as a technique to culture the heart and diminish the
ego.
>
>, but
> you can
> ignore that 1500+ years of history if you wish and portray the Roman and other
> organzied
> Christian churches as 100% good guys in the "good works" category while
> portraying the
> TMO as being bad.
One could, but I wasn't doing anything of the sort.
>
> BTW, until the schizm concerning the name of Anklesaria's organization (which
> apparently
> is 100% due to his OWN hostility since he could easily find a sponsor to pay
> for his
> recertification, and other sponsors to pay the $2500 fee for TM instruction
> for inmates),
> Anklesaria's work with prisons, sanctions directlly (according to him) by MMY
> himself,
> coud qualify as a "good works" kind of thing.
I don't think you have his story straight.
>
> The stated goal of raising lots of money to purchase land for organic farms to
> provide the
> poor in 3rd World countries with income could also be seen as a "good works"
> project,
> even if it is unrealistic to expect that $10 trillion could be raised to
> provide work for EVERY
> poor person in the world.
And to assume that there is much fertile land not already being cultivated.
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