--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jul 11, 2006, at 2:12 PM, Kenny H wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <groups@> wrote: > > > >> > >> > > One interesting comment Amma made to > > > >> a friend of mine: ³Charging money for meditation is like a mother > >> > > charging > > > >> her baby for breast milk.² > >> > > > > I find these comments made by one guru about the practices about other > > gurus to be curious. Why do they need to say anything about it all and > > instead just not charge for what they do and do things their way. It's > > kind of a self-aggrandizing/inflammatory/divisive comment (in my > > opinion). > > > Given that the traditional comment would be that those who sells > meditation would go to the Avachi Hell, I'd say this was much nicer, > even kind. > > When I visited with sannyasis of the Shankaracharya order and > naively mentioned that I learned meditation in > the "Shanakaracharya > tradition", they immediately asked "from who?" When I said it was > TM and Maharishi's meditation several of the sannyasis got very > angry at this, one was particularly loud and quietly escorted away. > Not a nice scene! Last time I ever said that. They felt he was > a "seller of the Vedas" and thus destined for the deepest hell. Not > the "saint" some imagine...
Oh, had they all studied with MMY before they saw the light? ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/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/
