--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Rick Archer wrote: > > > > Partly, it¹s an Indian cultural thing. Indians hate to say no. So they say > > yes even when they mean no. MMY often did this. He would say yes to someone > > then a few minutes later tell his secretary to tell the person no. > > I recall a tape on my teacher training course in which > MMY talked about culturing God Consciousness via > devotion. He talked about the role of marriage in > helping that process along. In the course of his > discourse, he said to never say no to your spouse. > He said to always say yes, even if you have to say > no later. That advice struck me as troublesome > even before I learned the importance of being > impeccable with one's word. I felt that changing > one's mind would present even greater problems, > and I still feel so today. But it makes sense in the > cultural context described above. > > The Western variation seems to be to say "yes" > when one definitely means yes, and "maybe" > when one would rather not say yes. >
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