--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jul 16, 2006, at 5:37 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > >> > >> > >> On Jul 16, 2006, at 10:26 AM, sparaig wrote: > >> > >>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <drpetersutphen@> > >>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> You seem to be approaching a spiritual practice from a > >>>> very materialistic perspective. If you believe a > >>>> spiritual practice will fulfill your material desires > >>>> of the mind, you are quite mistaken. Fulfillment does > >>>> not arise from gratifying one desire after another. > >>>> Look at Buddha. He fulfilled all his desires and > >>>> became clinically depressed which led him to seek That > >>>> which is beyond desire. > >>> > >>> TM is a technique for householders. > >> > >> So then Purusha and Mother Divine shouldn't be or wouldn't be > >> practicing TM? > >> > > > > They're not recluses. MMY isn't a recluse either, but a > > householder, according to his own > > definition, by his own words--he seemed quite startled when he > > answered the question > > that way. > > Then he's a liar--unless of course he's secretly married and has > little Mahesh's hopping around somewhere. According to the four > asramas of Hinduism the householder asrama is when you're married and > have kids...So this is clearly yet another case where Mahesh changes > the definition to attempt to back out of a corner he painted himself > into or just a whim and the TB's just swallow it once again. Some > people will believe anything. >
Again, you seem to be getting hung up on the dogma of "the four asramas of Hinduism". It seems to provoke a comment from you whenever you see that Maharishi has disregarded a religious precept. Why is that? Is the Buddhism you follow quite strict? 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/