Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Was John Lennon Right About Maharishi?'

[Vaj]

On Jul 21, 2006, at 10:38 AM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jul 21, 2006, at 2:29 AM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: On Jul 20, 2006, at 6:20 PM, Robert Gimbel wrote: In a message dated 7/20/06 9:51:13 A.M. Central Daylight Time, sparaig@ writes: to see  the master walking on the petals who lived in a million dollar  stecketo house overlookin' the Himalayas." Is this an accurate  description of MMY's house in Rishikesh? Maybe 5 to 10 thousand dollar house over looking the Ganges.  Brick and concrete, maybe 16,000 square feet  at best, plain and simple labor and materials were, and still are, dirt cheap in India. In today's  market one could buy a house like that in India for about  20k. 16,000 square feet is a VERY  large house... Yeah, so, I'm not sure, I get what you're saying? Is it like: "What's love got to do with it?" or something like 'what's a big house on the Ganges, got to do with it? Still not sure what having a big house has to do with anything? What's up with the house? I think the idea expressed in Lennon's song was, 'wow this guy is really attached to money, houses and "things".'--how "holy" can he   be? Not very. And just how attached was Lennon to thse things? Lennon didn't claim to be a renunciate, a rishi or a yogi. It's really interesting because in yogic-speak there are two words   which are used to describe two diametrically opposed modes of being:   the yogi and the bhogi. The bhogi, the enjoyer of the senses and the   material is also involved in the world and things and "business":   wealth. So without really knowing this, Lennon just intuited that he   was really "Maharishi" Mahesh Bhogi. The Bhogi Man. bhogin 2 mfn. (for 1. see col. 2) enjoying , eating Ma1rkP. Prasan3g. ;   having or offering enjoyments , devoted to enjñenjoyments , wealthy ,   opulent MBh. Ya1jn5. Var. &c. ; suffering , experiencing , undergoing   Kap. ; using , possessing MW. ; m. a voluptuary MW. ; a king L. ; the   head man of a village L. ; a barber L. ; = %{vaiyAvRtti-kara} (?)   L. ; a person who accumulates money for a partic. expenditure W. ; N.   of a prince VP. ; (%{inI}) f. a kind of heroine Bhar. ; the concubine   of a king or a wife not regularly consecrated with him L. And MMY hasn't claimed to be a renunciate in many decades. He's explicitly called himself  a householder, as I already pointed out. And he never took sanyasin vows. Even so, show  me his personal wealth, or his deep pockets or his dozens of Rolls Royces, etc. The point is, there's a yogi and there's a bhogi. Lennon pegged Mahesh right on. MMB. __._,_.___ 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  Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___