--- In [email protected], "Paul Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I sympathise with Vaj on this issue. > > There is something kinda creepy & oppressive about having to call > someone a 'Maharishi' if one doesn't think he is one, or 'His > Holiness', or even 'Yogi' (remember that MMY had to get someone else > to put together the simple yogasana exercises that were introduced > back in the mid-sixties). So one is left either to use the generally > accepted 'The Maharishi' (regardless of why this term came to be used > by the press back in the sixties). It is a bit unwieldy to use the > name Balbrahmachari Shri Maheshji by which he is credited on an > edition of 'Amrit Kana' (his compilation of Guru Dev's quotations). > > Personally, I think MMY created the problem himself when he > appropriated such a grand sounding name. It was suggested that the > probably reason he did this was;'the name Maharishi is something to > replace "Swami," because in India things are such that if the > name "Swami" is missing, then people would suspect something is > wrong.' - Osho World Online Magazine, June 2004 (towards the end of > section #48 of:- > http://www.oshoworld.com/onlinemag/june2004/htm/glimpses.asp > >
You're quoting Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh about the appropriateness of NAMES? What a maroon. 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/
