There were so many people on the India course this will be easy to verify. Of course my interpretation is personal. But it is not an after-the-fact sour grapes tale. This was the perspective shared with many other fulltimers at the time. MMY spent a lot of time talking about how great Trighuna was, with the typical Indian over the top praise. One day Trighuna, who had his own busy practice, had spent most of the day with MMY. By evening he got up to leave, and MMY asked him to stay. So he sat down for a while and then insisted that he really had to go. MMY, a little more forcefully this time, said "you must stay". Trighuna sat down and now the room was uncomfortable. He was a guest of MMY but he obviously really had to leave and MMY was basically insisting that he stay. Short of causing a scene Trighuna was trapped. The vibe was weird and obvious. A test of wills was in play. It went back and forth a few times with Trighuna getting quite testy. He was a powerful man and was not used to being told what to do. Eventually Trighuna left by just getting up and walking out. At the time we took it as a test of who was in charge. Men pull this shit in business all the time. It was an alpha display that I have seen many times since in my business life. Just my take, but anyone else who was there can give their version. I think he was trying to make Trighuna his bitch. And it seemed to work for a while.
Fast forward to about 1986? I may be off by a year or two. Trighunna is at the College of Natural Law downtown on an Ayurvedic tour. Now it clearly states in the Ayur Veda books that a doctor cannot take money for his practice, he has to sell the prescriptions. It is a scriptural mandate, and Trighuna followed it. Unknown to Trighuna, the Purushas were collecting $250 from each person who saw him for afew minutes. You can imagine that this was very popular and people lined up with greenbacks in hand. It was a lot of money . But they hid this all from Trighuna was was being milked as a cash cow. At some point in the tour it came to Trighuna's attention that this was going on and he was furious. Who knows if it was the ethics or he was just not getting his cut, but he was pissed and that was the end of the friendly relationship between MMY and Trighuna. I don't know if he has been seen since I left in '89. I saw Trighuna in India a few times and the one time in the states. He was a fascinating guy. He never helped me with any of my complaints but it wouldn't surprise me that he was effective with some others. He had that kind of penetrating intelligence that seemed impressive to me. He obviously knew human nature well. He could be very funny. I wish I had written down all the stuff he told me, we joked around some during his readings. One of the American sari clad movement types came to see him at his busy and not private clinic in New Delhi. He asked her if she had "vind". The shy movement woman didn't understand, "what?" "Do you have vind?", he said more impatiently. "What?". Now with dozens of people waiting for him Trighuna had had enough, very loudly this time, "Do you fart a lot?" The room erupted in laughter and the woman's face went completely red! This is a secondhand story from someone there. He was a bigger than life guy. I would love to see his abilities tested in a controlled setting. Thanks for asking Vaj, it is fun to remember him. --- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jul 27, 2006, at 9:05 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote: > > > I heard two stories from a teacher who had spent time with MMY in > > India. Perhaps someone here can verify. The first is that towards > > the end Tat Wale Baba had tired of MMY summoning him. The poor old > > guy had cataracts. The last time this guy had been dispatched by MMY > > to ask Tat to come down and visit MMY, he responded "Tell Maharishi > > to come to me if he wants to see me". His read was that Tat had > > tired of the implied superiority in MMY summoning him. After that > > there was not a warm relationship with MMY. Having seen MMY pull > > one-up-manship games with Trighuna in India firsthand, I find it > > credible. > > > Thanks for the story on TWB and Mahesh, it rings true. > > Curtis, could you please clarify what you mean by one-upmanship games > with Trigunaji? > > What did you think of Triguna? It seems they have parted ways. > 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/
