--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The tape account is different. It was in the first announcement for > his first lectures so he didn't have any students. They reported a > lecture given by a great Maharishi from the Himalayas. As MMY tells > it, the lectures were set up by a pushy guy at the temple, it was not > his idea. Part of his "innocent ting" personal mythology. He wasn't > an ambitious guy huckstering a product, he was just responding to the > call of nature. "Hermit in the House" paints a completely different > picture of his ambitious nature, made all the more powerful because it > is written by a devotee. > >
This would have been several years later. A lot can change in 4 years. Actually, reading Dr. Coplin's account of the early, pre-TMO days in his PhD dissertation on the history of TM, it would seem that the change happened virtually overnight. That's not necessarily at odds with MMY's account, however, since he DID spend 13 years as the manager of Gurudev's material affairs: if he decided, however reluctantly at first, that some goal was worth pursuing, he had both the experience AND social/spiritual/political contacts to jump-start a large organization. According to Coplin, MMY ended up with personal endorsements from the VP of India and TWO Shankaracharyas at the very start of his organized push. That's enough to get the ball rolling overnight, I think. http://members.aol.com/drcoplin/SRMemergence.html 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/
