> Sounds like the Maharishi Gulag program. > >I think 60 Minutes might >want > > to do a story. > > > > > Looks a little more like the Warsaw ghetto, confined inside and life > going on outside. >
*********** To a householder, the recluse life looks impoverished, but to the recluses like these pundits, householder life is just mud, and the monastic restrictions that are seen are just an attempt to keep mud from splashing on them. Every account of these pundits except from the mud-throwers on this list says how satisfied and powerful-looking the pundits are, and their Vedic chanting certainly sounds great to me. I should be so lucky to be suffering like they are... > They came here under student visa for some program that the > university incorporated. The pundits were originally going to come in on student visas, but they did not -- apparently they got "L" (employee) visas, which are good for three years (there is also a possibility they got "R" (religious) visas, which are usually also issued for three-year periods). Mayor Wynne, in an mou.org presentation on the pundits, specifically said that the pundits are not students (a show called "pundits in america"?) and they got three-year visas (student visas, except AFAIK for Chinese students who have to get them renewed every year, are issued for the duration of the student's program of study). http://geocities.com/bbrigante/updates2006.html#success
