authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- In
[email protected], Jonathan Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> John Hagelin now routinely introduces Maharshi as "the greatest Vedic
scholar in the world." Are there any faculty from leading academic
institutions who e.g. teach Sanskrit who agree with this?
Is this a serious question, or just a rhetorical one? I'm not sure. In fact,
I'm not sure what John means when he says this. For example, Ruhollah Khomeini
was an accomplished scholar of Aristotle and his medieval Islamic
interpreters: while this famous Ayatollah may not have been up to date on the
American secondary literature on Aristotle, for example, he certainly knew his
stuff in the original languages. But is there anyone who attends meetings of,
say, the American Academy of Religion who would take Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
seriously as a "scholar" in a fairly strict academic sense? Or is this not
what John means by "scholar?"
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