Vaj wrote:
> A leading western scholar, an expert on the Dandi Swamis, has
> come on the record as saying that the only people in India that
> will meet with Mahesh are the ones he pays.
>
That's not what I heard - apparently the only people that get to meet
with Mahesh are ones that can pay him, not the other way around. That
would leave out just about any scholar on the planet - everyone knows
that most scholars can't afford their own sabbaticals, let alone pay
the Mahesh Yogi a million dollars to take a CCP course with him at
Vlodrop. But Dana Sawyer at the college of Maine probably wouldn't
qualify as a leading western scholar since he hasn't published a
single book or paper. Besides, everyone knows that Patrick Olivelle,
Chairman of the Department of Asian Studies at the U. of Texas at
Austin, is the leading Sanskrit scholar.
> In other words, he's not thought of very highly in his native India.
>
>From what I've read in the Indian press, Mahesh Yogi is probably the
most popular mystic in India today, scholar or not.
> On Jan 6, 2007, at 8:18 PM, Jonathan Chadwick 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?
>
