--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 8, 2007, at 3:00 PM, jyouells2000 wrote: > > > The problem is, Jim, that unless someone(s) here has a personal > > relationship > > with Maharishi we (they) don't know what he knows. Just taking what > > has > > come out here about Maharishi it's obvious that we only know what he > > presents > > publically. Teachers, governors, re or decertified, have little > > relationship with Maharishi. What we do have a peculiar kind of PR. > > There is so much hidden in the TMO, that unless we know from our own > > experience, we're just guessing... > > Or unless of course you knew and talked with one of M's closest > confidants who helped set up SCI and the birth of the sidhi > program... :-) > > Having done that you'd know that he knew none of this stuff, > but had to seek it out with couriers dispatched to various > locales. You'd also know that much lecture material was also > not his own. And I believe we have one a brother student of > SBS who said flat out, M knew nothing about yoga: he was not > a yogi! > > I know this is hard for some people, but it is the > plain truth of the matter.
Sorry, Vaj, but that MMY had to do research to develop his teaching is not the least bit problematic. In any case, the issue is not what he knew at some particular point in time, but what he *knows*. Patanjali himself, it is said, did not create but *compiled* the Yoga Sutras from teachings that had been around for a long time. That a student of SBS claims MMY knows nothing about yoga because he isn't a yogi does not, of course, make it "the plain truth of the matter," and is moreover not something the student, or any of us, could possibly know with certainty.
