--- In [email protected], "wgm4u" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Very disturbing story, if true, and probably is. Although it doesn't > mean that TM doesn't work, just that MMY is promoting what I think is > just Neo-Hinduism. > > Just think...we don't even know what form of meditation MMY > practiced/practices, and do we know if the Guru Dev taught TM? I know > some were initiated by Guru Dev, but what did he teach? > >
I guess some people will take anything seriously... In fact, it is doubtful that Gurudev taught TM exactly like MMY does because MMY himself takes credit/blame for the specifics of TM, due to "direct inspiration" from Gurudev. On the other hand, Swami Shatanda Saraswati taught Anoop Chandola to meditate and the local TM center policy was to treat him as a regular TMer as far as invitations to advanced lectures and so on was concerned. Didn't someone on FFL say that they wer einitiated into an Advanced Technique by Swami Satchananda, a brother-monk of the SBS lineage, but that Satchananda paused during the TM puja for far longer than the average TM teacher would have? It seems to me that you can make a case that MMY took various traditional techniques taught by various traditions and transformed them into a consistent set based on his intuitiion about what is what. IOW, he didn't make everything up, but he didn't learn it all by rote from his guru, either.
