--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> snip > Then I read Maharishi's Gita for the last time -- this was years ago > now -- and I found that Maharishi's use of language was intolerably > fuzzy. He didn't use the words "consciousness, witness, self, being, > spiritual, transcend, etc." with consistency, and well, frankly failed > to show any clarity about the subtle distinctions of identification. > I was amazed, because I was sold out to Maharishi for so long and was > quite satisfied with his Gita commentary, but that final reading was > very frustrating because Maharishi just didn't handle the deep > concepts -- the delicacies of consciousness -- to me it was a failure > in scholarship which was so egregious that Maharishi's cogency became > suspect, and the clarity that Ramana and Nisargadatta show in their > conceptual "packages" was/is stellar by comparison.
As was my conclusion as well when I compared Yogananda's to MMY's. But you must remember MMY's Gita was never meant to be the final word on the subject.....read the disclaimer in the introduction!! snip to end...
