--- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 9, 2007, at 10:39 AM, authfriend wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <salsunshine@> > > wrote: > >> > >> On May 9, 2007, at 10:08 AM, Rick Archer wrote: > > <snip> > >>> Are you kidding? Maharishi has a lousy reputation in India. > >>> If he's remembered at all, he's thought of as a businessman. > >>> Amma and SSRS are the best-known living gurus, and they have > >>> stellar reputations, as do a number of dead ones, such as > >>> Ramana Maharshi, Yogananda, Aurobindo, etc. > >> > >> Actually, I thought he had been banned from India on account of > >> financial shenanigans. Same thing over here. > > > > That wouldn't make any sense. If there are folks > > (the state or individuals) who think he's swindled > > them, they'd *want* him to come to their countries > > so they could prosecute or sue him. As long as he > > stays away, they can't get at him. > > OK, maybe I should have said, that he can't go to those places on > account of subpoenas he'd get if he did. That's true, that they would > want him to come here and maybe they do, but as long as he doesn't they > apparently can't subpoena him. > > That's what I've heard, Judy. > > Sal
I think that's the case with the US for tax reasons - even pro-MMY charlie lutes used to say that. I was with the security detail for MMY's visit in 84 for utopia course and there were plans what to do if an official came trying to deliver a subpoena. I've heard MMY is not welcomed in switz or india though I wonder if it's a real legal situation or he just can't get the tax treatment he'd like anymore. In highly political India it just might be that MMY used to give money to that right-wing fundamentalist party and earned the ire of the more liberal parties now in power. I don't think mmy's health would allow him to travel anymore anyways.
