--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One gets the "credit" for accomplishments by actually > accomplishing something, not by claiming that your > teacher did. > I absolutely agree with this last bit. I also think you are taking what I said to an absurd degree. What I have said is analogous to the fact that the electrification of the US wouldn't have occurred were it not for Edison. You probably don't see it that way. OK by me. However to imply that I am denigrating those who followed in Maharishi's footsteps, like the Vanity Fair yoga photographer, is not at all what I am talking about, or that anyone who has ever accomplished anything spiritually including any of us here, hasn't done so entirely on their own merits, through their own choice, and through their own efforts.
However, someone had to revitalize the spiritual momentum of the world. The religions weren't doing it. The fact that it is Maharishi and Guru Dev doesn't matter much. It could have been anyone else. Reality check: Its just that it wasn't, though Yogananda did a great job of softening up the soil in the West so to speak. And last, this implication that Maharishi and Guru Dev did this and therefore it reflects on me somehow is just plain nonsensical. I hope that clarifies to you what I have said originally. In a nutshell I said what I said without any further implications or conclusions to be drawn. A settled mind. It is what it is, and no more. :-)
