--- In [email protected], "geezerfreak"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@>
wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@>
> > 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. :-)
>
> According to you MMY is perfect and "revitalized the spiritual
momentum of the world."
> Do tell, oh settled mind, where is your proof of this?
>
Maharishi *and* Guru Dev. Do you have any proof that they haven't?:-)
