Anyone who reads versions of the Gita other than the Marshy version will know
that Marshy distorted a good deal of it to funnel people's awareness to believe
that it was all about TM. That's not what the Gita says. And marshy didn't
write his commentary - he had a TM'er write it for him, Vernon
I have thumbed through other versions, and talk about distortion - full of so
much flowery commentary, that any scientific value is lost. Maharishi commented
on the book, and I could figure out what the hell it was about. All the other
translations are, from an intellectual standpoint,
My (wild) guess is that a release-date for his commentaries 7 - 18 is set in
his will, just as the commentaries to the Yoga Sutras.
On 2/25/2014 6:37 AM, Michael Jackson wrote:
Vernon Katz I think it was.
Apparently MMY was fluent in at least two languages other than English.
So, he probably started reading the Hindu scriptures by the time he was
in grade school. From what I've read, MMY could easly have learned to
read
Maharishi didn't just sort of send Vernon Katz off on his own to write the
commentary from scratch. According to Katz, it was an extremely close
day-to-day collaboration, with Maharishi supplying the thoughts and he and Katz
deciding together how to put them into words on the page. That's not
Transliteration is the wrong term. It means to represent or spell in the
characters of another alphabet. Only the occasional Sanskrit term in the
commentary of Maharishi's Gita is transliterated from the Devanagari to the
Latin alphabet (e.g., niryogakshema in the commentary on II:45). Katz
Maharishi's version does show some interesting deviations from other
translations, such as rendering maha as 'subtle' rather than 'great' when in
the context of meditation. I think, as far as it went, since it is incomplete,
it is an insightful translation.
Vernon Katz told me once he had all
Maharishi didn't just sort of send Vernon Katz off on his own to write the
commentary from scratch.
Maharishi needed Vernon for his masterly English.
In Vernon's book Conversations With Maharishi, Vol 1, it's clear that Vernon
also plays a vital role in asking insightful questions that help bring out
finer and finer details of an amazing body of knowledge. As well, Vernon has a
sense of humor that complements Maharishi's own. Even in written
Anyone who reads versions of the Gita other than the Marshy version
will know
that Marshy distorted a good deal of it to funnel people's
awareness to believe
that it was all about TM. That's not what the Gita says. And marshy
didn't write
his commentary - he had a TM'er write it for
On 2/25/2014 10:11 AM, nablusoss1008 wrote:
Maharishi needed Vernon for his masterly English.
From what I've read, Vernon Katz and Tony Nader can both read, write
and speak Sanskrit like it was their mother tongue. I wouldn't be
surprised if MMY could read all the Hindu scriptures in
And Katz's scholarly knowledge of Sanskrit. He wouldn't have been much help on
the translation otherwise.
Years ago I read a piece by--or an interview with, can't remember--Katz
talking about working with Maharishi on the Gita. It was beautiful; I wish I
could find it again. Their
If you read the post you quote, you know I did have such comments.
As I also pointed out, there are only occasional transliterations of Sanskrit
terms here and there in the commentary of Maharishi's Gita version. It provides
the text of the Gita in Devanagari and then in English translation,
thank Vernon Katz for that, and you understand it because it corroborates your
TM is God mind set
On Tue, 2/25/14, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com doctordumb...@rocketmail.com
wrote:
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Transcendental Meditation: Remembering
Jerry Jarvis has a copy - he has quoted from it to my friend Bill over the phone
On Tue, 2/25/14, nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote:
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Transcendental Meditation: Remembering the legacy
To: FairfieldLife
I didn't say he wrote it by himself
On Tue, 2/25/14, authfri...@yahoo.com authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Transcendental Meditation: Remembering the legacy
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2014
C'mon--Marshy didn't write his commentary - he had a TM'er write it for him
sure doesn't convey the idea of a collaboration. It sure does sound as if
you're saying Katz wrote it by himself, whether you used those exact words or
not.
I didn't say he wrote it by himself
Maharishi didn't just
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