I have been searching the Internet and I have yet to find any news outlets
retracting the story about the missing pundits, except for the Allvoices one
referenced in the communique from Hagelin which I suspect was written by a
TM'er - I mean what objective journalist would refer to a program he or she
knows nothing about as a landmark program?
On Thu, 2/13/14, Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Vedic Pandits Update #2
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, February 13, 2014, 4:11 PM
Dear Supporter of
the Maharishi Vedic Pandits,More than 30 Indian
publications in the US and abroad have retracted the wildly
inaccurate article about the Vedic Pandits that they had
picked up from a Chicago Indian weekly. This has ranged from
direct retractions (e.g., below), to publishing the detailed
text of our responses, to new positive news articles about
the Pandits.Dr. Prakash
Shrivastava and Raja Bob LoPinto held 5 days of meetings
with the Vedic Pandits at the Maharishi Vedic City campus,
working with them about this situation, educating them about
the consequences of Pandits going off on their own, and
addressing any concerns the Pandits have.
This is already
having a positive effect. Some Pandits who had left the
Chicago airport without returning to India have returned to
Maharishi Vedic City and been given flights home. The vast
majority of the Vedic Pandits are very dedicated to their
program and happy with campus life. One special outcome of
these on-campus meetings was identifying Pandits in
Maharishi Vedic City who have been in the Movement for 20
years or more, and forming a council of these senior Pandits
to give advice and guide the others.Again, thank you for
your support for the Maharishi Vedic Pandit program and for
all your kind responses to this current challenge. With this
situation largely behind us, we are now working to bring
more Pandits from India to replace those who are going home
after completing their 2- or 3-year stays in the US.
Jai Guru
Dev,Raja John
Hagelin
