I have received an email that asks me to outline my position on matters currently under discussion on TM newsgroups:- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TMNEWS/ http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.meditation.transcendental As many of you are already aware, I am the author of 'The Maharishi: The Biography of the Man Who Gave Transcendental Meditation to the World', currently viewable at http://www.paulmason.info/
My relationship with the subjects in question i.e. Guru Dev, MMY, TM and the TMO remain pretty constant. That is to say I continue to monitor events, review statements in the light of fresh discoveries and get inspired when I hear genuine spiritual wisdom. If that inspiration comes from MMY, fine, if it comes from Guru Dev, fine, and if it comes from anywhere else that's fine too. Unlike `movement' types I can admire the outpourings of any saint or cynic without feeling a divided loyalty or worrying that it might be reported. Contrary to the suggestions of certain posters, I don't have any hidden agenda that at some time will be exposed! I have no links with anyone I know to be an 'enemy' of MMY. Although I have quoted Shankaracharya of Dwarka, Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati, a strong critic of MMY, I have never met him, never had any exchanges with him nor am likely to. However, I have met with someone of a slightly similar name, Baba Roopanand - a dear old sadhu. http://www.paulmason.info/mala/roopanand.htm The strongest criticisms I have so far received on my own writings (in over 10 years) coincidentally come from Ms Stein [who admits to have done no more than skip through my biography of MMY] & Mr Brigante, who has stooped to making libellous statements on TMNEWS about myself and the highly respected holy man Dandi Swami Narayanand Saraswati. http://www.paulmason.info/mala/narayanand.htm http://www.hinduismtoday.com/archives/1995/8/1995-8-04.shtml http://www.paulmason.info/mala/synopsis.htm Re: Current news of TMO yagya in India. As appears that Guru Dev did not initiate the oft-referred to Mahayagna prior to the cessation of WW2, but was invited to participate, which he is said to have done. Apparently there is an article in a publication ('Time'?) contemporaneous with the event which names another Shankaracharya as officiating!? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
