--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> > wrote: > <snip> > > I think that what may be going on is that a number > > of people who paid their dues in the TM movement > > don't realize how heavily they have been influenced > > by Patanjali and his hangups. He may have *been* > > enlightened. But he was also a Class A religious > > fanatic. Given the politics of his day, he lobbied > > heavily to "prove" Hinduism superior to any other > > "competing" religions, and also to "prove" his > > particular sect of it superior to all others. He > > traveled around challenging others to verbal "duels" > > to "prove" such things. > > Uh, no. You mean Shankara, of course, not > Patanjali.
Indeed I did. Thank you for the correction. > In any case, a penchant for debate about the > validity of Advaita Vedanta hardly justifies > labeling Shankara as a "religious fanatic." You say tomato, I say tomato...
