--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Sep 24, 2007, at 6:10 PM, jim_flanegin wrote:
>
> > > Ron, is the reason you mentioned 'cognizing the vedas' because
of
> > the
> > > rumor spread by TB's (probably purushoids) that
Mahesh 'cognized
> > the
> > > Vedas'? This is one of many self-perpetuated myths the org puts
> > forth
> > > to help justify devotion/investment despite waning interest.
> > >
> >
> > I never heard Maharishi say he had cognized the Vedas, nor did I
> > hear anyone say this about Maharishi. Wasn't his translation of,
and
> > commentary on the Bhagavad Gita enough!?? Next you'll be telling
us
> > he wrote the encyclopedia brittanica...:-)
>
> Well Jimbo, you just ain't been around! :-)
>
> It's a rather common TMO myth IME. I actually thought it had
faded
> away, until I heard it here a while back. A friend of Rick's
stated
> back in May (on FFL):
>
> "You FEEL more comfortable reducing Maharishi to a relative
> personality, with flaws like all of us, who may know less about
Vedic
> knowledge than some gay cowboy named Dana or Oscar or LeRoy who
went
> to India and studied with the Hindu status quo; you don't FEEL
> comfortable seeing Maharishi as an embodiment of pure knowledge,
the
> only Rishi in history who has cognized all the vedas, because
that
> would not fit into your world view and that is not how you feel
> comfortable with yourself."
>
Oh well, maybe he did, and certainly from my POV lives the Reality
of the Vedas. And no doubt ime he has the ability to cognize them--
I'm not disputing that. But he sure hasn't had the time to
*document* his cognition.:-)
