--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajranatha@> 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'?
>
> Such a rumor certainly wasn't part of the discussion
> until you brought it up. Why do I have this sneaking
> suspicion that you couldn't care less where Ron got
> the idea from, you just wanted an excuse to make the
> TMO look bad?
>
> This is one of many self-
> > > > perpetuated myths the org puts forth to help justify
> > > > devotion/investment despite waning interest.
>
> BTW, what does "self-perpetuated" mean where
> a rumor is concerned? That people don't have
> to repeat it, it just magically spreads itself?
>
> > > 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.
>
> Funny, I never heard it either. That a blissninny
> may have asserted it here doesn't mean the TMO is
> "putting it forth."
>
> You remind me of the right-wingers who go hunting
> for unseemly comments on lefty blogs and then
> attempt to characterize the entire left as out of
> line on the basis of a nitwit comment or two.
>
> There's even a name for it now: nutdiving.
>
Yeah, Vaj is just the flip side of the blissninnys. No problem.:-)
