on 5/29/05 9:00 AM, lupidus108 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On May 29, 2005, at 9:13 AM, lupidus108 wrote: >> >>> Hold on: MMY WAS a life bramachary. >> >> At a certain point in his career, M. dropped the title "Brahmachari". >> Brahmacharya is just a stage, it doesn't mean you necessarily do that >> for life. > > Bravo ! To be honest, I did not expect an objective comment from Vaj :-) > Actually his title was Bal Brahmachary - lifelong celibate. But as Vaj > points out, perhaps (but still undocumented and based on rumours) he no > longer had the need for that practise. > > Anyway Maharishi has always been very tolerant on these matters. Once a > swedish sculptor who was close to Maharishi at the time came to him > with a problem; he loved two ladies - which one should he marry ? "Why > not marry both ?" was Maharishis reply. > > At another time someone complained to Maharishi that people was having > too much sex on the residence courses. His reply was that the notion of > sex being bad is a result of your christian upbringing proclaming sex > to be a sin.
Interesting. I also heard a story, perhaps posted here, that one of M's Indian brahmacharis had an affair and confessed it to M. Rather than chastising him, M asked him if he had enjoyed himself, to which he replied that he had. 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/
