This is an insight into MMY's mind. Let's look at his assertion at face value. How did the guys in his tradition live? The only people we know are in his tradition are remembered in the puja, so skipping past the obviously mythological characters, we find some people whose lifestyles we can use to determine what he was talking about.
Shukadeva was a nudist who lived outside. In fact we see that Guru Dev, who was also a famous camper (but clothed), may have encountered indoor plumbing for the first time at Jotir Math. (that is if it has indoor pluming?) So if we are going to take the lifestyles of the "tradition" seriously then Purusha is missing a huge component of that lifestyle: they lived lives with built in physical activity. Just taking a bath for these guys might involve walking down to a river or stream. They were outdoorsmen who could see their breath on cold days (North India gets cooooold) when they went for a morning...how to put this delicately so as not to offend...Oh I know, moving from the fullness of fullness to the fullness of emptiness! How they DIDN'T live was sitting on foam or in front of computers as Nabby pointed out. They didn't live in the artificially heated and cooled environments of modern man. They didn't have "parkas". So like a lot of stuff that comes out of MMY's mouth, this statement doesn't make any sense. It just reveals his contempt for modern science and medicine. So let's all use our saliva to wash out our eyes in the morning as was recommended in the early days of Ayur Veda, and NEVER work up a sweat! Then Purusha can all look like all the elderly people we see around us who didn't live an active lifestyle. Fortunately they can fall back on their Purusha health care insurance, right? Right? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of shempmcgurk > Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 11:38 PM > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: RIP Scott Girard > > > > --- In HYPERLINK > "mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com"FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, > "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In HYPERLINK > "mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com"FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick > Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > <snip> > > > The irony is that he died of cardiovascular disease, yet > > > recently Maharishi told Purusha they shouldn't exercise > > > because "Exercise isn't part of our tradition." > > > > That would be ironic only if the type of > > cardiovascular disease he had would have > > been prevented or remedied by exercise > > during the time he was in Purusha. > > Pray tell, Doctor Stein, are you saying that there are instances in > which exercise is NOT a good thing? > > I was going to make a similar comment. I'm no medical expert, but I can't > imagine a cardiologist telling anyone that exercise wouldn't benefit them, > unless they were so ill that the slightest exertion might kill them. I've > seen people in their 90's who had gotten proper exercise all their lives and > could still run, ski, etc. Maharishi, who has been sedentary, has been bound > to a wheelchair for several years. If non-exercise is part of his tradition, > then the tradition is deficient. > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.12/1245 - Release Date: 1/26/2008 > 3:45 PM >
