--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <do.rf...@...> wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote:
> >
> > John, this was actually a very sweet quote. I can
> > only assume that the translator's choice of language
> > is extremely poetic, and that he did not feel the
> > need for an exact translation, merely one that
> > captured what he saw in the verse. 
> 
> Why do you assume that the author's words aren't an exact translation?
> 
> > But what fascinates me is what was *made* of the
> > quote here. Even reading only in Message View, it
> > appears that the only thing a few folks saw in the
> > verse worth discussing was one word -- "corn."
> 
> Indeed. 
> 
> Considering that the whole Transcendental Meditation
> teaching according to MMY, is based on the authenticity
> of the Vedas, it IS interesting (but not very surprising)
> to me that not one person other than you has said one
> word about the topic itself.

NEWS FLASH: Barry hasn't said anything about the topic
itself either.

> Rather, the comments are confined to quibbling about
> whether or not there was corn in ancient India.

And Barry's are confined, Chuckles, to putting down
those who are not talking about the topic itself,
without *himself* saying anything about it either.

> <Chuckle>

<horselaugh>


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