yes he wanted to get married like any regular Maharishi and have 3.5 kids and a
Kamadhenu in the Vaastu but he had to keep putting it off and putting it off
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain <no_re...@...> wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote:
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> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain <no_reply@> wrote:
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> > > I am interested to understand why people find it difficult
> > > to accept. Perhaps a bit jaw dropping at first. But after
> > > the first "really!?", why is it particularly odd or
> > > difficult to digest?
> > >
> > > And I suppose, its a relevant questions: should a teacher
> > > be entitled to a private life? Entitled to some parts of
> > > life that are of no business to students or anyone else.
> > >
> > > I never heard MMY say he was celibate. Why should he?
> > > Other than when he was Bal Bramachari Mahesh. And then
> > > he changed his name. Which is a pretty big clue in itself.
> > > A practice useful for a student is not necessarily still
> > > useful for an adult.
> > >
> > > Like many of us, he may have not have gone out of his way
> > > to correct some peoples misperceptions. Actually he spent
> > > all day doing that -- misperceptions about "the path".
> > > But it could have been an infinite job to try to straighten
> > > people out in every area of his and their lives.
> >
> > You're leaving one aspect of it out, that he allegedly
> > had these affairs with female followers. That really
> > isn't OK, because of the power differential; it's
> > exploitative at best, predatory at worst, even if it
> > was nominally consensual. And the age difference was
> > substantial, by all accounts.
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> Not arguing, but the women may have been -- I think were in many cases --
> leveraging the situation. A lot of the woman around him may have had nice
> doe eyes, but they were hardly naive or unworldly. Some were downright
> manipulative, Some quite sophisticated temptresses. Some were quite the man
> eaters. And you didn't usually get to be around maharishi without some street
> smarts. There were a lot of people edging in. Lots of elbowing. Girls just
> off the turnip truck were not among them. I sense that once the word got
> around among an inner circle of women, some were bending over backwards to be
> the It girl -- and made it clear to him.
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> And some men and women leaders were bonking their brains out with underlings.
> Down to checkers or asana demonstrators scoring with their "students". And
> there was a lot of sex going on at courses among participants. Particularly
> beginnings and endings. MIU had professors and staff were dating much younger
> students. His actions were not outside the norm of the TMO or the times.
>
> As far as age difference, no one bats an eye at George Clooney or others when
> the age difference between he and his dates is 20-30 years. George Burns was
> iconic in this regard. Or any number of celebrities. I saw the other day Mr
> Big (Chris Noth) was dating someone 25-30 years younger. About the same age
> difference in the case
> of discussion.
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> As far as other avenues, i suppose he could have gone down to the local bar
> in Mallorca or Suisse -- do a few shots, talk up some women. ("hey, you into
> unity?") But that would seem more unseemly.
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> Professional women I suppose were an option.
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> But frankly, it seems a lot more wholesome to be with women that loved him
> and he loved them.
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> > I don't have any problem in the abstract with him
> > getting his rocks off, but this was a rotten way to go
> > about it.
> >
> > He didn't have a lot of options given the way he had
> > things set up; he didn't have access to mature women
> > who weren't his followers. But if he had sexual needs,
> > he ought to have figured out some way to manage them
> > that didn't involve dewy-eyed devotees. Or just accept
> > that it was something he was going to have to deny
> > himself.
> >
> > If it weren't for his choice of sexual outlets, I'd
> > agree with what you say 100 percent.
> >
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