Damn this guy must have been powerful. I think it's fair to say he made one hell of an impression on you. And you were from a family of yogis. How do you make that wrong turn?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@...> wrote: > > > On Apr 10, 2011, at 10:28 PM, Sal Sunshine wrote: > > >> In my case, it specifically refers to the fact that he was > >> directly responsible for encouraging people to take an ayurvedic > >> approach to life threatening diseases, and then these same people > >> died because of that "enlightened" advice. > > > > Vaj, do you really believe this makes MMY "guilty" of > > something? What, specifically? Giving dumb advice? > > - Giving medical advice without a license, resulting in death. And > then sometimes collecting the money owed from these failed, > overpriced Ayurvedic interventions from the deceased greaving families. > > - psychological and neurological damage from over-meditation and > unregulated meditation practice. This has been talked of repeatedly > and in considerable detail here before: from Saraswati yogins who've > diagnosed Sidhas with terrible meditational diseases (yes, there are > classes of meditational disorders) and the "Merv wave" which resulted > in a huge influx of whigged out TMers to psychiatric hospitals (e.g. > New York City), are just two examples that come to mind. > > > Were these people forcibly kept from seeing doctors? > > Or was it their choice on what advice to take or not take? > > It doesn't take a genius to figure out that some > > crappy-looking concoction made from cow dung > > (amongst other things) probably won't cure any > > life-threatening illnesses. Or any other kind. > > I took one look at that junk and said, "Forget it." > > The people who took such "advice" were still > > responsible for their own decisions. > > He was looked at as a wise, all-knowing, "enlightened" figure. Little > did people know that once the giggling once slipped off the stage, he > was screwing young students and switched into a gruff businessman. It > was all an act. > > Nor did many know he wasn't the enlightened figure he presented > himself as. He was not authorized by his own teacher (quite the > opposite) and his own teachings are different from those taught by > his teacher. Indeed M's teachings are often in direct conflict with > Swami Brahmananda's teachings. The TM puja is actually derived from a > scholar/student of Guru Dev's poetry, which SBS told Mahesh to destroy. > > He did not, but instead repurposed it. >
