--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not okay with MMY giving jewelry and saris to > favorite ladies unless the money was donated > specifically for that. After all, the TMO's selling of > MMY to the public has always made a big thing of MMY's > vow of poverty and has continually assured us that MMY > would never take actual possession of any TMO money > for personal use.
Actually, I have to say that I *never* heard anything like this from the TMO -- officially or unofficially -- in my 14 years with the organization. I'm wondering if it's one of those "imagined urban legends" that show up from time to time, like Maharishi claiming to be celibate. I never heard him say anything about *that*, either. In my experience, people sometimes take their assump- tions about how a spiritual teacher "should" act and make them into assumptions about how the teacher has actually *said* they would act. My suspicion is that if you heard either thing -- that MMY had taken a vow of poverty or that he had taken a vow of celibacy -- from someone in the TM movement, that person either made it up or was passing along something that someone else had made up. Can anyone here claim to have heard *Maharishi himself* ever say such things? 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/
