--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <LEnglish5@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] > > > On Behalf Of richardatrwilliamsdotus > > > Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2011 8:34 AM > > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Dana Sawyer needs photos > > > > > > shukra69: > > > > > this is a desperate crazy person kind of drive-by > > > > > slander on your part isn't it Vag? > > > > > > > > Vaj: > > > > I feel that all recent information relating to the > > > > TMO's dark side would be relevant, esp. material > > > > that relates to the traditional problems meditation > > > > can cause - and the hope for relief for people > > > > suffering... > > > > > > > So, you need Dana Sawyer, who never even tried TM, to > > > explain to you TM? You're supposed to be the spiritual > > > teacher! You're thinking Dana Sawyer knows anything > > > about the TM or the TMO? Go figure. > > > > > > Dana was a TM teacher, speaks fluent Hindi, has interviewed > > > just about every significant yogi and swami in India, etc. > > > I'd say he knows a thing or two about TM and the TMO. > > > > He never interviewed any of the people who supported > > Satchananda or Vasudevananda, IIRC. He said he had no > > interest i getting their side of the story, or words > > to that effect. > > You don't recall correctly. See #294744, next-to-last > paragraph, for Sawyer's comments about an interview > with Vasudevananda supporters. > > As to Satchananda, not sure what you could be referring > to; he wasn't a candidate to replace Guru Dev. Sawyer's > never mentioned him in any of his emails about the > succession controversy that Rick has posted here. In fact, > according to Yahoo's Advanced Search, you're the only > person on FFL ever to have mentioned Satchananda, and > those mentions weren't in connection with the succession > controversy either. > > For that matter, Sawyer's book may not have anything > about the succession controversy anyway. >
I mean Swami Santananda Saraswati which I have always heard of as Shantananda but that may be my untrained ear. L.
