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> > > > > Who do you think was more revolutionary in their attempt to change
> > > > > the world?
> > > > > Maharishi or Yogananda? Yogananda certainly paved the way for
> > > > > Maharishi in the West.
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> Revolutionary? By some definitions I'd wager that Maharishi was more
> radical. By scope.
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Maharishi might have been the more flamboyant as a revolutionary. Even more
radical. Not that Yogananda was not either.
> > Maharishi may have had the most scope by virtue of the change of technology
> > during his 50 years in the West.
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> > > Yogananda was in the West and America for about 3 decades. Maharishi for
> > > 5. Autobiography of a Yogi has probably sold more and influenced way
> > > more towards authentic spirituality and practicing mysticism than some
> > > number of meditators who may have learned TM in the culture.
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> > > As I ask around here, mecca of TM, most people read Autobiography of a
> > > Yogi before they came to and started TM way back when. AOB has been a
> > > preferred book sale all along in the spiritual section. TM effectively
> > > disappeared from the 11980's. Yogananda numbers is possibly the more
> > > influential in culture of the two.
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> > > > Interesting question. They both come from the same caste.
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> > > > But Yogananda had a guru-sishya relationship with which to receive
> > > > all the yogic wisdom he passed onto his students.
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> > > > Maharishi, despite the immense advertising efforts of his followers,
> > > > has been revealed for what he is. It's still broadcast on American
> > > > television weekly. He has no guru-sishya relationship. He molested
> > > > numerous women, while claiming to be a lifelong celibate. And he
> > > > never, ever trained as a yogi - even his yoga asana course was done
> > > > by someone else! What kind of yogi is that?
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> > > > Yogananda on the other hand was declared a Paramahamsa yogi by his
> > > > own master.
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> > > > Heck, even George Harrison left TM to follow Yogananda's teachings.
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