--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Nov 14, 2005, at 7:20 AM, Peter wrote: > > > > > Yes, yes, it's all so true. SSRS is a fraud. Thank God > > > we all know that now. Spending all that time with MMY > > > from the age of 12 onwards must have had some sort of > > > impact on him. IT IS SO TRUE THAT, "MEDITATORS SHOULD > > > WATCH OUT FOR SWEET POISON." > > > > I don't think that's the point. The point is it shows the extreme > > jealousy of M. who obviously can't deal with the loss of his > > movement to SSRS's now larger and more vital movement...so he puts > > SSRS down to his few remaining students. Not surprising, but not the > > greatest thing one would want to hear. > > For the record, the "sweet poison" warning goes > at least as far back as 1998 and referred > specifically to a hyperventilation-type breathing > technique Shankar taught (called, I believe, > Sudarshan Kriya). > > According to someone on alt.m.t who had spent time > in Shankar's ashram in 1978, Shankar had only broken > with the TMO fairly recently at the time the person > was posting in 1994. He was said then not to be > interested in starting a movement (and was known as > Pundit Ravi Shankar; Sri Sri apparently came later). > > The point being that at the time MMY issued the > "sweet poison" warning, probably around 1994, the > TMO was still in full swing, and Shankar apparently > did not pose any kind of major threat in terms of > even starting a movement of his own, let alone one > that could compete with the TMO. > > Perhaps MMY foresaw that he would do so, but that > doesn't appear to have been evident at the time. > > In any case, contrary to Vaj's suggestion, the > "sweet poison" warning about the hyperventilation > technique is hardly a recent development. >
Well, a warning about a technique isn't the same as referring to SSRS himself as sweet poison, which was what I was questioning. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
