--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Premanand Paul Mason" <[EMAIL
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wrote:
>
> I have received an email relating to a press conference in which MMY
> allegedly "made himself look and sound like an Ill tempered raving
> lunatic."
> Does anyone know of such a conference and do they have a transcript?
>
> Follows an extract of the email received:-
>
> 'It might interest you to know that during the summer of 2004
> I
> was watching a free live transmission of a Maharishi Press conference
> from
> Holland to India. I had been watching these free for a limited time
> Maharishi press conferences for about the whole summer. In each
> session,
> John Hagelin of MUM was fielding questions from the press for
> Maharishi.
> Maharishi would then give a thorough answer and/or message that was
> very
> pleasing to hear. However, one day as I was watching a special
> broadcast of
> the Maharishi speaking to India, he absolutely lost it (so to speak)
> and
> began what amounted to be a complete 30-45 minute tyrannical speech
> about
> how India is still being kept down by its Britisher foreigners and
> their
> "religion of suffering"-Christianity.
>
> I was stunned when he started advocating that Indians begin to
> angrily
> and
> forcibly directly threaten "Britishers" and "Christians" (namely
> women)
> by
> explaining that if they didn't leave India immediately
> their, "Husbands
> and
> children's lives would be in great danger". And that was only one
> small
> quote. I watched in disbelief as he threw all caution to the wind and
> started chastising the Indian Press and basically all of India for
> "copying
> the West" and becoming less "Spiritual". He was out of control to
> tell
> you
> the truth. I am not exaggerating at all either. He made himself
> look
> and
> sound like an Ill tempered raving lunatic. Literally trying to incite
> violence? I was stunned at how much disrespect and open contempt he
> was
> displaying towards "Britishers" and westerners in general. It was
> unthinkable, the things that he was saying. He was openly instructing
> others to "throw the bloody Britishers out or they will pay a heavy
> price
> for staying", mainly he explained because of British involvement in
> the
> War
> in Iraq and the fact that these democratically run foreign countries
> were
> dragging the spirituality of India and her people down. Also he kept
> on
> repeating "get away from democracy" "get away from democracy".'
>
Is this how you conduct research for your published books? To fish for
corroboration by broadcasting the above without requiring your source to be
specific
regarding date of speech, or week, or month, even, is grossly irresponsible,
and certainly
lowers your credibility as a biographical author.
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