--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, a_non_moose_ff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: <snip> > > But it seemed to me that the person who originally > > related the anecdote > > That was me > > > was presenting it as an example > > of MMY denying he had given an instruction that he > > had in fact given, i.e., that he had been denying > > that he'd ever said not to bathe after program. > > No that was not at all my point in raising the story. I was giving > 4-5 examples of where I felt people incorrectly extrapolated > things M said in a specific context to another or more general > context: Vak, bathing during rounding, AV and Jyotish pre 1990, etc.
Right, sorry. I'd forgotten the original post, where you put it in context (plus which, I can't keep track of the anonymooses!). <snip> > > The one other objection, I guess, is that based on > > his own descriptions of enlightenment, we should > > expect him never to get angry about anything--which > > is *itself* a foolish extrapolation, it seems to me. > > My sense in seeing these "outbursts" live, is that he was > not "angry" as we think of it. It was more a drama he was creating > to make a point. Like running after workers with a stick. He was > neither violently inclined -- nor "out of control" ,"rajo guna > inflamed". Like a parent who feigns anger with a child to make it > clear "Listen up! This is important!" Makes sense, as long as folks aren't so freaked by the display they don't hear what's being said. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/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/