--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 4/1/06 4:25:45 A.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > As poor luck would have it, someone > stole the remaining 12 chapters from Charlie Lutes in whose > possession and safe keeping it was supposed to remain by not > returning the manuscript after borrowing it from him. There is no > additional copy of the original manuscript and no intention so far > as I know of (circa 1994) that Maharishi ever intends to rewrite > the missing chapters. > > Sounds like somebody is sitting on a *gold mine*.
It's not clear from this account whether what's being referred to is MMY's *translation* of chapters 7-18 or his *commentary* thereon. The translation has been circulating as a photocopy for many years (it was actually typeset). It was also used as the basis for a WPA at MUM a few years ago, led by Vernon Katz. So it certainly hasn't been lost. I believe I recall hearing that copies of the translation were handed out to course participants. Whether the commentary on these chapters was ever written, I don't know, but apparently Katz *taught* MMY's commentary on at least some parts of it on that WPA. My guess is that it exists only as Katz's notes from his discussions with MMY, not in a fully written-out form, and that the person being quoted above is referring (inaccurately) to the translation. When someone gave me a copy of the translation (a few years before the WPA), it was with the understanding that it wasn't strictly kosher for me to have it, and that I shouldn't spread it around or say who had given it to me. I suspect the person quoted had heard about the pilfered copy of the translation and got the details a bit confused, thinking it was the *sole* copy that had been taken, and perhaps not realizing that it was just the translation and not the commentary. But that's just my guess. 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/
