--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <groups@> wrote: > > > > on 8/4/06 6:41 AM, nablus108 at nablus108@ wrote: > > > > > > Why should that be a problem with anyone ? If it is true. > > > Maharishi is a > > > master, but I have no problem whatsover with the idea that he > might > > > have been active in that area. > > > > > > The only people I think could get angry is the americans > > > who have such a huge problem with sexuality. Look what they did to > > > Clinton just because he was having some fun. > > > The french President Mitterand > > > had a mistress and a daughter. Everyone new that, but did the > french > > > care ? No. > > > > > Did Mitterrand claim to be a life celibate, in large part base his > > reputation on that claim, and convince hundreds of his followers > > to adopt that lifestyle? > > I'd still be interested to see documentation of > MMY having made this claim explicitly. > > I'm not at all sure where you get the idea that his > reputation was based on large part on a claim to be a > life celibate. In what way was it based on this > claim? I never was led to believe it was anything > but incidental. > > I don't recall the point ever having been mentioned > by TM teachers unless somebody asked whether MMY was > celibate. And the response was always followed by > what was said to be MMY's insistence that celibacy was > a calling, not a discipline to be followed for its own > sake, especially not if it ran contrary to one's > inclinations. A big deal was never made of it.
Agreed. But to gain enlightenment is faster if you are a celibate, and that is why Maharishi gently suggested it is good idea not to have sex, " to make an agreement with the body". At least for a period of time. Once CC is reached I'm not sure whether it is necessary. 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/
