--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > > > > Paul Mason wrote: > > > > >Guru Dev - Shankaracharya Swami Brahmanand Saraswati gives a few > > >words about when and how to meditate. > > >Translation by Paul Mason 31st August 2006 > > Paul, just how far do you think MMY would have > gotten in teaching people around the world to > meditate if he had been teaching a la Guru Dev? > > Or, what do you think would have happened if MMY > had taught as he did, and these instructions from > Guru Dev had been translated and made available > through the TMO? How many TMers would have > decided they were going to try it Guru Dev's way, > and what would have been the result? Especially > in the absence of Guru Dev's personal guidance? > > What was MMY going to say, "No, no, don't do what > Guru Dev instructed, do what I instruct"? > > You keep suggesting that there's something > sinister about MMY not promoting Guru Dev's actual > teaching, but that's one of the silliest criticisms > I've encountered. > > MMY obviously *didn't have a choice* if he wanted > TM to be universally accepted--or even to *work*, > for that matter. The context in which Guru Dev > taught was just too different. > > I suppose MMY could have issued a carefully > bowdlerized version of Guru Dev's lectures with > all the sectarian Hinduism taken out. What would > you have thought of that? What would have been > left? Would that have been true to Guru Dev's > intent? > > If you want to bash MMY for going global with TM > instead of staying back in India and teaching a > few people exactly what Guru Dev taught, ishtas and > all--or for teaching anything in the first place-- > fine. > > But if you don't disapprove of his wanting to > make TM universal, you really don't have a leg to > stand on in suggesting that he is dishonoring Guru > Dev by not promoting his original teachings. That > just makes no sense at all. > > Bingo ! That Paul Mason fellow has one major agenda; to make money
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