--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, taskcentered <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > I don't mean to be facetious. How to judge the "success" of a > > > spiritual master -- at least a mass-market one, such as the > > > Maharishi and L. Ron -- is a thorny issue worthy of > > > discussion. > > > > > > > Well yeah, but it was never really adiscussion on either side. > > > I was merely reacting to Paul's quoting Gurudev about sidhis. > > > > > > That's what a discussion is, Lawson. One party reacting to what > > > another has said or written. > > > > Except that the reactions in question weren't about > > the "success" of a "mass-market" spiritual master, > > which was what you stipulated above. > > John wants to make it one, using Scientology as the > counter example.
Of course, and he's entirely welcome to start that discussion. But he was trying, disingenuously and patronizingly, to make it appear that his question was just a continuation of the earlier exchange, which was in fact on a different topic.