--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Feb 17, 2007, at 1:54 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > >> > >> > >> On Feb 17, 2007, at 12:51 PM, sparaig wrote: > >> > >>> There were also strong similiarities, such as not using Om with > >>> householders. > >>> > >>> Of oucrse, you don't want to hear that. > >> > >> > >> No, I do, but that really not my understanding of this incident. I > >> was an incident involving a singular woman and not a general > >> practice. In fact I do believe there is sufficient evidence to show > >> that it was incorrectly applied by M. from one single incident > >> involving a woman. > >> > > > > > > Both Swami Shatananda Saraswati and Swami Vishnudevananda > > Saraswati, were "brother > > monks" with MMY. Swami Brahamanada Saraswati initiated my friend > > Anoop Chandola into > > meditation and told him that MMY would have been his first choice > > to suceed him as > > Shankaracharya save for the caste laws. > > > > Dr. Coplin interviewed Swami Vishnudevananada Saraswati in 1983 and > > apparently heard > > much the same story (see footnote 76): > > > > http://members.aol.com/drcoplin/Chapter2Notes.html#73 > > > > > > What you're saying is that BOTH these guys played politics by > > telling much the same story > > over the decades and tht BOTH these guys are lying about MMY's > > contributions to the > > revival of TM. > > > A can't vouch for either of them. And I don't have as much investment > in this as you do, it really doesn't matter to me. I do seem to > recall someone discrediting these sources, as you seem to mention > them all the time. So from my POV, I'd have to suspect that they are > TB's (that's what I seem to remember, they were not unbiased sources > or something like that). > > Do you remeber what the discreditors had said? What was their > argument against these guys? Sorry, I just don't keep track of all > these things, it's water over the bridge for me. I just remember them > being discredited. >
Which sources? Anoop Chandola? Dr. Coplin? Swami Shatananda? Swami Vishnudevananda? It's easy to discredit sources.
