--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 > Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 4:11 AM > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Sixties Gurus Go On Tour > > > > > I think Maharishi is the only one still alive who was teaching in the > > sixties. A fact which I love how it makes the anti-TM fundamentalists > > here squirm and grimace. You feel the grimace on your face don't chya? > > > > OffWorld > > And the only Teacher from the sixties with a good standing and > reputation in India. With the exeption of AnandaMayiMa of course, but > then again, she was an Avatar. > > Are you kidding? Maharishi has a lousy reputation in India. If he's > remembered at all, he's thought of as a businessman. Amma and SSRS are the > best-known living gurus, and they have stellar reputations, as do a number > of dead ones, such as Ramana Maharshi, Yogananda, Aurobindo, etc.
Not my experience at all after 25 years of travelling in India up to this day. He is the one who is reviving the Vedic civilisation in India and creating thousands of schools all over the country, not Amma or this Ravi Shankar fellow. Ask any well educated or well-to-do indian and he will for sure have read about Amma in the newspapers or seen a self-conscious Shankar on the television, but the real respect is reserved for Maharishi and what he is doing for India.