--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "boo_lives" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > there's a PhD dissertation on the history of the tm mov't that's > online (and I don't remember where I put the link) that states that > MMY accompanied an aunt to the south of india on that first trip to > rameswaram. the guy seems to have done his research and came up > with that fact, which means a whole mythology about the inspiration > for that trip may have come up after the fact. has anyone else > heard about MMY taking a family member with him to rameswaram.
No, the "mythology" is right there in the dissertation, along with the ailing aunt. >From the dissertation by Jay Randolph Coplin: After about one year of ascetic seclusion at Uttarkashi, in a place called "valley of the saints," Maharishi Mahesh Yogi accompanied his ailing aunt from Calcutta to a medical facility at Madanapalle in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. By his own admission, he was responding not only to the request of his relative but more directly to an irrepressible impulse to "go south" and visit the temples of pilgrimage at Kanchi, Rameshwaram, and Kanya Kumari. http://members.aol.com/drcoplin/SRMemergence.html So he apparently dropped her off at Madanapalle and continued south.
