-An old BBC interview with Maharishi, where he discusses his vow of celibacy and on being a monk.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/maharishi1. shtml -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm not okay with MMY giving jewelry and saris to > > favorite ladies unless the money was donated > > specifically for that. After all, the TMO's selling of > > MMY to the public has always made a big thing of MMY's > > vow of poverty and has continually assured us that MMY > > would never take actual possession of any TMO money > > for personal use. > > Actually, I have to say that I *never* heard anything like > this from the TMO -- officially or unofficially -- in my 14 > years with the organization. > > I'm wondering if it's one of those "imagined urban legends" > that show up from time to time, like Maharishi claiming to > be celibate. I never heard him say anything about *that*, > either. > > In my experience, people sometimes take their assump- > tions about how a spiritual teacher "should" act and > make them into assumptions about how the teacher > has actually *said* they would act. > > My suspicion is that if you heard either thing -- that MMY > had taken a vow of poverty or that he had taken a vow > of celibacy -- from someone in the TM movement, that > person either made it up or was passing along something > that someone else had made up. Can anyone here claim > to have heard *Maharishi himself* ever say such things? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
