My friend Trika.

[Guest guest]

The New Yorker article was written by a woman who

spent two weeks in Mysore and stopped by the beginnning

of the workshop in NY for additional interviews.

Although permission was not required by Guruji, he was

kind enough to cooperate and to answer her questions

in a sincere and thoughtful manner. Unfortunately,

the journalist, was so attached to her New

Yorker/People Magazine angle on the story that she totally

missed the point of Guruji's wisdom. While he no doubt

presented her with the truth, she fixated on Calvin Klein

underwear, a photo of Gwyneth and other things that

resonated within her own conciousness: exploitation,

hustling and cynicism.<br><br>So the world gets a two-week

perspective from an exploitive and opportunistic parasite and

is cheated from getting any kind of insight into

Guruji's wise and loving being. <br><br>As for the other's

on this board that critcized you, there is a

polictical correctness here that is rather sickening.

Ashtanga is not about feeling good and joining hands with

your neighbors and singing "free to be you and me"--in

spanish-- wearing Birchenstocks, long flowing tie died

skirts while swilling herbal tea. <br><br>Diluting the

practice with "modifications", accepting teaching from

charlatans and those who are unqualified because they have

not mastered the basics, allowing mendacious and

exploitive so-called teachers with their low-quality books

and videotapes to water down and pollute the practice

might be expedient for lazy or inexperienced students

and profitable for the teachers, but does nothing to

preserve the Ashtanga method for future generations and

insults the teaching of our Guru.<br><br><br>sorry for

the long sentence.<br><br>El Senor Pinche Wey