Responce to "The Truth about Maharishi and Deepak Chopra"

I got this letter in response to Deepak Chopra's article about his relationship with Maharishi. You can read that article here.

Here's the response:

Dear Friends:
I am an Indian physician who was Maharishiji's personal physician at the time that Dr Deepak  Chopra was assisting Maharishiji in England, as per his article entitled "The Maharishi Years - the Untold Story". I must inform you that his article is replete with untruths and inaccuracies.  I was at Maharishiji's side during the entire incident. Some of the details of the article that I know to be untrue are as follows:

        * there was no blood transfusion from Dr Chopra;
        * Maharishi was not on a ventilator and was not pronounced dead as claimed;
        * he did not have kidney failure at all at that time;
        * Dr Chopra's father attended Maharishi in India, but not in London;
        * there was no helicopter involved;
        * Dr Chopra did not carry Maharishiji in his arms into the hospital.

Dr Chopra was handsomely paid for his services by the movement. These facts can be  corroborated by Prakash and Kirti from the Indian TM movement and Maharishiji's medical records would bear this out as well.  There were two other Indian physicians involved, both of whom were instructed in TM by Farrokh.  They can confirm the facts as well.

Dr G. M.
Please note that Dr G M is an outstanding Indian Governor responsible
for single-handedly creating the first group of 8,000 pundits in
India .  He is a Maharishi-trained TM-Sidhi instructor and teacher of
Advanced Techniques.
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I will leave you, oh dearest or readers, to make up your own mind about what is true and what isn't. I would suggest letting your feelings be your guide :-)

Love and light,
-Alex
 

Comments

[Kala Devi]

From FairfieldLife:

Written by a friend of mine about a year ago after he had dinner with
Dr. Mahapatra

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He says he was M's personal physician from about 87 to 91. His English
was a bit hard to understand so I'll do my best to relay some of the
interesting things he said.

After 91, (I'm not sure of exact dates) M had him as one of the people
in charge of a group of 6000 boys (M calls them pundits...). At some
point M's family told M that they didn't like what was going on with
the big group (I don't have any details) and M dismantled the whole
thing sending all the boys home to all the families consternation.
Maha Patra was in the dog house after that, which sounded like about
95 or 96. He said it was very uncomfortable dealing with all the boys
families during that time.

Patra said in 87 he was called to M's side in Noida, India and M was
rolling on the ground, screaming with the pain. He had pancreitis
(sorry for spelling). Patra put him on a pain killer and a sedative. M
eventually went to England for 6 months or so for treatment for this.
M is diabetic and his family has a history of diabetes. I wonder if
his high sugar intake had anything to do with it? When in England
everything was kept very secret. When some reporters heard he was at a
particular hotel, they would rapidly disappear to another location.
During that time M had his heart attack. I didn't get much of the
details. M didn't have heart surgery but he did have angeoplasty at a
hospital in Holland. M used western drugs and western hospitals while
promoting Ayurveda as the be all and end all. M has good days and bad
days and has variety of health problems. He stays out of view on the
bad days.

Patra says M is a megamaniac after world power, (we're all surprised).
He says the only ones M trusts are his family members, who he gives
untold millions to. M thinks all Americans are CIA and is really
paranoid. M asked him if he could test the blood of M's relatives to
see if someone was trying to poison them. He says M's family members
are not all good people or ethical people and that they have undue
influence on M's decisions. He had not heard any stories of M with women.

Patra said he spoke with Deepak, his friend, who told him that all the
problems started one time when Deepak had to leave M and M wanted him
to not go. Deepak told M that he had speaking engagements for
thousands of people all set up and he had to go. M said he heard that
Deepak was promoting Deepak and not M. Deepak said he always promoted
M. M continued to be more negative and suspicious and things broke
down from there. Patra says when anyone gets too popular in the
movement or has too much of a following M cans them.

Patra said when they had the clinic for the very seriously ill at
Noida that M would promise them all healing. With severe cases the
Vaijyas would tell M that they could only do so much. Patra was
trained as an Oncologist and saw people he knew would die. M would
promise them healing, then they would die. M would send out his people
to collect the huge bills from the bereaved families after the people
had died. He said he found that very upsetting.

Patra said when he first started seeing M, M wanted him to work for
the movement. He told Patra to not go back to hospitals anymore. Patra
was about to get married and go into practice, but because of what M
said he didn't. M told him the movement would support him and have a
bank account he could draw on. He was to have 2 cooks an 2
secretaries. None of that materialized and he was given no money. Now
he is in the US, can't pass the medical exams which he could have
passed many years ago, and he is taking business courses. He does
yagyas full time for Ralph Taylor, and has a group of 60 boys in India
doing yagyas for Ralph.

[Kala Devi]

You must of missed Deepak's response:

"A word to my rebutter: I feel that the probity of my account speaks for itself. I have not embellished any details of my past with Maharishi. Once he regained consciousness after his health crisis in London, he controlled whatever version of events he wanted the world and the TM movement to hear. For the past seventeen years the main version was outright denial.

The person who has tried to refute my account at Huffington was marginally present on the scene, but even that was intermittent. He wasn't privy to the critical events I recount. Perhaps he wants to imagine a nicer reality for the sake of the departed. The truth will be more healing. Maharishi was as enigmatic as anyone can possibly be, and it serves no good purpose to weave more mystery around him when the facts are clear to those who witnessed them.
Love,
Deepak"

[Rick Archer]

That was written by Dr. Mahapatra. The following was written by a friend of mine about a year ago after he had dinner with
Dr. Mahapatra

--------

He says he was M's personal physician from about 87 to 91. His English
was a bit hard to understand so I'll do my best to relay some of the
interesting things he said.

After 91, (I'm not sure of exact dates) M had him as one of the people
in charge of a group of 6000 boys (M calls them pundits...). At some
point M's family told M that they didn't like what was going on with
the big group (I don't have any details) and M dismantled the whole
thing sending all the boys home to all the families consternation.
Maha Patra was in the dog house after that, which sounded like about
95 or 96. He said it was very uncomfortable dealing with all the boys
families during that time.

Patra said in 87 he was called to M's side in Noida, India and M was
rolling on the ground, screaming with the pain. He had pancreitis
(sorry for spelling). Patra put him on a pain killer and a sedative. M
eventually went to England for 6 months or so for treatment for this.
M is diabetic and his family has a history of diabetes. I wonder if
his high sugar intake had anything to do with it? When in England
everything was kept very secret. When some reporters heard he was at a
particular hotel, they would rapidly disappear to another location.
During that time M had his heart attack. I didn't get much of the
details. M didn't have heart surgery but he did have angeoplasty at a
hospital in Holland. M used western drugs and western hospitals while
promoting Ayurveda as the be all and end all. M has good days and bad
days and has variety of health problems. He stays out of view on the
bad days.

Patra says M is a megamaniac after world power, (we're all surprised).
He says the only ones M trusts are his family members, who he gives
untold millions to. M thinks all Americans are CIA and is really
paranoid. M asked him if he could test the blood of M's relatives to
see if someone was trying to poison them. He says M's family members
are not all good people or ethical people and that they have undue
influence on M's decisions. He had not heard any stories of M with women.

Patra said he spoke with Deepak, his friend, who told him that all the
problems started one time when Deepak had to leave M and M wanted him
to not go. Deepak told M that he had speaking engagements for
thousands of people all set up and he had to go. M said he heard that
Deepak was promoting Deepak and not M. Deepak said he always promoted
M. M continued to be more negative and suspicious and things broke
down from there. Patra says when anyone gets too popular in the
movement or has too much of a following M cans them.

Patra said when they had the clinic for the very seriously ill at
Noida that M would promise them all healing. With severe cases the
Vaijyas would tell M that they could only do so much. Patra was
trained as an Oncologist and saw people he knew would die. M would
promise them healing, then they would die. M would send out his people
to collect the huge bills from the bereaved families after the people
had died. He said he found that very upsetting.

Patra said when he first started seeing M, M wanted him to work for
the movement. He told Patra to not go back to hospitals anymore. Patra
was about to get married and go into practice, but because of what M
said he didn't. M told him the movement would support him and have a
bank account he could draw on. He was to have 2 cooks an 2
secretaries. None of that materialized and he was given no money. Now
he is in the US, can't pass the medical exams which he could have
passed many years ago, and he is taking business courses. He does
yagyas full time for Ralph Taylor, and has a group of 60 boys in India
doing yagyas for Ralph.

[Avram]

It's intriguing that Maharishi-so-called and Amritanandamayi both have/had diabetes. If they are so damned powerful, then why can't they undo that? M was in anguish over pancreatitis; wasn't he beyond the body? If the mantras are so powerful, why are they both diabetic? If aryuveda is so great, same question???

[Kala Devi]

The so-called Maharishi was a business man and CEO, not a realizer, although he had the same presence that you see in many celebrities and he also likely had some minor siddhis.

He quite obviously was *not* beyond the body, but very attached to it. Close aides point out he was very vain and obsessed with his appearance to the point that he wore makeup.