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Re: Theos-World Adyar Convention Reporting

Jan 23, 2010 08:40 AM
by MKR


Members in good standing means on who is uptodate on dues. Caste has nothing
whatever to do with it. Members who are delinquent on dues are not in good
standing.

MKR

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Martin <Mvandertak@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>  " I guess it's to ensure that 'members of good standing' only get to
> attend. Which Radha obviously does not think you are. "
>
> Meaning she is discriminating on "caste" and in violence of the objectives
> of the TS...
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> ________________________________
> From: Spirituality <mail@katinkahesselink.net<mail%40katinkahesselink.net>
> >
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> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com <theos-talk%40yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sat, January 23, 2010 4:10:15 PM
> Subject: Re: Theos-World Adyar Convention Reporting
>
>
> Hi Preethi,
>
> Actually, it's not a given that every TS member can automatically stay at
> the Adyar Centre. For international members there's a lot of bureaucratic
> hassle to be able to stay there. People don't just have to prove they are
> members, they have to have the explicit approval of their national section
> to be able to stay over.
>
> At least, that was the procedure for Dutch members when I went to Adyar ten
> years ago.
>
> I guess it's to ensure that 'members of good standing' only get to attend.
> Which Radha obviously does not think you are.
>
> Just because we pay a bit for its upkeep, does not mean it's a hotel at
> which every member automatically has admittance.
>
> Katinka Hesselink
>
> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com <theos-talk%40yahoogroups.com>, preethi
> muthiah <seeker_preethi@...> wrote:
> >
> > Dear MKR,
> >
> > I would just like to point out to you that I attended the Convention as
> every member's right to do so. The Administration at Adyar was definitely
> NOT doing me a favour.
> >
> > The issues I have brought up, by the way, are issues that the founders
> would themselves raise, had they been alive. Neither of our founders were in
> favour of corruption, and it did not matter to them at what level these were
> practised. Corruption is corruption and it is an evil that must be rooted
> out. It is indeed sad to see that it exists in the TS, the founders of which
> are insulted daily by the current administration at Adyar, who instead of
> rooting it out, endorse it all because it is practised by the relatives of
> the President.
> >
> > Also, Preethi was not allowed to stay on campus with her mother, Mrs
> Radha Muthiah, who still works at the TS, Adyar. And though Preethi was
> allowed to visit her mother, in the future, even that permission has been
> taken away.
> >
> > You must read the Mahatma's Letters carefully, MKR, and you will find out
> that with a spiritual aspirant, every bad deed wipes out all the good ones.
> So, even if you want to be proud of Mrs Burnier allowing a member of the TS
> like Preethi Muthiah to attend the Convention, which by the way was Preethi
> Muthiah's right, you cannot run away from the fact that since Mrs Burnier
> did not allow me to stay with my mother, so the deed you mentioned gets
> wiped out and the balance is tilted towards the misdeeds...heavily indeed.
> >
> > It is quite possible that Mrs Radha Burnier will now try to prevent
> Preethi from being a member of the TS...but that is her headache...not
> mine...My commitment to the Theosophical Cause remains unhindered, for I
> choose it to be so. She cannot own the Masters of the Wisdom nor the Wisdom
> Teachings. She cannot even actually own the Adyar Estate for it is not her
> property. If you will see the rules, you will realize that Adyar actually
> belongs to all the members of the TS, for out of our annual membership fee,
> a certain amount goes towards the upkeep and maintenance of the Adyar
> International Headquarters.
> >
> > In effect, MKR, Mrs Radha Burnier in addition to all her other misdeeds
> of corruption etc. is also today party to the crime of keeping a member of
> the TS from her right to enter and live on the international HQ of the TS,
> Adyar, for the maintenance and upkeep of which the member pays annually a
> certain fee. By that account, MKR, Mrs Burnier is a thief. I hope that is
> not a matter of pride with you.
> >
> > Fraternally
> >
> > Preethi
> >
> > --- On Sat, 23/1/10, MKR <mkr777@...> wrote:
> >
> > From: MKR <mkr777@...>
> > Subject: Theos-World Adyar Convention Reporting
> > To: "theos-talk" <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com<theos-talk%40yahoogroups.com>
> >
> > Date: Saturday, 23 January, 2010, 2:14 AM
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> > Ã
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> > When I suggested before the convention, if some one attending the
> convention
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> > could report on the convention on Internet, I was thinking about a blog
> like
> >
> > reporting, which in a journalistic point, be entertaining and
> informative. I
> >
> > have seen in conventions, each day one or two page bulletin is issued
> >
> > covering the dayÃââs summary. It is very disappointing that in this day
> and
> >
> > age of computers and wifi, something that is easy to do was not done by
> any
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> > one. By the way, Chennai is a hub of many computer establishments and so
> >
> > there are ample wifi resources if anyone wanted to post anything on
> >
> > Internet. I do not know what is happening in various countries when they
> >
> > have their annual conventions.
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> > It is heartening to see Preethi was allowed to attend the convention, as
> a
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> > member, in spite of the various issues she had raised in the past and had
> to
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> > move out of the Adyar Estate. This speaks very highly of the Adyar
> >
> > administration and all of us should be proud of it. I doubt any other
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> > organization would have allowed her to attend a convention.
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> > MKR
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> > The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage.
> http://in.yahoo.com/
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