--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <rick@s...> wrote:
> on 5/30/05 8:15 PM, bbrigante at no_reply@yahoogroups.com wrote:
> >
> > It would be interesting to know what the actual fee for
instruction
> > is in India for people who walk into centers, and are not having
> > their fees paid by the state or their company. The only number I
have
> > ever heard is a $5 registration fee for Siddhis instruction.
>


> Steve said:
>
> People can learn TM in India for as little as 30 rupees which
is .70, but of
> course dollars vs. rupees don't translate in terms of disposable
income.
> For many, 30 rupees is almost a full day's wages. The general
policy is
> that a person pays one day wages, but there's no set fee except in
some city
> centers where the recommended price is 900 rupees ($21). School
kids get
> instruction for 5 rupees or 11 cents.

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That's interesting that there is no attempt to introduce exclusionary
pricing in India -- even laborers can afford 35 rupees --, which
supports the thesis that MMY only intended, in his go-slow policy of
unfolding enlightenment for the world, to light a few candles in the
West to reduce the shock effect of a Vedic India, then put the rest
of the world on the shelf until he could unfold Vedic India, by
creating a lot of pundits, and not putting up the price of TM in
India so that many could start when the atmosphere improves through
the yagyas.