In the video, it looks more like recess at the junior high but, according to the story, they attacked the deputy sheriff's car when he showed up.
"Pandits are young men brought over from India, and they are housed in a fenced campus. They are paid $200 a month to chant and meditate, $150 of which is sent back to their families in India."
Um, what am I missing here. I know I don't get multiculturalism, but this seems a little strange. Or maybe a lot strange.
> Um, what am I missing here. I know I don't get multiculturalism, but this seems a little strange. Or maybe a lot strange.
You would need to have lived in Fairfield, Iowa from the arrival of the "gurus" in 1973 to the present to fully understand but the Maharishi Vedic Pandits are an ancillary aspect of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation program. You may recall that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was guru to the Beatles.
Hard as it is to comprehend, Fairfield, Iowa is ground zero for the TM milieu which includes Ayurvedic medicine, Sthapatya Veda architecture, the Natural Law Party and Yogic flying.
Maharishi Vedic City, where the "riot" occurred is a "suburb" of Fairfield.
Sometimes I'm sorry I moved away from Fairfield. The meditators provide considerable entertainment value.
Spent a little time in Fairfield around 1977 visiting a cousin who lived there. She was most definitely not a big fan of Ol' Fuzzy Face.
