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--[[User:Rudra|Rudra]] ([[User talk:Rudra|talk]]) 19:19, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
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Hmmm. Some clarification is needed. Laxmi was indeed among the first group to be initiated, ''with'' Madhu (and Dharm Jyoti and Chinmaya and Chaitanya Bharti usw), and that was in 1970 (not 1971 as on the article page). It hardly matters who was first in that group, so perhaps if she was making a big deal about ''that'', she should get criticized. Otherwise ...
What is Max actually saying about her and her claim? I only have the first edition, maybe i could find it if i knew what else went with it. -- [[User:Sarlo|doofus-9]] ([[User talk:Sarlo|talk]]) 07:52, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

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Laxmi and subsequently many other people spread the story that she was the first sannyasin to be initiated,

but that was actually Ma Anand Madhu in 1970. [1]

[1] Max Brecher : A Passage to America, 2nd ed, p 376 --Rudra (talk) 19:19, 8 March 2015 (UTC)


Hmmm. Some clarification is needed. Laxmi was indeed among the first group to be initiated, with Madhu (and Dharm Jyoti and Chinmaya and Chaitanya Bharti usw), and that was in 1970 (not 1971 as on the article page). It hardly matters who was first in that group, so perhaps if she was making a big deal about that, she should get criticized. Otherwise ...

What is Max actually saying about her and her claim? I only have the first edition, maybe i could find it if i knew what else went with it. -- doofus-9 (talk) 07:52, 12 March 2015 (UTC)