Luna Tarlo, mother of Andrew Cohen, had the opportunity to observe HWL Poonja right after Poonja declared that Andrew Cohen was enlightened, and then told Cohen to go out and 'Start a revolution amongst the young!"
Andrew Cohen summoned his mother to India right after Poonja zapped him.
Here is Tarlo's description of her first encounter with Poonja.
Luna Tarlo, The Mother of God pp. 59 to 60.
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Next, Tarlo described meeting Poonja's adult daughter.
The Mother of God pp 59 to 60
Andrew Cohen summoned his mother to India right after Poonja zapped him.
Here is Tarlo's description of her first encounter with Poonja.
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"The next morning, Poonja knocked on the door of our room at about eleven a.m. He was unusually tall with strong features and intense dark eyes. As soon as Andrew introduced us, Poonja pointed at him, looked at me, and announced, "He is my son!" (Tarlo's italics)
"We all sat down and chatted a bit. Poonja treated me with such extreme deference that I had to continually control the impulse to look behind to see if he was addressing someone else. It made me uncomfortable, yet I was flattered by the attention. When he left, Andrew asked me what I thought.
"He has a lot of charisma, " I said "and he seems a very powerful man but we were together for only half an hour. I don't know him."
"Believe it or not, Poonja and I might be the only two people in the whole world doing the work we're doing" Andrew said.
This was so dumfounding I couldnt react to it. The only two? The pretension of it all sounded quite mad. Still I have to admit, part of me wanted to believe it, crazy as it seemed.
Luna Tarlo, The Mother of God pp. 59 to 60.
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Next, Tarlo described meeting Poonja's adult daughter.
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"In the evening, we went to Poonja's daughter for dinner. She and her family lived above their photography shop in a dingy apartment....The meal had to have required considerable labor. It consisted of numerous courses, each more exquisite than the last. After she'd served us, Poonja's daughter, a plain looking, shabbily dressed woman, sat at another table at the other end of the room as if she were a servant and not on an equal footing with us. The rest of the family was out of sight.
Andrew had informed me that Poonja's daughter had been enlightened by Ramana Maharshi years before.
We ate in silence.
"You say she's enlightened?" I asked Andrew later.
"Yes, I told you."
"But she acts like a maid. And she works like a dog, as far as I can see."
"She doesn't mind. It's her life. She accepts it."
(Luna Tarlo thought) "I didn't say anything. I didn't know what to say. I was aghast at my once tenderhearted son saying that it was all right for Poonja's daughter to live like that.
The Mother of God pp 59 to 60