on 3/26/05 6:32 AM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mar 26, 2005, at 1:09 AM, Rick Archer wrote: > >> No one can be a personal guru to the masses, but you're kidding >> yourself if >> you don't think he had a very close guru/diciple relationship with the >> inner >> circle > > The guru-disciple relationship is a formal one and not merely indicated > by proximity. > > Do you have any evidence that formal guru-sishya initiation took place? > He did initiate some westerners into Brahmacharya with an elaborate ceremony. I don't know about formal definition of guruhood. I suppose that by some definitions, Maharishi was never a guru to anyone.
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