--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wayback71" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > : > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > on 4/6/05 7:16 AM, jim_flanegin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > > I completely agree. What I was exploring in that larger message > > was a > > > > logical link between Guru Dev's desire to enlighten the Earth and > > His > > > > selection of MMY to do so. > > > > > > > > Did Guru Dev have a desire to enlighten the earth, and did he > > select MMY to > > > do it? > > > > ****************** > Bob Brigante wrote: > > There was no reason for Guru Dev to abandon his life of bliss in the > > forest unless it was his intention to give householders of the world > > the opportunity to enjoy that bliss, too. >
> Bob, you must be joking around again! How do you know that this is the ONLY reason > Guru Dev would leave the forest? He might have had a few other reasons to decide to > become Shankaracharya. > Oh, come on, he liked the incense and the public acclaim? It's ridiculous, he had avoided contact with people just as much as possible for many years (the little book about his life reminds us that for a sage, "solitude is the only blessedness" http://www.kevincarmody.com/vedic/brahmananda.html ), refusing to take the post as Shankaracharya until Maharishi came of age, and was available as his disciple. It could not have been his mission to speak out a lot of Vedic wisdom like the founder of his order of monks, Shankara, because Guru Dev spoke very little. His sole mission was to create an emissary to enlighten the householder world. It was unnecessary for Guru Dev to say much of anything -- there is already a ton of Vedic literature, by Shankara, Vasistha, Vyasa and the other sages -- the need of the times was to make available a simple mechanical means of raising one's consciousness without moving into a cave like Guru Dev did (Vedic knowledge without expanded awareness is like having a map without a light, it simply can't be understood), and that's exactly what MMY did to pay his gurudakshina (preceptor's fee) to Guru Dev. Bob http://geocities.com/bbrigante/updates.html > > > very receptive disciple who had a Western education and spoke > > English: Maharishi. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
