Vaj, a Sanskrit Poet of Benares, an "Ashu Kavi" (spontaneous poet), Pt. Veni Madava Sastri 'Shashtrartha Maharathi' wrote verses about Guru Deva in about 1952. But, Guru Dev asked for them to be taken to the river. 'Tie it down with a big stone, heavy, put it in the Ganges!' However, there still exist five verses of Sanskrit verse by this same poet, dedicated to Guru Dev, the fourth of which Maharishi included in the TM puja. These are to be found in Sanskrit and translated into Hindi and English at:- http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/praarthanaa.htm Also posted there is a transcript of the story of the poet & the puja as told by Maharishi on a course in Rishikesh 1969.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradh...@...> wrote: > > You have posted on the textual pieces that make up the TM initiation > puja. I'd also heard the story of the pundit-poet who composed a > tribute to SBS, which on reading it, he asked MMY to throw away. > > Are these two stories connected? i.e. is the TM puja connected to > this same tribute? >
