> > Actually, in the rumor spread by the Swami > > Prakashanand Saraswati, Mahesh was NOT the > > *leading suspect* - it was the Jyotirmath > > Ashram 'cook'. > > Vaj: > Not "the" leading suspect, "a leading suspect". > Apparently this whole 'poison' rumor was made up by the Svarupanand camp, in their effort to gain control of the Jyotirmath Ashram. And then the rumor was perpetuated by you and Perino on the internet.
There's no mention of this incident anywhere else than I can determine. At one point you claimed that the poison rumor originated with the Swami Rama of the Himalayas, but, on a re-read, I saw nothing in the Swami's book, 'Living With the Himalayan Masters', about a Shankaracharya 'poisoning'. /FairfieldLife/message/181696 It's very difficult to keep things like an actual assassination of a Shankaracharya secret in India! I've been corresponding with various insider TMers for over forty years and the first I heard about this was on Usenet in 2001. The rumor wasn't mentioned by John Knapp or Mike Doughney. You, being in the Prakashanand-Svarupanad 'inner circle' of yogis would of course know more! LOL! So, I have come to the conclusion that you're the main source of the rumor - which is not very 'yogi' like, to say the least! About on the same 'yogi level' as Judith and her book. So, I wonder why Judith didn't mention the poison rumor? Go figure. "An old friend of mine, Professor Anoop Chandola, learned meditation from the Shankaracharya of the North that supported Maharishi. He laughed at the idea that Gurudev had been murdered. There was controversy over his death, but the blame was concerning whether or not he should be moved, not whether or not he was poisoned in the first place. As Professor Chandola pointed out, Gurudev was the foremost spiritual leader of India in the first part of the 20th Century (and MMY for the second half) and there would have been riots in the street if anyone seriously thought he'd been assasinated..." Read more: Subject: Re: The poisoning of a Shankaracharya Author: Lawson English Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: January 24, 2003 http://tinyurl.com/34pc448
