--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" <willy...@...> wrote: > > > > > > 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..."
It has occurred to quite a few people that the real reason Vaj is trying to perpetuate his lie is because he is a "Buddhist". Anything that would create a dispute whithin the Hindu community would make his guru The Dolly Lama probably very happy.