The poisoned simply thanks the poisoners for resolving their karma. The poisoners are setting themselves up for the same.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" <emptybill@...> wrote: > > > Poison is the favorite method of killing gurus of opposing sampradaya-s > or even another guru within the same sampradaya. It is usually slipped > into the food while the cook is being distracted by another person and > is carefully measured. > > By Milarepa's time it has spread to Tibet also. If you have ever read > his biography you'll remember that he was poisoned. > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: > > <snip> > > > What always seemed odd to me was that Mahesh occasionally is found > > > worrying about being poisoned or his relatives being poisoned. > > > > > > Why? > > > > Perhaps because that's a common means of murder in > > India? I would imagine a country with a long tradition > > of herbal medicine would probably also have knowledge > > of poisons, and they wouldn't be hard to obtain. > > > > Also perhaps because it would be easier to get to him > > that way? > > > > > That seems odd to me. I always wondered if he had a guilty > > > conscience. > > > > > > Of course the Guru Dev portrait was a major part of his schtick. > > > > I've always assumed that making puja to Guru Dev was > > MMY's way of tacitly acknowledging that his non-Brahmin > > status meant that he couldn't give initiation on his own > > authority, so he bumped the responsibility upstairs, as > > it were. That's why he insisted on the puja prior to > > initiation. IOW, he may well have had a "guilty > > conscience" on that score. > > >
