--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > The true story from someone who was at the deathbed of Guru Dev: > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdoEduxgRsY > > > > Aha! The old Jiva transfer trick humm, I should have known, > > maybe HE is the true successor, (he kind of sounds like > > inspector Clouseau anyway). > > It *does* sound like quite a trick, especially given > that the first thing that Brahmananda Saraswati's jiva > did in its new body was try to commit suicide, and > follow its old body (SBS's) to the bottom of the Ganges. > One presumes that having gotten a taste of what it was > going to be like living in Maharishi's body, actual > death looked like a better alternative. :-) :-) :-)
OK, I know that the above may strike many as heretical and irreverent, but hey!...that really was my first reaction. I was already anticipating the dogma kerfuffle. I mean, if you're a TB and choose to believe this new story, you've got to reconcile it with other older, more established stories that are already part of the Maharishi canon. The tale of Maharishi throwing himself into the river and trying to follow Guru Dev to his watery grave has been told so many times that few would deny that it is a de facto part of the TM dogma. So, to integrate that famous story (diving into the Ganges in an apparent attempt at suicide) with this new one (the jiva doing the diving was really SBS), it strikes me you've got some 'splaining to do, Lucy. If anyone would like to try to resolve the two stories, and explain how you believe both, I for one am all ears.
