--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 <no_reply@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <LEnglish5@> 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 > > > > > > > > > An elderly man talking about an event from 40 years ago where an even more > > elderly man talked about an event from 20 years before that. > > > > Can't beat that for overall plausibility... > > > > > It also goes against ever story about the will and so on, > > Why is that ? > > not to mention the fact that the guy who was eventually selected to succeed > Gurudev may not have even been present in the room. > > Thats your speculation only. > > > > > There were two people selected by committee to succeed GUrudev. One was > > appointed a few weeks after he died, and one was appointed 30 years after > > HE died. > > Correct, that was stated in Guru Dev's will, but what is your point ? > > > > > THe story is very convoluted and it isn't surprising that almost no-one > > understands all the ins and outs of the public version, letalone whatever > > politickin' went on behind the scenes. > > Well, the story is according to the Maharaja who was present. A very credible > source I would say.
Well, except for the part about the guy who thought he would be Shankaracharya getting upset. The person who eventually was picked by committee wasn't picked until weeks later. It is possible that Swami Swarupananda Saraswati, the guy who was picked thirty years later, thought he would be the new Shankaracharya, but he had only been a student of SBS for a few years at that time, and prior to that he had been a freedom fighter/terrorist/irregular militia fighting the British. Hard to imagine that he thought he was next in line. L.
