--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 4/5/06 12:30 PM, Richard J. Williams at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > anon_astute_ff wrote: > >> If it is not available to non-initiates how would mahesh > >> know this information? > >> > > By getting himself initiated into the tantric tradition and then > > studying with his master for thirteen years? > > > >> Does his name contain Saraswati? > >> > > Sure, it's Bal, the name given to Mahesh when he was initiated by Guru > > Dev. >
> Doesn't "Bal" mean "boy" - Bal Brahmachari means life celibate, or so I > understood. > ****************** Bala means strength, so a bal brahmachari is a strong celibate, a celibate all his life. In Jyotish, shadbala means "six strengths" of grahas/planets: http://varahamihira.blogspot.com/2004_07_30_varahamihira_archive.html To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
