Peter wrote: > What is the point of this thread? > Does it have to have a point, Peter? Some people just feel better when they have someone to talk to. Is that alright with you, if I talk with some of the TMers on this list?
> You seem to be trying to make some point about MMY that I'm not > getting. > The point is that the Swami Shankaracharya told some fibs to Robert Kropinsky, so I'd like to set the record straight. So, I thought I'd bring the subject up again for discussion. Do you have any comments to make concerning the Mahesh Yogi being the clerk of Jyotirmath? The name Mahesh doesn't appear on any of the Trust's literature and there's no mention of a Mahesh Yogi being in the will as an administrator. If you accept any of the above scenarios - the poison rumor - the clerk rumor - I just don't see how a clerk is going to be sitting on the bed at the point of the demise of a Shankaracharya, or even in the same room with one, for that matter. That is, unless you want to suggest that the Mahesh Yogi was much more than a mere clerk, much more than a secretary, which would contradict the statement by the Swami Swaroopanand in the Kropinsky interview to the effect that Mahesh Yogi was a part-time, low-level, paper pusher of low caste. If so, how did the Mahesh Yogi become so powerful that he could outsmart the Indian press and a whole committee of pundits down in Kashi and get Swami Shantinand on the Gaddi? Go figure.
