--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
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> On Behalf Of Richard J. Williams
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 10:37 AM
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to
Maharishi .
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> According to Marshy, the thought of going to 'Rameshwarum'
> was suggested by one of the other sadhus at Uttar Kashi -
> it was not Marshy's idea.
>
> The way he told the story (many times) was that he kept having the
thought
> to go to Rameswaram, which puzzled him, because he had no intention
to leave
> Uttar Kashi, since the yogis there regarded everything beyond the town
> limits as a "sea of mud." After mentioning this thought to a friend
several
> times over a 6 month period, the friend suggested that he "take care
of it,"
> meaning go there and get it out of his system. As we know, he never
> returned.
>
there's a PhD dissertation on the history of the tm mov't that's
online (and I don't remember where I put the link) that states that
MMY accompanied an aunt to the south of india on that first trip to
rameswaram. the guy seems to have done his research and came up with
that fact, which means a whole mythology about the inspiration for
that trip may have come up after the fact. has anyone else heard
about MMY taking a family member with him to rameswaram.
