>
> --- In [email protected], "wayback71" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > :
> > >
> > > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > > > on 4/6/05 7:16 AM, jim_flanegin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I completely agree. What I was exploring in that larger
> message
> > > was a
> > > > > logical link between Guru Dev's desire to enlighten the Earth
> and
> > > His
> > > > > selection of MMY to do so.
> > > >
> > >
> > > > Did Guru Dev have a desire to enlighten the earth, and did he
> > > select MMY to
> > > > do it?
> > >
> > > ******************
> > Bob Brigante wrote:
> > > There was no reason for Guru Dev to abandon his life of bliss in
> the
> > > forest unless it was his intention to give householders of the
> world
> > > the opportunity to enjoy that bliss, too.
> >
>
>
> > Bob, you must be joking around again! How do you know that this is
> the ONLY reason
> > Guru Dev would leave the forest? He might have had a few other
> reasons to decide to
> > become Shankaracharya.
> >
>
>
> Oh, come on, he liked the incense and the public acclaim? It's
> ridiculous, he had avoided contact with people just as much as
> possible for many years (the little book about his life reminds us
> that for a sage, "solitude is the only blessedness"
> http://www.kevincarmody.com/vedic/brahmananda.html ), refusing to
> take the post as Shankaracharya until Maharishi came of age, and was
> available as his disciple.
>
> It could not have been his mission to speak out a lot of Vedic wisdom
> like the founder of his order of monks, Shankara, because Guru Dev
> spoke very little. His sole mission was to create an emissary to
> enlighten the householder world. It was unnecessary for Guru Dev to
> say much of anything -- there is already a ton of Vedic literature,
> by Shankara, Vasistha, Vyasa and the other sages -- the need of the
> times was to make available a simple mechanical means of raising
> one's consciousness without moving into a cave like Guru Dev did
> (Vedic knowledge without expanded awareness is like having a map
> without a light, it simply can't be understood), and that's exactly
> what MMY did to pay his gurudakshina (preceptor's fee) to Guru Dev.
>
> Bob
> http://geocities.com/bbrigante/updates.html
I'm speechless. All I can say in response is that you are an unwavering
devotee with your
own unique style of thinking (and I am glad it includes humor).
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