on 4/6/05 6:29 PM, wayback71 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> ****************** > 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. > As Maharishi told the story, it took about 20 years to convince him to become Shankaracharya. He didn't want to do it and would keep walking away or not showing up when they were going to do the ceremony to make him the Shank. Finally they convinced him to sit still long enough to do it.
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