on 4/6/05 6:45 PM, Bob Brigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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 > You may be right Bob, but these are theories. Your opinions. Surely you must be aware of the distinction between opinion and established fact. The thing that gets everyone's goat here is that the tone of your expression makes it sound like you are asserting your opinions as absolute truth. Are you really as dead sure of things as you appear to be, or is this electronic medium causing us to misinterpret your tone?
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