I don't think this can, actually, be figured out. There is no accounting for taste (in music, religion, clothing, food ...) and you simply cannot argue with belief.
So, what one person believes (we must remember, for starters, that Sir Isaac Newton, fantastic thinker, held some incredibly strange beliefs) simply makes no sense to another. Maybe Newton's strange beliefs are not so strange, depending upon whom you ask. At one time, many, many really well-educated persons thought very, very highly of Maharishi ... but as he and his organization began to become increasingly peculiar (just to understand the point), they began to think otherwise. Some really like "peculiar" and others do not. My own thought, worth something to me, but that may be it, is that people have to find what works for them. If it is in conflict with those around them, well, there lies the rub! G --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, you may not trust the Indian courts, but the uncle of me old > friend, Anoop Chandola, is a highly placed priest in Northern India, > and arranged for his nephew to visit with the Shankaracharya of the > North. When he arrived, he was asked WHICH Shankaracharya he wanted > to speak to and decided to go with the court-annointed one --the one > who lived in Gurudev's official quarters, rather than down the road. > > While he was there, he asked that particular Shankaracharya (who had > just initiated him into meditation) if that Maharishi who was with > the Beatles was legitimate. That particular Shankaracharya laughed > and said, "He was my first choice for my sucessor, but they wouldn't > allow it due to the caste laws." > > Go figure. > > --- In [email protected], gerbal88 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > His passport identified him as Bal Brahmachari Mahesh. > > > > Bal indicates that this is a "life" situation, as in for-life. > > > > It would be interesting to know just how one goes from a life- > > brahmachari (bal-brahmachari) to identifying onself as a "maha" > Rishi (...) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
