on 5/31/05 10:48 AM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On May 31, 2005, at 11:34 AM, Rick Archer wrote: > >> The book is probably wrong. It's quite certain that he was born near >> Allahabad in 1917. By his own account, he hadn't finished college yet >> when >> he met Guru Dev and he joined Guru Dev's ashram when he graduated. He >> may >> have had a summer job in a factory at one point. > > I wonder if the allegation that he didn't graduate till age 31 is true?
Never heard that one, but someone could do a timeline. If he was born in 1917 and spent 13 years with Guru Dev, who died in 1953, he must have joined him in 1940 when he would have been 23. As the "headlight" story goes, he met him on the veranda before that, but was told to finish college. Maharishi said that when he first met Guru Dev, he wasn't Shankaracharya, but had become Shankaracharya by the time Maharishi joined his ashram. It must be a matter of public record when he became Shankaracharya, so that would help to fill out the timeline. Allahabad University must also have records of Maharishi's academic career there. Maybe someone could dig up a yearbook for the class of 1939 or 1940. 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/
