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> on 6/13/05 11:17 AM, akasha_108 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>>
> >> Good question. Why should her presence have bothered him if he had
> > evenness
> >> of vision, particularly with regard to women?
> >
> > I am not sure I see the connection. SBS apparently never allowed
women
> > in his presence. Do you beleive he had evenenss of vision?
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In the bio of Guru Dev, The Whole Thing, The Real Thing, it's pointed
out that he never had private audiences with women. I always assumed
it was because he had early on made that part of his sadhana and it
was just his long-standing habit. Maybe there was some caution on his
part, too. In the one movie of him there are women and children in
attendance in the audience at one of his public satsangs.
Adi Shankaracharya's great hymn, the title of which I forget but it
has the refrain "Shivoham, Shivoham" ("I am Shiva, I am Shiva"), was
allegedly inspired by Shankaracharya returning from bathing in the
Ganges along with his four disciples and is confronted on the road by
an outcaste along with his four dogs. The disciples order the man to
remove his unclean presence from the path of Shankaracharya and the
man asks "who" it is that they expect to move, the individual who is
merely an appearance of Maya and therefore illusory or the indwelling
Self which is present everywhere and therefore cannot move at all?
Apparently, at this point Shankaracharya tells the man that the wisdom
his question expresses is such that, outcaste or brahmin, he is worthy
of obesiance. Then the outcaste is revealed to be Shiva, Himself, and
the 4 dogs the 4 vedas, etc., etc.
But until the outcaste showed "His" evenness of vision, Shankaracharya
treated him according to caste customs and prejudices. The answer
just doesn't seem to be in the relative world which allows any and all
activities regardless.
Marek
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