--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Jun 17, 2005, at 9:17 PM, akasha_108 wrote: > > > > > Regardless, as I have understood it, Shantananda was asked to step down due to his lack of qualifications. Which he did. And his successors have been banned from using the title Shankaracharaya. > His linneage does not appear to have much power or respect other than from the TMO.
> > I believe what you describe is accurate. The letter from one of the Kaplans also mentions that M. had a particular Shankaracharya--who was not the real Shankaracharya-- > Who says? No-one disputes that Shantananda was Gurudev's oldest and > most favorite student amongthe Sanyasi. I think people do dispute that. Swararoopa (sp) for one. Dana Sawyer -- a prof of Asian Studies, fluent n Hindi, and former TMer, is a good, if not definitive source on this. He has interviewed many directly on these issues, and had dug through original court documents. He has had some of his comments posted here -- and they should be in the archives. Perhaps Rick has copies in his personal archives and can repost. > that he sent students to. I am assuming he > > was referring to Shantananda and possibly his successor. So there > was some deception going on regarding this trip. > I see, so the courts agreeing that Swami Shantanada was the genuine > Shankaracharya should be ignored? The current courts have rejected the current head of Shantananda's lineage and have denied him use of the term Shankaracharaya. So your reference to the courts I believe goes back to the 50's and is not current. (And as i remember vaguely, the ealier court ruling was not as black and white as you indicate. The will was in dispute in that SBS never had it registered. It suddently appeared after his death. Suspicion was that it was created or doctored up after the fact. Can you cite the specific ruling you are referring to -- all its parts. ) None of the other Shankaracharayas will sit with the current personage representing that linneage. And I believe they would not sit with Shantananda or Vasu ... Not being able to sit with the "quarum" of Shankaracharayas is viewed as the ultimate rejection, in my understanding. > > > > > > But he was I sweet man I hear. > > > > Yeah I heard many good stories and his writings are very nice. > > So what is YOUR problem with Shantananda's "qualifications" if you > like what he writes? That he supprted MMY? Lots of people can be very sweet, write nice things, but that does not necessarily qualify them to be Shankaracharaya. My understanding that Shantananda was never viewed as qualified, but took on the seat, similtaneously while another "candidate" also took over the seat, and they fought it out in the courts for decades, with the recent decision being the definitive one: denying the validity of the Shantananda lineage. And in time Shantananda agreed that he was not qualifed and stepped down. Indeed he was alive for some years after he stepped down. 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/
