on 6/19/05 6:13 PM, bbrigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Ammachi, Shree Maa, Karunamayi, Mirabai, Mother Meera, etc. etc. > > > I will presume that none of these ladies are recluses since you are > mentioning Ammachi first, and she is clearly not a recluse. Anyway, > what happens today in India or since the beginning of the Kaliyuga is > not relevant since this is not Vedic India. The Vedic literature does > not indicate that ladies became recluses, except that sometimes a > wife would accompany her husband when they abandoned householder life > and went to live in the forest after their kids were grown up.
All of them are/were involved in teaching, and in most cases, traveling to teach, (add Ananda Moyi Mi to the list), but none are/were householders. So I guess that makes them recluses. Would you say Maharishi is a recluse, or do you distinguish between recluse and monk? 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/
