--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?
MMY once referred to himself as a householder when asked. It was on one of the more common tapes. Interestingly enough most people don't remember this. He had the most peculiar look on his face when he answered, as though he had never thought of the question in the context it was asked... 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/
