--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Marek Reavis" <reavisma...@...> wrote: > > Like you, I've only read the few chapters of Coplin's > dissertation that appear in a google search. I'd like > to read the rest, too. > > And these titles, like referring to Guru Dev as "His > Divinity", all seem to be purely honorific. I hadn't > heard about the use of maharishi as a "pathfinder" > title, but I agree that it's appropriate should that > be so.
The flip side may be that, as I suggested, it would indicate he wasn't claiming either an "official" spiritual rank or to be the successor in a *lineage* per se. I'd bet such subtleties would be fairly obvious to Indians familiar with the spiritual-title game.
