------ Forwarded Message From: Dana Sawyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 12:02:33 -0400 To: Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: The Jyotirmath Shankaracharya Lineage in the 20th Century
The notion that Shantananda was SBS's closest disciple seems to be largely a TMO legend. Interviews I have done with his disciples suggest that he was distant from his disciples emotionally and that emotional closeness wouldn't be a consideration for succession anyway. Most followers were surprised by the will and disputed it immediately - taking the case to court. The will could not be proved invalid and the court, in the first case filed, could not find reason to believe that the public trust under which the case was brought to court had been neglected. This is why Shantananda, always a lame duck because of lack of support from pandits and the other shankaracaryas, was allowed to keep the property. Dana Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Friby mday, July 1, 2005 at 9:49 PM wrote: >One more, but not necessarily the last: > >> >> I believe your origianl point is that no one disputes that S. was >the >> closest diciple to SBS. Is that correct, or did I get it wrong? >> >> If correct, that claim has puzzled me becasue I have never heard >that >> claim ever being made by anybody. I presume your claim that it is >> true, rests on C talking to S. So I guess, if the claim holds, S >said >> this of himself, and C accurately represented the "boast". I just >> can't get too excited about such claims. S seems too modest and >humble >> to have made such a claim. It just doesnt ring true. Regardless, to >> make a claim that he was the closest discile of SBS, would for me, >3-4 >> independent sources. > > >Actually, I think it was from a thread on AMT where ColdBlueIce >asserterted that no-one had ever challanged or attempted to verify >the will, and that Swami Shantananda had based his court claim on >being Gurudev's closest disciple, but I may be incorrect. Regardless, >I did various google searches and can't find a reference to Swami >Shantananda's standing with Gurudev, so I withdraw the assertion >(unless ColdBlueIce (or whoever I heard it from) or someone else who >knows more about the court case speaks up). > > > > > >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 > > > > > > > >------ End of Forwarded Message > > > > ------ End of Forwarded Message 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/
