On Jul 11, 2005, at 1:45 PM, sparaig wrote: > According to what Dana Sawyer said, the will was never ruled invalid > even though it WAS contested in court (I had heard it was not so I'm > happy to take Dana Sawyer's word in this case). This would mean that > Gurudev's student was saying that his own teacher had bad judgement > in the case of Swami Shantananda and since the 2nd and third choices > in the will were apparently never considered by anyone either, by > extension, we can assume that Gurudev's student had no respect for > his teacher's judgement whatsoever...
I think you might need to get some distance from this before you can make an objective determination--if that is what you would like to do. Dana seems to merely be making some brief and to the point remarks. It will be interesting to hear his more detail edremarks later on. His characterization that "The notion that Shantananda was SBS's closest disciple seems to be largely a TMO legend" hit my limited knowledge bulls-eye. Also I believe Sw. Karpatri was offered the Shankaracharya-ship twice--the first time was before Sw. Brahmananda. > Over MMY, SSS, SDS, and anyone else that Vaj doesn't approve the > teachings of... I wonder where you get this stuff sometimes. I'm certain many of the candidates for the Shankaracharya, certainly including Shantananda, would be excellent teachers in their own right. Just because they didn't get this post doesn't mean they stop being realized saints! I get the impression that many see the Mahamandeleshwaris are at least equal, if not in some case more exalted than the role of Shnakaracharya. Indeed some of the Akharas go back to the Treta it is said. 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/
