--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The recognized Shankaracharya (the one most here seem to prefer) > referred to MMY as an ashram clerk. The rumor was that this clerk > managed to conspire with a cook to kill Gurudev. AFter the will > wasproduced, this clerk was so powerful as to get the first guy on > the list proclaimed Shankaracharya overthe protestations (if you > believe what everyone here appears to) liaterally everyother disciple > of Gurudev besides MMY and the cook. >
The cook was Shantanand, I beleive, who was first on the list, and became Shankarachara -- so it was a bit more interesting, with a thicker plot -- than your account suggests. Don't mistake this as an endorsement of all of the rumored details of said plot. But I think that Shantanand was GD's cook is the best established of the facts. And MMY was his clerk, aka secretary. And it appears from some testimony regarding the will, that GD was not very lucid in his last days. Plausibly the effect of sudden poisons introduced. I am not sure "power", as you argue, would be the issue in this circumstance, tho again i am not arguing for the validity of the "plot". But hypothetically, if a signed "list" appeared, it would give enough nominal clearance during the chaos of GD's passing, to enable a new shankaracharaya to be rushed into GD's quarters. Which is what happened. Then it became a game of "possession is 9/10s of the law". And GD's clerk or secretary would be the person to prepare such a list. And could have had GD sign it, at GD's request, or in the confusion of his non-lucidity, if that occurred. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
