> > ------ Forwarded Message > From: Dana Sawyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The > "Shankaracaryas" loom large in the imaginations and esteem of TMers in our country but, for better and worse, they are no big deal at all. India works on a guru system; when a person gains a reputation for enlightenment (and none of the current Shankaracaryas has such a reputation) then people flock to them and a movement is galvanized. In India today, Sai Baba is rich and powerful, Ammachi is rich and powerful, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is rich and powerful, but I can take you to meet any one of the Shankaracaryas any day that you want to go because nobody cares about > them. These are the facts.
-------------- That corresponds to my experience. When I was in Puri, I had a taxi driver take me to the math so I could just see it. He prompted me to go in. Virtually no one was there excpept a few attendants and the Shankarachara. I didn't ask for an audience, in fact was quite reluctant to bother him. But the attentants came down and said "the S. will see you." I said, "ok". Similar to kanchi, but there it was a group audience of 40 or so, where the S. did a nice puja. ------------------------ 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/
