--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > An elitist superstition codified > > > is no less of an elitist superstition. > > > > Note that he justifies his own non-Shankaracharya-hood > > based on the Jyotish chart... > > I don't think I get your point, if you had one.
Seemed pretty clear to me. If it's based on the Jyotish chart and he wanted to be elitist about it, he could have claimed to be a Brahmin. > Seems to me that to claim that caste is based > on one's Jyotish chart (it's not...it's based > on the caste of the birth parents) That's the traditional way. MMY appears to be saying the traditional way is incorrect. is a way to > claim that one is *eligible* for a position open > only to Brahmans simply because one can find an > astrologer willing to say that the person is a > "Brahman based on his chart." Which MMY did not do. > But all of this is just silly TB stuff. Who on > earth really *gives a shit* whether Maharishi > could have become Shankaracharya, other than a > few TBs who would *like* to believe such fictions > because the fantasy makes them feel more important? As Lawson just pointed out, MMY explained in that talk that he *could not* have become Shankaracharya. If being a TB means you take what MMY says seriously, no TB would suggest MMY could have become a Shankaracharya. Pay attention, Barry. > To me the most fascinating thing is that the people > who do this -- the ones who try to construct some > fantasy world in which Maharishi could have or > should have been Shankaracharya Seems you're the only one here who's even suggesting such a thing. -- are probably > considered by Maharishi *himself* to be lower than > Shudras because they're not even Indian. :-) > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/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/
