--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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. > > 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) 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." > > 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? > > 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 -- are probably > considered by Maharishi *himself* to be lower than > Shudras because they're not even Indian. :-) >
It's all almost as silly as naming some 5-year-old peasant boy the Dalai Lama because he can recognize a shoe that the recently- departed Dalai Lama once wore... 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/
