--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Jul 21, 2006, at 2:29 AM, sparaig wrote:
>
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On Jul 20, 2006, at 6:20 PM, Robert Gimbel wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>> In a message dated 7/20/06 9:51:13 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
> >>>>> sparaig@ writes:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> to see the master
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> walking on the petals who lived in a million dollar stecketo
> >>>>>>
> >>> house
> >>>
> >>>>>> overlookin' the Himalayas."
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Is this an accurate description of MMY's house in Rishikesh?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> Maybe 5 to 10 thousand dollar house over looking the Ganges. Brick
> >>>>
> >>> and
> >>>
> >>>>> concrete, maybe 16,000 square feet at best, plain and simple
> >>>>>
> >>> labor and materials
> >>>
> >>>>> were, and still are, dirt cheap in India. In today's market one
> >>>>>
> >>> could buy a
> >>>
> >>>>> house like that in India for about 20k.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> 16,000 square feet is a VERY large house...
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Yeah, so, I'm not sure, I get what you're saying?
> >>> Is it like: "What's love got to do with it?"
> >>> or something like 'what's a big house on the Ganges, got to do with
> >>> it?
> >>> Still not sure what having a big house has to do with anything?
> >>> What's up with the house?
> >>>
> >>
> >> I think the idea expressed in Lennon's song was, 'wow this guy is
> >> really attached to money, houses and "things".'--how "holy" can he
> >> be?
> >>
> >> Not very.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > And just how attached was Lennon to thse things?
>
> Lennon didn't claim to be a renunciate, a rishi or a yogi.
>
> It's really interesting because in yogic-speak there are two words
> which are used to describe two diametrically opposed modes of being:
> the yogi and the bhogi. The bhogi, the enjoyer of the senses and the
> material is also involved in the world and things and "business":
> wealth. So without really knowing this, Lennon just intuited that he
> was really "Maharishi" Mahesh Bhogi. The Bhogi Man.
>
> bhogin
> 2 mfn. (for 1. see col. 2) enjoying , eating Ma1rkP. Prasan3g. ;
> having or offering enjoyments , devoted to enjñenjoyments , wealthy ,
> opulent MBh. Ya1jn5. Var. &c. ; suffering , experiencing , undergoing
> Kap. ; using , possessing MW. ; m. a voluptuary MW. ; a king L. ; the
> head man of a village L. ; a barber L. ; = %{vaiyAvRtti-kara} (?)
> L. ; a person who accumulates money for a partic. expenditure W. ; N.
> of a prince VP. ; (%{inI}) f. a kind of heroine Bhar. ; the concubine
> of a king or a wife not regularly consecrated with him L.
>
And MMY hasn't claimed to be a renunciate in many decades. He's explicitly
called himself
a householder, as I already pointed out. And he never took sanyasin vows. Even
so, show
me his personal wealth, or his deep pockets or his dozens of Rolls Royces, etc.
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