--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], t3rinity <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], t3rinity <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Jul 26, 2006, at 10:41 AM, authfriend wrote: > > > > > <snip> > > > > > > > What tradition conferred the title "Maharshi" on > > > > > > > Ramana Maharshi? > > > > > > > > > > > > A saint, a muni IIRC. > > > > > > > > > > I asked what *tradition* conferred the title. > > > > > > > > No tradition or commitee. > > > > > > Hey, Michael, good to see you. Thanks for the info. > > > > > > So we don't know who may first have used the > > > title "Maharishi" for MMY, but apparently the > > > fact that it wasn't officially conferred by > > > representatives of a tradition doesn't somehow > > > make it bogus, as some have been claiming here. > > > > M said that people started to call him like this in the early days > > in Kerala, and that newspapers picked it up. I don't think there is > > a commitee which can confer such titles afaik These are honorary > > names, they aren't fixed titles conferred by anyone. About any > > Sadhu is called Maharaj in India,or Saint, anybody can be called > > Swami, just as a gesture of reference. > > Really? That isn't what Osho suggests. He claims MMY > could not use "Swami" and called himself "Maharishi" in > an attempt to make up for it.
Swami is a different case, as it is used both ways, 1)very loose, just as a nice address even to your rikshaw driver, and 2) its also a traditional title with very clear restrictions, which can only be confered to someone by another Swami of the same tradition. For Maharaj or Maharishi 2) doesn't apply. 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/
