--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Paul Mason" [...] > > Fortunately though, some wire-recordings and quite a few > > transcripts of his satsangs do exist, so it is still possible to > > fulfil the appeal that 'his elevating discourses may reach the > > masses in every nook and corner of our country and abroad'. > > Of course, this appeal of MMY's was made to > an explicitly religious Hindu audience in India > well before MMY had figured out that the best way > to spread Guru Dev's essential teaching around the > globe was to teach its universal aspects in a > nonsectarian context, as noted. > > > > > Introduction to 'The Teachings of Guru Dev - The Roots of TM' > > - Quotations of Shankaracharya Swami Brahmananda Saraswati > > Compiled by Paul Mason > > at http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/gurudev.htm >
It is interesting to note the contents of Dr. Coplin's footnotes: 22. From an interview with the present Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math, Swami Vishnudevananda Saraswati, in Joshimath, June 11, 1983. Cenkner also states that Maharishi and Swami Shantanand Saraswati, the predecessor of the current Shankaracharya, speak of each other as "gurudeva" and verifies that he "witnessed Swami Shantanand celebrating guru purnima publicly for Maharishi in Delhi." (Cenkner, op. cit., p. 120) 23. In the interview of June 11, 1983, the current Shankaracharya said that Maharishi accompanied his "gurudeva" wherever he went, and that it is due to "his habit of following everything of Guru Deva," "his devoted learning," that he has achieved such knowledge and fame. He used the term "bhavati dhyana yoga" for transcendental meditation. 24. In the interview of June 11, 1983, the Shankaracharya stated that Swami Shantanand, who had voluntarily stepped down from the seat, had visited Maharishi in 1982 and 1983 in Switzerland, Kenya,and China. 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/
