--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], new.morning <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], Peter <drpetersutphen@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > There is a an infinity of difference between SSRS and > > > > John Gray and Deepak (but I can't say anything about > > > > Swami Shyam because I've never met him). Also MMY told > > > > SSRS to go out on his own and teach Sudarshan Kriya. > > > > > > > > > > Did he? Or did he just say, "I won't support teaching that through > > the TM organizaiton. If > > > you want to teach that, you're on your own." > > > > The latter is the version that emerged I heard upon asking a number of > > AoL long timers. That SSRS asked M. a number of times to be able to > > teach his kryia in the TMO. M. said now, and finally said, along the > > lines of, "If you want to teach that, go out on your own." > > > > Also, as I heard it, there were other issues and events. At some point > > some pundit boy training programs were shut down. Many/some had no > > place to go. SSRS's father ran a school for such boys. SSRS was drawn > > to help, and stayed for some time to help the boys. So there was some > > time away from the TMO, perhaps a bit disillusioned, preceeding his > > full departure. > > > > He told a story once, that, in same period, I believe, he was at Kumba > > Mela and, amongst other things, talked with a naked sadhu -- > > presumably enlightened. The sadhu was coldly scoffing at SSRS, "you > > are not even naked, what kind of spiritual progress could you possilby > > make?" (or similar). SSRS said at this point he realized that some > > paths may yield enlightenment, but some are cold and hard, and that > > what was neeeded was something to develop enlightenment and the heart. > > I speculate this was another factor in his decision to go out on his own. > > > > And as AnandaMoiMa said to M when M. brought SSRS to meet her, "You > > have brought me the River who will wash away the tears and suffering > > of millions." So M. must have been aware, from this and probably other > > things, that SSRS had a special destiny -- perhaps outside the TMO. > > > > But I wasn't there in person when these events occurred. > > > > So we don't know that any of them occurred as said unless there were witnesses. If SSRS > was so important, is his visit to AnandaMoiMa documented in her online biography? MMY's > visits are documented as ar Gurudev's and Swami Brahmananda Shatananda's (identified as > Shankaracharya of Jyotirmath). DId SSRS, the one who would wash away the tears of > millions, get a mention? >
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