For me the really curious thing about the yantra is that before I got instructed in meditation, I had it in my mind that meditation involved looking at some pattern of precious stones. Now where on earth did I get such an idea from?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Mason" <premanandpaul@> > wrote: > > > > Quite, but it would be nice to know where the ruby yantra is now. It > > would be educational to see what it looked like, anyone got an idea > > of how big/small it was. > > Hi, Paul, when I was in India in the 70's I met many people who had > known, visited, paid respect to and even talked to Guru Dev. They > would only roll their eyes and say it was too beautiful to talk about, > meeting and being around Guru Dev, that is. They wouldn't talk about > him beyond that > > They acknowledged that they also remembered Mahesh back then, too. But > they didn't roll their eyes and simply refused to talk about him. > > Personally, I think Mahesh nicked the yantra, prized out the rubies > and whatever other precious stones it might have contained, sold it > all and started a bank account. > > Or, just as reasonably, the present Shankaracharya of Jyotia has it. > > Or, maybe one of Guru Dev's family collected it? > > Or, it went into the box with him, into the Ganges ... or maybe that's > why Mahesh jumped in after the box, he wanted to get the yantra out. > > Or, some other scenario. > > India has many jewel dealers. A friend from Switzerland came to visit > me when I was in India because he was buying and selling precious > stones. Apparently it's quite easy to deal in such things in India > because there aren't so many questions asked. At least there weren't > then. > > Surely it wouldn't be too difficult to do some research into yantras > and other Indian antiquities to get a feeling for what size such > things might be. It seems reasonable that it was smallish, easy to > carry around. Maybe it was about the size of some of the common > Tibetan ritual implements we see at empowerments and such? > 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/
