--- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "Paul Mason" 
> > <premanandpaul@> wrote:
> > >
> > > 'Some people say that having taken a guru you should not make 
> > another. 
> > > But this doctrine is not of the shaastra, this is [just] 
mind's 
> > > imagination. The guru is gone to for [ones own] happiness. Up 
until 
> > > when bhagavad (God, Vishnu, Shiva) is gained, up until then 
you can 
> > go 
> > > and change guru. So then we haven't seen any guru-bhakt 
(follower) 
> > > always studying in the same 'class' of a guru out of fear. 
Actually 
> > it 
> > > is natural to transfer 'class' and to transfer guru. It is not 
> > > disrespectful to the former guru, actually the guru's 
> > dignity/respect 
> > > has been done, but you will go beyond that study if you get 
the 
> > > discipline of new gurus.'
> > > [exerpt of 'Shri Shankaracharya UpadeshAmrita' kaNa 69 of 108]
> > > translation - Paul Mason © 2006
> > > http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/upadesh.htm#changeguru
> > 
> > And you're posting this excerpt because...?
> 
> Considering that MMY isn't a guru to us like Guru Dev was to him, I
> don't see the relevance in a TM context.
>
Excellent distinction!






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