Unless Kropinski's interview with Swami Swaroopananda Brahmananda is b.s.
(which I don't think it is), Mr. Shrivastava was a clerk, albeit a heavily
favored one. That's the karmic lot of a non-Brahmin in the Hindu religious
vocation: no women allowed ruling in the clubhouse, and most certainly no
clerks. But for my part that's in Mr. Shrivastava's favor. Instead, I view
him as the "Rudy" of Jyotirmath. Have you seen the film? It's a true story.
"Richard J. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Some people
apparently don't even know what The Clerk of Jyotirmath's
family name really is. Only one person, that I know of, and I know a
lot of TMers, has actually seen The Clerks's passport, namely Tom
Anderson, a former TMO Secretary on TTC in Spain, and Tom told me that
the name on the clerk's passport was Shrivastava, not Varma, as
reported on this forum and on Usenet.
There seems to be some confusion on this, but at any rate, it's a moot
point. The point is that there is no evidence that the clerk in
question was even a clerk in the first place.
But a certain dissident wants to call the clerk in question "Little
Shiva" because he thinks the clerk's given name is "Mahesh", which of
course is the nickname of Lord Shiva, not a family name at all.
Apparently the clerk in question has never called himself "Mr.
Maharishi" anyway, which of course isn't a name either but a nickname
as well. Mahesh Yogi has always refered to himself by his given name,
Mahesh, and not even that very frequently.
Maybe it's true that Sri Brahmanandaji called his famous clerk "Little
Shiva". But if Acharya Sri did call the clerk by that name, this would
surely indicate that the clerk was much more than just a
low-caste-paper-pusher, would it not?
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