Jonathan Chadwick wrote: > 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. > So, you're saying, that according to the Shankaracharya of Dwarka, the Mahesh Yogi was the favored clerk of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, and that the clerk's name was Shrivastava.
> 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. > So, the clerk Mahesh was of low caste, like a woman, and wasn't allowed inside the house of the Swami Brahmanand. > But for my part that's in Mr. Shrivastava's favor. > And that the clerk's name was not Mahesh Varma. So, the lowly paper-pusher, although just a clerk, was one of the last people to see the Swami when he was alive, and was in fact sitting in the Swami's room in Calcutta at the time of the Swami's untimely demise, and the Swami called him his "Little Shiva". Then somehow, the clerk got ahold of the Swami's body, put it on a train, and took it back to Varanasi, put it in a trunk and sunk it in the Ganges River right in front of a big crowd of people. Then, the clerk went to the Jyotirmath Ashram and retrieved the late Swami's will and installed his Guru Dev's successor on the Gaddi, right in front of thousands of officials and devotees, which was reported in the Indian press citing the actions of one Mr. Varma. Now the Swami Swaroopanand cannot even set foot in the Jyotirmath Ashram. That's quite an achievement for a mere clerk! Now the clerk is a billionaire and more famous than the Swami of Dwarka and Mahesh's following makes the Swami Swaroop's camp look like an ant hill. Yet all you have to say is that the clerk's name was Shrivastava, not Varma, like it says on his passport. Go figure.
