"Richard J. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jonathan Chadwick
wrote:
> ...but swarupanad is legit _ sbs created him too
>
According to the terms of Brahmanand's will, the Jyotirmath succussor
was Swami Shantinand. No mention in the will of a Swami Swaroopanand.
At any rate, Swami Swaroopanand is not a succusor to Brahmanand . . .
Well at least Mahesh Yogi is not a succesor to SBS because it was his karma
not to be one: Mahesh Yogi is not a Brahmin. And to defeat that proposition
you have to argue against the whole of Hinduism: I suppose that's one sense of
what I mean by "legit." The following is from Paul Mason's website:
Swami Swaroopananda was born Pothiram Upadhyay in 1924, in the Jabalpur area
of Madhya Pradesh. At nine years old he left home to visit the holy places of
India, including Varanasi where he eventually studied with Swami Karpatri (aka
Hariharananda Saraswati), a disciple of Guru Dev Swami Brahmananda Saraswati.
At 19 years old he became a freedom fighter in the 'Quit India' movement (1942)
and was known as 'Revolutionary Sadhu' (serving two prison sentences for same
of 9 months & 6 months). In 1950 Guru Dev made him a dandi sannyasi.
After Guru Dev's passing in 1953, Swarupanand took up with a new guru, Swami
Krishnabhodashram ji Maharaj. Krishnabhodashram was established as Guru Dev's
successor by Swami Karpatri, so he was a rival to Swami Shantanand Saraswati
who also claimed the title of Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math.
Swami Swarupanand became president of the 'Ramrajya Parishad Party' (set up
by Swami Karpatri), and on Krishnabhodashram's demise the post of
Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math passed to Swami Swarupanand. There are now two
Shankaracharya ashrams in Joshimath, Swami Swaroopanand's being on the site of
Trotakacharya's cave, just below the ashram that Guru Dev Swami Brahmanand had
built in the 1940's.
In 1982 Swami Swaroopanand inherited the title of Shankaracharya of Dwarka.
His name has been linked with the politics of the Congress Party and is
perceived to have been an ally of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and a
friend to Sonia Gandhi.
Contact details for Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati:
Shri Vidhya Math, Kedarghat, Varanasi, 221001, Uttar Pradesh. INDIA
Sri Rajarajeswari Mandir, Paramhansi Ganga, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh 482 002,
INDIA.
Sharda Peeth, Dwarika, Gujarat, INDIA
*
Transcripted excerpts, pertinent to the lifestory of Guru Dev Shankaracharya
Swami Brahmanand Saraswati, from an interview of Shankaracharya of Dwarka,
Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati, by Robert Kropinski in Vrindaban, India, 1985.
Shankaracharya Swaroopanand Saraswati: I was also his disciple, Brahmanand
Saraswati's. He was my Guru. He would not accept any offerings from his
disciples.
Disciple should be such that he gives to his Guru everything. Then nothing
belongs to the disciple, everything is Guru's. Guru should be such that he does
not take anything from the disciple. He thinks only good of his disciple.
Q: My Lord, Shankaracharya Brahmananda Saraswati Ji Maharaj, who is our
pujyapaad (whose feet are worthy of our respect), who is brahmaleen (absorbed
in Brahma, the omnipresent form of God) who is presiding over the Jyotirpith,
who is the teacher of the entire universe - that he used to instruct mantras to
his disciples. I would like to know which mantras were those?
Shankaracharya: The Lord, Shankaracharya Brahmananda Saraswati Ji Maharaj
strictly adhered to the varna (caste) and ashram (four stages of life) systems.
He believed in one's varna by birth. Whosoever came to him to become a
disciple, he used to ask him which form of God he was in love with. Whichever
form the new disciple had an interest in, that form he would explain to the new
disciple. [Guru Dev] used to explain, either you should depend on your own
inclination or else, he, after understanding your previous life and which form
of God you worshipped then, would instruct the initiate accordingly.
Q: Brahmananda Saraswati did not charge any fees when he used to initiate?
Shankaracharya: This is a principle. A quotation from Goswami Tulsidas:-
"The guru who charges or takes money from his disciples in return for
initiation, steals disciple's property and goes to damnable hell."
For that reason Gurudeva used to give upadesha (initiation) without any fees.
He used to say "If I accept any gift from the disciple (or fees), then his sins
are transmitted to me."
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But the point is: I do the program every day; and mMy - whatever his given
name is - is Rudy. He's great. Hagelin's great. It's Hinduism that's "a
mess." Is the ME for real? You better believe it. But I don't have to
believe it in order to do my progam, experience the benefits, and grow stronger
each & every day. As Geoff Wells used, "you can just to believe it enough to
do it."
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