--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Most sources that I've seen say he just celebrated his 90th birthday, but Dr. Jay Coplin says > he was born in 1912 and joined Gurudev when he was 28, a short time before or after he > became Shankaracharya. http://members.aol.com/drcoplin/ > > > This actually makes more sense: MMY hung around with Gurudev for 13 years starting in > 1940/1941 until his death in 1953, For him to be 90 this year means he was only 23 or 24 > when he joined the monastery which means he had NO life experiences out of college and yet > managed to become the secretary to the Shankaracharya, managing the whole thing, > according to most accounts, within a few short years of leaving college. >
You stopped making sense a long time ago, sparaig Exhibit 1: At the age of 24 Alexander The Great was welcomed as a liberator in Egypt. It happened after he, at 18, became king, united Greece and in a series of epic battles rid the region of several hundred years of Persian rule. Exhibit 2: The brilliant mathematician and political activist Evariste Galois died at the age of 21, after he had been part of a rebellion, spent time in prison and laid the foundation to what today in Mathematics is known as Galois Theory. Exhibit 3: At the age of 24, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, had completed the preparatory work leading up to the launch of Goggle. Exhibit 4: Bill Gates created Microsoft when he was in his early twenties and struck the deal with IBM that made his life when 25. Exhibit 5: This 15-year old may already be enlightened. http//news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4479240.stm
