From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sparaig Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 12:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [FairfieldLife] How old IS MMY?
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. He has given his birth info to Purusha to do Jyotish on. And I have friends who have seen his passport. As I recall, 1917 is the correct date.
