sparaig wrote: > 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. > >From what I've read, Mahesh met Swami Brahmananda Saraswati when Mahesh was still in college, through his uncle Raj Varma, who had been a desciple for a number of years. Apparently Mahesh was working for Brahmananda about a year before the Swami became the Shankaracharya.
Everyone knows that Mahesh Prasad Varma was born in Jabalpur, India, on Friday, 12 January, 1917, and that he became a disciple of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati in April of the year 1940, one year before Swamiji became the Shankaracharya of the North, an event which occured on Tuesday, 1 April 1941, when Maharaj Shree took the seat of the of Jyotishpeeth. >From that time on, Bal Bramhacharya practiced bhakti yoga and served his Master for thirteen years, until Guru Devji attained Mahasamadhi at 1:15 pm on Wednesday, 20 May 1953. That would make Mahesh 90 years old this year. >From the Encyclopedia Brittanica: Little is known of the Maharishi's early life. He studied physics at the University of Allahabad and worked for a time in factories. He later left for the Himalayas, where for 13 years he studied under Guru Dev, the founder of TM. When Guru Dev died in 1952, the Maharishi organized a movement to spread the teachings of TM throughout the world; his first world tour took place in 1959 and brought him to the United States.
