--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Actually casual investigation will show that Guru Dev was very > reluctant to take the post of Shankaracharya. It took twenty years > (!) for him to take it. You are either trying to start a discussion, > or haven't taken the time to challenge your assumptions with some > research." > > This was my point. Before he was Shankaracharya he couldn't > stand to be around people. When they were waving camphor and > ghee lamps in front of him worshiping him as Shankaracharya > he was OK with people.
Or not. For all we know, the entire time he was Shankaracharya, he may have been wishing he were back in the forest by himself communing with God and living on roots and berries. <snip> > Here in DC we can't get our homeless people into shelters > either, even when it is freezing cold. Or they prefer the cold to the dangerous squalor of the shelters.
