--- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mar 9, 2007, at 10:37 AM, authfriend wrote: > > > How many of these homeless guys, if you plucked > > them off the street, dressed them up in robes, > > gave them a fancy house with lots of servants, > > and appointed them the leader of, say, a prominent > > Christian denomination, would actually end up > > fulfilling the expectations for a person in such a > > position? > > Sounds like the rajas--don't forget the fancy hats and bagpipes. > > False comparison--they didn't grow up that way, Judy. GD > obviously was exposed to that if he was from the Brahmin > class, as I believe you and others have maintained.
So you're saying that any homeless guy who was raised in a devout Catholic household to the age of 9, when he left home for the streets, would be able to successfully perform the role of archbishop when he was installed in middle age? > And what expectations did he fulfill? You're once again just > projecting. Well, no, I seem to have a little more familiarity with the duties and responsibilities of a Shankaracharya than you do. See another post to Curtis for more details. Is there some kind of laundry list of things a guru is > supposed to do? Shankaracharya, not just guru, Sal. Again, it's like being an archbishop. Of course not, they just make it up as they go along, > and then one of their followers calls whatever it is they've done, > "accomplishments." > Sal >
