sparaig wrote: > There are alternate spellings of "Jyotirmath," you know. > There is "Joshimutt", and "Jyotirmath", and "Jyotishpeeth" as well. However, in a Google searche of "Shankaracharya" there are very few mentions of the Maharishi or the TMO.
FYI for interested readers: There is a wealth of information about Maharishi's relationship to the Shankaracharya of Jyotirmath on Usenet. Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental From: Richard Williams Date: 7 Jun 2005 22:20:39 Subject: THE Shankaracharya of Jyotirmath http://tinyurl.com/38z92g William Cenkner, the author of the scholarly work, 'Shankara and the Jagadgurus Today', makes the point that the successor of Swami Brahmanada is Swami Shantanand and he describes the the Dasanami tradition in some detail. Shankaracharya: http://tinyurl.com/2agcuz The latest news about the current Shankaracharya of Jyotirmath, Swami Vasudevanand Saraswati: 'Sects take place of religion: Shankaracharya' Central Chronicle, Thursday March 1, 2007 http://www.centralchronicle.com/20070301/0103102.htm Jagatguru Shankaracharya Swami Vasudevananda Saraswati said that we should give our identity as unity in adversity.
