On Mar 16, 2007, at 2:05 PM, qntmpkt wrote:
--I doubt that you'll be able to collect any dirt on Ramana Maharshi. He's "impeccable" as to moral standards....in the same category as Guru Dev.
The only dirt on Ramana is that HE IS DIRT. He's dead. Long gone. My impression of Ramana (having watched his DVD) is that he was an average yogi with a semi-extraordinary life who just happened to awaken at a time when communication systems allowed him to jump to worldwide notoriety. Don't get me wrong, I like Ramana, but in the larger picture he was just a realizer showing up at the right place at the right time. There were hundreds or thousands of realizers we never, ever heard about. He had good interdependent supporting factors. Sadly now his legacy is used support various neo-advaitins.
The only with problem Ramana and other dead advaitins is how they are misappropriated by current sadhakas as rationales for their own "look at me, I'm enlightened schemes." Not that that was ever anything Ramana supported, but 'dead Ramana' plays poster boy for alotta Pseudo-advaitins who are hangin'out their satsang shingle at Ramana's expense. It's like this poor guy's corpse is hauled out every now and then when someone wants to use him.
