--- In [email protected], "Marek Reavis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bob, I'm positive that it's Maharishi speaking, not Guru Dev. At > first I thought it was Guru Dev, too, but it's only because Maharishi > so very much sounds like Guru Dev; lots of the same inflections and > stresses, but Maharishi's voice is a bit higher register. Also, about > halfway through he laughs and the laugh seems unmistakeably Maharishi's. > > In any case, it's definitely not Guru Dev's talk about the salt statue > going to measure the ocean's depth; I've listened to that scores of > times and know it well. > > Thanks to Paul Mason for uploading it to YouTube. > > ** >
*********** Well, Paul Mason, in a reply at the youtube posting, sez it is GD -- here's the exchange: Who is speaking on this video -- is it Guru Dev? (Reply) PremanandPaul (1 day ago) The soundtrack of this film is a 'wire-recording' of Guru Dev giving a lecture. Other recordings of Guru Dev speaking and singing are posted as mp3s on his webpages, try a search engine and type: Guru Dev Recordings (Reply) divineinanna (1 day ago) Can you supply any date or location of the footage? (Reply) PremanandPaul (1 day ago) Guru Dev film and audio from circa 1950-51, North India. Judging from what Guru Dev is saying on the audio recording he was not very far from the birthplace of Sita (i.e. Mithila), so possibly the ancient city of Patna, or maybe Lucknow (where the filmstock and wire- recordings were found), or perhaps even Varanasi (where Guru Dev had his main ashram). > --- In [email protected], bob_brigante <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "george_deforest" > > <george.deforest@> wrote: > > > > > > > do.rflex wrote: > > > > > > > > Guru Dev video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxh2Txy9_C4 > > > > Thanks to Paul Mason. > > > > > > one question: > > > who is the narrator, and what is he saying ... is it > > > Guru Dev speaking ?? > > > > > > also, cameo of young Maharishi, at about 2:20 > > > > > > > > > *********** > > > > It's Guru Dev speaking, possibly this is what he's saying -- > > recordings of him were rare: > > > > "In a rare wire recording of Swami Brahmananda Sarasvati, he says > > that it is easy for the mind to reach the paramatma (that which is > > beyond the Atman) but the experience cannot be expressed. He gives > > the example of a statue made of salt. You can put it in the sea and > > it will go deep down into the water without any difficulty. It will > > melt in the sea. If you ask the statue to say anything about the sea > > (the experience) like how deep it was, etc. it is very difficult! > > Like that the mind experiences the paramatma and becomes immersed in > > it. It cannot speak about the experience of becoming the paramatma. > > If it can then it has not really experienced it." > > > > http://tinyurl.com/yodp3x > > >
