[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev's deathbed instructions to Maharishi . . .

[Ron]

I looked at the picture, and it certainly is Swami G with, as you 
 
righly say a pujari. Please go also to 
 
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=Swami+G&search=Search and you 
 
can see that it Swami G is an American woman who has taken sannyas 
 
vows. About the stick I am also puzzled, by I don't think its a Danda 
 
(stick often wrapped in an orange cloth) Only Brahmins could become 
 
Danda Swamis. Guru Dev was one, and you can see such a stick on his 
 
photo. It is regarded as a holy symbol. So I suppose it must be some 
 
other tool. 
 
G i wanted it to be the usual plain danda with just the orange cloth
tied around 
it - the sadhu that ushered me into sannyas wanted it fully covered -
so it was - 
you are speaking of the Eka Dandi order - within the orange cloth
wrapping 
are 3 small sticks - 
 
  the danda is symbolic. 
 
  Maha Shanti OM 
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