--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Behalf Of BillyG. > > Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 9:29 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] MMY..may be his last puja. > > > > > > > > On MMY channel..the most surreal thing I've ever seen (puja). You've > > got to admit he has dogged determination and incredible dedication > to > > World Peace and Vedic knowledge up to the very end,..... > > > > Talk about eternal optimism...amazing for someone in their 90's! > > > > What about it? Was he really out of it or something? > > If this is the 24-hour puja for Guru Dev, no, > sorry, he knew exactly what he was doing. He > had to have the puja items handed to him by > an assistant, but I think that's because he's > almost if not completely blind and didn't want > to have to grope around. His hands were steady > as a rock, though, and there was no hesitation > whatsoever in the way he handled the items. He > was sitting up straight as a ramrod. > > Why BillyG says it was "surreal," I can't > imagine (unless he was referring to the > raggedness of the group recitation).
It was an amazing *contrast* of fragility and strength......the group thing was also rather somber and seemed to have the feel of a group of people watching a phenomenon taking place right before their very eyes, this wasn't just everyday normal. >
