Guru Dev is Santa for adults. Nice post.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "boo_lives" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <drpetersutphen@> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > --- boo_lives <boo_lives@> wrote: > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister > > > > <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > IMO, he looks a bit sad or worried in most > > > > > of these pics: > > > > > > > > > > http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/photogallery.htm > > > > > > > > > > I guess he knew what the world would have to go > > > > through > > > > > during the 20th century. > > > > > > > > > Or how MMY would start selling supernormal powers > > > > and Enlightenment at > > > > $1 million a pop to spiritual gullible americans, > > > > all proceeds going > > > > into an offshore account in the jersey islands named > > > > Brahmananda > > > > Saraswati Trust, which finances real estate > > > > development and lavish > > > > lifestyles of the varma/srivasta clans. > > > > > > Slam dunk!! > > > > > I guess I never figured that Guru Dev is that weak, blind and stupid- > > - > > > > That a saint who could make himself dynamically known to many after > > his bodily death, who apparently organized a massive yagya to end > > world war two, who manifested money out of the ether, who lived > > unaided in the forest from the age of nine, would be incapable of > > using his highly developed intuition to pick a worthy successor to > > spread his message, one who he even provided with the mantras useful > > for the world, on his deathbed? > > > > Of all those who he could of chosen, at his pinnacle of wisdom and > > popularity as Shankaracharya of the North, of all of those attracted > > to him, he choses someone who is greatly flawed, to destroy and cast > > doubt on all of his work? > > > > Sorry, but I ain't buyin' it.:-) > > > There is no evidence that GD choose MMY to be his successor - tmers > believe that based on what MMY has said not anything objective. > There's a huge decades long controversy over who GD's official jyotir > math successor was, where there is some record, and there's no record > at all regarding MMY. GD did not give MMY tm mantras - as has been > documented MMY started teaching TM in india with the mantra raam given > to everyone, later changed to bij mantras, and changed the criteria > for selecting bij mantras at least a couple times. The deathbed story > is believed by tmers and makes a great dramatic story. You can > believe whatever you want, as long as you understand you're using your > own spiritual movement's beliefs/stories/myths to support your > argument, which doesn't have much weight on those who aren't a part of > it. Every guru with a marketing orientation has a story about how he > is the official successor/reincarnation of/avatar of/ etc. of some > prior esteemed guru. Anti-tm people from GD's ashram have their own > stories about how GD warned the ashram about MMY's ambition and to > keep him on the business side and out of the teaching side of the > ashram, and how MMY fooled with the will, etc. That's their stories - > they have the same objective weight as TM TB stories. > > MMY certainly has been successful in drawing in people to meditation > and in raising money. Still a pretty large group in ffld doing his > thing. I don't know if that says anything about GD or what he would > think about it. > > I don't know much about GD from non TM sources. He appears to have > practiced a tradition called shri vidya. My personal opinion is that > GD's true lineage is being upheld by someone trained and selected > while GD was in the forest, not while in his public formal role as a > religious ashram leader. >
