--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote:
>
>
>
> > > Your guru, Swami Rama of the Himalayas, who
> > > is survived by one daughter and two sons?
> > >
> Joe:
> > I see. It's "my guru's better than your guru"
> > time for Wee Willy.
> >
> You don't have to get so upset. So, yo
> > Your guru, Swami Rama of the Himalayas, who
> > is survived by one daughter and two sons?
> >
Joe:
> I see. It's "my guru's better than your guru"
> time for Wee Willy.
>
You don't have to get so upset. So, you wanted to
be a spiritual teacher, but things just didn't
work out for you. Th
I see. It's "my guru's better than your guru" time for Wee Willy.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote:
>
>
>
> > > Among the dashanami the "giri" line
> > > accepts non-brahmana.
> > >
> Vaj:
> > Who's a good example of a Shankaracharya
> > who was non-Brahmin E.? Anyone r
> > Among the dashanami the "giri" line
> > accepts non-brahmana.
> >
Vaj:
> Who's a good example of a Shankaracharya
> who was non-Brahmin E.? Anyone recent or
> historical that you could share?
>
Your guru, Swami Rama of the Himalayas, who
is survived by one daughter and two sons?
"Swami R
s.com
Sent: Tue, July 13, 2010 9:15:26 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Divindra and Sattyanand
Mike,
I can't say 100% certanty that there is no relation. However, I probably would
have heard about it as I am very close friends with a number of his direct
disciples.
Up until the very end of M
As far as I am aware, Shankaracharyas are chosen by the various councils
of brahmana-s and Shankaracharyas are Brahmanas. The fact that the
Shankaracharyas are chosen by councils and counter-councils explains the
disputed quality of most of these Shankaras.
Roman Catholics and Orthodox ecclesia
be a very special man,
> but
> a man very good at putting on a show. Still love him though!
>
>
>
> ____
> From: randyanand
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tue, July 13, 2010 1:44:13 PM
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Divindra and Sat
st enjoying my retirement, taking it as it comes.
From: Vaj
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, July 13, 2010 3:36:47 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Divindra and Sattyanand
On Jul 13, 2010, at 2:59 PM, Mike Dixon wrote:
Yes, he did give form
On Jul 13, 2010, at 6:56 PM, emptybill wrote:
>
> True for some but not all.
>
> Among the dashanami the "giri" line accepts non-brahmana.
Who's a good example of a Shankaracharya who was non-Brahmin E.? Anyone recent
or historical that you could share?
True for some but not all.
Among the dashanami the "giri" line accepts non-brahmana.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote:
>
>
> On Jul 13, 2010, at 1:22 PM, Mike Dixon wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > I hate to say this, but when I was in India, at Jyotir Math, the
> > friend I was with, swo
On Jul 13, 2010, at 2:59 PM, Mike Dixon wrote:
> Yes, he did give formal vows, in the beginning,maybe even up till the early
> 70's, but I was told later he stopped it, or may have been much more
> selective to whom he gave them.
>
And, of course, you realize from the POV of Swami Brahmanand
On Jul 13, 2010, at 5:16 PM, Mike Dixon wrote:
> he's just a man, maybe a very special man,
Ah, so you're still having trouble letting it all go!
Concentrate more on the "maybe" and less on the "special" and you'll be headed
in the right direction.
Unless, of course, you consider a Hindoo Do
On Jul 13, 2010, at 3:33 PM, Mike Dixon wrote:
> I did think about it... often and that was my justification for not believing
> it for so long. But, M was never married and that doesn't mean he couldn't
> have been sowing some *vedic oates* as he did with *out caste*schicksa
> women, alleged
just a man, maybe a very special man, but
a man very good at putting on a show. Still love him though!
From: randyanand
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, July 13, 2010 1:44:13 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Divindra and Sattyanand
The current shankar
esday, July 13, 2010 1:07 PM
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Divindra and Sattyanand
>
>
>
>
>
> Wowthat would explain plenty. But who knows.
>
> I wonder if he looks "lighter" than most Indians. There shoul
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of nablusoss1008
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 3:41 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Divindra and Sattyanand
Just because Rick Archer believes whatever he reads in a book
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote:
>
> From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Mike Dixon
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 12:04 PM
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Fai
Wasn't Shukadeva conceived in a boat out of wedlock?
From: Bhairitu
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, July 13, 2010 12:50:37 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Divindra and Sattyanand
There's this yogi thing I've read and heard
> > What a Soap Opera that would make!
> >
Vaj:
> Indians are extremely caste-conscious. The second
> you utter your surname, you're "pegged". The
> Shankaracharya Order is extremely Brahmin-centric.
> No other castes need apply. No other castes would be
> teaching in that tradition, let al
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> Sent: Tue, July 13, 2010 11:59:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Divindra and Sattyanand
>
>
>
>
> On Jul 13, 2010, at 1:22 PM, Mike Dixon wrote:
>
>
>
>> I hate to say this, but when I was in India, at Jyotir Math, the friend I
>>
rfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, July 13, 2010 12:02:18 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Divindra and Sattyanand
Rick Archer wrote:
> From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On
>Behalf Of Mike Dixon
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 12:04 PM
> To: Fairfie
a Brahmin?M has never had a problem
taking
care of his own, be it family or Shankaracharyas.
From: Vaj
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, July 13, 2010 11:59:00 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Divindra and Sattyanand
On Jul 13, 2010, at 1:22
10 10:34:26 AM
Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Divindra and Sattyanand
From:FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com [mailto:FairfieldLi f...@yahoogroups. com]
On
Behalf Of Mike Dixon
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 12:04 PM
To: FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Divindr
Rick Archer wrote:
> From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Mike Dixon
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 12:04 PM
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Divindra and Sattyanand
>
>
>
>
On Jul 13, 2010, at 1:22 PM, Mike Dixon wrote:
I hate to say this, but when I was in India, at Jyotir Math, the
friend I was with, swore to me the monk baby sitting the place,
told him that the current Shankaracharya, forget his name, was M's
son! At the time, I laughed it off as a mis
On Jul 13, 2010, at 2:29 PM, Rick Archer wrote:
Interesting. He says “I did renounce the world because I wanted to
live a spiritual life…. But then I found that spiritual life is not
dependent on renouncing the world.”
IIRC that's a theme in either his Gita 1-6 comment or the appendices.
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Joe
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 1:07 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Divindra and Sattyanand
Wowthat would explain plenty. But who knows.
I wonder if he looks
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Vaj
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 12:50 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Divindra and Sattyanand
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/maharishi1
M. What a Soap
> Opera that would make!
>
>
>
>
>
> From: WillyTex
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Mon, July 12, 2010 10:54:03 AM
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Divindra and Sattyanand
>
> Â
>
>
> Joe:
> > I recall reading a sad story about
On Jul 13, 2010, at 1:08 PM, Mike Dixon wrote:
LOL, was that Majorca, be either a householder or a monk? I heard
the same thing, directly from him. Hotel Samoa, fall of '71.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/
maharishi1.shtml
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Mike Dixon
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 12:04 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Divindra and Sattyanand
He never said all these things directly to me. M did say the
ead on FFL, I have to wonder if
it's not true. He, the current Shank, does resemble a younger M. What a Soap
Opera that would make!
From: WillyTex
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, July 12, 2010 10:54:03 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Divindra
for gay people. A friend told me he heard M say "if they
don't stop doing what they are doing, even I won't be able to help them". That
was a pre-HIV time.
From: Joe
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, July 12, 2010 8:05:47 AM
Subjec
LOL, was that Majorca, be either a householder or a monk? I heard the same
thing, directly from him. Hotel Samoa, fall of '71.
From: TurquoiseB
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, July 12, 2010 8:58:23 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Divindr
sounds like he may have been celibate for many decades a least himself and had
been very non-judgemental in a least one instance when someone admitted to
having broken that vow
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Joe" wrote:
>
> When was this? Did he say this to you?
>
> I ask because he to
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote:
>
> > > Why pay all that money and spend all that time in a hot,
> > > steamy, fly-infested, daub-and-wattle hut, out in the
> > > Indian jungle, just to get some 'Kama Sutra' action?
> > >
> Joe:
> > You're sounding a bit desperate Willy b
> > Why pay all that money and spend all that time in a hot,
> > steamy, fly-infested, daub-and-wattle hut, out in the
> > Indian jungle, just to get some 'Kama Sutra' action?
> >
Joe:
> You're sounding a bit desperate Willy boy.
>
What happened to all the money, Joe?
> > > I recall reading a sad
You're sounding a bit desperate Willy boy. Take a few deep breaths.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote:
>
>
>
> Joe:
> > I recall reading a sad story about Divindra...
> >
> The last I heard, Davindra got kicked out of the TMO by
> the Maharishi for having sexual relations w
Indeed. This seems to be what a lot of player gurus do.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote:
>
>
>
> Joe:
> > When was this? Did he say this to you?
> >
> > I ask because he told me (directly) to be celibate...
> >
> That's smart - why share all the girls with you, Joe?
>
> > When was this? Did he say this to you?
> >
> > I ask because he told me (directly) to be celibate,
> > same as he did many men around me at the time which
> > was 1973.
> >
TurquoiseB:
> Interestingly, although I heard him advise many other
> guys to be celibate, he never suggested that t
Joe:
> When was this? Did he say this to you?
>
> I ask because he told me (directly) to be celibate...
>
That's smart - why share all the girls with you, Joe?
Joe:
> I recall reading a sad story about Divindra...
>
The last I heard, Davindra got kicked out of the TMO by
the Maharishi for having sexual relations with Judith
and Jennifer, after the Yogi ran his sweaty hands all
over them under their saris.
What in the hell was going on inside that guy
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Joe" wrote:
>
> When was this? Did he say this to you?
>
> I ask because he told me (directly) to be celibate, same as
> he did many men around me at the time which was 1973.
Interestingly, although I heard him advise many other
guys to be celibate, he nev
When was this? Did he say this to you?
I ask because he told me (directly) to be celibate, same as he did many men
around me at the time which was 1973.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon wrote:
>
> I heard Devindra died many years ago of complications from diabetes and
> Satyana
When I was visiting Rishikesh a few years ago, I was told that Sattyanand had
moved from Rishikesh to Noida and was staying there.
It appeared that he was not doing much in Noida, but was looked upon as one of
the movemements' elders. He died a few years ago.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.
Wow...hey, you'll all get old and forgetful too one day! Thanks AlexI had
this feeling that I had asked about this before. Unfortunately, the answers
don't get any better.
Sad.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley"
wrote:
>
>
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Joe
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Alex Stanley
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 8:00 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Divindra and Sattyanand
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:FairfieldL
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Joe" wrote:
>
> All this talk of being (or NOT being) a brahmachari these past few days, has
> me wondering what became of MMY's two most famous Indian Brahmachari's,
> Divindra and Sattyanand.
>
> I recall reading a sad story about Divindrathat he,
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