[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting link about Maharishi's childhood and birthplace

2008-02-12 Thread Richard J. Williams
Alex wrote: Well, Rajneesh also claimed that MMY is a sudra. In FF, I'd always heard MMY refered to as being a Kshatriya, and a quick Google search on Shrivastava says the family is Kayastha, which is apparently a sort of Brahmin/Kshatriya hybrid. Frankly, that something contradicts what

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting link about Maharishi's childhood and birthplace

2008-02-12 Thread Zoran Krneta
I understand. I was just suggesting that there are probably as many ways of seeing the truth of any of the caste claims as there are people. In India there is no different ā€˛truths about different casts. If that would not be the truth MMY would not get a job as a clerk in SBS office and one

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting link about Maharishi's childhood and birthplace

2008-02-12 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Zoran Krneta krneta.zoran@ wrote: I came to know that while I have lived in India but not from Wikipedia. I understand. I was just suggesting that there are probably as

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting link about Maharishi's childhood and birthplace

2008-02-12 Thread Zoran Krneta
I came to know that while I have lived in India but not from Wikipedia.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting link about Maharishi's childhood and birthplace

2008-02-12 Thread gandalfaragorn
For God's sake, more power to Maharishi if he was born into a humbler caste than we have been lead to believe. It makes what he accomplished all the more noteworthy. If he had to hide his beginnings, I think Rajneesh's alleged comments exactly indicate why: he would have made little headway with

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting link about Maharishi's childhood and birthplace

2008-02-12 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Zoran Krneta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kayastha, which is apparently a sort of Brahmin/Kshatriya hybrid. Kayastha has nothing with Brahmin caste. Kayasthas are clerks. They are mid/lower part of Kshatriya cast. Generaly it is not much appreciated

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting link about Maharishi's childhood and birthplace

2008-02-12 Thread Zoran Krneta
Kayastha, which is apparently a sort of Brahmin/Kshatriya hybrid. Kayastha has nothing with Brahmin caste. Kayasthas are clerks. They are mid/lower part of Kshatriya cast. Generaly it is not much appreciated cast in India because they served as clerks in time when Muslims were ruling India.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting link about Maharishi's childhood and birthplace

2008-02-12 Thread Vaj
On Feb 12, 2008, at 9:02 AM, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, at_man_and_brahman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sgrayatlarge no_reply@ wrote: http://premendra.indiainteracts.com/2008/02/11/maharishi-mahesh- yogi-

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting link about Maharishi's childhood and birthplace

2008-02-12 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, at_man_and_brahman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sgrayatlarge no_reply@ wrote: http://premendra.indiainteracts.com/2008/02/11/maharishi-mahesh-yogi- was-born-in-chhattisgarh-not-jabalpur/ I don't know who the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting link about Maharishi's childhood and birthplace

2008-02-12 Thread TurquoiseB
Sorry...forgot the Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayastha --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Zoran Krneta krneta.zoran@ wrote: Kayastha, which is apparently a sort of Brahmin/Kshatriya hybrid.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting link about Maharishi's childhood and birthplace

2008-02-12 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Zoran Krneta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I came to know that while I have lived in India but not from Wikipedia. I understand. I was just suggesting that there are probably as many ways of seeing the truth of any of the caste claims as there are people. I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting link about Maharishi's childhood and birthplace

2008-02-11 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip If you use the rich text editor on the post page, you don't need to use tinyurl: But if someone tries to forward it in an email, it can get screwed up. Different email programs handle URLs differently.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting link about Maharishi's childhood and birthplace

2008-02-11 Thread bob_brigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sgrayatlarge no_reply@ wrote: Keep in mind that long URL's get broken. Here's the TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/25wsg8 **

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting link about Maharishi's childhood and birthplace

2008-02-11 Thread bob_brigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sgrayatlarge no_reply@ wrote: http://premendra.indiainteracts.com/2008/02/11/maharishi-mahesh-yogi- was-born-in-chhattisgarh-not-jabalpur/ Keep in mind that long URL's get

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting link about Maharishi's childhood and birthplace

2008-02-11 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sgrayatlarge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://premendra.indiainteracts.com/2008/02/11/maharishi-mahesh-yogi- was-born-in-chhattisgarh-not-jabalpur/ Keep in mind that long URL's get broken. Here's the TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/25wsg8

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting link about Maharishi's childhood and birthplace

2008-02-11 Thread bob_brigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sgrayatlarge no_reply@ wrote: http://premendra.indiainteracts.com/2008/02/11/maharishi-mahesh-yogi- was-born-in-chhattisgarh-not-jabalpur/ Keep in mind that long URL's get

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting link about Maharishi's childhood and birthplace

2008-02-11 Thread at_man_and_brahman
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sgrayatlarge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://premendra.indiainteracts.com/2008/02/11/maharishi-mahesh-yogi- was-born-in-chhattisgarh-not-jabalpur/ I don't know who the author is, but he or she contradicts Rajneesh, who claimed that Maharishi was born in