[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-06-03 Thread emptybill
Vaj: And Bill thanks for trying to elevate me to guru, but you have no clue what my credentials and authorizations are, because I've never discussed them with. So stop spreading lies about what you think my credentials and authorizations might be. It's just a childish uptight game you're

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-06-03 Thread Vaj
On Jun 3, 2009, at 2:24 AM, emptybill wrote: And Bill thanks for trying to elevate me to guru, but you have no clue what my credentials and authorizations are, because I've never discussed them with. So stop spreading lies about what you think my credentials and authorizations might be.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-06-02 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote: On Jun 1, 2009, at 11:36 AM, Randy Meltzer wrote: Thanks Vaj for saying that. I am not here to do the pile on Vaj thing. Its just when you make statements like the shankaracharya order is Vaishnavite and my

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-06-02 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii...@... wrote: (snip) Not content with the Robert, my direct memories of my awful past lives piss on your psychic's recounting of your own awful past lives posturing, now emptybill... (snip) I'm sorry you didn't appreciate 'My

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-06-02 Thread Vaj
On Jun 1, 2009, at 11:46 PM, Randy Meltzer wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: Well lets see. I have been to Guru Dev's ashram in Allahabad 4 times. The last time was this past April, but Vasudevanandaji was not there so it was pretty quiet. I just

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-06-02 Thread Vaj
On Jun 2, 2009, at 2:58 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote: On Jun 1, 2009, at 11:36 AM, Randy Meltzer wrote: Thanks Vaj for saying that. I am not here to do the pile on Vaj thing. Its just when you make statements like the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-06-02 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: snip The facts are that you guys are arguing about whether an obscure religious sect worships one imaginary deity or another. From the outside, without being a part of that obscure religious sect. The Shankaracharya order,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-06-02 Thread emptybill
Vaj is basically giving the story line doled out by the Frenchman Alain Danielou. Since he claims to be a Nath guru he can just repeat it endlessly. As his posts show, Vaj-duta once again professes to be an insider - tight with the Shanks as he loves call them. No doubt he must possess insider

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-06-02 Thread Randy Meltzer
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote: Vaj is basically giving the story line doled out by the Frenchman Alain Danielou. Since he claims to be a Nath guru he can just repeat it endlessly. As his posts show, Vaj-duta once again professes to be an insider -

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-06-02 Thread Vaj
On Jun 2, 2009, at 1:21 PM, emptybill wrote: No doubt, just for Vaj, they must have brushed off Adi-Shankara's disagreement with Pancharatra theology as discussed in his Brahmasutra Bhasya. Thus his now it can be told - this is more insider revelation that only Vaj-duta would claim. I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-06-02 Thread Richard J. Williams
...this is more insider revelation that only Vaj-duta would claim. Vaj wrote: It's just a childish uptight game you're playing. Vaj, why not just read a book on Indian history? Vishnuism in India came a long time after the establishment of the Shivaite sect, and after Shankaracyarya. It's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-06-01 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote: Randy Good to have someone else questioning Vaj's BS. This guy postures himself here as an american natha-guru and buddhist dzogchenpa. However, his simplistic identi- fication of Narayana (as the source of the tm

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-06-01 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sun...@... wrote: Randy Meltzer rm108@ wrote: Any comments Vaj? I have noticed sometimes at this point the call gets dropped. Lurk, do *you* stay on the line when the person on the other end clearly has his dick out of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-06-01 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote: Randy Good to have someone else questioning Vaj's BS. This guy postures himself here as an american natha-guru and buddhist dzogchenpa. However, his simplistic identification of Narayana (as the source of the tm

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-06-01 Thread Vaj
On Jun 1, 2009, at 1:23 AM, Randy Meltzer wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: Vaj, Again you make the statement that the tradition is not Shaivite. On what basis are you saying this? Have you been to Jyotir Math? Have you been to Guru Dev's ashram in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-06-01 Thread authfriend
Let's remind ourselves of how this dispute over whether the Shankaracharya order is Vaishnavite or Shivaite began (in post #220372): - [Marek wrote:] Like Judy pointed out, it's totally common for Indian devotees to extol assumed enlightened saints and gurus with over the top honorifics,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-06-01 Thread Richard J. Williams
Vaj wrote: Because the guru-parampara originates with Narayana and Shankara was a Vaishnavite... In the Adwaita parampara, the term Narayana means, 'man', that is, the Transcendental Person, the Purusha. ...Sankara, who is regarded as an incarnation of Siva. Adwaita Vedanta:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-06-01 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Jun 1, 2009, at 1:17 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Lurk, do *you* stay on the line when the person on the other end clearly has his dick out of his pants waving it around and saying, Can you match this, bozo? I don't know about you, but I tend to get a little tired of the heavy breathing on the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-06-01 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote: On Jun 1, 2009, at 1:17 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Lurk, do *you* stay on the line when the person on the other end clearly has his dick out of his pants waving it around and saying, Can you match this, bozo? I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-06-01 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: Yes, Shankara is a adjective of Shiva and some people do even consider Shankara an incarnation of Shiva. FWIW, 'shiva' also is originally an adjective, synonymous with 'shaMkara'...

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-06-01 Thread Vaj
On May 31, 2009, at 9:26 PM, lurkernomore20002000 wrote: Randy Meltzer rm...@... wrote: Any comments Vaj? I have noticed sometimes at this point the call gets dropped. Depends on a number of things really Lurk. A big one for me is 'what do I perceive as their underlying intention?'.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-06-01 Thread Richard J. Williams
Yes, Shankara is a adjective of Shiva and some people do even consider Shankara an incarnation of Shiva. cardemaister wrote: FWIW, 'shiva' also is originally an adjective, synonymous with 'shaMkara'... So, 'Mahesh' means 'Shiva', and 'Shiva' means 'Sankara', all adjectives.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-06-01 Thread Randy Meltzer
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On May 31, 2009, at 9:26 PM, lurkernomore20002000 wrote: Randy Meltzer rm108@ wrote: Any comments Vaj? I have noticed sometimes at this point the call gets dropped. Depends on a number of things really Lurk. A

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-06-01 Thread Randy Meltzer
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On May 31, 2009, at 9:26 PM, lurkernomore20002000 wrote: Randy Meltzer rm108@ wrote: Any comments Vaj? I have noticed sometimes at this point the call gets dropped. Depends on a number of things really Lurk. A

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2009-06-01 Thread Vaj
On Jun 1, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Randy Meltzer wrote: Depends on a number of things really Lurk. A big one for me is 'what do I perceive as their underlying intention?'. Another is 'is this just another pile on post? I'm not a fan of digital rugby. Do I have enough time and is it worth it? It's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-06-01 Thread lurkernomore20002000
FWIW, I thought the Vajster gave a pretty good replay to emptybill. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sundur@ wrote: Randy Meltzer rm108@ wrote: Any comments Vaj? I have

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-06-01 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Jun 1, 2009, at 11:36 AM, Randy Meltzer wrote: Thanks Vaj for saying that. I am not here to do the pile on Vaj thing. Its just when you make statements like the shankaracharya order is Vaishnavite and my experience is s the oposite I had to chime in. I couldn't agree more,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-06-01 Thread Robert
(snip) Not content with the Robert, my direct memories of my awful past lives piss on your psychic's recounting of your own awful past lives posturing, now emptybill... (snip) I'm sorry you didn't appreciate 'My Past Life Story'...Turq... Perhaps if I draw a tatoo of it, and put in a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-06-01 Thread Randy Meltzer
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: Well lets see. I have been to Guru Dev's ashram in Allahabad 4 times. The last time was this past April, but Vasudevanandaji was not there so it was pretty quiet. I just walked around a bit. There is a beautiful altar in the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-31 Thread Vaj
On May 30, 2009, at 6:43 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: Like Judy pointed out, it's totally common for Indian devotees to extol assumed enlightened saints and gurus with over the top honorifics, and the idea that one of Maharishi's early followers gave him that designation out of their own

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
Vaj wrote: Sorry to be a stickler but you're assuming it's honorific without any evidence to support that. All we truly know is that it's an alias (esp. since it's not the actual name on his passport). Sort of like 'Vaj'? LOL! But his given name, by all accounts, was 'Mahesh' which

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-31 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: snip While honorifics like 'His Holiness' may be added out of devotion to one's guru, in Mahesh's instance we definitely know this was not the case. We do? It's important to distinguish between honorifics, like 'His Holiness',

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
Vaj wrote: (e.g. Yogananda's guru gave him the title Paramahamsa indicating that he believed him to belong to a certain class of yogins, a paramahamsa)... According to my sources, Yogananda got the name 'Yogananada' from his master, Sri Yukestwar, but he got the honorific 'Paramahamsa'

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-31 Thread Randy Meltzer
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: Vaj, What makes you think that the shankaracharya tradition is a vaishnavite group? The shankaracharya order has always been a shiva tradition, not a Vishnu tradition (vaishnavites are vishnu/krishna followers). Its obvious even from

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-31 Thread shukra69
Likewise the comment about twice born , it is not only Brahmins that are twice born --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Randy Meltzer rm...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: Vaj, What makes you think that the shankaracharya tradition is a vaishnavite

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2009-05-31 Thread Vaj
On May 31, 2009, at 11:13 AM, Randy Meltzer wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: Vaj, What makes you think that the shankaracharya tradition is a vaishnavite group? Because the guru-parampara originates with Narayana and Shankara was a Vaishnavite.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-31 Thread Randy Meltzer
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: Yes I have read Bhaja Govindam. Shankara is famous for being an advaita teacher but also having the ability to have the devotional aspect of bhakti. Just because he refers to Govinda in that treatise does not make him a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-31 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Randy Meltzer rm...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: Yes I have read Bhaja Govindam. Shankara is famous for being an advaita teacher but also having the ability to have the devotional aspect of bhakti. Just

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2009-05-31 Thread Vaj
On May 31, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Randy Meltzer wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: Yes I have read Bhaja Govindam. Shankara is famous for being an advaita teacher but also having the ability to have the devotional aspect of bhakti. Just because he refers

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-31 Thread authfriend
Wasn't Shankara supposed to have been an incarnation of Shiva? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Randy Meltzer rm...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: Yes I have read Bhaja Govindam. Shankara is famous for being an advaita teacher but also having

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-31 Thread emptybill
Randy Good to have someone else questioning Vaj's BS. This guy postures himself here as an american natha-guru and buddhist dzogchenpa. However, his simplistic identification of Narayana (as the source of the tm puja) with the vaishnava sampradaya shows an amazing ignorance. In reality

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-31 Thread shukra69
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote: Randy Good to have someone else questioning Vaj's BS. This guy postures himself here as an american natha-guru and buddhist dzogchenpa. However, his simplistic identification of Narayana (as the source of the tm

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-31 Thread Randy Meltzer
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote: Hey empty bill Thanks for your words of encouragement. I have already had a previous run in with Mr. Vaj. When I said in a previous post that as far as I am concerned, I have experienced pretty much everything Maharishi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-31 Thread lurkernomore20002000
Randy Meltzer rm...@... wrote: Any comments Vaj? I have noticed sometimes at this point the call gets dropped.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-31 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote: Randy Good to have someone else questioning Vaj's BS. snip Please join us if you can and keep this rabid skunk under some kind of control by questioning and examining his every claim and assertion. Odious-vajra-duta had

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-31 Thread emptybill
I feel the same way as Judy about vajraduta. Vaj is free to speak as he wishes. However his ex-cathedra pronouncements become more shrill with every challenge to his veracity. I personally know 35-year meditating american scholars of sankhya- yoga. I also know tibetan scholar-yogins of

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2009-05-31 Thread Vaj
On May 31, 2009, at 7:20 PM, Randy Meltzer wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote: Hey empty bill Thanks for your words of encouragement. I have already had a previous run in with Mr. Vaj. When I said in a previous post that as far as I am

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-31 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: snip I get a kick out of the Empty Bill anti-Vaj posts, he's very creative in his mixture or lies and facts. Hopefully you can spot the lies. He's been on a vendetta ever since I nailed him on some BS he was pulling. snip I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-31 Thread Nelson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote: Randy Good to have someone else questioning Vaj's BS. snip Please join us if you can and keep this rabid skunk under some kind of control by

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2009-05-31 Thread I am the eternal
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 5:50 PM, shukra69 shukr...@yahoo.ca wrote: Don't think he has an employer to worry about , he would be self employed at a Colorado Shamballa center or selling paraphenalia http://www.odiyana.com/contact_us.php But Vaj says that he has to be very careful to conceal his

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-31 Thread raunchydog
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal l.shad...@... wrote: On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 5:50 PM, shukra69 shukr...@... wrote: Don't think he has an employer to worry about , he would be self employed at a Colorado Shamballa center or selling paraphenalia

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2009-05-31 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal l.shad...@... wrote: On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 5:50 PM, shukra69 shukr...@... wrote: Don't think he has an employer to worry about , he would be self employed at a Colorado Shamballa center or selling paraphenalia

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-31 Thread Randy Meltzer
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: Vaj, Again you make the statement that the tradition is not Shaivite. On what basis are you saying this? Have you been to Jyotir Math? Have you been to Guru Dev's ashram in Allahabad? It would seem not. Because if you had been

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-31 Thread raunchydog
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote: I feel the same way as Judy about vajraduta. Vaj is free to speak as he wishes. However his ex-cathedra pronouncements become more shrill with every challenge to his veracity. I personally know 35-year meditating

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-30 Thread Vaj
On May 29, 2009, at 10:59 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: Jay Randolph Coplin, in his dissertation on the history of the SRM, writes that in an interview with the then-Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math, Vasudevananda (the successor to Guru Dev's successor, Shantanand, and predecessor of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-30 Thread Marek Reavis
Like you, I've only read the few chapters of Coplin's dissertation that appear in a google search. I'd like to read the rest, too. And these titles, like referring to Guru Dev as His Divinity, all seem to be purely honorific. I hadn't heard about the use of maharishi as a pathfinder title,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-30 Thread Marek Reavis
Vaj, I've got no idea whether Coplin's comment is true, but it's the only thing I've ever read that explained the origin of the title for Maharishi. And it's not inconceivable that the honorific was given, in part at least, to reward Maharishi for his support (political and monetary) of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-30 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavisma...@... wrote: Like you, I've only read the few chapters of Coplin's dissertation that appear in a google search. I'd like to read the rest, too. And these titles, like referring to Guru Dev as His Divinity, all seem to be purely

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-30 Thread Randy Meltzer
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: Hey Vaj, I would like to respond to your comment in this post about the bought shankaracharyas. Please correct me if I am wrong, but I am assumming that you mean that the Shantinand-VishnuDevand-Vasudevananda line has been somehow

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-30 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Randy Meltzer rm...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: Hey Vaj, I would like to respond to your comment in this post about the bought shankaracharyas. Please correct me if I am wrong, but I am assumming that you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-30 Thread Richard J. Williams
Marek wrote: Vaj, I've got no idea whether Coplin's comment is true, but it's the only thing I've ever read that explained the origin of the title for Maharishi. And it's not inconceivable that the honorific was given, in part at least, to reward Maharishi for his support (political

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-30 Thread Richard J. Williams
Vaj wrote: In fact the Shankaracharya of the south didn't even know who he was... You are incorrect, Vaj. According to Paul van Owen, the Shankaracharya of Sringeri knew exactly who the Marshy was: He also emphatically confirmed that in his opinion - and in the opinion of Shringeri Matha

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-30 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: Like you, I've only read the few chapters of Coplin's dissertation that appear in a google search. I'd like to read the rest, too. And these

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2009-05-30 Thread Vaj
On May 30, 2009, at 9:57 AM, Marek Reavis wrote: The only thing I ever heard Maharishi say about it was that people started using it, and he didn't object. Exactly. So someone must be lying.

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2009-05-30 Thread Vaj
On May 30, 2009, at 12:01 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: Like you, I've only read the few chapters of Coplin's dissertation that appear in a google search. I'd

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-30 Thread Robert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On May 30, 2009, at 12:01 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: Like you, I've only read the few

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-30 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: snip I think you're missing the point. Is it a self-serving title, coming from the ego, or one given by the guru or some institution? Unfortunately, without any official announcement in the historical record we're forced to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-30 Thread Robert
(snip) It also raises the question of all the other titles like The world's foremost scientist in the field of consciousness. (snip) These titles have more to do with Bevan and John...they are so into titles it's not even funny... Bevan especially likes titles... For some reason, Beaver,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-30 Thread Richard J. Williams
babajii wrote: ...they are so into titles it's not even funny... You mean titles like 'babajii'? LOL!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-30 Thread Robert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams willy...@... wrote: babajii wrote: ...they are so into titles it's not even funny... You mean titles like 'babajii'? LOL! Yes, exactly... I chose the name, not that I made it up...I heard it before... But, after a while, if I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-30 Thread Richard J. Williams
It also raises the question of all the other titles like The world's foremost scientist in the field of consciousness. Are appellations like these from Mahesh or from his disciples? I would assume his disciples, but ones does start to wonder. At a certain point, a person would

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-30 Thread Marek Reavis
Not necessarily, but that's not the point. However he got the honorific, Maharishi certainly felt it was appropriate and never demurred. Many agreed with him and lots didn't. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On May 30, 2009, at 9:57 AM, Marek Reavis

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-30 Thread Vaj
On May 30, 2009, at 3:25 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: Not necessarily, but that's not the point. However he got the honorific, Maharishi certainly felt it was appropriate and never demurred. Many agreed with him and lots didn't. Sorry to be a stickler but you're assuming it's honorific

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-30 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On May 30, 2009, at 9:57 AM, Marek Reavis wrote: The only thing I ever heard Maharishi say about it was that people started using it, and he didn't object. Exactly. So someone must be lying. Has it ever occurred to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-30 Thread Vaj
On May 30, 2009, at 5:31 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On May 30, 2009, at 9:57 AM, Marek Reavis wrote: The only thing I ever heard Maharishi say about it was that people started using it, and he didn't object. Exactly. So someone

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-30 Thread authfriend
I just uploaded the Coplin dissertation material to the Files section. It's under Miscellaneous Writings. I can't figure out how to make the system send an announcement to the group, so perhaps someone could tell Vaj, as he claims not to read my posts. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-30 Thread Marek Reavis
You're right, I am assuming that someone other than Maharishi himself actually called him that first, and not that he introduced himself as a maharishi. That being said, I'm not arguing that it was some authority or math that first honored him with that. Like Judy pointed out, it's totally

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-30 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On May 30, 2009, at 3:25 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: Not necessarily, but that's not the point. However he got the honorific, Maharishi certainly felt it was appropriate and never demurred. Many agreed with him and lots

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-30 Thread Robert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams willy...@... wrote: babajii wrote: ...they are so into titles it's not even funny... You mean titles like 'babajii'? LOL! Yeah, Babaji's a good one...heck anyone can claim he's Babaji... One I really like though, is the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-29 Thread Jason
    I want to know who gave him the title *Maharishi* .??     Why does he put his bald head in all the org's emblems.??     I think he was a good meditation teacher, but a very poor Philosophy teacher.!!     Paradoxicaly, I know many good philosophy teachers who are poor

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-29 Thread Richard J. Williams
Yeah, compared to S.N. Goenka, the Marshy is a sheer genius at meditation! There's a lot of difference between transcendental meditation and mood-making with concentration on various human body parts. Vaj wrote: Similar techniques are found in the Shankaracharya Advaita tradition.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-29 Thread Vaj
On May 29, 2009, at 12:46 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote: Yeah, compared to S.N. Goenka, the Marshy is a sheer genius at meditation! There's a lot of difference between transcendental meditation and mood-making with concentration on various human body parts. Vaj wrote: Similar techniques are

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-29 Thread emptybill
Will Tex, There is no end to Vaj's bs. Why don't you just ask for validating proof - as in tradition, text and translation and page? Just allowing him to name some Sanskrit texts allows him to keep up the bs. Vaj is no Sanskrit pandita - remember how he added his own words into direct quotes?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-29 Thread Richard J. Williams
emptybill wrote: Why don't you just ask for validating proof - as in tradition, text and translation and page? Good idea, Bill! The Tathagata has the eye transcendent wisdom. Diamond Sutra: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Sutra Thus shall you think of this fleeting world: A

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-29 Thread Vaj
On May 29, 2009, at 12:46 PM, Jason wrote: I want to know who gave him the title *Maharishi* .?? Why does he put his bald head in all the org's emblems.?? I think he was a good meditation teacher, but a very poor Philosophy teacher.!! Paradoxicaly, I know many

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-29 Thread Robert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On May 29, 2009, at 12:46 PM, Jason wrote: I want to know who gave him the title *Maharishi* .?? Why does he put his bald head in all the org's emblems.?? I think he was a good meditation teacher, but

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-29 Thread Robert
(snip) Hasn't everyone on here, chosen a name for themselves? R.G.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-29 Thread Marek Reavis
Jay Randolph Coplin, in his dissertation on the history of the SRM, writes that in an interview with the then-Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math, Vasudevananda (the successor to Guru Dev's successor, Shantanand, and predecessor of the current Shankaracharya, Vishnudevananda, in Shantanand's line) --

[FairfieldLife] Re: Marshy: All Hat, No Cattle; was What is Enlightenment? - MMY

2009-05-29 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavisma...@... wrote: Jay Randolph Coplin, in his dissertation on the history of the SRM, writes that in an interview with the then-Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math, Vasudevananda (the successor to Guru Dev's successor, Shantanand, and