Theos-Talk Archives (November 1998 Message tt00037)

Hi, John:

Good to see your feedback.

On this issue of past deeds which sometimes comes to haunt people, it is a
tradition in India that when a person becomes a Sanyasi (Monk) he
irrevocable relinquishes all his rights and changes his/her name and
disappears among the masses. I think the tradition serves very well so
anyone who later becomes famous/well known as a religious person, no one
knows the past. There is also a saying that -- do not dig into the past of
a great Rishi; you may be disappointed in what you see in his/her past.

mkr




At 11:43 AM 11/6/1998 +1300, you wrote:
>Hi Jerry.
>
>Thanks for your balanced and refreshing email.  I agree with what you
>have said.
>
>Jerry Schueler wrote:
>
>> I personally couldn't care less who shot who or who defamed who and
>> so on. I judge the early theosophical pioneers by their writings that they
>> have left us, and not by what others claim they said or did.
>