[Advaita-l] Shankara and Kriya Yoga

[Bhaskar YR]

We must remember that such accomplishment is a result of anushThAna.  Then
he  can take the special benefit.  In the toTakAchARya episode, just out 
of
sincere devotion to Shankara, he was blessed with the supreme knowledge.

praNAms
Hare Krishna

I am not able to go down to the mailing list and reply to your y'day's 
mail on sushupti due to continuous flow of today's mails on bAbAji and 
kriyAyOga : -))  Anyway, I don't think anywhere shankara says that the 
guru is not necessary for the uttamAdhikAri of the jnAna & for the 
uttamAdhikAra shAstra is not the ONLY pramANa.  Ofcourse, we do have some 
exceptional cases like ramaNa, kAlidAsa ( who overnight become a Sanskrit 
scholar/poet by the grace of kAli mAta...BTW, I donot know the real story 
of kAlidAsa, I am making this statement after watching Dr. Rajkumar starer 
Kannada movie  'kaviratna kAlidAsa' in 1990's :-)) But these exceptional 
cases would not become a general rule to declare that ' for an 
uttamAdhikAri anything will do' :-))  In the totakAchArya episode also we 
have the physical presence of the guru in the form of shankarachArya. 

Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
bhaskar