Appointment of Frankji as chief Moderator

[Guest guest]

It is my pleasure to announce the handing over the Chief Moderatorship

to Shree Frankji. I have known Shree Frank since the days of the old

adviataL list from which this group has formed to provided more open

discussions. Frank has been a piller and supporter of the list from the

beginning. He comes across as a deep thinker with egoless it has been a

great education for me to study Franks mails. With his leadership I am

confident that the list will grow and serve as the electronic vedantic

discussion group. Discusssion is recognized as an essence of sadhana a

part of mananam. I am confident it will continue to enhance our

understanding of advaita Vedanta.

 

I also want to take this opportunity to thank all the list memebers and

moderators who helped me in the role as a chief moderator. The list

will continue to be open to all members and the interference from the

moderators genenrally has been very minimum. We may not agree with each

other but we can agree to disagree with respect.

 

I am attaching Shree Frank's version of his bio data for the benefit of

everyone.

Congratulations Frank.

 

Hari OM!

Sadananda

 

 

Where do I begin?

Hmmm..........at the beginning, of course!

And the relevant beginning finds me in Catholic grade school, asking

question

after question of the nuns and priests who were teaching me. And, even

in the

3rd grade, I remember asking a particular question that stumped one of

the

nuns to the point of her getting flustered and even angry with me! To

wit:

"What if," I asked, "...on the way to confessing his sins, a man

happened to

die just before he reached the Confessional [the place where one

confesses to

the priest] with a mortal sin in his soul...would he still go to hell?"

At 8 years old--and I only mention this because it was painful to me

that even

at that age I was seeing through the hypocricy, whereas educated adults

were

not!--I became aware of the idea of intent as it applied to one's state

of

mind or conscience. Yet, the nun had no provision for something that

went

outside the letter of the law, as it was evidently taught to her under

the

banner of Catholicism. And not only this, my question exposed another,

perhaps

more significant fallacy: the idea of eternal damnation.

 

This is just one example of many--instances that asserted doctrine which

 

seemed to violate gut-level commonsense regarding the significance of

one's

behavior as it applied to the state of the soul.

 

In the midst of all this I was very devout to the mood and method

leading to

the "religious experience"; yet I sensed all along that there was a

serious

defficiency of justice in the tenets of this organized brand of

Christianity.

 

This led me to pursue my own investigation into Christ's teachings.

This, in

turn, led me (at age 14) to an investigation of spirituality in general,

 

and

on into studying the interpretations provided first by Hinduism and

Buddhism,

particularly Rinzai Zen Buddhism. A few years later, while maintaining

the

essential insights gained through Zen, I discovered the esoteric

approach of

Theosophy (a spiritual doctrine adopting a liberal approach exploring

and

synthesizing ALL religions, philosophies and science as potential

avenues

where truth may be discovered...its motto being: "There is no religion

higher

than Truth.")

 

Then, using Theosophy as a foundational backdrop, I explored various

related

approaches including Zen, the Toltec shamanism of Castaneda, the

Qabalah,

Freemasonry, and the Tibetan Bardo Thodol (Book of the Dead), among

others,

shaping an eclectic metaphysics.

 

And now (July 1996), 35 years later, after a more in-depth study of the

approach in Hinduism known as Advaita Vedanta, my former perspective has

 

been

so revolutionized that what I was seeing and understanding--as recent as

 

3

years ago now--has, as a further consequence, been turned on its ear!

 

 

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What you have is His gift to you and what you do with what you have is your gift

to Him - Swami Chinmayananda.

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

advaitin, kuntimaddi sadananda

<kuntimaddisada> wrote:

> It is my pleasure to announce the handing over the Chief

Moderatorship

> to Shree Frankji.

 

 

Let me join the others in welcoming Frankji in his role of Chief

Moderatorship. I have read his posts on Science and Spirituality and

I admire his freedom of thought which is anchored deeply to the

principle of advaita. His biographical note at

http://pyramodule.com/egodust/fmpagebio1.html

should be read by all those who wrongly think that philosophy is

just a game you play while you have leisure.

 

praNAms to all advaitins

profvk

[Guest guest]

I will join others as well in welcoming Frankji as Chief Moderator. He

expresses with beauty and poetry the timeless advaitic principles and insights.

Welcome!

 

OM!

 

--Greg

 

At 04:45 PM 12/23/02 +0000, V. Krishnamurthy <profvk wrote:

>advaitin, kuntimaddi sadananda

><kuntimaddisada> wrote:

>> It is my pleasure to announce the handing over the Chief

>Moderatorship

>> to Shree Frankji.

>

>

>Let me join the others in welcoming Frankji in his role of Chief

>Moderatorship. I have read his posts on Science and Spirituality and

>I admire his freedom of thought which is anchored deeply to the

>principle of advaita. His biographical note at

><http://pyramodule.com/egodust/fmpagebio1.html>http://pyramodule.com/egodust/fm\

pagebio1.html

>should be read by all those who wrongly think that philosophy is

>just a game you play while you have leisure.

>

>praNAms to all advaitins

>profvk

>

>

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[Guest guest]

This is wonderful Sadaji! I hope this brilliant strategy will succeed

in making Sri Frankji post more often so we can have Sri Frankji's

wisdom and compassion rain on us more fully.

 

For those who may not know, Frankji is also a brother devotee (of Sri

Ramana).

 

All is Bhagavan's grace.

 

Love to all

Harsha

 

advaitin, kuntimaddi sadananda

<kuntimaddisada> wrote:

> It is my pleasure to announce the handing over the Chief

Moderatorship

> to Shree Frankji.