Word: godhood
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...stiffness of numbers, grammatical constructions) and the universe, which has nothing to do with the names we give or seize our leverage by. Let man take his reasoning place, expecting nothing, since man is not the invisible player but the player's pawn. Seize the whole board, snatch after godhood, and all turns useless waste. Such is my story...
...good proselytizer does not confine himself to personal experiences. It must be shown how the whole of human experience points to the obviousness, to the inevitability of the supreme Godhood of Maharaj...
...theology is, well, eclectic. According to his followers, Maharaj Ji is the last of a line of Spiritual Masters which has seen such past greats as Moses, Buddha, Krishna, Jesus and Mohammed. He is the highest manifestation of God incarnate; yet each individual on earth has portions of Godhood within. The religion incorporates Hindu notions of reincarnation and Nirvana; its American adherents sing gospel songs with "Maharaj Ji" substituted for "Jesus." Meditation, service and satsang are primary, but the group is self-consciously life-affirming...
...Hollywood is finally at my feet. Beyond that, ambition stops and godhood begins...
...radical intention to challenge the gods-in fact, to become God. All humbling conceptions of man's relationship to the unknown, the author insists, are bad. Even the Hindu's striving for the oblivion of nirvana, he asserts, is a subtle passive-resistance ploy to achieve godhood...