Word: guru
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They're all alike, skepties claim. A guru is a swami is a holy man is a fake. And these scoffers never consider spirituality again...
What sets Gurudev Shree Chitrabhanu apart from many gurus in the West is that he sees the guru as but a means to find one's inner guru. "He is like an ice cube in a cooling drink. He cools your consciousness and then disappears," Chitrabhanu writes. One's devotion belongs to oneself, not to any teacher. Gurus--the word means "dispeller of ignorance and bringer of light"--can be anyone, regardless of race or sex, who helps one dispel the darkness and ignorance of his life...
...opening. And I feel a genuine message which has come from life, and not from the scriptures only--it is from experience. There is a lot of misunderstanding and falsehood in the guru business. A lot of sickening things are happening. In that confused atmosphere, we need some fresh things. The West has gone to an extreme in technology and science, and the young people are a little bit bored of this and tired of the wars and killing. And they started thinking: what is the result of our achievement? So they now go to the other extreme: Indian philosophy...
Secondly, I remind my students that I am not the sole respository of the truth, that I am no guru to be deified nor do I possess all of the answers. Truth, as I see it, is an approximation. Truth, therefore, is never final, nor is it given in a final eternal form. Because the discovery of truth lies in process, we proceed by dialogue rather than by monologue. Collectively we begin a search to arrive at the approximation of truth, knowing always that one of the most important functions of our time is the ability to find a methodology...
Fortunately, Paul and Susan have friends who are fun to be with. Comic relief is generously provided by Susan's pal Janice (Robin Bartlett), prime guru bait who arrives in a sari, with a skull-washed boyfriend who is out of this world, Asian or otherwise. Kevin Kline's Paul sensitively conveys the perplexity of a neomodern man coping with a neomodern woman, and Director Alan Schneider's supple intelligence cloaks the nudity of the text...