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...rural primitivism, some of those recoiling from the city have settled into rustic and often difficult lives far from urban civilization. The late '60s rural communes persist in Vermont New Hampshire, California, Colorado, New Mexico and elsewhere. Many city-bred farmers have discovered that Dwight Eisenhower (scarcely a guru) was right when he remarked that farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the cornfield...
...Sheppard's review of Adam Smith's Powers of Mind [Oct. 27] identified me as "a former follower of Guru Maharaj Ji." I was a follower of Guru Maharaj Ji; I am also a present follower. A misstatement like this adds to the confusion created to date in the reporting on the work of Guru Maharaj...
...Excerpt: "Guru in the glory of the personified transcendental fulness of Brahman, to him, to Shri Guru Dev, adorned with glory, I bow down...
Last Oct. 12,25 high school students waited in the Union, N.J., office of the Transcendental Meditation movement. One by one they entered a room and reverently knelt before a candlelit altar holding a picture of the late Guru Dev, Hindu holy man and predecessor of TM Leader Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Each student brought fruit and flowers to be placed on the altar by Teacher Janet Aaron, who then recited a Sanskrit puja (hymn of worship)* and whispered each student's mantra, the secret word that must be repeated to aid meditation...
...public schools lack certain qualities, then one must find them in private schools. If a particular community cannot provide what the child "needs," one must move elsewhere, or turn to various levels of political authority in urgent protest. If one book fails, or one educational philosophy, or one guru's written or spoken words, we do not become apathetic or skeptical or wryly amused; we do not turn to ourselves, and assume our own sovereignty, so to speak, as human beings who have a right, even an obligation, to hold on to certain ethical propositions, beliefs, standards-even...