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...inner environments," opportunity. As reckoned by the Hindus and Gore Vidal, this dark, chaotic age of Kali seethes with confusions, corruption and misapprehension. Karma, for example, a rather severe concept of determinism, has been turned into a metaphysical jelly bean by hippies, shopping-center swamis and jet-lagged gurus. "Karma," writes Mehta, "is now felt as a sort of vibration and Krishna is a doe-eyed pinup...
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...
Chitrabhanu says he personally became disenchanted with a business life as a child, when he lost his mother, sister and later a friend. No wealth could have saved them from death, he says, so he started searching for the meaning of life. After consulting many gurus, he found one who told him to rely on his own experience rather than solely on the words of others. At age 20 he became a Jainist monk, and spent the next five years almost entirely in silence to determine the meaning of life...
Herbert Marcuse, onz of the gurus of the '60s U.S. student movement, proposed a student-worker alliance as the stepping stone to economic change in the United States. But when hard hats began bashing hippies during demonstrations everyone realized the idea had no future. The NUS in Canada is trying to make the idea a reality. Maybe the Canadian climate will be more hospitable to the possibility than...
...high school auditorium on Manhattan's Upper East Side temporarily exalted into a mecca for the awareness/consciousness movement. Packing picnic lunches and pillows, the moderately young, mostly white enthusiasts now relishing Erhard, with murmurs of "Beautiful" and "Fabulous," have been here since morning, absorbing with similar murmurs such gurus as Wayne (Your Erroneous Zones) Dyer, Arnold (Pumping Iron) Schwarzenegger, Masters and (The Pleasure Bond) Johnson. This, in short, is the self-styled "The Event, the First Awareness Extravaganza"-proof positive that the national binge of self-discovery that rolled up out of the 1960s, far from fading away...