The Life of Hinduism

radhasoami. 185 ting on the other side—my strongest impression was of a pervasive friendliness, bubbling over into welcoming smi ...

186. gurus pansiveness that stretches to include the others. Distances and differences—of sta- tus, age, and sex—disappear in an ...

radhasoami. 187 figure 8 Seated on a platform raised high above a giant canopied area at Beas, Maharaj Charan Singh reads mail f ...

188. gurus verse before Maharajji began to elaborate on the verse in clear and idiomatic Pun- jabi. His voice was soft and low, ...

radhasoami. 189 money soon begins to slide into the doctor’s pocket for treatment of all kinds of ail- ments, or into the lawyer ...

190. gurus Maharajji continued, “If we long for permanent peace and happiness and freedom from the laws of karma, we must seek t ...

radhasoami. 191 pany of like-minded believers in the experience of Satsang such as the one we were all engaged in; by devotion t ...

192. gurus pinpoint then, though now I would describe it, somewhat fancifully to be sure, as a stirring of the blood to the call ...

radhasoami. 193 on the mystical path. (A cynic, pointing to the fact that Maharajji himself is a rich landowner who is allied by ...

194. gurus siveness of an all-embracing community, as well as for those Westerners who are moving in the other direction, namely ...

radhasoami. 195 stacked up in mounds. As we approached the langar, we could already hear the women, busy kneading and rolling th ...

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199 13. A Dalit Poet-Saint Ravidas john stratton hawley, withmark juergensmeyer Oh well-born of Benares, I too am born well know ...

200. caste people of Sri Govardhanpur alone. Much of the organization came from a “mis- sion” headquartered in New Delhi that wa ...

a dalit poet-saint. 201 ing the use of pure substances, when in truth there is nothing on earth that is not pol- luted. “Can I o ...

202. caste oclast who, like Ravidas, lived in Benares (AG11.3, 33.5, 39.6). Kabir too came from the lower echelons of society. H ...

a dalit poet-saint. 203 some indication, for example, that Ramanand lived a full century before Ravidas, which makes it hard for ...

204. caste mins, who were then scandalized at her choice of gurus. They went to the king of Benares for justice, expecting a sym ...