Abandoned roads - Jos Lammers

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A city that right from the start invites one to stay. At driving in on the two storied Bay Bridge. At the smell of water, salt and fish. At the many wooden houses, painted in blue, yellow, pink and green. At the fresh air that wafts off the ocean, thanks to which we can sleep without air conditioning for the fist time since leaving Denver. Windows open. In the bay close to our hotel room ships use their foghorns to announce they’re there. In the street a woman is crying. A man shouts ‘fuck’. Much later a man sings a song in Spanish. It sounds like something from an opera, classical, with stretched tones. A beautiful song. For nobody. For everybody. For himself. The sound comes and goes. Graceful and pure through the silent night. I hear him sing until he’s beyond reach. August 2007 92
Afterward At this moment, over thirty years later, guru Maharaj ji is still active as a spiritual leader. Under his own name Prem Rawat he now presents himself, according to Wikipedia (‘Divine Light Mission’), as a teacher on the path of life and no longer as ‘perfect master’. Magazines and other materials illustrating the claims of Maharaj ji’s divinity, seem to have been largely destroyed at that transition in the early eighties. After disputes with his mother and brothers ( the ‘holy family’), mainly about the marriage of Maharaj ji and Marolyn, the Indian branch of the Divine Light Mission is now directed by his eldest brother. After this split the branches in the rest of the world were renamed Elan Vital. The followers of Prem Rawat today call themselves students instead of premies, but still talk about him with devotion. The ashrams and the headquarters in Denver are closed. DVD’s, TV-broadcasts, printed 94
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