stripping the gurus - Brahma Kumaris Info

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simultaneous jogging and juggling (six hours, seven minutes:
three balls); long-distance somersaulting (12.3 miles) along
the same route Paul Revere took through Boston; and underwater
pogo-sticking (three hours, forty minutes) in the
Amazon River (Areddy, 1989).
For the latter stunt, “a lookout was posted to keep watch for
piranhas.”
As to the spiritual advancement and years of meditation underlying
his own evinced productivity and demonstrated strength,
Chinmoy (1978) explains:
After one has realized the Highest and become consciously
one with the Absolute Supreme, one has no need to pray or
meditate. But I have a number of disciples, so I meditate for
them as I used to meditate for myself many years ago.
Chinmoy further leaves no doubt as to his own importance in
effecting his disciples’ evolution:
The Guru has the power to nullify the law of karma for his
disciple (Chinmoy, 1985).
Without a guru, your progress will be very slow and uncertain....
The best type of meditation comes when you enter into
my consciousness by looking at a picture taken of me when I
am in a high meditative consciousness (Chinmoy, 1978).
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Chinmoy himself is a prolific musical entertainer. Indeed, if his
press kit is to be believed, the man has “chakrad out,” in close to
three hundred concerts, with nearly half a million people in thirty
countries over the past twenty years.
This is noteworthy because Chinmoy and his supporters concede
that he is not a gifted musician; he sometimes makes
mistakes and starts over, and generally improvises the melodies
on the spot (Galloway, 1991).
Concert venues have included the Royal Albert Hall of London,
Carnegie Hall, Tokyo’s Nippon Budokan—made famous in the
West by Cheap Trick in the 1970s—and the Sydney Opera House.