Gurudom

The spiritual marketplace: New Era Gurus Are Here to Help You Find Your Ikigai. Published on 3rd April, 2021, in Economic Times. A market is where there are buyers and sellers. There are people who seek spiritual comfort and those who provide it. That creates the spiritual marketplace. It has always existed since the time of the first shaman; we are simply embarrassed to acknowledge it. We are conditioned to see commerce as incompatible with spirituality. That’s not true. Gurus have needs like the rest of us. Other than their fans and followers, everybody knows they are human. He has to provide for his family, ..

Published on 1st March, 2020, in Mumbai Mirror For many people, ‘guru’ is no different from a church elder, or even a prophet. Just as a prophet has direct access to God and communicates God’s will to people, many people believe that their guru has direct access to the divine and presents the wisdom of God to them. If the guru becomes a prophet, then his ashram becomes the church and the satsang that he presides over becomes the congregation, where the knowledge of the God is transmitted to people. The holy book then becomes the guru’s most favoured book, either the Isha Upanishad or ..