NEW JERSEY vs. THE GURU
by LJ Polin
A while ago on one of our team movie nights, we saw a great movie called “Kumare.” It was a documentary about a young Indian man who grew up not understanding the purpose of religion. As he grew more, he began to question the authenticity of “gurus” and spiritual leaders and what their purpose was at all as well. What’s great is that he actually poses as guru himself from the mountains of India. And he was… Kumare.
However, he was an American from New Jersey. Having had studied the behavior of the spiritual leaders and gurus in India he successfully began to grow a following for his new teachings that he made up just for the social experiment.
It’s a pretty wild ride how he meets so many different people and how he affects people around him. Even though he meant to keep his teachings childish and humorous he began to develop a teaching of his own, saying that you are your own guru.
My description doesn’t do the movie justice, awesome documentary.
What I got from the movie was that you can definitely be your own teacher. People are always looking outwards for an answer or guidance from a leader when sometime we can follow our intuition. We know what we should do, it’s just usually that we don’t trust our own judgement. I think our subconscious is much smarter than our conscious mind anyways…
Definitely some good lessons in the movie and I recommend you watch it – tell me what you think!
Answer, you.
JUN