A to your Q: Was it more devotional in US or Europe?
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07/29/2017, 08:43:52
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Yes, the devotional element was similar even though we most
of us were just ex-hippies or lost wanderers looking for something in the U.S.  We had no roots or history like Europeans to fall back on.  But the devotion was the same here and
there.  But, in England, it just felt to
me so must more bleak an existence for the rank and file ashram premie -- say, in
Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Leicester, the little tiny towns with ethics, morals that go
back centuries.  The early devotees didn’t
give a shit about all that.  It was all
out devotion.  In  the US, there was still the Vietnam War
ongoing (didn’t end til ’74) and electric music and disco in the wake of the
Beatles ’69 break-up continued to dominate. 
All the premies in Denver snuck out to discos.  But, devotion ruled. Take the beautiful under-the-stars
near the beautiful Berkshire Mountains two or three day event in Amherst, Massachusetts
on the campus of the Univ. of Mass in the summer of ’74 just after the
honeymoon and wedding of the guru and his bride, a few months later perhaps.  Devotion peaked there.  (How did I afford to travel the world?)  It was such a
love-fest that event, many “bole shris” filled the clear starry night sky with devotional shrieking.  The live music and production values were off
the charts.  His gorgeous new bride
sitting side-legged on the ground in a white sari trimmed in blue and gold thread by the white satin pillow holding his LOTUS FEET and caressing
them two-handed while kissing them, as the audience shrieked and longed to
be in her body.  You remember:  With thick Hindi accents, we were drilled
daily that the lotus grows in mud but is floating above the crap.  What a crock equating him what the perfect
flower.

But I always felt bad in my heart for British premies.  They appeared hungry, malnourished with almost
unhumanlike teeth, always cold (no real heat in the country it felt like to me
on my visits) and under the malevolent whip of some old school master, like the
loveable Nick Seymour Jones (we miss him anyway).  Premies were poor.  The economy stunk.  Travelling all over to see a guru was quite
the exorbitant expense, and having to carry the entire poverty-stricken ashram
premies on these trips was costly.  Nick
and his successors were just following orders, like good followers (whether it
be Nazis or premies), but Maharaji was like Trump when he was 14-17 years old
and had the keys pain to the candy store and a jet airplane and homes around
the world and servants everywhere, with household staffs at the ready for his
pop-up pop-ins around the world.  What a
fukcin Cult!  He could say whatever,
whenever, and fawning servants and security personnel where always there
24/7.  He could change his mind in a
day or minute and issue orders (AGYA) like a the great king [he played on TV].  What a pain it would have been had
GMJ been able to tweet on his SANTJI account.  Anything he
wanted or wanted to do he just did.  Yes,
it was really cultish, and I couldn’t see the harm, in fact, as I was so caught
up in the fact that the person to make things better for this entire world was
now here (“walking among us”), and I somehow became a bhakti yogi and full-on
devotee to a shitty alchy 8th grade dropout who caused us so much
trouble and heartache all over the world, that I cannot believe it all happened. 
What happened to his African Cote I’voi Ivory Coast following and
followers.  The “mahatma” from there was
a cool guy, very simple guy, who we hung with at Amaroo one year and who just
marveled at all of this.  Where’s Bobby
Hendry to answer for any of this.  He’s
in every photo?  Did he smoke cigarettes
too and enjoy them every day along with his toe jam juice?  You betcha.  I loved going to Amaroo.  But in hindsight, I was just snookered for 30
years.  I like the wallabees and the
fresh air and hard work and golf distances measured in meters.

Thanks, PadddddddddyDDDDDD






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