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That was true for me too, never heard any fear stuff or felt it, and the bhakti devotional path was always my thing. Even before M, when I converted to Catholocism when I was 18, (lasted two years) I was most attracted to the kneeling, crossing myself, taking the host, all the outward signs of devotion to God. (My mother, the liberal Christian, was horrified). So the devotional card was always attractive to that part of my nature. The co-dependent seeker. I always attributed the subsequent dry, non-devotional rhetoric to the "organization" and not to M...When they said to throw away all the old mags etc, I fished them out of the dumpster and reposessed everyone else's stuff. Became a closet gopi. It's interesting to look back and try to figure out that part of myself. I think one reason that there is no propagation in the US is that motivational speakers are a dime a dozen and no one is really interested. In India where it thrives, there are still all the old trappings, arti, darshan, etc. At the LA event last month, M made a point to say he is now spending 6 months of the year in India, where it is really 'happening." I am sure more funds are starting to "happen" there too, now that there is a bigger middle class in India, with all the outsourcing. He will follow the funds...
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