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A documentary film was made of the first Glastonbury festival ,which included the young Guru. It was a bit like the LOTU video about the Millenium Astrodome programme but the focus was on the farming family who organised/organise the Festival and the hippies rather than specifically on the guru. I saw it on TV about four years ago on one of the BBC channels.They were showing as a lead in to the current Glastonbury Festival that year. The festival organiser explained that someone had asked if the Guru could speak and eventually they had agreed. Guru Maharaj Ji giving satsang ( high pitched voice.very heavy indian accent) preceded the Crazy World of Arthur Brown singing, with crucifix aflame " Fire,gonna teach you to burn....". All very macabre.
Modified by lexy at Sun, Nov 05, 2006, 09:33:26
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I saw that too. I think DA Pennebaker (Don't Look Back guy) directed it, but I haven't managed to find any pirated clips on the web, unfortunately, but the couple of minutes of Maharaji is hysterical, with all these devotees around him doing full length pranams as he walks on stage...
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Hi Ocker, I know what you are talking about. However, I don't remember posting that. Yet, I do remember reading it in one of the early Divine Light publications that I think I have. It may take me a few weeks to find this information or maybe even a life time, but as soon as I find it... if I do. I will post it. Only because I care. Hilltop
Modified by hilltop at Sun, Nov 12, 2006, 01:04:43
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Brown, Mick The Spiritual Tourist (1998) Bloomsbury publishing ISBN 1-58234-034-X page 195 chapter Her Master's Voice "In his wake came the Guru Maharaj Ji, the chubby-faced teenaged 'boy-god', who made a spectacular debut in Britan in 1971, when he arrived at the Glastonbury Festival in a white Rolls-Royce (hired for the day by his first English devotees). 'It was very odd,' remembers Michael Eavis, the dairy farmer who runs the Glastonbury Festival. 'Somebody said God had arrived and could we put him on stage, and my thought was: Well, the festival's for everybody really, so why not? By the time he went on stage everybody in the audience was completely stoned out of their minds, and you could hear this ripple going around, "Wow! That's God!" Then he started preaching against drugs, which I think everybody there found a bit disconcerting.' "
Modified by Andries at Sun, Nov 12, 2006, 15:58:45
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Hi, There was a big thick (I don't use the word lightly) magazine that came out in 1973, called ""Guru Puja Special", which contained a version of Mr Rawats speech to the hippies. I think it was something along the lines of, "I am God. Come and worship me. Stick your fingers in your eyes and you'll have everlasting peace. No refunds." I remember it well. Anth who was on a bender and sleeping on one too.
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