Guru, the eldest son, has a fine pair of bullocks for the purpose.

It so happened that Guru was doing some masonry work at our house and I was chatting with him about my sabbatical when he casually asked me whether I would like to come ploughing with him.

The bullocks knew Guru very well

but I was a stranger so Guru made me keep shouting cries of "heeree heeree" which is how they get the animals to move-so that they would at least begin to recognise my voice.

Although I went ploughing with Guru for several days in a row, he never let me plough on my own because getting the right balance was still very difficult for me and if any of the bullocks got hurt due to my inexperience he would have to give the animal at least 15 days' rest which would cost him heavily in earnings.

I helped Guru plough about half a dozen fields and even now when the rainy season approaches I remember that experience with warmth and pleasure.

Sometime after lunch my father and I, along with Guru Rishi Prabhakar (the founder of the Siddha Samadhi Yoga programme) and Kartikeyan (who was researching some chapters for a source book on organic farming) left to visit the farm of an organic farmer, a Mr. K.T. Thomas.

Divine truth has to pay its postage, its rent, its taxes, and so on; and the 'guru' feeds not on airalthough, of course, being a 'guru,' he comes as near it as the flesh will allow: therefore, and surely, Reader, a guinea per annum is, after all, reasonable enough.

Divine truth has to pay its postage, its rent, its taxes, and so on; and the 'guru' feeds not on airalthough, of course, being a 'guru,' he comes as near it as the flesh will allow: therefore, and surely, Reader, a guinea per annum is, after all, reasonable enough.

by means of which he was to begin his excursions into Urania, and which his 'guru' sent from time to timeat first, it must be admitted, with a diligent frequencywere secret too.

So several months went by, and my knowledge of his 'chela-ship' was confined to what I could notice, and such trifling harmless gossip as 'Heard from "guru" this morning,' 'Copying an old MS.

He read it out to me one flushed morning: 'Ihaveseenhimandamhismaster,' wrote the 'guru,' in answer to his neophyte's half fearful question.

They were near the end of their journey when the bear-man asked suddenly: "Manjhi, have we not passed Serampore?" "Are you the guru of boatmen that you question me?" replied the manjhi, and then, in a more conciliatory tone, added: "We are going higher up for a crossing.

While saying "good-bye" he called Jadu Babu aside and thrust Rs. 30 into his hands, to be distributed among the guru (spiritual guide), purohit (family priest), and servants.

And, finally, advises the learner in this kind of religion to submit himself implicitly to a spiritual guidehis Guru.

The use of the Guru, or Father Confessor (which Mr. Vaughan confesses to be inconsistent with Mysticism), is to be explained in the same wayhe is a last refuge after disappointment.

The guru, by his disciple; the way of the East, as told to Manly Palmer Hall.

The guru, by his disciple; the way of the East, as told to Manly Palmer Hall.

In spite of all he had seen the young man did not give up his bonga wife and every two or three months she used to spirit him away under the water: and now that man is a jan guru.

The jan guru who was consulted declared that a Kisar bonga was responsible for their misfortunes.

The Jan guru is employed to detect who is the woman responsible for any particular misfortune.

The women agreed but it was arranged that to deceive people he should go for two or three days and study with a jan guru and be initiated by him.

Thus it would be thought that he learnt his magic from the guru

Jan or Jan guru.

Nearly opposite to this is a large dried-up tank, called the Guru-ka-Tal, which, with the adjacent ruined buildings, are attributed to Sikandar Lodi, one of the Afghan predecessors of the Mogul Emperors, who has given his name to Sikandra.