Controversial Guru Sri Chinmoy promises "a very good higher world"

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According to an obscure guru some call a “cult leader” living in Jamaica Queens, New York, saying his name can get you to a “very good higher world.” This sage advice and other supposed gems can be found in the book titled “The Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy” reports the Queens Chronicle.

Here is another example of the guru’s so-called “wisdom.”

Guru Sri Chinmoy writes, “A young wife was terribly afraid of staying alone at night, so the Master said to the husband…I shall take care of her. That night she saw the Master in a corner of the room, not the Master’s physical body but his luminous subtle body.” ...

NOTE: Rock trivia experts will remember that Chinmoy is the former "spiritual leader" of Mahavishnu John McLaughlin...



...and Carlos "Devadip" Santana, who met Chinmoy through his friendship and musical partnership with McLaughlin. He later "left the fold" because of the "lack of joy.")

Don't you know you made a fool of everyone?

Saw the original Mahavishnu Orchestra about that time. Possibly the most intense band ever short of the same era's King Crimson. Everyone in the audience looked like the guy in the Maxell tape ads by the time that sonic assault was finished. I wonder whatever happened to that beautiful one-off Rex Bogue doubleneck guitar...

...the band describes a scenario much like a bar brawl (as opposed to a "peaceful collaboration between musicians")...



They broke up simply because the band became really, really competitive and they hated each others' guts. On stage they attemped to brutally kick each others' asses through their music.

But during the heyday of the band..."Inner Mounting Flame" and "Birds of Fire"...this was one terrifying band. That's what made them similar to King Crimson. A rock critic once wrote "Where Yes would marvel at the world, King Crimson prefers to grab it by the balls." The Mahavishnu Orchestra...in its ORIGINAL incarnation...was all about power and stamina and dynamics.

McLaughlin was photographed holding a beer after the Mahavishnu Orchestra breakup (considered "scandalous" by the media of its day) and started showing an inclination for "pleasures of the flesh." VERY shortly after he abandoned Chinmoy, Santana jumped ship too.

:toast:

Gotta dig out that CD. Apparently McLaughlin and Goodman were ready to kill each other by the end of the MahavOrch. The intensity of that band live could scare the hair off a gorilla.

Steve Howe, Fripp and McLaughlin are, to my ears, the most complete guitarists to emerge from the rock era. They can all play absolutely anything (though I've read that the one thing Fripp cannot play is 12-bar blues) and their technical facility is incomprehensible. I know superb guitarists who stand in awe of all three and regard them as freaks of nature.

...Fripp on Peter Gabriel's tour behind his first solo album.

I learned the power of one note at that show. If you're familiar with Fripp's first solo album "Exposure," you've heard the stripped-down version of Gabriel's "Here Comes The Flood." This is the way it was performed at the first Gabriel solo show. After he sings "When the flood calls" (at the 2:30 mark) Fripp starts squeezing out patented "Frippertronics" sustained notes. Some guy behind me in the audience bellowed "FRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP!"...

And I thought to myself "Damn straight, Skippy...FRIPP." It was a "hair standing up on the back of your neck" moment...those notes just spiraled around the hall like a demented sea serpent.



Toast:

years ago, carried BOTH his bass drums and in turn he let me sit in with them. We know each other from the Orchestra days... Asked if he'd seen John in recent years. He said "Who?"

Great Chapati Rollups. Vegetarian. He has a special table there.