On Mar 9, 2010, at 2:37 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote:

> You think Guru Dev didn't believe in helping people who
>> were suffering?
> 
> I don't really know.  He didn't seem like much of a people person to me.

Understatement of the year.  To me it 
doesn't look like he ever said much of 
anything to anybody--just kind of sat there and
let the peons assume he was thinking 
great thoughts, when all along it could 
easily have been a case of an idiot savante,
kind of like Peter Sellers in Being There.
Or mild autism.  Those are the vibes I get,
but maybe that's just me.

> I do know that he promoted Sanatana Dharma and that includes supporting the 
> caste system and its belief that a child born with twisted legs in a poor 
> family has received a fair treatment from the universe which is the exact 
> opposite of saying "that is not fair."  I think there was some discussion of 
> Guru Dev supporting some hospital which I would value more than his religious 
> work obviously.

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