From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of lurkernomore20002000 Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 9:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Observations on Buddha at the Gas Pump Ok, I believe he (Ravi) is of Indian descent. He claims that although he embraces, or at least is comfortable with "liberal" western values, that his wife is traditional in her values, and that she wants her husband to be her guru as well. Maybe it is all good. But it doesn't sound quite right to me. My connection between this situation, and off shore drilling, was that there seemed to be a big pile on, in the sense that members of the group were echoing one another that the BP disaster should make it clear that all off shore drilling should be banned, and then while we're at it, lets ban any more nuclear plants.
Now, rightly or wrongly, I figure that people who espouse those sentiments are also likely to be vocal about women's rights, and it seemed that no one cared to challenge Ravi about his decision to ban his wife from participating in anything to do with Amma, and that going forward he was to occupy that role. Actually, I was the one who suggested that the oil spill may end the debate about expanding off-shore oil drilling. Here's my comment: "My take on the leak is that humanity is too stupid and stubborn to see and adopt more evolutionary, environmentally-friendly technologies voluntarily, so we need very graphic, explicit lessons. This one kind of ends the debate on off-shore drilling, I'd say. Let's hope we don't need a lesson on nuclear power plants." I also responded to Ravi thusly: "Why does she have to reject Amma? Can't she derive inspiration from multiple sources? With so much change and development still going on in your life, do you really feel qualified to be a guru? Or maybe it's a traditional Indian thing, where the wife sees her husband as her guru." And in another post: "So are you entering an Anti-Amma phase, or do you just feel that your wife's devotion to you should be undivided? Will you and she still go to see Amma?" He hasn't responded to this yet. I'll reserve judgment on Ravi. I don't know him or his relationship with his wife well enough to understand what's going on between them. He was my most recent interview and I hope to have the audio and video up at http://batgap.com/ within a day or two.
