The Guru of Ojai
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09/10/20 • 46 min
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In the 1920s, a messianic visitor to Hari's family home unveils the connection between Indian Independence movement and the astral plane. Nearly a century later, Hari travels to the orange groves of Southern California, where the guru made his home, to examine the globetrotting legacy of New Age spirituality.
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In the 1920s, a messianic visitor to Hari's family home unveils the connection between Indian Independence movement and the astral plane. Nearly a century later, Hari travels to the orange groves of Southern California, where the guru made his home, to examine the globetrotting legacy of New Age spirituality.
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Pushkin. Sometime in the eighteen eighties, my great great grandfather built a hoveli, a large house in the city of Argra in North India. The house had many rooms built around a courtyard and a back garden filled with plants and trees. Outside there was a bustling market, but behind the high walls the house was its own secluded world.
Speaker 1That world has gone now, but when I was a child, that was s
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