The Life of
Hinduism

 

5. GURUS
[FIGURE K] [FIGURE 8]

Fig. 8 - Sudhir Kakar, "The Healing Offer"

     INTRODUCTION

 1. WORSHIP

 2. THE LIFE CYCLE

 3. FESTIVAL

 4. PERFORMANCE

 5. GURUS

 6. CASTE

 7. DIASPORA

 8. IDENTITY

 


 

Fig. 8 - Seated on a platform raised high above a giant canopied area at Beas, Maharaj Charan Singh reads mail from followers worldwide while devotees assemble beneath to take his darshan.