guru - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Fri, 30 May 2014 00:56:49 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg guru - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Is he dead or just meditating? https://cathnews.co.nz/2014/06/03/dead-just-meditating/ Mon, 02 Jun 2014 19:20:34 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=58553 Followers of an Indian guru thought to have died of a heart attack insist he is just meditating and are refusing to let his family take the body away for cremation. They say Shri Ashutosh Maharaj is not dead, he is just meditating deeply and they are keeping him in a deep freeze to preserve Read more

Is he dead or just meditating?... Read more]]> Followers of an Indian guru thought to have died of a heart attack insist he is just meditating and are refusing to let his family take the body away for cremation.

They say Shri Ashutosh Maharaj is not dead, he is just meditating deeply and they are keeping him in a deep freeze to preserve him until he wakes up.

Son Dilip Jha said the real reason the followers would not release his father's body was to keep control of his financial empire.

Is he dead or just meditating?]]> 58553 Not sorry Bert Potter is dead https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/05/15/not-sorry-bert-potter-is-dead/ Mon, 14 May 2012 19:31:37 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=25250

Bert Potter died without expressing sorrow for the ways in which he damaged many young people. Rosemary McLeod describes him as "a warning to whoever seeks a personal sage - and avoidance of reality - that you'll most likely end up knee-deep in something disgusting". As McLeod sees it, giving such people guru status means Read more

Not sorry Bert Potter is dead... Read more]]> Bert Potter died without expressing sorrow for the ways in which he damaged many young people.

Rosemary McLeod describes him as "a warning to whoever seeks a personal sage - and avoidance of reality - that you'll most likely end up knee-deep in something disgusting".

As McLeod sees it, giving such people guru status means denying "all the common sense of our upbringing, [and] the received wisdom of centuries".

Read Rosemary McLeod's column from The Press.

Image: The Northern Advocate

Rosemary McLeod is a columnist, cartoonist and journalist.

 

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