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american, we will learn the ways of american culture,
including the heightened degrees of selfishness, desire, and
capitalistic yearning for possessions that abound in this
country. But when we have outgrown the cultural norm,
what are we to do? In the past, when anyone had reached
the zenith of their spiritual pursuit in this country, where
did they have to go to find more? They had to go to India
or some other country in the east. That is predominantly
where the light and sound Masters have been for thousands
of years. america is a very, very young country. It has
been establishing its own government, its own conscience,
and its own consciousness, and the need has now arisen for
an american sat guru, a Master who has a unique type of
appeal to the Western consciousness and culture.
When a Westerner who wants to pursue sound goes to
India and begins practicing under the tutelage of an Indian
Master, they often, though not always, experience certain
difficulties. The primary difficulty is that the Indian Master
was raised within India’s culture, and much of India’s ways
of thinking and ways of life are very different from our ex-
perience in the West. several of the largest light and sound
paths in the east are over one hundred years old, and their
roots go back much further yet. These paths were fash-
ioned by past Masters to fit and serve the needs of indi-
viduals living in that particular culture and time period.
Therefore, if you were to go to India and seek initiation
into the sound Current from a Master there, you would find
their methods of presenting the Teachings and their re-
quired disciplines, or vows, very different from those of
Masterpath, although the Teachings, the principles them-
selves, would essentially be the same.
generally, the light and sound Masters in India rec-
ommend two and one-half hours of meditation every day.
The students are required to assume a rather strict vegetarian