The great Indian mystics get a lot of press these days, but someone has said that everyone gets to be famous for fifteen minutes. In other times, we hear a lot about mystics of other nationalities. They forget that this is not true for all Indians, and neither is it false for all others. When this happens, it is very embarrassing and disappointing to all. When the Indian Wanabi seeker meets up with some real Indians and sees this, it's all too easy for one set of stereotypes to replace another.
Racism takes many forms.
And he wears a thousand guises. There is in each of us a bright spark of the Divine, and also there is in each of us the deepest shadow. The sight of these things is too much for most people to bear. So when we get a glimpse of this, we are all too quick to attribute it to some race, some class, even some hero. There is God and Devil in us all.