Guru

. They toured worldwide in 2004 with Ben Kweller, The Vines, The Music and Sparta amongst others to promote their new album. The Indian skeptic Basava Premanand toured around in the villages of India to educate people by debunking gurus and fakirs whom he considers frauds or self deceived. Also released in 2004 was the single "Megalomaniac" with a bonus song "Monuments and Melodies". Some believe that this rule has the drawbacks that one should know what is good and bad in the first place and that one cannot possibly know all acts and their corresponding fruits of a guru. One song left off the album, the 26-minute long instrumental entitled "The Odyssey" featured on the Halo 2 soundtrack. [3] (http://www.biblebell.org/proph/prophecy1.html) . Other singles were "Talk Shows on Mute" and "Agoraphobia".

According to the Bible, Jesus said that one should judge a prophet by his fruits, though it is not not clear whether this rule of the thumb also includes gurus. The first single off of ACLOTM was "Megalomaniac", which raised controversy when it was said to be an attack on the Bush administration and was banned from daytime view on MTV, despite the band saying that it was not an attack on a particular person, rather a comment on some people's negative attitudes. The history of various gurus, religions, sects, new religious movements and cults has shown that the question how to assess the authenticity of a guru is difficult, especially when the guru is still young. It combined the experimental leanings of S.C.I.E.N.C.E. and Fungus Amongus with the melodic rock of Make Yourself and Morning View. Lane wrote that a charlatan who cons people is not as dangerous as a guru who really believes in his delusions, and that 'bigger' the claims a guru makes, the bigger the chance that he is a charlatan or deluded. Their newest album, A Crow Left of the Murder, released in 2004 was a new turn for the band. The scholar David C. Over a year after creation, the foundation has raised under $400,000, giving to organisations such as the International Red Cross, the Painted Turtle, Operation Smile and the Surfrider Foundation.

He also wrote in the book that the gurus who are eloquent are the ones who are more likely to be unreliable and dangerous. The Make Yourself Foundation does not accept cash donations from fans. Storr includes people who are not normally labelled as a guru, such as Ignatius of Loyola, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung. Incubus also releases a CD series of "bootlegs" which feature recordings of live appearances and exlusive material, which directly benefit the charity. This belief system persists after the psychosis has gone away. Funds are gathered solely from ticket sales, merchandise, events, online auctions and album proceeds. The belief system was developed during the psychosis to make sense of the guru's own mind and perceptions. The Make Yourself Foundation was started by the founding members of the band in 2003 as a non-profit organization which donates to causes the band deems worthy.

He argues that the belief system that gurus hold developed in some cases from a period of psychosis. Also on the main stage were The Donnas, Jurassic 5, A Perfect Circle, Queens of the Stone Age, Audioslave, and Jane's Addiction. being loners without friends) and that some suffer from a mild form of schizophrenia. In 2003, the new Incubus played at the newly-revived Lollapalooza concert. The British psychiatry professor Anthony Storr argues in his book Feet of clay - A Study of gurus that gurus (in the non-Hindu usage of the word) share common character traits (e.g. He seems to have impressed because he was announced as the replacement for newly departed bassist Alex Katunich. See French legislation on cult abuses. The band later said this was his 'audition'.

Critics of these legislations interpret these measures as limitations of freedom of religion. Added to the line-up of the Time Lapse Consortium was Ben Kenney on the bass, from the band The Roots. Some countries have enacted legislations that protect individuals with specific vulnerabilities due to physical or psychological deficiencies. A bootleg was released of the show at the Roxy in Los Angelas. That label has been extended to any leader seeking to exert his domination over adepts of a secular, religious organization or school of thought, or to receive inappropriate benefits under the pretense of promoting among them a certain belief system. He also asked for help from Suzi Katayama, who had worked on Morning View, to arrange the orchestra. The guru and guruism labels have acquired a rather negative connotation in western countries, especially in France, likely due to the prominence of several self-proclaimed "gurus" in the US and during the 1960s and 1970s "New Age" movement, who used Hindu terminology without necessarily having much in common with mainstream Hinduism. Some of these gurus, were found to be abusing their status and to be charlatans, self-deceived, businessmen pretending to be saints, cult leaders or a combination of this. However, despite his intention of a solo project, he ended up enlisting all the remaining members of the band, except Chris Kilmore.

Many gurus claim that they can bring people closer to God, facilitate enlightenment, moksha, or nirvana, or can help people to achieve good karma and a correspondingly better next incarnation. He wrote the music himself and it came out as a jazz/funk mix. Some gurus offer a belief system that offers fulfillment and purpose and sometimes promises of a peaceful happy life. During the break, guitarist Mike Einziger set up the Time Lapse Consortium. He gathered together a group of musicians to perform a select number of shows. Other people who have traditional beliefs seek to intensify their religious life and see a guru who can help her or him with this. This new info was not released to the general public and the band took a break from Incubus to deal with the news and to take a breather from the constant pressure of writing music. Gurus provide answers to the meaning of life, often free from the intellectualism of philosophy. Dirk Lance), decided to leave the group.

The most common is that people look for the meaning of life and are disillusioned in traditional religions. After the tour, bassist Alex Katunich(a.k.a. There are several reasons why people in Western cultures are attracted by gurus. Incubus was allowed to design a Civic given away in a drawing. (The definition is from Jargon file.). In April 2002, the band hit the road again, this time as the headline band for Honda's Civic Tour with Hoobastank. Less often, used (with a qualifer) for other experts on other systems, as in VMS guru. Coupled with this, the band were now selling out big arenas and became a household name in the industry.1 (http://enjoyincubus.com/bio.html).

Nearly synonymous with "wizard", but additionally implies a history of being a knowledge resource for others. The success of Morning View and "Wish You Were Here" marked the band as a truely popular, mainstream rock band, reaching #2 in the billboards, with Morning View reaching #2 in the album charts, selling 440,000 copies in its first week. In hacker culture, a guru is an expert of legendary proportions. The other singles from the album were "Nice To Know You", "Warning" and "Are You In" and a radio single, "Circles". The term guru has also passed into an even wider metaphorical use. In interviews, the band all appeared very positive about their latest release; as Brandon Boyd puts it, "we all moved into a magnificent, Malibu mansion, set up our gear in the living room with a view of the ocean, and began creating what would be our most free-flowing work to date." The band also released a DVD after this album, featuring a live performance at the Morning View Mansion, footage of the band in the mansion, a photo gallery and the cut and un-cut versions of Wish You Were Here. Gurus often claim that they have achieved enlighment, moksha, that their teachings were channeled or that they have received a revelation. The house was located on a street named "Morning View"; hence the name.

Often, dependent on the teachings of the guru, the followers will see the guru as a prophet, saint or avatar. The sound of the record is generally seen as a reflection of that environment, as opposed to the basement where S.C.I.E.N.C.E. was recorded. On the other hand, Kranenborg accepts the word guru for Jesus. The album was a much more mellow record as opposed to the hard sounds on Make Yourself and S.C.I.E.N.C.E., thus coming into criticism from veteran fans but still retained such rockers as Have You Ever and Under My Umbrella. Sometimes Christians use the word guru as a pejorative label. This album was recorded in a mansion on the Pacific coast of California. In more recent usage of the word guru, it means anyone who propagates a philosophical or religious belief system independent of an established school of philosophy or religion and attracts and accepts followers because of this, especially when the veracity of the belief system hinges around the reliabiliy of the guru. Morning View was released on October 23, 2001.

The original meaning has evolved to a broader one. It was replaced with footage from the band in the Morning View Mansion where the album was recorded. According to van der Lans, the deification of a guru is a traditional element of of Eastern spirituality, but detached from the Eastern cultural element and copied by Westerners, the distinction between the person of the guru and that what he symbolizes is lost and it degenerates into a boundless, uncritical personality cult. Originally the video showed the band running from a group of screaming girls, forcing them to jump off a bridge into a river. The late Dutch professor in psychology of religion Jan van der Lans at the Radboud University Nijmegen has mentioned three dangers when the personal contact between the guru and the disciple is absent. "Wish You Were Here", the first single from the group's next album, Morning View was released on August 21, 2001, and reached number two in the US. At the end of September the video for "Wish You Were Here" was released, after being re-cut in order to make it more "viewable" in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11th. Reender Kranenborg, member of the board of CESNUR, who specializes in Hinduism and new religious movements at the Free University in Amsterdam, distinguished three types of gurus,. The "Drive" video was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award in the category Best Group Video, but the award went to *NSYNC.

The Dutch theologist Dr. The band also played in Australia and Japan, before touring with Hoobastank in the United States.
. 2001 was a busy year for the band, when Incubus went on the road with Hundred Reasons in the summer and played the Area One Festival before their Make Yourself went Double Platinum, selling two million copies. See also:. Fungus Amongus was re-released on November 7th, 2000, as a response to demand for the independently released album. The most important is the Guru Granth Sahib, their holiest book. During the year 2000, Incubus toured with Queen Adreena, 311, Deftones and Taproot and played Ozzfest again.

Sikhism says we are all the children of God and by deduction, God is our mother/father. Later the DVD, When Incubus Attacks Volume 2 was also released, featuring live footage, music videos and various backstage footage. For Sikhs, the Gurus were not in the Christian sense “Sons of God”. In the first week of its release (August 22nd, 2000), When Incubus Attacks Volume 1 sold almost 40,000 copies, and reached number 41 on the US Billboard Album Charts. This procedure was continued, and the tenth and last Guru, Guru Gobind (AD 1666–1708) initiated the Sikh ceremony in AD 1699. After playing the Ozzfest tour again, a six song EP, When Incubus Attacks Volume 1, was released. Before his death he designated a new Guru to be his successor and to lead the Sikh community. The next single, "Drive," did one better, reaching #1 and giving the band a new, mainstream following.

His followers referred to him as the Guru (teacher). It reached #2 in the Billboard Charts. Guru Nanak, the first guru of Sikhism, was opposed to the caste system prevalent at his time in India. "Stellar" was the second single released from Make Yourself, and the video was played on MTV and TRL. Indeed, the Sikhs carried the meaning of the word to an even greater level of abstraction, while retaining the original usage, to apply to understanding of imparted knowledge through any medium. The single reached #3 in the Billboard Music Charts. The title Guru is extremely fundamental to the religion of the Sikhs. "Pardon Me" was released as a single and -- as MTV began playing the video -- the band began to gain a mainstream following.

The term vajra is also used, meaning 'master'.




. Immediately they went out on tour again, this time with Primus. A guru is someone who is not necessarily a Buddha but is heavy with knowledge. The album was a much more mainstream rock album than the experimental S.C.I.E.N.C.E.. In Tibetan, the operative word is 'lama' which means 'guru'. After touring with Black Sabbath, Incubus began recording Make Yourself, which was released on October 26, 1999. According to the Dalai Lama, the term 'living Buddha' is a translation of the Chinese word 'ho fu'. A live recording of the song "New Skin" appeared on the Family Values compilation CD.

The Dalai Lama speaking of the importance of the guru, said: "Rely on the teachings to evaluate a guru: Do not have blind faith, but also no blind criticism.". The band then continued to tour, playing in Europe and America with the likes of Sugar Ray, Hoobastank, 311, Far, One Minute Silence, Cold, Limp Bizkit, (hed) p.e., Snot, Soulfly, System of a Down, Korn, Papa Roach, as well as playing the Warped Tour for three dates, the Ozzfest and the Family Values tour in the summer and fall of 1998. The importance of a guru-disciple relationship, is demonstrated by ritual empowerments or initiations where the student obtains permission to practice a particular tantra. In February 1998, DJ Lyfe was asked to leave because of trouble within the band and Chris Kilmore was brought in to fill the vacant position.
In tantric Buddhism, a guru is essential for the initiation,practice and guidance along the path. "A Certain Shade Of Green" was the only single from the album and didn't make a dent in the singles charts. The disciple regards the guru as the embodiment of Buddha or a Bodhisattva, and as such he shows devotion and great appreciation toward him. S.C.I.E.N.C.E. was released on September 9, 1997.

In this foundation the disciple can continue in their experiential path on the true nature of reality. Incubus collaborated with DJ Greyboy to produce the song "Familiar" for the Spawn movie soundtrack in 1997. The guru's blessing is the last of the four foundations in Vajrayana Buddhism. Many songs from Fungus Amongus were rereleased on Enjoy Incubus, but were touched up.
. Enjoy Incubus was released on Immortal Records on January 7 of that year, exactly two years after the band's second demo.
. Between that release and their 1997 major label debut EP, Enjoy Incubus, the band acquired DJ Lyfe, who introduced hip-hop sounds to the band's already diverse mix of music.

It is worth noting that in all sects with a disciplic succession or parampara, both guru and disciple affirm to be servants of the divine. On November 1, 1995, Fungus Amongus was released on the band's own label,Stopuglynailfungus Music on Chillum. To illustrate the elevated status of a guru, some saints and poets have sung the glory of the guru:. On January 7, 1995, the demo tape Incubus was released, featuring songs that would later appear on their first album, Fungus Amongus, and their EP, Enjoy Incubus. Indeed, there is an understanding in some sects that if the devotee were presented with the guru and God, first he would pay respects to the guru since the guru had been instrumental in leading him to God. One song of interest from this demo was "Bathe In My Snot", which harnessed much of the band's newly created energy. The origin of guru can be traced back as far as the early Upanishads, where the conception of the Divine Teacher on earth first manifested from its early Brahmin associations. For the next few years, Incubus continued to play live and write music, which cumulated in their first demo recording released in 1994, titled Closet Cultivation.

Other gurus whose legacy of continuing the Hindu yogic tradition grew in the 20th century were luminaries like Shri Aurobindo Ghosh, Shri Ramana Maharshi, Swami Sivananda and Swami Chinmayananda. In 1991, after adopting the name Incubus, the band began playing at parties in their neighborhood. Some influential gurus in the Hindu tradition (there have been many) include Adi Shankaracharya, Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, and Shri Ramakrishna. At this time they began writing their own music. In some more mystical Hindu circles, it is believe that the guru could awaken dormant spiritual knowledge within the pupil, known as shaktipat. They asked their friend, Brandon Boyd to join and he became the vocalist. Indeed, it is now a standard part of Hinduism (as defined by the six Vedic streams and the Tantric Agamic streams) that a guru is one's spiritual guide on earth. They mostly played Metallica and Megadeth covers and were able to get a few gigs at friend's parties.

The role of the guru continues in the original sense of the word in such Hindu traditions as Vedanta, Yoga, Tantra and Bhakti sects. Jose Pasillas, Alex Katunich, Mike Einziger began jamming together while at Calabasas High School in 1990. Some Hindu denominations like BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha hold that a personal relationship with a living guru, revered as the embodiment of God, is essential in seeking moksha. "Incubus" is latin for "nightmare." Mike says that the name was chosen because it sounded silly; Brandon holds that it was chosen because they were teenagers and the definition had the word "sex" in it. In the traditional sense, the word guru describes a relationship rather than an absolute and is used as a form of address only by a disciple addressing his master. After a few failed choices, Mike looked in a thesaurus and chose "Incubus" almost at random. The lineage of a guru, spread by worthy disciples who carry on that guru's particular message, is known as the guru parampara or disciplic succession. The band needed to think of a name hours before their first show.

Often a guru lives in an ashram. Dirk Lance) (bass). The disciple of a guru is called sishya or chela. Former members of the band include DJ Lyfe (turntables) and Alex Katunich (a.k.a. Compare also Swami. Incubus is an eclectic rock band, that consists of five men from Calabasas, California: Brandon Boyd (vocals and percussion), Mike Einziger (guitar), Ben Kenney (bass), Jose Pasillas (drums) and DJ Kilmore (turntables). In the sense mentioned here above, guru is used more or less interchangeably with "satguru" (literally: true teacher) and satpurusha. There is also a demon called an incubus..

Another popular etymology claims that the syllables gu (गु) and ru (रू), stand for darkness and light, respectively, providing the esoteric meaning that the guru is somebody who leads the disciple from the darkness of ignorance to the light of knowledge [1] (http://www.dharmayoga.org/onlinestudy/dictionary.htm) [2] (http://www.samadhi-yoga.com/jai/reflect.htm). Another etymology claimed in Hindu scriptures is that of dispeller of darkness (wherein darkness is seen as avidya, lack of knowledge both spiritual and intellectual), 'gu' meaning darkness, and 'ru' meaning dispeller. The word comes from the sanskrit root "gru" literally meaning heavy, weighty. It originated in a Hindu context and holds a special place in Hinduism, signifying the sacred place of knowledge (vidya) and the imparter of knowledge.

The word guru means teacher in Sanskrit and other Sanskrit-derived languages like Hindi, Bengali and Gujarati.
. In further metaphorical extension it means simply a person with the status of an authority by reason of special skill, training or knowledge. In a Western context, the term Guru has extended into anyone who makes religious or philosophical statements and has followers because of this, in some cases in negative contexts.

Guru is widely used in contemporary India with the universal meaning of the word "teacher". Indeed, in Indian languages like Hindi, 'Thursday' is called either Brihaspativaar or Guruvaar (vaar meaning period or day). Guru is also the Sanskrit reference to Brihaspati, a Hindu figure equivalent to the planet the Greeks named Jupiter; in Vedic astrology, Jupiter/Guru/Brihaspati is believed to exert teaching influences. Till today in India and among people of Hindu or Sikh persuasion, the title retains its significant hallowed space.

It is based on a long line of Hindu philosophical understandings of the importance of knowledge and that the teacher, guru, is the sacred conduit to self-realization. A guru (गुरू Sanskrit) is a Hindu religious teacher. There is also a 2002 movie titled The Guru. There is a 1990s alternative rapper named Guru.

Adi Da. Swami Roberto. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh or Osho. Meher Baba.

U.G.Krishnamurti. Gurdjieff. I. G.

Aleister Crowley. Note: Maharaji dropped the title "guru" from his name in 1980s together with other Hindu trappings. Maharaji, born under the name Prem Rawat. Madame Blavatsky founder of Theosophy.

Shoko Asahara former guru of Aum Shinrikyo. Benjamin Creme. Marshall Applewhite leader of Heaven's Gate. Mysticsm and critical thinking should go together.

it increases the chance of false mysticism. meditation should be performed under personal support by the guru to keep emotions under control and to prevent psychological harm;. it increases the chance of idealization of the guru by the student (myth making and deification);. the avatar, a guru who claims to be an incarnation of God, or to be God-like, or an instrument of God, for example Sathya Sai Baba and gurus from the Sant Mat lineage.

This type of guru asks for unquestioning obedience and can have Western followers and even Westerners have become one, for example Andrew Cohen. the enlightened master who derives his authority from his experience, such as achieving moksha. the spiritual advisor for higher caste Hindus who also performs traditional rituals and who is not connected to a temple (thus not a priest). The Ten Gurus of Sikhism.

Sikhism. Swami Vivekananda. Swami Shyam. Swami Ramatirtha.

Swami Premananda. Swami Dayananda. Sriram Sharma Acharya. Srila Gurudeva, (Tamala Krishna Goswami, Prabhupada's)disciple).

Sri Shankaracharya (Advaita philosophy). Sri Yukteswar Giri. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. Sri Deep Narayan Mahaprabhuji.

Sri Chinmoy. Sivananda. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (founder of the Saiva Siddhanta Church, Hinduism Today (http://www.hinduismtoday.com) magazine). Saradamani Devi, the holy Mother.

Shrii Shrii Anandamurti Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar, founder of Ananda Marga (AMPS). Shri Aurobindo Ghosh. Shirdi Sai Baba. Sathya Sai Baba.

Ramana Maharshi. Ramakrishna_Paramhansa. Ram Dass (Richard Alpert). Paramyogeshwar Sri Devpuriji.

Paramahansa Yogananda. Nisargadatta Maharaj. Neem Karoli Baba. Narayana Guru.

Muktananda. Mata Amritanandamayi or Ammachi. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Lord Basava.

Gurudeb Rabindranath Thakur. Dharmsamrat Paramhans Swami Madhavananda. Dayananda Saraswati. Chinmayananda.

Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Bhakti-Yoga-Rasavatar Jagadguru Shree Kripaluji Maharaj. Akhandanand Saraswati Maharaj. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the Hare Krishna Movement (ISKCON).

A.C. Sahjo Bai. Brahmanand. Kabir.