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♪♪ [ Zitar Droning ]

♪♪ [ Man Droning ]

♪♪ [ Droning Continues ]

♪♪ [ Man Droning
In Higher Tone ]

♪♪ [ Continues ]

Today is the unveiling.

At the unveiling,
we... unveil our true self.

You see,

I am not
who you think that I am.

[ Man Narrating ]
My name is Vikram Gandhi,

and I wasn't always a guru.

That's me. Yep, pretty cool.
And my brother
was pretty cool too.

♪♪ [ Singing ]

[ Vikram Narrating ]
I come from a long line
of religious Hindus.

Like many first-generation
immigrants,

my parents were determined
not to let America's
great melting pot...

dilute our Indian traditions.

So they immersed me
in Hindu mythology,

Indian philosophy
and endless ritual.

Most American kids my age
worshipped Hulk Hogan.

- [ Thunderclap ]
- But I was exposed to a whole
different set of heroes.

At times, these ancient rituals
seemed like little more than a
source of public embarrassment,

and I began to question
why we needed religion
in the first place.

Religion is life,
and life is religion.

Maybe this was all just
a bunch of nonsense somebody
made up a long time ago.

Despite my growing skepticism,

I remember watching
my grandmother perform
morning prayers...

- and seeing this great sense
of calm sweep over her.
- [ Chanting ]

- That feeling must have come
from somewhere.
- [ Chanting Continues ]

I studied religion in college,
hoping to find
spiritual answers.

But it backfired.
I only became more of a skeptic.

By the time I was an adult
and ready to leave
my religion behind,

America was embracing
the very same tradition
I was trying to escape.

Yoga had become the answer
to all of our Western problems.

For me, it's like-- It's
the only time when I kind of
shut down my inner voices, like,

[ Higher Pitch ] "You should
do that. Oh, you should
lose some weight." [ Babbles ]

And a five-billion-dollar-
a-year industry.

The messengers of this movement
called themselves gurus.

They dressed like Indian monks
and swamis...

and drew their credibility
from thousands of years
of Indian spirituality,

- whether they had
a claim to it or not.
- [ Chants ]

I wanted to know if these
spiritual leaders were for real
or just full of it,

so I started to make
a documentary about them.

You know, I think he's
right up there in the ranks
of the angels.

Uh-- And I've been waiting
for a teacher like this
for so long, Vikram, you know.

Many were all too willing
to enjoy the fruits
of their power.

If I was a 20-year-old girl,
I would love hanging out
with me.

You-You'd follow me?
I would just love that.

He's the new teacher
of this age,
of this world.

"He's having sex with all
the young girls. He cannot
be a real guru." Why not?

He's the one who has the answer.
That's what I believe.

What could be more fabulous
than having sex with a really
spiritual, mystical person?

Wow.

[ Vikram Narrating ]
These people insisted
they were somehow different...

than everyone else
in some inexplicable way.

But none of them seemed
any different to me.

[ Vikram ]
So how do you figure out
who's real?

Only the one
who carries that power
to transmit it nonverbally.

That's how you know.

♪♪ [ Women Chanting ]

[ Vikram Narrating ]
I traveled to India,
hoping to find...

a true spiritual teacher
that I could believe in.

But the Indian gurus
were just as phony as the ones
I had found in America.

When I was eight,
I was given this divine touch
by the master. One touch.

Just he touched me,
like, here. And--

A lot of the gurus I met
claimed to be more authentic
than other gurus.

They don't teach history to us.
Just they get money from them.

And they say, "Okay, make long
beard. Make long dreadlocks.

And live like a Baba,
dress like a Baba."

I felt like the gurus
were trying to out-guru
each other.

To go to God and to live in
spiritual is very different.

And very difficult
to live a spiritual life.

Even people who said they
weren't gurus were often treated
by others as if they were.

I guess my problem wasn't
with spirituality. It was
just with spiritual leaders.

- Why did we need them?
- Oh, there's a store.
Let's go shopping.

She's sexy, man.
Huh?

Fuckin' sexy, man.
Huh?

[ Vikram Narrating ]
I wanted to prove to others
who were looking for answers...

that no one is more spiritual
than anyone else.

That spiritual leaders
are just illusions.

And we are the ones
who decide who and what is real.

So I thought, "What if I
became a spiritual leader?

If I could do it,
wouldn't it prove
anyone could?"

With a few cosmetic changes,
I could easily look like a guru.

So I let my hair grow out
and my beard.

I started practicing yoga
and meditation every day.

I felt the effects
almost immediately.

-Now all I needed was to
imitate my grandmother's voice.
-[ Indian Accent ] Hello.

- ♪♪ [ Rock ]
- [ Man ]
♪ Yeah! ♪

♪ Hey, hey
Hey, hey ♪

At first it was fun.
It was a prank.

- Hello.
- How are you?
Good to meet you, guru.

- Nice to meet you.
- Is that how you go by?

-Or is there another name
we should call you?
-What would you like to call me?

I don't know. They told me
I should call you guru.

- [ Chattering ]
- Yes. Very good.

I wanted to try out my disguise
in a more formalized setting.

So I got my friend
to book my guru alter ego
as a guest teacher...

at a local yoga studio.

Can you just, uh, move?

I created a series
of made-up chants.

- And I taught nonsense rituals
and yoga moves.
- ♪♪ [ Chanting Continues ]

People seemed to like it.

I thought of that inner peace
I'd found while sitting
with my grandmother.

- Was that real?
- [ Chanting ]

Could people find the same peace
from a made-up religion...

that they found in a real one?

- [ Chattering ]
- Could I really pull this off?

I felt connected to you
right away.

Um-- Something about you.

I was like-- I don't know.
Like I was, like, "I'll just
follow him anywhere."

This is the story
of the biggest lie
I've ever told...

and the greatest truth
I've ever experienced.

It's about the time
I pretended to be
a wise guru from the East...

and started a following
of real people in the West.

This is the story of Kumaré.

♪♪ [ Instrumental ]

It was time to start
my experiment...

living as the guru Kumaré.

I chose Phoenix, Arizona,
because I figured people there
would be open...

to the teachings
of an Eastern guru.

And if I was gonna pull this off
without getting caught,

I needed a place where nobody
would recognize me.

I was gonna need help,
so I brought with me Purva
to book events...

and Kristen
to help spread Kumaré's
teachings to the yoga world.

They would be Kumaré's
first followers
and greatest public supporters.

Together, we set out to spread
the teachings of Sri Kumaré.

This was our house
and our temporary ashram.

I moved my bedroom outside so I
could sleep like all the gurus
and swamis I'd met in India.

I taught Kristen
my fake yoga moves...

and began
writing down the basics
of the Kumaré philosophy.

As a guru,
all I would teach people
was that I was an illusion.

But in order to find students
I could teach this to,

I needed to establish myself
in the community.

So Purva began booking classes.

[ Thick Indian Accent ]
Okay, see you Sunday
for three hours. [ Chuckles ]

Okay, bye.
[ Normal Voice ]
Booked!

So, it's Inner Vision Studio
in, uh, Phoenix.

They have, like,
three or four locations, and--

It's such a huge place that I-I
personally think we'll get,
like, 40, 50 people in there.

- [ Chuckles ]
- [ Vikram, Indian Accent ]
Good job.

[ Kristen ]
When we talk about Kumaré,
Kumaré means "divine child."

It's more of a title
rather than a name
like any of us have.

[ Indian Accent ]
This is, um, from, uh,
The Kumaré Sutra.

Uh, Chapter 3, Section 12.

"The seeker who finds
the teacher feeds himself
with the milk of wisdom,

like a child
at a mother's teat,

nurtured by faith
in the dream of Pinkaloka."

[ Indian Accent ]
Right side, left side.
Right side, left side.

[ Kristen Exhales ]
This is good for when
we're feeling stuck.

- In what part of life
you use yoga to help?
- Uh--

[ Vikram ]
Life problem sometime heal
from yoga.

I have a really
stressful job.

What your job is?

- I'm a death penalty attorney.
[ Chuckles Nervously ]
- Oh!

I'm the one who,
at the last minute,
tries to call the governor...

to save the life of my client
who's going to be killed
by the government.

Okay. You need someone
to be that one who calls
your governor to save you.

- Yeah. Can you teach me?
- [ All Chuckle ]

It's fascinating, but it's very
dangerous 'cause your heart gets
bound up with these people.

All people who want to do good,
they sometime forget...

that they also
have to do good
for themselves.

Kumaré is more than a teacher,
you know.

He's more than just putting you
through the asanas and all that.

- Thank you so much.
- Yes.

You were all wonderful.

[ Vikram Narrating ]
Toby was a smart lady.

And much to my surprise,
she felt a connection to Kumaré.

As much time as he can spend,
I would be happy to spend.

In order to find
more people like Toby,
we needed to spread the word.

He holds up
the mirror for you.

But not literally.
Metaphorically.

[ Together ]
♪ Kumaré, Kumaré, Kumaré ♪

[ Purva ]
♪ Cheshli, Kumaré ♪

- [ Repeats Nervously ]
♪ Cheshli, Kumaré ♪
- [ Purva ] ♪ Kumaré ♪

We know the answer's inside.

We just need someone
to bring it out in us.
And that's what he does.

- Holds the mirror up.
- So everybody's truth
is going to be different.

I see myself in other people,

and people, I know,
will look at myself
and see what they want to see.

I met Guruji,
and I swear he's fresh out
of the Himalayas.

There's something about him
that is truly unique.
He's just a simple man.

There's nothing, uh,
phony about him.

[ Kristen Instructing,
Indistinct ]

Kumaré is a being that is
open towards everything
in a nonjudgmental way.

- Thank you.
- [ Vikram Narrating ]
The more students I met...

and classes I taught,
the more it seemed the Kumaré
movement could take hold.

- I just wanted to have
a little bit of your energy.
- [ Speaks Foreign Language ]

[ Speaking Foreign Language ]

The people that feel
that connection towards him
and they see him,

and they're, like, "Teach me!
Bring it in.
Bring it in."

[ Vikram Narrating ]
People were asking
for my blessing,

so I just started to imagine
I had this blue light,

this pure love inside me,
and I would just shoot it
onto them.

Focus blue light--
your forehead.

I didn't know what I was doing,
but people seemed
so fascinated by me.

He just has this infectious
laugh, and you feel like
you've known him all your life.

- [ Laughs ]
- [ Chattering ]

For some reason, I just know
that I'm gonna have a little bit
more time with this guy.

♪ Kumaré, Kumaré, Kumaré ♪

[ Students ]
♪ Kumaré, Kumaré, Kumaré ♪

[ Vikram Narrating ]
I kept inventing my own
spiritual jargon.

♪♪ [ Vikram Sings
In Foreign Language ]

And what I was saying
often made little sense.

- [ Vikram ] U-wa-é.
- [ Students Repeat ] U-wa-é.

This one you say like "Om."

But because we say that,
whole world change.

[ Vikram Narrating ]
My backstory was
equally convoluted.

If they ask, "Where you from?"
I say, "Halikash.
This one from my mind.

- You have problem?"
- [ All Chuckle ]

Basically, I was just
telling everybody I was fake.

This whole thing like a show,
right? This one, this guy
in a dress, looking this.

- All show.
- [ Students Laugh ]

[ Vikram Narrating ]
As Vikram, I defined myself
as where I lived, who I knew.

But as Kumaré, I was nobody.
I was an empty vessel.

- They call me Kumaré.
- [ Mispronounces ] Ku-mar-lé.

- Kumaré. Ku-- Ku-- Kumaré.
- Kuma-- [ Laughs ]

- Kumarlé?
- Kumaré.

- Eh, my English
isn't that good.
- [ Both Chuckle ]

And for once,
I was capable of anything.

When he would focus
on the different chakras,

I was just on fire.

It's very powerful.

It was interesting
trying to teach...

a Himalayan yogi master
some magic tricks.

- [ Exhales ]
- [ Woman ]
Whoa!

- Don't do that.
- But he pulled it off
really well.

[ Vikram Narrating ]
Why did everyone love
being around Kumaré?

I actually immediately felt
better in his presence.

It's the first time I've ever
had contact with a genuine guru.

- I am a-- from a place
called the Halikash.
- Excuse me?

[ Vikram Narrating ]
And why did I love being him?

- [ Boy ]
I like to play games.
- Okay.

- All the time.
- I also like to play games.

Oh.

I have intense feelings
about the whole planet.

[ Vikram Narrating ]
As Kumaré, I got to be happy
all the time. That was my job.

- You are aware, you are--
You are looking intently.
- I am not. Why do you--

- Get out of my head! No--
- [ Both Laugh ]

This symbol is
your religion symbol?

No, no.
It's just Mickey Mouse.

[ Shouting, Cheering,
Indistinct ]

I could tell that he
was very, very special
before I even met him.

There's a white glow,
um, in tight against your body.

It's so pure
and bright and white.
It's just absolutely beautiful.

[ Vikram Narrating ]
Living as Kumaré was starting
to rub off on me.

It's like when your mother
tells you,

"Be careful what face
you make because it
will stay like that."

I feel myself getting warmer
than normal. I'm sure that's
your energy.

And I see behind you
the whole sea of other Kumarés,

and they all stand behind you,
and they just rise behind you.

I see almost a "V."
It feels that it is
your turn...

to be here
and be the embodiment...

of that energy now.

It's as if you
marinated in it...

before you came here.

I would see him
in an ascended master status.

It-It just seems
a little different than some
of the others I experienced.

And I-I-- I'm sure there's
realms that I've never witnessed
or experienced.

- Can you see a Vikrama?
- I'm not sure what that is.

- What I see is purple
with the red above.
- [ Murmurs ]

And I feel Metatron,
Archangel Metatron.

- All back, coming up.
Then you come like this.
- [ Exhales Deeply ]

- So, like this, the whole body.
That when you don't--
- [ Exhales ]

have a-- you have proper--
inhale, exhale like that.

[ Kristen ]
Exhale, inhale.
Exhale.

[ Inhaling, Exhaling ]

[ Exhales ]

What is illusion?
What is truth?

You don't know
if I am good,
I am bad.

You don't know that.

All you know is how
you see people act.

Good morning.

The illusion aspect
of it to me was, you know,
we create who we are.

- Thank you.
- Yes. Bobby.

- Bobby.
- Yes.

[ Vikram Narrating ]
I started noticing the same
people returning to class.

There was Kimberly, who often
sat quietly in the back
and never spoke to me.

Greg, who was always eager
to get a spot in the front.

And Stewart, who loved
eating free samples
at grocery stores.

- But you can get
a lot of little samples.
- Yeah.

And sometimes when you go there,
it's not just for the food.

It's because you know the people
giving it to you,
and you talk to them,

and it becomes
like a little community,
like you're talking--

- Stewart-- [ Indistinct ]
- [ Stewart Laughs ]
I think so.

Okay.

And then there was Emily, who
very quickly began to confide
in me about her personal life.

- Remember, I have
a husband too.
- Okay.

He-He's the polarity of me.

So it's hard when--
It's hard when you can't
reflect one another.

- Have to trick, fake--
trick sometimes.
- Trick! [ Chuckles ]

- Trick, fake.
- Fake.

I don't know his history.
It's not something...

that he brings to the table--
it's not the point.

[ Vikram ]
Oh, you are not average.

- Thank you.
- Ah.

I would love to know him
even more, but I don't.

You know, this is just
my impression of, you know,
a couple hours here and there.

- It's okay, okay.
- Thank you.

- Okay, okay.
- Thank you.

Thank you,
thank you.

- See you soon.
See you soon.
- Okay.

- [ Emily Laughs ]
I'll see you.
- Okay.

Are you going--

[ Vikram Narrating ]
Kumaré's presence in Phoenix
was taking shape,

but the real test would be
if people stayed interested,
even after I'd left for a while.

So I went to Tucson,
where a man named Darrell...

had invited me to share in
his unique spiritual practice.

- Greetings. Come in.
- [ Chuckles ]

When he came,
I didn't know what to think,
to be honest with you.

I did look up on the Web,
you know, and saw some things
about him,

and I was really excited
about him coming.

In the Bible, it says,
"In the beginning
was the Word."

"The Word" is vibration,
sound, okay?

God is sound. The sound that
intoxicates, the sound that's
bliss and ecstasy.

That's what I teach people:
to find the sound
in their body.

My teaching:
This is, uh, a fake.

A fake one.

- They want Kumaré be guru.
- Yeah.

- I say, "Okay, come."
- Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

- But then I say,
"No, I am not."
- [ Chuckles ]

- They realize that one.
You don't know that.
- [ Chuckling Continues ]

- You know that.
- Yes, yes, yes.

- Good.
- Always.

And then we went back to
the healing room. And I did
a session with him.

And hold. Hold.
Arm down at your side. Good.
Keep holding. Keep holding.

Let your body drop.
Let everything go through you.

And just feel yourself
getting lighter and lighter.

♪♪ [ Didgeridoo Drones ]

♪♪ [ Droning Continues ]

♪♪ [ Droning Tone ]

♪♪ [ Droning Chant,
Lower Tone ]

♪♪ [ High-pitched Ding ]

- [ Exhales ]
- [ Whirring ]

- [ Vikram Exclaims ]
- Keep the breath going.

- [ Exhales ]
- Yeah.

- [ Moans ]
- That's good.

- Good. Good.
- [ Exhales ]

[ Moans ]

[ Both Grunting ]

Pure pleasure.
Breathe it up.
[ Inhales ]

- Ah. Joy and divine bliss,
which is our birthright.
- Ahh.

[ Together ]
Ahh.

- [ Darrell ] I had goose bumps
coming all over my arms.
- Two more.

As soon as I would look at him
or connect with the energy,
it would just go all over me.

- [ Grunting ]
- Two more!
[ Inhales Deeply ]

- [ Grunts ]
- Now hold it in you.
[ Inhales Deeply ]

Hold it. Keep holding. Come
back. I got you. I got you.
Keep holding. Keep holding.

I don't know what that means,
but it just felt like there was
some memory,

some remembrance
coming there,

uh, because his spirit
was so beautiful,
and I was just in alignment.

♪♪ [ Indian ]

♪♪ [ Continues ]

Now with your hands,
you offer this sound
out to the room,

- like a big ball of blue light
inside middle of room.
- ♪♪ [ Students Drone Softly ]

- [ Student Exhales Deeply ]
- [ Vikram ]
Don't worry. Make your sound.

- [ Student Laughs ]
- ♪♪ [ Droning Continues ]

- [ Man ] Huh!
- Say your sound. Everyone
together say your sound.

- When you come up,
you will release.
- [ Students Sigh Deeply ]

- Release now.
- ♪♪ [ Chanting ]

♪♪ [ Chanting Continues ]

- ♪♪ [ Students Chanting ]
- ♪♪ [ Chants ]

[ Student Chanting ]
♪ Ooh, jah, ma, ma, ma,
ma, ma, ma ♪

♪♪ [ Chanting ]

♪ Ooohhh ♪

[ Extended Notes, Ascending ]
♪ Ahhhhhh! ♪

♪♪ [ Continues ]

♪♪ [ Chanting,
Indistinct ]

[ Vikram ]
Together.

Your blessing
gave a blessing,
uh, to me...

because I am
too often enthralled
by the sound of sound...

instead of the silence
of sound.

Thank you very much
for that blessing.

I connected with that.
Namaste.

[ Vikram Narrating ]
The power of illusion
was greater in Tucson...

than I'd ever imagined.

I knew I would never see
these people again--

Hello. Mr. Life?

so I wanted to see how far
I could push it.

So I have a Western doctoral
degree from the university.

- You're a doctor of philosophy.
- Yes.

[ Singsongy ]
This is how I give you...

all symbol of a Pinasignore.

Life. 'Cause that is all.

People wanting-- you deserve
to find happiness.

So you can open eyes,
and you look.

See your feeling.

You will have to use
this image like a mirror.

All symbol.
Just a symbol.

Nothing inside altar.

It felt like, uh,
experiencing...
bliss and light.

And I can, uh,
feel the energy...

of him and I
connecting in the ritual.

He's someone who I can express
my energy through,

and he could express energy
through me.

U-wa-é, Kumaré.
[ Inhales ]

U-wa-é, Kumaré.
[ Inhales ]

U-wa-é, Kumaré.
[ Inhales ]

Full moon is tomorrow.
Do you watch the moon?

Sometime woman
have more feeling
from moon...

- than man, yes?
- Than men.

- [ Wheezing Chuckle ]
- It's pretty incredible.

- 28-day cycle.
- Hmm.

[ Chuckles ]
I love your house.

- You like my bedroom?
- Yeah.

You're making me
have some-- Inspired.

I'm totally inspired.

What you have been thinking
for last week about your life?

I'm very aware
of power versus force.

And I feel like I've been
forcing my marriage to work
for a long time,

and forcing and fighting.

Do you remember
that person you were...

when you first
meeting your husband?

Was it someone different, you?

- Mmm.
- Huh?

I don't even believe
in marriage.

He's not the same.

- Hmm.
- Mm-hmm.

I don't know.
I don't wanna be there.

- [ Sniffles ]
- Hmm.

I wanna go.
[ Sighs ]

So, that's easy.

But you feel alone
without a man in your life?

No, I never did.

So, um, I get to do
whatever I want now.
[ Chuckles ]

What do you think?
What do you feel?

[ Vikram Narrating ]
Would a real guru
have told her...

to ditch her husband
and become his student?

- [ Cries ]
- I wanted to tell her
to stay with her husband,

but I barely knew this woman.

Despite this costume, I wasn't
in any place to advise someone
I didn't really know.

Within a week,
Emily had left town
for California.

The longer I stayed in Phoenix,
the more people approached me...

with deep personal questions
and stories of suffering.

And wha-what do you do
when you're feeling down
and depressed?

- What is that?
- Wha-What do you do when you're
feeling down and depressed?

- What do you usually do?
- It wasn't always easy to hear
or respond to.

We had a--
a very mean father.

He beat and, um, sexually
abused all of us kids.

And he would tell us,
if we told our mom,
he would kill our mom,

so we had to be quiet
and not say anything,
you know?

[ Vikram Narrating ]
The truth was that under
this beard and this outfit,

I was just like them.

Okay. So, my family
is from this place.

It does not show Halikash,
but we don't advertise
that place.

So when we come to visit you,
how do we get ahold of you?

- E-mail?
- You will find. Don't worry.

- Ah, see, I like the way
Guruji eats.
- Mm-hmm.

That's-- And that's the way
you're supposed to eat
with raw foods.

- [ Woman ]
Yeah.
- I used to drink a lot.

I used to, you know,
chase women.

- I used to do
all sorts of things.
- [ Vikram ] Okay.

On top of all that,
I developed
a cocaine habit.

- And so I used to--
- Coca? Coca?

Cocaine.
I used to inject it.

Cocaine in arm.
Okay.

- My life spiraled down.
- Okay.

This one night--
You know, I'd been up
all night smoking crack.

And that morning she came back,
and-and she said, um,
"Greg, I'm leaving."

And I said,
"Okay. Um--
I need to go get help."

And so, six years ago
is when I got clean.

- And so, then we had to repair
our lives together.
- That took a while.

And when we got married,
the one thing we knew
we were going to do...

is put God first.

And-And-And
helping others became
the most important thing.

The most important thing--
just what you're doin'
right here,

by coming here
and helping others.

- The most important thing
you can do.
- Yeah.

- [ Shutter Clicks ]
- [ Vikram Narrating ]
Was I helping anyone?

- [ Chattering ]
- Was I even capable
of helping anyone?

I would blame
the crazy guy.

Despite my self-doubt,
more and more people
wanted to meet Kumaré.

An organic farm
near the Mexican border,
called Avalon Gardens,

had invited me to teach
a yoga class during their
annual Be Aware Festival.

And you bring this pelvis up.

Don't squeeze your buttocks.
Just bring this one up, soft.

After class, I took some time
to get to know the students.

How did you know to come
to this place?

When I came
and met Gabriel and Niann,

I knew that that prophecy
of when I was 12 years old,
from my Mormon church,

had come true--
that I found
a strange new language,

the Fifth Epochal Revelation,
and continuing.

- We're from different planets.
- We were told we're
"spirit lovers."

- "Spirit lovers"?
- Spirit lovers.

- We're from different planets
but the same universe.
- You are from?

- Avalon is the universe.
- Yes.

- I am from the planet Solano.
- Okay.

- And she is from
the planet Alcyon.
- Okay.

[ Vikram Narrating ]
This place was unique.

And it all had something to do
with a man named Gabriel.

The Urantia Book.
It's called Urantia because...

the Urantia is the name
of our planet,

according to the inhabited
worlds of time and space.

But it has to do
with allowing, uh, beings...

to take over my body
and speak through me.

- My soul--
[ Stutters ]
- [ Niann Murmurs ]

It has evolved to-to--
where they can trust me, uh,
hopefully. [ Chuckles ]

- Uh, purity of soul.
- Okay.

- Ah.
- Hope you see--
Hope you can see that.

- I see.
- Yeah.
[ Chuckles ]

[ Vikram Narrating ]
NBC's Dateline had done
an hour-long investigation...

on Gabriel of Urantia.

- I'm dangerous here.
- [ Woman Laughs ]

- Just like a Corvette.
- [ Woman Giggles ]

They claimed he forced people
to give up their belongings
and their identities...

to their cosmic family.

All I saw was a group
of positive and kindhearted
environmentalists...

who had decided to remove
themselves from the capitalist
pains of American life--

[ Speaks In Foreign Language ]

for greener, more epic pastures.

- Knock, knock.
- Looking like small people.

- I know. [ Chuckles ]
- Looking like--
What is that one?

- Hobbits.
- Yes! That one--

This is a hobbit house.

Do you watch movies?

- I-- I watch--
I like a movie, yeah.
- Uh-huh.

Yeah. I am director.

[ Vikram Narrating ]
Over 100 people lived in
or around this 80-acre compound.

Some for nearly 20 years.

They grew their own food
and had plans
to move off the grid.

You give some direction?
Life direction, you give them?

We have a, uh--
a-a rehabilitation
program...

for what, uh-uh--
what we call socially
disappointed, uh, people.

[ Chuckles ]
Young people...

that can't deal
with the, uh--
the system.

They can't deal with
the third dimension
actually.

We call our reality
"the fourth dimension."

[ Vikram Narrating ]
Everyone seemed genuinely happy.

But is this how cults
get people to join them?

By showing them
how happy they are?

Isn't that what people saw
in Kumaré?

Bump, bump, bump.

A biggie bump, bump.

The next morning,
Gabriel sat me down...

to tell me
what really inspired him
to start Urantia.

I didn't realize it,
but I was physically taken
onto a craft--

- a spacecraft.
- [ Speaking Foreign Language ]

[ Niann ]
But they cut it out
of his memory. Yeah.

Yeah. They cut it out
of my memory...

until years later,
and they brought it back.

And they said that I would have
what's called the mandate
of the Bright and Morning Star.

- These people know
that they need you?
- [ Niann ] Mm-hmm.

- Would-- What people? These--
- That you are--

- Oh, I see. [ Chuckles ]
- Students know that they--

- I think they know.
- They know they need you?
- Yes.

[ Vikram Narrating ]
After 20 years,
Gabriel still insisted...

he was the community's
only connection to God.

He reminded me why I created
Kumaré in the first place--

to show that leaders like him
were just illusions.

I always planned to unveil
my true identity.

But first, as Kumaré,
I had to teach something
I believed in.

And I would start
with my own story.

[ Vikram ]
First teacher of Kumaré,

his name is Vikram.

Basic family.
His father was a medicine man.

His mother--

His mother name Jyoti,
which mean "light."
Part of basic family.

At that time,

he is becoming a teacher
for many people.

And he is the only one
who did not know
that he was a teacher.

[ Student Chuckles ]

Why is it that?
Because he is feel like
a disguise.

He is living in a disguise.

But all these people,
they feel good.

So if other people have idea
for that story,

if that same story
they have in themself?

A certain tree
bears a certain fruit.

- [ Student ] Mm-hmm.
- Their actions. What they do.

- Their service.
- [ Vikram ] Yes.

Mm-hmm. To others--
how they treat others.
That's what I hear.

And then the story you're
telling me, I think you're
talking about yourself.

- [ Gasps, Laughs ]
- [ Students Laugh ]

- I was talking about self, yes.
- [ Students Laugh ]

- Thank you for your time.
- Thank you.

He is here trying to learn
about American culture...

and this society.

Since we're both learning
from each other,

I just feel like
there's a kind of harmonious
connection going on there.

[ Vikram Narrating ]
In many ways, Kumaré was
an ideal version of myself.

So if other people could create
an ideal version of themselves,

maybe they would
become happier too.

So what are you--
you are doing?

Now, in your life,
you are doing what?

I don't know.
I'm, like, kind of stuck.

I don't wanna jump
into a career.

I don't wanna put on a suit
and go to work every day
in an office...

and sit at a computer
and type all day.

- That doesn't seem fun to me.
- Yes.

I wanna be able to,
you know, go with the flow,

change with the wind,
you know.
[ Chuckles ]

- "Go with the flow"?
- [ Chuckles ]
Yeah.

- "Change with the wind."
- [ Chuckles ]
Yeah.

- Okay.
- [ Chuckles ]

- If you can imagine yourself
as someone else--
- Mm-hmm.

that you feel
is more true than
your-- your form now,

then you can make
those two become one.

Then you will not have
some feeling that I am not
doing what I want.

You will always feel--
Is it right?

We call this one
"Blue Light" meditation.

[ Vikram Narrating ]
The Blue Light was another
thing I had made up.

This one good.
But you do slow together.
[ Inhales ]

But now, it was becoming
something real.

And you look,
focus other person face,
into eyes, okay?

Until you feel yourself
inside other person, okay?

- Imagine that.
- [ Students Chuckle ]

[ Students Together ]
U-wa-é.

[ Together ]
U-wa-é.

- U-wa-é.
- [ Vikram Narrating ]
And for the first time,

- I felt the Blue Light.
- [ Students Together ]
U-wa-é.

There are so many gurus in
India. I have seen many of them.

They are just fake.
They are just fake gurus...

because they just
want attention
and maybe money and fame.

But meeting Kumaré,

I thought he had
the positive mind and attitude.

So I think he's a real teacher.

Only your reflection,
your mind,

your blue self,
pure self.

[ Woman ]
His teachings have already
affected my teachings.

It just confirms for me...

how much people want to
know more, and they don't know
where to start.

They're searching for something,
for answers.

You can come like this.
You looking very comfortable.
You can-- So come like that.

In religion,
they have temple, church--

all this idea.

But this space,
like you call "sacred space."

But you did not need that.

Illusion is that this place...

is somehow better than outside.

- It is very nice, Tish.
I thank you.
- [ Students Laugh ]

But... you can find
yoga center inside.

If you can bring
yoga center inside--

remember yoga center
inside you--

you will get that feeling
you have in here outside.

[ Vikram Narrating ]
Tish insisted on hosting a
concert in honor of Sri Kumaré.

I wanted to understand
what she saw in me.

I feel like there's
these other great teachers
that have things to pass on,

and I don't know if I do.

I feel like I've hit a ceiling,
somewhat, to what I can convey.

What do you see in this
Kumaré lineage that you have
some interest in?

I know exactly what it is.
[ Chuckles ]

And it was the meditation
where you were, um, talking
about the blue light...

and that we all have
what we're searching for
within ourselves.

And-And your meditation
was more direct than anything
I've read or experienced.

If I teach you this, uh,

- Blue Light meditation--
- Mm-hmm.

And then you-- you say,
"All right, I-I understand this
Kumaré-man. He is not right.

- I believe in him. Then he
is not right. I don't like."
- Mm-hmm.

Then will you
throw that meditation?

- Would I? Probably not.
[ Chuckles ]
- It is good.

[ Chuckles ]
No. Yeah.

So that is more important.

♪♪ [ Guitar ]

Kirtan is my thing. I love it.
And that's what I could offer.

And Tish loves it, so we could
do that as kind of a thank-you
gesture for Sri Kumaré.

♪♪ [ Sings In Foreign Language ]

[ Monica ]
I consider Kumaré to be a living
embodiment of the divine.

So I-I just wanna make sure
that I was welcoming him
and honoring him...

in a way that matched
who he is.

I guess what he's
helped me remember...

is the illusion
that we're separate from God.

And that-- that a guru,
you know, of God-realization
is no more--

is no more closer to God
than we are.

♪♪ [ Foreign Language ]

♪♪ [ Continues ]

♪♪ [ Singing In Foreign
Language Continues ]

So I hope he has listeners
because people can benefit
from him.

And I'm very grateful to him.

The three of us, we have
law of attraction groups,

and we teach and we share
law of attraction
with people here in Phoenix.

And we don't have to worry
about the science part.

We just need to just know
that it's happening.

- [ Vikram ]
You have a faith in this one.
- Absolutely.

- [ Woman ] Just like
the law of gravity works.
- Yeah.

When we have
our meeting groups--
Sandy, Eric and I--

we teach people different ways
'cause everybody's different,
right?

And some people like to have
something to look at.

So we teach them
how to create vision boards.
We call them vision boards.

- [ Vikram ] Vision?
- [ Teresa ] Vision.

I had a desire to go to Africa
and to work with the children.

So I put a vision board
with the children
in Africa here.

I wanted to go there
and teach them--

and teach them, you know, yoga--
teach them all kinds of things.

But I didn't know...

that the man that I loved
was gonna be in Africa.

It just all
showed up together...

based on my vision,
my feelings.

That's law of attraction.

- You look in a magazine
and find your dream.
- [ Teresa ] Yes.

Then you say I want to have
this house and this car.

- And if you
believe that--
- Yeah.

- then you will get
this house and this car.
- Sure. Absolutely.

- Absolutely.
- We're actually going
to be having...

a group meeting on Thursday
that we want to invite you to.

We'd love for you to come
and meet more people that
study law of attraction.

It's gonna be
a real intimate group.

Probably about 10, 15 people
are going to be there,

and they'd like to all share
their experiences with you...

and have you learn more
about law of attraction.

I will make my vision board
and come.

Good.

Welcome to our
law of attraction meeting.

Who's excited
to be here tonight?
Yay!

Whoo!

All the way from India,
ladies and gentlemen,
Sri Kumaré.

Yay!

Law of attraction is: Your mood
or feelings or vibration
create your reality.

Who wants
to say "kabam" for me?
Let's build some energy up.

Ready? I'll say it.
On the count of three.
One, two, three.

[ All ]
Kabam!

We're gonna talk
about lots of things today,

but the main goal tonight
of our group is to talk
about visualization.

To me abundance
isn't all about money.

And so, I put a certain amount
of money down here...

because sometimes I forget
that I need to connect
with that.

Um, but it's not
what drives me.

- So it works--
- Sorry to interrupt you.

- You have to sit down
for a second.
- Okay.

- Does that-- But does it--
- Who thinks it's a wonderful
evening out tonight?

Because we're gonna
finish this outside.

They've asked us to leave.
We have to leave
the building right now.

- Oh.
- Yeah, I know. It isn't
that exciting, is it?

The next thing I wanna do--
We have a few more things
to cover,

but I really wanna see
Kumaré's vision boards.

- Who wants to see
Kumaré vision boards?
- [ Woman ] Yeah.

Okay, this one
is myself a student.

Old-time photograph.

Myself student.

This one is myself
a teacher.

So that is why I want to...

combine my old self Vikram...

with my current self Kumaré...

so that I have inside peace
with all balance.

This one is a symbol
for happiness.

And so that is
why I put all these people,
and I put a smile.

- [ Laughter ]
- A smile. Yeah.

So that this one,
all these people,

they will-- after unveiling--
they will also have
the same happiness...

that they have
when meeting me.

That was great.

- I love your vision board.
- Kumaré, thank you.

When do "kabam"
mantra together?

- Kabam!
- Okay. Kabam!

- One, two, three.
- [ All ] Kabam!

[ Laughing ]

So this was actually kind
of like a vision board,

and then-- Look who's
in my house right now.

So that's kind of the way
law of attraction works.

Kumaré talks a lot
about the illusion.

You trick us.
[ Laughing ]

- Big trick.
- [ Laughing Continues ]

He has great knowledge.
I believe he's like
kind of prophet.

I am the biggest faker
that I know.

I fake so much,
I forget who I was before.

I've done other
personal development work,

but this time I felt like--
and I've said this
to a few people in the group--

that it changed my D.N.A.

Two days
before I met you, Kumaré,

I lost my job.

We've been going through
a lot of changes already
from him coming here...

'cause he can't work
'cause he's not a resident.

So all of this happened just
two days before we met you.
[ Chuckles ]

- So-- Yeah.
- And that was good.

Guruji showed up
in time...

to just kind of like
take us by the hands,
so to speak,

and just kind of help us
find the way
to do this big vision.

♪ Cha, cha ♪

♪♪ [ Vikram Singing
In Fake Hindu ]

♪♪ [ Indian ]

He has this great power...

to make the others happy.

[ Teresa ]
I think it's very, very amazing.
I feel very blessed.

It's probably
the most amazing thing
that's ever happened to my life.

Yes.

[ Vikram Narrating ]
A core group of disciples
had emerged,

so we invited them
into our home.

So what was it about him
that made you come here?

Nothing really let me know
that this guy is what
I've been looking for.

But I went home,
and I couldn't get him
out of my mind.

And the next day,
I couldn't get him
out of my mind.

I kept thinking about him.
Just kept thinking about him.

And the thoughts
were always good.

They were always very positive.
Everything about him
was very positive.

It's like a snowball
rolling downhill.

It's like, "Wow.
I got to see this guy."

And I was talking
to my wife today,
and I was saying--

I said, "You might
not like this, Wendy,
but I think I love this man."

[ All Laughing ]

What he's bringing
is like a science--

It's like
law of attraction, right?

He's a doctor.
Actually, he's a doctor,
right?

Kumaré came along and said,
"Well, you don't really need--

Here's the idea.

I'll help you to find
whatever's inside you,

but you're gonna have
to teach yourself.

I can teach you
how to teach yourself that,
but I'm not gonna be here."

Which is true
of all teachers.
They don't stick around.

[ Vikram Narrating ]
Kumaré was a reflection
of everyone's dreams,

not just my own.

Kumaré was a mirror,
a tool that allowed people
to look inside themselves.

[ Vikram ] Basic idea
of mirror philosophy
is identity.

What I am doing--
myself, my life, my student--

is creating that dream life...

and real life together.

And whole point
is to use this process,
this teaching--

through myself--
to use as a mirror for yourself.

You create inside your mind
which direction you will go.

Easy one.

You just use that like this.

So that you can calm
your energy together...

And lose some identity.

You lose all that feeling
in your body.

You begin to remove
all the inside.

Feel your mind.

Become like a pathway...

and begin to feel
a blue light.

And offer your hands
out to center.

[ Vikram Narrating ]
I had found my teaching,

and it was something
I believed in.

Now I found my students.

There was Greg,
who saw Kumaré's
simple lifestyle and wanted it.

Stewart, a retired salesman
who was looking for a way
to connect with people.

Molly, who had a lot of people
telling her what to do
and liked that Kumaré didn't.

Teresa and her
new husband Riad,

who saw in Kumaré
a self-help teacher
they could learn from.

Toby, who sought an escape
from her stressful job.

Rachel, a medical student,
and her boyfriend Bobby,
an entrepreneur.

And Kimberly, a single mother
coping with the reality
of an empty nest.

Today I embrace illusion
to find truth.

[ Vikram Narrating ]
In the time I had left
with my students,

I wanted to teach them that
they could help themselves...

and that they never needed
a guru in the first place.

I just can't believe
that he would come and spend
this much time with individuals.

So this one, to help
unite your identity.

You have to break down
all feeling.

The things he's told me
are the things that I know
I should be doing.

Hello. Good to see you.

Kumaré's impact
on our relationship
will be positive.

I think it's already there.

Do you want to know
every truth about him?

Probably not.

And do you want to know
every truth about her?

- I'm gonna say,
probably not, you know?
- [ Rachel Laughs ]

You can feel really
the change inside you.

That's very exciting.

Kumaré number one!

He has the most peaceful energy,
and you can feel it around him.

It seems to touch the people
that he comes in contact with.

[ Toby ]
You can perceive from Kumaré...

all of the wonder and excitement
and enthusiasm for everything.

[ Toby ]
This is
the guest bathroom.

Guest toilet.
All right. Okay.

Very beautiful toilet.
[ Laughs ]
Yes.

We shall sit here?
Yes, on the floor?

Would you--
Yeah. Okay.

The kind of law that I practice
is really life and death,
literally.

Yeah.

It's usually murder
plus something...

especially awful.

Why do you want
to help those people?

Because nobody else will.

You know, they're people
that society's thrown away.

Even their own families
don't talk to 'em
most of the time.

When somebody else
shows interest in what
you're interested in,

it makes you wanna
know them better.

It makes you want to learn
as much as you can.

Your place, like your heaven,
is that underneath
the sea place, yes?

Scuba dived a lot.

I dive, um,
as much as I can.

- So you have this one on face,
and you are going down?
- Right?

You jump in.

You're breathing.

Now you're
at 20 feet or so,

and you're starting to see
some coral and some things.

You're gonna
kick a little bit.

And there's just
deep blue water
beneath you.

[ Vikram ]
You have very good
imagination.

Maybe this one
good meditation for you.

It's good.
I'm looking at the shells.

[ Vikram ]
You can imagine the cat
is also some catfish happening.

Let's dive a wreck.
We'll go and dive a wreck.

And all of a sudden
we see two big, huge
green moray eels.

They're big--
big ol' sharp head
with big ol' sharp teeth,

and they've got
their mouths open.

Big ol' mouths open.

You know how when you
see somebody that you haven't
seen for a very long time...

and you run and hug them
and you cry...

because you're
happy to see them?

That's the only kind of way
I can explain it.

But I felt very much...

an affinity for Kumaré.

- All right.
- [ Shutter Clicks ]

[ Camera Whirring ]

- I think we're good now.
- Okay.

Thank you.
We'll see you on Saturday.

Thank you.

[ Purva ]
So the exercise you
will do with Guruji...

is called
identity transference.

And what you will do...

is imagine that you
are Guruji...

and that Guruji
is you.

Tell him the five commands
that you've written
to yourself...

as if you are speaking
to yourself.

You will meditate
one hour every day.

First thing you need to do
is pay off your bills.

The money's a problem.

I want you to love yourself.

To stop going out
to stores all day long
and eating free food.

- And to give yourself
a hug every day.
- [ Cracking ]

- [ Vikram ]
O-O-Okay. Okay.
- I broke your board.

Thank you, okay.

You will think positive
whenever you talk with others.

And you will stop taking
the neighbor's newspaper...

and reading it
and putting it back.

Kind thoughts... all the time.

This one is
to remember.

You are doing action.

[ Chanting ]
U-wa-é.

Cha.

[ Vikram ]
This whole thing
is a big trick...

to help people realize
that they do not need a guru.

That everything they want,
all their happiness,

is inside themself.

That the same good
that you see inside this man,

you also have inside yourself.

That you did not need a guru
to make yourself happy.

Because the truth is
that I am only the same
as everyone here.

And everyone here, to me,
has become my greatest gurus...

in my life.

[ Vikram ]
Look at your candle
love light.

That is a reflection
of your light inside.

You can put this light
inside the water.

This ideal self
is now entering the ocean...

that have all problem of life.

And your ideal self
must go inside the water.

Hi. Welcome.

Sorry.
My hands are all wet.
[ Chuckles ]

- How are you?
- Hey.

For many, many years...

I've been looking
for something to help me
look inside myself.

This is my daughter.

And this is my only one.
I have three boys
and my daughter.

- [ Vikram ] Yeah.
- And she's the baby.

She's the one
that started college this year.

That's my daughter-in-law--
her getting ready.

Good.

My kids are very blessed.
They have great partners.

The same father?

- Yes. All of them have
the same father.
- Okay.

Yeah, we divorced
about 20 years ago.

Okay.

He's not been
in their life too much.

It was meant to be.
I was meant to meet him,
have my children.

They were the greatest thing
that's ever happened to me.

They're my--
They are actually my success,

my children are,
I think.

So, you know, it happens.
It was hard.

- I worked two or three jobs.
- Oh.

Yeah. I was always working.
I'd sleep maybe two hours,
three hours a day.

But how do you give
to yourself now?

That's the hardest thing.
I don't know how.

When you're a person
that gives a lot,

to return and do it
for yourself,

I feel selfish.

I feel like I'm a bad person
because I do.

So it's hard.

- Hard to love self
as much as children.
- It is.

I do know what I need to do.
I just need somebody to listen.

I need somebody to guide me
and to help me,

not telling me,
"This is what you need to do."

Like getting a trainer,
"Do this."

If I get a trainer,
I'm, like, "Forget it."

I'm not gonna do it
'cause I'm stubborn
and I won't do it.

And imagine that
your self is leaving.

Okay.

So when you give
your teaching,
you can tell...

because you have
the answer inside.

- I am your student, okay?
- Okay.

You are to eat a good diet...

without too much starch
and too much fats.

And do not take
any bad things
to enter your body,

as in drinking or food.

And some--
There is some temptation
in my life.

Yes. Stay away from the people
that don't care about you,

that don't love you...

and only be with the people
that do love you.

Kumaré is a real-life person,
and he's always true and real.

And in his teachings,
he's here to help people,
and you can feel that.

You can feel he's a good person.
It's nice to be around
good people.

[ Crowing ]

Tomorrow is an interesting
and important day.

Tomorrow is
the great unveiling.

[ Kristen ]
Today we are focusing
on enactment.

It's all about
bringing our practice
into the world today.

So it's not just
about ourselves anymore.

We've done a lot
of visualization--
going inside.

Now it's all about
going outside...

and seeing how we're
going to apply...

the best in ourselves
to the world.

So I need help with today--
just clearing out
this stuff.

[ Man ]
♪ Kumaré ♪

♪ Kumaré ♪

♪ Kumaré ♪

♪ Kumaré ♪

♪ Kumaré ♪

♪ Kumaré ♪

♪ Cheshli ♪

You guys are rocking
and rolling! Yeah!

♪ Cheshli ♪

♪ Kumaré ♪

♪ Kumaré-jo ♪

[ Vikram ]
Everybody come back, please.

Here. Here.

♪♪ [ Continues ]

And whole place
look complete different.

With only 15 people
in one hour do that.

One man do
will take one week.

Not 15 hours.
One week. Yes?

So before you look outside
for guru,

then you look yourself,
and you have everyone else.

Because after tomorrow,

I will not be here.

[ Vikram Narrating ]
The only way to complete
the mirror teaching...

would be to unveil
my true identity.

But I was struggling
to find the right words.

Would they understand
what I was trying to teach them?

Or would they hate me?

I went to visit
my friend John Rogers
at his New Age bookstore...

for some inspiration.

Is not all this one like
a religious symbol for people--
all this one you are selling?

Some are symbols
and some are tools.

Like the crystals
you see are tools.

- Okay.
- You follow?

How is it different?

A symbol is only meaning.

But a tool does stuff.

Do you believe
that it is doing
or your mind is doing?

Depends on what it is.

Because then symbol
also can be tool, yes?

Yeah.
[ Laughs ]

Okay. Okay.

Buddha, I believe Buddha said--
at least he's said to have said,

"If you see Buddha
on the road, kill him."

Why do you think
he said that?

Because you're not supposed
to believe or worship things.

And if you're
worshipping a man,

you've missed it.

And I know
he'd want us to begin
to come and find our spots.

[ Vikram ]
Today's the unveiling.

I am not who you think
that I am.

My name is Vikram,
and I am from New Jersey.

I am not
who you think that I am.

Place this over your head...

just to create
an external sense of discipline.

Ritual creates discipline
as well.

It makes us take
something seriously.

I am not who you think I am.

[ Kristen ]
Know that it's
your inner teacher...

that is doing the watching
and the greeting...

and the smiling.

[ Sniffles ]

[ Sniffles ]

Look into the person's eyes.
Take a deep breath.

Get set.

Go.

[ Riad ]
I'm becoming...

the blue light.

Who are you becoming?

I'm becoming a guru.

Greg, what action
would it take?

I will believe that I can
become my imagination.

I am not
who you think I am.

I am a big liar.

I have fooled you
to make you feel
like an idiot.

Sit anywhere you want
as long as you can see.

Okay, so, everybody,
we're ready to start.

Guruji will be
coming out shortly.

And before we start,

I think somebody would love
to lead you all
in just a brief--

U-wa-é. Since we haven't
done it yet today.

[ Kristen ]
♪ U-wa-é
U-wa-é ♪

♪ U-wa-é ♪

[ Students Join ]
♪ U-wa-é ♪

♪ U-wa-é, U-wa-é ♪

♪ Kumaré, Kumaré,
Kumaré ♪

[ All ]
♪ Kumaré, Kumaré, Kumaré ♪

[ Kristen ]
♪ U-wa-é, U-wa-é
U-wa-é ♪

♪ U-wa-é,
U-wa-é, U-wa-é ♪

♪ Kumaré, Kumaré, Kumaré ♪

[ All ]
♪ Kumaré, Kumaré,
Kumaré ♪

♪ Cheshli,
Kumaré ♪

[ All ]
♪ Cheshli,
Kumaré ♪

♪ Cheshli,
Kumaré ♪

[ All ]
♪ Cheshli,
Kumaré ♪♪

Today is
the unveiling.

At the unveiling,
we... unveil our true self.

And to begin, I will...

reveal my true self.

You see, I don't know...

if I am who you think
that I am.

You see,

I am not
who you think that I am.

But I am only just
a very simple man...

who had a idea,

a dream to...

show every person
that I meet...

that they have some power
for self-transformation...

for happiness inside.

You are all great beings.

And you must stop pretending
that you are not.

So today, you will unveil
the guru inside of you.

I've learned that there
is fearlessness in all of us.

I know what I need to do.
I just need to keep
my promises...

and to be strong
against my temptations.

It's time to get rid
of that old identity
and embrace the new.

I should do, uh--
do less talking
and do more doing.

I'll make the promise, and I'll
do what I've promised to do:
to change my life.

Everything
is about commitment...

to one's self and to others.

More love and joy comes to you
when you have decided not
listening to others...

but inside of yourself--
your purpose.

The world will become
very loud...

when you leave this circle
that we have created.

All of you live
inside my heart...

forever.

[ Vikram Narrating ]
I could not unveil.

As I stood in that circle
holding everyone's hands,

I realized I had connected
more deeply with people
as Kumaré...

than I ever had as Vikram.

The experience with Kumaré
has affected my life,

and I feel like
it has changed my teaching.

It's given me the same thing
that the students feel--
that confidence.

And so being part
of a lineage and having
the blessing of Kumaré...

has been very helpful.

[ Kimberly ]
I will always remember Kumaré.

I will remember him
from the day I die.

I will tell my kids,
my grandkids,
my great-grandkids...

about this wonderful person
that came into my life
and changed me.

I'm completely
in love with him.

He basically reflects
this love that I have.

And he reflects it to me
in this way...

that's like the most love
I've ever experienced.

Every day when I meditate,
because I do meditate
every day now--

That's on my list.

The five things I have to do.

Um, I-- I thank Kumaré.

[ Greg ]
It's not familial.

It's not--

It's not like
we've been through
any difficult times together.

It's just--
There's this... attachment.

And-And--
That's-That's that love.

I wear this.
I feel very good...

because it remind me--
yeah, it remind me...

I should be like this
and like that.

No anger, nothing.

Just be the guru who I am.

I'm imagining a blue light.

[ Chanting, Slowly ]
Blue... light.

Using the Blue Light meditation
will help people...

to find
their own guru within.

Practice yoga at least
three times a week-- yes.

Work out elliptical
two times a week-- yes.
I'm doing that.

And I also do weight training
'cause I stuck that in there.

All total from September,
I've lost 70 pounds.

This is the dress
that I couldn't wear previously.

Not bad, huh?

I'm planning on getting my
yoga instructor certification
this next semester,

which I've wanted
to do for years and I've never
had the courage to do it...

'cause I'm, like, "Oh, what
will people think of me?"
Or this or that.

So I decided...
I'm doing it.

Every day if there's
some little thing I can do,
I will do it.

And I just have
to make it a point
to keep it in my head...

that today's the day
that I'm gonna do
something for my wife.

That gives me tears,

'cause-- 'cause I never
used to be this way.

He says he doesn't
teach anything.

But that's not true.

'Cause if you can teach
someone how to think,

then you really are--
you're a true teacher.

Hello, Bobby.

I return your call
to Teresa.

Yes, hello, Kimberly.

Hello, Rachel.
This is Kumaré.

So what do believe
that you should do?

I did not say anything.
I say nothing you do.

But all this you did yourself.

I am only a strange man
who come to visit
for one small time.

I also think
about you very much.

Yes. I think about you
and all that has happened--

all the students--
so much.

I was telling Riad--
I'm, like, "I think that
he's in our life forever."

- That's how we feel.
- Uh-huh.

He's not necessarily
a father figure to me,
but I look up to him.

Like, he knows more than me.

I just see him as a guy,

and for that,
I am truly grateful.

Hello, gurus.

By now you must understand
my teaching.

That the external guru
is an illusion.

That he only exists...

to help you find the truth.

That the guru
is inside of you.

[ Whirring ]

In many ways
I am the same as you.

I was born here in the U.S.A.
and grew up in New Jersey.

I am a U.S. citizen.

But how do these effects
define my true self?

They don't.

But something
inside me does.

As a young man,
very quickly,

I realized that my identity
was an illusion.

My curiosity brought me
to meet many swamis...

and priests and sects
and gurus.

But none of them
would say one thing
that I truly believed--

that you don't need them.

You don't need anyone
outside yourself
to make you happy.

So I said, if I were
to become a guru,

that I would teach
this one thing--

that the guru you are
looking for is inside of you.

So this is the basis
of the Kumaré teaching--

a teaching that I created.

I am the first Kumaré, but
I hope that I am not the last.

In each of you,
there is a guru inside...

that I can see.

It has given me strength.

It has given me purpose.

This is a teaching I believe in
with all my heart...

and every cell of my body.

So now I would like
to introduce you
to the guru inside of me.

Hello, gurus.

My name is Vikram...

and my ideal self is Kumaré.

[ Scattered Applause ]

I had no idea. No idea.

And it's like
the perfect end
of the teaching.

It is the ultimate
of the teaching.

- I'm so hysterical.
- Good. Thank you.

- You missed a spot.
- I know.

I haven't shaved
in a while.

Good job.

I got to say it was really--
I think it was a good idea.

You do have
some psychic abilities.

[ Woman ]
♪ U-wa-é ♪

♪ U-wa-é, U-wa-é ♪

♪ U-wa-é ♪

♪ U-wa-é, U-wa-é ♪

♪ Kumaré ♪

♪ Kumaré, Kumaré ♪

♪ Kumaré ♪

♪ Kumaré, Kumaré ♪

♪ U-wa-é ♪

♪ U-wa-é, U-wa-é ♪

[ Chorus Joins In ]
♪ U-wa-é ♪

♪ U-wa-é, U-wa-é ♪

♪ Kumaré ♪

♪ Kumaré, Kumaré ♪

♪ Kumaré ♪

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♪ Kumaré ♪

♪ Kumaré, Kumaré ♪

♪ Kumaré ♪

♪ Kumaré, Kumaré ♪

♪ Cheshli ♪

♪ Kumaré ♪

♪ Cheshli ♪

♪ Kumaré ♪

♪ U-wa-é ♪

♪ U-wa-é, U-wa-é ♪

♪ U-wa-é ♪

♪ U-wa-é, U-wa-é ♪

♪ Kumaré ♪

♪ Kumaré, Kumaré ♪

♪ Kumaré ♪

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♪ Kumaré, Kumaré ♪

♪ Kumaré ♪

♪ Kumaré, Kumaré ♪

♪ Cheshli ♪

♪ Kumaré ♪

♪ Cheshli ♪

♪ Kumaré ♪

♪ U-wa-é ♪

♪ U-wa-é, U-wa-é ♪

♪ U-wa-é, U-wa-é ♪

♪ U-wa-é ♪

♪ Kumaré ♪

♪ Kumaré, Kumaré ♪

♪ Kumaré, Kumaré ♪

♪ Kumaré ♪

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♪ Kumaré ♪

♪ Kumaré, Kumaré ♪

♪ Cheshli ♪

♪ Kumaré ♪

♪ Cheshli ♪

♪ Kumaré ♪

♪ U-wa-é, U-wa-é ♪

♪ U-wa-é ♪

♪ U-wa-é, U-wa-é ♪

♪ U-wa-é ♪

♪ Kumaré ♪

♪ Kumaré, Kumaré ♪♪