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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.

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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.

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