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The Mother’s children: The making of memory and intimacy at the Gurus’ <i>Samadhi</i>
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In this paper , the authors focus on one Ashram in India and the importance of the Samadhi shrine in the life of its members, arguing that the shrine constitutes the spatial heart of an otherwise spatially dispersed Ashram.Abstract:
Tombs of gurus and religious leaders are central to the consolidation of religious communities through memorialisation and the public performance of rituals. In Hindu and neo-Hindu religious movements, the guru’s samadhi is one such important sacred space. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this article focuses on one Ashram in India and the importance of the Samadhi shrine in the life of its members. The article argues that the Samadhi constitutes the spatial heart of an otherwise spatially dispersed Ashram. It is at the Samadhi that the devotees become present to the gurus and one another, creating a community of devotees through both a linear ‘chain of memory’ and lateral ‘intimacy grids’. At the same time, the creation of such a community grapples with the wider locational specificities of the Ashram and the politics of making it a home. read more
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The wonder of darshan: Going beyond the local and the national
TL;DR: In this paper , a transnational guru-led movement where both gurus and devotees cross religious, social and cultural boundaries to inhabit and create new devotional lineages in unfamiliar lands is explored, and the wonder of darshan in this context lies in the traversing of the multiple axes of interiority and exteriority.
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