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I finally went to see the summer comedy The Love Guru, featuring Michael Meyers. The movie is about an Indian guru (Mike Meyers) who is hired by the owner of a Canadian hockey team (the Toronto Maple Leafs) to rejoin one of the players with his ex. The deal was if he could do this before the Stanley Cup (the final playoffs in the NHL in which the Maple Leafs were to play) then his ashram would be paid a whopping $2 million and also he would be granted the chance to appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show, so that he could then challenge Deepak Chopra as being the leading “self-help” guru of the spiritual and self-help marketplace. Because of the light nature of the movie, with all of its silliness and humor, of course the Love Guru achieves his objective, albeit in some strange ways, but also struggles with a secret passion for the woman who is the owner of the hockey team, because as the movie progresses he falls deeper in love with her. Again, because this is a comedy, in the end the two are together singing and dancing to some popular Indian music. Even though the press has rated The Love Guru poorly and has called it a movie not worth seeing, there are “nuggets” of spiritual truth in the movie that I would like to mention.

Most importantly there the concept of Guru which is worth mentioning. A guru is a very real and beneficial spiritual teacher who is well schooled in formal spiritual doctrines, as well as living in general. The role of the guru (which means “dispeller of darkness”) is to help the student to greater levels of awareness so that he or she can experience not only material wellness, but spiritual actualization as well. Many eastern spiritual paths involve the guru formally, with initiations and all sorts of other related formalities. However, the most important truth here is that the guru is a person like you or me, but who has excelled in correlating spiritual truth with our everyday lives.

Secondly, there is concept of love. Like the Bible says “God is Love”. Therefore, love is an endeavor worthy of pursuit and experience because love is the very essence of life itself. Without love, our lives are empty. Love, however, tempers our lives and offers a new balance so that work and responsibility are synchronized with positive human affection. Like many people say “it is love that makes the world go around.”

So, to wrap up this posting, The Love Guru is indeed silly and full of humor and all sorts of nonsense. However, at the same time, it includes two very powerful truths which we should all remember. One: Our lives are full of opportunities to learn and grow and we should honor those who are in the role of teacher or guru with great respect. Two: We should live with a nice balance of work and responsibility with love and positive human affection. Our world today suffers from alot of violence and hatred that can be easily eliminated if we all make a small effort to extend love out as much as possible and show others that we really care about them.
Namaste

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