Work, Service and Sacrifice

Book excerpt: A Dharma Guru is a teacher who speaks out against exploitation and injustice, who makes His followers fight against this and who gives a new vision, mission and spiritual practice (yoga) to create a new humanity and a new human society. It is easy to ignore the structural violence or the himsa that is part and parcel of the way in which human society operates today. It is easy to preach morality, do charity and keep silent at how a handful of capitalists are robbing, bombing, starving and killing so many people, animals and plants. Not just a Dharma Guru, but any righteous person will raise their voice and take action against this pervasive criminality and himsa.