he younger brother was given the name of Baba’s guru, Nityananda. When Baba took 47 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013547 a guru’s ecstatic death, Samadhi, both Gurumayi and young Nityananda became co-gurus. Following three years of the usual covert power struggles of succession in organizations, Gurumayi took over th

p of the orange robe of the denunciate, sanyasi, for the blue robe of worldliness, exchanging one kind of energy for another. Brad Gooch who visited Gurumayi’s Ashram in Ganeshpuri, India, wrote in his recent book, Godta/k, that she looks like a “synthesis of Indira Gandhi and Bianca Jagger.” In what reads