The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour
Mike Jahn, Saturday Review, December 1967
WHOEVER IT WAS that wrote the Bhagavad-Gita (the Celestial Song of Hindu theology) intended to define the perfect disciple when he wrote: "Who sees Me in all/and sees all in Me/For him I am not lost/and he is not lost for me." The disciple has just replied, and in surprisingly similar terms: "I am he/as you are he/as you are me/and we are all together."
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