The Indian perspective says that the aim of human life is to grow by inner and outer experience till man lives in god, realises his spirit, becomes divine in knowledge, in will and in the joy of his being. In the course of achieving this transforming experience, the guru holds a special place. The guru-disciple interaction touches deep and regressed layers of the two main features of the relationship, surrender of the shishya and intimacy with the guru. Real teaching is believed to occur when the disciple has disciplined himself and is tuned to the wavelength of the guru. Teaching, example, and influence play significant roles in mentoring. One very distinctive characteristic of guru-shishya relationship is its poly-variant nature. It indicates the all encompassing quality of this relationship. Dynamics of the relationship indicate that its basis was a complete transformation of the shishya by the guru.

Why are Asians deficient in radical, revolutionary creativity, as experts are telling us? Our analysis suggests that the problem lies not in collectivism so much as in the biased sampling of cross-culture psychology that renders certain phenomena of non-Western creativity invisible. More specifically, we argue that cross-cultural comparisons of creativity are prone to the forecast asymmetry of overestimating the influence of social norms on creativity, thereby failing to take into consideration the fact that creativity entails a choice at the individual level even in collectivistic cultures. To counterbalance the population forecast of cross-cultural psychology, we offer a matched comparison of revolutionary creativity, informed by perspectives from indigenous psychology. Implications of this analysis for cross-cultural psychology, and future research directions for the indigenous psychology of Asian creativity, are discussed.

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The present investigation was designed to study the effect of competition on ideational fluency and flexibility. A sample of 40 students - 20 in Experimental and 20 in the Control Group matched for intelligence, age, class and creativity was used. Both the Groups were administered Test of Imagination (Product Improvement and Unusual Uses) and the results showed that the Experimental Group in this and under the conditions of this study differed significantly In the mean number of ideas and flexibility of ideas. The ratio between the means of the two groups for Fluency and Flexibility was 4.30 and 5.43 respectively, significant at .01 level of confidence. The replication of this study was also suggested on large and different samples.

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