Dwapara Yuga: God's businessman

R.G. LeTourneau, the famous Christian industrialist, went from shoveling sand as an apprentice after dropping out of school to being the supplier of 70% of the earth moving equipment in WWII, a multi millionaire with over 300 patents to his name, the force behind civil engineering projects from dams to highways to oil rigs.

He never backed down from any monumental task, breaking down barriers of water, marshes or mountains. When faced with a problem that seemed at first to be unsolvable, or to some even impossible, he simply prayed about it, studied it and worked at it until a solution was found. His attitude was one of being partnered, as he put it, with God.

As he progressed in his work, he donated 90% of his income to charity, founding LeTourneau University in Texas, with missions in both Peru and Liberia, leveraging planes to meet his business and church appointments but never developing a jet-set lifestyle.

His combination of business acumen and spiritual values makes him a Dwapara Yuga figure, neither impractical monk always ready with a begging bowl, nor callous businessman exploiting all around him, but a new combination of the best of each, very much in line with James Lynn, Oliver Black, Dr Lewis, Bhagabati Charan Ghosh, Lahiri Mahasaya  and Sri Yukteswar.