Word: ashram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-built Prithvi Singh, 55. Gandhi, who swears his converts to celibacy, offered to make an exception. But Prithvi Singh refused to marry Miraben. Soon afterwards he split with Gandhi, became a Communist and married another girl. Then Miraben wearied of the jealousies and squabbles in Gandhi's ashram (place of retreat) at Sevagram. She moved to the Himalaya foothills and founded anashram...
Aurobindo's ashram (a retreat for disciples of a religious leader) is only one of many in mystic-minded India. Best known is Mohandas Gandhi's. Much more worldly, and very pro-British is Aurobindo's, which he set up 33 years ago. There Margaret Wilson responds to the name Dishta, meaning in Sanskrit the discovery of the divine self...
Cambridge-educated, 70-year-old Aurobindo keeps to his own room, appears only four times a year to his followers. If they wish advice they write him a letter. He may reply, may not. Active management of the ashram falls on a 66-year-old French woman, Madame Alfassa, known to disciples as Mother of the Universe...
Since the ashram can hold only a handful of followers, many of them, including Margaret Wilson, live in up-to-date houses in the town. Her religion, not concerned with mortifying the flesh, permits her to wear American clothes, read magazines and newspapers, puff an after-dinner cigaret. When she first arrived in India she tried to be a vegetarian, but she lost so much weight that the Mother of the Universe put her back on meat. She spends most of her time trying to acquire "a state of serenity." Each evening she goes to the ashram to spend half...
...himself "evangelist to the high castes of India." Dr. Jones went to India as a Methodist missionary in 1907, has since converted many a Brahman, written nine books (best-known: The Christ of the Indian Road, with sales past the 600,000 mark), founded at Lucknow the first Christian Ashram (from an Indian word meaning "a forest colony for spiritual fellowship and meditation"). In Indian costume-a long white cloak, tight trousers, sandals-Dr. Jones last summer led two Ashrams at Saugatuck, Mich, and Blue Ridge, N. C. as part of the spiritual preparation for the National Christian Mission...