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Last week Commissioner Joseph Collect said after a preliminary investigation that he felt there were far too many people living in a building at 6 Linnaean St. which is owned by the Rudranandra Ashram...
...building functions as the central meeting place for the Ashram a locally based religious sect which claims to have 100 members in the Cambridge area including several Harvard affiliates...
...added that a large number of people apparently visit the Ashram daily to eat and participate in services, but that those people do not live there according to the city's definition of a residence...
Sent away, the chagrined young man retired to an ashram in the Himalayas, but asceticism flew the hermitage when a novice named Jenny arrived from South Africa. Soon she was suggesting that she and Eliade try out the sexual initiation rites of Tantric yoga. "Such rituals also entailed a great deal of risk," recalls Eliade deadpan. "It was, however, beyond my powers not to brave them...
Willie, a teacher, looks for spiritual sustenance by dropping out in variously predictable ways (subsistence farming, for example, or an ashram in India). Phil, a photographer, provides contrast by selling out as a director of television commercials. The lady (with her inevitable child) shuttles more or less agreeably be tween them until she finally leaves them both wrestling on the beach-at first angrily, then playfully. Other things may come and go, but male bonding is apparently forever...