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...commercial and spiritual realms of Cambridge and Boston. The 40-member religious group runs Golden Temple Footwear, Golden Temple Restaurant, a carpentry group called Golden Temple Craftsmen, and offers lessons in nutrition, marital counseling, and Kundalini Yoga in their center above Belgian Fudge. They live together in an ashram in Dorchester, a string of four houses, and one of 125 ashrams in America. In the nine years since the ashram's founding they say they have developed a normal and tolerant relationship with their neighbors, who only complain occasionally about their early morning chanting. As one Sikh says, the devotees...
...Lozoff, director of the Prison Ashram project, said he has helped compile prayer and meditation techniques from major religions into a manual to help prisoners cope with their environment...
...impish eye for the spirit trade; a multinational convocation of celibates meets in Delhi under the motto ROYALTY is PURITY PLUS PERSONALITY; downtown, hundreds of Children of God are demonstrating for the principle of making love for Jesus. A California touch therapist attends a session in an ashram only to discover that his Indian counterparts use 2-ft.-long clubs. The visitor emerges with a broken arm. At a Delhi football stadium the followers of one guru await the miraculous proof of God from their master. His evidence: "God exists because if you look in the Oxford English Dictionary under...
...Near the Ashram, however, the houses are designed for multiple families, and nearby residents said they were pleased with the group's occupancy...
...Ashram offers a rigorous meditation schedule, with meetings every morning and evening. It also holds a six-hour meditation on the first Sunday of each month, and takes periodic retreats...