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...following is the story of how a grandfather and senior Indian government official. Mr. Mangal Bihari, came to Ananda Marga. Mr. Bihari is Chief Director for Sugar and Oil in the Indian Ministry of Food and Agriculture and has been in the U.S. recently on state business. I taped his story last weekend at a gathering of Margiis in Stony Brook...
...Bihari was deputy secretary of finance in the state of Rajastan. Born a Brahimin, he had participated in his family's devotional practices as a boy and young man, but got little out of them, despite his "very keen desire to realize the Truth." His faith in the traditional forms diminished in the course of his life as he realized, in the face of various tensions and attractions, that he had no stability. Eventually, with his mind "churning," he made a pilgrimage to the Himalayas to see if he could find someone who could lead him to the Truth...
...that point he was visited at his office one day by an Acharya of Ananda Marga. Bihari thought the man must have wanted a grant for a school or something, but the Acharya informed him that he wanted instead to discuss spiritual matters. Bihari told him that this was not the right time or place, that, besides, he was no longer interested, and directed him to someone else. But the Acharya went that evening to Bihari's house, where Bihari finally yielded, and they talked-for ten hours, non-stop. During this time Bihari brought up all the arguments, reservations...
...Samyukta Socialist Party Leader Madhu Limaye. One who did manage to keep his seat was Morarji Desai, Indira's old Opposition Congress foe, though his margin was narrowed from 125,000 votes in 1967 to 32,000 last week. Also re-elected were Jana Sangh Leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the Rajmatas (Queen Mothers) of Gwalior and Jaipur (see color), and V.K. Krishna Menon, the scourge of Turtle Bay when he headed India's delegation to the United Nations. Now 74 and somewhat less excitable, he ran as an independent...
...replace Upadhyaya, a longtime politician and one of the original founders of the Jana Sangh, party members met last week and picked another moderate of the same stripe: Atal Bihari Vajpayee, 41, an ex-newspaper editor who served as party leader in the lower house of Parliament. After Upadhya-ya's death, which was followed by an emotional funeral and ritual burning of the body in New Delhi, the new party leader will need all of his political skills to keep his party extremists in line...