Word: blisse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Oftedal stayed close to "Dadaji" (respected elder brother) during his five-day visit. Oftedal found out that the yogi was one of more than a thousand teachers in a rapidly growing world movement named Ananda Marga ("Path to Bliss"). Oftedal became increasingly excited, and Dadaji eventually suggested that he go to India. "It was very interesting," says Oftedal. "I had had several very promising job opportunities fall through right before he came, so I was free and open for the summer, totally unexpectedly." He went to India...
SIRH P.R. Sarkar founded Ananda Marga 16 years ago and continues to direct its activities. His given title, Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji ("Beloved Image of Bliss") is loosely translated by devotees as, "Upon seeing him, one falls into Bliss." He is referred to informally as "Baba" ("Holy Father...
...Erotic Bliss. Despite the demand, the hotels charge nothing additional for the service. Most, in fact, offer a remarkable range of extras, including mechanized beds that make a bewildering variety of movements, and even tape recordings of the sounds of erotic bliss. "We Japanese have few fixed ideas when it comes to sex," says Psychologist Kazuo Shimada. "We tend to think anything good should prove good for sex life -even video-tape recording...
...generation gap conveniently yawns between Gallagher and his son Hill, a 19-year-old Sorbonne student anarchist. Paris has no real race problem, but Jones has kept in touch with the folks back home. He introduces a beautiful, chocolate-bar-chomping black female teenage destroyer of white domestic bliss whose tastes run to trilingual sex. ("She isn't immoral," one character reflects, adding, with the air of discovering a new word, "she's amoral...
There are certain psychic risks, of course, to a life led beneath the surface of domestic bliss. In the darkest Amazon, when a poison arrow proves nearly fatal, Margaret finds herself praying, "Paul, my darling, if I make it home to you ... I will learn to bake bread and make chocolate mousse." Here the most committed housewife asleep in her phoenix dreams will recognize that she and Margaret are soul mates. Few crises cannot be better met if the house is filled with the aroma of freshly baked bread. In the end, Margaret affirms the reality of her existence...