Word: brahmanism
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...rich oil and gas revenues of King Ranch's Texas spread (roughly the size of Rhode Island) to subsidize his first love, ranching, and his hobby, racing horses (among them Assault, 1946 Triple Crown winner). When drought threatened the King herds in 1917, Kleberg painstakingly began breeding Indian Brahman bulls with Texas shorthorns to produce a new and hardy breed, the Santa Gertrudis; their toughness enabled him to expand to such forbidding pastures as the Brazil ian jungle, Australia's outback and the plains of Morocco. Well into his 70s, the gauntly handsome, gimlet-eyed centimillionaire rose near...
...task required computer-like knowledge of each constituency's class, caste and religious makeup. In one area dominated by harijans, the untouchables, a member of the passi, or swineherd caste, was selected; in Brahman constituencies, Brahmans were chosen; in Moslem areas, which hold 16% of the state's population, Moslems. The Congress Party's tactics paid off: it won a clear majority of seats. In the face of the party's apparent inability to solve the state's numerous problems, it was an impressive personal triumph for Mrs. Gandhi...
...them. Ray flirts with melodrama here, but Distant Thunder gathers a quiet force that makes most objections incidental. Better even than its treatment of the reality of poverty is the way Ray handles the subtle shifts it causes in his two main characters, a husband and wife of the Brahman caste. Their gradual and shocked awareness of the unifying desperation of tragedy gives Distant Thunder a piercing social immediacy...
...Krishna Consciousness people, Lord Krishna is "the sweetest" god. Generally Hindus acknowledge an entire panoply of personal deities who are seen as manifestations of the Infinite-the ultimate reality or Absolute which they understand in many ways and most often call Brahman. The principal focus of spirituality is union with that Absolute. Above all else, the Hindu desires a release from the physical world of appearances in order to realize his identity with Brahman. This oneness is not easy to achieve; it is the reward of the holy man, who can then finally break out of the cycle of endless...
Most gurus teach one or another form of yoga (the Sanskrit word means a yoking, or union), practical methods by which the student can strive to unite with Brahman. The discipline that concentrates on psychophysical exercises to purify and strengthen the entire body is called hatha-yoga. Raja-yoga employs meditative exercises to focus the mind, and bhakti is the yoga of love and devotion...