Word: dev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Excerpt: "Guru in the glory of the personified transcendental fulness of Brahman, to him, to Shri Guru Dev, adorned with glory, I bow down...
Last Oct. 12,25 high school students waited in the Union, N.J., office of the Transcendental Meditation movement. One by one they entered a room and reverently knelt before a candlelit altar holding a picture of the late Guru Dev, Hindu holy man and predecessor of TM Leader Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Each student brought fruit and flowers to be placed on the altar by Teacher Janet Aaron, who then recited a Sanskrit puja (hymn of worship)* and whispered each student's mantra, the secret word that must be repeated to aid meditation...
Awaiting a firing squad in Dublin's Kilmainham Jail, Dev was reading St. Augustine's Confessions when he learned that his death sentence had been commuted, possibly because of his U.S. citizenship. He was the only battalion leader to survive the Rising. Amnestied in 1917, he returned to a hero's welcome in Dublin and leadership of a new party, Sinn Fein (Ourselves Alone). When the 1920-21 guerrilla war against Britain's "Black and Tan" occupying army led to Ireland's partition into Ulster and the Irish Free State, De Valera joined the "irreconcilables...
...weary of endless bloodshed, De Valera urged a cease-fire and formed a new party, Fianna Fail (Militia of Destiny). In 1932, the party triumphed in elections for the legislature, the Dail, and Dev took power as head of the government. He quickly set about shaving away the vestiges of British power, including the annual payments to former British landowners for their expropriated Irish holdings. He was also forced to break with those who demanded more extreme actions, and in 1936 banned the I.R.A...
...promoted self-sufficiency. "Ireland her own," he intoned, "Ireland her own without suit or service, rent or render, faith or fealty to any power under heaven." In 1937, the Free State declared itself a wholly independent country called Eire, thus severing the last of the links to England, and Dev became Taoiseach (pronounced tee-shock) or Prime Minister...