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...trouble is that there are. no bar associations or synods to set standards among swamis (holy men, monks)-almost anyone in the U.S. can set up shop as a swami if he can find any followers. As a result there are devout swamis who lead the good life and there are swamis who simply enjoy a good life. Few of either kind write their autobiographies, so this life story by California's Paramhansa Yogananda (a Bengali pseudonym meaning approximately Swami-Bliss-through-Divine-Union) is something of a document. It is not likely to give the uninitiated much insight...
...Knife Wounds. In 1932, Marga decided to visit forbidden Mecca. Without further ado, she divorced her count and married a devout Moslem. As the couple started on their pilgrimage to the Holy City, her husband's tribe-resentful of his marriage to an infidel-kidnaped them both. For weeks Marga was held captive in the mountains. Then one day her sheik was found poisoned. The Moslems promptly found Marga guilty and ordered her stoned to death. Only the intervention of Ibn Saud saved her life...
...converted to Christianity while studying at Shanghai's Methodist mission school in 1918. At first he was devout, but, says he: "Gradually my religious zeal ebbed because of conflict within the Methodist Church between fundamentalists and modernists. I myself couldn't make up my mind. . . ." But when the Generalissimo was delivered from Kidnaper Chang Hsueh-liang in 1936, Convert Wu considered it a "miracle," began to study religion once again. "I discovered that, for myself, fundamentalism wasn't fundamental enough, modernism wasn't modern enough. In 1937 I was admitted into the Catholic Church...
Thomas' poetic ancestors include druids, sun worshipers, fertility ritualists, wizards of Welsh folklore, psalmists and hymnists, the Bible. To this complex half-pagan, half-devout inheritance, Thomas has added more up-to-date influences-the intense experience of his boyhood in the Welsh countryside, his passionate faith in the Freudian conception of life as a struggle between the desire to procreate and the desire to find oblivious peace in death. Wholly absent from his poems are humor and political ideology: he reduces his rich and strange harvest of influences and beliefs simply to a "record of my individual struggle...
Food for the Devout. It was the people's parade. At one point the mayor, by tradition, set his shoulder to the timber, helped carry the image. Just behind the penitents ranged vendederos, hawking soft drinks and Lima's best cakes...