Word: guru
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This entails much hand-to-hand fighting against a band of Thugs, a few barrack-room practical jokes and frequent athletic tricks of the sort popularized by Master Fairbanks' father. Funny, spectacular, and exciting, Gunga Din reaches its climax when the liveliest sergeant (Grant) gets trapped by Thug Guru (Eduardo Ciannelli) and is almost thrown into a pit full of hungry cobras. Typical sequence: battle between a regiment of Scots Highlanders and Thug cavalry, filmed on the slopes of Mt. Whitney last summer, with a cast of 900 extras...
...Holiness Sri Sankarima, 109, who had spent 40 years in remote caves of the Himalayas, learning rejuvenating breathing exercises from a guru (teacher) who claimed to be 300. A swami told him: "The normal age of a man who lives rightly should be 140. . . . There are many Mahatmas living in the high Himalayas of over 200." Says Yeats-Brown: "They have no birth certificates, unfortunately." In seven instances of alleged reincarnation which he discovered, the children gave circumstantial evidence to prove that they remembered a previous life on earth. Most complicated case was that of a five-year...
...years; the cobra-enchanter, the sacred animals and the mystical rites along the Ganges, the horrible parade of the Juggernaut in the Temple Square. The Bengal Lancer wondered about these. And wondering, he took to the path of the great Yogi, he sat at the feet of the guru, a holy man, studied breathing exercises and renunciation of the body, learned new definitions of purity and love. He heard the guru say that the worst enemy is not death, but wrong desire, that wars are "mass-perversions of the sexual instinct," and that discipline is paramount. To this mystery, this...
...educated him out of humor with Western civilization. "Very humbly and hopefully'' he went to Benares, holy city of the Hindus, there to sit at the feet of Theosophist Annie Besant, to see her youthful embryo-Messiah Krishnamurti. In between expeditions to Nautch girls and in search of a guru (teacher) he played polo, stuck "pigs" (wild boars). He gives a vivid description of a polo match, a no less vivid account of what it feels like to chase a boar, try to pin it with a lance-thrust. Says he: "In the open, the odds are against the boar...