Word: guru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people of India celebrate national holidays on the birthdays of Jesus Christ, Mohammed, Mahatma Gandhi, Guru Nanak (a Sikh religious leader) and the Hindu gods Rama and Krishna. Last week the Indian government added a new birthday to the list. The addition: Gautama Buddha, founder of the great religion which has successfully invaded China, Japan, Siam, Burma, Ceylon, but has fallen off in his native India...
What manner of being is an egghead? Do you mean a sort of Martini-sipping Guru of beer-guzzling disciples? Or just anyone in whom intellect surpasseth understanding? . . . Perhaps . . . your readers can give us a clarifying definition of this intriguing word coinage ... So many of TIME'S readers in your Letters column acknowledge being eggheads, we should certainly be able to pin this thing down...
...human beings can achieve "god-realization" through their own efforts at disciplining mind and body. Even skeptics testified to his own discipline, e.g., he could slow or speed the pulse in his right wrist, while retaining a normal pulse beat in the left. For the last two years the guru suffered from a "metaphysically induced illness," as his disciples put it-the result of "working out" on his own body some of the physical and spiritual burdens of his friends. Last November he began hinting that it was time for him to leave the world. As the weeks passed...
Ranjan Sen, and his beautiful wife. After eating modestly (vegetables and strawberry parfait), the guru rose to make a speech about "spiritual India." He ended it with a quotation from one of his own poems...
Well magnetized, she is drawn to a second guru's colony for would-be initiates. This turns out to be a clip joint where the believers turn in all their worldly goods to a matronly supply sergeant known as the "Divine Mother." Liz spots it all for a fake and heads back to Guru No. 1. In the meantime, steady old Charles has got himself into a diplomatic jam. Reminding herself of the guru's "Truth is in your own heart," Liz looks there, finds she still loves Charles, flies back to help him face the music...