Word: guru
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...flowing yellow sarong, finishes cutting up enough tofu and egg salad sandwiches for the expected lunchtime rush from nearby Mass General Hospital. Lennihan is a disciple of Sri Chinmoy, an Indian teacher who arrived in the U.S. in 1964 and began attracting followers soon after. Several pictures of the guru hang on the wall, showing Chinmoy playing tennis, jogging, and sitting on a ledge smiling out at the world with a beatific...
...Britain's longtime touchstone of taste and guru of grace, he prided himself on the beau geste. So it was not surprising when the will of Sir Cecil Beaton, who died in January at 76, was read that a special friend had been singularly remembered. After monetary bequests and disposition of paintings, photographs and papers accumulated in a lifetime of photography, writing and theater, Beaton made another gift. To Actress Greta Garbo, now 74, who in the 1940s rebuffed Bachelor Beaton's tender of love and marriage, went a remembrance: an exquisite oil of one red rose...
...proofs of God's existence, long pursued in impenetrable books and journals, are engaging wider audiences. Last week Mortimer Adler, popular philosopher and guru of the Great Books Program, published How to Think About...
...LAST OF THE FAITH'S TEN gurus, Guru Gobin Singh, created this khalsa or spiritual brotherhood and prescribed his devotees' dress just before he "left the world" in 1708. He followed a line of gurus dating back to the faith's founder, Guru Nanak, born in northern India in 1469. Nanak saw the hypocrisy of Islam, Hinduism, and the caste system, Mahan Singh says. He says Nanak hoped to turn the tide of the spiritual anarchy by imploring people to bow only before God and to link themselves to the guru. Today, although the faith's chief guru, Siri Singh...
...evening, above the ice cream shop, the Sikhs practice the rituals of their predecessors, stretching, contorting, ventilating, and "oaming" to gain the higher consciousness, the ultimate. Below they walk on Mass. Ave. in clean, placidity amidst the chaos. As Siri Guru Granth Sahib says, "As a swan glides upon the water but does not wet its feathers, so a Sikh lives in the world but keeps his mind fixed...