Word: gurus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soulscape," the abstract essence of the sitter, by painting a series of eight portraits-one on top of the other. To the uninitiated the soulscapes may look like nothing more than shards of colored glass or a heavy calligraphic scrawl. But to Ray's followers, who include Hindu gurus, Taoist philosophers and Jung disciples, the paintings are readily identifiable as portraits of James Joyce and Ray's French gardener, Monsieur Pierre Aubert...
Paramhansa Yogananda, by his own claim, was the last in a line of four Indian gurus who were "directly commanded" by God to teach the world "the secret yogic science of self-liberation." He moved to the U.S. in 1920 to fulfill his charge. In Southern California he established the headquarters of a Self-Realization Fellowship, with a membership of some 150,000. For more than 30 years he taught his disciples the yoga doctrine that human beings can achieve "god-realization" through their own efforts at disciplining mind and body. Even skeptics testified to his own discipline...
...women of the British community in India had little sense of what lay in store for them, those last days of 1856, on the eve of the Sepoy Mutiny. Even sturdy Captain Rodney Savage, 13th Rifles, Bengal Native Infantry, was slow to understand the signs and undercurrents: holy gurus croaking to the crows, the native nightrunners who were carrying from village to village the bread and goat-flesh symbols of Shiva, god of destruction...