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Hindu Killer. But the real horror is muted, deriving from the nation's perpetual state of helplessness. Hindu India was all but destroyed by 1,000 years of invasion and defeat, Naipaul believes, and Hinduism has perpetuated the resulting defeatism by encouraging withdrawal and human separation. Moreover, Gandhian nonviolence swiftly degenerated from a framework for social action to total laxity, in Naipaul's view, and helped lead India to "an acceptance of karma, the Hindu killer, the Hindu calm...
...whereby Lebanese Christians automatically held the balance of power in the government. Although Jumblatt was a Socialist, and a Moscow favorite who won the Lenin Peace Prize in 1972, he owned vast tracts of land and opposed Communism. Revered by the Druzes as their secular leader, he studied Buddhism, Hinduism and Christian theology and regarded himself as a mystic. Shortly before his death, in fact, Jumblatt had been planning a trip to a monastery in the Himalayas for "spiritual exercises." He had last gone there -for the same purpose-before beginning the final fruitless struggle to reform his country...
...conch shells and cymbals sounded, the first flower-decked palanquin, bearing the leader of Hinduism's Maha Nirvana sect, moved toward the river bank near Allahabad where the Yamuna River meets the Ganges. Alongside marched a troop of elephants, trumpeting, their heaving bodies covered with garlands and painted symbols. Then through the police cordon flowed thousands of pilgrims from nine other ancient Hindu sects. Among them came a procession of Naga sadhus, celibate holy men who follow Shiva, the god of the forces of both life and destruction. They were all naked, except for a coating of sand...
Dianetics was secular, but subsequently Hubbard's "research" discovered the existence of the soul or, in his terminology, the "Thetan," the conscious being that inhabits a human body. Embroidering on Hinduism and Buddhism, Hubbard announced that Thetans are reincarnated over trillions of years, which meant that there were aeons of engrams to be erased. For Scientologists, truth became stranger than science fiction. Hubbard's explanation of why someone might have difficulty crying: he was once a primordial clam whose water ducts had been clogged with sand...
...will the skeptics understand that Transcendental Meditation [March 1] should be no more controversial than push-ups or situps? If you want to become stronger, you exercise; if you want to become more relaxed, you meditate. Let's not blow this thing out of proportion with talk of "Hinduism," "worship" and "pantheistic deity...