Word: ji
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...look like just another plump, pubescent lad, but the 17-year-old Guru Maharaj Ji is worshiped as the "Lord of the Universe" by devotees* of the Divine Light Mission in many countries round the world. Nowhere is the boy guru's universe better furnished than in the U.S., to which he brought his movement in 1971: a string of 45 ashrams (retreat houses) and information centers in 110 cities across the country tend to the spiritual needs of the Divine Light flock, whose tax-exempt offerings have furnished the teen-age Lord with, among other things...
Lord of the Universe. As you can see, the title to this program provides one answer to that ever-puzzling question, "Who is Guru Maharaj Ji?" This documentary profiles the mysterious mystic and his religious organization, the Divine Light Mission. See if it tells you that the guru's organization also sells office supplies and stereo equipment, or that an example of his humor, according to his older brother, is when "the prankster with a vision" rolled up the electric windows in his Rolls Royce on his brother's head. Ch. 2, 9:00 p.m. 1 hour...
...marriage may have been planned in heaven, but 16-year-old Guru Maharaj Ji needed earthly approval from Colorado's juvenile court last week before wedding his secretary, Marolyn Lois Johnson, 24. As head of a multimillion-dollar religious conglomerate and spiritual leader to a reputed 6 million followers of the Divine Light Mission round the world, the portly "perfect master" had little trouble convincing Judge Morris E. Cole that he was mature enough. He then doffed his Indian robes for a dark tuxedo, the bride dressed in a red and white gown and bedecked herself with flowers...
...encompassing as the war that swept Indochina. And torture of political prisoners, even U.S.-financed torture, isn't uncommon enough to cause much of a stir. It goes on more or less indiscriminately and without potent opposition (from Greece to Chile, where the followers of Guru Maharaj Ji joined the list of proscribed last week...
Trouble is stirring in Nirvana. A.C. Bhakivedanta, Swami of the Hare Krishna movement, at a news conference in Hong Kong last week denounced a rival guru: self-styled divinity Maharaj Ji, 16, now counseling his disciples in California. The ascetic swami, whose followers constitute a kind of saffron-robed Hindu version of the Salvation Army, began by saying, "You've got to decide whether he is God, or a dog." Noting the young leader's luxurious life style, the swami declared rather ominously, "He is cheating people, but he will be cheated in a bigger way. When...