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Oftedal stayed close to "Dadaji" (respected elder brother) during his five-day visit. Oftedal found out that the yogi was one of more than a thousand teachers in a rapidly growing world movement named Ananda Marga ("Path to Bliss"). Oftedal became increasingly excited, and Dadaji eventually suggested that he go to India. "It was very interesting," says Oftedal. "I had had several very promising job opportunities fall through right before he came, so I was free and open for the summer, totally unexpectedly." He went to India...
...Ananda Marga headquarters itself in a rather simple compound in Ranchi, a city of the eastern state of Bihar. During the past seven or eight years, the organization has set up more than 600 primary schools, many children's homes-orphans in India usually don't survive-hospitals, homes for the aged, and higher educational institutions. Ananda Marga is able to establish and operate these concerns at minimal expense-mainly because many are built by hand and all are run by Avadhutikas and Avadhutas, women and men who work as full-time volunteers and expect no material compensation...
...Paris, comfortably settled in a small apartment, where her nephew, Raymond Clerisse, a young French lawyer, sometimes dropped in for an apéritif. One day Marga had an especially pleasant visit from Raymond. As he was going, she pressed a small piece of candy into his mouth. "Merci," said Raymond and departed. Later he was seized with fearful cramps. He had just enough strength to scribble on the back of a métro ticket: "The candy Marga gave me tasted strange." A few days later he was dead. Police called on Marga, but soon dropped the case...
Last fortnight, in the luxurious apartment in Nice which she shares with her son Jacques, a Communist editor, Marga and three friends were rudely interrupted at lunch by dead Raymond's ghost. Three gendarmes arrested Marga on suspicion of murder...
...will be back," said one friend confidently, as they carted the countess off. "She is one of the most sensitively artistic persons I've ever met, incapable of hurting a fly." But Marga's florist shook her head. "A strange customer, that one," she said. "Always asked for flowers past the bloom...