Word: muktananda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago I stumbled across a nut brown man and my life was transformed. Now I find this man, Baba Muktananda, in the pages of TIME [July 26]. Thank you for introducing him to your readers...
Maybe Swami Muktananda is God's prescription for what the world needs...
Molten Gold. Muktananda had much the same experience himself when he was initiated by his teacher Nityan-anda in 1947. Inspired at the age of 15 by his first encounter with the man, he left his home in southern India to seek out various sages and swamis. Twenty-five years later he found Nityananda again: "His eyes, wide open, were gazing straight into mine. I was dazed, I could not close my eyes; I had lost all power of volition. I saw a ray of light entering me from his pupils. It felt hot, like burning fever. Its color kept...
...suppliants who look to Baba Muktananda for such experiences are generally older than those who follow some other gurus, and they include a high proportion of professionals: lawyers, actors, educators and a surprising number of psychologists. Attorney Ron Friedland, 35, is recuperating from a heart attack. During his convalescence, he says, he learned that "if you have taken all there is to take out of a career, and there is nothing more to aspire to, then you know you only have one-third of the pie-even if it's the fattest, richest third." Jerry Bender, 38, was making...
...desire to smoke (others, even after the guru has touched them with his sheaf of peacock feathers, still sneak out of the ashram for a quick puff). But many testify that the guru has genuinely helped them to cast off "negative emotions" and achieve a certain tranquillity. Says Muktananda of his own mysterious powers: "I am however you see me. If you see me as a saint, I am a saint. If you see me as a fool, I am a fool. If you see me as an ordinary man, I am an ordinary man." Asked how he sees himself...