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Spiritual Ecstasy. Ramakrishna's father, a pious Brahman, made a pilgrimage in 1835 to the footprint of Vishnu at Gaya, and there, it is said, had a dream in which Vishnu promised to be born as his son. On his return he found, it is said, that his wife had had a similar vision and had conceived. Ramakrishna was born on Feb. 18, 1836. He had his first spiritual ecstasy at the age of six or seven while eating puffed rice. "He looked up at the sky and saw a beautiful, dark thundercloud. As it spread, rapidly enveloping...
Pundits' Praise. By this time many a pious Hindu, including the two most famed pundits of the time-Gauri and Vaishnavcharan-declared that this walking pantheon was himself an Incarnation of God. Other pious folk thought him a madman. His strange acts while in trance varied from imitating a monkey to feeding Kali's food to a cat. Later he made fun of people who proclaimed his divinity by pointing to his left arm, which he had broken in a trance, and saying, "Have you ever heard of God breaking...
...years she was part of the empire of conquering Rome. After the decline of Rome, army after army crossed Malta, leaving their marks. Her gateway was scuffed by the feet of the world-Arabs, Normans, Sicilians, Germans, French, Spaniards-until Charles V. Holy Roman Emperor, ceded her to the pious, wandering Knights of St. John of Jerusalem...
...naval base, a handy coaling station and therefore a bright military jewel which, with Gibraltar and Suez, gave the empire control of the Mediterranean. This was not to say that the Maltese themselves remained altogether satisfied with the latest rulers. The Maltese farmers, descendants of the Phoenicians, illiterate, pious, aloof, tilling the thin crust of soil which lies on the island's rock, did not much care. But the city Maltese, largely descendants of the retinues of the Knights, fervent Roman Catholics, clever and temperamental, felt uneasy under this new and beefy rule...
...passed the bill will be another great triumph for these parched and pious politicians. Nearly every city in the country has some unit of the armed forces training close enough to it to come within the jurisdiction of the proposed measure. As more and more specialized units are set up for the 7,500,000 men expected in the Army by spring, the radius of the dry area will be practically nation-wide. Congressional support should be comfortably abundant since Congress can well use a palliative for anxious mothers. The timing, the phrasing, and the scope of this amendment shows...