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...words mantra and ashram entered our vocabulary, and gurus emerged to offer us paths to enlightenment. A Hindu swami calling himself Maharishi Mahesh Yogi introduced Transcendental Meditation to the West and collected celebrity followers; and a fired Ivy League psychology professor named Richard Alpert went to India and became Ram Dass, servant of God. Three decades later, they are both back in the news...
...once peripatetic Ram Dass gets around these days by wheelchair or, as he calls it, his swan boat. While working on a manuscript about aging in 1997, he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. He remains partially paralyzed and has aphasia. When he was able to resume writing, the experience had enriched his understanding, and, as he writes in his new book, Still Here, "it gave me an encounter with a kind of physical suffering that often accompanies aging." Had it happened when he was young, he says, he would have been thrown into turmoil. "I can accept more now because...
...position at Harvard and started him off on a spiritual road on which he is still traveling. He found a different kind of high in the foothills of the Himalayas, where he met up with a guru known as the Maharaji. Out of that encounter came both the name Ram Dass and Be Here Now, his 1970s million-selling guide to higher consciousness. Published this month, Still Here speaks to a generation less concerned with turning on, tuning in and dropping out than with fearing the effects of growing older. "In this society," he maintains, "aging is more...
...Ram Dass Library continues to sell tapes of his teachings, and he laughs about a couple in their 70s who told him recently, "You go to bed with us every night." Since the stroke, his external world has shrunk. He travels in the U.S. to lecture, but the annual trips he once made to India are out of the question, at least for now. From his home in Marin County, Calif., he says, "I can see out to mountains, and the bay, water, trees and birds." Words and sentences come slowly, and he seems to dwell comfortably in a universe...
Akhil Sharma's An Obedient Father, which Farrar, Straus & Giroux will publish in June, is an Indian family novel that should appeal to anyone with a taste for red-blooded American realism and farce. His narrator, Ram Karan, a corrupt inspector for the New Delhi school system, is a self-pitying moral sloth whom Mark Twain would have recognized in a Missouri minute...