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...Sadhana Dhruvakumar...
...seniors in the Iota Chapter are: Phoebe A. Cushman; Leemore S. Dafny; Francesca B. Delbanco; Sadhana Dhruvakumar; Tanya L. Fenmore; Joan C. Han; Nadia A. Herman; Natalie F. Holt...
Gita Mehta's witty documentary satire illustrates that the cost can be considerably higher. This is especially true for the thousands of Europeans and Americans who have flocked to the Indian subcontinent in search of enlightenment, cheap dope and, like the Californian who turned her sadhana into a course on "inner environments," opportunity. As reckoned by the Hindus and Gore Vidal, this dark, chaotic age of Kali seethes with confusions, corruption and misapprehension. Karma, for example, a rather severe concept of determinism, has been turned into a metaphysical jelly bean by hippies, shopping-center swamis and jet-lagged gurus...
...social action and spiritual practice, "service and sadhana," are equally stressed in Ananda Marga. Thus it is able to attract a diverse group of people. For instance, Dadaji, the first Avadhuta to visit Boston, was a spiritual person from childhood-he began meditating at the age of six. But two other teachers who are now in the U.S., Acharya Raghaw Prasad and Acharya Yatiishvaranda Avadhuta, were much more socially oriented...
Some of his most notable works written in English are "The Gardener," "Sadhana," "Nationalism," and "Gitanjali." His fame, however, is due not only to this ability as a writer and a drama list, but also as a philosopher, for he is the modern representative of the long line of Indian philosophers which dates back to ancient times...