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India's eight million sadhus are mostly a wild and wacky bunch of fanatics who go about naked, claim divine powers, and live on alms. "Many of them simply exploit you and extort money from you," Prime Minister Nehru recently warned his people. "I want you not to have faith in such sadhus...
...been talk of strange goings-on at the Kaliaboda math near by. A math is a holy place, but the one at Kaliaboda looked more Uke a fortress. Its walls were guarded by archers, and out of its portals from time to time issued a number of besotted sadhus who beat up the local inhabitants. When women began disappearing, people of the surrounding villages demanded that the police look into the Kaliaboda math...
...main gate, and from the walls archers and men with slingshots attacked them with arrows and stones. Bursting into the courtyard of the math, they found Pagala Baba, dressed in animal skins, sitting on a lotus-shaped throne, waving a piece of red cloth and shouting, "Let blood flow!" Sadhus armed with spears, tridents and heavy two-handed swords forced the police back, leaving one cop and two sadhns dead...
...officiating sadhu, a holy man, as Surana's men forced their way through the ring of rubbernecks. The cops attacked a pile of cement slabs with pickaxes and dragged a young Hindu out of a freshly dug grave. A 25-year-old laborer who had become the sadhus' "disciple" only two months before, he was barely alive. But dead or alive, his act of faith would have made the hill a profitable shrine for his masters who would later pass the hat to pilgrims coming there to seek divine grace. After rescuing the victim, the police raced...
...suggestion that got nowhere: in Allahabad, the Naga Sadhus, holiest of India's holy men, suggested that Eisenhower, Churchill, Malenkov, Mao Tse-tung and India's Prime Minister Nehru (optional at no extra cost) meet in the nude high up on the Himalayas to bring an end to the cold...