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...brothers on a spiritual plane. Most Muslims vigorously deny that the relationship had a homosexual component, but whatever its exact nature, it initiated an awakening that would ultimately transform the young Persian intellectual into a mystic on the level of a St. John of the Cross or a Shankara. The legend goes on to say that Rumi and Shams became so inseparable that jealousy grew among Rumi's already considerable followers. Ultimately they acted, murdering Shams and leaving Rumi alone again, the one true and irreplaceable soul companion of his life gone...
...howdhah or a Rolls Royce, would always enjoy a Maharanee's exclusive privilege of wearing golden bracelets on her ankles. They had no sympathy for and viewed with alarm a decision just handed down by the Hindu Court of Nasik. In effect the court unfrocked the Hindu Pontiff Shankara Racharya and held that all his holy acts are void. One such act was to receive Miss Miller into the Hindu faith as a true convert. Another was to marry her to her ex-Maharaja. A third was to impart a "coconut baptism" to her child...
...Arch Wilkinson Shaw, Lecturer in Business Policy and editor of "System"; "English Field Systems," by Howard Levi Gray '98, Assistant Professor of History; "The Supernatural in Tragedy," by Charles Edward Whitmore; Instructor in English, ready in December; and a translation of the "Vedanta System of Philosophy According to Shankara" of Paul Duessen, by James Haughton Woods '87, Professor of Philosophy...
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