Word: shri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This desire for a private existence away from the commercial eye has been shown in his refusal to play for radio and television, and in his declining the Padma Shri and Padma Vibhusan Awards in 1964 and 1968. The awards are the highest distinctions the Indian government pays to Indian artists...
Sibling rivalry between spiritual leaders? Well yes, between the Maharaj Ji, a.k.a. Perfect Master, and his eldest brother, Shri Satyapal Ji (Truth Incarnate). In India they are often regarded as export gurus aimed at the Western market, but in the U.S. the baby-faced Maharaj Ji, now 20, was once worshipped as the Lord of the Universe by 50,000 or so devotees of the Divine Light Mission. In 1975 his mother, Mataji, disapproving of his playboy ways and his marriage to an airline stewardess, deposed him in favor of his brother. Since then the name of the organization...
...Excerpt: "Guru in the glory of the personified transcendental fulness of Brahman, to him, to Shri Guru Dev, adorned with glory, I bow down...
Mataji (the name means Revered Mother) announced that the young guru had been replaced by his eldest brother Sat Pal, who would henceforth be spiritual leader of the movement started in 1930 by their father, the late Shri Hansji Maharaj. As Mataji now tells it, the eldest brother had originally been designated as the Bal Bhagwanji...
...England alone, there are more than 3,000 teachers of yoga, many of them instructed in the "nondogmatic" regimen by Yogi Shri T.R. Khanna Ho, who arrived in Boston from the Himalayas 15 years ago. Author and teacher, he also maintains an ashram, or yoga retreat, in Newton, Mass., which lists as permanent residents some 20 devotees ranging from salesmen to scientists. An internationally known yoga Merlin is Californian Richard Hittleman, 47, whose expertly produced Yoga for Health TV series is shown in a dozen foreign countries, and last week made its debut-twice daily each weekday-on Manhattan...