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Died. The Maharajah of Bikaner, General His Highness Maharajadhiraj Raj Rajeshwar Narendra Shiromani; Maharajah Sri Ganga Singhji Bahadur, 62, soldier-statesman: of cancer of the throat; in Bombay. He succeeded to the title when he was seven, began to rule Bikaner (pop. about 1,000,000) when he was 18. He multiplied the province's income tenfold. For the British he commanded the Bikaner Camel Corps in the Boxer Rebellion, served in the Imperial War Cabinet in World War I, was the only Indian to sign the Versailles Treaty. For 40 years he dazzled English coronations, a walking tower...
...Woodrow Wilson's daughters.* The spit and image of her father, she lives in the French town of Pondicherry (now occupied by De Gaullists). She told Mr. Matthews that she was very happy after three years as a sadhak (follower) of an Indian religious teacher, Sri Aurobindo. Said she: "In fact, I never felt more at home anywhere...
Margaret Woodrow Wilson, now 56, and a spinster, broke with her family's Scotch-Irish Presbyterian traditions years ago when she stalked from church during Communion service. Flicking through catalogue cards in the New York Public Library four years ago, she came upon Sri Aurobindo's Essays on the Gita. For no special reason she took out this 300-page commentary on India's famous religious and philosophic poem, whose origin is lost in history. She read how "the lower in us must learn to exist for the higher in order that the higher also...
...possessed his soul. For three days he did not set foot in the Kali temple. On the fourth day ... he saw coming toward him a person with beautiful large eyes, serene countenance, and fair skin. As the two faced each other, a voice rang out in the depths of Sri Rama-krishna's soul: 'Behold the Christ, who shed His heart's blood for the redemption of the world, who suffered a sea of anguish for love of men. It is He, the Master Yogi, who is in eternal union with God. It is Jesus, Love Incarnate...
...body of a woman? Only such things as blood, flesh, fat, entrails, and the life. Why should one love such a body?" In some of his ecstasies, Ramakrishna regarded himself as a woman and worshipped Kali as her handmaid. Said his woman devotees: "We seldom looked on Sri Ramakrishna as a member of the male...