Word: swami
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They're all alike, skepties claim. A guru is a swami is a holy man is a fake. And these scoffers never consider spirituality again...
...embracing Radha, his lover. Stained-glass windows cover one of the smaller walls of the rectangular room and provide a colorful backdrop for a light blue throne surrounded by white chrysanthemums. On the throne, sitting on a red cushion, is a picture of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the spiritual master and founder of ISKCON. He faces an orange curtain on the far wall and watches over devotees and visitors as they sit on an apricot-colored floor made of linoleum...
Bhaktivedanta Swami, a former Bengali businessman and a follower of Krishna since 1933, established the first ISKCON center in a small storefront in New York 12 years ago. He died last November, leaving over 6000 full time ministers and students of Krishna Consciousness. According to Garuda, the ISKCON founder did not die but merely appeared in a physical form, then disappeared. "After all the body does not determine life, life determines the body," Garuda says...
...personalized tidbit of wisdom from the guru's lips. (To a psychotherapist: "You will need much work because a psychiatrist is more puzzled in a way than a psychotic. Lose control. Let it happen.") Each apostle also receives a new name. Henceforth Richard Price will be Swami Geet Govind. One unfortunate drew the name Krishna Christ...
...tell me." A 35-year-old psychotherapist named Tim who practices in the Midwest found his techniques running dry and is searching for what he calls "radical autonomy." America, he says, is "an emotional desert. That's why they come out here." The ashram's new publicist, Swami Krishna Prem, a former Montreal ad writer, says, "We're not really in India. We could be anywhere." And save a lot on air fare...