Word: swami
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...permissiveness spread, Westerners felt less need to travel to India to shed inhibitions with spiritual sanction. So the swami of sex began tailoring his program to the psychospiritual circuit, catering to graduates of the "human potential" movement who felt that the movement's potential-and their own-had reached a dead end. Refugee experts from encounter groups, Rolfing massage and other please-touch techniques began making the pilgrimage and offering Rajneesh their talents. Since 1974, when the lushly gardened Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Ashram opened in the sedate city of Poona, more than 50,000 seekers have gone, mostly from...
DIED. A.C. Bhaktivedanta (Swami Prabhupada), 81, founder and spiritual leader of the American Hare Krishna movement; after a long illness; at his temple in Vrindaban, India. The manager of a large pharmaceutical laboratory, the swami's life was altered when he met his own guru in 1922. After some 40 years of preparation and the translation of more than 80 volumes of Hindu works, the swami came to New York City. Flower children of the '60s were instantly attracted to Prabhupada's offerings of an ascetic life; the flowing saffron robes and rhythmic chants of the Hare...
...shaving their heads except for one hank of hair by which they can be yanked into heaven-follow a centuries-old tradition of bhakti (devotion) to Krishna, one of the major Hindu gods. The sect was founded in the U.S. in 1966 by an Indian guru, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, and numbers 2,500 core members; missionaries back to India have gained few converts...
...Southern heroine-beautiful, cunning, passionate and full of what the author calls "the mystic promise," which must be enjoyed "purely as an art, as an illusion, as a complex poetry of the soul and the gonads." In her middle age, a rich widow and an expatriate, Rozelle marries a swami who had been the cultural darling of her Nashville set. His attraction is that he is no swami at all, but a brilliant fraud-a Mississippi-born Negro who taught himself to compose poetry in Hindi...
...Krishna movement merely gives everyone the choice to become Krishna or non-Krishna conscious, Kirtanananda Swami, founder of the New Vrindavana Community, said...