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...spiritual parliament" to further world peace. In the tented meeting ground by the Jumna River, teams of holy men in two-hour shifts chanted the names of peaceable deities, and sang hymns interspersed by frequent repetitions of the sacred word "om"-that "mystic sound," according to one swami, "which vibrates and makes luminous and radiant the inner and outer atmospheres." The vibrations, the holy men hoped, would counteract war preparations the world over. The holy men were generally optimistic, except gloomy Swami Puroshottamanand. "I am sorry I ever left my cave," said the swami, who had not ventured...
Seven, from the 42 candidates in the field, will be chosen in February. To try to join the select seven, Louis Lament and Roger Hunt staged a jazz concert, and the friends of John "Swami" Morey staged a self-styled "Hindu riot...
Local palmists and spiritualist mediums likewise experienced a lucrative shot in the arm. One swami of dubiously repute rubbed his hands and said, "Since Armed folded up, lots of Harvard men have decided to put their faith in the old crystal ball...
...Martyr's Grave. By week's end, the 600 sadhus who had gathered on the Jumna's banks had a martyr,* if not a program for India. Swami Krishnanandji, like many another holy picketer, had been taken to jail. The police took away his trishool (5-ft. wooden staff with three points, known as the "stick of righteousness"), without which no sadhu can take food. So Krishnanandji went on a hunger strike. The police released him, but too late. He trudged wearily back to the sadhu camp. The next day, while a score of fellow ascetics chanted...
...vast majority of India's swamis spend their lives in retirement from the world, eating only enough to keep body & soul together, passing their time in exemplary meditation. Swami Yogananda was inspired by more practical aims. The "Cosmic Director" ("who writes His own plays") ordered him to move on to the U.S. Soon he became a popular lecturer, initiated "tens of thousands of Americans" -to whom he dedicated his first volume of poems, Whispers from Eternity, which appeared in 1929 with an introduction by Opera Singer Amelita Galli-Curci...