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BHAGAVADGITA, The Song of God-translated by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood -Marcel Rodd...
...years ago Christopher Isherwood was one of the most promising of younger English novelists, and a member of the radical, pacifist literary set sometimes known as "the Auden circle." Now, thinking seriously of becoming a swami (religious teacher), he is studying in a Hindu temple in Hollywood, Calif...
...British lieutenant colonel lives monastically with three other men and eight women in a small house adjoining the alabaster temple of the Vedanta Society of Southern California. He shares his income and the housework with his fellow students, and daily ponders the teachings of his master, Swami Prabhavananda...
...Peace, Peace, Peace!" Three times each day Isherwood repairs to the temple, sits cross-legged between grey-green walls on which are hung pictures of Krishna, Jesus, Buddha, Confucius, other great religious teachers. The swami enters bareheaded, wearing a long, bright yellow robe that sweeps the floor. He too sits crosslegged, pulls a shawl around him, and for ten minutes meditates in silence. Then in a ringing bass he chants a Sanskrit invocation, repeats it in English, ending with the words, "Peace, Peace, Peace...
Among TIME'S regular readers are three bimbashis (majors in the Egyptian army) whose job is to keep peace in the unpeaceful Sudan. In Wales, believe it or not, lives TIME subscriber Mona Lisa-in Howrah, India, Swami Gangeshananda is a subscriber-and in the far-away Fijis TIME is read each week by President John Quincy Adams...