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...first really readable, authoritative English translation of one of the world's oldest and greatest religious classics was published last fortnight. It is The Bhagavad Gitā (The Song of the Lord), often called the Hindu New Testament, translated by Swami Nikhilananda (Rama-krishna-Vivekananda Center, New York; $3). Also published, without the profuse notes and comments of the larger volume, was a $2 pocket-size edition of the Gltā's text ("for daily devotional study . . . very convenient when traveling...
...submitted to the Steinach operation. He went off to Majorca with a swami to translate the Upanishads-a rest somewhat addled when a visiting poetess, mad with joy over praise from Yeats, so conducted herself as to fall on a valuable dog for whose injuries the Peruvian Consul presented a bill...
...first full English translation of one of the world's most extraordinary religious documents was published last week. It is The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1,063 pages, translated by Swami Nikhilananda...
...Napoleon did it, Hal Wolff does it, and I can do it," came the voice of Don S.Friedkin '42, student swami, out of the black depths of his darkened room where he sat utilizing a crystal ball...
...Alfred went to India. In Benares he met an eminent yogi, Chakananda Swami, who was then 147 and who taught Alfred the hoary Hatha-Yoga secrets of vitality. These stimulated Alfred to an even more intrepid period of reporting. During World War I, a ripened newsman of 86, he entered Germany on a forged neutral passport, was arrested at Frankfort on the Main, was saved by the sportsmanship of the consul of the country from which Alfred supposedly came. In 1926 the mature reporter of 98 was arrested in Portugal, condemned to death, thrown into a dungeon. He escaped with...