Word: swamis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holiness Sri Sankarima, 109, who had spent 40 years in remote caves of the Himalayas, learning rejuvenating breathing exercises from a guru (teacher) who claimed to be 300. A swami told him: "The normal age of a man who lives rightly should be 140. . . . There are many Mahatmas living in the high Himalayas of over 200." Says Yeats-Brown: "They have no birth certificates, unfortunately." In seven instances of alleged reincarnation which he discovered, the children gave circumstantial evidence to prove that they remembered a previous life on earth. Most complicated case was that of a five-year...
...called on Gandhi and many another of India's great and near-great. But the high point of his journey was at Trivandrum, where he met one Chidambaram Swami, who became his spiritual teacher, put him to work practising yoga in earnest. The pupil gives all the details of his training - breathing exercises, meditations, calisthenics - and observes that one of the prime necessities to spiritual advancement is a well-functioning bowel...
...World's Fair of 1893 was the Parliament of Religions, gotten up by the Rev. John Henry Barrows of Chicago. Opened with a prayer by the late great James Cardinal Gibbons, the Parliament brought to the U. S. for the first time such exotic foreign religionists as the Swami Vivekananda. To the U. S. popular mind it gave the first smatterings of an esoteric subject, Comparative Religions, and the first inklings that Oriental faiths, after all, had their points...
...Bazaar. Daniel Pardway's wife (Nan Sunderland) died before she had time to share Daniel's greatest disappointment: his children. The oldest. Gene, grew up to be a loose-life; the second son was a Tom Thumb esthete; the daughter married and divorced a Prince, adopted a swami; the youngest son seduced a countergirl, grew so brash in his manners that Daniel Pardway had to order him away. All this is the more painful because it is Daniel Pardway's ambition to leave the Bazaar to his offspring. The news that his general manager has bought...
...Rangoon last fortnight, Narasingha Swami, Indian mystic, ate a handful of ground glass, drank half a drachma of nitric acid, some sulfuric acid, also swallowed a grain of strychnine and a grain of potassium cyanide.. He died in agony. His friends explained it was because he had been kept from doing his yatayoga (breath-control and autosuggestion exercises) by swarms of visitors at his house...