Word: swamis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
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...
...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...