Word: swamis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rose higher & higher, Swami Saraswati Maharaj, who is a holy man and a beggar, got hungrier & hungrier. At last, in the poor Indian village of Jagraon one day last week, he bent his tired footsteps to the door of a large...
...middle-aged Hindu housewife opened the door and gave the holy man two freshly baked chapatis (wheat pancakes). "May God have mercy on you," the swami cried, and then added a blessing: "May you have seven more sons...
...holy man was adamant. "Never," said he. "Once I have uttered a blessing I can do nothing about it." Wailing and weeping, the woman rushed indoors. A moment later her husband emerged, prostrated himself on the ground before the swami, begged him to be merciful, not to afflict him with more sons and drive him into bankruptcy. A crowd of neighbors gathered, and their sympathy was with the husband, for they were as hungry and as poor as he. "Withdraw the blessing, withdraw," they cried, but the swami would not. They set upon him with sticks. By the time...
...order's sake. Then they began. Before long, Tarah was clothed in a swath of white cloth, a smile to show he didn't mind at all, and about ten pins. When my medical acquaintance tried to shove his pin into the bony part of the Insensate Swami's hand, Bey, who does not speak English, whispered something to the interpreter. The interpreter did not bother to translate for the audience, but snatched the Bey's hand away from the grinning student and motioned to the next in line...
...left the theatre, the Doctor discussed the disappointing size of his Boston audiences. "The bloody idiots here will pay $5 to see some swami pull rabbits from a hat, but they wont pay a buck to see a legitimate demonstration like mine. There's nothing phony about my show, but the fools keep thinking I've got a Dick Tracy wrist radio up my sleeve. I can't convince them that I'm not a fake, as long as they associate my work with fortune-telling. What we are trying to do is prove that the mind has great power...