Word: swamis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reports of fisticuffs and mass riots in many pubs in the city over this season's baseball champions have distributed the Swami of Swat so strongly that it is time to lay this unrest to rest with the definitive word on this subject...
Currently, most denominations and interests are represented through speakers at Morning Prayers, a short daily service at 8:45 a.m. that dates back to the first years of the University. The music is refreshing and the speakers range from an Indian swami garbed in safron, who returns every year, to F. Skiddy von Stade Jr. '38, dean of Freshmen, who doesn...
Trouble is stirring in Nirvana. A.C. Bhakivedanta, Swami of the Hare Krishna movement, at a news conference in Hong Kong last week denounced a rival guru: self-styled divinity Maharaj Ji, 16, now counseling his disciples in California. The ascetic swami, whose followers constitute a kind of saffron-robed Hindu version of the Salvation Army, began by saying, "You've got to decide whether he is God, or a dog." Noting the young leader's luxurious life style, the swami declared rather ominously, "He is cheating people, but he will be cheated in a bigger way. When...
That was nothing compared with the existential dilemma of the New York bureau's Richard Ostling when he found himself trying to interview the followers of Swami Satchidananda during one of their "silent retreats" at Yogaville East in Connecticut. Possibly the most metaphysical experience of 1973 belongs to Boston Bureau Chief Sandra Burton, who was sent through Mexico's Sonora Desert one night in search of the Yaqui medicine man Don Juan for TIME'S Carlos Castaneda cover story (March 5). At one point, she recalls, she and Photographer Eddie Adams pulled their car off a deserted...
...unity of the universe. And the book itself is a kind of mandala, drawing the reader deep into a philosophical analysis, then abruptly forcing him out into the physical world: Ceylonese girls bathing in country streams, Indians in Darjeeling with "English hats, walking sticks, old school ties," a swami in Calcutta of whom Merton notes, "Even his Kleenex is saffron...