Word: swamis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frank about their methodology. They are also quick to insert disclaimers that their expose of New Vrindaban is meant to discredit the whole Hare Krishna movement. But it does, mainly because their approach focuses almost exclusively on bizarre and scandalous events. Following the 1977 death of founder A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, each of his closest disciples split off to establish his own turf. For example, Hans Kary of Hoboken, N.J., headed for Berkeley, where, as Hansadutta, he became a Krishna guru who financed rock-'n'-roll albums and amassed an arsenal of firearms...
Excommunication has been bad for business. Hubner and Gruson report that Swami Ham now wants to build a new community in Pennsylvania or New Jersey where one could ride out nuclear war, the AIDS epidemic and economic depression. He has learned a fundamental truth about the great river of being: one can never step into the same cash flow twice...
...gospel and pop for three decades. Dionne Warwick, who crafted a unique pop style before Whitney was born, is her cousin. Aretha Franklin, the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, is known as "Auntie Ree" around the Houston home. Clive Davis, the industry swami who revived Dionne's and Aretha's fortunes when he signed them for his Arista Records, spent two years preparing each of Whitney's albums...
...that sloshing around pays off. Fields' 14-employee firm, Howard Fields & Associates, last year exceeded $1 million in revenues. Says he: "Call me a water swami." But never call...
Upstairs I dumped my coat under a portrait of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, known as Prabhupada--who was sharing wall space with a microwave oven--and shuffled barefoot into the ceremony room. In here, His Divine Grace was represented in 3-D form; a lifesize, full color lacquered statue sat meditatively at the back of the room, surrounded by leafy ferns and silky robes...