Word: swamy
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...shaving their heads except for one hank of hair by which they can be yanked into heaven-follow a centuries-old tradition of bhakti (devotion) to Krishna, one of the major Hindu gods. The sect was founded in the U.S. in 1966 by an Indian guru, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, and numbers 2,500 core members; missionaries back to India have gained few converts...
...Southern heroine-beautiful, cunning, passionate and full of what the author calls "the mystic promise," which must be enjoyed "purely as an art, as an illusion, as a complex poetry of the soul and the gonads." In her middle age, a rich widow and an expatriate, Rozelle marries a swami who had been the cultural darling of her Nashville set. His attraction is that he is no swami at all, but a brilliant fraud-a Mississippi-born Negro who taught himself to compose poetry in Hindi...
...Krishna movement merely gives everyone the choice to become Krishna or non-Krishna conscious, Kirtanananda Swami, founder of the New Vrindavana Community, said...
...stinker before he had the zero-experience remains a stinker after the experience." By way of illustration, Bharati describes a mystic named Trailinga who threw stones at approaching visitors. The author also quotes an all too revealing conversation between Ramakrishna, the most celebrated mystic of this century, and a swami called Vivekananda...
...Maybe Swami Muktananda is God's prescription for what the world needs...