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...them. Yogananda, born plain Mukunda Lai Ghosh 46 years ago, is the son of the vice president of the Bengal-Nagpur Railway. Father Ghosh scorned money, food and sex, spent his free hours meditating, with his legs crossed. Both father & mother Ghosh were devout practitioners of the basic tenet of yoga: absolute discipline of the body and senses through concentration on the idea of union with God. "Your father and myself," said Mrs. Ghosh, "live together as man and wife only once a year, for the purpose of having children" (they had eight...
...belief of greying, sad-faced Robert Harold Scott, 57, is deep and abiding. Its single tenet: there is no God. For five years godless Robert Scott pestered San Francisco radio stations to let him air his atheism. Last week, more than three months after an FCC decision in his favor (TIME, Aug. 5), Station KQW gave him 30 minutes of Sunday morning time to rehash the arguments that have been the unbeliever's stock-in-trade for many a Christian year. Excerpts...
...preceding evaluation of the League of Nations, Molotov had unwittingly shown the fallibility of the very principle he is so valiantly upholding. The League failed, he demonstrated, because it was based on the tenet of the "unanimity of all its members in the adoption of decisions." The structure of the UN is an improvement over the defunct League in the reduction of the same principle to a scale of five powers. But from the record of the Security Council's first year, it is apparent that reaching agreement among five great nations is as difficult as it is among fifty...
Another key tenet of the Liberal's code is his adherence to the spirit of the Constitutional amendments which prohibit discrimination because of race or color. All citizens are entitled to the same rights and freedoms, to the same opportunities. And they are entitled to a governmental policy which will guarantee that the abundant resources and talent with which this nation is blessed will be used so as to bring the greatest benefits to the greatest number of Americans...
...crucial tenet with which he wrestles is the conventional doctrine of a static paradise in which the immortal souls of good Christians will spend eternity-"where, as in the palace of the Sleeping Beauty, we should find all life paralyzed, and the sun and moon preternaturally brilliant, both standing still...