Word: vegetarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Educated at the University of Bombay, suave Jayant is a Hindu and strict vegetarian who also fasts one day a week and once each year for a fortnight eats only yoghurt. But he does business from an air-conditioned, four-telephone office on the shores of Lake Victoria and tools around in a blue Mercedes to visit the 12,000 workers for whom the Madhvanis provide free housing, schools and medical care. The brothers are frequent business visitors to Europe...
...visible manifestation through Christ, Krishna and Buddha, and the Holy Spirit is the energy by which God influences the world. According to Fellowship teachings, every man can achieve salvation, or the highest form of "cosmic consciousness," through disciplining of mind and body. Members follow a vegetarian diet (meat "falsely stimulates" the mind), perform modified yoga exercises. At Sunday worship, the faithful chanteerily hypnotic verses that are meant to induce meditation. One chant goes...
Third essential component of Buddhism is the vast body of monks and nuns called the sangha. In addition to celibacy and vegetarian nonviolence, monks practice poverty; traditionally the only possessions permitted are robes, a begging bowl for food, a needle, prayer beads, a razor (to shave the head once a fortnight), and a filter to remove bugs from the drinking water so as not to kill them...
...emerged as a way of life more than once, usually with unfortunate results. Ludwig II, the Mad King of Bavaria, was an ardent disciple, but Wagner's most disastrous convert was Hitler, who said that an understanding of Nazi Germany required an understanding of Wagner. Hitler became a vegetarian in imitation of Wagner and liked to think that his SS embodied the spirit of Parsifal's Knights of the Grail. While listening to Wagner, friends reported, Hitler became lost in the same mists of ecstasy Wagner himself once breathed...
...India's able Finance Minister Morarji Desai, austerity is a way of life. Not only is he a vegetarian and a teetotaler who fasts for a day and a half every week, but he is also a hardheaded fiscal conservative who derides pie-in-the-sky welfare schemes and is an ardent believer in pay-as-you-go financing. Last week Desai presented the Indian Parliament with an austerity budget that will put the entire nation on the Desai standard...