Word: yoga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Major Francis Yeats-Brown, 58, handsome professional soldier-author (Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Lancer at Large), distinguished poloist and pigsticker (hunter of wild boars), practitioner of Yoga; in London...
...onions between meals, frequently carried an alarm clock dangling from his hand in place of a watch, scrubbed his hide regularly with a stiff tooth brush. He followed Yoga, was a physical fitness fanatic, refused to smoke but enjoyed good food and wine. He read widely-from Plato to comic strips-and remembered everything. He loved music and the Bible, was a serious student of philosophy, strategy, religious history. He knew the Army manuals and the lives of all the great generals by heart. He spoke fluent Arabic and Hebrew. He was a formidable and logical argufier and he loved...
...Fakir, whose real name is Harry von Wickede (he claims Swiss parentage and studied yoga in India), had left one hand free-partly to avoid the blasphemy of complete duplication of the crucifixion, partly to smoke mentholated cigarets (three packs a day) and to drink countless bottles of soda pop. The table had a built-in toilet...
From Nov. 12 to Jan. 12, Professor Bhansali's remarkable vitality, long husbanded by yoga exercises, was maintained to some extent by baths and oil rubs (although for the first 17 days he took no water). Toward the end, as he began to lose consciousness, he received small quantities of glucose in his drinking water. Most of the 61 days he spent as a free man at Gandhi's retreat near Wardha, where he has been a children's teacher and has ground grain each night for the members' bread...
Chief stumbling blocks in the path of spiritual progress, Ramakrishna told his followers in an oft-repeated phrase, is kaminikanchan (literally "Woman & Gold," meaning "lust & greed"). " 'Woman & Gold' alone is the obstacle to yoga," said he. "What is there in the body of a woman? Only such things as blood, flesh, fat, entrails, and the life. Why should one love such a body?" In some of his ecstasies, Ramakrishna regarded himself as a woman and worshipped Kali as her handmaid. Said his woman devotees: "We seldom looked on Sri Ramakrishna as a member of the male...