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...hour pilgrimage back to Vikhroli, the town near Bombay where she served as a Peace Corps nurse a decade ago. "I can't wait to kiss everybody," she said on arrival. Old friends greeted her as Lily behn (our sister Lily), and schoolchildren sang, danced and even performed yoga exercises in her honor. At the dispensary, a former patient told her that his asthma was better. "Of course," teased Mrs. Carter. "I cured you." As she moved from one patient to another, she murmured, as if to herself: "I feel like an angel, but I know...
...meantime, Fish is applying some of his theories to his players, and he has at least one athlete doing yoga exercises...
Rosemary sleeps all day. But "when the sun goes down, I come alive," she says. In late afternoon she slips into jeans and meditates. "I've done yoga for years. It got me through the worst times. I can activate the third eye now and feel the light above my head. Meditation gives me the feeling of being part of the universe." At suppertime she sits down to breakfast, and about 8 p.m., with the roar of the sea and the light of the moon streaming through the windows, she flicks on the stereo system and plays mood music...
...hard-nosed talent for surviving without giving in to unnatural conventions--above all, to society's surrogate for the basic biological needs, money. There is after all one philosophy which Miller has honed to ingenious and good-humored perfection: the art of borrowing and lending "as with Yoga exercises, that is to say, wholeheartedly, without squeamishness or reservations of any kind...
Bharati also jostles some halos in his discussion of mystical procedures. The swamis like to pretend they can snap into samadhi whenever they want, but Bharati says it just is not so. "No determined set of actions, no planning for mysticism, guarantees its occurrence." But surely yoga and meditation help? Brusquely, the author crumples yet another cherished Occidental illusion. In the finest Indian monasteries, postulants are taught that there is "no causal relationship" between spiritual exercises and the mystical culmination. At least half of all mystical experiences come un-summoned. Then why bother to do the exercises? Bharati...