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...saying. But still he keeps rolling. After two rounds in last week's P.G.A. Championship, Weiskopf was tied for third only two strokes behind the leaders. With no end in sight, there is some conjecture that Weiskopf has at age 30 discovered some new secret about the game. Yoga, perhaps? Pep pills? Magic? Prayer...
...Bonati, a 19-year-old who attended the University of Hartford, in Conn., is typical of many devotees in that she traveled the "guru circuit" before becoming a member of Divine Light Mission. "I tried yoga, and a lot of different kinds of meditation," she said. "They were relaxing, but this is so much more--there is so much love...
Margaret was less positive about other subjects, especially politicians. After Trudeau's liberal caucus canceled plans for group yoga because of fears of adverse publicity, Margaret commented, "It would probably have cleared some dust out of their heads...
...worldwide following now numbers over six million, with the bulk of it concentrated in India, followed in Western countries by Great Britain and the United States. The religion is, in Chadwick's words, "chameleonlike" in nature. In communist countries, the Divine Light mission operates as the "Raj-Yoga Academy"; in Third World and European countries it acts as a church; and in the United States it is a corporation, the "Divine United Organization...
...byways usually avoided by otherworldly Indian religious sects. Sarkar, 52, a Bengali who is called Anandamurti (Bliss Personified) by his followers, was variously a newspaperman and railway clerk before he began raising disciples in 1955. Shocked by graft and corruption then, he now preaches self-liberation, not only through yoga but also through sweeping social reforms. Among them: absolute morality in government, and a guaranteed standard of living...