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...wisdom are attained. "Transcendental Meditation does not reach the stage of giving you awareness of your real self," complains Dr. Kumar Pal, secretary of the Yoga Institute of Psychology and Physical Therapy in New Delhi. "It is merely a technique, a very limited technique, and it is not yogic because it lacks the prerequisites of yogic meditation. A moral life is the sine qua non of yoga practice. The students and admirers of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi have no need to give up sex, liquor and other immoral habits. They are reveling in immoral habits at the cost of basic moral...
...scores of gurus who have come to the U.S. in the past decade is India's Swami Satchidananda, who gained national attention by opening the Woodstock rock festival in 1969. Satchidananda teaches "integral yoga," a combination of yogic disciplines, in 15 metropolitan centers as well as two new live-in communities in Middletown, Calif., and Pomfret, Conn. Catholic nuns and priests often attend the integral-yoga weekend retreats...
Paramhansa Yogananda, by his own claim, was the last in a line of four Indian gurus who were "directly commanded" by God to teach the world "the secret yogic science of self-liberation." He moved to the U.S. in 1920 to fulfill his charge. In Southern California he established the headquarters of a Self-Realization Fellowship, with a membership of some 150,000. For more than 30 years he taught his disciples the yoga doctrine that human beings can achieve "god-realization" through their own efforts at disciplining mind and body. Even skeptics testified to his own discipline...
...Swami Kuvalayananda's students, Dr. Kovoor Thomas Behanan of Yale, has now published the first physiological analysis of yogic exercises, most of which he found hygienically beneficial...
After gathering his yoga experience, Dr. Behanan returned to Yale's Institute of Human Relations where he used occidental psychological and physiological apparatus to analyze the effects of yogic practices, which he continued as much for self as for Science. Before he took up yoga he suffered frequent headaches, lacked vigor. Now: "No work, physical or mental, could tire me so rapidly as it did before. . . . My mental-emotional life is no longer a blind catch-as-catch...