Thank you. Halfway through their meal, Carolyn remembers, Martha hesitantly said, "I know this will sound like a weird question, but has Swamiji ever asked you to have sex with him?" the end of the soul. My father certainly had sex, and that's why I was born, so will I lose faith in my father? Calcutta, India Rmyaa, the story of Lord r Rmacandra, is filled with examples of great devotees from various backgrounds, who selflessly served Lord Rma. According to the stipulation he signed with the Board's Ethics Review Panel, Nuernberger admitted that he terminated a counseling relationship with "Victoria S." during the third session in order to enter into a "personal relationship - such relationship to include sexual contact.". In retrospect, Megan says, she believes that Swami Rama was indifferent to the problems that his behavior might cause the Institute, but was using such scandals to purge it of anyone who questioned his authority. He reportedly smokes cigarettes, watches television for hours every day, and gossips, but his disciples rationalize this non-abstinent behavior: "Oh, Swamiji just smokes to bring himself down to the earth plane," or, "The TV is on incessantly just to give the student one more distraction to challenge his ability to maintain yogic balance," or, "all the stories Swamiji tells about other people are just to give the disciple the opportunity to develop objectivity and not get caught up in the meaningless gossip.". is the secret of the mystery of death, and the key to understanding She began talking about Swami Rama's exploitative behavior with anyone who would listen, especially women who she thought were being victimized. attachments, along with ignorance, are the source of the fear of death. She heard "numerous former students say they left the [Himalayan] Institute because they were sexually exploited by Swami Rama or knew someone who was". Swami Rama passed away in 1996, being survived by, it has been suggested, at least one child ( Webster, 1990 ). Without her I cannot be happy. That is, they were allegedly discounted as being emotionally disturbed, or otherwise reportedly regarded as liars Rose said that she struggled, but the guru physically overpowered her, throwing himself on top of her on the bed and forcing her to perform oral sex. He says he once had a patient falsely accuse him of getting her pregnant, and that any psychologist knows that this happens frequently with emotionally disturbed women patients. bodies of others get sick or die, we experience pain. His story is told briefly in the Mahabharata ("Great Epic of the Bharata Dynasty") and at great . For, when it comes to metaphysical questions regarding attachment, repulsion is no better than is attraction. Download Books. During the next few months, Carolyn says, Swami Rama bade her visit him in his private quarters once every couple of weeks, either after lunch or after evening prayers; he also made it her job to buy condoms. [2] She wrote that their statements, two of which were on file with the Cult Awareness Network in New York, fitted a pattern of what she called "sex in the forbidden zone", with a guru, "coupled with institutional mechanisms of defense and denial". 4 July, 2020 22:06:41. In addition to this intense spiritual training, Swami Rama received higher education in both India and Europe. Swami Rama, Founder of Promoting Society, Himalayan Institute Hospital Trust (HIHT), was born in 1925 at Village-Toli, Malla Badalpur, Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand (erstwhile Uttar Pradesh) to a learned Brahmin family.Orphaned at a young age, he was raised from early childhood by a great yogi and saint of Bengal who lived in the foothills of the Himalayas. Dr. Ballentine doesn't believe any of the stories, and when I ask if he's ever talked to Swami Rama about them, he answers, """Oh sure, and he's shown me his file, of " He doesn't finish the sentence. By 1977, that organization had moved to an ashram in the Pocono Mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania, capable of housing more than one hundred residents and guests, along with their Institute headquarters. Shortly after Marston filed her suit in 1978, Nuernberger moved to Honesdale, where he is currently a member of the Institute's teaching staff. In India. Born: February 18, 1833 Then he started giving her practices without any spiritual meaning, she says, and telling her she wasn't doing them right. Of course, Gandhis very human displays of (non-righteous) temper alone would have been enough to demonstrate to him or anyone else that he was not yet perfected in ahimsa. She said no: She had been on a work crew Swami Rama had ordered to week poison ivy roots for his new garden, and she was covered with oozing blisters. According to his disciples, Vivekananda attained mahasamdhi; the rupture of a blood vessel in his brain was reported as a possible cause of death. springs grief, from craving springs fear; for him who is wholly free Consciousness makes our body appear to exist. to understand death. Two months after Swami Rama left for India, Carolyn went to Chicago to visit her family for Christmas. life as a slight, momentary affliction that prepares a person for Here is her report. Turning East in the Twin Cities: Converts and Movements in the 1970s. Before the wedding, Carolyn and her fiance went to see a couples counselor both separately and together. ISBN 8188157007 (Buy) earthly in you, said St. Paul. Ultimately, the woman had revealed the liaison to her husband. A pearl necklace that Brian had bought from Swami Rama as an "investment" was appraised at roughly one-third of the $100,000 he had paid for it. exist not because of our bodies but because of our very being. . The Swami, she says, bragged to a crowd of disciples that the woman would do whatever he told her, then put his dog's collar and leash around her neck and walked her back and forth, while the others laughed. Because each style has its own formatting nuances that evolve over time and not all information is available for every reference entry or article, Encyclopedia.com cannot guarantee each citation it generates. (Webster, 1990). No one had thoroughly investigated, until journalist Katharine Webster decided to spend two years researching their allegations. Because that's my whole life My relationship with [Swami Rama] is purely divine and spiritual-there cannot be impurity in it, and there is no room for such thoughts. the desires and attachments that are the cause of suffering. We could pick a disorderly, poorly run train, Of all the Institute's swamis and teachers, Pandit Arya is by far the most scholarly. But a deeper anxiety also motivated my visit: I'd heard a rumor that several women, ex-members of the Institute, were taking Carolyn's guru to court on charges of sexual misconduct. Swami Rama, she says, would extol his own sexual abilities but tell her she was bad at making love. At the meeting, Brian says, Dr. Ballentine presented letters from another woman, Karen,* who also claimed to have been sexually exploited by Swami Rama. Swami Vivekananda became afflicted with throat cancer and gave up his body on 16th August 1886. one passes in and out without seeing it, that is the portal of God.. Their grief is allowed to be concentrated and their Are you feeling a little confused and emotionally upset, and maybe some of the things that happened you might have misinterpreted, or you might have even fantasized them, you know, have trouble separating fantasy from reality?" Each time the Institute's top professionals have been confronted with complaints that Swami Rama is abusing his position, institutional mechanisms of denial have come to the guru's aid. The man, she says, informed her of Swami Rama's long history of alleged sexual misconduct. Gurus were supposed to have conquered their desires, but in the spiritual literature they were often portrayed as contradictory, tricking their disciples into enlightenment. houses, second cars, second homes in resort areas, and retiring early. [1] He moved to America in 1969, initially teaching yoga at the YMCA, and founding the Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy in Illinois in 1971; its headquarters moved to its current location in Honesdale, Pennsylvania in 1977. Death and Transition by Swami Rama [This passage has been taken from the book Path of Fire and Light Vol 2, pp 19 - 21, by Swami Rama, published 1976 by the Himalayan International Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy of the USA].. Vedanta says He warns against relying too heavily on the inner voice: "When we look for the guru within, we only end up finding our own samskaras-vagaries of the unconscious mind are mistaken for directions from the superconscious. Karen and George say their friends told them that the woman had been pressured to have sex with Swami Rama even after their marriage, which the guru had arranged. Grieve for it, and then move Yet she is vulnerable to feeling re-victimized every time her experience is denied or distorted. Also, the whispers CAE had analyzed and reported on in January (Chapter 7) were reviewed on the new tapes and all previous findings were re-confirmed. attached to or to identify with something? STEINER, RUDOLF (18611925), who wrote more than 350 volumes on philosophy, science, and the arts, was the originator of an esoteric, Although the word "spirituality" was originally a Christian one, derived from the Pauline definition of whatever was under the influence of the spiri, YOGANANDA A Practical Guide to Holistic Health. Swami Rama show full bio One of the greatest adepts, teachers, writers, and humanitarians of the 20th century, Swami Rama (1925-1996) is the founder of the Himalayan Institute. "I will not tolerate anyone propagating malicious stories about the Institute or its founder on the Institute's own property," Dr. Ballcntine's letter says. He would have no other train than They look to the body, declare it is evidence of our being, and assume Dr. Ballentine sent copies of his letter to the same Institute members who had received Hughes's letter. Both Chapter XVIII of Boses (1974) My Days with Gandhi and try to teach that out of death comes life. Former "Amazing Race" contestant Dr. James "Jim" Raman has died at 42. lost objects, changed relationships, shifting emotions and thoughts, and How could she be the only one who realized what was going on? The daughter of an alcoholic, she longed for guidance from a spiritual authority figure. * "Nirvana was up at his cabin, walking his dog at 5:30 in the morning, and Megan was with him day and night." In 1969, Pandit Arya met Swami Rama, who gave him "one of the highest meditation initiations," in which he experienced himself "as a being of light." Our humanitarian projects serve impoverished communities through rural empowerment and environmental regeneration. Life is an ongoing alternatively pick a train in which we learned to enjoy the natural Ex-members say he also bends the rules and bestows privileges on his favorites, who may in turn enforce rules, which they do not follow. The capacity to leave the body consciously at the time of death is not restricted only to accomplished yogis. Carolyn says she spent years blaming herself and trying to rationalize away what she now regards as sexual abuse. The yogis, he says, have demonstrated these abilities in the past and continue to do so. He promised her he'd set up a complete, personalized yoga program for her there-a prescribed thet, special yoga postures and meditation practices-as well as a game plan for her higher education and future career. At that, she says, he raged at her until she was sobbing, unable to speak a word in her own defense: No! Nor does Dr. Ballentine mention that in 1977 Nuernberger was formally reprimanded by the Minnesota Board of Psychology for unethical practices stemming from his relationship with a third woman patient. These customs help people to go death, to comfort the reality that their worldly lives are temporary. that is not you. When he told her to visit him at night again, Carolyn says she did not have enough self-confidence to say no, but she hoped that this time he would treat her differently, with more sensitivity and respect. Women need to be informed that this could happen to them-be it with Swami Rama or any man in a position of power-so they will be able to see it coming and avoid it. Carolyn,* an old friend, called me collect. Ex-members say he has counseled patients in the Combined Therapy Program, although he lost is license to practice psychology in Minnesota in 1979. That is why in some cultures and Death cannot Edited by Swami Ajaya [Allan Weinstein]. Kripalu was known for the intensity of his spiritual practice ( sadhana ), meditating for 10 hours each day. Such trickery is common in the legends about crazy saints, who aimed to teach their disciples that ultimately they had to surrender the illusion of external control. Went to his room in the Ramakrishna Math, the monastery he built in honor of his Guru to meditate and breathe his last. She would start with handling the appointments and then she would make his plane reservations, scheduling lecture tours. Choose from 8 signature wellness retreats to help you restore balance and achieve optimum health and healing. When she shared her news with the other residents at East West Books, they told her she should feel honored: She had been chosen, while long-time devotees had been denied the privilege. Rama also claimed to have later studied in Hamburg, Utrecht and at Oxford University. At the same time We arrive here, strive to obtain whatever we think we need, and Both women and men say they blamed themselves and their own spiritual obtuseness when they repeatedly failed to discern and follow the shifting rules. if there is an inner being, it comes by way of the body. Notable teachers he encountered included Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, and Sri Ramana Maharshi. Brian, who was a member of the Institute board of directors and a major financial contributor, says he confronted Swami Rama shortly after Rose contacted him and told him what had happened-but the guru said Rose had seduced him. imperishable. All of them had something to offer, but no spiritual path inspired her to make an exclusive commitment. 1 Death mystery of Swami Vivekananda There is no mystery surrounding the fact that Swami Vivekananda died in the year 1902. In the United States, far from the strong cultural morality of the guru's country of origin, it is not regulated at all. Six months before her death, she decided to live in a room by herself remembering the Lords name and meditating. He must see something special in me.'" During her first eight months at the Institute, Megan was able to pursue her Studies, but her situation altered dramatically when Swami Rama returned to take up summer residence. By that time, Brian recollects, the other directors had adopted the line that famous and powerful men were always subject to such vicious rumors, and that the women's stories were ludicrous and unbelievable. to the worldly plane. A less intense twenty-three-day mourning period to Understand Life They make life When they go or change, we feel pain. This is the ego operating. They feel as if When I asked Pandit Arya about the allegations of sexual abuse, he admits that he was very disturbed when he first heard them. According to Karen and George, no legal action resulted. Dr. Bal-lcntinc's response was reluctant: "It is only in view of your many years of association with the Institute that I have decided to take the time to reply to your letter of 22 May. He was soon reportedly adopted there by one of the greatest masters of the Himalayas, Bengali Baba. follows. "Until you get your priorities straight and your head clear, I would request that you refrain from attempting to represent the Institute or its teachings in any way.". On Monday, July 14, 2015, Swami Veda Bharati left his body at 3:00 am (India time). Prime Minister Modi must pay his homage to this great yoga guru on June 21. And that did not undermine Mahatma Gandhi's work! death, there is issuing forth, there is entering in. frightening. or wear shoes. Attempts to verify Swami Rama's educational background have been unsuccessful, according to Vanessa Webber of the Cult Awareness Network. At the same time, she says, he offered her money and told her he wanted to put her in his will. Swami Rama is supposed to have freed himself from the bonds of karma. He is supposed to have been raised by Sri Madhavananda Bharati in the sacred caves and monasteries of the Himalayan sages. Reprinted from Sacred Journey, an HIHT publication. She couldn't make sense out of his behavior, because she found it impossible to believe that it was really about sex-and she repeatedly told him so. She believes Swami Rama was trying to buy her collusion, as he had bought the collusion of the Institute's staff and many residents. The chapter on the Meditation Center in Patricia Darling's dissertation details the growth of the center and the subsequent disillusionment of many of Pandit Arya's students with his new guru. One evening she went out to dinner with Martha*, an old friend from East West Books Chicago. Jesus taught that Anyway, he said that our relationship would be exclusive, I'd be like a spiritual courtesan. Reprinted with permission of the Publisher He bragged about his sumptuous homes in India and Japan and about his shopping sprees for designer clothes, she says. The lawsuit I heard rumors about in New York City never materialized. Meanwhile, Swami Rama had appointed her as registrar of the graduate program, replacing a long-time woman disciple who was being kicked out of the Institute for no apparent reason. I don't have access to those files." In private sessions, ex-disciples say, Swami Rama has arranged marriages and instructed disciples to break off relationships. The couple had been meditating together for several years. The institute later moved to Honesdale, Pennsylvania, and has a 422-acre campus in the Pocono Mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania. when Hughes openly asked questions about Swami Rama's sexual activities during a weekend workshop at the Glenview Center, where he was the featured guest lecturer, he was escorted off the premises and driven to the airport. Within the Cite this article tool, pick a style to see how all available information looks when formatted according to that style. In August, Carolyn says, Swami Rama told her to meet him in New York City for the next step in her spiritual training. death they feardeath of their attachments to their bodies, thoughts, Encyclopedia.com gives you the ability to cite reference entries and articles according to common styles from the Modern Language Association (MLA), The Chicago Manual of Style, and the American Psychological Association (APA). Death Quotes and Sayings by Topic. The real cause of war lies rooted in the individual's unwillingness to listen to the voice of the heart, the inner conscience.Drawing on the philosophy of yoga . At a later date, he pursued a formal education at Oxford University, continuing his studies of Western psychology and philosophy in Germany and Holland for three years before coming to the United States in 1969. The Institute also offers a dizzying array of education programs, including a diploma program for hatha yoga teachers. goeshave a foot, get an infection. The infection would spread through It is a mistake to judge the external guru's worthiness by his behavior; instead, the student should look inside and determine whether that person is helping dispel the darkness of her ignorance. The annual congress, held each June, offers a smorgasbord of lectures and "new age" workshops. Sexual contract between gurus and their American disciples is not a new or rare phenomenon. He is a young boy, full of mischief. Or, in the words of Rudolph Ballentine, M.D., president of the Himalayan Institute and Swami Rama's designated successor, "to take the wisdom of the ancients and couch it in terms that are intelligible to modern man.". The inner Swami Rama frequently invited them to parties in his private quarters, where they say he entertained them with funny stories and racy gossip. Childhood I am so important and I need to have this car. And she was afraid to leave in her old car because a freezing rainstorm had covered all the roads with ice. The Great Raman Maharshi died of cancer. To my relief, I could detect no flash of recognition, guilt, fear, or anger in Carolyn's eyes. [4] Concerned that the YMCA had presented yoga as one of its physical fitness programs, he included some philosophy and meditation in his classes. Rajmani explains the basic goals of the Institute's tradition of yoga: "The most important part of the practice is nonattachment." When the mantra is remembered consciously, it automatically is stored in the unconscious mind. Who? We grieve the deaths of [5], In 1966, he founded the original Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy in Kanpur, India; this was followed by an institute in Glenview, Illinois in 1971; it is now headquartered in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, purchased in 1977. distractions, dancing girls and video games, and opportunities for We employ the classical approaches of Raja, Jnana, Karma, and Bhakti Rama, Swami, Rudolph, and Swami Ajaya. It was quite sudden. Mantra is a spiritual guide that dispels the fear of death and leads one fearlessly to the other shore of life. Those who do so," she says, "are responsible for the continuing abuse. Commonly we get the But it is also common in the thought-control techniques of totalitarian states. get off a particular train and prepare for another. She was afraid to stay in her room, which had no lock on the door, or to use the hall telephone, because all calls had to be routed through the main switchboard. he studied many himalayan saints and sages, including his grandmaster, who was living in a remote region of tibet.. from 1949 to 1952, swami rama held the prestigious position of shankaracharya of karvirpitham (also karveer peeth or karweer peeth) in south . During this time they do or a neat clean one. Had anyone spoken to her? Meanwhile, Carolyn says, Swami Rama began singling her out for special attention. Another case involved Swami Rama (1925-96), a tall man with a strikingly handsome face. Meanwhile, the couple says, they discovered more evidence of illicit activity. And that was the first time I realized what all that stuff meant-the other women, the 'goofy' file, and the rumors about the lawsuit. When the doctors were trying to heal his cancer, he is reported to have said something like: "Here, I am trying to rid myself of the big disease called the body by using a small disease and you all are trying to rid of this small disease that is my instrument". We could pick one with all sorts of attractions and That doesnt make much sense Swami Vivekananda attained Maha-Samadhi on July 4, 1902, at the age of 39. When all desires and passions are removed, when perfect stillness Many people, including the victims themselves, have trouble understanding how damaging such sexual contact can be, because the women are adults and no one is holding a gun to their heads. However, after Swami Rama talked with them, they either told Brian and Terry that the guru should be allowed a "mistake" or they shunned the couple altogether. This seemingly whimsical application of standards demoralized many of the ex-members I spoke with and led many to resent the members of Swami Rama's inner circle. It does not and Here we find a clear definition of death. the leg and kill the person. His students believe he is able to read minds and manipulate physical reality with his advanced yogic powers; thus they believe he can heal sickness with the power of the "superconscious" mind. He was the inspiration for Kripalu yoga and the Kripalu Yoga Center, both of which were founded by the swami's disciple, Amrit Desai. Megan went through a brief but painful and confusing time during which she doubted her own feelings and perceptions. Megan says her feelings told her that something was amiss, but because of the social environment, she began to entertain the notion that the Swami's motives might not be what they appeared to be, and that his attempts at a con job might be a spiritual test. This was not true! Two women wrote statements, which said they had discovered that Swami Rama was attempting to "seduce" both of them contemporaneously. "Even if I found out-how can I find out? Focusing Side Note: As I don't know hindi, please add links to the videos that are available with english subtitles (almost every video of swamiji is present with english CC except few). "By their fruits you shall know them," he says, paraphrasing the Bible. Many of Swami Rama's followers are still young and nave, unskilled in comprehending and interpreting their own "inner experience"-and they entrust their spiritual yearnings to his care. Pandit Rajmani says he also has concrete reasons to know that Swami Rama could not be sleeping with his disciples. from craving there is no grief, much less fear, said the Buddha. Ex-members say that Swami Rama also uses his psychological insights to manipulate people. but simply a pause in a continuing story. Vivekananda's death was not an episode, it was almost a journey and the manner in which he approached it, is intensely symbolic of the calm composure and the mastery of the fear . some bad trick has been played on them. There's no need for finding out, if I know it is completely wrong.". "Anyone who lives a public life can go through such remarks; you have heard about all that blackmailing of famous, rich athletes," he explains to me in the spring of 1989 at the Honesdale ashram. not for too long. Carolyn says she told him no, it "just didn't feel right." . cannot die because it is eternal. subject to death. Yet the women never seemed to complain about such treatment, Megan says. All of lifes events He goes on to tell me another story about a woman who claimed that Swami Rama "had come in his subtle body through the air conditioner to her bedroom, and that that's how this intimacy had transpired." It would be difficult to leave that train once we were Presented below is a beautiful collection of death quotes that have been organized under the following subheadings: Death is Not the Final Reality, for the Soul is Eternal. one and the same with the Absolute Reality. 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