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...orgasm can generate good citizenship ... The mystic who was a stinker before he had the zero-experience remains a stinker after the experience." By way of illustration, Bharati describes a mystic named Trailinga who threw stones at approaching visitors. The author also quotes an all too revealing conversation between Ramakrishna, the most celebrated mystic of this century, and a swami called Vivekananda...
...when a charismatic young man named Swami Vivekananda came to the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago, that Hinduism first put down roots in the West. The message the swami brought was Vedanta Hinduism, a classical Hindu school revived and refined by the 19th century Hindu mystic, Ramakrishna...
...Like Ramakrishna's ascetic but joyous Vedanta (which is once again growing in the U.S.), the Hindu imports of today tend to concentrate on various meditative disciplines. The most famous is the transcendental meditation of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, whose early converts were the Beatles. TM is, however, a basically nonreligious self-therapy...
...combination of economic necessity, international tension, and gradual softening of popular opinion has recently lead to positive steps toward cooperation between the two countries. As Mr. Bhalchandra Krishna Desai, secretary to the Indian political leader Ramakrishna Bhaha said, "If both don't hang together, we will each hang separately...
Under the impact of rationalism and religious competition, reform began. Its first leaders were Ramakrishna (1836-86) and his disciple, Vivekananda (1863-1902). Mystical Ramakrishna, who said he reached union with God through Islam and Christianity as well as Hinduism, presented Vedanta as a religion of direct experience rather than mere traditional observance. Vivekananda injected a new sense of social responsibility by stressing Hinduism's teaching that God is in every man. Mahatma Gandhi (whom Agnostic Nehru once called "terribly Hindu") showed India how practical and effective religion could be even in the field of politics. Nehru carried...