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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holiness Sri Sankarima, 109, who had spent 40 years in remote caves of the Himalayas, learning rejuvenating breathing exercises from a guru (teacher) who claimed to be 300. A swami told him: "The normal age of a man who lives rightly should be 140. . . . There are many Mahatmas living in the high Himalayas of over 200." Says Yeats-Brown: "They have no birth certificates, unfortunately." In seven instances of alleged reincarnation which he discovered, the children gave circumstantial evidence to prove that they remembered a previous life on earth. Most complicated case was that of a five-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Passage to India | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Sri Leodi Ahmed Mazzini-ananda, 106, Bishop of the American Buddhist Church of Dharma. friend of the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with whose spirit he tried to communicate in July 1930; in Oakland, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 21, 1931 | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

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