In the United States, far from the strong cultural morality of the guru's country of origin, it is not regulated at all. And this according to Physiology, people can not do. Patricia Trescelli, and attorney with Parker, Chapin, Flattau, and Klimpel, agreed to consult with the women concerning possible legal action on a pro bono basis. "A lot of people have confused the siddhis-the powers to control body, emotions, and mind-with spirituality. People say that Mahatma Gandhi slept with women. The guru spoiled them, they say, calling them his spiritual son and daughter, and soon invited them to come live in Pennsylvania. This was not true! At a young age, Swami Rama is supposed to have been appointed Shankaracharya of Karvirpitham, an exalted spiritual post. [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. Kala Deva Reveals His True Form To Rama. [2] He further claimed to have gained degree-level qualifications from an Indian school of homeopathic medicine, the University of Hamburg, Utrecht University, and finally the University of Oxford. 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." Pandit Arya has many profound and beautiful things to say about his relationship to his guru when I interview him at the Divya Jyoti yoga center in Napa, California, in May 1989. Marston's lawsuit, he says, was an act of revenge. [2][11] The journalist Katharine Webster stated in Yoga Journal in 1990 that women had since the early 1970s made claims of sexual abuse against him, and that since the matter had never been investigated, she had spent two years researching it. Refer to each styles convention regarding the best way to format page numbers and retrieval dates. Jesus demonstrated his knowledge of these methods when he brought Lazarus back to life. Indeed, seeing God in everything and everyone, he believed that all paths led to the same goal. And people must stop covering up for the perpetrators by ignoring or denying that it is happening. One woman Institute member, who was desperate to talk with someone but afraid to give her name, called twice. He was just 50 years old. A system that encourages such vulnerable individuals to give up their own "egotistical" judgment to the arbitrary whims of one person is one of the key features of a totalist organization, or "cult.". The Great Raman Maharshi died of cancer. Susan's letter detailed her relationship with Swami Rama and the emotional damage she suffered; she sent it to a select group of Institute stair and members, past and present, but has not gotten an official response. But the purified ego is a means in discriminating real Self from not-self-real Self from mere self. His devotees hovered near the ashram's entrance, hoping for final instructions or a blessing from the guru. Once when Sri Ramakrishna Paramhamsa was suffering from throat cancer, Swami Vivekananda could not bear His sufferings and planned to apply his yogic powers to cure him. This period of separation is painful to the ignorant. When the mantra is remembered consciously, it automatically is stored in the unconscious mind. There is a family of doctors there whose mother was a great devotee of the Lord. According to ex-members, Swami Rama often acts in ways his disciples find humiliating, but they tell each other he is humbling their stubborn egos to help them reach enlightenment faster. Why do you now not use that healing power to cure yourself? He replied, This kind of use of power for oneself is not permitted in the Tradition. When they have contacted their friends and former colleagues at the Institute, they have been discounted as liars or labeled "emotionally disturbed." Otherwise I would not deem such a letter worthy of a response." As he relaxed, he created alpha waves by "imagining an empty blue sky with drifting clouds". He replied in disgust: Much earlier, I tried to organize a yajna (fire offerings ceremony) with mrityunjaya mantra for his health. Anyway, he said that our relationship would be exclusive, I'd be like a spiritual courtesan. Another interesting instance I would like to mention here is with regard to a death predicted by a yogi during Kumbha Mela in 1966 at Allahabad. After he had, as she describes it, "had sex on my body," she took a blanket into the other room and slept on the floor. As the scientific interest in yoga declined through the 1980s, Swami Rama lead the Himalayan Institute until his death in 1996. But Trescelli says she had to discourage her. [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". At about the same time, Carolyn was accepted into the residential program at East West Books Chicago, the Institute's downtown branch. I brought one, personally cut it with a sharp blade into three parts, and scattered them at a distance of ten feet. "But the most important thing," she says, "is that the abuse must stop. I met a yogi at Paidung in Sikkim in the year I947. Brian didn't believe his teacher, and he spoke with several other Institute administrators and board members about Rose's claim of abuse. Honesdale, Pa.: Himalayan Institute, 1978. Towards the end of his life Sri Ramakrishna contracted throat cancer. 20/20 20 Deciding his fate It is also said that Rama knew. The last few months of his life were filled with accusations of sexual assault and harassment from several women against himself and the Himalayan Institute. Pandit Arya radiates calm as he speaks. This was sometime in September 1980. When I asked Pandit Arya about the allegations of sexual abuse, he admits that he was very disturbed when he first heard them. 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". Numerous former students say they left the Institute because they were sexually exploited by Swami Rama or knew someone who was. Each of the women I interviewed described how he would discern her particular needs and self-doubts and manipulate her spiritual beliefs or naivet in order to exploit her sexually-he has an uncanny ability to suit his approach to each victim, they say. Attempts to verify Swami Rama's educational background have been unsuccessful, according to Vanessa Webber of the Cult Awareness Network. He had also commanded me to move my family from the USA to India and locate myself in his Ashram in Rishikesh. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. 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. In some states, a patient has the right to sue her doctor or psychotherapist for malpractice even if she originally consented to sex, because people under psychological or medical treatment are considered too vulnerable and dependent to give free and full consent. At the same time as he dismissed her, Swami Rama also gave her a Sanskrit name. Terry, who is now a practicing psychotherapist, says she believes Swami Rama's behavior is compulsive-he can't help it." Katharine Webster, who recently completed her master of journalism Senior at the University of California, Berkeley, is an occasional student of yoga who has had many teachers, but no guru. Even today his thoughts are used as a priceless mantra by his followers. Friends of the two couples set up a "truth booth" outside the entrance of the Institute's first annual congress in 1976. 60614. Finally, she obtained his permission. Because that's my whole life Even if I found out - how can I find out? The couple had been meditating together for several years. She says he arranged for her to meet him at the Gramercy Park Hotel and instructed her not to call him Swami in public. In one context as found in Atharva Veda, as stated by Monier Monier-Williams, means "dark, dark-colored, black" and is related . Honesdale, Pa.: Himalayan Institute Press, 1999. [2][R 1] All the same, 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. ", Why would the women want to blackmail Swami Rama? 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. Corrections? A rash of articles featuring Swami Rama appeared in national magazines, including Time, People, and Playboy. But Carolyn says she stifled her doubts about the guru, transforming them into doubts about her own selfishness: "Because I'd rationalized that he was teaching me a lesson, I believed he must be teaching other women the same lesson, and I shouldn't begrudge his attention to other students.". [34] [35] [36] Slavery Broad described him as "the star of autonomic control". But after two unsatisfying years, she left college and returned to the Chicago area. According to traditional accounts, Ramakrishna was on the verge of suicide when he was overwhelmed by an ocean of blissful light that he attributed to Kali. Many of those beliefs are based on Hindu and Buddhist teachings about the nature of the guru. It was years more before she felt she had the right to be angry at her spiritual family, the staff and residents of the Institute who, she says, denied the signs of abuse all around them. The Meditation Center became affiliated with the Himalayan Institute, and eventually Pandit Arya achieved his dream of having his own ashram in India, when Swami Rama made him president of his Rishikesh ashram. Ultimately, the woman had revealed the liaison to her husband. But the victims of what Jungian analyst Peter Rutter, M.D., has termed "sex in the forbidden zone" (in his book of the same name) submit to sexual advances because of a powerful psychological threat. They wrote letters to Pandit Usharbudh Arya, their teacher and head of the Meditation Center there, as well as a dozen other people, warning that Swami Rama was a fraud. When she did not, the young priest sank into despair. (His interest in Roman Catholicism ended with a vision of the great yogi Jesus embracing him and then disappearing into his body.) After Ramakrishnas death, his message was disseminated through new texts and organizations. Tall and imposing, he had the sleek look of a successful man in his late 50s, at the peak of his power. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. From 1949 to 1952 he held the prestige and dignity of The surgeons at our hospital were happily surprised that when they asked for his blessing for a difficult surgery the surgery would go smoothly easy flowing. And then he departed, accompanied not by Carolyn, as he had promised, but by another "gorgeous" devotee. He sent copies of his letter to many of his former colleagues and other professionals on the Institute's stafT. Through her sympathy for what appeared to be his plight, and disarmed by his jokes, she says she allowed him to cajole her until she let her defenses down. [2][R 1][R 3] Swami Rama founded other teaching and service organizations, including a large medical facility, in Dehradun in Uttarakhand in the north of India, to serve millions of poor people in the nearby mountains who had little access to health care. Tigunait, Pandir Rajmani. Then he left the USA to meet his Master. Yes! Mantra is a spiritual guide that dispels the fear of death and leads one fearlessly to the other shore of life. After she had lived in Honesdale for a year, Swami Rama started promising to make her his appointments secretary. That one gesture unleashed a storm of long-suppressed emotions. he was critical of the tendency for yogis to use supernatural feats to demonstrate their enlightenment, arguing that these only demonstrated the ability to perform a feat. He laughed, Megan says, and told her that the women didn't know what they were weeding. He was asked why he is not healing himself. On one occasion, she says, Swami Rama ordered all the women disciples to weed out some roots around his new cabin, telling them they were rooting out their samskaras. But their encounters were exactly the same as before, she says-emotionally impersonal and sexually mechanical. Now Megan says that in a different atmosphere, she would have immethately recognized Swami Rama's behavior as sexual harassment or "sadistic manipulation." In the following year, he served as a consultant to the Voluntary Controls Project of the Research Department of the Menninger Foundation at Topeka, Kansas. There are in a tank or pool, he said. The yogi suddenly went into deep meditation. Brian also received a threat, he says: a note telling him he "might get hurt," which was accidentally shoved under the door of a lawyer who rented the office next door to his in a Honesdale office building. Swami Vivekananda died of diabetes. Carolyn says she spent years blaming herself and trying to rationalize away what she now regards as sexual abuse. Obedience to the guru's commands is implicitly expected of all long-term residents; former students describe him walking through the main dining room and ordering one person to move to the New York branch, another to change jobs. She thanked me, but assured me I had no reason for concern. Two other women left the Institute shortly afterwards. Brian says he did not realize at the time that a conviction for fraud could have lost the Institute its federal tax-exempt status as an educational institution. Brian says he refused to tell Rose's story in such an atmosphere. The yogi suddenly went into deep meditation. Ex-members say he has counseled patients in the Combined Therapy Program, although he lost is license to practice psychology in Minnesota in 1979. Shortly after Marston filed her suit in 1978, Nuernberger moved to Honesdale, where he is currently a member of the Institute's teaching staff. 3 She says Swami Rama began telling her that he had never had sex, that he was dreaming about her at night, and that he was experiencing novel physical sensations because of her. No, he says: "Even if it happened, what's the big deal? She says she confessed her secret relationship with Swami Rama for the first time, telling her counselor that she was still confused about it. That was why he wanted her to be his secretary. New York: Random House, 1976. In March 1978, she says, Swami Rama came to Glenview and initiated her. The Great Raman Maharshi died of cancer. The death of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, the great Rishi and Avatar is a source of puzzlement for many. Brian and Terry say her family members at the Institute harassed her by mail and by telephone, with accusations that she had "a habit of inducing this sort of behavior from men.". There he founded the Meditation Center. 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. 2019Encyclopedia.com | All rights reserved. (Sarada Devi was later deified and is still considered a saint by devotees who treat her as the Divine Mother. The Swami also continued to teach and write from his centers in India. [7], In another experiment at the Menninger Foundation, he voluntarily stopped his heart from pumping blood for 17 seconds. Residents staff the Institute's administration, bookstores, and other small businesses, including Himalayan Publishers and Distributors and an elementary school. Yes! Swami Vivekananda Death Anniversary: 4th July is the 116th death anniversary of Swami Vivekananda. A Swami, or monk, is supposed to be "one who is master of oneself: senses, body, mind." He says he spends most evenings with the guru until midnight or 2 a.m., and that he knows better than anyone who is with Swami Rama late at night and who isn't. Ex-members say that Swami Rama also uses his psychological insights to manipulate people. Despite the questions about his background, there is no denying that Swami Rama made a terrific impact on western thinking when he served as a research subject at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas. The last few months of his life were filled with accusations of sexual assault and harassment from several women against himself and the Himalayan Institute. Carolyn says she feigned shock and tried to mask her distress as Martha told about a woman at the Glenview center who was confused and distraught about her alleged sexual relationship with Swami Rama. Yet Swami Rama, knowing that Hughes was gay, had repeatedly urged him to marry various women Institute members and had insisted that his homosexuality was unnatural and unhealthy. Rama, Swami. As the disease advanced the great Yogi instead of curing himself through his yogic powers, gave up his body in Samadhi. Finally I found an opportunity to broach the topic of the lawsuit with Carolyn. She was my initiate. The lawsuit I heard rumors about in New York City never materialized. At the time of parting, the mantra which is stored in the unconscious mind becomes ones guide. [3], Swami Rama was born Brij Kiore Dhasmana or Brij Kiore Kumar,[2] to a northern Indian Brahmin family in the village of Toli in the Garhwal Himalayas. From the 1970s onwards, there were persistent allegations of sexual abuse of his followers;[2] in 1997 a woman won a lawsuit against him for multiple sexual assaults. Then, after a few weeks I saw him in Delhi. Residents are expected to donate a large portion of their labor, and they must sacrifice personal freedoms and privacy. This is not the case with a spiritual person who has remembered the mantra faithfully. Is it not better to follow someone who has charted the path?". On the contrary, they sought opportunities to serve the guru's every whim, or even to be abused by him: Megan remembers one woman saying she wished the guru would kick her. Years later, Carolyn told me that four years of discipleship under Swami Rama had taught her to be a successful liar. Two of the guru's most devoted disciples left the Institute three years ago because they had learned while in India as part of an Institute tour group that parts of Swami Rama's official biography were fabricated. He was among the first notable teachers of Hinduism to lecture in the United States, travelling there in 1902, preceded by Swami Vivekananda in 1893 and followed by Paramahansa Yogananda in 1920. 14. 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. She would start with handling the appointments and then she would make his plane reservations, scheduling lecture tours. The Muslims draw out the liquid and call it pani. Within the Cite this article tool, pick a style to see how all available information looks when formatted according to that style. He said What will the japa of others do for me? Omissions? When he was finished, Rose told them, Swami Rama left her room, saying he's be back the next day. Karen, the woman whose claims were ridiculed at the meeting where Swami Rama and the other directors responded to Brian's charges, was one of the first ex-members to confront top Institute administrators. There was no shortage of the teams of doctors and specialists around him. She believes Swami Rama was trying to buy her collusion, as he had bought the collusion of the Institute's staff and many residents. Your work is not yet complete. But the followers of such "enlightened" men are usually reluctant to find fault with them, since to do so could invalidate the students' own years of study and devotion. The BB viewers got a major shock after the former contestant died. I am the one who has given the mantra!. His lifetime of contributing to a reconciliation of scientific and spiritual knowledge brought him the Martin Buber Award for Service to Humanity in 1977. Gurus were supposed to have conquered their desires, but in the spiritual literature they were often portrayed as contradictory, tricking their disciples into enlightenment. From her childhood Carolyn had been steeped in Catholic faith and educated in scientific skepticism; now it seemed the Institute could help her harmonize these two seemingly contradictory ways of perceiving the world. Yoga and Psychotherapy. Minneapolis was the site of another Institute-related scandal in 1981. Indian religious leader and mystic Most online reference entries and articles do not have page numbers. Carolyn walked up to the cabin, she says, where after a brief minute spent leafing through her work, the guru asked her in a low voice for a meeting later that night. Rama is also known as Ram, Raman, Ramar, [] and Ramachandra ( / rmtndr /; [22] IAST: Rmacandra, Sanskrit: ). Fourteen years passed and he was still in the body and I took a sigh of relief. 2023 . When people typically hear this they wonder, . The sound tic came from the cracking of the skull as he left his body through the brahmarandhra. The Bigg Boss 10 fame Swami Om passed away due to a paralytic attack. Ramakrishna, now alone, prayed for a vision of Kali-Ma (Kali the Mother), whom he worshipped as the supreme manifestation of God. "If someone is a saint, celibacy would be his normal condition," Dr. Green comments. In three months, Carolyn says, she gained 20 pounds. He studied with many adepts, and then traveled to Tibet to study with his grandmaster. I might doubt my own perception, I might doubt my own eyes, but I cannot doubt that strength which has given me everything.". Shri Swami Rama did not teach any particular religious doctrine but his teachings aimed at transforming individuals by inspiring them to take charge of their own lives through discipline and strong willpower. 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