Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). Ravana stands in a tower and watches the battle for a while. The yogi explained two methods of bringing the dead back to lifesolar science and pranavidya (the science of prana). As an enlightened being, he is thought to be beyond the judgment of ordinary mortals, their laws and morality. But still, she was afraid to leave the community she'd been part of for so long and reenter a world that had practically forgotten her existence. Carolyn says she spent years blaming herself and trying to rationalize away what she now regards as sexual abuse. A small band of disciples, most of them Western-educated, gathered around Ramakrishna in the early 1880s, drawn by the appeal of his message and by his charisma as a guru and ecstatic mystic. Otherwise I would not deem such a letter worthy of a response." Everything happens for a reason, and we can't judge him." It does not and cannot die because it is eternal. Researchers pored over his medical records and letters to figure out what he was sick with, according to the Royal Society of London. In such a situation, she says, the whole system becomes sick and no one can see the light: "There's no truth, When confronted with allegations of sexual abuse by Swami Rama, Pandit Rajmani resident spiritual director at the Himalayan Institute, replies "Believing such stories means disbelieving in myself. "Rama, Swami (1925-1996) From 1949 to 1952 he held the prestige and dignity of There he founded the Meditation Center. 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. At the meeting, Brian says, Dr. Ballentine presented letters from another woman, Karen,* who also claimed to have been sexually exploited by Swami Rama. [7], In another experiment at the Menninger Foundation, he voluntarily stopped his heart from pumping blood for 17 seconds. She recalls that he would repeat a series of affirmations and commands in a hypnotic monotone: She had done very well organizing the book distribution operation, Carolyn says he would tell her. He became famous for his ability to control his body in yoga nidra, writing many books including the autobiographical Living with Himalayan Masters. Swami Rama frequently invited them to parties in his private quarters, where they say he entertained them with funny stories and racy gossip. 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. However, the date of retrieval is often important. She says she confessed her secret relationship with Swami Rama for the first time, telling her counselor that she was still confused about it. In one context as found in Atharva Veda, as stated by Monier Monier-Williams, means "dark, dark-colored, black" and is related . After teaching, studying, and traveling throughout India and Europe, he came to the University of Minnesota in the 1960s, where he taught Sanskrit and Indian religions. Honesdale, Pa.: Himalayan Institute Press, 1999. Marston's lawsuit, he says, was an act of revenge. Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. Gurus were supposed to have conquered their desires, but in the spiritual literature they were often portrayed as contradictory, tricking their disciples into enlightenment. Sri Ram who came to know about the death of Lakshman decided that it was time to end His. A producer for "60 Minutes" was reportedly unable to complete her documentary on Swami Rama when the women involved backed out and refused to appear on camera. Swm Rma was born Brij Kiore Dhasmana or Brij Kiore Kumar,to a northern Indian Brahmin family in a small village called Toli in the Garhwal Himalayas. According to Karen and George, no legal action resulted. Is it not better to follow someone who has charted the path?". We examined his pulse, heartbeat, and breath, but there was no sign of life. Carolyn rationalized: Swamiji was her guru, so even though the prospect of having sex with him seemed morally wrong and physically revolting, he must be doing it for her own good. She would live with him in the house he was buying. Those who build boundaries around themselves because of their ego problems create suffering for themselves." ." He studied with many adepts, and then traveled to Tibet to study with his grandmaster. The Hindus draw out the liquid and call it jal. The Institute's "scientific" approach to yoga has made it a success, attracting long-term spiritual disciples as well as large numbers of people who merely want a boost for their psychological or physical well being. Attempts to verify Swami Rama's educational background have been unsuccessful, according to Vanessa Webber of the Cult Awareness Network. Six months before her death, she decided to live in a room by herself remembering the Lords name and meditating. 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.". We kept it under observation for three days. Later, many of the women broke out in head-to-toe swelling and rashes from what had in fact been poison ivy roots. The carnage makes him exceptionally angry. 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. I mean, he's giving you the teachings and you're going to use the teachings to evaluate him? He also sent out a letter resigning from the board. The two women who wrote statements for the Cult Awareness Movement were among those involved: One stated that she was a patient at the Institute's holistic health center in New York City, and the other stated she was 17 years old when Swami Rama initiated a sexual relationship with her. The Ramakrishna Order also played an important role in the spread of Hindu ideas and practices in the West, particularly in the United States. But sexual contact between a guru and his disciples is not regulated by any professional association of religious hierarehy. 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.". He studied psychology and philosophy in Varanasi and Prayas, India, and received a medical degree from Darbhanga Medical School in 1945. Arya, however, says that much of Darling's information is inaccurate. The man, she says, informed her of Swami Rama's long history of alleged sexual misconduct. 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. Swami Rama Tirtha believed that his creative ability did not lie in his speeches which enthralled his listeners, but in the poems and articles he wrote in the solitude of the Himalayas. 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. I might doubt my own perception, I might doubt my own eyes, but I cannot doubt that strength which has given me everything.". Rajmani explains the basic goals of the Institute's tradition of yoga: "The most important part of the practice is nonattachment." He dictated the instructions for his several hundred organizations to his secretaries. 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. Residents are expected to donate a large portion of their labor, and they must sacrifice personal freedoms and privacy. 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. Carolyn says she is at a loss to discern any positive reason behind Swami Rama's behavior toward her. 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. Living with the Himalayan Masters: Spiritual Experiences of Swami Rama. 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. [R 4], Swami Rama's abilities in yoga nidra, a guided meditation whose name means "yogic sleep",[6] were measured experimentally at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas in 1971. Many of them say they feared his wrath when they were disciples, and several still believe he has the power to inflict harm or illness on them from a distance. Anyway, he said that our relationship would be exclusive, I'd be like a spiritual courtesan. The guru spoiled them, they say, calling them his spiritual son and daughter, and soon invited them to come live in Pennsylvania. "By their fruits you shall know them," he says, paraphrasing the Bible. Since the early 1970s, women have been claiming sexual abuse at the hands of this prominent spiritual teacher. Now Carolyn is more articulate: "When I finally start listening to myself, and I tell him I know he's sleeping with other women-and this is the man I came to, to help me learn how to listen to my inner voice, and then he tells me not to listen to it just as I'm starting to get some confidence in it-that's when I realized, this isn't yoga, this isn't truth, this is abuse.". He is also supposed to have graduated from a homeopathic medical school in India, and studied at Hamburg University, the University of Utrecht, and Oxford University. Brian says he refused to tell Rose's story in such an atmosphere. At the insistence of concerned disciples many other specialists were called. In the year 1970 under the supervision of scientists from the clinic of Menninger in Topeka (Kansas) he demonstrated that he is able to control his autonomic nervous system. 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 real guru is within," Dr. Ballentine says, "that still small voice within you." There are in a tank or pool, he said. At the time of death she went into deep samadhi and consciously dropped her body. What a foolish woman! The great yogi Totapuri (whose name is well known to the students of the life of Paramahamsa Ramakrishna), like many other yogis, changed his name several times. 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. Indeed, seeing God in everything and everyone, he believed that all paths led to the same goal. 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. Friends of the two couples set up a "truth booth" outside the entrance of the Institute's first annual congress in 1976. [CDATA[ Brought up by authoritarian parents-one of whom was of the other women who say they have been sexually abused by Swami Rama, as well as men who feel their spiritual trust was betrayed, have organized an informal support network to help each other heal. Shri Swami Rama clearly understood that Health, Education and Livelihood skills form a triangular primacy and that holistic development . After her death, the walls of that room in which she lived vibrated with the sound of her mantra. 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.". Just, as we see from the excerpt of Skandamahpuram, that Lakshman's body vanished as he fell dead, so we may infer logically for Rama too. 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." Well-known Indian teacher of yoga, meditation, and holistic health. Like Pandit Rajmani, Dr. Ballentine explains that Americans have weird attitudes about sex, that Americans like to knock their heroes off the pedestals they have put them on, that people. Because that's my whole life Even if I found out - how can I find out? Soon Carolyn noticed she wasn't the only woman being favored by the guru; he was also paying attention to Megan and Nirvana. You're bound to get mixed up. But during the next three weeks, she says, she saw the Swami mistreating his disciples, especially the women, on a daily basis-yelling at them, ridiculing them, ordering them around, and occasionally kicking a woman in the buttocks when she was on her hands and knees weeding. 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. People say that Mahatma Gandhi slept with women. 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. We all wondered if we would ever see him again. During this spiel, she says, he put his hand on her buttocks, but she told him she wasn't buying it. The next day, she says, Swami Rama called her to his office and asked her if anyone had said anything to her. By 1977, the Institute was able to purchase the Honesdale ashram, a former Catholic seminary in the rural Pocono Mountains, which now houses more than 100 residents and guests. And Yes! She was thrilled; it was commonly believed at the Institute that the fastest way to reach enlightenment was to spend as much time as possible in the presence of the guru. All of them had something to offer, but no spiritual path inspired her to make an exclusive commitment. He bragged about his sumptuous homes in India and Japan and about his shopping sprees for designer clothes, she says. On Vasanta Panchami (the celebration of the first day of spring) morning at 4:30 suddenly he said, Now the time has come. Then he sat in the meditative posture, siddhasana, closed his eyes, and became silent. A Practical Guide to Holistic Health. They introduced her to the guru, and she remembers he made a fuss over her, slapping her cheek lightly and calling her a good girl. [5] [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". During my weekend visit, Carolyn and I took long walks on the Institute's wooded grounds while talking about her compulsive eating patterns and her disastrous relationships with men suggested as possible husbands by Swami Rama. Following on the heels of Karen's and her friend's revelations, several other women and men left the Meditation Center in Minneapolis. He backed off, Megan says, while telling her that sex wasn't necessary-she could be his special student. Carolyn has received no reply from the Institute. ", Why would the women want to blackmail Swami Rama? Tibetan Buddhism So if someone wants to come to me and say, this man's taking advantage of me for his pleasure, I just find it hard to believe.". When Swami Rama returned from India two months later, Carolyn resumed working as his appointments secretary during the day, and, she says, as his sexual servant on some nights. I informed him that I had interviewed women who sought him out because they respected him and trusted him to be interested in the truth. Broad described him as "the star of autonomic control". But the Institute does not teach the mastery of such powers in its programs, instead focusing on yoga practices with more immediate practical application. Instead they deny the experience of the "unenlightened" women who are the guru's victims. Those statements are on file with the cult Awareness network (formerly the citizen's Freedom Foundation) in New York. In 1856, however, Ramkumar died. she remembers him demanding. I like to believe that somewhere inside of him, he is the good person I believed him to be. Born in northern India, he was raised from early childhood by the Himalayan sage, Bengali Baba. The Healing Network (former Himalayan Institute members), BO. Two months after Swami Rama left for India, Carolyn went to Chicago to visit her family for Christmas. '"My dear,"' she says her counselor told her, "You sound just like a sexually abused child, a little girl whose Daddy told you never to tell anyone.". Ramakrishna, originally called Gadadhar Chatterji or Gadadhar Chattopadhyaya, (born February 18, 1836, Hooghly [now Hugli], Bengal state, Indiadied August 16, 1886, Calcutta [now Kolkata]), Hindu religious leader, founder of the school of religious thought that became the Ramakrishna Order. Before he reached the state of deep meditation, there were violent jerks in his body. Glenview, Ill.: Himalayan Institute, 1976. 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. Jesus demonstrated his knowledge of these methods when he brought Lazarus back to life. 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. A few weeks later she moved to Honesdale. He spoke Bengali and knew neither English nor Sanskrit. Mr. Mitchell found background "whispers" with statements such as: " the poison is going down," " push real hard it is going down him," " poisoning for a long time," " he's gonna die," " yes, a heart attack time," " the poison is in you Srila Prabhupada," followed by, " he's going under," and so on and so forth. Analysis. The Ramakrishna Math and Mission is the main organisation founded by Swami Vivekananda in 1897. Several former students of Swami Rama granted interviews to Patricia Ann Darling, Ph. [13], Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy, "15 Yoga Gurus That Are Empowering The World Through Social Media", "The Case Against Swami Rama of The Himalayas", "$1.9 Million Awarded In Swami Sexual Case", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Swami_Rama&oldid=1147688250, This page was last edited on 1 April 2023, at 15:01. "I only needed one person to corroborate my experience," Megan says now. The death of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, the great Rishi and Avatar is a source of puzzlement for many. Yes! Encyclopedia.com. But something, which is truth, cannot be falsified by having one hundred witnesses. Marston, however, testified that Nuernberger had "hugged and kissed her and fondled her breasts," according to an article in the Minneapolis Tribune (Jan. 24, 1981). 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. 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. When someone we love dies, it is sad. 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?" Pandit Rajmani Tigunait was appointed spiritual director of the Himalayan Institute by Swami Rama before he left the U.S. for the last time in 1993, returning to India where he died in 1996. * Several months earlier, he received a letter from Bob Hughes, a member of the Institute's board of directors from 1978 to 1980. Sri Ramakrishna Death Did He Get Cancer Due to Past Bad Karma? In his enlightened state, they believe, he could never commit any selfish acts, which would create new karmic burdens. 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. Ramana Maharshi ( [rm mhri]; 30 December 1879 - 14 April 1950) was an Indian Hindu sage [1] and jivanmukta (liberated being). . "If you give more weight to rumors instigated by emotionally disturbed individuals and by those who are jealous or vindictive than you give to your own experience of dealing with Swamiji, then you are indeed in trouble." She thanked me, but assured me I had no reason for concern. [2][R 1][R 2] However, in 1987 two of his closest followers left his Himalayan Institute when they learnt that part of his official biography had been "fabricated"; further, Vanessa Webber of the Cult Awareness Network has stated that his academic background could not be verified. Even today his thoughts are used as a priceless mantra by his followers. Kala Deva Reveals His True Form To Rama. In his new book, At the Eleventh Hour, Pandit Tigunait chronicles the 20-year period that he spent with his . He also has the integrity to admit that if they were true, it would be very terrible, and a violation of the teaching that says one should treat all women as daughters. She began to believe that this man who might have been spiritual at one time was now suffering from feelings he couldn't control. He demonstrated this feat in my presence five times. By this time Carolyn had gained 25 pounds from binging on sweets. Or maybe he needs to have sex just to release energy so he can meditate better. In my interviews with current and former members of the Institute, I heard an almost unvarying litany of beliefs about Swami Rama's abilities. Encyclopedias almanacs transcripts and maps, Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. 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. 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. He claimed that he was raised somewhere in the monasteries and holy caves of the Himalayas by his personal guru or master Sri Madhavananda Bharati. Answer (1 of 12): Swami Vivekananda was a perfect Yogi, He had all the powers to cure Himself as well as others. "But the most important thing," she says, "is that the abuse must stop. In an early co-authored book, Yoga and Psychotherapy (1976), he presented Hatha Yoga with reference to western psychology. Soon after his first vision, Ramakrishna commenced on a series of sadhanas (austere practices) in the various mystical traditions, including Bengali Vaishnavism, Shakta Tantrism, Advaita Vedanta, and even Islamic Sufism and Roman Catholicism. He published books and audiotapes for the Himalayan International Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy, first located in a Chicago suburb, which he founded in 1971. In addition to the MLA, Chicago, and APA styles, your school, university, publication, or institution may have its own requirements for citations. 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. He called on 16th December. Indian religious leader and mystic Meanwhile Janet,* a Honesdale woman who worked as the couple's babysitter and housekeeper at the time, says she received threatening phone calls at Brian and Terry's house, asking if she was alone with the children. [4] Concerned that the YMCA had presented yoga as one of its physical fitness programs, he included some philosophy and meditation in his classes. After a sleepless night, she said she snuck out at 5:00 or 6:00 a.m. and drove to Brian and Terry's empty house in Honesdale. 60614. [34] [35] [36] Slavery Hughes wrote Dr. Ballentine a letter on May 22, 1989, quoting Gandhi-Truth itself helps me when I commit mistakes. She sounded unhappy, so I made plans to visit her at the Himalayan International Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, where she had been a resident for more than four years. Only adepts know this technique. But not all of us know the real reason (s) behind his demise. A rash of articles featuring Swami Rama appeared in national magazines, including Time, People, and Playboy. But the siddhis can be an ego trap. Carolyn says she knew that Swami Rama often promised his disciples he would take them to India or appoint them to important positions within the Institute-promises that rarely materialized. She took a meditation class at the alternative high school program she attended, and one evening her teachers invited her to a lecture by their guru, Swami Rama, who was visiting the Chicago area. The capacity to leave the body consciously at the time of death is not restricted only to accomplished yogis. In the mythology of the ashram, the guru is the all-powerful, all-knowing father and the disciples are his spiritual children. "Believing such stories means disbelieving in myself. [9] The result was a sharp increase of interest in his teachings. For the At the Feet of a Himalayan Master books: The website of the Himalayan Institute Hospital Trust (HIHT) is http://www.hihtindia.org/ . The link for the Swami Rama Centre is http://www.hihtindia.org/SRC%20NEW/src_home.htm I said, But, then, Swamiji, you have healed so many in life. 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