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. The Swami also continued to teach and write from his centers in India. None of them could agree on a diagnosis. But after two unsatisfying years, she left college and returned to the Chicago area. Then he left the USA to meet his Master. Hughes wrote Dr. Ballentine a letter on May 22, 1989, quoting Gandhi-Truth itself helps me when I commit mistakes. Carolyn says the "goofy" letters never got answered. Looking through the evidence, they concluded Ramanujan had hepatic amoebiasis, an infection of the gastrointestinal tract that is . 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. Occasionally this question is asked by curious seekers. "Unpurified ego is an evil which obstructs one's own progress. Minneapolis was the site of another Institute-related scandal in 1981. In private sessions, ex-disciples say, Swami Rama has arranged marriages and instructed disciples to break off relationships. Born in northern India, he was raised from early childhood by the Himalayan sage, Bengali Baba. Updates? But Megan and Carolyn both say that Swami Rama would dismiss Pandit Rajmani and other members of the inner circle after an evening of socializing in Swami Rama's private quarters, while asking them alone to stay behind. By this time Carolyn had gained 25 pounds from binging on sweets. His body was buried in Krishna Balaram Mandir in Vrindavan. But within the Institute, she says, everyone else seemed to accept the guru's sexually suggestive behavior and humiliation of women. 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. 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. 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. The scandal convinced Carolyn not to reveal her own secret, she says; she was learning that the Institute administration dealt with such accusations by smearing the women's reputations. Yes! Both came from prominent Midwestern families; each had an alcoholic parent, and they now believe they were seeking not only spiritual growth, but also a strong parental figure. Corrections? She heard "numerous former students say they left the [Himalayan] Institute because they were sexually exploited by Swami Rama or knew someone who was". What a foolish woman! I asked him why these specialists cannot agree on a diagnosis. Therefore, that information is unavailable for most Encyclopedia.com content. [1] Views He has been subject to criticism over his racist views against blacks, discrimination against lower castes, anti-Semitism, negative views on women, and advocacy of crimes of Adolf Hitler. But Swami Rama's disciples do not hold him to these standards. Answer (1 of 12): Swami Vivekananda was a perfect Yogi, He had all the powers to cure Himself as well as others. [2][3] Abuses alleged to have taken place against former students of Swami Rama in Chicago, in Minneapolis, in New York, and in India in the 1970s were documented by Patricia Ann Darling in a chapter of her 1987 University of Minnesota PhD thesis. There is a family of doctors there whose mother was a great devotee of the Lord. 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. No, this would not be shattering, certainly not. Once there, Carolyn devoted herself to her yoga practices and threw herself into her assigned jobs. She did not allow even her eldest son, Dr. A.N.Tandon, to remain in the room. Dale Colton, director of public relations at the Himalayan Institute, never returned my repeated phone calls requesting an interview with Swami Rama. In the mythology of the ashram, the guru is the all-powerful, all-knowing father and the disciples are his spiritual children. 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. Shortly after Marston filed her suit in 1978, Nuernberger moved to Honesdale, where he is currently a member of the Institute's teaching staff. various ghats (steps to the water). 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. [3] This was one of the first convictions of a yoga guru for unlawful sexual activity with a devotee. Residents are expected to donate a large portion of their labor, and they must sacrifice personal freedoms and privacy. Before he reached the state of deep meditation, there were violent jerks in his body. Living with the Himalayan Masters: Spiritual Experiences of Swami Rama. When the manipulation started to involve her meditation and spiritual practices, she says, she decided to confide in one man who had been at the Institute for a long time and who was planning to leave. Mantra is a spiritual guide that dispels the fear of death and leads one fearlessly to the other shore of life. At an early age he was ordained as a monk by a great sage of the Himalayas and later journeyed to numerous monasteries and caves, studying with many spiritual masters. Then, copy and paste the text into your bibliography or works cited list. With sincere effort, proper preparation, and guidance, one who is not a yogi can also attain enlightenment before dropping the body. You're bound to get mixed up. 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. From its beginnings 20 years ago, the Institute has expanded steadily to include some 25 branches and affiliated yoga and holistic health centers in the Midwest, the Northeast, Texas, California, and abroad. she remembers him demanding. 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. Mother Sita that she got absorbed in the earth after its explosion, but when asked the question of when Lord Rama died, Swami Satyendra Das ji says that Lord Rama The description of the reason and method of his going to heaven is found in Valmiki Ramayana, but no one knows the date when he went. She says she confessed her secret relationship with Swami Rama for the first time, telling her counselor that she was still confused about it. 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. Gurudeva said: My work is now complete but I still have 14 years left to this body. At the insistence of concerned disciples many other specialists were called. Since the early 1970s, women have been claiming sexual abuse at the hands of this prominent spiritual teacher. 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. Sri Rama didn't commit suicide, he maybe said to have taken the 'jala-samadhi' as a part of his Mahaprasthana leela, where on entering the Sarayu river he appeared in his original form of God Vishnu himself. The yogi explained two methods of bringing the dead back to lifesolar science and pranavidya (the science of prana). They are crazy. //]]>. The couple had been meditating together for several years. I am the one who has given the mantra!. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. 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.". Sex with a guru is a form of spiritual incest. There she learned Swami Rama's style of "super-conscious" meditation, which she describes as a basic, impersonal training in mental concentration. Williams, however, did not sue Nuernberger himself; she sued the clinic where he worked, alleging that the clinic "knew or should have known" that Nuernberger was engaging in harmful sexual activity while treating her. I might doubt my own perception, I might doubt my own eyes, but I cannot doubt that strength which has given me everything.". Some were afraid of Institute retaliation; most were afraid of hurting their families, who in some cases do not know about the abuses the women suffered; still others were worried that their professional reputations would be harmed. When she asked him what she should do with the love letters, she says, Swami Rama would laugh and say, "Oh, these goofy women! 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.". That one gesture unleashed a storm of long-suppressed emotions. When he was finished, Rose told them, Swami Rama left her room, saying he's be back the next day. 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. In the United States, far from the strong cultural morality of the guru's country of origin, it is not regulated at all. We examined his pulse, heartbeat, and breath, but there was no sign of life. Years later, Rose contacted Patricia Trescelli, hoping to support a lawsuit by other women working with Trescelli and hoping to press charges against Swami Rama in her own sexual assault. But all of them, whether they appear here under a pseudonym or as a background source, understand that if this article provokes a libel suit they can be called to testify in court. "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. Moreover, his disciple and successor Narendranath Datta (died 1902) became the world-traveling Swami Vivekananda and helped establish the Ramakrishna Order, whose teachings, texts, and rituals identified Ramakrishna as a new avatar (incarnation) of God. The headquarters of the mission is in Belur Math, a monastery near Kolkata. 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.". "This sudden animosity indicates that there is something fishy in the statement of this person. I ask him. I just don't know that it makes sense to go run around trying to evaluate other people, when you haven't evaluated yourself.". The Swami. . The scattered parts of the ant moved together and united in a seconds time. Born into a poor Brahman (the highest-ranking social class) family, Ramakrishna had little formal schooling. "I thought: 'Maybe it's the only way he can break through some stubborn barrier in my ego. He says that Swami Rama has been his guru since he was a child in India, and that he came to the U.S. at Swami Rama's request to head up the Honesdale ashram. The liver specialist said it was liver disease. [5] What Ballentine does not mention is that a second jury judged Nuernberger guilty of unprofessional conduct in his treatment of Nancy E. Williams, another former client, on February 17, 1981. Yet the Institute's success comes at a high cost for many of those involved. 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. Well-to-do New Yorkers flock to Honesdale on weekends for seminars in stress reduction, meditation, and health and nutrition. And she would help him write books. Trained to meditate and educated in the scriptures from early childhood, he was able to translate and interpret any of the 20,000 verses from the Vedas by the age of 13, according to a biographical pamphlet put out by the Meditation Center. Carolyn says she told him no, it "just didn't feel right." Finally, on 13th November 1996 he left his body. I told her what I'd heard, and that I wasn't sure the rumor was true-as a beginning student of yoga and meditation at the Institute's East West Books in New York City, I was reluctant to believe it myself. A guru has the wisdom of experience and the ancient teachings, so he can provide guidance, Dr. Ballentine says, but students should "judge every [practice] on the basis of your own experience." 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. 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. His best known work is Living With Himalayan Masters; the cultural historian Alistair Shearer calls it "an influential autobiography". Residents staff the Institute's administration, bookstores, and other small businesses, including Himalayan Publishers and Distributors and an elementary school. During that time, neither of them would see any other, and she should never tell anyone. A system that rewards a particular behavior or person and then arbitrarily ignores or punishes that same behavior or person can quickly lead even healthy individuals to develop profound anxiety and uncertainty-the antithesis of self-confidence. As an enlightened being, he is thought to be beyond the judgment of ordinary mortals, their laws and morality. His disciples believe he knows them better than they know themselves, and that if they want to achieve their spiritual goals they should do exactly as he says. The above is an excerpt from Swami Veda Bharatis planned book about Gurudeva Swami Rama. Although the jury entered a judgment against Nuernberger, it also found that the clinic was not liable for his actions, so Williams failed to recover damages. Megan*, a former graduate student in the Eastern Studies program, wrote a letter to the Jesuit administration of the University of Scranton saying that Swami Rama was subjecting women students to sexual exploitation. He dictated the instructions for his several hundred organizations to his secretaries. Honesdale, Pa.: Himalayan International Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy, 1978. He discusses the philosophy, practice and benefits of yoga and meditation. YOGANANDA (18931952) was one of the earliest and most influential of the Hindu gurus to come to the West. Had Nirvana said anything? Everyone said you had to surrender to the guru, so she would simply have to follow through with whatever he ordered her to do. Over the past 15 or 20 years, numerous spiritual teachers have admitted to, or been charged with, having sexually exploitative relationships with their female students. Swami Rama of the Himalayas: His Life and Mission. . 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. No one can expand his consciousness if he remains egotistical. 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. He says that Nuernberger's one mistake has "ruined his life, in essence, which is really too bad.". The Medical College and the Nursing College were already recognized by the Government of India. Carolyn moved back to Chicago, found a job, returned to school, and soon met a non-institute man she wanted to marry. Box 148252. 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. A week later, Megan blew the lid off Swami Rama's private life, confirming what Carolyn already knew in her heart. His response: "Listen, there are certain things which are based on witnesses - those are facts. According to the story Terry and Brian say Rose later told them, late one night Swami Rama tapped at the door of her room and then walked in on her. To view the video Swami Rama: Hansda Ashram, Nepal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHwDV9UeyfE, Why Did He Not Heal Himself? (Sarada Devi was later deified and is still considered a saint by devotees who treat her as the Divine Mother. Swami died on 14 November 1977 at the age of 81, in Vrindavan, India. Rose, they explain, was not a disciple of Swami Rama, but had been invited by family members in the Institute's administration to come to Honesdale for medical treatment. by Swami Veda Bharati, Glory to All Saints (interview) -- Swami Veda Bharati, Parents, Children, and Spirituality by Swami Rama, 50 Kids in a Memorable 4-day Program by David Rodrigo, Yes! Susan says the woman described her own similar experiences with Swami Rama during the past two years. 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.". Two years ago. 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. He explains that Nuernberger was just a graduate student, inexperienced and lacking in professional judgment, when the incident with Marston occurred: "At a time when he was learning to be a therapist and thought that someone is asking for you to reach out, you reach out and you touch them and you let them see your feelings, and I think that was very bad." But he did not cure himself of the diabetes he took on from someone. Five minutes before her death she called all the family members and blessed them. However, the date of retrieval is often important. The other was at Kanpur. [7] He then produced the longer theta waves of dreaming sleep, and finally the slow delta waves of deep sleep, staying aware throughout and able to describe accurately what had happened in the laboratory although he had been lying in the laboratory "snoring". He was soon reportedly adopted there by "one of the greatest masters of the Himalayas," Bengali Baba. In one context as found in Atharva Veda, as stated by Monier Monier-Williams, means "dark, dark-colored, black" and is related . And I feared that Carolyn-young beautiful, idealistic, and worshipful of Swami Rama, the Institute's founder and spiritual leader - could be vulnerable to such exploitation. A rash of articles featuring Swami Rama appeared in national magazines, including Time, People, and Playboy. It was also about this time that Calcutta newspaper and journal articles first referred to him as the Hindu saint or as the Paramahamsa (a religious title of respect and honour). The FBI has confirmed the existence of a file documenting the agency's investigation, but at the time of publication the file had not yet been released under the Freedom of Information Act. His disciples generally agree that the only reason his soul still inhabits a physical body is because he wants to help others achieve liberation from maya, the realm of illusion. Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. Carolyn says he called her out to Glenview for a special appointment, at which he invited her to come live and work at his new ashram in Honesdale-and told her he would waive the usual residential program fees. Carolyn had sought a consultation with Pandit Rajmani, who told her that Megan was either lying because she was "on an ego trip," or fantasizing a sexual encounter that had never taken place. "If the guru's instruction leads to a deeper peace, freedom from conflict, a deepening of meditation, harmony in relationships - all of these. Visions of Kali or other deities brought ecstasy and peace; he once described Kali as a limitless, infinite, effulgent ocean of spirit.. It does not and cannot die because it is eternal. With great concern I asked him how he was. [3] [note 1] He was born in Tiruchuli, Tamil Nadu, India. Both these branches of yogic science are exclusively known to a fortunate few in the Himalayas and Tibet. 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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. Not only could he die at will, but he also could bring the dead back to life. 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. I don't have access to those files." Carolyn is not alone. 1 Death mystery of Swami Vivekananda There is no mystery surrounding the fact that Swami Vivekananda died in the year 1902. "We were Brahmins in the Institute's caste system," Terry recalls. When she did not, the young priest sank into despair. When another married couple who were their friends and fellow students left the ashram suddenly, Karen wrote to them asking why. 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. Ramatirtha, also spelled Rama Tirtha, original name Tirath Rama, (born 1873, Miraliwala, Punjab province, India [now in Pakistan]died Oct. 17, 1906, Tehri, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh [now in India]), Hindu religious leader known for the highly personal and poetic manner in which he taught what he styled "Practical Vedanta," using common Yes, at the insistence of concerned disciples, specialists were consulted from different parts of the world to look at Swami Ramas ailing body. There they became priests in a temple dedicated to the goddess Kali. 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. IT HAPPENED.. 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