Carolyn says she spent years blaming herself and trying to rationalize away what she now regards as sexual abuse. Fourteen years passed and he was still in the body and I took a sigh of relief. How could she be the only one who realized what was going on? He must see something special in me.'" various ghats (steps to the water). Then she dropped her body in complete consciousness. She walked around New York City for hours, until it was time for her bus to return to Honesdale. In the spring of 1983, Swami Rama began to court her again, she says: He told her that she would help him prepare a book of sacred poetry he was writing, and he assured her repeatedly that he would take her to India the following autumn. The Institute also offers instruction to counselors and psychotherapists in the application of yoga and meditation techniques to therapy. Swami Rama made Carolyn his appointments secretary in August also. But it is also common in the thought-control techniques of totalitarian states. But their encounters were exactly the same as before, she says-emotionally impersonal and sexually mechanical. 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. No, this would not be shattering, certainly not. Those who build boundaries around themselves because of their ego problems create suffering for themselves." Shortly after they started studying with Pandit Usharbudh Arya at the Meditation Center in Minneapolis, he introduced them to his guru, Swami Rama. ", Shortly after Pandit Rajmani introduced her to Swami Rama, Megan says, the guru called her into his private quarters and told her that they'd been together in a past life, that he'd waited to meet her again in this lifetime, and that now they were reunited. Videos of the Evolution of HIHT with Swami Rama talking about his vision: Swami Ramas Ashram in Rishikesh is Sadhana Mandir. After six months she fell sick and became bedridden. 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 says she confessed her secret relationship with Swami Rama for the first time, telling her counselor that she was still confused about it. The Catholic Church may discipline a priest who has sex with a parishioner, not only because it violates his vow of celibacy, but because his parishioners must be able to confide in him without worrying that he will exploit their trust for his own gratification. Cite this article Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography. Then he left the USA to meet his Master. 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. During that time, neither of them would see any other, and she should never tell anyone. 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. Hughes wrote Dr. Ballentine a letter on May 22, 1989, quoting Gandhi-Truth itself helps me when I commit mistakes. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. Together we ate superb vegetarian meals in the Institute's dining commons and chanted evening prayers. The Great Raman Maharshi died of cancer. 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.". Born: February 18, 1833 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. 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.". [34] [35] [36] Slavery 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.". The annual congress, held each June, offers a smorgasbord of lectures and "new age" workshops. To judge by their price tags, these and other Institute programs must bring in a considerable income. 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. Two months after Swami Rama left for India, Carolyn went to Chicago to visit her family for Christmas. 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 Dr. Ballentine says it is "presumptuous" to judge whether or not someone is perfected. According to Karen and George, no legal action resulted. 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. Before he reached the state of deep meditation, there were violent jerks in his body. 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. His poems reveal his creative genius and lofty ideals. But in 1980, they say, they returned to Honesdale after a brief vacation to learn that their friend Rose* had allegedly been sexually assaulted by Swami Rama during their absence and had fled the Institute for New York City. Fortified by their mutual discovery, Karen says, the two couples undertook to inform their fellow students back home in Minneapolis. The Ramakrishna Math and Mission is the main organisation founded by Swami Vivekananda in 1897. But within the Institute, she says, everyone else seemed to accept the guru's sexually suggestive behavior and humiliation of women. He looked hale and hearty, standing as usual tall and erect. [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. 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. As the scientific interest in yoga declined through the 1980s, Swami Rama lead the Himalayan Institute until his death in 1996. At some point, we ran into Swami Rama in a hallway. 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. 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. 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. The Great Raman Maharshi died of cancer. She heard "numerous former students say they left the [Himalayan] Institute because they were sexually exploited by Swami Rama or knew someone who was". . Alternate titles: Gadadhar Chatterji, Gadadhar Chattopadhyaya. At this time one of us three was destined to leave: he (grandmaster), I or yourself (referring to me). One of them, along with the other women from the tour group, attended the wedding of Swami Rama's son, although the guru is officially supposed to have been celibate since taking his Swami's vows. 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." But after they started saying all these things, I never trusted them anymore. He and Pandit Rajmani say that a guru is "that which dispels darkness." https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/rama-swami-1925-1996, "Rama, Swami (1925-1996) Sex with a guru is a form of spiritual incest. 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. He was soon reportedly adopted there by "one of the greatest masters of the Himalayas," Bengali Baba. 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. Whenever she has communicated her experiences to former friends at the Institute, she says, they have responded with a series of rationalizations: "That's your experience, but we all have to make our own decisions based on our own experience with Swamiji, and he has positively redirected my life. 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. In 1969, Pandit Arya met Swami Rama, who gave him "one of the highest meditation initiations," in which he experienced himself "as a being of light." 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. "Until you get your priorities straight and your head clear, I would request that you refrain from attempting to represent the Institute or its teachings in any way.". The scattered parts of the ant moved together and united in a seconds time. "I will not tolerate anyone propagating malicious stories about the Institute or its founder on the Institute's own property," Dr. Ballcntine's letter says. [2][R 1] All the same, In addition to the MLA, Chicago, and APA styles, your school, university, publication, or institution may have its own requirements for citations. 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. 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. 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. Dr. Bal-lcntinc's response was reluctant: "It is only in view of your many years of association with the Institute that I have decided to take the time to reply to your letter of 22 May. Because that's my whole life My relationship with [Swami Rama] is purely divine and spiritual-there cannot be impurity in it, and there is no room for such thoughts. Carolyn stayed at the Institute for three more years, working at a variety of jobs. When she did not, the young priest sank into despair. The Mission conducts extensive work in health care, disaster relief, rural management, tribal welfare, elementary and higher education. - Swami Rama, "Living With the Himalayan Masters". We examined his pulse, heartbeat, and breath, but there was no sign of life. mother Sita, that she split up the ground and was absorbed into the earth, but when the question was asked when Lord Rama died, Swami Satyendra Dasji says that the description of Lord Rama's going to heaven can be found in Valmiki Ramayana. For in his previous births too he had incarnated as the Avatars Lord Rama and Krishna. The victim's confusion and loss of trust are compounded when her community refuses to acknowledge her suffering. Megan remembers asking him why he was trying all this on her. When she questioned him, Megan says, he became angry and dismissed the women's suffering, saying that a little poison ivy could be good for them. He is widely respected in the East, where he held, and later renounced, the office of Shankaracharya, Indian's highest spiritual position. Elmer and Alyce Green observed that Swami Rama could produce different brain waves at will, including theta and delta (sleep) waves, while remaining aware of his environment. As the disease advanced the great Yogi instead of curing himself through his yogic powers, gave up his body in Samadhi. 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. With great concern I asked him how he was. He called a few of his disciples to spend some time with him in silence, told us my Master is calling me and I must go. 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 Institute's program is no longer accredited by the University of Scranton. They resided in their own house in Honesdale, unencumbered by the strict rules of the residential program. Gurus were supposed to have conquered their desires, but in the spiritual literature they were often portrayed as contradictory, tricking their disciples into enlightenment. . One evening in early June, Carolyn remembers, Swami Rama's housekeeper phoned the women's dorm and asked her to bring the manuscript she was preparing over to Swami Rama's new cabin. When another married couple who were their friends and fellow students left the ashram suddenly, Karen wrote to them asking why. The yogi suddenly went into deep meditation. Visions of Kali or other deities brought ecstasy and peace; he once described Kali as a limitless, infinite, effulgent ocean of spirit.. Rama, Swami. So I visited the house and I discovered that the sound of her mantra was still vibrating there. I like to believe that somewhere inside of him, he is the good person I believed him to be. The Institute used to offer an accredited masters program in Eastern Studies and Comparative Psychology through an affiliation with the University of Scranton. 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. 1 Death mystery of Swami Vivekananda There is no mystery surrounding the fact that Swami Vivekananda died in the year 1902. Everyone knows about Lord Rama's wife i.e. None of them could agree on a diagnosis. 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 his disciples did not realize that and kept massaging his back till the wee hours. I ask him. Only adepts know this technique. Broad described him as "the star of autonomic control". The teachings contained in the sacred texts cannot play any meaningful part in judging who is a good guru and who is not: "How could they? She began to believe that this man who might have been spiritual at one time was now suffering from feelings he couldn't control. That was why he wanted her to be his secretary. 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. Before the wedding, Carolyn and her fiance went to see a couples counselor both separately and together. I asked him why these specialists cannot agree on a diagnosis. He says he once had a patient falsely accuse him of getting her pregnant, and that any psychologist knows that this happens frequently with emotionally disturbed women patients. Both these branches of yogic science are exclusively known to a fortunate few in the Himalayas and Tibet. The daughter of an alcoholic, she longed for guidance from a spiritual authority figure. 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. She recalls that he said they would become very close, their bodies would come together, and then they would part. Up to that point I had felt like he was a guru, that he cared about me at least, but no, he was just using me.". And Carolyn's residential Program supervisor told her that the scandal was "a big test for all of us and a cleansing for the Institute - we'll see who stays.". Who? His actions are rarely questioned by his followers, because his every deed is thought to flow from his union with godhead. At the age of twenty-four, the story goes that he was given the position of Shankaracharya of Karvirpitham . Most of the former members of the Institute who agreed to be interviewed for this article were also afraid to have their identities revealed; they appear under pseudonyms, marked with an asterisk. They announced the date of their death and I was one of the witnesses. One woman Institute member, who was desperate to talk with someone but afraid to give her name, called twice. The well equipped hospital was already running in 1996. Meanwhile, Carolyn says, Swami Rama began singling her out for special attention. He told her he was writing a book of poetry for her, and he offered to find her a husband. A rash of articles featuring Swami Rama appeared in national magazines, including Time, People, and Playboy. She listened calmly as I admitted that I'd worried she might be a victim. ), In 1852 poverty forced Ramkumar and Ramakrishna to leave their village to seek employment in Calcutta (now Kolkata). In that letter, Hughes had told Swami Rama why marriage and parenthood were probably not for him. Mantra is a syllable or word or set of words. His lifetime of contributing to a reconciliation of scientific and spiritual knowledge brought him the Martin Buber Award for Service to Humanity in 1977. Giving the empire to Luv-Kush Rama, apparently repenting for his sins, decided to give all his empire to Luv and Kush to rule. I transfer these 14 years of life to you so that you can complete your work.. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. 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). The next day, she says, Swami Rama called her to his office and asked her if anyone had said anything to her. Now Megan says that in a different atmosphere, she would have immethately recognized Swami Rama's behavior as sexual harassment or "sadistic manipulation." 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. 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. Carolyn went away to college at the end of that year, as her parents expected. [2] The official biography states that when he was 28 he became the Shankaracharya or spiritual leader at Karvirpitham, part of Sringeri Sharada Peetham in Karnataka, South India, demonstrating extensive knowledge of ancient texts to qualify, and holding the position from 1949 to 1952. Turning East in the Twin Cities: Converts and Movements in the 1970s. 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. "We were Brahmins in the Institute's caste system," Terry recalls. YOGANANDA (18931952) was one of the earliest and most influential of the Hindu gurus to come to the West. When someone we love dies, it is sad. 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. Swami Rama was born in a Himalayan valley of Uttar Pradesh, India in 1925 and was initiated and anointed in early childhood by a great sage of the Himalayas. On the occasion of his death anniversary, read a few things related to Swami Vivekananda . Rma is a Vedic Sanskrit word with two contextual meanings. At the same time, she says, he offered her money and told her he wanted to put her in his will. 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. 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. Therefore, be sure to refer to those guidelines when editing your bibliography or works cited list. After her death, the walls of that room in which she lived vibrated with the sound of her mantra. In response to this, the sadhu just flashed a mysterious smile the reason behind it, which Lord Rama immediately grasped. 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. 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. In the mid-1970s, she and her husband George,* both students of Swami Rama, traveled to India and stayed at the guru's ashram in Rishikesh. Om wasn't keeping well for quite sometime now after he . 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. This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ramakrishna, IndiaNetzone - Biography of Ramakrishna Paramahansa, Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center of New York - Biography of Sri Ramakrishna, World Religious and Spirituality Project - Ramakrishna, Cultural India - Reformers - Biography of Ramakrishna Paramhansa. Swami Rama consistently sought to establish a clear scientific basis for the practice of yoga and meditation. They are crazy. One spring evening a couple of weeks later, she says, Swami Rama called her aside to ask why she'd been avoiding him, and she tried to tell him she'd discovered his lies. Peter Rutter's Sex in the Forbidden Zone is available through YJs Book & Tape Source on page 78. Both women and men say they blamed themselves and their own spiritual obtuseness when they repeatedly failed to discern and follow the shifting rules. I might doubt my own perception, I might doubt my own eyes, but I cannot doubt that strength which has given me everything.". Those statements are on file with the cult Awareness network (formerly the citizen's Freedom Foundation) in New York. Brian says he refused to tell Rose's story in such an atmosphere. (April 12, 2023). At the insistence of concerned disciples many other specialists were called. "A lot of people have confused the siddhis-the powers to control body, emotions, and mind-with spirituality. Similarly, gurus in the Buddhist and Hindu traditions are supposed to be examples of self-mastery and right living. 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. They also record numerous instances when he took many disciples illnesses upon himself and either absorbed them into his own physical systems or dissipated them. Given a mantra but little guidance, Carolyn dutifully performed her assigned practices, hoping that Swami Rama's "scientific" approach to yoga would eventually yield results. ." Notable teachers he encountered included Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, and Sri Ramana Maharshi. Early the next morning, she says, he announced to her that she was going to leave; he never set up the promised program. 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. Most of the women who say they were abused by Swami Rama express feelings of fear, frustration, and betrayal. She says he arranged for her to meet him at the Gramercy Park Hotel and instructed her not to call him Swami in public. She was afraid to stay in her room, which had no lock on the door, or to use the hall telephone, because all calls had to be routed through the main switchboard. With his last name he left his body around 1958. Marston's lawsuit, he says, was an act of revenge. Carolyn says she experienced their sexual encounters as brief and rough, and that she performed her sexual duties mechanically: "I numbed myself in order to survive.". [5], In 1966, he founded the original Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy in Kanpur, India; this was followed by an institute in Glenview, Illinois in 1971; it is now headquartered in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, purchased in 1977. Dr. Ballentine says he has good reason to think that Marston "was very anxious for [Nuernberger] to go further, and he didn't. and Sister Audrey Rymars, a Catholic nun who had worked with the Institute in Glenview for 13 years. Growing up in Calcutta in Bengal, https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/rama-swami-1925-1996, Himalayan International Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy of the U.S.A. At a young age, Swami Rama is supposed to have been appointed Shankaracharya of Karvirpitham, an exalted spiritual post. The capacity to leave the body consciously at the time of death is not restricted only to accomplished yogis. It stresses the divinity of human nature and oneness of mankind. He laughed, Megan says, and told her that the women didn't know what they were weeding. 8246 Garibaldi Ave., San Gabriel, CA 91775 (His interest in Roman Catholicism ended with a vision of the great yogi Jesus embracing him and then disappearing into his body.) The message that all religions lead to the same end was certainly a politically and religiously powerful one, particularly because it answered in classical Indian terms the challenges of British missionaries and colonial authorities who had for almost a century criticized Hinduism on social, religious, and ethical grounds. "I only needed one person to corroborate my experience," Megan says now. Following on the wave of favorable publicity, Swami Rama founded the Himalayan Institute in Illinois in 1971. Swami Vivekananda Death Anniversary: 4th July is the 116th death anniversary of Swami Vivekananda. The cancer specialist said it was cancer of this organ or that. And there is a statement, 'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.'" Until she'd read a copy of Susan's letter, she told her, she'd thought she was alone. 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. She recalls that she blushed as she forced out the words: "I think you have been sleeping with other women." These are also available through Lotus Press in USA. Now no power can hold me back. Or maybe he needs to have sex just to release energy so he can meditate better. After Ramakrishnas death, his message was disseminated through new texts and organizations. Swami died on 14 November 1977 at the age of 81, in Vrindavan, India. 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.". Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. Is Sadhana Mandir, she told her he was soon reportedly adopted there by & quot Bengali... 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