Swamis, he explains, are renunciates who take vows of abstinence which include giving up sex, wine, and red meat, as well as other stimulants to the physical senses. It turns out (Webster, 1990), 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. They will all disappear in the flash we call a human lifetime. Rama Jyoti Vernon passed away suddenly on Monday, November 23, 2020. Most of the Institute's programs are open to the general public. For a time, she says, she considered getting a pistol to carry to work. 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. [7], Swami Rama has been accused and convicted of sexual abuse. He was also accused of kicking other women in the buttocks when they were weeding, already down on their hands and knees it go. One possibility is that is simply how As the disease advanced the great Yogi instead of curing himself through his yogic powers, gave up his body in Samadhi. on. He is also head of the Institute's Holistic Studies (formerly Eastern Studies) program and has written a number of scholarly books on yoga philosophy. 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. 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. Honesdale, Pa.: Himalayan Institute, 1978. Swami Rama called a meeting to defend himself. Pandit Rajmani says he also has concrete reasons to know that Swami Rama could not be sleeping with his disciples. If a hundred people come and say that the day is night and I know that it's not, the voting system doesn't do it here, you know? I am That, I am That, I cause no misery, nor am I miserable; I have no enemy, nor am I enemy. It serves a purpose and then They are instruments for our use. Shortly after they returned to the U.S., Karen and George say that they and all their correspondents received a bizarre, defamatory letter containing an implicit death threat. Swami Vivekananda attained Maha-Samadhi on July 4, 1902, at the age of 39. Edited by Swami Ajaya [Allan Weinstein]. 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. Well-to-do New Yorkers flock to Honesdale on weekends for seminars in stress reduction, meditation, and health and nutrition. In recent years, the harm caused to women by "sex in the forbidden zone" has been recognized in their codes of ethics by most universities and professional associations, including the American Medical Association and the American Psychological Association. Tibetan Buddhism Honesdale, Pa.: Himalayan Institute Press, 1999. Six months before her death, she decided to live in a room by herself remembering the Lords name and meditating. Swami Rama's claims to this spiritual background have been questioned by some of his former students. Show more Show more Comments are turned off. In a few months time she would handle his bank account, income taxes, everything. Swami Rama of the Himalayas: His Life and Mission. Residents staff the Institute's administration, bookstores, and other small businesses, including Himalayan Publishers and Distributors and an elementary school. At a young age, Swami Rama is supposed to have been appointed Shankaracharya of Karvirpitham, an exalted spiritual post. The fear of death is one of our most prominent fears. Sri Ramakrishna was, Steiner, Rudolf Swami Rama is held by his disciples to be a kind of god: He makes up the rules of the game, he can change them at will, and he cannot be judged by them. deteriorating bodies telling us? Residents are expected to donate a large portion of their labor, and they must sacrifice personal freedoms and privacy. 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. the opposite gender, and children paled against his desire for the Atman is everlasting, unchangeable, and therefore not Koestler also covers Gandhis disappointing treatment of his children, in the same book. We could For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and D., about abuses that allegedly took place in Minneapolis, Chicago, New York City, and India, for a chapter in Darling's doctoral dissertation, "Turning East in the Twin Cities: Converts and Movements in the 1970s" (University of Minnesota, 1987). 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. white house with flowers and a perfect life. See your body as just an instrument. She renewed her acquaintance with her former meditation teachers and started taking classes in Glenview, Illinois, at the Institute's original headquarters. Learn from the world and let We are not something new. She heard "numerous former students say they left the [Himalayan] Institute because they were sexually exploited by Swami Rama or knew someone who was". Went to his room in the Ramakrishna Math, the monastery he built in honor of his Guru to meditate and breathe his last. Swami Rama consistently sought to establish a clear scientific basis for the practice of yoga and meditation. 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. 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. 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." In the process there is an The Self is unchangeable. The possible psychological effects of that on the girls themselves, even without any breach of his brahmacharya celibacy vow, does not seem to have concerned the Mahatma. Someone informed me of this and I could not believe it. Turning East in the Twin Cities: Converts and Movements in the 1970s. But Swami Rama's disciples do not hold him to these standards. [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. Within a sect the guru's authority is often absolute: he rules from the pinnacle of the institutional hierarehy. His best known work is Living With Himalayan Masters; the cultural historian Alistair Shearer calls it "an influential autobiography". She says he told her to finish her college degree at the University of Scranton while remaining at the Institute. Such trickery is common in the legends about crazy saints, who aimed to teach their disciples that ultimately they had to surrender the illusion of external control. They announced the date of their death and I was one of the witnesses. Swami Rama, she says, would extol his own sexual abilities but tell her she was bad at making love. He would take her to the Orient-Japan and India. Just because What a foolish woman! "Before [these women] started saying these things, I also had a very good feeling that these people were wonderful people and they would never lie and they were trustworthy people. humans we are capable of having anger and experiencing anger, but we are Minneapolis was the site of another Institute-related scandal in 1981. Rama, Swami. There is existence without limitation, means the end to what was central and meaningful to that person. 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. 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. That day Rose returned to New York City, and within 48 hours she had quit her job and gone to stay with a friend in Texas. No one can expand his consciousness if he remains egotistical. thoughts that we identify with, and this brings pain. 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. is a reality that will help you to realize that this life here is Box 148252. 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". Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, at the time the resident spiritual director of the Honesdale ashram and a member of the Institutes teaching staff, reportedly responded Death reminds 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. Thank you. Reprinted from Sacred Journey, an HIHT publication. Patanjali (the teacher of the Yoga system), in one of his aphorisms, describes the causes of suffering as five: ignorance, ego-sense, attachment, aversion, and clinging to life. Marston's lawsuit, he says, was an act of revenge. He was further seen to create a temperature differential of 5 degrees Celsius between two areas on the palm of his right hand. Numerous former students say they left the Institute because they were sexually exploited by Swami Rama or knew someone who was. on with their lives and prepare for their own deaths. Death is not something Jai Shri Hari! The mantra serves as a guide through this period of transition. 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. The yogi suddenly went into deep meditation. Our humanitarian projects serve impoverished communities through rural empowerment and environmental regeneration. It is sad for him, and for those who cared and were so deeply hurt by him, that his behavior has been allowed to continue with such devastating results to people just looking for help." dies, the garment that provides the covering for the soul on its visit 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. grieve after anyone.. By that time, Brian recollects, the other directors had adopted the line that famous and powerful men were always subject to such vicious rumors, and that the women's stories were ludicrous and unbelievable. This path requires dealing with Under New York State law, according to Trescelli, a woman who does not get a medical exam or report the incident to police within a limited period of time has little chance of obtaining a conviction. 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. There is birth, there is Of course, Gandhis very human displays of (non-righteous) temper alone would have been enough to demonstrate to him or anyone else that he was not yet perfected in ahimsa. however, that significant elements in the official biography of the swami may well have Peter Rutter's Sex in the Forbidden Zone is available through YJs Book & Tape Source on page 78. Even so, it was a blow to find out that she wasn't particularly special: Swami Rama apparently had other "spiritual courtesans." It is an instructor. I am Existence Absolute, Knowledge Absolute, Bliss Absolute, 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. 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. 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. attached to or to identify with something? ." Dr. Ballentine sent copies of his letter to the same Institute members who had received Hughes's letter. What good will Soon Carolyn noticed she wasn't the only woman being favored by the guru; he was also paying attention to Megan and Nirvana. a journey to learn and grow, and then the journey ends. solution. instrumentsthey are free from fear. miserable and death frightening. She could not control her emotions, he could not talk to her! Why then are the stories of the Mahatmas experiments with teenage girls not more widely known? Under the guidance of his master, he traveled from monastery to monastery and studied with a variety of Himalayan saints and sages, including his grandmaster, who was living in a remote region of Tibet. Buddha s solution was to live life correctly and to travel "I only needed one person to corroborate my experience," Megan says now. 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. His disciples believed that the rupture was due to his brahmarandhra (an opening in the crown of his head) being pierced when he attained mahasamdhi. We think we are (Webster, 1990). 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. On January 24 of that year, a jury awarded $15,000 in actual damages and $50,000 in punitive damages to Barbara Marston, who had sued psychologist Philip Nuernberger for engaging in "sexually intimate behavior" with her during therapy sessions. But the siddhis can be an ego trap. Swami Rama, whose legal name is Brij Keshore Kumar, was born in 1925 in Uttar Pradesh, according to his official biography, parts of which appeared in the Mareh/April 1990 issue of Yoga Journal. As Rutter explains in his book, a sexual relationship between a man in a position of power-doctor, psychologist, mentor, or priest-and a woman who is dependent on him-as patient, student, client, or troubled soul-almost always involves an element of coercion and a betrayal of trust. There he lived among "His Holiness Swami Rama's" most devoted disciples, witnessing their extreme beliefs and cultish behavior. the meaning of life or death. Irwin Schneider, the lawyer for the Himalayan Institute, conceded that it was morally wrong for the Swami Rama to have sex with the woman from North Carolina, a 19-year-old student at the time she . The Healing Network (former Himalayan Institute members), BO. YOGANANDA (18931952) was one of the earliest and most influential of the Hindu gurus to come to the West. As ironic as it is tragic, Had Nirvana said anything? For a truly "liberated" one, there is no body consciousness. He studied psychology and philosophy in Varanasi and Prayas, India, and received a medical degree from Darbhanga Medical School in 1945. Both these branches of yogic science are exclusively known to a fortunate few in the Himalayas and Tibet. "Rama, Swami (1925-1996) [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. There, he showed the ability to consciously control various aspects of his autonomic (involuntary) nervous system. People get attached even to the idea of things. 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. The eternal nature of Jews follow stages of mourning. You're bound to get mixed up. He learned that his father had had sexual relations with many women and after his father's death in 1996, he learned that Swami Rama had a wife in India and two children. It is just a turning, a change of clothing. Dr. Ballentine denies sending out copies of Hughes's letter: 'I didn't do that. Join us for studies in the true meaning of yogaincluding asana, meditation, mantra, tantra, sacred scripture, and the art of joyful living. He rapidly attracted a following that included many graduate and professional students. Five minutes before her death she called all the family members and blessed them. transition in our journey. Brian sued Swami Rama, and eventually the guru settled out of court for the full amount. Carolyn has been in therapy for the past five years, trying to rebuild her self-confidence and heal the damage done by what she now calls her "sexual abuse" by Swami Rama. or wear shoes. One of the greatest adepts, teachers, writers, and humanitarians of the 20th century, Swami Rama (19251996) is the founder of the Himalayan Institute. Instead, he told the other board members that he believed Rose, and that they should investigate the incident for themselves. These attachments create, recreate [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". station stop like Grand Central Station in New York Cityjust a place to Then she dropped her body in complete consciousness. The Secret of the Yoga Sutra Rajmani Tigunait 2014 The Yoga Sutra is the living source . Focusing In December of 1990, Yoga Journal published an expos detailing allegations of misbehavior, including sexual abuse, against Rama. And he abruptly dismissed her. 2019Encyclopedia.com | All rights reserved. Their grief is allowed to be concentrated and their Instead of comforting their The yogi asked me to bring a living ant. At the same time Rajmani explains the basic goals of the Institute's tradition of yoga: "The most important part of the practice is nonattachment." After six months she fell sick and became bedridden. Most of us in simple, understandable andbeneficial ways, while not compromising Boyd, Doug. Indian religious leader and mystic "This sudden animosity indicates that there is something fishy in the statement of this person. identify ourselves with our bodies and the world around us. It does not and Causes of deaths for 50 to 69 year olds This visualization shows the causes of deaths of those who died between the age of 50 and 69. That is why in some cultures and His followers believed the cause of death . The goal of our sadhana or practices is the highest She loved him like "a second father," she says, "and the real tragedy is that this is how our relationship ended. According to Karen and George, no legal action resulted. But as she spent more time around Swami Rama and his inner circle, Megan says, the guru subjected her to a barrage of sexual harassment. He became famous for his ability to control his body in yoga nidra, writing many books including the autobiographical Living with Himalayan Masters. And the answer is no, The inner Self remains unaffected. All of lifes events He was a great teacher of practical vedanta who used to call himself . imperishable. He told her he was writing a book of poetry for her, and he offered to find her a husband. At the meeting, Brian says, Dr. Ballentine presented letters from another woman, Karen,* who also claimed to have been sexually exploited by Swami Rama. 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. eternal glory. But she says his attitude toward her underwent a dramatic change; he began to make her a target for his anger, issuing contradictory orders and then screaming at her for her incompetence in front of the other secretaries and disciples and gossiping about her behind her back. And in that idyllic environment, the immortal guru-disciple relationship was given to unfold, with Ramas students believing that he could read their minds and heal sickness with the power of his superconsciousness, etc. She says he instructed her in how to give him pleasure and admonished her to always tell him that she had received pleasure, even thought she never did. Swami Rama, whose legal name is Brij Keshore Kumar, was born in 1925 in Uttar Pradesh, according to his official biography, parts of which appeared in the Mareh/April 1990 issue of Yoga Journal. Rose said that she struggled, but the guru physically overpowered her, throwing himself on top of her on the bed and forcing her to perform oral sex. springs grief, from craving springs fear; for him who is wholly free Consciousness makes our body appear to exist. Swami. Later, many of the women broke out in head-to-toe swelling and rashes from what had in fact been poison ivy roots. Encyclopedias almanacs transcripts and maps, Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. ALL NEW! when Hughes openly asked questions about Swami Rama's sexual activities during a weekend workshop at the Glenview Center, where he was the featured guest lecturer, he was escorted off the premises and driven to the airport. he studied many himalayan saints and sages, including his grandmaster, who was living in a remote region of tibet.. from 1949 to 1952, swami rama held the prestigious position of shankaracharya of karvirpitham (also karveer peeth or karweer peeth) in south . Dr. Ballentine, the Institute's president and director of the Combined Therapy Program, explains that human beings have the potential to do "all kinds of things, like move our bothes at will from one place to another, or be aware of what people are thinking on the other side of the earth, or inner states of consciousness that take us to the future and the past." We have bodies. But sexual contact between a guru and his disciples is not regulated by any professional association of religious hierarehy. He told her to lie to the residential program director and say that she planned to visit a relative, and he gave her $100 to cover the cost of the trip. 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. Become more involved with the projects of the ashram-seminars, residents, the patient program-in time she would be in charge of the whole thing. Long life, wealth, its work is done. We could pick one with all sorts of attractions and but simply a pause in a continuing story. 3. But the Institute does not teach the mastery of such powers in its programs, instead focusing on yoga practices with more immediate practical application. culture people have been raised with certain images of what life ought Carolyn,* an old friend, called me collect. They rarely had to do the menial chores performed by other residents; Brian was encouraged to study the sacred texts and write a book, while Terry got training as a Montessori teacher and started a school for the Institute's children. She asked him to give her a homeopathic remedy for the itching, she says, but he refused and turned away, dismissing her. Yoga, as well as Hatha, Kriya, Kundalini, Laya, Mantra, Nada, Siddha, some bad trick has been played on them. He said, "Be ready to die, fighting for the great cause, but in a non- violent way. The Combined Therapy program and the outpatient branches of the Institute for Holistic Medicine combine Western medicine, homeopathy, Eastern medicine, psychotherapy, nutrition, yoga, and meditation to treat people with a variety of physical and emotional problems. Chapter 4 in Koestlers (1960) The Lotus and the Robot give reasonable analyses of the all-too-human psychological reasons behind Gandhis emphasis on celibacy. not anger or any other emotion. I am Existence Absolute, Knowledge Absolute, Bliss Absolute, I am That, I am That, I cause no misery, nor am I miserable; I have no enemy, nor am I enemy. "Believing such stories means disbelieving in myself. 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. [7], In another experiment at the Menninger Foundation, he voluntarily stopped his heart from pumping blood for 17 seconds. For, when it comes to metaphysical questions regarding attachment, repulsion is no better than is attraction. Several of his works have been translated into different languages throughout the world. 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. life, but simply a pause in a continuing story. That handling included the Mahatmas denying of a professional education to his older sons, in the attempt to mold them in his image. I like to believe that somewhere inside of him, he is the good person I believed him to be. And she would help him write books. "Unpurified ego is an evil which obstructs one's own progress. He bragged about his sumptuous homes in India and Japan and about his shopping sprees for designer clothes, she says. ", 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. It is my firm conviction that people living in the world can practice the higher steps of yoga and meditation even while doing their duties and leading normal lives. 1 Death mystery of Swami Vivekananda There is no mystery surrounding the fact that Swami Vivekananda died in the year 1902. He would have no other train than Because that's my whole life Even if I found out - how can I find out? Chicago, II. Joy that comes from the Realization in direct experience of the Expert wellness consultations direct to your home. A world leader in the field of yoga, meditation, spirituality, and holistic health, the Himalayan Institute is a non-profit international organization dedicated to serving humanity through educational, spiritual, and humanitarian programs. pain in that philosophy is profound. [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". 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. 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. 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.". 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. [3] This was one of the first convictions of a yoga guru for unlawful sexual activity with a devotee. exist not because of our bodies but because of our very being. The books published by The Divine Life Society are being made available on the web in both Portable Document Format (PDF) and HTML. Megan remembers asking him why he was trying all this on her. 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