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. "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. The BB viewers got a major shock after the former contestant died. At about the same time, Carolyn was accepted into the residential program at East West Books Chicago, the Institute's downtown branch. During her first eight months at the Institute, Megan was able to pursue her Studies, but her situation altered dramatically when Swami Rama returned to take up summer residence. Together we ate superb vegetarian meals in the Institute's dining commons and chanted evening prayers. He is supposed to have been raised by Sri Madhavananda Bharati in the sacred caves and monasteries of the Himalayan sages. Two of the guru's most devoted disciples left the Institute three years ago because they had learned while in India as part of an Institute tour group that parts of Swami Rama's official biography were fabricated. But not all of us know the real reason (s) behind his demise. . He is widely respected in the East, where he held, and later renounced, the office of Shankaracharya, Indian's highest spiritual position. Kamapukur, India But the followers of such "enlightened" men are usually reluctant to find fault with them, since to do so could invalidate the students' own years of study and devotion. Perfect. Swami. [2] He was born Venkataraman Iyer, but is mostly known by the name Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi. At the time of parting, the mantra which is stored in the unconscious mind becomes ones guide. 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. Retrieved April 12, 2023 from Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/rama-swami-1925-1996. Dr. Ballentine says he has good reason to think that Marston "was very anxious for [Nuernberger] to go further, and he didn't. And she was afraid to leave in her old car because a freezing rainstorm had covered all the roads with ice. But one by one, Trescelli says, the women backed down and decided not to pursue legal action. 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." 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. That was why he wanted her to be his secretary. She remembers that Swami Rama received love letters from several women; one of two of them even mentioned "your child." He replied in disgust: Much earlier, I tried to organize a yajna (fire offerings ceremony) with mrityunjaya mantra for his health. He says that Nuernberger's one mistake has "ruined his life, in essence, which is really too bad.". Otherwise I would not deem such a letter worthy of a response." 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. After dismissing the other workers, she says he repeated the familiar litany, but this time he slipped in a new message. Pandit Rajmani says he also has concrete reasons to know that Swami Rama could not be sleeping with his disciples. Encyclopedias almanacs transcripts and maps, Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. Carolyn's and Susan's letters also challenged the Institute's professional staff on ethical grounds. 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. Everyone said you had to surrender to the guru, so she would simply have to follow through with whatever he ordered her to do. 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. 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. At the time of death she went into deep samadhi and consciously dropped her body. 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. No, he says: "Even if it happened, what's the big deal? I might doubt my own perception, I might doubt my own eyes, but I cannot doubt that strength which has given me everything.". 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. Before he reached the state of deep meditation, there were violent jerks in his body. Cite this article Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography. But the University of Scranton didn't offer a degree program in Carolyn's area of study, so she saw a way to rationalize leaving the Institute while still saving face; she could still be considered a good disciple if she cold get the guru's blessing to go away to college. In my interviews with current and former members of the Institute, I heard an almost unvarying litany of beliefs about Swami Rama's abilities. During a series of biofeedback experiments in 1970 and 1971, Drs. The program seemed to provide the ideal family she'd never had, where everyone shared her values and spiritual goals. Therefore, that information is unavailable for most Encyclopedia.com content. 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. The sound tic came from the cracking of the skull as he left his body through the brahmarandhra. Brian didn't believe his teacher, and he spoke with several other Institute administrators and board members about Rose's claim of abuse. 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? Videos of the Evolution of HIHT with Swami Rama talking about his vision: Swami Ramas Ashram in Rishikesh is Sadhana Mandir. Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. I have personally witnessed yogis casting off the body consciously on many occasions. She became outraged at the residents and the professional staff who enable and legitimized the Swami's behavior. A short time later, Swami Rama let her go as his secretary-because, she says he told her, she didn't really want the job. Gold, http://www.hihtindia.org/SRC%20NEW/src_home.htm, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHwDV9UeyfE. In the following year, he served as a consultant to the Voluntary Controls Project of the Research Department of the Menninger Foundation at Topeka, Kansas. The Mission conducts extensive work in health care, disaster relief, rural management, tribal welfare, elementary and higher education. Before leaving, Megan says, she tried to confront Swami Rama publicly-but he went into seclusion, claiming illness. Attempts to verify Swami Rama's educational background have been unsuccessful, according to Vanessa Webber of the Cult Awareness Network. Chicago, II. Turning East in the Twin Cities: Converts and Movements in the 1970s. 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. 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. Obedience to the guru's commands is implicitly expected of all long-term residents; former students describe him walking through the main dining room and ordering one person to move to the New York branch, another to change jobs. During this spiel, she says, he put his hand on her buttocks, but she told him she wasn't buying it. 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. 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. He would call her to his office for a private authence, and as she hung anxiously on his words he would paint a flattering picture of her future with the Institute. and Sister Audrey Rymars, a Catholic nun who had worked with the Institute in Glenview for 13 years. He was ready to embark on his project to build the hospital, but first he chose to establish an ashram in Nepal. 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. The letter is curt in tone. At a young age, Swami Rama is supposed to have been appointed Shankaracharya of Karvirpitham, an exalted spiritual post. 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. Until she'd read a copy of Susan's letter, she told her, she'd thought she was alone. Only recently has she acknowledged her anger at Swami Rama. Well-to-do New Yorkers flock to Honesdale on weekends for seminars in stress reduction, meditation, and health and nutrition. 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. He and Pandit Rajmani say that a guru is "that which dispels darkness." But it is also common in the thought-control techniques of totalitarian states. The Great Raman Maharshi died of cancer. Indeed, seeing God in everything and everyone, he believed that all paths led to the same goal. 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. All of them had something to offer, but no spiritual path inspired her to make an exclusive commitment. 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). The liver specialist said it was liver disease. 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. She did not allow even her eldest son, Dr. A.N.Tandon, to remain in the room. Why did Carolyn say these things? The two couples referred to this statement in a petition to the FBI: they asked the FBI to investigate the threat letter and argued that Swami Rama could be deported by the Immigration and Naturalization Service as an undesirable alien on four grounds: possession of nareotics, sexual immorality, fraudulent financial dealings, and "affliction with [a] psychopathic personality." Swami Rama ( Svm Rma; 1925 - 13 November 1996) was an Indian yoga guru. 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. 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. Visions of Kali or other deities brought ecstasy and peace; he once described Kali as a limitless, infinite, effulgent ocean of spirit.. I asked him why these specialists cannot agree on a diagnosis. In order to believe in his perfection, they must rationalize behavior that others would judge to be tyrannical, cruel, or self-indulgent. Encyclopedia.com gives you the ability to cite reference entries and articles according to common styles from the Modern Language Association (MLA), The Chicago Manual of Style, and the American Psychological Association (APA). [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. No one can expand his consciousness if he remains egotistical. The foundation stone for the hospital was laid in 1992. He was further seen to create a temperature differential of 5 degrees Celsius between two areas on the palm of his right hand. Most online reference entries and articles do not have page numbers. And she would help him write books. 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). But no one knows the date of when he left. ." Dr. Elmer Green says that he and his wife have heard from a number of women who said they were sexually exploited by Swami Rama. 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. My father certainly had sex, and that's why I was born, so will I lose faith in my father? He discusses the philosophy, practice and benefits of yoga and meditation. 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. The next day, she says, Swami Rama called her to his office and asked her if anyone had said anything to her. Then he started giving her practices without any spiritual meaning, she says, and telling her she wasn't doing them right. Arya, however, says that much of Darling's information is inaccurate. Soon Carolyn noticed she wasn't the only woman being favored by the guru; he was also paying attention to Megan and Nirvana. 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.". So I visited the house and I discovered that the sound of her mantra was still vibrating there. Susan has received several phone calls and a letter from people she didn't send her letter to. After a couple of months of this special attention, Carolyn says, Swami Rama came to visit her one-day at the book distribution office in Honesdale center. The 3rd volume is now in preparation, soon to be published. Yes! The institute has branches in the United States, Europe, and India. A Swami, or monk, is supposed to be "one who is master of oneself: senses, body, mind." 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. . The above is an excerpt from Swami Veda Bharatis planned book about Gurudeva Swami Rama. 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? 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. Answer (1 of 12): Swami Vivekananda was a perfect Yogi, He had all the powers to cure Himself as well as others. The Great Raman Maharshi died of cancer. And the secondary trauma of having every single one of her former friends turn their backs on her, she says, has scarred her and left her with a legacy of emotional distrust and feelings of betrayal. "Unpurified ego is an evil which obstructs one's own progress. A former disciple of their acquaintance wrote and signed a statement alleging that he had procured illegal drugs-including mescaline, psylocibin, and LSD-for Swami Rama in 1971. Born: February 18, 1833 Researchers pored over his medical records and letters to figure out what he was sick with, according to the Royal Society of London. 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. He must see something special in me.'" with unrealistic expectations get vengeful when Swami Rama disappoints them, and that anyway, he's never seen any evidence of sexual misconduct. When I ask him if he would recognize the truth if a genuine victim approached him, he admits it's possible that he wouldn't: "I have yet to see a case where I've seen him do something that was for his own benefit or gratification at the expense of another person. But my Gurudeva has left his body. From the 1970s onwards, there were persistent allegations of sexual abuse of his followers;[2] in 1997 a woman won a lawsuit against him for multiple sexual assaults. 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." His poems reveal his creative genius and lofty ideals. IT HAPPENED.. (SWAMI RAMA) S WAMI R AMA WAS SUPPOSEDLY BORN in 1925, and allegedly grew up as an orphan in northern India. Swami Rama allegedly told her, the couple remembers, that if she screamed no one would hear her, and even if they heard, no one would believe her. He cannot disbelieve his guru. [2] [3] During his American tours Swami Rama Tirtha spoke frequently on the concept of 'practical Vedanta' [4] and education of Indian youth. 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. (April 12, 2023). I was counting years. It does not and cannot die because it is eternal. 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. At the same time as he dismissed her, Swami Rama also gave her a Sanskrit name. 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. During that time, neither of them would see any other, and she should never tell anyone. That all religions could be seen as different paths to the same divine source or, even better, that this divine source revealed itself in traditional Hindu categories was welcome and truly liberating news for many Hindus. He bade us good-bye and left guidance as to what to do with his body if he were to leave it. 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. Otherwise there would be no need for this person to propagate this whole story.". She never received a response. Carolyn went away to college at the end of that year, as her parents expected. Died: August 16, 1886 He was soon reportedly adopted there by "one of the greatest masters of the Himalayas," Bengali Baba. In the meantime, though, Swami Rama returned to India, where he died of lung cancer on Nov. 13, 1996, before Jasmine Patel's case came to trial. But the publicity surrounding the Menninger Foundation experiments gained Swami Rama an enviable "scientific" credibility in the eyes of the general public. However, his body had begun to weaken. [2] He further claimed to have gained degree-level qualifications from an Indian school of homeopathic medicine, the University of Hamburg, Utrecht University, and finally the University of Oxford. I ask Dr. Ballentine in a January 1990 interview why Nuernberger is still on the Institute's staff. Wisdom must show itself in action and lovingness." 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. Of all the Institute's swamis and teachers, Pandit Arya is by far the most scholarly. 3 The women's fears have aborted projects intended to expose possible exploitation to a wider authence. During those days I was very anxious to know this mystery, termed parakaya pravesha. There are in a tank or pool, he said. Someone informed me of this and I could not believe it. . Megan remembers asking him why he was trying all this on her. 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 is not the case with a spiritual person who has remembered the mantra faithfully. Ramakrishna, now alone, prayed for a vision of Kali-Ma (Kali the Mother), whom he worshipped as the supreme manifestation of God. [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". But the Institute does not teach the mastery of such powers in its programs, instead focusing on yoga practices with more immediate practical application. "I thought: 'Maybe it's the only way he can break through some stubborn barrier in my ego. Alternate titles: Gadadhar Chatterji, Gadadhar Chattopadhyaya. 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. She did receive an anonymous letter from "a friend" in May 1990, warning her that the Institute had contacted "one of the most vicious lawyers in New York City" and that it planned a defamation action against her if she continued her "harassment." In one context as found in Atharva Veda, as stated by Monier Monier-Williams, means "dark, dark-colored, black" and is related . Carolyn and others say Megan caused a scandal in the Honesdale ashram by breaking the silence surrounding Swami Rama's sexual behavior. And this according to Physiology, people can not do. I spoke to him excitedly; Maharaj-ji, where are you calling from? He was calling from Hong Kong. At the insistence of concerned disciples many other specialists were called. 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. From an early age he was raised in the Himalayas by his master Bengali Baba and, under the guidance of his master, traveled from temple to temple and studied with a variety of Himalayan . "Rama, Swami (1925-1996) 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. Atin Ghosh with the monks in belur on Saturday, Copyright 2023 Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. All rights reserved. Omissions? Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. * Several months earlier, he received a letter from Bob Hughes, a member of the Institute's board of directors from 1978 to 1980. Notable teachers he encountered included Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, and Sri Ramana Maharshi. Updates? Rama, Swami, Rudolph, and Swami Ajaya. Tibetan Buddhism In 1997, after the Swami had died, one of the women pressing charges was awarded almost two million dollars in damages posthumously. Women need to be informed that this could happen to them-be it with Swami Rama or any man in a position of power-so they will be able to see it coming and avoid it. "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. 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. "This sudden animosity indicates that there is something fishy in the statement of this person. Both women and men say they blamed themselves and their own spiritual obtuseness when they repeatedly failed to discern and follow the shifting rules. Two months after Swami Rama left for India, Carolyn went to Chicago to visit her family for Christmas. Following on the heels of Karen's and her friend's revelations, several other women and men left the Meditation Center in Minneapolis. 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. The capacity to leave the body consciously at the time of death is not restricted only to accomplished yogis. 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." STEINER, RUDOLF (18611925), who wrote more than 350 volumes on philosophy, science, and the arts, was the originator of an esoteric, Although the word "spirituality" was originally a Christian one, derived from the Pauline definition of whatever was under the influence of the spiri, YOGANANDA she wondered. In three months, Carolyn says, she gained 20 pounds. [2][7], Widely reported in the mainstream media, he acquired a reputation for achieving remarkable psychosomatic states; the New York Times journalist and author William J. Swami Rama, she says, would extol his own sexual abilities but tell her she was bad at making love. Therefore, its best to use Encyclopedia.com citations as a starting point before checking the style against your school or publications requirements and the most-recent information available at these sites: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html. He was just 50 years old. 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. A saint is a person who does what he says." These are also available through Lotus Press in USA. 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. The time of her parting seemed imminent. But his disciples did not realize that and kept massaging his back till the wee hours. She couldn't make sense out of his behavior, because she found it impossible to believe that it was really about sex-and she repeatedly told him so. But Swami Rama's disciples do not hold him to these standards. 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. 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