It is unknown whether he has other children. He discusses the philosophy, practice and benefits of yoga and meditation. 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. He dictated the instructions for his several hundred organizations to his secretaries. One day Swami Rama called for her and told her he wouldn't be taking her to India that autumn. Put that letter in the 'goofy file.'" Everything happens for a reason, and we can't judge him." ." Carolyn went away to college at the end of that year, as her parents expected. Only adepts know this technique. Yes! 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. New York: Random House, 1976. 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. [5] (His interest in Roman Catholicism ended with a vision of the great yogi Jesus embracing him and then disappearing into his body.) Megan remembers asking him why he was trying all this on her. He started saying, My Gurudeva is calling me. "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. 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." 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. They then informed Sarkar who arrived late next morning. Box 400, Honesdale, PA 18431: (717) 253-5551. Refer to each styles convention regarding the best way to format page numbers and retrieval dates. One of my friends, Vinaya Maharaj, sent a messenger to my camp informing me that he was going to drop his body and I should come to witness it. At 7:00 p.m. Vivekananda went to his room, asking not to be disturbed; he died at 9:20 p.m. while meditating. To judge by their price tags, these and other Institute programs must bring in a considerable income. 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. Yet the Institute's success comes at a high cost for many of those involved. We examined his pulse, heartbeat, and breath, but there was no sign of life. They resided in their own house in Honesdale, unencumbered by the strict rules of the residential program. 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. 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. Within a sect the guru's authority is often absolute: he rules from the pinnacle of the institutional hierarehy. They would travel together to England. 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. Brian says he refused to tell Rose's story in such an atmosphere. If one can learn to control the heartbeat, he can experience conscious death, as did St. Paul ("I die daily"-I Corinthians 15:31) and many yogis of India who have practiced this Hong-Sau [concentration] Technique, and through it achieved mastery over the action of the heart. [2][R 1][R 3] Swami Rama founded other teaching and service organizations, including a large medical facility, in Dehradun in Uttarakhand in the north of India, to serve millions of poor people in the nearby mountains who had little access to health care. Yet she is vulnerable to feeling re-victimized every time her experience is denied or distorted. 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. My father certainly had sex, and that's why I was born, so will I lose faith in my father? Sri Ram who came to know about the death of Lakshman decided that it was time to end His. The Great Raman Maharshi died of cancer. The narrator says again that every person who Ravana sent into battle didn't return. 60614. Marston's lawsuit, he says, was an act of revenge. They announced the date of their death and I was one of the witnesses. 1 Death mystery of Swami Vivekananda There is no mystery surrounding the fact that Swami Vivekananda died in the year 1902. Together we ate superb vegetarian meals in the Institute's dining commons and chanted evening prayers. Chicago, II. Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. He laughed, Megan says, and told her that the women didn't know what they were weeding. 2019Encyclopedia.com | All rights reserved. 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. 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. Indian religious leader and mystic He bade us good-bye and left guidance as to what to do with his body if he were to leave it. He spoke Bengali and knew neither English nor Sanskrit. Himalayan Institute, RR 1. And Yes! The Christians draw out the liquid and call it water, but it is all the same substance, no essential difference. Carolyn felt important, entitled to be there because she was one of his secretaries. Initially, Brian says, most of the other directors responded with concern. Carolyn stayed at the Institute for three more years, working at a variety of jobs. I have witnessed two similar cases. 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. In one context as found in Atharva Veda, as stated by Monier Monier-Williams, means "dark, dark-colored, black" and is related . I am the one who has given the mantra!. Residents are expected to donate a large portion of their labor, and they must sacrifice personal freedoms and privacy. He replied, At a certain time I have to leave my body. Five minutes before her death she called all the family members and blessed them. Many of those beliefs are based on Hindu and Buddhist teachings about the nature of the guru. 12 Apr. Dr. Ballentine denies sending out copies of Hughes's letter: 'I didn't do that. "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. 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. 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. [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". His father died in 1843, and his elder brother Ramkumar became head of the family. 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. Similarly, gurus in the Buddhist and Hindu traditions are supposed to be examples of self-mastery and right living. Carolyn is not alone. Because I do not want to find out. 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 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 Swami Rama's disciples do not hold him to these standards. 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. 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. When the couple confided their resulting marital troubles to Karen and George, Karen confirmed her friend's experience by revealing that she, too, had had a supposedly exclusive and spiritual sexual relationship with Swami Rama before her marriage. I am keeping this last arrow in my quiver to use at that time. * Several months earlier, he received a letter from Bob Hughes, a member of the Institute's board of directors from 1978 to 1980. He wept for hours at a time and felt a burning sensation throughout his body while imploring the Divine Mother to reveal herself. In the mythology of the ashram, the guru is the all-powerful, all-knowing father and the disciples are his spiritual children. 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.". A Swami, or monk, is supposed to be "one who is master of oneself: senses, body, mind." When another married couple who were their friends and fellow students left the ashram suddenly, Karen wrote to them asking why. So, back to Swami Rama. She was my initiate. Box 148252. [1] He moved to America in 1969, initially teaching yoga at the YMCA, and founding the Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy in Illinois in 1971; its headquarters moved to its current location in Honesdale, Pennsylvania in 1977. 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. Otherwise I would not deem such a letter worthy of a response." There are in a tank or pool, he said. Some stay longer, for a few weeks or months in the Self-Transformation retreat program. 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. I mean, he's giving you the teachings and you're going to use the teachings to evaluate him? They know, usually without being told, that if they break the taboo of silence they will be blamed for destroying their spiritual families and the "higher" good those families purportedly do in the world. 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 real guru is within," Dr. Ballentine says, "that still small voice within you." [CDATA[ 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. He says that Nuernberger's one mistake has "ruined his life, in essence, which is really too bad.". 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.". I ask him. The people Bob had referred to were Carolyn, Susan, Brian and Terry, Dr. Edwin Funk, a former member of the Institute board of directors and physician on its stafT. 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. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. 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. 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! 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.". Brian sued Swami Rama, and eventually the guru settled out of court for the full amount. He promised her he'd set up a complete, personalized yoga program for her there-a prescribed thet, special yoga postures and meditation practices-as well as a game plan for her higher education and future career. The two women who wrote statements for the Cult Awareness Movement were among those involved: One stated that she was a patient at the Institute's holistic health center in New York City, and the other stated she was 17 years old when Swami Rama initiated a sexual relationship with her. Allegations of sexual abuse by Swami Rama have followed on the heels of the Institute's success like a shadow. Why did Carolyn say these things? "If the guru's instruction leads to a deeper peace, freedom from conflict, a deepening of meditation, harmony in relationships - all of these. Notable teachers he encountered included Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, and Sri Ramana Maharshi. 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. 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 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. Therefore, be sure to refer to those guidelines when editing your bibliography or works cited list. And she would help him write books. Is it not better to follow someone who has charted the path?". Relationships are the first test of spirituality. The Healing Network (former Himalayan Institute members), BO. His lifetime of contributing to a reconciliation of scientific and spiritual knowledge brought him the Martin Buber Award for Service to Humanity in 1977. Brian also received a threat, he says: a note telling him he "might get hurt," which was accidentally shoved under the door of a lawyer who rented the office next door to his in a Honesdale office building. 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. 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. 2023 . Six months before her death, she decided to live in a room by herself remembering the Lords name and meditating. Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. His poems reveal his creative genius and lofty ideals. After leaving the post of Shankaracharya 1952, Swami Rama had first gone back to his master. I had numerous experiences of the same during my long periods of chronic conditions. 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. . She did not allow even her eldest son, Dr. A.N.Tandon, to remain in the room. The lawsuit I heard rumors about in New York City never materialized. At some point, we ran into Swami Rama in a hallway. 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. Rma is a Vedic Sanskrit word with two contextual meanings. During a series of biofeedback experiments in 1970 and 1971, Drs. 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. 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." During that time, neither of them would see any other, and she should never tell anyone. With his last name he left his body around 1958. Alternate titles: Gadadhar Chatterji, Gadadhar Chattopadhyaya. 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. 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). 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. His body was buried in Krishna Balaram Mandir in Vrindavan. "I thought: 'Maybe it's the only way he can break through some stubborn barrier in my ego. In March 1978, she says, Swami Rama came to Glenview and initiated her. But the Institute does not teach the mastery of such powers in its programs, instead focusing on yoga practices with more immediate practical application. They are crazy. Retrieved April 12, 2023 from Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/rama-swami-1925-1996. Or maybe he needs to have sex just to release energy so he can meditate better. 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. She could not control her emotions, he could not talk to her! "I only needed one person to corroborate my experience," Megan says now. 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. After a bit, she was inclined to dismiss his behavior as a joke or a "test.". The capacity to leave the body consciously at the time of death is not restricted only to accomplished yogis. Pandit Rajmani says he also has concrete reasons to know that Swami Rama could not be sleeping with his disciples. 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 . 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. 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. It is sad to lose what we care about in life. 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. 20/20 20 Deciding his fate It is also said that Rama knew. I like to believe that somewhere inside of him, he is the good person I believed him to be. 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. Shri Swami Rama did not teach any particular religious doctrine but his teachings aimed at transforming individuals by inspiring them to take charge of their own lives through discipline and strong willpower. Since our interview, Dr. Ballentine has been sent at least two letters by women who say they were sexually abused by Swami Rama: one from Carolyn and one from Susan. He must also vow that he will not harm any living being. [13], Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy, "15 Yoga Gurus That Are Empowering The World Through Social Media", "The Case Against Swami Rama of The Himalayas", "$1.9 Million Awarded In Swami Sexual Case", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Swami_Rama&oldid=1147688250, This page was last edited on 1 April 2023, at 15:01. Within the Cite this article tool, pick a style to see how all available information looks when formatted according to that style. Once when Sri Ramakrishna Paramhamsa was suffering from throat cancer, Swami Vivekananda could not bear His sufferings and planned to apply his yogic powers to cure him. They are instructed to have "no emotional relationship inside or outside the Institute," and residential program directors are charged with monitoring disciple's behavior and attitudes to make sure they conform to Institute expectations. But after two unsatisfying years, she left college and returned to the Chicago area. Megan says she squelched an urge to speak out, instead deciding, like most of the Institute's residents, to suspend judgment so she could "understand and learn" from this "great master." Two years ago. He bragged about his sumptuous homes in India and Japan and about his shopping sprees for designer clothes, she says. After Ramakrishnas death, his message was disseminated through new texts and organizations. Now Carolyn is more articulate: "When I finally start listening to myself, and I tell him I know he's sleeping with other women-and this is the man I came to, to help me learn how to listen to my inner voice, and then he tells me not to listen to it just as I'm starting to get some confidence in it-that's when I realized, this isn't yoga, this isn't truth, this is abuse.". A few weeks later she moved to Honesdale. 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." Hughes is not so easily coerced into silence: he says he plans to continue to press the Institute's administration to fulfill iLs edii-cal obligations to investigate the women's complaints and put a stop to any abuse. Swami Vivekananda died of diabetes. 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. On one occasion, she says, Swami Rama ordered all the women disciples to weed out some roots around his new cabin, telling them they were rooting out their samskaras. Before leaving, Megan says, she tried to confront Swami Rama publicly-but he went into seclusion, claiming illness. Swami Rama has a reputation among his followers as an incredible psychologist who uses his insights to help others. Indeed, seeing God in everything and everyone, he believed that all paths led to the same goal. 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. The Ramakrishna Order also played an important role in the spread of Hindu ideas and practices in the West, particularly in the United States. These are also available through Lotus Press in USA. Boyd, Doug. Then she dropped her body in complete consciousness. Rose told Brian and Terry that she was afraid to seek help from the family members who'd invited her to the Institute-they were unquestioningly loyal to Swami Rama-and she knew no one else there. The Mission conducts extensive work in health care, disaster relief, rural management, tribal welfare, elementary and higher education. Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography. [3] This was one of the first convictions of a yoga guru for unlawful sexual activity with a devotee. 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. His early American followers had been spiritual seekers of the counterculture who found their guru at his ashram on the banks of the sacred Ganges in Rishikesh, India. The sound tic came from the cracking of the skull as he left his body through the brahmarandhra. Finally I found an opportunity to broach the topic of the lawsuit with Carolyn. Ravana stands in a tower and watches the battle for a while. 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. He sent copies of his letter to many of his former colleagues and other professionals on the Institute's stafT. 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. Megan* started the Institute's graduate program in Eastern Studies in the fall of 1982. 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