October, 1994

LONG PILGRIMAGE: The Life and Teaching of The Shivapuri Baba, By John Bennett, pb., 188 pages, Turnstone Press Limited, Wellingborough, […]

This month our center section focuses on children and on the samskaras, or rites of passage, that take us from

In the days when the last century was approaching, Hindu swamis, Hawaiian kahunas, spiritualists (as new-agers were then called), African

Dear Abbotji: My unmarried daughter Mala is living in an ashram in India. We were all so happy about her

"Long ago in India I met a hoary Persian poet who told me that the poetry of Persia often has

Hindu Revival I just came back from my month in India, refreshed after pilgrimages to Sabarimala (in pouring rain) and

Having been born in a South Indian orthodox Hindu family, I was never told that one could live on foods

Atlanta, Georgia. The tables were turned, for a change. Journalists, usually the invisible chroniclers of someone else's news, were the

Bharat Sadhu Samaj is an all-India organization of sadhus, saints and ascetics formed back in 1956 for the purpose of

Hindu precepts, societal customs and elders' example all guide parents in child-raising. But invariably everyone molds their own very unique