He joined the ashram roughly 35 years ago and was a volunteer priest, said Tapas Kumar Roy, a priest at the ashram.
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Sarah recalls that in 1980, the year before Rajneesh left India, nearly all the top women in the ashram hierarchy underwent sterilization at the ashram medical center.
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Oh, and they are definitely not moving to an ashram.
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He could have been strumming a sitar at an ashram.
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Calls to the main ashram seeking comment were not returned.
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He took me to an ashram, and everyone loved him.
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Six months earlier, in late 2012, I had left my job in New York to learn meditation, first in a Sivananda ashram in southern India, then in a forest ashram in the Uttarkashi district.
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I soon left New York to live in an Indian ashram.
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It certainly didn't resemble my idea of an ashram dining hall.
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Rajneesh Foundation, the legal umbrella for Bhagwan's ashram in Pune. The
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Rajneesh's ashram in India, told me that coercive psychological pressure was
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If a woman got pregnant at the Pune ashram in India
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He eventually went back to Pune and reopened his ashram there.
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He financed an ashram in Arizona and a monastery in Nepal.
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" Sarah's first actual therapy group at the ashram was a "Tao Group.
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It cost a lot of money to remain at Rajneesh's ashram in
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He hadn't been religious, but in the ashram, he converted to Hinduism.
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But there is a huge picture of Rama Setu outside the ashram.
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Trump's shoes were left behind during their visit to the Sabarmati Ashram.
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The "ashram and festival grounds were lined with trash cans," she said.
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To those of us on the outside listening in, this music may sound otherworldly; but to Surya Botofasina, who grew up on the ashram and is now Music Director of the Sai Anantam Ashram Singers, it sounds like home.
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Then we move to an ashram, where the same actor wears a beard.
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Women ran the whole ashram there, and I was so impressed by that.
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He'd take annual trips to an ashram in Taiwan to meditate and study.
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Her Ashram accommodates about 1,500 and serves three very basic meals a day.
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She also directs the International Yoga Festival each year at their ashram, Parmath Niketan.
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Then, an ashram official would appear and offer to trade silence on a sexual
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"I have been in isolation for almost 16 years," she said at the ashram.
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I wrapped up the interview as quickly as possible and galloped out of the ashram.
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He was quickly cremated in an ashram ceremony again marked by ecstatic singing and dancing.
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Confused about his own life, Pandit returned to India in 2600 to join an ashram.
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There were a lot of Germans at the ashram and a lot of Russians too.
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The grass and trees surrounding the ashram are menacingly fecund after months of hot rain.
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Manu grew up in an ashram in which everyone was devoted to her great-uncle.
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In the morning, you'd buy breakfast and a mango lassi and walk to the ashram.
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Sharmila said she intended to settle in an ashram, or religious center, rather than go home.
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He returned to teaching at his ashram in Pune, where he was welcomed by his followers.
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They drove four hours to Portland to see the movie Ashram, but they won't come here.
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She was cremated at the ashram in an elaborate and joyful ceremony of singing and dancing.
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The outward signs of wealth are fabulous: in front of the ashram are automobiles, motorcycles, etc.
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So the ashram will be run by women until I find people who have no-minds.
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He never gave up the pursuit of Krishna consciousness; he just moved out of the ashram.
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Tourist numbers are still low, with around 13,000 people, mostly Indians, visiting the ashram last year.
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Soon, in December, he will enter an ashram outside Mumbai for another 60 days of silence.
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Another woman begins to weep while thanking the manager of a Catskills ashram for changing her life.
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You could really do an incredible drama comparing the ashram and the commune with the Medicis' court.
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One of the structures is named Anand Ashram, which roughly translates to "Hermitage of Happiness," he noted.
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By April 1968, only two band members, George Harrison and John Lennon, were still at the ashram.
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The year I finished my dissertation, she left graduate school and spent a year at an ashram.
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" Reminiscing about the music Coltrane conjured on the ashram, Botofasina notes that she was "very old school.
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One day, she bought a one-way bus ticket to New Mexico to go live in an ashram.
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On reaching India, we learned yoga at a forest ashram in the south and meditation in the Himalayas.
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It's just outside the ashram so it feels like a break from the rules without straying too far.
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As I walked out of the ashram with my backpack on my back, a young woman stopped me.
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Last year, India's comptroller and auditor general found that he built his ashram headquarters on protected forest land.
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But I did believe I was going to a religious commune, ashram, or whatever term one chooses to use.
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Mr. Pandey, about 60, had been a volunteer at the Sree Sree Thakur Anukulchandra Satsang ashram, Mr. Hassan said.
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He says that the greatest discussions of Adorno he ever heard were on the fringes of an ashram there.
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Every now and then, there's a controversy over the ashram—that it's exploitative, or that Amma is a bully.
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At the Sabarmati Ashram, the former home of India's independence hero Mahatma Gandhi, laborers watered lawns and painted walls.
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She founded the Vedantic Center in 1976 in San Francisco, which eventually relocated to the Agoura ashram in 1983.
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You arrive in India, took the train to Pune…Then you get on a rickshaw to go the ashram.
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There were about 1,500 people in the entire ashram, and most of them came together every night to meditate.
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I listen to CDs from an ashram that Lilac and I have gone to upstate for the last 11 years.
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Illustration: Incunabula (Courtesy Joseph Matheny)But even as the Ashram made great strides with its unorthodox work, danger was brewing.
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Each child will also be given a detailed identification card that includes the exact ashram where their family are staying.
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Residents at the ashram recall Alice waking them up before dawn, so that they could listen to her newest compositions.
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Both of my roommates had been at the ashram almost half a year, and this was not their first time.
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I got a glimpse of Ramdev's ashram-style management at Haridwar, where he allowed me to observe him one afternoon.
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He went from the airport to the Ashram where Mahatma Gandhi, the father of Indian independence, lived from 1917-1930.
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I wondered, Am I at an ashram or am I in a coma hallucinating a scene from a James Bond movie?
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All I know is that the ranch was as far removed from an ashram as Bermuda is from the North Pole.
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Now, the ashram they visited is being revived, with a new museum devoted to the band and their one-time guru.
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"He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger."
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That festival, hosted in March by Parmarth Niketan, Rishikesh's largest ashram, drew some 22010,21970 tourists from 270 countries around the world.
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And with the first major reissue of the ashram tapes, via Luaka Bop's World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, and a new iteration of the Sai Anantam Ashram Singers—soon to perform one of only a handful of concerts worldwide at Melbourne's Supersense Festival—Alice's radiant cosmos is expanding into mainstream consciousness.
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A typical day at the ashram began with "Dynamic Meditation," an "active" meditation supposedly specially developed by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh for Westerners.
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He invited the father of Mr. Wani to his ashram and suggested that the elder Mr. Wani might serve as an intermediary.
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Swami Dayananda Saraswati's modest ashram in Tamil Nadu, in southern India, is graced by verdant forest surroundings, but runs on communal labor.
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On my sixth day at the ashram, while Florian was doing somersaults in the pool, he told us he planned to leave.
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Maybe one of the reasons people stay there so long is because the transportation out of the ashram is hit-or-miss.
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A village head arrives at Satyarthi's ashram to retrieve rescued children, ostensibly to return them to their homes; Satyarthi is duly skeptical.
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"He was a student of Gandhi and was trained in his ashram," she says proudly, before grabbing a black book from her bookcase.
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In fact, the guys on the outside, who worked in other parts of the ashram, would call the group leaders the 'pussy pool.
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Amma is the most famous living guru in India—maybe the world—and because she's a woman, women are attracted to the ashram.
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The two live, work and grow their own food on a dance ashram called the Nrityagram Dance Village, near Bangalore in southern India.
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During a visit to the Sabarmati Ashram, where Gandhi once lived, Mr. Modi explained how to use a charkha, a traditional spinning wheel.
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Surya Botofasina, 21983, a keyboardist who lives in Brooklyn, has fond memories of growing up at the Shanti Anantam Ashram in Agoura, Calif.
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" They spent their days together at the ashram, a tiny hut in green farmlands they describe as "aesthetically pleasing and close to nature.
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And slowly, a cultural awareness has grown of her devotional music—which was never intended for audiences outside the community of her ashram.
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He was working for Blackwater (or Academi or whatever they're calling themselves these days) and lying about being at an ashram or whatever. Fine.
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In 210, they founded the first of three charitable trusts, to run a hospital and a university dealing in Ayurvedic medicine, and an ashram.
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An Al Jazeera investigation reveals a seedy world of sexual abuse and accusations of murder and mass castration within the walls of his ashram.
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The ashram remained operational for many decades after the band left, housing dozens of straight-backed sadhus, or holy men, in small domed huts.
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It doesn't matter to me if they find spiritual inspiration in a church, synagogue, mosque, temple, ashram, Yellowstone National Park or their own house.
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The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda will be performed by the Sai Anantam Ashram Singers at Supersense Festival in Melbourne on August 19.
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He'll be starring in another fantastical film, The Ashram, and in Measure of a Man with Donald Sutherland and Judy Greer in the near future.
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They're spiritual leaders from the largest ashram in Rishikesh -- one of India's spiritual hot spots -- and they're here to carry the message of yoga's power.
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The ashram was situated on a lush, four-acre piece of property in the center of Pune called Koregaon Park, where maharajas used to live.
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This documentary about his humble ashram takes us inside to meet his followers in the study of Advaita Vedanta, an ancient Hindu philosophy of oneness.
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When the no-minds are available, then there will be no question of male and female; then the ashram will be run by no-minds.
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However, I have enough deeply entrenched memories of sleeping on ashram floors and falling over while in headstands never to take the titles too seriously.
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In the early eighties, after the death of her son John, Jr., she bought forty-eight acres in nearby Agoura Hills and built an ashram.
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But Macarena Arraez, 30, from Spain, brightened when asked about the planned renovations, saying the ashram had great potential for raves and fashion photo shoots.
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When Mr. Rao was unexpectedly named prime minister in 1991, after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, Chandraswamy's ashram became a hub for Delhi's power circles.
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After becoming enchanted by the teachings of Shree Rajneesh, the Indian guru, he spent time at the Rajneesh ashram in Poona, taking the name Pravasi.
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She took me to her ashram (now the Kripalu yoga center in Stockbridge, Mass.) multiple times during the weeks at a time she'd stay there.
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Historians say Nyack popularized yoga, thanks to Pierre Bernard, who ran an ashram-style resort in the early 20th century called the Clarkstown Country Club.
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She said her father left home for an ashram when she was a toddler, and her mother had to raise her and two siblings by herself.
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"The ashram is ending, but the music is now becoming what the spiritual practice is, and I think that's an amazingly timed thing," Mr. Evelev said.
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In pain and confusion, she went to an ashram, emerging from a three-week silent retreat with a determination to practice a different kind of healing.
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And the mantras which vibrated through his childhood on the ashram have carried him into his adult life as a musician living in New York City.
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Combing the nearby forests for hours yielded no sign of an Ashram and no swirling gateways or mysterious portals to whisk us away to captivating new realms.
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"Killing people in the name of 'gau bhakti' is not acceptable," he told a crowd at a Hindu ashram, or place of meditation, referring to cow worship.
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"If the Wi-Fi was [at the ashram] and was better, people might be on it less," Chuck Doebler, a technical writer from State College in Pennsylvania.
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However, Bottolfs said she didn't feel the plunge wasn't a total accident, rather a reminder of trying to balance her life in and out of the ashram.
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The ashram is a cult and its leaders liaisons between Gaitonde's drug trade and the weapons Singh suspects will be used to attack Mumbai in the present.
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The police turned their attention to Sanatan Sanstha immediately after Dr. Dabholkar's killing, searching its ashram and compiling a list of nearly 100 members to be interrogated.
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Most of these disciples claimed in court that they had been psychologically coerced or induced into smuggling drugs out of India by men at the Pune ashram.
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Instead, I boarded a bus at Port Authority and checked myself into an ashram in the Poconos where I lived for six months while writing 'Blossoms and Bones.
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The teenager and her family went to a different state to meet Sirumalani, and spent the night at his ashram — where he raped her as her parents slept.
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But then Ms. Arond slipped away into her kitchen and began ringing chimes to summon her students to the basement stairs leading to her version of an ashram.
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She did put out recordings from the ashram in limited cassette-tape releases — and this new compilation shows what those who never sought them out have been missing.
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Only available at the ashram, and now out of print, the cassettes have long been sought by collectors, selling for as much as $450 apiece on the internet.
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The backstory of Wali Fard, the Moorish Science Ashram Founder, for example, was a mix of Wilson's own biography and that of Nation of Islam founder Wallace D. Fard.
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The album is the first official collection of the recordings Coltrane made at the Vedantic Center, an ashram she founded and ran in the last decades of her life.
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Un ejemplo es el ashram Krishna Kutir, un recinto administrado por el gobierno que tiene unas mil camas y una piscina nueva, así como comida y medicinas sin costo.
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Ashram schools for children from poor tribal areas of India were set up more than two decades ago and are the only option for many living in remote areas.
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Photos from a river cleanup day it hosted a few years ago, as well as other Ganga-related events, line the walls of the ashram and are posted online.
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Members of the grassroots aid organisations Refugee Community Kitchen, Calais Kitchens, and Little Ashram Kitchen, said they have had to distribute supplies from the roadside by the fenced-off compound.
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Kerala is deep in the tropics, where it's so hot and sticky that you feel less like you're in an ashram and more like the mouth of a holy cow.
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" Then again, Joan was urged by her mother, who walked out on the family to join an ashram, to grab "the bird by its wing, letting it help you soar.
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Before the verdict was announced, Mr. Singh drove to the court house, escorted by a convoy of supporters who traveled from his ashram in Sirsa to Panchkula in hundreds of vehicles.
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The secular, mote-filled stillness, the diffuse light and serenity, the feeling of being exposed; all these lend the house something of the character of a shrine or a sanctum — an ashram.
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Mr. Botofasina is the musical director of the first portion of the event, which will take place at sunset and feature a seven-member choir from the ashram, now called Sai Anantam.
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Her great-nephew, Flying Lotus, who grew up attending her Sunday services on the ashram, began to champion her music and bring it into the realms of hip-hop and electronic music.
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" Little Ashram Kitchen said in a statement on Facebook: "The idea that these children are being adequately provided for, simply because they (or at least most of them) have received accommodation, is false.
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Whether blasting hard-pounding techno in Hackney or meditating in an ashram in India, Perry records and samples her varied experiences to create immersive works that dwell between the physical and subconscious worlds.
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CALAIS, France — Somewhere between the Good Chance Theater and the One Spirit Ashram Kitchen sits the School of Arts and Trades, not to mention the Hamid Karzai Restaurant and Arts in the Village.
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Sitting a decade later on the floor at Timothy Leary's ashram in Millbrook, watching fractals bounce off the walls after dropping acid for the first time, he realised the complete connectedness of everything.
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But one of the reasons that albums like this have remained obscure is that they were recorded with a specific pursuit in mind: they were for the ashram, devotional songs for fellow-worshippers.
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Today, many of the original buildings have been demolished, but a few unmarked structures from 1968 still stand, said Anand Srivastava, the Maharishi's nephew, who had helped manage the ashram for many years.
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Down below the ashram, yoga institutes have mushroomed along the Ganges, where visitors from across the world thumb through books by Osho, smear vermilion on their foreheads and shop for chunks of crystal.
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Eckart Floether, a Rajneesh defector, says that he remembers Karuna because it was she, he claims, who tried to dissuade him from leaving the Bhagwan's ashram in Pune (Poona), India, a few years ago.
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Some of the stories are a little ridiculous: John, a retired judge from Arizona, said he opened a book and out fell a postcard of Amma that he'd bought himself while at the ashram.
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Before appearing at the rally, Trump made a stop at the Sabarmati Ashram, the humble home where Mahatma Gandhi lived for a dozen years as he helped push India to gain independence from Britain.
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She said that for many years, there was not an official site for dumping on Parmarth's side of the river, and so the ashram would pack trash up and drive it across the bridge.
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The ashram residents who had such experiences with their practices reported that it was a lot like being on hallucinogens -- as in LSD or psilocybin mushrooms -- but without the feeling of being out of control.
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Eventually, the Egg technology was used to transport the entire Ashram, piece by piece, to a parallel Earth where human life had never developed, leaving behind only a single structure to house the gateway itself.
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Nobody knew exactly what was going on, or where the tale originated from, though most readers also didn't believe there was really an Ashram or a cadre of rogue scientists in the New Jersey woods.
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But disciples at his 100-acre ashram in northern India claim he is in a state of samadhi -- the highest plane of meditation -- and will return to life after the fulfillment of his spiritual mission.
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Consider Gandhi's 24-day march from an ashram near Ahmedabad to the coastal town of Dandi to harvest sea salt in an act of nonviolent resistance against the salt monopoly imposed by India's British colonizers.
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Finally, according to his account, another woman friend of his at the ashram, twenty-eight years old at the time, told him that—again at the Bhagwan's suggestion—she was going to have herself sterilized.
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Organizers were expecting 3,000 people at the ceremony, but more than 70,000 crowded into the ashram of a local Hindu leader on a bank of the Ganges River, a police officer, S. K. Bhagat, said.
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And from 1936 to 1939, Nakashima lived in southern India, where he oversaw construction on one of the first reinforced concrete buildings on the subcontinent, the Golconde Dormitory at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry.
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"Some food items were arranged for the members of the visiting delegation, but neither the U.S. President nor the first lady had anything during their visit to the Ashram," trustee Kartikeya Sarabhai told India Today.
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In her testimony, recorded a few days after she left the ashram, the survivor told the police that Sirumalani had warned her that her family would be in grave danger if she told them what happened.
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The young woman is Nomi, who after growing up as an adopted child in Norway has returned (under cover of a documentary assignment) to look for the ashram where the boat deposited her many years ago.
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A German exchange student they had befriended told the unsuspecting aspiring surfers about a Krishna ashram on a nearby shore, whose devotees were mainly from California and spent most of their free time riding the waves.
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In a 40-page judgment, the court remarked that since no laws existed to make disposal of a body by the state compulsory, no action could be taken against the ashram or its preservation of the body.
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But often children are unable to remember the name of the ashram where they are staying or their parent's telephone number, said police officer Neeraj Pandey, who is in-charge of the security at the Kumbh Mela.
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Uma Prasad Chaturvedi, a spokesman for Nepal's Central Investigation Bureau (CIB), said police began searching the ashram, a type of spiritual monastery, north of the capital, Kathmandu, after getting a tip that a body was buried there.
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But for the most part, people seem to like the ashram because there's always something to do, always someone to shoot the shit with, without having to spend too much time thinking about the weight of life.
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The first half of the event was a rare public performance from the Sai Anantam Ashram Singers, playing some of that music accompanied by a piano-bass-drums trio (the bassist was Reggie Workman, a Coltrane collaborator).
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"Pandey was a person who preferred to live alone, like an isolated person," said Mr. Roy, who added that Mr. Pandey had not received any threats and that the ashram had never had any problems with local residents.
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It's cultish in a way, and there are some fucked up people spending month after month traipsing around the ashram in their dirty white robes wondering what all of this means, but there are fucked up souls everywhere.
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It's one of those places that you really believe a god exists because maybe, just maybe in life, you'll fuck up so bad that there's nowhere for you to go to and that's when you'll remember Amma's ashram.
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Gupta had refused a court order to hand back 215 cattle seized by cow vigilantes and kept them with some 211,250 other cows at a facility next to the ashram where he is the de facto deputy head.
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The 12-day "Gujarat: The Land of Legends, Culture and Crafts" begins in Ahmedabad to see Hindu and Jain temples; the Sabarmati Ashram, where Gandhi once lived; and the Calico Museum of Textiles, whose handiwork spans five centuries.
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And so it was when I ran into a German Buddhist nun in the lower Himalayas who urged me to hop on a plane and fly south to the ashram of Amma—India's hugging saint—I didn't question it.
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JON PARELES This new "World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane" is the first official release to feature the music Alice Coltrane was making at the ashram she founded in 1983 and ran until her death.
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Guilty verdict Asaram was found guilty of sexually assaulting a then 16-year-old follower during a religious ceremony intended to cure her of evil spirits, held at his ashram in Manai village near Jodhpur, on August 15, 2013.
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The NHRC said on Tuesday that at least 740 students from poor tribal areas of Maharashtra state had died in state-run "ashram" schools over the past decade from illnesses such as malaria, food poisoning, drowning and snake bites.
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Successful leaders like Steve Jobs and Richard Branson have openly espoused the importance of these practices in their careers, while Mark Zuckerberg and Jeffrey Skoll have traveled to an ashram in northern India to find their own dose of meaning.
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"No person in this nation has the right to take the law in his or her own hands," he said at the ashram dedicated to the father of the nation and pacifist Mahatma Gandhi, in Modi's home state of Gujarat.
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Sarah T., a body therapist who had been practicing in California, went to the Shree Rajneesh Ashram in Pune in June 1978, after reading some of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh's books and attending workshops at the Pragit Rajneesh Meditation Center in Berkeley.
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We were told that a lot of land was being purchased for the new ashram-commune, and that there would be a place for each and every one of us to be there living permanently within one to two years.
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The two men, accompanied by Netanyahu's wife, Sara, went to Gandhi's ashram on the banks of a river where Netanyahu tried his hand at a spinning wheel, a pastime Gandhi made popular while he was jailed during British colonial rule.
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While virtually all the administrative personnel at the ashram were female, most of the Rajneesh therapy leaders were male; and, according to ex-disciples, sexual exploitation of women in the therapy groups, particularly the so called "Tantra" groups, was rampant.
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Besides servicing male Rajneesh followers sexually both inside and outside the therapy groups in Pune, many female followers also worked part-time as prostitutes in Pune, Bombay, and other Asian cities to raise money to pay their keep at the ashram.
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In her first week at the ashram, she recounts, she plunged into a four-day "breath therapy" group in which participants did "slow, deep, forceful" breathing for hours on end in order to achieve a state of emotional regression and catharsis.
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In Jarmuli, Nomi neither follows up on newspaper articles about a denounced Guruji, nor tries to track a beloved fellow orphan through formal means — she is content to root around for sentimental artifacts in the ruins of the ashram instead.
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Rishikesh Journal RISHIKESH, India — In 1968, the Beatles and a crew of hangers-on traded hip London threads for kurtas and wreaths of marigold, trudging through dense forest to an ashram in Rishikesh, India, where they spent weeks writing songs.
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A few weeks before they were set to depart, Magic Alex, one of the band's business associates, spread rumors that the Maharishi had made sexual advances toward a female student, warning them of "black magic" if they stayed at the ashram.
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Yet here he is, early in Katherine Eban's "Bottle of Lies," barefoot in his Ahmedabad ashram, urging the chemist Khwaja Abdul Hamied (a fellow Indian nationalist) to copy Western drugs as a way to bring affordable medicine to India's masses.
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At the end, the ashram singers came onstage for a joint performance (you knew they would), the horns and voices meeting in a fluid convocation, stitching together two sides of an artist that were never so far removed to begin with.
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The guru, who had denied the charges of raping the two women at his ashram in 2002, was flown by helicopter to a jail in the nearby town of Rohtak because district officials feared they would be overrun by his supporters.
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At a recent yoga class in Rishikesh, India, the professed "world capital of yoga," a startling smattering of sounds bounced against the ashram walls: the chirp of a text message, the "swoosh" of an email sent, the ping of a Facebook update.
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He has also exercised immense personal restraint: When he seriously returned to meditation in 2003 (he grew up on an ashram in Connecticut), he swore off drugs and alcohol, and until he married Kyoko Ito three years later, he was celibate, he says.
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The victim, Nityaranjan Pandey, a volunteer at a Hindu ashram in the district of Pabna, was taking a walk early Friday morning when he was attacked by unknown assailants, said Abdullah Al Hassan, the officer in charge of the Pabna Sadar police station.
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Smith says that her next experience at the Pune ashram, that of floating in a Rajneesh "samadhi" (enlightenment) tank—a lightproof, windproof sensory-deprivation tank filled with heated saltwater and resembling a coffin—was much more disorienting for her than the enlightenment intensive.
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Eventually, the rest of the band agreed to a trip in February 1968 to visit the Maharishi's ashram in Rishikesh, recruiting their wives, girlfriends and an entourage that included Mia Farrow, Donovan and Mike Love of the Beach Boys, among many others.
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Singh, down a finger (the first episode is quick to remind you of this gruesome and painful event), dives back into the investigation, following a trail that points to nuclear weapons, terrorism, and Gaitonde's link to the ashram of one Khanna Guruji (Pankaj Tripathi).
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Smith (who was unable to get a professional teaching or social-work job while wearing the red garb and mala of a sannyasin) worked as a massage therapist for a year in order to raise the money to go to the new ashram in Oregon.
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Slowly, I found a measure of stillness in the daily routine of the ashram, and I suspect that had as much to do with the gradual dissolution of my concepts and labels about myself, as it had to do with the practice on the mat.
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