When they have contacted their friends and former colleagues at the Institute, they have been discounted as liars or labeled "emotionally disturbed." Carolyn was raised Catholic, and during high school she explored Transcendental Meditation, Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, and the "Jesus freak" movement. 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. Is it not better to follow someone who has charted the path?". Halfway through their meal, Carolyn remembers, Martha hesitantly said, "I know this will sound like a weird question, but has Swamiji ever asked you to have sex with him?" Quick Links. Shortly after they started studying with Pandit Usharbudh Arya at the Meditation Center in Minneapolis, he introduced them to his guru, Swami Rama. Today HI continues to innovate and offer the world high-impact, revolutionary programs and humanitarian initiatives around the globe. The Himalayan Institute community reaches across the entire globe. At some point, we ran into Swami Rama in a hallway. Himalayan Institute Humanitarian is a 501(c)(3) public charity supporting the educational and charitable projects of the Himalayan Institute. Discover our new online platform for community, courses, and content. That was why he wanted her to be his secretary. He says it is a relationship that goes beyond religions, the purest relationship possible, "the relationship of water flowing from a hill and filling a hollow at the bottom-the hollow has nothing to give in return, but only to accept that grace in gratitude. When the manipulation started to involve her meditation and spiritual practices, she says, she decided to confide in one man who had been at the Institute for a long time and who was planning to leave. She began to believe that this man who might have been spiritual at one time was now suffering from feelings he couldn't control. 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. she remembers him demanding. Early the next morning, she says, he announced to her that she was going to leave; he never set up the promised program. The Himalayan Institute has been and continues to be home to a service-driven community of yogis, volunteers, and faculty-in-residence. In retrospect, Megan says, she believes that Swami Rama was indifferent to the problems that his behavior might cause the Institute, but was using such scandals to purge it of anyone who questioned his authority. Nestled in the rolling hills of the Poconos, our stunning 400-acre campus is a gathering place for seekers from around the globe. Like incest victims, women who say they have been sexually abused by their gurus are sworn to silence by their abusers. Because that's my whole life& My relationship with [Swami Rama] is purely divine and spiritual-there cannot be impurity in it, and there is no room for such thoughts. My initial experience with yoga in the 1990's at the Himalayan Institute of Buffalo led me to making a radical shift in lifestyle and moving to the Institute's educational headquarters in Honesdale, P.A. A leader in the field of yoga, meditation, spirituality, and holistic health, the Himalayan Institute is a non-profit international organization dedicated to serving humanity through educational, spiritual, and humanitarian programs. To my relief, I could detect no flash of recognition, guilt, fear, or anger in Carolyn's eyes. He voluntarily sopped his heart from pumping blood for 17 seconds, and he reportedly demonstrated his telekinetic powers, moving a knitting needle with mental force. And there is a statement, 'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.'" Swami Rama called a meeting to defend himself. I told her what I'd heard, and that I wasn't sure the rumor was true-as a beginning student of yoga and meditation at the Institute's East West Books in New York City, I was reluctant to believe it myself. 7,616 were here. Given a mantra but little guidance, Carolyn dutifully performed her assigned practices, hoping that Swami Rama's "scientific" approach to yoga would eventually yield results. During my weekend visit, Carolyn and I took long walks on the Institute's wooded grounds while talking about her compulsive eating patterns and her disastrous relationships with men suggested as possible husbands by Swami Rama. "I thought: 'Maybe it's the only way he can break through some stubborn barrier in my ego. Still, she felt she had no right to question the guru's actions. Experts and some inside the system say that in justifying its decision, UC perpetuated outdated claims about online learning. She remembers that Swami Rama received love letters from several women; one of two of them even mentioned "your child." It was years more before she felt she had the right to be angry at her spiritual family, the staff and residents of the Institute who, she says, denied the signs of abuse all around them. Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, PhD, is the spiritual head of the Himalayan Institute and the successor of Swami Rama of the Himalayas. Yet she is vulnerable to feeling re-victimized every time her experience is denied or distorted. Here is her report. She says he arranged for her to meet him at the Gramercy Park Hotel and instructed her not to call him Swami in public. But their encounters were exactly the same as before, she says-emotionally impersonal and sexually mechanical. I mean, he's giving you the teachings and you're going to use the teachings to evaluate him? 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. His students believe he is able to read minds and manipulate physical reality with his advanced yogic powers; thus they believe he can heal sickness with the power of the "superconscious" mind. 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. When he told her to visit him at night again, Carolyn says she did not have enough self-confidence to say no, but she hoped that this time he would treat her differently, with more sensitivity and respect. Those who build boundaries around themselves because of their ego problems create suffering for themselves." "If someone is a saint, celibacy would be his normal condition," Dr. Green comments. And she was afraid to leave in her old car because a freezing rainstorm had covered all the roads with ice. Many disciples come from alcoholic and dysfunctional families where they have learned how to deny emotional abuse directed against them or their siblings, in order to believe that their parents really love them and are acting in their best interests. 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. A world leader in yoga, meditation, and holistic health, the Himalayan Institute is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving humanity through educational, spiritual, and humanitarian programs. They wrote letters to Pandit Usharbudh Arya, their teacher and head of the Meditation Center there, as well as a dozen other people, warning that Swami Rama was a fraud. Our endeavors are distinguished by their living connection to an ancient wisdom tradition of the Himalayan Masters, expressed through a unique offering of online and in-person mission programs. Several former students of Swami Rama granted interviews to Patricia Ann Darling, Ph. Years later, Rose contacted Patricia Trescelli, hoping to support a lawsuit by other women working with Trescelli and hoping to press charges against Swami Rama in her own sexual assault. 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. Since its inception in 1971, the Himalayan Institute has been at the leading edge of personal and social transformation. Allegations of such abuse have been made against modern yoga gurus such as Bikram . 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. But sexual contact between a guru and his disciples is not regulated by any professional association of religious hierarchy. Finally I found an opportunity to broach the topic of the lawsuit with Carolyn. See the article in its original context from. The core of HIs service mission relies on a community of volunteers and karma yogis, and the generosity of its members and donors to fulfill its mission. He said, "We must build a center of life which will be an important bridge between East . "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. Spiritual head of the Himalayan Institute, Pandit Tigunait is the successor of Swami Rama of the Himalayas. No one had thoroughly investigated, until journalist Katharine Webster decided to spend two years researching their allegations. Our various programms address all aspects of a meditator's life because all of life has an effect on meditation. She was feeling so disgusted with her body and afraid of the guru's humiliating comments that one night she couldn't face going to his room, she says. Residents staff the Institute's administration, bookstores, and other small businesses, including Himalayan Publishers and Distributors and an elementary school. Carolyn is not alone. There she learned Swami Rama's style of "super-conscious" meditation, which she describes as a basic, impersonal training in mental concentration. Go to Top. Long-term residents must get administration approval for any overnight absences; permission may be denied if their destination is judged inappropriate. 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. 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. 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. And that did not undermine Mahatma Gandhi's work!& No, this would not be shattering, certainly not. The man, she says, informed her of Swami Rama's long history of alleged sexual misconduct. Ultimately, the woman had revealed the liaison to her husband. He backed off, Megan says, while telling her that sex wasn't necessary-she could be his special student. Similarly, gurus in the Buddhist and Hindu traditions are supposed to be examples of self-mastery and right living. 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. Our Honesdale campus continues to be home to a service-driven community of yogis, volunteers, and faculty-in-residence. Terry* and Brian* say they were recruited into the Himalayan Institute's inner circle for their wealth and social connections. "Nirvana is one," Carolyn says she told him. During this spiel, she says, he put his hand on her buttocks, but she told him she wasn't buying it. kono oto tomare main character; best supported football clubs in europe; rolling ridge conference center Through her sympathy for what appeared to be his plight, and disarmed by his jokes, she says she allowed him to cajole her until she let her defenses down. Back; Cameroon; India; Mexico; Tibetan Settlements; Get Involved. At the meeting, Brian says, Dr. Ballentine presented letters from another woman, Karen,* who also claimed to have been sexually exploited by Swami Rama. She began talking about Swami Rama's exploitative behavior with anyone who would listen, especially women who she thought were being victimized. At the same time, she says, he offered her money and told her he wanted to put her in his will. Two women wrote statements, which said they had discovered that Swami Rama was attempting to "seduce" both of them contemporaneously. Such a relationship, instead of giving the woman the healing or validation she seeks, reinforces her feeling that the only thing of value she has to offer a man with worldly power is her body. Live online programs, on-demand courses, and hundreds of yoga and meditation classes. Swami Rama is held by his disciples to be a kind of god: He makes up the rules of the game, he can change them at will, and he cannot be judged by them. But Swami Rama's disciples do not hold him to these standards. Put that letter in the 'goofy file.'" At that, she says, he raged at her until she was sobbing, unable to speak a word in her own defense: No! She became paralyzed by her fear of angering him. The Institute's "scientific" approach to yoga has made it a success, attracting long-term spiritual disciples as well as large numbers of people who merely want a boost for their psychological or physical well being. Cons Not one that I can see. Most of the former members of the Institute who agreed to be interviewed for this article were also afraid to have their identities revealed; they appear under pseudonyms, marked with an asterisk. Karen and George say their friends told them that the woman had been pressured to have sex with Swami Rama even after their marriage, which the guru had arranged. "Unpurified ego is an evil which obstructs one's own progress. 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. A few weeks later she moved to Honesdale. "Even if I found out-how can I find out? Himalayan Institute Online Our new online platform for community, courses, and content. And that was the first time I realized what all that stuff meant-the other women, the 'goofy' file, and the rumors about the lawsuit. When he was finished, Rose told them, Swami Rama left her room, saying he's be back the next day. The Combined Therapy program and the outpatient branches of the Institute for Holistic Medicine combine Western medicine, homeopathy, Eastern medicine, psychotherapy, nutrition, yoga, and meditation to treat people with a variety of physical and emotional problems. -- Swami Rama, "Living With the Himalayan Masters". Carolyn says she spent years blaming herself and trying to rationalize away what she now regards as sexual abuse. In the mid-1970s, she and her husband George,* both students of Swami Rama, traveled to India and stayed at the guru's ashram in Rishikesh. Trained to meditate and educated in the scriptures from early childhood, he was able to translate and interpret any of the 20,000 verses from the Vedas by the age of 13, according to a biographical pamphlet put out by the Meditation Center. The Himalayan Institute is a good a good model on how to do a resort perfect. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. I just don't know that it makes sense to go run around trying to evaluate other people, when you haven't evaluated yourself.". A world leader in the field of yoga, meditation, spirituality, and holistic health, the Himalayan Institute is a non-profit international organization dedicated to serving humanity through educational, spiritual, and humanitarian programs. Ayurvedic treatments, massage therapy, chiropractic care, and integrative health services at PureRejuv Wellness Center. Wisdom must show itself in action and lovingness." At bottom, however, she believed her feelings didn't matter. When Carolyn had to work, I attended classes in Hatha yoga or read. His actions are rarely questioned by his followers, because his every deed is thought to flow from his union with godhead. When Swami Rama returned from India two months later, Carolyn resumed working as his appointments secretary during the day, and, she says, as his sexual servant on some nights. She was dreamy! She walked around New York City for hours, until it was time for her bus to return to Honesdale. Dr. Ballentine says it is "presumptuous" to judge whether or not someone is perfected. After he had, as she describes it, "had sex on my body," she took a blanket into the other room and slept on the floor. Despite this, our rural empowerment programs continue to thrive and grow as we work towards our goal of fighting poverty, illiteracy, and inequality through education, health care, and job creation. He must also vow that he will not harm any living being. The Swami Rama died in 1996 at the age of 69. Nor does Dr. Ballentine mention that in 1977 Nuernberger was formally reprimanded by the Minnesota Board of Psychology for unethical practices stemming from his relationship with a third woman patient. Swami Rama is supposed to have freed himself from the bonds of karma. ", Why would the women want to blackmail Swami Rama? Mission Membership is an invitation to put your spiritual values into action by supporting our shared commitment to service while deepening your study and practice in the living Himalayan Tradition. Carolyn says the "goofy" letters never got answered. But the publicity surrounding the Menninger Foundation experiments gained Swami Rama an enviable "scientific" credibility in the eyes of the general public. Mission Membership is an invitation to put your spiritual values into action by supporting our shared commitment to service while deepening your study and practice in the living Himalayan Tradition. 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. He says that Nuernberger's one mistake has "ruined his life, in essence, which is really too bad.". "By their fruits you shall know them," he says, paraphrasing the Bible. But ultimately he chose to believe Swami Rama. How could she be the only one who realized what was going on? she wondered. The Institute also offers instruction to counselors and psychotherapists in the application of yoga and meditation techniques to therapy. To judge by their price tags, these and other Institute programs must bring in a considerable income. 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). They enjoy spending their free time adventuring, camping, exploring, and creating memories together. But she says his attitude toward her underwent a dramatic change; he began to make her a target for his anger, issuing contradictory orders and then screaming at her for her incompetence in front of the other secretaries and disciples and gossiping about her behind her back. But to accept a tuition-free second year, or even to leave the Institute quietly, Megan says, would have meant giving tacit approval to the continuing exploitation. As an enlightened being, he is thought to be beyond the judgment of ordinary mortals, their laws and morality. Soon Carolyn noticed she wasn't the only woman being favored by the guru; he was also paying attention to Megan and Nirvana. As the couple started making arrangements to move to England, they received another blow. 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. At the same time, she felt anxious, because she'd seen how severe Swami Rama could be with those closest to him. "Believing such stories means disbelieving in myself. Teaching since 1971, the Himalayan Institute offers a wide variety of wellness supplies. He is also supposed to have graduated from a homeopathic medical school in India, and studied at Hamburg University, the University of Utrecht, and Oxford University. Our community is held together by dedicated students of the Himalayan Tradition, who value the principles of universal respect and collective responsibility. The annual congress, held each June, offers a smorgasbord of lectures and "new age" workshops. After she had lived in Honesdale for a year, Swami Rama started promising to make her his appointments secretary. Two months after Swami Rama left for India, Carolyn went to Chicago to visit her family for Christmas. 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 March/April 1990 issue of Yoga Journal. toshiba tv screen goes black after a few minutes. Instead they deny the experience of the "unenlightened" women who are the guru's victims. Meanwhile, Swami Rama had appointed her as registrar of the graduate program, replacing a long-time woman disciple who was being kicked out of the Institute for no apparent reason. A guru has the wisdom of experience and the ancient teachings, so he can provide guidance, Dr. Ballantine says, but students should "judge every [practice] on the basis of your own experience." 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. Years later, Carolyn told me that four years of discipleship under Swami Rama had taught her to be a successful liar. The Greens' experiments caused a furor in the scientific community because they gave powerful support to autogenic biofeedback research, which 10 years earlier had begun demonstrating that body functions which had formerly been considered involuntary could be controlled. 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. Born in Northern India, he was raised from early childhood by the Himalayan sage, Bengali Baba. Irwin Schneider, the lawyer for the Himalayan Institute, conceded that it was morally wrong for the Swami Rama to have sex with the woman from North Carolina, a 19-year-old student at the time. A world leader in yoga, meditation, and holistic health, we are dedicated to serving humanity through educational, spiritual, and humanitarian programs. Explore our integrative health services & therapeutic treatments to help restore your natural state of well-being. Himalayan Institute Online. We are happy to bring you a combination of Zoom, In-person, and Hybrid options. She could not control her emotions, he could not talk to her! Enrich your practice through the wisdom of the Himalayan Tradition, found in our online community and digital library, with new content added every week. The Institute also offers a dizzying array of education programs, including a diploma program for hatha yoga teachers. Fortified by their mutual discovery, Karen says, the two couples undertook to inform their fellow students back home in Minneapolis. Together we ate superb vegetarian meals in the Institute's dining commons and chanted evening prayers. By 1977, the Institute was able to purchase the Honesdale ashram, a former Catholic seminary in the rural Pocono Mountains, which now houses more than 100 residents and guests. Before leaving, Megan says, she tried to confront Swami Rama publicly-but he went into seclusion, claiming illness. The institute has branches in the United States, Europe, and India. Rajmani explains the basic goals of the Institute's tradition of yoga: "The most important part of the practice is nonattachment." There he founded the Meditation Center. The jury awarded $275,000 in compensatory damages and $1.6 million in punitive damages to the woman. A report has been made to law enforcement, and I'm guessing . TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. He promised her he'd set up a complete, personalized yoga program for her there-a prescribed diet, special yoga postures and meditation practices-as well as a game plan for her higher education and future career. The Himalayan Institute and its varied activities and programs exemplify the spiritual heritage of mankind that unites East and West, spirituality and science, ancient wisdom and modern technology. The basic goals of the Himalayas himalayan institute scandal realized what was going on former students the! 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