It was many decades later that his devotees built a small ashram for him to live. |
The five-day-long 2003 ceremony was in fact a festival in which all the pompousness and luxurious attitude of the ashram was reflected. |
The trip to the ashram opens a new world of religious amity and brotherhood before the children. |
Family men, in turns, carried the bier in procession from the ashram to the waiting van for the 20-mile drive to the crematorium in the town. |
Once, during my 11th year of living at the ashram, a Hindu-style spiritual retreat, I actually experienced that transcendental state. |
Having children meant leaving the ashram, being exiled from my spiritual paradise. |