| Daily prayer meetings were held in the ashram with the singing of devotional songs and readings from the Gita. |
| The permanent residents of the ashram included a couple of rich Marwari widows. |
| Having children meant leaving the ashram, being exiled from my spiritual paradise. |
| 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. |
| It was many decades later that his devotees built a small ashram for him to live. |
| And, ironically, I found the ashram far more Indian than most of the Hindu ashrams I visited, which were overwhelmed with foreigners. |
