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Who Itiqtessos Hoist silken thighs,
BY MAC LEOD ROSS. •
It was 1930 when Yeats
Brown' published "The Lives of a
Bengal Lancer". Towards the
'end of this fascinating : book he
glifes an account .of Yoga, or
self -realisation; not a religion in
itself but rather the hand maiden
Of religion. '
Every now and then, as you
Circulate a they say in France,
you run into devotees of some
eastern cult .and each time you
become aware of the
superficiality of their interest in
• your conversation. It is as
though they dare not ,deviate
from their own particular
fixation, since otherwise they
might lose the tenuous thread.
They . do not dare to remove
their one-track minds from their
obsession.
• In 1930 it seemed quite
normal to meet in the Hotel des
Wagons Lits in Peking as
assorted ` party of Canadians
about too set off on' a safari, the
sole purpose of which was to
' seek out and congratulate. the
Dashi Lama of Tibet. None of
them quite knew where he was
hiding, but" that weakness in
their plan served merely as a
greater incentive.
There was the inevitable -old
lady, ,or shall we .gallantly say;,,
elderly lady, full of money, full
of physical disabilities which
made the contemplation of such
a trek for her preposterous; over
roadless wastes; over mountain
;..passes, where even the mules, or
yaks, have their nostrils, slit to
enable them to, • obtain a
sufficiency of oxygen.
Would they ,nae,., to 'search
Tibet? Would they follow 'him to
China? -Nobody knew. For the
nonce they were all drugged by
the making of arrangements for
the trip.
There was the 30 -hundred-
weight truck, which the man •of
the- party, with three women
hanging on to his coat tails, was
fitting out with some of the
most bizarre gadgets you can
imagine. His wife had little to
say, while the "novice", the
young girl, daughter of a friend
of my mother's, was sacrificing
her life to dance attendance on
the elderly matriarch. I suppose
it was always thus! There must
be tremendous satisfaction, to
those who can afford it, to
influence their cheelaa, their
disciples, who, in turn become
followers of the Guru, so that
when' - the party eventually
returns to normality — alias the
small world they have created
around themselves —.they have
achieved a satisfaction which
human nature adores; they have
become Tritons -among the
minnows. .
There is no truer criticism of •
human nature than the saying:
"A prophet is not without
honour. _.. save in _... his own
country", for these • same
disciples of the Lama would
never have been so moved had
he not been an, incomprehensible
native of another culture. Why is
the Anglo-Saxon always more
ready , to believe the 'foreigner
than: one of his own
countrymen?
I recall that I was asked to
inspect ;the truck and give an
"expert" Opinion as to whether
it contained the essentials to
ensure survival "between. Peking
and heaven knows where. At the,
time it seemed 'a forlorn a hope
and there was small reason to
expect the return of any of the
party, but they did, or so I was
informed months later. Received
a royal welcome from the Dashi
Lama .and came back laden with
squares of silk, a number of
ruined , film exposures and a
feeling of elation for which' there
was no unit of measurement.
Ten' years later, in Kalimpong,
I was living with a man who had
been British Trade Agent at
Gyantse and Yatung in Tibet for
16 years. In 1909 he saved the
13th Dalai Lama from the
Chinese, whose intention was to
assassinate him, and so that
there may be no misunderstand-
ing as to whom this refers, his
name was Mgawang Lobsang
Thubten Gyatsho. Such vital
service ensured Macdonald th-
Lama's friendship for all time
and as a result he accumulated a
collection of the trivia ' of a
Lama, for which any museum
would give lakhs of rupees.
.. David Macdonald showed me
',all these; missives onarehment,
tied with green and saffron
ribbons. Yet theiir content was
So homely. Invitations to tea and'
similar trivialities, which led`
Macdonald into the unruffled
serenity of a Lama's private life,
far removed from the "To be or
not tb be" inscribed beneath
each question on which His
Holiness' opinion, or decision,
was sought. '
The subscribed dot of bright
blue ink with which he signified
"To ,be" or "Not to be" was
forgotten ' when the Lama and
Macdonald conversed and the
former stood on to ceremony. It
was thus that David Macdonald
learned many_ things, yet because
his knowledge of the languages
of Tibet, its customs and
protocol, its 'politics and
intrigues, its facade and its
verities, because all these had
been known to Macdonald since
childhood, he Was able to retain
Youngsters visit dentist
Handle thumbsucking!
In almost all infants,
thumbsucking is a normal
pastime. This pleasurable -
sucking 'occurs at bedtime, or
when the child is bored or upset.
A certain ^ amount of
thumbsucking. is normal in
pre-school children -as well.
Generally if , thumbsucking
continues beyond the age of
five,, it becomes a problem and
requires attention. The habit is
probably fulfilling an emotional
need and it is usually better to
try to. relieve the basic problem
-than to draw attention to the
habit.
A mechanical restraint to
prevent ,; thumbsucking .only
causes frustration and aggravates
rather than improves the
situation. However, if the
thumbsucking habit, is . not
checked, real damage. to --the
developing arch and teeth can
result.
When the child .is old enough
to co-operate and has a genuine
desire 'to stop;thumbsucking,'but
cannot do it alone, there are
certain devices which may help
him. These include mittens or
thumb guards, . bitter -tasting
medication* painted on the
thumb and oral reminders such
as rakes and cribs. .
These appliances can be
successful.. only when the child
wants to stop , and, the
thumbsucking habit is just that,
not a fulfillment of an emotional
need.
There are both fixed and
removable cribs available. Thee
choice and design of these
depend on the dentist's own •
preference and on the degree of
reminder necessary.
Generally, the correction of
thumbsucking must be'
individual, depending on the
particular child. No fixed rules
-'can be applied to all children.
Sometime between the ages
of two and three years, a child
should mak a his first visit to the
dentist; It is vital that this visit'
should be a pleasant experience,
for it will influence his attitude
toward dental .care for the rest
of his life.
He. should become familiar
with the dentist, his office and
equipment without fear. Parents
should not talk about pain, ' but
casually ,concentrate on the
beneficial results to health and
appearance. A child should,,be.
;taught to 'consider the dentist a
'friend, not a boogy-man or an
instrument of punishment.
Tell the child what is to take
place, but don't over -emphasize,
which can arouse fear or
suspicion. Do not deceive the
child. Don't tell him he's going
to visit Grandma, 'only to have
him wind up wailing in the
dentist's chair.
Most' dentists prefer to see
Children in early morning when
they are wide awake. Youngsters
co-operate better when they are
not tired. It is also the- time
when dentists are not too busy
and more time can be spent with
them. -
If the . dentist should invite
you in the operating room, stay
in the background. Don't
instruct your child. The dentist
knows what he wants and two
voices are confusing. If the child
beco'ines upset, the" dentist may
ask ,,you to leave. If so, don't
worry, children calm down more
readily '?when parents are not
around.
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Ont'
that impartiality which reflected
understanding, yet never became
,an obpession: David was the
remkarkhble product of the
conjunction of ' two hill
countries. His , fatker was a
Highlander, ''his.. mother a
Gurkha. Mentally -he was British.
Physically he was a Gurkha.
•
All these recollections stole
back when I read a report that
His Supreme Highness' Shift
Yogiji Maharaj had "slipped
into" Heathrow airport,
London, England; not as you,
would' expect, - On a priceless
Bokhara carpet, but op a prosaic
D.C.-8. He had come to set up a
temple for his 50,000 British
followers. [And do not think the
majority are his own
countrymen.] He is no 'rely io ,,
to the Beatles' Marharishi, for
while the latter lived it up at the
Hilton, while proffering
salvation in easy if expensive
doses, the Maharaj has been
unobtrusively tucked away in, a
semi-detached in Willesden.
The advertised precepts of the
Maharaj are austerity, asceticism,
and; of course, celibacy. What
might be referred to as "all the
normal equipment ' of the
hair -shirt brigade," in fact there
was that query in the `Times'
agony column: "Does anyone in
' this country -wear a hair shirt? If
so where did he get it?"
In less time than it takes td
carry one of your -own letters to .-
Toronto, a reply was published.
�1 b
"A Carthusian monk - once
told me they were only worn as
penance;:that they were made of "
goat's hair and felt like the devil
on your back. I think they came
' from Spain. Being a --weaver
myself, I .would willingly weave .
some sample pieces of hair fabric
and iyou could then select" orae
with the devilishness appropriate
to the particular` ,sin you
presumably wish to expiate".
But to return to the -Maharaj,
whom we left reclining in silent
prayer in the first-class
compartment of the DC -8.
As you can well understand
from what has ' gone before, the
goad of stewardesses in . their
mini -skirts, flaunting silken
thighs was not for the Maharaj.
Not . only was a steward
demanded and obtained, but the
carpet in, the . first-class
compartment, upon which
female , feet had presumably
walked, required that the'
Maharaj, fast, for 24 hours.
Maharaj dare not look
Not so ' his eighty ,strong celibacy of a the priesthood, he
entourage however. Perhaps its -says his "own faith has no
should be expalined that the experience or the proolem;
hard and stony road to the . something on which we must
Maharaj's faith is such that he Offer' our congratulations.
and his hundred saints are. Moreover discipline had been
forbidden to see, hear, think, - maintained in his cult for .two
even dream about women.
A. graduate cheela explained:
"An accidental glance Is OK, but
an intentional look " as you
follow her up the .landing ramp
is 'absolutely forbidden". And
rightly so too, as I know all
readers of the `Signal. Star' will
agree,
"The Maharaj is above
temptation," explained one of
his very considerable entourage,
"but for the sake of his young
Saints he does not dally with, the
temptations". He is eighty, yet
save for a few aches and rains,
he is remarkably fit. F1 lifetime
of meditation and l: ;yer has
given him. a high..- aegree of
worldly detachment.
As another follower put it
more poetically: "He is like a
lotus flower. He lives in the
waters, but is untouched by
them". He has never experienced
a moment of anxiety or doubt.
He is ever joyful. Referring . to
the controversy in the Roman
Catholic Church concerning the
. r
hundred years. Not averse to
publicity., so long as it is for -his
own cause, he:forbids .movies
'and TV and hardly ever reads a
•newspaper. He might glance at
the Classified Ada inthe `Signal
Star', but never at the, `Star'.
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Interest at the rate of 12% pier annum added to
overdue installments.
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