Bodhi Beautiful Nine Books Delhi I thank Kumari Saroj Deshpande

I thank Kumari Saroj Deshpande for neatly preparing the typescript of the translation

and went with yogi instead of the more correct yogin

Alper was Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Southern Methodist University from 1974 to 1987

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of the abundance of its form and look which overpower the naive mind of the sensuous or the materialistic

Bodhi Beautiful Nine Books Delhi I thank Kumari Saroj DeshpandeI was raised a Christian but couldn't stay with it. I liked women too much to prefer a Father God and worshipped Nature before anyone told me it was idolatry. I was frightened by Christianity's violent history and turned off by fundamentalists who can't wait for the Christ of Revelations to come back, taking names and kicking butt. So I joined the New Age Movement, attracted by its gentleness, openness, and lack of coercion. Eventually, I got hungry