Om of Smith College
Anthropology and the Hundred Rupee Note
Om was a graduate of Smith College in anthropology who went to India to 'study the natives' and stayed to learn at their feet. She became a sannyasi, a celibate monk who renounces all possessions and all desire-motivated actions. She said that when she was in need she would find that Baba had materialized a 100 rupee note for her in the middle of the road she was walking along.. or that He had caused someone to hand her a meal ticket. It cost $1 a day to live at Baba's ashram in 1980. It is probably a little more now. He subsidizes the costs so that the poorest of the poor may afford to be there.
Baba's pet name for Om was Hysteria. Her everflowing humor lifts everyone who knows her.
Om was a graduate of Smith College in anthropology who went to India to 'study the natives' and stayed to learn at their feet. She became a sannyasi, a celibate monk who renounces all possessions and all desire-motivated actions. She said that when she was in need she would find that Baba had materialized a 100 rupee note for her in the middle of the road she was walking along.. or that He had caused someone to hand her a meal ticket. It cost $1 a day to live at Baba's ashram in 1980. It is probably a little more now. He subsidizes the costs so that the poorest of the poor may afford to be there.
Baba's pet name for Om was Hysteria. Her everflowing humor lifts everyone who knows her.
posted by Ahimsa Network at 19.7.05
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