In 1981, for instance,
weeks after the coup, he wrote and published in WOOF!
(Issue #2; January, 1981): "Dear WOOF!, I love the spiritual
life and the vital life too. What should I do? - Sproutarina
J. Prana
"Dear Sproutarina, Your difficulty is that you are burning the candle
at both ends and sooner or later you are going to melt. I suggest a day
in the desert alone, a good movie, or a powerful occult experience.
You see, Sproutarina, God loves you no matter what you do. If you
want the vital, you can have it, and if you want the psychic you can
have that too. But you can't have both, at least not in our Centre.
Decide which will really fulfill you and choose that one. Only you
can decide what you want in this lifetime."
Rama--who preferred the term "having sex" to "making love"--
occasionally softened his position on sexuality and invited followers
to relax, accept their human nature, and do whatever worked for them.
"Hey, Kate!" he once said in an Italian accent. "You go out with-a
my boy Mark, and I'll take plenty good care a-you!" It was understood
that Rama meant business when he donned his Godfather persona,
and I subsequently enjoyed a several-month relationship with this
young disciple. Yet when I asked Rama if it was possible for a man
and woman to have an emotionally and spiritually supportive relationship,
he smiled, shook his head, and said, "Even if you find a woman
whose consciousness is spiritually refined, it still wouldn't work--
because yours is not.
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