Mae West Cured by Deva Ram Sukul

During the 1920s, Mae West, in great turmoil over the lawsuits that dogged her, was getting stomach aches that interfered with her parformances in "Diamond Lil." To remedy the sharp pains in her side, Mae's attorney-manager James A. Timony introduced a Yogi healer to her: Sri Deva Ram Sukul, President + Director of the Yoga Institute of America. Mae West credits "my Yogi friend Sri Deva Sukul" with helping her guide the course of her life in the book Mae West on Sex, Health, and ESP.
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According to an account written by Jill Watts [Mae West: An Icon in Black and White, page 115] as well as other authors, Timony introduced Deva Ram Sukul to Mae while the show was on tour in Chicago.
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During the late 1920s, while she was in Chicago, Mae's pain grew worse and more frequent, occasionally forcing showtime delays or longer intermissions. Another physical and some X-rays showed nothing unusual. However, the attacks grew so miserable and frequent that exploratory surgery was looming.
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Hoping to keep Mae working, Timony arranged for treatments from Sri Deva Ram Sukul, a healer and president of the Yoga Institute for America. The Sri arrived at Mae's hotel room and, after questioning her, held her hands and prayed in Hindi. He then had her stand up and pressed his hands against her stomach for several minutes. He declared her cured and departed. From that moment on, Mae insisted, the pains disappeared.
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By the late 1940's, Sri Deva Ram Sukul, president and director of the Yoga Institute of America came into the lives of others due to several books he had written and published, which had helped to make him a major influence. He lectured to students on his special topic: the Raja Yoga System of Self Culture. According to a former student, the mantra that people were given by him was the "Gayatri." This is the very sacred Vedic Mantra which is full of the secrets of yoga.
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Sri Deva Ram Sukul [she recalled] taught that the highest goal of life is spiritual realization and conscious communion with the forces and powers that are Divine. According to this woman who studied with him, "This conscious communion and awareness of Divinity is what yoga is all about. In his teaching he used color meditation on the chakras, and shabda or sound principles. . . ."
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- - books written and published by Deva Ram Sukul - -
Yoga and self-culture: Higher laws of spiritual dynamics including outline of philosophy of the Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, and the six systems of Hindu philosophy / by Deva Ram Sukul
Publisher: Yoga Institute of America (1947); 206 pages
ASIN: B0007I93W6
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India and Tibet: Pilgrimage lessons
by Deva Ram Sukul
Publisher: Yoga Institute of America (1941)
ASIN: B0007FAI2S
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Yoga navajivan: (path to new life and divine realization) : introduction to raja yoga system of self-culture /cas taught by Deva Ram Sukul
by Deva Ram Sukul
Publisher: Yoga Institute of America; 6th rev. ed edition (1947); 42 pages
ASIN: B0007I0460
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