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and now, for something completely different! Enjoy!

 

Gordon

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>> "Michael J. Davis" <tatsujin

>>

>> What the hell...it's Friday!

>>

>> ===============

>>

>> LHASA, TIBET-Employing the brash style that first brought him to

>> prominence, SriDhananjai Bikram won the fifth annual International Yogi

>> Competition yesterday with a world-record point total of 873.6.

>>

>> "I am the serenest!" Bikram shouted to the estimated crowd of 20,000

>> yoga fans, vigorously pumping his fists. "No one is serener than Sri

>> Dhananjai Bikram-I am the greatest monk of all time!"

>>

>> Bikram averaged 1.89 breaths a minute during the two-hour

competition,

>> nearly .3 fewer than his nearest competitor, second-place finisher and

>> two-time champion Sri Salil "The Hammer" Gupta.

>>

>> The heavily favored Gupta was upset after the loss. "I should be able

>> to beat that guy with one lung tied," Gupta said. "I'm beside myself

>> right now, and I don't mean trans-bodily."

>>

>> Bikram got off to a fast start at the Lhasa meet, which like most

major

>> competitions, is a six-event affair. In the first event, he attained

total

>> consciousness (TC) in just 2 minutes, 34 seconds, and set the tone for

the

>> rest of the meet by repeatedly shouting, "I'm blissful! You blissful?!

I'm

>> blissful!" to the other yogis.

>>

>> Bikram, 33, burst onto the international yoga scene with a

gold-mandala

>> performance at the 1994 Bhutan Invitational. At that competition he

>> premiered his aggressive style, at one point in the flexibility event

>> sticking his middle toes out at the other yogis. While no prohibition

exists

>> against such behavior, according to Yoga League Commissioner Swami

>> Prabhupada, such behavior is generally considered "unBuddhalike."

>>

>> "I don't care what the critics say," Bikram said. "Sri Bikram is just

>> gonna go out there and do Sri Bikram's own yoga thing."

>>

>> Before the Bhutan meet, Bikram had never placed better than fourth.

>> Many said he had forsaken rigorous training for the celebrity status

>> accorded by his Bhutan win, endorsing Nike's new line of prayer mats and

>> supposedly dating the Hindu goddess Shakti. But his performance this week

>> will regain for him the number one computer ranking and earn him new

>> respect, as well as for his coach Mahananda Vasti, the controversial guru

>> some have called Bikram's "guru."

>>

>> "My special training diet for Bikram of one super-charged,

carbo-loaded

>> grain of rice per day was essential to his win," Vasti said.

>>

>> The defeated Gupta denied that Bikram's taunting was a factor in his

>> inability to attain TC. "I just wasn't myself today," Gupta commented.

>> "I wasn't any self today. I was an egoless particle of the universal

>> no-soul."

>>

>> In the second event, flexibility, Bikram maintained the lead by

>> supporting himself on his index fingers for the entire 15 minutes while

>> touching the back of his skull to his lower spine. The feat was matched

by

>> Gupta, who first used the position at the 1990 Tokyo Zen-Off.

>>

>> "That's my meditative position of spiritual ecstasy, not his,"

remarked

>> Gupta. "He stole my thunder."

>>

>> Bikram denied the charge, saying, "Gupta's been talking like that

ever

>> since he was a 3rd century Egyptian slave-owner."

>>

>> Nevertheless, a strong showing by Gupta in the third event, the

shotput,

>> placed him within a lotus petal of the lead at the competition's halfway

>> point.

>>

>> But event number four, the contemplation of unanswerable riddles

known

>> as koans, proved the key to victory for Bikram.

>>

>> The koan had long been thought the weak point of his spiritual

arsenal,

>> but his response to today's riddle-"Show me the face you had before you

were

>> born"-was reportedly "extremely illuminative," according to Commissioner

>> Prabhupada.

>>

>> While koan answers are kept secret from the public for fear of

exposing

>> the uninitiated multitudes to the terror of universal truth, insiders

claim

>> his answer had Prabhupada and the two other judges "highly enlightened."

>>

>> With the event victory, Bikram built himself a nearly insurmountable

>> lead, one he sustained through the yak-milk churn and breathing events to

>> come away with the upset victory.

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