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Ronald Henry Nixon (10 May 1898 – 14 November 1965), later known as Krishna Prem or Krishnaprem, was a British spiritual aspirant who went to India in the early 20th century. Together with his spiritual teacher Yashoda Ma, he founded an ashram at Mirtola, near Almora, India. He was one of the first Europeans to pursue orthodox Vaishnavite Hinduism. Remaining a strict Gaudiya Vaishnavite the rest of his life, he was highly regarded, and had many Indian disciples. (Correction: By all accounts, and especially by the account of his foremost disciple Madhava Ashish, Krishna Prem transcended the dogmas and practices of his early Vaishnava sectarianism and affirmed a universal spiritual path shorn of "orthodoxy" and blind traditionalism.) ==Early life== Ronald Henry Nixon,〔 more commonly called Ronald Nixon, was born in Cheltenham, England, in 1898,〔"Krishna Prem, Sri (1898–1965) Western-born Vaishnavite Guru" in 〕 and educated in Taunton.〔 His mother was a Christian Scientist and his father was reportedly in the glass and china business.〔 At age 18, Nixon became a British fighter pilot in the First World War.〔〔 On one occasion, he experienced an escape from death that he believed was miraculous, in which a "power beyond our ken" saved him from several enemy planes.〔Page 17 in (on page 283, the quote from Nixon is cited to page 54 of Roy's biography, 1975 2nd edition)〕 His experiences of death and destruction during the war filled him with a "sense of futility and meaninglessness".〔 After the war, Nixon enrolled in King's College, Cambridge, where he studied English literature.〔 During this period Nixon also studied philosophy, and became acquainted with Theosophy, Advaita Vedanta Hinduism, Buddhism, and Pali, and developed an interest in going to India to learn more about the practical aspects of Indian religion.〔〔"The Case of Sri Krishna Prem" in 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Krishna Prem」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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