The Orange Robe: My Eighteen Years as a Yogic Nun

After graduating from college, Marsha Low left home to spend eighteen years as an Ananda Marga yogic nun, living in countries throughout the Middle and Far East, Australasia, and Eastern Europe. After undergoing training with the organization, she taught meditation and yoga, opened schools, and performed social work and relief projects.

Often skirting the law to further her organization’s mission and raise money for it, she came face to face with—among other things—gun-toting border guards...