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 in Cyprus, the Russian KGB, and misunderstanding and rejection as a

female spiritual teacher in the Middle East. In India, she faced harassment

from government officials intent upon hunting down foreign members of her

blacklisted organization.

In The Orange Robe: My Eighteen Years as a Yogic Nun, the author also relates

incidents from her family life growing up, her dreams, and the issues that she

had to deal with upon returning to ordinary life. From her first encounter with

the group to her eventual disillusionment with it and the reconciliation with

her family,The Orange Robe chronicles the dangers, triumphs, misadventures,

and heartaches she experienced on her journey. It also provides a unique

window into the behavior and psychology of Ananda Marga and its founder,

Shrii Shrii Anandamurti.

The Orange Robe (Back Cover)