Rising Ground, a nonprofit with roots in the early 19th century, now houses statues of its founders that used to be on a campus in Yonkers, N.Y. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Friday.

It is absolutely impossible for me now. The members of the Kinnar Akhara represent the Ardhanarishvara form of Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati. Becoming a Mahamandaleshwar of such an Akhara is like ...