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Half of the novel is a mordant chronicle of the vicissitudes of a pair of well-to-do , spoiled European hippies who , on the basis of a reading of Hermann Hesse , travel through India in search of the Supreme Light ; the other half is the life story of the charismatic old woman , known only as " The Mother , " in whose ashram the couple end up . That was most notable in Lawrence v. Texas , which cited European precedents to sharpen the Supreme Court 's identification of freedom with personal willfulness - - a notion that strips the family and the political community of any thick moral texture . One hundred years before their migration to the U.S ., Catherine the Great of Russia , a former German princess , wanted Europeans , especially Germans , to settle in Russia . Some delegations suggested establishing EU wide events involving young people , and the Commissioner mentioned European Youth Week in December as an opportunity for young people to discuss European issues .