Hillside Strangers  Trabuco Canyon monks brace for major changes
to their quiet lives  Sri Ramakrishna's best-known disciple and
the guy depicted in the sculpture in Trabuco Canyon, Swami
Vivekananda, brought the philosophy of Vedanta to the West,
establishing Vedanta Societies across the U.S. The local
Ramakrishna monastery is part of the nonprofit Vedanta Society
of Southern California. Two of the five men living in Trabuco
are monks of the Ramakrishna Order of India.  Followers of Sri
Ramakrishna believe that all religions are true because they all
lead to the same truth: the transcendence of God. The monks are
here essentially because they want to cut to the chase, to strip
away everything worldly so they may concentrate solely on the
ultimate truth.  That's what brought 46-year-old Divine here a
year ago.  "I'm a lay brother," he says. "To be honest, there
are not a lot of younger monks, so they take in dregs like
myself to rake the leaves and tend to the garden."  Before
coming here, Divine says, he liv