Oh boy, the need of adoring special people seems to be a deep wish in human souls and has a long history.
Because aroration of political figures had become obsolete in late 20th century (at least in the West), and because the need of adoration was still vivid in humand, spiritualism had become a proper surrogate: spiritual masters and figures became objects of adoration.
But what does an enlightened master in his spare time? I had this question very early in my mind and often asked certain people. Funny enough, some really replied, that enlightened master have no spare time. Well, for a short entertainment and a little break, listen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOmjjAfUAwU
After that amusing piece I would like to come back to the question: what do enlightened master in there spere time? Or when they are alone?
# Do they play with their genitals?
# Do they secretly drink or eat special foods?
# Are they addicted to something?
# Do they have weaknesses that drive relatives crazy?
# Do they have sceletons in the coset?
# Do they also suffer once in a while under human conditions?
Over many years I have made many researches on "holy people", and it was very fascinating. I found the whole range of human weaknesses and failures: from pride, faking, lying to sexual affairs and paedophilia. Here is a short list:
- Ramakrishna, whose worship of the Divine Mother did not exclude comparable ritual veneration for his own penis, or an equal interest in fondling the genitals of his male followers
- The brothel-visiting Vivekananda, Ramakrishna’s chief disciple, who first brought yoga to America via the 1893 World’s Fair, and thus paved the way into the West for all following Eastern teachers
- Jiddu Krishnamurti, the Theosophical Society’s eagerly anticipated “World Teacher,” who later broke from that organization, fully repudiating it, and then embarked on a quarter-century affair with a woman whom he believed to be the reincarnation of his late mother
- Japanese Zen masters and scholars, whose support of the use of Zen principles in the training of the Japanese military during times of war, and reported physical abuse of disciples in times of peace, will give us serious pause
- Satchidananda, the “Woodstock Swami,” who repudiated drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, but reportedly retained a fondness for sex with his female disciples
- The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, famed for his involvement with the Beatles, his alleged failed attempt at seducing Mia Farrow, and his efforts at teaching the “real magic” of levitation to the late magician Doug Henning, among others
- Swami Rama, renowned for his purported demonstration of parapsychological abilities under Elmer and Alyce Green in the 1970s, as another “holy celibate” who apparently couldn’t keep his robes on
- Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, who reportedly once admitted, while sniffing laughing gas to get high, that he was “so relieved to not have to pretend to be enlightened any more”
- Satya Sai Baba, whose claimed “miracles” have included raising people from the dead, producing streams of “sacred ash” from his hands—a feat easily replicated by secular magicians—and allegedly molesting hundreds of young boys
- Sri Chinmoy, the “stunt man of the spiritual world,” whose disciples to this day periodically canvass campuses across North America with flyers touting the purported benefits of meditation under his guidance
- Buddhist monks in Thailand, who have been known to proudly exhibit expensive collections of antique cars, and to don disguises, sneak out to local karaoke bars, and be caught with pornography, alcohol, sexual paraphernalia, and more than one woman at a time
- Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, whose FBI files contained the observation, “appears mental”
- Werner Erhard, originator of est group training, who brought us the phrase, “Thank you for sharing”
- Yogi Bhajan, the claimed “only living master of white tantric yoga in the world”
- Chögyam Trungpa, who brought Tibetan Buddhism to America, and proceeded to drink himself into an early grave
- Swami Muktananda, whose ashram living quarters in India reportedly contained a well-used secret passageway to the adjacent young girls’ dormitory
- Muktananda’s name-changing disciple Adi Da (Da Free John, Da Love-Ananda, etc.), whose “crazy wisdom” exploits propelled him to exile in Fiji in the mid-’80s, following allegations of sexual abuse
- Andrew Cohen, whose own Jewish mother has regarded his closed, authoritarian spiritual community as embodying a “fascist mind-set,” with its members behaving like “Gestapo agents.” (Such closed communities are of homogeneous beliefs, have little exchange of ideas with the outside world, and possess no option of questioning the leader while still remaining a member in good standing. Further, to leave the community is typically claimed to be to throw away one’s only “chance in this lifetime for enlightenment” [van der Braak, 2003].) She has further rejected Cohen’s claims of enlightenment, comparing him instead to the “cult” leaders Jim Jones and David Koresh, and even to Adolf Hitler
- Ken Wilber, the “Einstein of consciousness studies,” who has at times spoken with unbridled enthusiasm for the effects of discipline under both Adi Da and Cohen
- Yogi Amrit Desai, formerly of the Kripalu yoga center, whose followers there, when news of the claimed sexual activities between the married Desai and his devotees surfaced, displayed unique discrimination in reportedly forcing him to leave the center he himself had founded
- Assorted sexually active Roman Catholic priests—pedophile, ephebophile and otherwise
- The Findhorn community in Scotland, which actually functions without a guru-figure, arguably doing more good than harm for exactly that reason
- Paramahansa Yogananda, author of the spiritual classic Autobiography of a Yogi, whose troubled ashrams the present author can speak of from first-hand experience
http://www.strippingthegurus.com/stgsamplechapters/speaknoevil.asp
The site strippingthegurus might open the eyes of many, for there has been much hidden from the public. I do not accuse enlightened ones in general, but spiritualism has much covered which appears to be purely strange and evil. The coat of spiritual movements have covered countless maniacs. And the case is not over yet.
At the end enjoy another vid from the famous snordelhans with the haunting voice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrUy-3YsDBw&list=PLkPHkFZIjo3pxeqwlhmi6_TX9Y6msSu0J&index=6
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