stripping the gurus - Brahma Kumaris Info

124 STRIPPING THE GURUS
On another occasion, he besmeared himself from head to toe
[i.e., including his lips] with [human] excrement. He sat near
the lavatories, with large heaps of excrement piled in front of
him. Each time a devotee passed him, he would call out,
“Bombay halwa [sweets]—very tasty—want to eat? Can
weigh and give you some” (Feuerstein, 1992).
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By the time of Muktananda’s death in 1982, his SYDA Foundation
operated eleven ashrams and hundreds of meditation centers
worldwide. He was initially co-succeeded by his disciple Gurumayi
(1955 – present) and her younger brother. Following an alleged
power struggle in the mid-1980s in which that latter sibling left
the organization under disputed circumstances, however, Gurumayi
rules alone (Harris, 1994).
Allegations of abuses and harassment by SYDA can be found
at www.leavingsiddhayoga.net, as well as in Harris (1994).