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342 STRIPPING THE GURUS
Indeed, with regard to one of the relatively recent SRF
publications—I believe it was their version of Omar Khayyam’s
Rubaiyat—it had otherwise been noted that one of
the artists and SRF members working on the illustrations
experienced relevant health problems as the publication
date drew near. Those difficulties were explicitly chalked
up to Satan trying to thwart the spread of truth through
Self-Realization Fellowship. Given that, it would be inconsistent
for SRF to not have viewed any opposition to the
Mount Washington expansion as being literally devilinspired.
One would expect them to have exactly the same
attitude toward the present “evil, demonic smut” book.
Even as early as the summer of 1951, Master often
told me that Rajasi’s life was in grave danger and
that Satan was trying to destroy his body. When I
asked Master why Satan wanted to destroy Rajasi’s
body he answered, “Because he has and is still doing
so much for the work and is helping a lot of souls
back to God as His Divine instrument and Satan is
trying to destroy it so he won’t do any more” (Mata,
1992).
The phrase “paranoid belief system” springs to mind.
Interestingly, the Moonies have a similar view of reality
and the influence of Satan as is described immediately
above:
“Martha, I have to whisper [from laryngitis],” I apologized.
“No, you don’t! It’s just your concept!”
“I’m sorry, I can hardly talk. I don’t mean to be
negative.”
“It’s SATAN controlling you. If you yell ‘OUT
SATAN’ all the way to campus, you’ll be fine,” Martha
ordered (Underwood and Underwood, 1979).
Or, as Yogananda (1986) described that same evil
force’s attack on him:
I saw the black form of Satan, horrible, with a catlike
face and tail. It leaped on my chest, and my heart
stopped beating