stripping the gurus - Brahma Kumaris Info

SPIRITUAL CHOICES 413
And what did Meher himself have to say about all of those
concerns?
Not much:
Baba, hailed as a Perfect Spiritual Master [of which there
are supposedly exactly fifty-six present on Earth at all times,
with the highest of them always being a man (Adriel, 1947)],
had taken a vow of silence but he was supposed to reveal all
and give his followers “the word” before his death. Unfortunately
he died in 1969 before he could utter another sentence
(C. Welch, 1995).
A mere half century after Brunton’s reasonable conclusions
regarding Meher Baba’s veracity, Feuerstein (1992; italics added)
opined:
It became evident to many that his announcement [of the anticipated
silence-breaking] had been meant symbolically,
though some saw it as an indication that he had, after all,
been duping everyone.
All things considered, then, good to be one of the “some” rather
than the “many.” Although one suspects that, overall, the “many”
are probably far less in number than the “some.”
In any case, it must be quite clear by now that if “idiot compassion”
exists, in coddling people rather than judiciously telling
them the painful truth for their own benefit, then so too does “idiot
tolerance.” The latter is indeed exemplified via insufferable apologetics
for unrepentant (and not infrequently highly deluded) gurufigures
and organizations of which little good can really be said.
Further, what meager good can be legitimately claimed about
them does not even begin to weigh against the bad. Thus, any
“balanced” presentation would still look like an unbalanced one to
anyone who had naïvely bought into the scrubbed, public face of
the guru-figure or organization.
Those figures and groups invariably have well-oiled PR (or
propaganda) departments which have fully succeeded in publicizing
the good elements (both real and fabricated) of the spiritual
teacher and his/her organization. It is only rarely, however, that
the alleged bad aspects of each of those make their way into print,
often against reported violent attempts at suppression or retribution.