stripping the gurus - Brahma Kumaris Info

432 STRIPPING THE GURUS
deed, such differential would be far greater than the difference in
the degree of “perfection” seen in a potential romantic mate on a
first date, say, versus after a decade of marriage.
You would not, unless you are a complete cad, hire a private
investigator to quietly uncover dirt on a prospective mate, when
falling in love with her or him. Neither could you objectively ask
(or even covertly research) the intrusive questions suggested above
by Vaughan of any “holy sage” and his or her organization, when
you are already “falling in love” with them.
And then, where those two ideas cross:
[Paulette Cooper] had in front of her pages of detailed reports
from another [alleged] cult operative.... He had, for a
short while, been very close to her, and pretended to be in
love with her....
The secret agent told his superiors that on the outside
he was sympathetic [to her troubles] but inside he was
laughing: “Wouldn’t [Cooper’s depressed talk of suicide] be a
great thing for Scientology?” (Marshall, 1980).
As to Vaughan’s suggested questions above, then: Even if you
did ask them, you would truly have to be born yesterday to think
that you would ever get an open and honest answer.
* * *
Jack Kornfield, years ago, penned a landmark exposé for Yoga
Journal. There, he presented the results of his own research, disclosing
that thirty-four of the fifty-three American yoga teachers
whom he surveyed (64%) had had sex with their students. Those
indulgences encompassed preferences ranging from heterosexual,
bisexual, homosexual, fetishist, exhibitionist and monogamist, to
polygamist.
How to react to that? As both the people at Kripalu and the
Dalai Lama figured out for themselves through simple common
sense, the proper response to father-figure gurus and teachers who
reportedly cannot keep their hands off their disciples in spiritual
incest is quite simple. That is, one must criticize them openly and,
if they will not change, pack one’s bags and leave.
Or, even better, wisely send the teacher packing.
Yet, just when we may be thinking that we have finally found
a guru-figure, in the Dalai Lama, who can actually see things even
halfway clearly ... well, we find the same man musing aloud that it