Living where I do, in one of the remaining centres of hippiedom in the UK, I've learned not to delve into people's beliefs, and if they don't lay them onto me too hard, to usually duck from under such discussions. A neighbour who is becoming a good friend goes to India frequently and has a picture of his guru on his dashboard. He's an imaginative architect, and we've each been messing our houses around, and we've helped each other along quite a bit. I like him, he's good fun, and neither of us have ever mentioned a guru. That dog is fast asleep and it suits me fine.
Foot kisser came onto a public forum to air his views and experiences. He did so without familiarising himself about the posters and how the forum works. He said he pimped for the 13 year old guru (wrong word, I appreciate), and bought him booze and dope, acknowledged harm done to others but it didn't seem to bother him. When challenged over these things he threatened to 'stop' whoever offended him, equating his critics with ISIS, and suggesting he had the power necessary to do so.
It was the pimping that got to me, and the threats that followed. So yes, an unfortunate exchange, but it wasn't one-sided.
And it's hard to try to have a rational discussion with someone who insists that in the end, we can't know anything such as whether Mr Rawat is a 'Perfect Master'.
