It seems to me the main theme of many powerful men who were eventually brought to justice is the power of speaking out. I have read and watched and listened to everything I can about cult leaders and powerful men and justice. Secrecy serves them.

Imagine how I felt to see a movie called “Sands of Silence” about the power of voices to stop sexual crimes had a dedication to Prem Rawat. While I naturally feel that denial may work to silence this woman who spoke for the silenced and indeed had been silenced herself. That video shows the producer creator premie’s father or grandfather begging her not to be public. I fear for how painful it will for her to be to learn her beloved teacher is so similar. But I have hope, that she will know, that rarely do sexual abusers “look” like a person’s image of what one will look like.

Another thing I think of is a podcast I listen to almost every episode “Real Crime Profile” the host Laura Richards is an expert in coercive control. I can’t help but see what you describe Maria77 as extreme coercive control.

How can one legally sign an agreement to keep secret the acts one sees while working for the man they were raised to pray to as their Lord and Master? How can that be consent? That isn’t consent any more than any of the women Prem Rawat is said by whistleblowers here to have brought to him to have one night stands. Him enacting the perversion of the Krishna gopi relationship has been said to be bullshit as best I read by true Hindus. You can’t consent when one person is the one you sing “my lord is the superior power in person” and you can’t consent with someone who gives “agya”. 

And yes, whatever diagnosis a psychiatrist would give Prem Rawat there are people who abuse children, and married and who abuse women too. 

I think the families of premies who put Prem Rawat in their wills must be pissed. Especially the children. Who likely suffered being brought to kiss the lotus feet growing up, suffered from the 1970s-1980s incessant demands to give everything you had to the cult… then maybe the parent gets on their feet and has some financial stability- and the Prem Rawat Foundation is in the will. The Prem Rawat Foundation is likely to outlive the man himself - who will most benefit from that? Study the Moonies after Rev. Moon passed. Great that they are now feeding kids with some small part on their budget. And good tactical move by the cult. But as Prem Bio has pointed out- most of the expenses go to the expense of supporting the promotion and travel of the speaker. They proudly list all his travels all over the world. prem bio also has a list of his incredible list of expensive homes all over the world. How does that tie in to what the foundation may use as expenses. Of course I don’t know that answer.

This horrible story of child sexual abuse doesn’t make any of his other abuses of power suddenly not matter. Frankly, in my opinion, they show the world this child grew up in and how his cult compound wasn’t Waco or Jonestown but instead palatial homes filled exclusively with household staff who called his father and mother “dad” and “mom” too. Who drank the water his father bathed his feet in. Who obeyed agya “implicitly” as his father is recorded saying in those years demanding of his followers. Where the f*** was such a child to turn?