I can't approach that, but ... well my wife had watched the Netflix documentary today about that awful Twin Flames cult and starts searching about cults afterwards, and in the process Prem Guru Maharaji.

So I am in the kitchen trying to do the dishes and she keeps screaming all of these things to me from the other room. Like "Now he is telling people that the only purpose in life is to worship the Perfect Master all day long (from the 70s)". Then she watches a new video, "But that is not even true, children aren't just peaceful if you leave them alone. They also sometimes beat the crap out of each other (she is a teacher)". 

Then she stumbles onto EPO and starts looking at that. So I show her the "Best of the Forum" section where a post about her is featured. It is probably the best post I ever wrote and only because it was basically just quoting what she had said. It was just after I had discovered the forum. I was also really embarrassed about my time in the cult and this was my coming out session to her.

Last night I went to dinner with my wife and explained to her this whole M business. Although I had mentioned it to her before, I never went into the details. I must say, I felt like a complete idiot. She shortly made mincemeat out of it, pointing out inconsistencies that I had never really paid attention to. After about two hours, she was finally able to understand how this thing could actually work on someone, especially if they are young. I repeat some of her observations. Perhaps they are useful.

1. A "master" or teacher or whatever M would like to call himself is in both western and eastern cultures normally someone who has studied something for a long time in an advanced way, and consequently is in a position to show other people something they don't know. For someone to be a boy master automatically suggests divinity or in the very least some kind of special powers (like the psychic children in the movie "Matrix".

2. If you are shown K from an instructor, this means either K was given to you from the instructor and really has nothing to do with M, or once again, if there is a connection to M, there is some kind of divinity or magic going on (I believe the term was grace). There is no way getting around this, otherwise every instructor could more or less start their own "mission". Is this why M decided in the 80s that only he should give K?

3. She (my wife) was really annoyed with the fact that if there was supposed to be this perpetual lineage of perfect masters, why had we only heard of like at the most 5 of them. Why had she never heard of Shri Hans for example. I mean how can it be that god comes to Earth and nobody knows?

4. She was also really annoyed with the fact that the "power" was inherited by his son (like a kingdom) and not to one of his advanced pupils. Also a good point and not very credible.

5.She wanted to know why "god" had such a fondness for the Indian continent, and with one big exception of course, ignored the rest of the world. I know these perfect master idiocyncracies were discussed back then and given some bizarre explanations. One might say they are irrelevant today, however I think that many followers still believe in the perfect master myth despite what is publically said.

PS: she wants to know if she gets money for that.