It must be kind of hard for him - he clearly worshipped his father. I adored my father and would be pretty upset if a bunch of people started to ridicule his memory. But then I guess that is not going to happen since my father was an affable run-of-the-mill, harmless English gent with no enemies or critics. I've often wondered how Maharaji really feels about his father. I must say I kind of liked the vibe of Shri Hans. He seemed very jovial although he could be quite heavy at times. But at least he wasn't shy to explain how many life forms you could go through and all that 9 yards of beliefs he had. You knew the score with him..he was a straight talker. At least he didn't pretend there was no historical 'science' of Knowledge - he seemed quite happy to embrace and explain everything in it's Hindu way - which felt authentic.

Incidentally when I looked into the history of Shri Hans I noticed that (according to DLM dates) he started his active role as Master before Swarupanand's death - by some years I think. I always thought that could have been damn confusing for Indian premies who believed there was only one Satguru alive at any one time. I since discovered that they have a get-out clause somewhere which permits co-incidental different levels of incarnation in different bodies or something. What an extraordinary complicated mess.