Hi Ghi,

As an occasional forum participant, I would like to add my two cents here. I was struck by your phrase which I have pasted above.

Fear, greed and isolation are all pretty unpleasant states to be consumed by, I do agree. Though how best to avoid this is a moot point. From my observation self reflection is clearly valuable, but lots of time spent ‘turning inside’, let alone to god or a guru instead of to your fellow man and the rest of life on earth, is more likely to bring you to such parlous seas than save you from them.

And it seems to me that it is their fellow man and the rest of life on earth that is keeping premies safe from such states despite their belief in their guru and their ‘Knowledge’, rather than the other way around as Mr ‘Maharaji’ Rawat says.

It only takes a moments thought to acknowledge this. Plenty of people have been rejected by Rawat personally (fired and so on) and plenty of people have rejected him, plenty. And overwhelmingly we’re likely to say we are better off without him.

Just imagine being fired by your fellow man, it tends to finish a person off. ‘Pointing the bone’ was the aborigine phrase for it. Or rejecting human company, apart from a very few people who find themselves better off alone, that is overwhelmingly a bad idea. And really hermits aren’t so isolated are they, even the Count of Monte Cristo made friends with a rat….or did he eat it?