--- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From a friend: > > > > I don't know if this has been brought up or not on FFLife but a very very > longtime dear friend of mine who I have known since 1969, who left TM many > years ago for Austin, TX and Swami-ji (Swami Prakashanand Saraswati) and > that whole shtick, just called to tell me the sh*t is about to hit the fan > with the Guru of that organization and also the Gurus's Guru (in India). > Seems Swamiji and his Guru in India have been having sex and lots of it with > the lady devotees for year years now INCLUDING minor girls as young as 10 > years of age. Swamiji has been arrested in the U.S. and is presently free on > $11 million bail which has been paid by our old friend Peter Spiegel who is > a very longtime devotee of Swamiji. > > > > This friend of mine knows this is 100% true as she herself had sex with the > Guru's Guru (In India) and said that the women and children were told that > it was an honor to have sex with these men as they are saints and also that > they should not tell their parents and husbands. Many of the women and > children have now come forward. Of course, much as we know from TM, there is > a giant schism. The "True Believers" fail to believe that the truth of the > allegations and go so far as to say that even so, what difference does it > make, these men are saints, therefore nothing they can do is wrong and > anyone who talks down about this will incur nothing but bad karma. >
There are stories in the vedic literature that show the demigods, including Shiva and Brahma, were not immune to the pleasures of physical sexual activities. Nonetheless, I'm not making any excuses for the swamis you mentioned. If they have abused children, they should be punished according to the law.
