This is the report that I promised yesterday. In keeping with the
general tone of this discussion forum, I'd like to start a new thread
centered on "The Sex Lives of Godmen".
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WARNING!!!!* This post contains material of a prurient interest. Do NOT
read if you are sensitive to depravity of a sexual nature. This is
serious reading; not meant for conservative meditators on the spiritual
path.
Note: The term 'godmen' here refers not only to cult leaders like Osho,
but to all yogis, maulvis, bauls, fakirs, gurus, swamis, pastors and
priests who make mystical claims and hold devotees in awe in order to
cop a feel, or worse.
Tantra Yoga is all a matter of positioning and placement (no pun
intended). There's no better way to get in shape for sex than doing yoga
postures in a hot and sweaty yoga gym downtown with a bunch of good
lookin' men and women all around you. But, some of the deceitful antics
of these charlatans should be exposed (again, no pun intended).
So, let's review some of the sex rumors of the Godmen:
There was the Zen Master Rama, who had multiple affairs and then offed
himself wearing a dog collar. There was the so-called Marshy, who
reportedly murdered his master so he could get his ring, and then slept
with his own clerks on a deer-skin rug in front of a painting of his
guru, SBS. And, there's the Donald at Ananda. Some people probably
remember the case of Richard Baker, who left two pair of shoes outside
the door at the Zen Mountain Center. Go figure.
And, who can forget the drunkard Chogyam Trungpa and his Regent, the
Osel Tendzin?
The Indian Swami Muktananda wore dark glasses and it is alleged molested
young girls while wearing an orange bed-sheet and a wool cap. Swami
Satchitananda favored Marlboros and and young girls and then gave the
invocation at Woodstock. Then, there was the Swami Rama convicted of
rape, who claimed to be a Shankaracharya from India. An ashram won more
than $2.5 million after its longtime guru, Kripalu confessed to having
coitus with sixteen students and leaders. Then there's Gail and that
Amma book. And, what's up with that John Friend guy?
Not to mention that Swami out in Hays County that was convicted of
twenty counts of indecency with a child! This is just outrageous!
Works cited:
'The Sex Lives of Godmen'
http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/the-sex-lives-of-godmen
'Yoga and Sex Scandals: No Surprise Here'
http://tinyurl.com/ct59amc
'Shoes Outside the Door'
http://www.rwilliams.us/archives/shoes.htm
Read a full report:
"The following report is a preliminary social analysis of the so-called
'rasavada', a minor deviant Vaishnava sect, and is based on years of
field studies in the holy land of Braj, India, including personal
extended ritual participation and gleanings of insider information
concerning the cult proclivities and other unspecified baula-kama
practices, and through observation in which various and sundry phrases
were overheard at camp-meets."
'Rasavada: A Full Report'
http://www.rwilliams.us/archives/ras.htm
'Prakashanand Saraswati'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prakashanand_Saraswati
Read more:
The Legends of Drukpa Kunley:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drukpa_Kunley
Other titles of interest:
'Sky Dancer: The Secret Life And Songs Of Lady Yeshe Tsogyel'
by Keith Dowman
Snow Lion, 1984
'Dakini's Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism'
by Judith Simmer-Brown
Shambhala, 2002
'The Tantric Body: The Secret Tradition of Hindu Religion
by Gavin D. Flood
Tauris, 2005
'Holy Madness: The Shock Tactics and Radical Teachings of Crazy-Wise
Adepts, Holy Fools and Rascal Gurus'
by Georg Feuerstein
Penguin Books, 1992
'Obscure Religious Cults'
by S. Das Gupta
Firma KLM, 1976
'Naked They Pray'
by Pearce Gervis
Duell, 1957
