From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 8:57 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Brahmachari Girish Varma Ji "is to be praised"?
Dunno anything about Girish Varma except that many people who are hostile to Maharishi are also hostile to him. The accusation of rape is interesting because the behavior allegedly lasted for about 15 years, and involved the wife of his assistant being invited to accompany her husband on trips so that Varma would be able to access the room of the husband and wife whenever he wanted while the husband was doing errands for Varma. According to the wife, this allowed Varma to have sex with her over a period of 15 years whenever her husband went out. The wife kept her mouth shut on the threat that her husband and she would lose their jobs if she said anything. The husband says that he knew nothing of the arrangement until about a year or so ago when he was fired, and his wife was fired, thereupon she confessed the arrangement to him and they went to the police. This is India we are talking about, so I nave no idea how plausible the scenario is within that culture. I don't think that this scenario is in any way culture-dependent (meaning related to the country it takes place in). It's culture-dependent in terms of spiritual group culture in which there is a teacher or leader in charge of the organization whose word is perceived as law, if not the word of God. I've heard of and seen this scenario acted out in *dozens* of spiritual groups. The teacher (usually male) seduces the wife of a guy who is *also* his devotee, and conducts a clandestine affair with her. It's as if the teachers who do this get as much pleasure from deceiving the guy as they do from screwing the gal. In many cases, the teachers do this *openly*, making the husband accept it as a "test of faith." I've even heard of a couple of female teachers who did exactly the same thing, forcing the wives of the male students they were screwing to "accept it or leave." If I remember correctly, you've never spent any time on the *inside* of a cult-like group, Lawson. If you had, you'd know how common this is. And you'd also be closer to realizing that the teachers who run this number are slimeballs for whom no possible excuse can be made. It's an *abuse of trust* issue. They're taking advantage of people who have been indoctrinated to believe that they can do no wrong. IMO they should be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail. When it comes to Girish Varma, IMO anyone who couldn't just look at photos of him and see what a slimeball he was, even before this happened, is more than a little light in the loafers, discrimination-wise. The guy is positively icky.
