I'm confident that the late Jagdeo - one of Prem Rawat's oldest mahatmas - was a life-long pedophile, long before it became known in the west. The number of children he molested throughout his lifetime is incalculable. The more I hear about the cult's cover-up (on multiple levels) that enabled him to continue molesting children, the more stunned I am about how pervasive the corruption of values was/is in that cult. Those premies were surely not like that before they became followers of Prem Rawat.

On another toxic note, the paragraph just below the Draupadni paragraph includes this:

There have been many posts about the "invisible friend" who's "always there." I lived with that extremely toxic "reality" for thirty-six years! It wasn't alway loving and comfortable. It wasn't just a friend in good times, it was a lurker in my darkest times. There he was as I begged him for grace, asked him for guidance, groveled for reprieves and forgiveness, and at times pretended he couldn't see me.

There was no escape from his prying eyes and the resulting guilt, fear and uneasiness. One stern look in a darshan line proved to me that he "knew." Conversely, a smile was validating. It still makes me cringe when I reflect on how destructive it was to live in that cult-induced psychosis.

Not only the corruption of values, but the corruption of well-being as well. And who did Prem Rawat, who according to eye witnesses at the time was engaging in horrible behavior (to say the least), think he was to be the judge of anyone else's behavior?