Your final words - ". We are far more likely to communicate a reported but not personally experienced danger to someone we do not know well, than we are to recommend a benefit that we have not personally invested in, to that same stranger" - sum up the ex attitude perfectly.You are far more likely to communicate a danger than a benefit.
And it is that attitude that positions you at the opposite end of the spectrum to Maharaji.
He talks about the ointment, you talk about the fly.
He praises the divine potential of every human being, you criticise the humanity of one person.