Eventually I agreed (with myself!) that it didn't matter WHAT people say Maharaji has done, why they say he did it etc. The old rules still apply - listen and watch and find yourself tuned in to an experience inside that brings peace love and understanding. What's so funny about peace love and understanding?

Sorry to talk about you in the third person like this, John, but you just present such a good example of something I was talking about with Paddy below. 

Let me ask you something, though, doesn't this disregard for the truth about Maharaji leave you at about the moral level of a silkworm?  They just need a tree to hang on, a little water, a little light.  That's their peace.  As for "understanding", don't flatter yourself.