Rawat is undoubtedly a thug and a mystagogue, a man who is out to dazzle and confuse people and take what he can. I was sorry to learn of the distress he has caused you and your family; and I was delighted your reason and good sense finally prevailed.

He is, in my estimation, a depraved and ignorant man, enslaved by sensation and addicted to the power he gets by having people worship him. He is no Hindu. He acts out the Judeo-Christian fable of a Great Saviour for all of mankind, a Messiah, sent by God. It is true he has allowed himself to be called Krishna, and a Bodhisatva. But most of his wealth has come from posing as the Messiah (as a Christian or Jew would understand the term) to people with a Judeo-Christian background.

He has generated much confusion with his vanity and ignorance. As you know, he peddles a few kriya yoga techniques as giving direct experience of the divine. In a way, it is lucky he is such a bad teacher of meditation, for very few people are able successfully to use the techniques the way he teaches them. I ridicule his teaching for its "one size fits all" approach.

The minority of people who do use his methods and find them effective can, as a result, experience some powerful sensations and emotions for which their background may not have prepared them. Quite a few of this group have become deeply deluded and confused as a result of Rawat's "teachings". They are sure Rawat has supernatural powers.

But most people who try his methods of meditation find them quite ineffective and useless. Some of them are the lucky ones, for they consider Rawat a poor teacher and drop him. Others feel themselves at fault, and hide the fact the techniques do not work for them, and try harder and harder to please the man they think is God himself, come to Earth for the good of their souls.

You will find here that many people here are sure the techniques are entirely without merit. Others still use them, or other forms of meditation, but no longer ascribe any power to Rawat. They know yoga is just yoga and has nothing to do with people's ideas of who or what is God.

Is there really no way to stop Rawat's racket when a good doctor can recognise what he is doing as dangerous and irresponsible?