And contrary to what you have understood from reading here, anyone is and has always been free to go their own way anytime they wanted to.

You tell them, Eileen.  Maharaji has never said you aren't free to go, as long as you are willing to go to hell, have tons of vegetables rot inside your brain, swim with sharks, and waste the opportunity of having a human body, which you won't get again for a gazillion lifetimes.

Isn't it just what a hate group would do -- suggest that there is any kind of control going on there from Maharaji?