Thank you for your contributions here. I have been enjoying them and your objective perspective.

Maharaji is a master manipulator - as you say, that is his expertise and it's made him very weathly indeed - so of course we shouldn't blame ourselves. He is a trickster first and formost and we were all had.

People are 'had' everyday - though it doesn't usually cost up to 30 years of their lives. We were conned in a very peculiar way indeed. I am so wary of manipulation and the manipulators now. Of course, there are people who are more vunerable and willing to surrender their power and energies to others quite readily. They are the key targets of the manipulators - not the villains.