Hi JHB:

From this distance I too can't imagine what it was that he was supposed to have been a master of! Beats me now.

I think devotion was the great anaesthetic that enabled you to believe to yourself when he talked..  that you were on the receiving end  of coherent advice on a specific subject Actually, I can see plainly now that he is an opportunistic, manipulative, spiritual waffler: and a bit of a bully.  Certainly now, when I look back at my own behaviour in the days when I used to emulate him, I feel ashamed of the tactics I used to use.. and get away with (as I recall). Pathetic.

 He did used to claim (when pressed) to be a master of "Knowledge", but after 25 years of doing what he advised I knew sweet fa about what I was doing in respect of "this K", nor did I have from him any secure insight about myself and my relationship to other people or the world outside me! So thanks for nothing master ji on that score.

What I did learn plenty about in the end was my own vanity, cowardice and susceptability ( in short religiosity).  I suppose he could be called a master of eliciting those qualities in people. So for that...thanx for drawing the poison Prem though it took long enough...

but for any sane person, avoid.

Love

Bryn