The premies are loose again.For me there is a recurring theme in the world of Rawatism. In the 70's following the LOTU was somthing wild – subversive even. We put ourselves outside and above the laws of men because we were serving the Lord himself. At the same time, this concept-blowing, respectless, limit-pushing, responsibility shrugging Lord was serving as a pretty bad role model for his followers.
When the ashram gates were opened in the 80s, the monastics and their adjuncts were set loose on the world. With their moral centres lost along the wayside of fanatical servitude, their respect for social norms and traditions inverted, they were like iron fillings just waiting to get caught by the most decadent, off-beat and irrational attractions that caught their fancy. This is also what I meant by having to row back ashore. We were like Frankenstein monsters running amok across the countryside. Peasants, pray thee lock your doors and keep your children inside.
I know some other stories, less marked by debauchery as by bizarre and fanciful ideologies where the result was that the newfound parents raised their children as freaks. Anything that society had to offer was of course false and full with maya, including school, innoculations, television, learning to read, and god knows what else. At first I was fascinated, still being under the millenium spell, until I realised how absolute appalling it really must have been for those children, bordering on abuse.
