Nothing has changed.

Lewis is denigrating any connection between public service actions and experiencing K (being in constant breath consciousness) because Maharaji at the time was stressing that K is not about rules or lifestyles or ethics or whatever, but just feeling high, basically.

The humanitarian initiatives have been commenced as a response to the arguments put forward by the ex-premie community and probably other on-line guru critics that Maharaji provides no ethical focus to his students, or even subverts this.

It's a tactic to deflect criticism.

Back at Alexandra Palace in 2003, Maharaji attacked the notion of gurus being philanthropists by using an example of a teacher who had contributed dried milk to needy people (at the time I thought he meant his brother Satpal).

He said they would probably use it to paint their houses.

Maharaji is really teaching one constant idea - that feeling personally high by total breath concentration, and enjoying life to the full, is the highest ideal, period.

It's interesting that reporter is saying exactly this, because I would make a healthy bet that Lewis and reporter are one and the same person.