So if I get your logic right it doesn't matter what Rawat said or did in the past because what he is doing now is completely different. No more screaming at us to devote ourselves to him. He simply should not be held accountable for demanding that of us for at least twenty years. He shouldn't be held accountable for all the money that was solicited and donated ostensibly to spread "knowledge" but instead went to satsify an obscenely luxurious lifestyle. No one should be upset about forgoing careers, relationships, family and friends for a guru who was getting drunk and stoned and soliciting sex from premie "babes". In fact, we are at fault because we chose to listen to him in the first place. If we would simply accept our responsibility in choosing to believe what he told us then there is no way we could be blaming Rawat for anything.

No, I think that the responsibility, the accountability, is for Rawat to accept. Instead it is Rawat who is playing the blame game. Blaming anyone but himself and in fact blaming the very people who actually listened to him.

I think that one needs to be wary of someone who cannot accept responsibility or be accountable for what he has said and done. One needs to be wary of someone who blames others for his mistakes and does not care about the impact of his actions. One needs to be wary of someone who is trying to label detractors as part of a "hate" group. One needs to be very wary indeed of those who would try to stifle legitimate criticism and cast it in the mold of hate literature. One needs to be wary of someone who is trying desperately to revise and disguise his own history. After all, those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

So yes, there are some very nasty bits to the story and it is not going to just disappear because Rawat refuses to accept responsibility for it. There are lots of people upset with his arrogance and narcissism and revisionism and avarice and you as the fully brainwashed acolyte would like it to just disappear so he can just play the new shiny DVD.