> Apart from his requests for one-pointed devotion to him and him only, which is actually quite common with thew Gurus of India<

Common is hardly a reasonable justification. Forced female circumcision is a common cultural practice in parts of Africa - the fact of its commplaceness does stop it from being aborhent.

There is a growing questioning of the role of the 'god men' in India both from the secularists and from the Hindu conservatives. Rawat's father garnered a lot of support from the middleclasses, largely because of his refusal to play the 'communalism' game; RVK (Prem's Delhi base) may have a few graduates slumming it as weekend ashramites but the mass of Prem's Indian audiences are the poor whose attendances at Rawat featured events is based on a hope for escape from the awfulness of the material world.  Prem's feeding off such hope is certainly a reason for anger - and many Indians find his trade wholly repugnant.

Additionally I find the fact that his Elan Vital organisation receives (undeservedly IMO) several hundred thousand pounds per year in gift aid contributions from the UK Government a very substantial reason for anger - though I apportion that anger between Prem and HMG.

Nik