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"Even if you don't think the group is hurting you, why do you go along with it when you witness others being hurt?"
When we stand by and witness someone else being tormented, we are affected, too.
Our deep neurological pathways are being kindled with pain, no matter how much we repress this. And if we compound this moral injury by lying to ourselves that this is all good because the guru is good, we will become callous as well.
Years ago, when former members of the Muktananda Siddha Yoga and Gurumayi's SYDA Yoga cult broke silence and revealed the lies, the emotional and financial exploitation, the sexual and moral abuses perpetrated by these gurus, many
loyalists would reply, "God bless this great path!" They would proclaim THEY felt bliss, they had been healed, therefore only that mattered.
One of us wrote,
"What price is your bliss? How can you say you have not been
harmed when you are so cruelly indifferent to the pain suffered by your fellow seekers?
Have you considered that your bliss, your good times with the guru were built on the backs of devotees who were screamed at, overworked, housed in bad conditions, denied pensions to suport them in their old age after giving up their working lives to the guru who treated you as a favorite?
"What price did others pay for YOUR bliss?
"If you dont care about this, you were harmed by this guru. You were harmed by being made as selfish as any addict who rips off family and friends just to buy the next bag of heroin or crack rock."