On Controversial Deceased Guruu Adi Das

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Caution advised to spiritual seekers. As in any field, geniuses are also master manipulators. OTOH how is evolution to occur? Good guys finish last they say and in the Bible they warn we must also be "worldly wise", i.e. not naive. I discovered about this guru by reading Feuerstein's "Holy Madness" book which discussesmany such odd characters throughout history. Living now in highly conservative times (wariness of former excess) in parallel with conscous controlled access to sinfulness as a release valve, we seem to have met a societal balance where we can launch a deeper searchh into spirituality as our general basis is better formed. Hundreds of milliins have tried yoga, meditation and sexual openness allows breaking of casual taboos by all under controlled conditions. The earlier generations, like that of the guru discussed was morally relatively suppressed, 50s style. Now tantra, global travel, multiculturalism, smorgasbord of religious teachings hinders, buffers against cult like isolation. Mr. Google is only one step away when checking charlatan credentials or alternatives. And if every teen has already seen everything on their smart phone, nothing will impress them. However decades of discipline, asceticism are needed when one is not born an adept. Otherwise Adi Das could never have had so young such experiences. I work long and hard and it comes in drips. It seems to me, like in any discipline, young prodigies have enormous problems. Gradual maturing over the whole lifespan is better. Ramana Maharshi seems the rare exception to this rule.