Here's one aspect of the Orange People cult of which I was not previously aware:
About 87 per cent of residents had a sexually transmitted disease and women who became pregnant were told by the Bhagwan to abort and sterilise, Stork says. She and her teenage daughter were both sterilised.
"Women would write (to the Bhagwan) saying 'I'm pregnant. what should I do?' He would always say 'abort and sterilise'," she says.
"He used to speak so lovingly about children, yet behind the scenes everybody's getting sterilised. There were no children born in the ashram."
She's belatedly cashing in, but still equivocates, suggesting that, really, she's not taking much responsibility at all, nor does she accept the depths of her - and other's - delusions.
ReplyDelete"Stork believes he trod the ground somewhere between holy man, showman and conman."
Part holy man?
Part showman?
Full vile conman. That's all he was. A nasty, greedy piece of work.