"So he has a girlfriend.
What's wrong with a spiritual teacher having a girlfriend?"
"There's nothing wrong with that," she said firmly. "But he
is sleeping with many, many women."
"Where did you hear that?"
"From a number of women I met at a meditation retreat in San Diego.
They fell for his line about being lovers in past lives."
Suddenly I recalled Rama on stage at Centre meetings, wearing short
red gym shorts, closing and spreading his legs, tonguing in a slow,
circular fashion the insides of his mouth. The memory repulsed me.
But the repulsion, I feared, was due to the Negative Entities within me.
And it was Rama, I quickly reminded myself, who had been trying day
and night to imbue the many with the fullness of his enlightenment.
"Well, I have been good friends with him since 1978," I replied,
"and he's just not like that."
When disciples Giles and Claire, a couple living in Los Angeles,
heard similar stories about Rama's sexual exploits, they spoke
candidly with one another.
"We were not judging him," Claire recalled years later.
"But we were concerned about what would happen to him and to our
community if the press found out. I wrote him a letter saying
that he looked much more human than divine when he approached women
at Centre meetings for sexual, rather than spiritual reasons.
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