Who else from the current crop of “advaita teachers” will wind up being added to this list?
Some of the current “non-problematic” advaita figures (or “no longer problematic” because, as Nirmala suggests, they’ve matured and their teachings are now more balanced and nuanced to include both the Absolute level and also conventional “human” level) have burgeoning organizations. Transparency with their funds would be most welcome at this point. And we can all be “benevolently curious” as to what the situation will be like around these teachers in, say, ten to fifteen years, by which time hindsight will be able to better tell if these teachers have had the competence and authentic freedom and maturity to manage the attention, devotion and resources being given to them. After all, the study of cults (“any group centered around a charismatic authority figure”) reveals how so very many, many groups that started off well have certainly not ended well. What looked initially like it would be a very empowering situation for aspirants has instead become, because of “shadow” elements in the
