I have a different view
mccoy though I am not professing to be correct. Kriyananda could not have fulfilled certain goals that Paramahansa Yogananda had unless he was ‘booted’ out of the monastery. Nor perhaps would he have been able to fulfill perhaps some of his own personal desires in SRF.
Steve, you might be right. And what happened later, is that Kriyananda was tempted by the devil, and finally yielded to his big ego, and yielded even more to the lures of sex, to which he was not immune even when serving as the vice president of SRF. He was eventually found guilty of having been sort of a sex predator in his community.
What I criticize most about him though, is not his weaknesses, but the fact that he was a pathological liar, always ready to blame SRF for his flaws and aggrandize himself.
I used to be a fan of him, but after I realized his true demonic nature, I threw all of his books in the garbage.
