I found myself attending a 3 day (2 hour per day) sahaj samadhi meditation course from AoL. The teachers would not tire of praising Sri Sri all the time. There were 2 half hour poojas out of the 6 hours; I would rather learn meditation techniques. The course fee was 3k or 3.5k, but they kept insisting that you are very fortunate to be having “guruji” teach you this great stuff, even though indirectly through us (the teachers). As if the course was free.

And yes, serious questions were stepped aside glibly.

I am an agnostic, though a keen student of yog and meditation and open to beliving, if it comes from within. And for the later I am willing to suspend the skeptic in me. They just took it to far when they assumed that I, and the rest of the class, had already accepted sri sri as my spiritual guru.

Didnt work for me much. No receipt for the course fee either..

That said, I would still like to try the part 1 – sudarshan kriya course and see if theres any additional takeaway apart from the pranayama I practice .. just in case I ran into some bad apples ..

Hi Deepak
I have done part I. It was very special experience for me.
U have written a very good article.

I think , you put these all information without open mind.