Takar Singh.

The first question I must ask myself is what prompts one to delve so deeply into a “spiritual” search that they neglect to observe their surroundings? I guess you can say or assume that I place most of the blame on the followers. The answer to that is yes, but only the consenting adults. It is the children for who I have a great deal of sympathy for. Having your life determined for you, and to be given an objective based on a nothing more than a hypothetical being and an even more questionable doctrine is terrible. Being given such a daunting task, even for a mentally developed adult of achieving a certain level of sanctity and inner enlightenment is ludicrous. From age 1.5 to the age of 5 these children are subjected to an thinkable situation in an even more unthinkable environment. As a parent, that really does strike me in a way that I just sit trying to fathom what is could be going through the minds of the parents! However, the only answer that I can muster is a feeling that as a parent, when pertaining to your child or children, you never want to feel and wouldn’t ever wish on your worst enemy, helplessness. With that stated, where are these parents, and how are they feeling?

So let us nix the former question and let’s be real here! Forget about the commonsense of the young man surely in his early to mid twenties who admitted that he’d die for Singh, and even proclaimed that he and those around him (Singh) would remain unharmed even in the event of the detonation of an atom bomb. Let us toss aside the women, who receive but aren’t entitled to my pity for the violation of the their bodies and perhaps their virtue. And, lastly I commend those who had the sense to achieve a moment of clarity, rather than spiritual sanctity, and found their way out from Singh’s tutelage. Allow us to concentrate on the former of my two questions.  Where are the parents, and how are they feeling? I’m sure, and one can only hypothesize that some are elated at the notion of their children being reared so early as sheep, while other may be questioning the methods being used on their children; and, perhaps others are wanting to bail and leave this cult so that they may salvage what ever hope is left for their child.

Similar to any cycle we have arrived back at the starting point, what prompts one to delve so deeply into a “spiritual” search that they neglect to observe their surroundings?

-Jeremy Watkins (M.G.)