BTW, I understand that you asked Amma about MMY. Could you share, off the record if necessary, what she said?
Vaj asked me this in a private email. I can share on the record. I didn't ask Amma about MMY specifically, but I asked her why so many famous gurus are eventually discovered to have been doing things that are considered unethical even in an ordinary man? Isn't there supposed to be a correlation between higher consciousness and ethical development? Is it that they're not enlightened or is it that it's possible to be enlightened yet undeveloped in some aspects of one's personality? Amma refuses to comment specifically on any guru and is careful not to make general comments that might be construed as applicable to particular gurus, but the first part of her answer was to ask whether I had benefitted from my association with my former guru. I said that I definitely had. She said that if you find a diamond in some excrement, you clean it off and keep it. You fail to appreciate it just because of where you found it. I'll have to think and maybe ask my wife about some of the other details of her answer, and I have to start my day now, but that point was the one that stayed with me most clearly.
