Swami Satchidananda's followers are diminishing in Montreal as some
students and yoga teachers are leaving his Integral Yoga Institute after a
group of American women accused the Virginia-based guru of sexual
misconduct. A woman associated for several years with Satchidananda, who
has a number of institutes across North America, calls the Swami's
community a "cult" and says his students work in a type of father-daughter
relationship that leaves women confused and unable to say no, a type of
"spiritual incest." She also cited his demand for unquestioned authority,
vows of obedience, celibacy, and routing of money to the institute.
(From "Swami Loses Disciples," by Eleanor Brown, Mirror [Montreal],
5/23-30/91)