Hindu Gurus Exposed: The Dark Seduction of Spiritual Control | Part 2

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]In India, Shiva is known as the god of destruction. He haunts the cremation grounds and wears a necklace of human skulls and wears serpents in his hair.

[00:00:11]His power is woripped. Hindu texts describe the power as the fiery serpent within called Kundalini.

[00:00:21]One just was taught to ignore all of the dreadful I mean the intolerable poverty and suffering of India. There were beggars clustering around the gates of the ashram. Day and night, children starving, living in little huts surrounding what was supposed to be a religious community. The contradiction was disgusting to me, but most of the Senas failed to notice it. It appeared not to bother them in the least.

[00:00:49]It is part of the world of illusion, and the goal is to withdraw and detach yourself from it. So there's no high view of say social action or compassion or an outrage concern to see justice in this world. On the contrary, if you do things like that, very often you're just tinkering with a person's karma. They believe that when a person suffers that that is what he's due as a result of the law of karma because you've done something very sinful in this lifetime or in a past lifetime. So there's very little compassion.

[00:01:20]I was a member of the social service league at the college and we were trying to do what we could to help people in the villages. A gentleman who was head of the department of Hindi came around to us and said why are you doing this?

[00:01:30]These people who are suffering in the villages sick or diseased or whatever have come to earth in this state because they have done something wrong in their past lives. Now no matter what you do to them if you cut short their suffering in this life what will happen is they will simply come back in their next life in the same state or a worse state. So you're really wasting your time. We feel that the cause of suffering is within.

[00:01:51]And so to allow people to experience peace themselves, we teach courses in meditation. They seek to escape suffering by numbing their emotions and compassion through meditation. Maharishi TM's guru once said that a hungry person can become a happy hungry person through practicing meditation. Although the Hindu tries to convince himself that suffering is only in his mind, an illusion as he calls it, maya, at the same time he believes that he has to suffer again and again by forever being forced to return to this world through reincarnation.

[00:02:29]There is no escape from this endless wheel of samsara, life and death.

[00:02:34]Because in Hinduism, unlike Christianity, there is no forgiveness because there is no sin. Therefore, sadly also there is no hope.

[00:02:44]>> All the gurus that I know of in the western world teach reincarnation, a doctrine very central to Hinduism.

[00:02:51]Reincarnation is all about dying and coming back to this world in one form or the other.

[00:02:57]>> Har Krishna people believe in transmigration of the soul as they prefer to call it traveling from body to body to body.

[00:03:06]>> These physical bodies don't last forever even though the soul does. So in the same way that a driver needs to change cars, in the same way we need to change from one body to another.

[00:03:16]>> Gandhi called reincarnation a burden too great to bear. Yet it is being eagerly embraced in the west in diluted form as part of a patent blend of Hinduism and Zen Buddhism, camouflaged with psychological terminology.

[00:03:39]This new age religion is promoted through thousands of worldwide networks and hundreds of major gatherings such as this mind body spirit festival held in Los Angeles.

[00:03:52]It is a westernized version of India's Kuma and promotes many of the same gurus and practices from astrology and palistry to psychic readings, healings and meditations.

[00:04:18]The festival, now international, was started in London in 1977 by Graeme Wilson. He explains the new age interpretation of reincarnation as an upward evolution to a higher species of mankind. um we don't just reincarnate uh as an individual soul into a new body each time but more of the there's a collective consciousness of souls which is why I think we have access to a lot more information than we realize either one has to believe in reincarnation or resurrection they both could not be true at the same time there are those who believe that Jesus was a reincarnation of Krishna or Buddha or some other great master of of the past. But the Bible would absolutely refute that.

[00:05:07]>> Until the early 60s, only an elite few in the West believed in reincarnation.

[00:05:13]Today, this belief is accepted by nearly 25% of Americans and about 50% of Europeans. Likewise, yoga was once practiced mainly by an occultist clique in America and Europe. Now over 19 million Americans and millions more in Europe are actively involved in some kind of Eastern meditation.

[00:05:35]Altogether 60 million Americans have incorporated Eastern philosophies into their world view.

[00:05:41]>> The Bible teaches that Jesus came once and for all. When he died, he did not reincarnate. He resurrected. It is appointed unto all men to die once. And after death comes the judgment, the judgment of God.

[00:05:57]I noticed that in the western world reincarnation has become something of a fad. However, in India and in Asia as a whole, reincarnation is certainly not a fad. It is a form of punishment.

[00:06:10]>> Within Hinduism, reincarnation is considered to be a terrible concept. The aim of the Hindus religion is to somehow try and escape from this endless imprisonment of life and death. And the means by which they believe one can get out of this hopeless trap is through the practice of yoga.

[00:06:29]>> Yoga goes all the way back to the Hindu god Shiva who is called Yogeshwara meaning lord of yoga. You find yoga being taught in several of the major Hindu scriptures. Krishna, one of the many Hindu gods was an advocate of yoga.

[00:06:47]Yoga is also mentioned in the Gita as the main means to attaining salvation.

[00:06:52]The word means basically to yoke union.

[00:06:57]The goal of the Hindu is to be yolked with Brahman. Brahman is the Hindu concept of God. The all or the absolute.

[00:07:06]>> Yoga in its many westernized forms is also at the heart of the new age movement that has adopted Hinduism's basic beliefs and goals.

[00:07:18]In spite of the seeming variety in hundreds of competitive schools of yoga, all forms come out of India and lead into the occult. Though most westerners are not aware of this, yoga techniques include breathing exercises or prana, positions called asas, dissolving the mind known as leia, psychic powers called siddhis, repetitious chanting named mantra, and deliberately cultivating black magic known as tantra. In my extensive travels in India, I have encountered a number of westerners who have got into Hinduism and began following Hindu gurus as a result of a very simple initiation into a yoga class.

[00:08:15]Yoga is in many ways the heart of Hinduism. There is no Hinduism without yoga and there is no yoga without Hinduism. Although there are many types of yoga, the one most familiar in the west often passes for physical exercise and is called ha yoga. It promises mental and physical health. But its Hindu roots and real goal to yoke with Brahman are seldom taught.

[00:08:42]Ellen believes that Raja yoga or yoga of the mind is the highest form of Hinduism.

[00:08:48]The Brahmakumari's Raj Yoga is a form of meditation where the soul begins to understand itself clearly and has a connection with the supreme being. Raj means royal and yoga means union. So the link with the supreme being and through this yoga I become the ruler over my own self over my mind and my life.

[00:09:11]Johanna Michaelelsson, former yoga teacher and assistant to a psychic surgeon, tells of her experiences in the occult in her autobiography, The Beautiful Side of Evil.

[00:09:23]>> Another word for mantra is charm or to cast a spell, if you will. And in mantra yoga, a word or a phrase or the name of a a demon god is repeated over and over and over again to bring the individual to a vibration level that will attract that which is being chanted for to bring about the desired effect. It's exactly what the white witches and magicians so-called use in the casting of their spells.

[00:09:49]>> We were always told no, it's just a mean a meaningless sound. Had nothing to do with Hindu gods. But every time a person would sit down, they'd be invoking a Hindu god by thinking that mantra over and over again, be stronger in their life.

[00:10:10]The chant goes Hari Krishna Hari Krishna Krishna Krishna Hari Hari Hari Rama Harama Rama Hari 108 mantras is one round and they chant that 16 times a day that takes 2 hours to do every day.

[00:10:26]That's the minimum requirement the guru exacts from that. It's sometimes referred to as a hypnotizing or brainwash technique because whenever you're having a problem or running into some confrontation, you retreat to the security of the chanting instead of thinking a problem through.

[00:10:46]George Harrison of the Beatles made mantra yoga acceptable to the world through his song my sweet lord where he incorporated the chant to a Hindu god Hari Krishna simultaneously with the biblical shout of praise hallelujah >> he said he did this deliberately to show that both religions are the same and to make Hinduism more acceptable To pretend that all religions are the same is dishonest, as is the merger of various religious techniques. For instance, more and more Christians use the name Jesus much like a mantra. They claim that it's a tool to get them into the presence of God. Jesus said that repetitious prayer is not acceptable to God.

[00:11:39]Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, originator of TM, claims to have put Eastern meditation on the mystical map. With over 3 million followers, TM is the largest guru movement ever to invade the West.

[00:11:55]The Beatles much publicized visit to Maharishi's community in India in the 60s convinced their millions of fans that TM, the so-called scientific yoga, was an even more powerful way to bliss consciousness than drugs.

[00:12:10]>> What makes TM unique and different from any other practice that's going on today is that it offers enlightenment very quickly, but it offered a jet a jet ride, you might say, to uh self-realization.

[00:12:26]>> I started experiencing being lost in this state of awareness called the absolute.

[00:12:32]In essence, Marishi taught that we all come from that nothingness and that is the source of all our consciousness of all of our thinking and everything we do.

[00:12:42]>> Maharishi's primary thrust is the marketing of his city yoga which is designed to develop psychic powers such as levitation.

[00:12:51]These courses, like most guru programs, cost thousands of dollars. Rob was able to finance his advanced training through government student loans totaling $6,000.

[00:13:04]>> During these uh sessions, it's a very strange environment. People speak in tongues. They yell and they scream. They talk in foreign languages. It's like a mad house and it's real crazy. Everyone bouncing around on foam pads flying up in the air.

[00:13:19]Rajnish is one of India's most controversial gurus largely because of his endorsement of shocking sexual practices as a prerequisite for salvation.

[00:13:34]His brand of yoga called dynamic meditation is a new age combination of Hinduism and psychotherapies.

[00:13:42]This exercise involving rigorous breathing and hyperventilation is designed to arouse the serpent force called condundalini which the gurus believe lies coiled at the base of the spine.

[00:14:05]I did dynamic meditation every day. We also called it condalini meditation.

[00:14:10]It starts off with a cathartic breathing and the reason for it is just to move your energy and to get you out of your head and into your body and you just breathe.

[00:14:45]The next phase, the screaming phase of dynamic meditation, feels like when you finally had an opportunity to throw a tantrum when you were a little kid.

[00:15:16]Yay!

[00:15:30]Hello By the time you get to the third phase of jumping up and down and yelling who, you're hardly there at all. And so it's pretty hard to remember what happens when you're there. I guess the closest thing I can associate it with is mindlessness.

[00:15:52]You get to a place where your mind actually leaves your body.

[00:15:56]Your body's just jumping up and down and your voice from your gut is yelling who and you're not doing it anymore. You become one with this whole energy.

[00:16:24]The next phase in dynamic is the quiet space. Someone yells, "Stop." And you've just been doing 30 minutes of intense catharsis. And what happens after being in such incredibly intense movement for so long is just a feeling of peacefulness and stillness.

[00:16:41]My mind actually stops and I feel a oneness with the whole universe.

[00:16:49]There have been glowing reports published giving credit to the gurus and their pseudocysological techniques, but neglecting to mention the thousands of cases of emotional and mental breakdowns, insanity, suicide, beatings, murder, rapes going on in guru centers, various guru centers worldwide. It is alarming to realize these dangerous techniques for enlightenment are being incorporated in psychotherapies, self-help seminars and are even being accepted in mainstream Protestant and Catholic churches and seminaries.

[00:17:25]>> One of the fastest growing yogas in the west today is tantra.

[00:17:30]Seductively offered as an exotic means for enhancing one's sexual experiences.

[00:17:36]Like all yoga, it is designed to provoke possession by Hindu spirits in order to break the chain of reincarnation.

[00:17:44]In Tantra, advanced disciples indulge in the most degenerate behavior from human sacrifices to sexual perversion and sorcery.

[00:17:57]>> Tantra yoga is the extreme expression of Hinduism, if you will. It's the black and so-called white magic in which the shakti, the condundalini force is aroused. The psychic powers that accompany it are in full bloom and the individual depending on his personal preference can channel this force either into the black magic which includes rights of meditating upon severed heads, human heads in India and eating bits of flesh and the unconsumed parts of uh the cremation rights and other practices, horrifying practices. or they can take it into what they call the white magic part of it in which they are using this power, this force for healing, for the benefit of mankind, if you will. Yet, Anton Louve, the pope of the first church of Satan, has said it very explicitly. He said that to believe there's any such thing as white magic as mythology, there is no such thing as white magic. All of it has its source in a cult psychic power and it has nothing whatever to do with the with God.

[00:19:07]>> Toby is a yoga teacher at the Scandinavian yoga and meditation school in Aus Denmark which promotes tantra yoga.

[00:19:15]>> Tantra means to free the mind through expanding the awareness. That means to be able to meet more and more of the reality in everyday life. Although yoga is sold to the west through various gimmicks and techniques, its basic occultism remains the same. The hope of immortality is at its heart and the dream of realizing one's own inherent divinity is its ultimate purpose. Becoming a Christ, they call it. Despite the claims that yoga is only physical and non-religious, it is the very essence of Hinduism spirituality.

[00:19:56]that eventually leads to the realm of the spiritual to meditation where the person looks into himself to find the true self and in finding the true self he believes he's finding God.

[00:20:09]>> You know the frightening thing to me now as I look back is I started having exper the experience that I was God and as God I could completely structure my life in my universe exactly the way I wanted it. Dave Hunt, noted author and lecturer, is one of America's leading experts on the new age. His books include the bestseller peace, prosperity, and the coming holocaust.

[00:20:35]He explains that Hinduism is based upon the same ideas that the Bible says the serpent introduced to Eve in the Garden of Eden. The yogis teach the same lies that the serpent in Genesis 3 deceived Eve with that death is merely the doorway to reincarnation and that humans can become gods. This is either an unbelievable coincidence or an unmistakable identification of the mastermind behind Eastern mysticism.

[00:21:03]>> This mastermind is called Satan in the Bible and is also known as the serpent.

[00:21:09]The ultimate power of Hinduism symbolized by the serpent is glorified and worshiped in Hinduism.

[00:21:18]We see God as the form of light and the name Shiva is used by our group. Um but meaning incorporeal being radiating peace, radiating light, love to the whole world.

[00:21:32]>> In India, Shiva is known as the god of destruction. He haunts the cremation grounds and wears a necklace of human skulls and wears serpents in his hair.

[00:21:43]His power is woripped. Hindu texts describe the power as the fiery serpent within called kundalini.

[00:21:52]>> Many people are talking about condundalini and really it does mean energy. That means whatever you call it, it is about energy to take away blocks in your energy system so you are able to function in a more effective level.

[00:22:11]>> The serpent has been known as energy or the force and worshiped as the symbol of wisdom and immortality in every religion and culture. Only in the Judeo-Christian Bible is the serpent identified as deceiver, destroyer, archeneemy of God and man.

[00:22:28]>> The old dread and fear of the serpent is being subtly removed from our culture.

[00:22:34]Even children in schools are being taught to accept the snake through yoga positions like the cobra.

[00:22:39]>> Michelle, could you show us how we do the cobra?

[00:22:44]That's it. Arch your back. That's good.

[00:22:47]Look forward. Good. Can you hold it for a second?

[00:22:51]>> The breathing exercises are designed to teach you to absorb the prana, the energy life force in the cosmos to channel it into the chakras, the uh psychic channels, thus awakening the shakti force, the condalini force and bringing about those psychic powers which are such an integral and prevalent part in yoga.

[00:23:14]>> So very slowly, let's breathe in through our nose. Very slowly breathe in, breathe out.

[00:23:23]There are many dangers in the breathing techniques. Even the writers and the proponents of these exercises are quick to warn that not only do these things trigger emotional and mental diseases which have been known to place people even in insane asylums for the rest of their lives. But they also recognize that these exercises can open your soul and your mind and your entire being to a takeover by demonic forces.

[00:23:55]The followers of the gurus themselves have been forced to form an emergency spiritual network of 4,500 MDs and psychiatrists to treat those who are freaking out on Eastern mysticism.

[00:24:08]Many people don't realize this, but it's terribly dangerous to go into a meditative state in which the mind is simply left blank. And that ultimately is the purpose of the meditations in yoga. It's like opening the door to a room. Whatever comes through, you have no control over. Many argue that certain yoga techniques can be used as merely exercise. Yet, that is not yoga's intention. It can be compared to joining the military. While a soldier may get stronger and more vigorous, the purpose of the army is certainly not health care. The aim is to learn how to kill.

[00:24:45]And so it is with yoga. All yogic exercise was designed to kill the will, mind, and emotions, hence releasing the soul from the endless cycle of reincarnation. I thought I was being strengthened. But what I was really doing is flipping into an altered state of consciousness, a form of self-hypnosis, which is very weakening to the mind and to the body. But this weakness made me afraid to give it up.

[00:25:12]>> The biggest danger I found in in practicing transcendental meditation was the dependency on the technique itself.

[00:25:19]It's kind of like drugs. a a drug addict doesn't want to give up his drugs and because the experience is so pleasing and he feels his life will crumble around him if he doesn't have it.

[00:25:29]>> I thought I'd have the experience of like leaving Shangril and all of a sudden turning old and weak and disintegrating. I was afraid that I would lose my my clarity and my energy.

[00:25:41]But little did I know when I did give it up, I gained all these things that I never had when I meditated.