His inner circle witnessed along with me, and I saw how they applauded and found God’s Will as well as humor in the Yogi’s decisions to upend lives, to marry people to strangers, to send young children away from their parents to schools in India. With every individual appointment, and every life turned upside down, the faithful ones in that inner circle would knowingly nod and smile, then repeat the mantra that ‘It’s all God’s Will’. To my pained and more cynical eyes, this ‘God’s Will’ was now looking tainted, and highly suspect.

