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Please do mention these facts too in the entry on Eknath Easwaran. He has been a predator in India and the United States
Hi Wikipedia has posts on Eknath Easwaran. I do hope you will revise the information available in the light of the following information.

The Blue Mountain Center of Meditation was founded by Eknath Easwaran as religious 501 C organization, availing of tax breaks under the law. This Guru who claimed to offer spiritual salvation to thousands, was a bigamist and dead beat father in India. He perpetuated the feudalistic misogynistic attitude which has decimated the lives of many women in India.

Eknath Easwaran taught meditation at the University of California, Berkeley and is featured in the Berkeley Historical Plaque project

I urge you to investigate the legacy of Eknath Easwaran. The address of BMCM is : Blue Mountain Center of Meditation in Tomales, 3600 Tomales road, California 94971.

My mother was sexually abused by Eknath Easwaran, as a young student at the Morris College (now Naik Government College) in Nagpur, India. He was well known for demanding sexual favors from girl students. In the fifties and sixties a woman in India had no choice other than to be silent about abuse.

Eknath Easwaran came to the United States on a Fulbright fellowship to the University of Minnesota. His uncontrollable libido apparently led the Fulbright authorities to revoke his fellowship, forcing him to return to India.

A resourceful person, Easwaran then married his American wife Christine, his third wife, without even informing his second wife (with whom he had two children) leaving her in dire financial straits. This ensured that Easwaran got a visa to the United States, although he had to wait it out in his family home in Kotagiri (Niligiris). To circumvent a complaint that his Indian wife made to the United States Consulate in Mumbai, Easwaran applied for the visa from the US Embassy in New Delhi.For years after he left India, the very mention of his name would provoke derisive laughs among his colleagues and students at the Morris College.

In the US, Easwaran attempted to sexually molest his female disciples in the California ashram that he founded (San Jose Mercury News –April 30, 1989 ) One of his closest associates at the ashram and chief spiritual mentor, Steve Rupenthal has been arrested for soliciting child sex at a Chicago airport. You can verify this from the Point Reyes Light(May 2004) newspaper report. This are the reported cases of sexual abuse at the center.

Eknath Easwaran, left India in a hurry in 1958 specifically to evade an order of child support passed by the Sessions Court in Nagpur, and upheld by the Nagpur division bench of the Bombay High Court. The following web links will give you some background of Eknath Easwaran:

Web links:

A split at the Razor’s edge by John Hubner (San Jose Mercury News, April 30, 1989)

https://www.ire.org/resource-center/stories/7262/

Stephen Ruppenthal arrested at Chicago O’Hare airport

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/il-court-of-appeals/1422975.html

As a backgrounder please do read “Holy Hell : a memoir of faith,devotion and pure madness” (Amazon) which recounts in minute detail the brutal sexual abuse at the ‘spiritual center’ run by an Indian Guru. If you do investigate Eknath Easwaran’s background, it will be a small restitution for all the women whose lives he has savaged in India and the USA.

Thank you

Pratik Joshi