https://lightofdharma.com/tags/spiritual-predators/ Recent content in Spiritual-Predators on Light of Dharma Publishing Hugo en-us Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lightofdharma.com/anatomy-of-a-psychopath-radhanath/ Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lightofdharma.com/anatomy-of-a-psychopath-radhanath/ <p>Priya had been a devotee for eleven years. Every morning at 4:30 she rose for <em>mangala-arati</em>, chanted her sixteen rounds, read from the <em>Bhagavatam</em>. She had given up a career in biochemistry. She had given up her family&rsquo;s approval. She had given up the kind of life her college friends were living &ndash; the brunches, the vacations, the casual freedoms. She had done all of this willingly, even joyfully, because she believed she had found something rare: a genuine spiritual teacher, a living saint, a soul so surrendered to God that simply being in his presence could purify your heart.</p>