Part 10, Sex and the Singles Guru Summary and Analysis

1 - The author describes how a woman named Ma, the chief devotee of a well-known guru, accepted the adoration of inmates of the guru's ashram while managing its financial, administrative and political relations with the outside world and while balancing the two worlds' different perspectives on sex.

2 - Outside of Ma's office, the author encountered a paper collector preparing the ashram's discarded paper for recycling, who muses about allowing a beautiful girl (outside the ashram "bathing" in the guru's energy ) to meet her husband so that he would maybe give her (the collector) a little peace.

3 - The author contrasts this particular guru's free attitudes towards sexuality with those of other gurus, who tend toward more conservative perspectives in order to protect themselves and their ashrams from being overwhelmed with people...