Initiate,
Yea it started off sweet and he appeared to be a real holy man, the chanting had a lot of potency and things were really down to earth and simple, but then when he started to build his empire, (on the backs of his followers who came for spiritual enlightenment), and it just started looking more and more mundane and 'unspiritual' as time went by. Even the terminology changed
Forum:
"Cults," Sects, and "New Religious Movements"