ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the themes relate to moving away from Siddha Yoga and also presents the distinctive interrelated themes. As multiple issues were involved with individual's movement away from Siddha Yoga, some individual themes also highlight the related themes. The major themes in moving away from Siddha Yoga are: significant events, changing organization, competing interests and the role of the Internet. The chapter focuses on Siddha Yoga at the time Nityananda stood down from the co-leadership of Siddha Yoga, leaving Gurumayi as sole leader. There were three significant events within Siddha Yoga that individuals reported as contributing to reassessment of their affiliation: Muktananda's death and the adoption of Nityananda and Gurumayi as co-leaders, Nityananda's alleged forced removal and subsequent harassment by Siddha Yoga devotees and Muktananda's alleged sexual relations with female devotees. The changing nature of Siddha Yoga as an organization and the competing interests in individual's lives has already been alluded to in reference to influencing moving away.
