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>Certainly there's something spiritual going on behind that, but I don't mean that in a good way.
I've heard various takes on that (some from people who saw more of worth in Hindu ideas than others), and all of them by necessity went into weird territory.
My overarching impression is that it generally appeals to peoples' pride. In different ways it flatters hippies, tech titans, government officials, racial supremicists, businessmen, doctors, philosophers, magicians, and so on. They are told that they are God, and are given techniques to seemingly become more powerful and more fully convince themselves that they are God. All the while, they are sucked into the Indian subcontinent's syncretism.
And what do they ultimately get? A dysfunctional will-to-power hierarchy of petty pajeets holding never-ending izzat wars, bullshitting, and living in filth they are too proud, spiteful, or bred-stupid to clean up themselves. The guru's path to power is basically being an high-level spiritual scammer and fucking over anyone beneath him to power himself up, and you reach his level by not following him and instead becoming your own scammer.
It's awful, it sucks, but elites and spiteful "fuck you, I got mine" boomers look at that picture of the world and feel at home in it. They tell themselves that's just how the world is, mentally settle themselves in some level of it, and