BTW, you are aware that TM and Hare Krisnas have nothing to do with yoga, right? or did you conflate everything Indian as one thing? Is Curry the same thing as Yoga? How about chicken tandori? Papidums? Chutneys? Khaki pants? Madras jackets? Paisley prints?
No I conflate them all as having the same spiritual root; at the bottom of each lies a pantheistic, solipsistic view of each man fancying himself as his own God on his own throne. Yes there are window dressing differences between the various eastern movements, but in the end there is only one central conflict and one choice that all men face. Christ or Hell!
You can disagree with such a notion if you wish and I did find dozens of sources relating to the opinions I offered. Yet the greatest path to “enlightenment” is the the one which a man takes to discover just how much like God he is NOT! The irony is that the more a man embraces the person he really is, the more like a son of God he becomes. For we are all prodigals and we must all come to a place where we discover ourselves spiritually in the gutter and hungry without resouces and spiritually empty...only then can we turn to Heaven and say...You are my God and you have created me, create in me a clean heart and take not your Spirit from me!