Articles About Muktananda & Chidvilasanada

This is an archive of articles about Siddha Yoga or that reference Siddha Yoga. They are organized in reverse chronological order so the most recent appears first. The most important are marked, “** Essential Reading.”

2011 to the present

Intergenerational Transmission of Cult Trauma, by Lorna Goldberg LCSW. 2025. This paper does not mention Siddha Yoga, but the similarities are so striking, we include it here.

Yoga and Sex Scandals, feat. Muktananda. New York Times, Feb., 2012

2001 to 2010

The “Eat, Pray, Love” guru’s troubling past. Salon, Aug., 2010

Pursuing SYDA. Eastbay Express, Jan., 2004

SYDA Tax exempt controversy. Cult Observer, 2002

The Heart of the Secret. Nova Religio, Oct., 2001

Spiritual Balm, at Only $23.95. New York Times, Oct., 2001

The Rest of the Story, by Pendragon

Definition of a cult by Pendragon

1991 to 2000

Goddess. Out Magazine, Dec/Jan., 1998

An ex-Swami Speaks Out. Conversations with an anonymous former SY Swami, 1997