Editing Sahaja Yoga (section)

=== Apostasy ===
In common with similar movements, most people who have left the Sahaja Yoga movement do not describe their experience as being unremittingly negative, often finding something positive they can say.<ref name="coney1999" />{{rp|184}} Nevertheless, in interviews with ex-members Judith Coney heard various complaints, including that they had experienced unwanted [[arranged marriage]], had been dismayed by the difference between the reality of the movement and what they had expected, and had found their time in the movement frightening.<ref name="coney1999" />{{rp|182}}

The ex-members who believed they had gained some form of supernatural protection from being in the movement were generally fearful of being exposed to retribution for having left, perhaps in the form of a [[terminal illness]] or fatal accident.<ref name="coney1999" />{{rp|180}}