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'Sahaja Yoga children have to be extremely well-disciplined... If they answer back give them two slaps, that's allowed... If you do not teach them they will be disrespectful to other people and other people will smack them, then you won't like it. But they have every right to smack if a child misbehaves, because children must know how to behave themselves.' [Sahaja Yoga Internal Circular 3, 7, cited in Judith Coney, Sahaja Yoga: Socializing Processes in a South Asian New Religious Movement (1999) p152]

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