●   ●   ●    harmless failing in one person might be a dangerously culpable fault in someone at a higher stage of moral and spiritual development. When pointing out their “sins” to some of her most devoted students she often indicated that she meant the unrecognized tendencies or suggestions that blurred their spiritual sense, tainted their judgment with personal bias, tricked them into forgetting vital duties, and opened the way for them to become the unsuspecting tool of others’ more devious thinking.