Despite all this, Sung was still Benzun to many of his followers. Some claimed they had personally seen Sung leave his body and fly through the air, asking rhetorically "how could the photos be fake?" As for Sung's admission of guilt, some followers interpreted this as an act of "great compassion."
但是宋七力在許多信徒心中，仍然是如假包換的「本尊」，還有人聲稱曾親眼見到宋七力雲中分身，照片怎麼會假，至於宋七力本人認罪則被忠實信徒視為「大慈悲」的表現，令人百思不得其解。