Like so much else that we are subjected to in society lately, what is put forth as truth is exactly the opposite. We were told back then that if we left the feet of the master, then we would turn into a rotten vegetable. By the way, that one really got to me for awhile and made me afraid to leave.
But the real truth is by staying at the feet of the master too long you, or at least your brain, turns into a rotten vegetable. Too many years of psychic dependence, lack of critical thought and cognitive dissonance has its effect apparently. I have seen that with so many of the recent posts by active followers.
Maybe and hopefully they manage well in the parts of their lives that are not directly associated with Rawat. But it is easy to imagine that it all slips into everything they do. Everything they experience in life gets interpreted through the filter of Rawatism.
It causes me to shutter really and reminds me why I left so long ago. I could feel it even then, the corrupting force of this absurd closed way of thinking on my brain and spirit.
I still remember making my first friends out of the cult. Another one of those reverse lies. Rather than them being ignorant, they were so much more vital and self aware and genuinely enjoying life than the premie community I had just left. It is because they were in control.
In the premie community everyone was trying to convince themselves and each other of their spiritual superiority and that they had the monopoly on joy and peace, when it was just a story we told each other. There was absolutely no truth to it and there still clearly isn't.
