As a premie and a good student, that's exactly what Prem Rawat taught. He took it further and said realize it... make Knowledge real in your life. By extension, ZERO = Guru Maharaji = Prem Rawat. To complete the beief system: to dissolve into or become one with (hold your nose) Prem Rawat.

Ego was defined as any identity I adopted, e.g., Elmer J. Fudd who owns a mansion and a yacht, that was separate from Guru Maharaji. Duality... where there is duality, there is no Knowledge. Perfect concentration on a perfect thing where there is no separation between you and that perfect thing.

"The sword that kills our problem life," where the problem with my life was separation from Guru Maharaji. A life plagued by ego and duality. A life I strived to jettison in favor of something else... nothingness. Self-immolation of the human spirit including my intelligence, creativity and freedom to pursue anything worldly.

(Did anyone here ever mention stunted growth?)

It makes me cringe to reflect on how far gone I was in those days. 

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If the whole world is an illusion, then all human constructs are as well, including right, wrong and common values... all irrelevant because they're just part of the illusion. In other words, anything goes and anything can be rationalized any way one wants and who's to say otherwise, especially in furtherance and defense of the master.

But it's even more twisted. Premies would bristle at being thought of as so stupid as to believe everything is an illusion. So to them, it only serves as a rationalization for their ends justify the means efforts to do whatever Prem Rawat asks demands of them. It adds elements of deception, duplictity and ethical depravity. 

By all objective accounts, this is nothing more than a moral-less, ethically bankrupt, money grabbing cult enterprise run by the same. I could go even darker but it's too nice of a day.

Thank you, Maria. I know I didn't add anything you didn't already know, but I wanted to support your much appreciated posts.