Recognising the beauty of nature and feeling a profound connection with it all is something that surely we all do and have felt from time to time - and everyone has forever - read Thomas Hardy or so many
His words or not I don't doubt that Prem Rawat has also felt this - just like anyone else. Good for him in a way. But the self - delusion part is where you go on to imagine that such experiences mark you out as in any way special - and to validate you as a teacher etc etc - and so the trouble starts.