Rawat's brains-trust have come up with a very good retelling of the standard story of the sudden illumination of Cosmic Consciousness in the garden with a nice touch - under the magnolia trees. Rawat has spent 50 years without ever telling this story and has always denigrated the reality of any "personal realisation" claimed without using His Knowledge.

In the nearly 1,000 copies of his speeches I have, he has never once before used the phrases "into the garden" or "grasp the moment" or "open to the day" or "into the feeling" or "a perfect sentiment" or "felt good just to be" or "a perfect moment" or "this day is for you." It's not his story because it's not his vocabulary.

One day I went out into the garden and had this desire to grasp the moment. I remember my heart was entirely open to the day and I was happy walking around inspecting everything growing there. A little later, I was sitting under one of the magnolia trees, looking at the clouds and the flowers, when I had an overpowering sense that whatever created me also made these magnolia trees and the perfumed flowers, and put the dew on the lawn, and carried the sun from horizon to horizon, and made those fat clouds float across the blue sky. In that moment, the he or she or it that originally created me said, very softly: "Just feel." It was a perfect sentiment for a perfect moment. Just feel. From then on I could sit under that magnolia tree and go into a feeling in which I had no wants, no wishes, no inner need to do anything. It felt good just to be. Ever since, a voice has continued to say to me: "This day is for you," and it means that day back in the garden just as it means the day I'm living in right now.

Maybe Monika is right, we are about to see the next wave of new people clamoring for Rawat's Knoledge