...Maharaji is a trick of the light. He is an imaginary friend. A relationship with "him" requires a vast number of magical assumtions, and superstitous good will to support.

 When you start to discover what you have been investing in your imaginary friend, master, mentor or whatever, you begin to see what you have been making your own concealed identity out of.

Religion is a vast gallery of imaginary friends, highly ambiguous luminous faces and bodies available for pegging every unexamined aspect of your personality on-free of charge! Rawat is one more.

Orthodox religious movements re-enforce there glamourous personas with an awesome abstraction/myth called God. Rawat has the mystic experience of "Knowledge" as his personal thunderbolt. Neither experience is penetrable to reason and leaves the believer/observer feeling at once scared, dependent yet invincible! What an awkward combination that is.The whole mess is dangerous and I wish I had been a little more circumspect in my time. Gurus trade on mugs like me with un examined hero problems.

IMO holy men of all descriptions are antiques. I have no respect for their antics.As a premie of 25 years I am in a position to know about the concealed intentions of both devotees and their masters. Yuchh.

Prem Rawat has never been put in the situation that he has put John MacG. in. My respect and encouragement to JM. He leaves his master far behind imo

Love

Bryn