2. Brainwashing or thought reform is not an appropriate term to explain conversion

There's more than enough room for Rawat to both be deluded into thinking that he's something special -- Lord, Satguru, you name it -- and for him also to have regularly consciously lied all over the place in order to decieve and bamboozle.  Another of your simplistic, false distinctions. 

As for the propriety of "brain washing" or "thought reform", those terms are debatable but that's not what I was criticizing you for, now was it?  I was taking issue with your implication that there's some truth to the notion that we're an apostate (a pejorative in your lexicon) hate-group bent on attacking the free expression of religion.

You should be kicked off this forum.  That's very clear to me now.