I also don't see anything deceptive about this, but the thing I find interesting is how the Rawat cult doesn't allow premies to talk about "knowledge" and certainly not their own "experience" in any of the events it puts on.

Premies can talk to each other about it, probably, but after satsang was banned, it appears that at all the cult events, ordinary premies are never asked to talk about their own experience with "knowledge," what they think it is, or how it affects their lives.

These video events are kind of hilarious, because they are so scripted.  That isn't deceptive, just controlling, in the way Rawat is.  There is this big fear that somebody might actually say something that isn't completely kosher and Rawat doesn't like that.  So, you only get Rawat droning in videos, or in person, the MC, and maybe one selected premie who actually gets to say something.

It's all so constipated and lifeless.  In their attempt to control everything down to the last second, they suck all the life out of it.

At least in the 70s and 80s, it was more open and free-wheeling, and ordinary premies felt they at least had as much right to get up and give satsang as anybody else.  True, there was a lot of group pressure to say the right things, and if you didn't you probably weren't called on to give satsang, but at least there was the expectation that ANYBODY with knowledge had the experience and could talk about it at cult events, be it nightly satsang, or programs, or intro events.

And then there is this pretense, or this almost fetish in the Rawat cult and I've observed, about trying to make everything so "professional" that it just ends up being dead.  It's just facade with no substance.

I went to an intro event about a year ago just to see and it was about the deadest, most boring thing I had ever attended.  There was a video that falsely implied that Rawat was speaking at "the UN," and then an "Initiator" spoke for about 10 minutes, mostly about the plants in her garden, and nothing about knowledge at all.  In fact, I couldn't figure out what she was trying to say,  except that she said she didn't know how to say it.   Really, really dead.

At least back in the 70s there was some dynamism and life.  At least people seemed enthusiastic.  What those guidelines show is pretty much a lack of enthusiasim.  More like somebody putting together a seminar for time management or something.  How exciting.