Rawat's teaching is made up of proclamations that are meant to be accepted as universal truths. He offers no rational, answers, or explanations. The Keys will outline Rawat's teaching, his basic proclamations, and attempt to indoctrinate people into believing them. Rawat's teaching has not changed from past years, only the presentation. The new presentation will allow critique in a more precise way.
Is Rawat's teaching actually true?
Rawat correctly says that there is no way he can convince another person of the validity of what he tells people. The proof is in the pudding, more precisely the eating of the pudding. This much of what Rawat says is indeed true. But how much of the pudding does a person have to eat before he knows the truth about Rawat's teaching? Most people reject Rawat's teaching immediately upon learning about his concept of a living Master. The concept of a God broker is fundamentally ridiculous and repulsive to most people. On the other extreme, other people might have to receive Knowledge and practice it for 30 years or more before they discover that they don't agree with Rawat afterall!
Rawat's teaching is designed to trap people into a long process. He calls it a journey, somebody else might call it a struggle. The process is the attempt to find perfect peace, the ultimate fulfillment, by attaining some sort of inner experience. Rawat says that Knowledge is the way to find this perfect state and that it takes a lifetime commitment to grow more and more deeply into this state. Rawat claims that Knowledge is NOT a formula for experiencing peace, but this proclamation is one of the seriously flawed parts of Rawat's teaching. The fact is that Knowledge is exactly that, a formula for experiencing a state of mind that the practitioner hopes will bring him perfect peace and all the answers and all the happiness that he has ever wished for in his life.
Rawat's teaching is false. This might seem unfortunate to some people, or it might seem fortunate. I think it is just the way that it is and the unfortunate part is that people get caught in a wild goose chase, trying to achieve a perfect state of being that is not humanly possible.
The fact is that nobody who has received Knowledge from Rawat and practiced the Knowledge as taught has ever been transformed the way that Rawat promises. Rawat continues to talk to his students as if they are beginners, as if he does not expect anybody to really achieve what he talks about.
The best thing to do is to distrust Rawat and all other teachers who promise you the Kingdom of Heaven if you will just do it their way, and to reject Rawat immediately. The next best thing is to see for yourself. Take as long or as short a time as you need. Find out what your own heart has to say. Absolutely! Find out what your own happiness is dependent upon. Do you really find something "within" you that provides you everything you need as Rawat promises.
Rawat's foremost proclamation is "that which you are looking for is within you." This is a falsehood. What we are looking for is not some light hidden deep within our psyches nor some profound feeling of independent interior peace. Rawat's proclamation is actually nonsensical and hopelessly simplistic. It is nothing but a sophism. It is easy to understand that our fulfillment as human beings depends upon many things that can be called "outer" as well as things that can be called "inner." And the proclamation presumes that there is some single thing that we are looking for and which we can find, the Holy Grail. Is this inner thing God? If so, then Rawat never says so. Instead, even after you have watched hundreds of hours worth of his video talks, you will still not know whether he is talking about God or not.
There are many such proclamations that Rawat makes that are simply incorrect. These falsehoods should be pointed out and deconstructed. As the Keys are revealed, so will the controversy surrounding Rawat continue.
