Here are the three promises as Rawat himself outlines them:

 Before I give you Knowledge, I will ask you for three promises.

(1) The first one is to give Knowledge a fair chance. It’s important for me to know that you are going to give Knowledge a fair chance, not just say, “Now I have it.” Some people receive it, and they have certain expectations. Get rid of the expectations, and you'll have something better. If you are going to give Knowledge a fair chance, you have to approach it with determination to let the seed grow.

(2) The second promise that I ask for is to keep in touch. Keep in touch with me  through my message, through the practice of Knowledge. Come to my events. Come and hear what I am saying. Let me help you remove your doubts. Let me help to inspire you, clarify and remind you again and again what is important, so you can continue to grow.

(3) The third promise I will ask for is not to reveal these techniques to anyone. Let other people go through their own journey, and when they are ready, like you, they can get it. There are no shortcuts to it. There are shortcuts to many things in life, but there is no shortcut when the heart is going to be the judge. The heart cannot be talked into anything. The mind can be convinced, but the heart has to feel the real thing. Let people prepare. Then they, too, can have the techniques when they are ready.

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The questions we can ask right away are these - Will Rawat's message and teaching  be accepted by the general public?  Is Rawat's message and teaching compatible with the values and purposes of the United Nations?  Will Rawat gain the wide acceptance and legitimacy that he is currently attempting to gain.  The answer, because of the three promises, is a resounding no.

What the United Nations and Rawat have in common is that they speak about peace.  And there the similarity ends.  Rawat's method for attaining peace comes with requirements, or "promises" as he puts it.  The promises require that a person commit indefinitely to allegiance to him and four meditation techniques.  All the promises are designed to keep a person in allegiance to a specified method for a very long time.  This amount of time is the rest of one's lifetime.  The United National will never accept Rawat's method.  It is utterly hopeless.  Rawat's attempt to align himself with the United Nations is utterly pathetic.  The United Nations and the general public will do nothing but laugh at him.  The appearance of a confirmation of Rawat by the United Nations is entirely fake. The only reaction that premies can have to this effort is to be embarrassed and appalled.

This situation then demands the second question - will some individual seekers study the Keys and become premies? Rawat's Keys do not initially explain how long "a fair chance" will take, nor does he limit the time that a person must promise to attend his programs.   A  person who accepts the Keys and accepts discipleship with Rawat will become a member of a tiny cult.  The success of this cult will be miniscule in the West but that success might be enough for Rawat and his students to continue stubbornly on for many years to come.

We will probably never learn just how many people go through the 6 Keys.  We will probably never learn how many of those graduates will continue with the practice for any length of time.  If the numbers are impressively large, they will be published by Elan Vital and the Prem Rawat Foundation.  If they are embarrassingly small, no mention of the numbers will be made.  One thing we can be sure of -  the reported numbers will be exaggerated in either case.

The Keys and this latest effort at propagation is the most serious and public effort ever made by Rawat and his organization.  Its failure is almost guaranteed.  But, unlike past propagation efforts, the failure of this program will leave little hope for a next effort of a different sort.  This appears to be a last ditch effort.  In the future, Rawat himself will be embarrassed to attend his own dwindling "events" in the West because it will be obvious to everyone that he is a failed Master with no real understanding about peace or the world we live in.

Rawat's only real hope was to denounce guruism and to abandon the three promises and all such cultic methods.  In that way, he might have been able to  maintain a position of respect in the world as a inspirational speaker about inner peace and world peace.  Who knows, he actually might have made some sort of valuable contribution to the world.  But I am afraid that he has missed his chance.  Instead, he will be the cause of his own downfall.