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The new website "Not the Keys" will be helpful as time goes on and we see more of the Keys. I suggest the name "The Anti-Keys". I think it will be important for new people to understand a little about the actual "experience" that Knowledge is supposed to produce. The Keys themselves will not speak about this experience. They will only indoctrinate about the thirst, the need for fulfillment, and the supposed ability of Knowledge to bring about an experience that is otherwise not available to people. They will teach people that following Rawat and practicing Knowledge is the best way to obtain such an experience. But what is this experience, actually? The Keys won't say. What will be said is that a person must dedicate to a long-term practice of Knowledge to grow more and more into that experience. What I as an ex-premie understand about the experience is probably agreed upon by most if not all ex-premies, namely that the actual experience is nothing more than the good feelings anyone can get from life, such as love and honor and peace and understanding and honesty and inner silence and energy, etc, etc. What Rawat teaches is that Knowledge = all these good feelings. What practicing premies do is accept this simple equation. They do not understand or acknowleldge that they can grow into the experience they call Knowledge without being a premie. What Rawatism boils down to is this simple equation: Knowledge = the good feeling inside. The Keys will teach this equation. Now maybe the equation as given has some truth to it. The practice of Knowledge may indeed help some people open up to the heart. They may enjoy the approach of Knowledge. But does the reverse of the equation hold true? Does the good feeling inside = Knowledge? NO! It is the essential problem of all cults that they attempt to define the heart in their own very narrow viewpoint. Individual peace and world peace must never be attempted in such a cultish way. It is a waste of time, a folly, an absolute inaccuracy. And this is why Rawat has such a public relations problem. He has no chance to achieve the kind of growth that he seems to be attempting with the Keys. New people who study the Keys will certainly wonder about the experience. It is important for us, I think, to offer an explanation (based on our own experiences as former premies). The first thing to say is that the experience is not enlightenment or God-consciousness or Nirvana or SatChitAnand or merging with the Infinite. If it were, it could be described as such. The second thing to say is that the experience is the inherent feeling of the heart that we all can tap into if we want by all the normal means that human beings already know. Here is how a current practicing premie (who calls himself Ghi) has described the Experience of Knowledge here on this forum in the last few days: "...The experience matters, not the party line. Many people do have a genuine experience that is not dissectible with logic as theologians do with religion, because this is not a religion. The experience of knowledge is honesty. There is a lot of enthusiasm and real, heightened, awareness of life. Many people in the U.S, and elsewhere of course, enjoy Maharaji, his inspiration, and knowledge. There are more and more who are finding it real, helpful, and not in conflict with their professional or social worlds. People are attracted to the energy and clarity that knowledge opens up, which is what attracted most of us in the first place. (The Keys are) sincere efforts to show people a way to realize what already is. It’s good the emotional bang fizzled out, because peeling back reality to the core, there is not emotion, nor thought, but stillness and energy. The experience and resulting kindness, energy, and acceptance from Knowledge keeps growing. ~ Kind regards, Ghi End of quote. I have edited out some side comments by Ghi. See his full posting a few threads below. Whenever Rawat or his students talk about the actual experience, they always talk about all the normal good feelings, such as kindness, energy, acceptance, gratitude, stillness, honesty, clarity, heightened awareness. BUT, then they given the credit first to Rawat, and then to their own practice of Knowledge. They believe what they are saying, based on their experience. But they have allowed themselves to follow a narrow path and to frame all their experiences in that path. People beware. Do not accept the equation that Rawat teaches. Find your own path to peace and love.
Modified by Will at Fri, May 06, 2005, 10:59:09 |
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