Hello Ghi,

Will, your writing (above) about what one believes as a motivation for practicing Knowledge and listening to Maharaji approaches the inquiry in a logical, but jagged way, from how I read it I know there are a number of scholars, lawyers posting here who hold logical reasoning in higher regard than feeling. I totally understand that perspective, working in a Bio-Tech field.

It isn't true that people who post here who are "scholars, lawyers...hold logical reasoning in higher regard than feeling."   Premies and Prem Rawat hold no exclusive license to having feelings, good or bad, and it certainly isn't true that if one likes to be a critical thinker that one automatically eschews feelings.  I notice that you didn't pluralize the word "feeling."  Where did you get that idea?  By using the word "feeling" (singular) do you really mean the experience of something spiritual or metaphysical when you "experience knowledge?"  Do you mean to say that everyone who is logical/reasonable automatically rejects all feelings, or that they reject the spiritual, or your word, "feeling"?

Why not use the words that can be understood by everybody?  Isn't that what real communication is all about?  If you don't say what you mean, using the English language (the language we write here) how will anyone know what you're talking about and that's a secretive, deceptive device that M uses all of the time, and always has used.  Ambiguity.  Until, of course, someone winks with him about what all this Prem Rawat and Knowledge stuff is "really about."  Read:  Maharaji is something more special than a normal human being, or that Maharaji is the "perfect master" or the "Lord."  That's talking in code.  Premies and Prem Rawat use this device of communication all of the time.  Or is it a fact that if someone listens to the Keys, or other videos of Prem Rawat, that they'll eventually "gain more understanding or learn more," hence breaking the Rawat/Knowledge language code?

Also, I'm willing to bet that if I ask you if you think that Maharaji is the Lord, you will come back with an explanation that the word "Lord" is ambiguous and confusing.  Unexplanable and individually interpretable.  Other premies have used that reasoning before when asked about it here.  So, do you think Maharaji is the Lord, Ghi?  Why not say it outright?  What's to hide?  It's a true experience, right?

Also, what do you think about the fact that Prem Rawat protected a pedophile, Jagdeo, who seriously wounded several young children of premies by sexually abusing them, while purportedly doing service at premie-run schools.  Rawat basically did nothing to protect those kids when he had full information about what was going on, and further, didn't warn any parents that a pedophile was among them and was a huge potential danger to their children.  Is that a "limited world thing" too?  Do you still believe in Lila?

If the experience of Knowledge and being a devotee of Prem Rawat is so unlimited, why then does he tell premies not to read EPO?  If EPO is all lies, as premies contend all of the time, why not then respond fully and openly to it, instead of censoring one's reading of it?  Or is it placed fully in the category of "mind?"

Cynthia