Gok says that he does not understand why ex-premies are so critical of Rawat because of Jagdeo's crimes.  He says it would be understandable if it were established that Rawat knew of the crimes and did not do anything to stop them, but that this scenario has not been established.

As I (an ex) see it, the best scenario for Rawat in this regard is that Jagdeo was going around molesting premie children and Rawat never knew until 1999.  But even this scenario is not a positive one for Rawat.  He deserves criticism even in this scenario.  For instance, as Sandy often asks, why didn't Rawat know that Jagdeo was not a Mahatma and that he was an ugly pedophile instead?  This question effectively rules out any claim that Guru Maharaj Ji or Prem Rawat might have had in regard to omniscience.  But, leaving behind omniscience and just on a normal human level, it is pretty bad when a person (Rawat) has a man who is very high in his organization who is supposedly a spiritual giant among men, and he (Rawat) is totally blind to the real fact that this man is a sexual pervert, active for decades, right under Rawat's nose, as it were.  Rawat should have been far better in charge of his own organization, at the very least.

And people in the organization were told.  I don't know if Gok knows that Charnanand was told by A's father in 1985.  The questions arise: why didn't Charnanand inform Rawat of this very important information?  Wouldn't it be better for Rawat, far better in fact, if he were informed about this situation?  How can Rawat have been so completely left in the dark by his own people, namely Charnanand and Susan and Randy?  Do we place all the blame on Jagdeo and Charnanand and Susan and Randy, or does Rawat hold some of the blame, even if it is just that he was completely oblivious to the hell that was being perpetrated on those poor children?

I cannot believe that three different people under Rawat, who would do their best to serve him, would all have made the horrible mistake of keeping Rawat misinformed about Jagdeo.  Jagdeo was supposed to be answering to Rawat.  I know if I had been informed, telling Rawat would have been the utmost first priority.  My conclusion, though it is only my opinion, is that Rawat was told, more than once.  He ordered Jagdeo to tour the East only and he ordered other premies under his control to keep an eye on him.  This action was horribly insufficient.

This is all bad enough, whichever scenario is closest to the truth.  But when it was discovered, supposedly in 1999, that Jagdeo had committed these crimes, what happened?  Well, Jagdeo at that time was living in an ashram in India!!!!!   This is not an assumption.  It is verified by first hand accounts by people (now exes) that saw him living there, being waited upon hand and foot.  There was immediate denial from Elan Vital.  And then there was the claim that a complaint against Jagdeo had been filed in India.  What should have happened, of course, if that Jagdeo should never have not been allowed to leave the ashram and conveniently disappear.  Rawat should have talked with him before he disappeared and he should have made sure that correct legal action was taken.  But we know that Rawat does not concern himself with correct legal action in this sort of embarassing situation.  He is more concerned with protecting his own image.  We know this from another episode, the automobile accident.

I do not know if Gok understands better now why there is such bitterness toward Prem Rawat in this regard.  I can only say that this issue is not an issue in isolation, but is rather one example in a long list of similar grievances where Rawat has proven himself far less than the Perfect Master he makes himself out to be.