Following is a link to frequently asked questions on premrawat.com: carefully crafted information disseminated in the form of carefully crafted answers to carefully crafted questions for the purpose of conveying a carefully crafted image.
I'm posting it because, being the Prem Rawat Talk Forum, I suspect that more than a few Prem Rawat enthusiasts may have said something like "If only they had a clue about what they're talking about." (As if a combined century or centuries of sincerely practicing Knowledge as taught doesn't count.) So here it is, the unedited, fully sanitized, squeaky clean current iteration of the revised Prem Rawat cult:
https://www.premrawat.com/faq/
A few thoughts:
"With Knowledge, there's no need to be anywhere else or think anything else - no need for an awareness of anything other than the sweet delight of being."
Really? Perhaps a monumental lapse in judgement or some sort of Freudian Slip on the part of the editor to include that?
"Actually, the noise going on out there is nothing compared to the noise we generate within our own minds..." (Examples of "noise" mentioned include doubts, ambition, expectations, lack of focus, confusion, procrastination and mental acrobatics.)
Without that "noise," i.e., unavoidable and completely normal functioning of the human psyche... fundamental to everyday life in the real world and essential for physical and social survival... nature... our own mind... billions of years in the making, there would be no impetus for self-correction. No impetus to strive to overcome our shortcomings and pay attention to our conscience... the one that acknowledges mistakes, responds to shame and guilt when we let ourselves and others down - or even hurt others - and compels us to move forward. The mind is not "noise," nor is it our enemy.
"I am in heaven when my heart is content, when it sings with gratitude for its existence. That's when I really feel alive."
Sings with gratitude for the Master f/k/a Perfect Master a/k/a Prem Rawat after "my existence means nothing to me without HIM to thank for it" kicks in and takes over: the true nature of their relationship with Prem Rawat that he fosters and does nothing whatsoever to dissuade or discourage. Clever little bait and switch. Clever little mention of "heaven" as yet another dog whistle to the flock.
"Prem Rawat's Peace Education and Knowledge (PEAK) course is a prerequisite to help you gain a solid foundational understanding about the value of personal peace. At the conclusion of this self-paced course, you can choose to request a workshop, called a Knowledge Session, to learn the techniques. There is no charge to participate in PEAK or the Knowledge Session."
I included this to help clarify PEAK and the up-to-date Knowledge/Self-Knowledge preparation process, which appears to have replaced The Keys. Knowledge Session watered down and presented as an innocuous "workshop"...
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So clean. So polished, disarming and alluring. Impeccable. What could possibly be wrong or even harmful with any of it?
A siren song perhaps?
Prem Rawat vastly minimizes his role. The resulting focus, centralization and dependency on him in a practitioner's life remains deliberately hidden. For those who've been there and were fortunate enough to escape, the deliberate omission of "for whom" after the emphasis on "gratitude" is glaring: "gratitude" for a person with a reprehensible past who's never been held accountable. The wholesale corruption of an innocent person's otherwise healthy social conscience, which I understand actually means something to today's youth. Again:
"...there's no need to be anywhere else or think anything else - no need for an awareness of anything other than the sweet delight of being."
"Peace?" Derived from setting aside or overlooking Prem's well-documented and (surely by now) well-known hypocrisy, financial exploitation, morally depraved behavior and peace enhancing substance addictions? How selfish must a person be to sellout their own values, moral convictions and basic right and wrong as a result of deliberately overlooking the truth about Prem Rawat just for their own self-absorbed so-called peace? As far as I'm concerned, that's the opposite of peace, dignity and integrity.
There are those who don't know about these things, those who don't want to know and look away, those who know and don't care and those who are fully aware with too many self-serving and vested financial and social interests to put at risk. Except for the first group, seldom have I witnessed such a willful abdication of precious and common values in such ugly ways for such selfish and self-absorbed ends.
All in the name of peace.