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I agree, & that's been the consensus here for a great many years, but of course the forum is a blank slate to be written on, rather than a repository of accumulated wisdom. When I left the cult, suddenly & brutally after 28 yrs in, as a result of finding EPO on the net, I had to think about many things as a consequence. Not that I hadn't thought about them before, just that doing so with Rawat's ball & chain fastened around my ankle slowed progress to a crawl.
So now I'm an agnostic in religion, a sceptic in science, & a populist in politics. It's possible I will change my mind on the latter 2, but never on the 1st. We can't know, never will know, & never have known, what happens after death.
All the same, the religious instinct is part of the human condition. I retain an attachment to a Catholic superstition implanted in my childhood, impossible to explain or justify in rational terms, but I maintain it because of something that happened in my life at the age of 14.
I was on holiday in Portugal last month & went to Fatima. If you want to see what a Divine City looks like.... it's just like every other city. There wasn't anything there 100 yrs ago, but now there's this large town which seems to have been in place forever. There's a plaza in front of the church which reputedly can hold half a million people. The scale is vast, all built with donation money, Rawat eat your heart out, & the vibe is boringly normal yet totally tolerant. There were a few people knocking about who would certainly have been on the bongo list in Rawatworld, but they weren't given any hassle & prevented from taking part.
I didn't have an epiphany, but then I wasn't expecting one.
I shan't be going back, once was enough, just to see. 
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