Honestly, isn't there something rather ill-fitting and forced about calling premies "students"?  Sure seems that way to me.  For one thing, most of you not only never meet your so-called "teacher", he doesn't even know your names or that you individually exist.  There's no personal interaction, no dialogue (other than the rare opportunity one might get to stand up in a crowded hall and tell him how much you love him!), no lessons, no actual teachings, no room for progress in the supposed "education" he's offering, no standards by which people either in the group or outside can properly judge this teacher.  He's got no credentials as a teacher other than what he claims to have.  And perhaps most importantly, no one ever knows if they've actually learned anything.

Take for example, Mike Finch.  If you agree with Jonx that Mike must have never really understood Rawat, you'd agree that there's no way of knowing if anyone ever does.  You can't point to anyone, not even his wife, and say they've learned what Rawat has to teach because, as you guys have done with Mike, the moment that person turns their back on Rawat you'll explain that they must have never understood him in the first place.

Really, aren't you all more like, oh I don't know .... cult members?  Wouldn't that be a better description, one that doesn't offend a perfectly good English word like "student"?