"Knowledge is a tool to know life."

Well, I think K is a lot more than a tool.  In fact Knowledge is very much like God. Knowledge is not only the means but also the end. And how could it really be otherwise? How can you possibly 'know' the 'infinite' without 'becoming' it. How can you possibly 'know' that what you 'experience' through the 4 techniques is in fact infinite or unchanging? The finite cannot know the infinite, the imperfect cannot know the perfect. It is only by  becoming 'it' ( realising K) that you can say 'yes, there is something I can call an infinite and unchanging Truth within me.' There is a famous mystic in the Muslim world who had this experience and declared " I am God.", and as a result he was hacked to pieces by the mob.

Maharaji says this experience is infinite and with the same breath he says he has not realised it 'because' it is infinite. Well, how then does he 'know' that it is infinite? Maharaji says that this experience (the Knowledge) is perfect. How does he know that? How can he possibly know that the nature of what he experiences is 'unchanging'?

If you take out Maharaji's satsang from the picture how many premies do you think would come to the conclusion that what they experience within is indeed infinite or perfect or the Self?

Yes, practicing Knowledge 'does' give people a sense of 'perspective' on life but it is only that, a perspective. The individual (experience) has been translated into the 'universal'. Where it enters the religious territory is when it claims - as it must - the singularity of that perspective. Supposedly rooted in personal experience it only delivers an expereince in the image of the Master. First comes the 'input' and only then the experience. If the input changes so does the experience. It is not what you think but 'how' you think, it is not what you see but how you interpret it.

What I have found since leaving Knowledge is a confirmation of my suspicions that I was in fact full of concepts. I had borrowed much from Maharaji in good faith like a child does from a parent and now like a grown up I am very careful with what I pick and choose. Do I feel the need for a tool , a key to unlock Life ? No. Do I have answers? Yes and no. Have I found another Way ? No. Am I looking for another Way? No. Am I learning? Yes. 

Do I believe that as Maharaji claims " Each of us is a complete human being. We could not be more complete. Nothing can be done to embellish a human being." No. The fact that people are 'ignorant' of that fact (!) and that they need Knowledge and the Master means that they are in fact not so complete after all.. Do I believe that heart is good and mind is bad? No. Do I believe that feeling is superior to thinking ? No. The heart is just as capable of leading man astray as the mind. I would say that man does not suffer from thinking too much but too little. To sum it up I do not believe that we are part of some perfectly intelligent design which can somehow be 'revealed' to us by an embodiment of that perfection. If Knowledge was indeed 'essential' to the fulfilment of  human existence on this earth we would have every right to expect a better 'delivery' of this from God then providing mankind with just one Master to carry out this task. Maybe God does not want to make it easy for man. I was reading in the newspaper today a quote from a jewish doctor who survived Auschwitz who said after being freed : " We didn't see God when we expected him, so we have no choice but to do what he was supposed to do: we will protect the weak, we will love, we will comfort. From now on the responsibility is all ours."                                                                                                                                         

All the best