In the last 70s Rawat's dogma changed so that the goal was devotion, rather than God-realization, but it was implied that it was all the same thing, and, of course, Rawat never would admit that his teachings had, in fact, changed.  That would have not comported with the "one-eternal-and-never-changing-truth" dogma.

At the time, like in 1977-1978, I saw it as putting blinders on, and only seeing Rawat, and that it was no longer possible to even really practice knowledge on your own with some guidance from Prem.  It bacame Prem as the center of it all, with any experience or progress with knowledge as completely up to him, by his grace (or whim), and we shouldn't even think about realizing knowledge anymore.

In retrospect, that's really clear, but at the time, I was just accepting it all because I felt guilty that I had spaced out (got too secular) in 1976.