No matter where Rawat was, he never made much of an effort to spend any time with the premies.  He just didn't really care that much for them, I guess.  Plus, withholding his physical presence made being with him all the more rare and precious, and it made the aura of programs and darshan lines more alluring.  I think Rawat did that intentionally, because if you spent time with him personally, the fantasy of who he was necessarily wore off.

Part of the reason DECA was a big deal was that sometimes Rawat came there, so that was a big attraction, but even those premies didn't see him that much.  Since Rawat wanted that plane so badly, he was willing to actually compliment the premies working on it with verbal praise, or his physical presence, but in reality, he didn't give a shit about them, or even know their names; he just did it to get what he wanted.

It always was interesting to me that, for example, Rawat never visited ashrams, hardly ever visited any of the communities, etc., and when he did he was pretty much isolated from the actual premies, living in his large entourage bubble.

Premies could live in Malibu or Miami and never see Rawat, which was the usual case, actually.  He was in Miami lots of the time, but only the select few were actually allowed close contact.

I guess there was this rivalry among countries about having the living God on your soil.  I guess India was the first to feel deprived.  And I guess as we have talked about before, Australia was always pretty much "deprived" and the weird thing is, it's only in the fantasy world that made any difference at all.  I found that when Rawat was around, it was just nuts, with people acting  very uptight and weird.