This goes in line with a lot of the dogma that many of us internalized as premies.

One was that Maharaji is controlling everything, and we can't understand the purpose of bad things happening, but it's all for our benefit, to make us grow, surrender and be saved.

The other was that everything is really perfect, and if we just surrender to Maharaji, we will be okay.  This is basically the reasoning behind Marolyn's appalling "head in the sand" position with respect to child abuse.

The third was that if you focus on something "negative" it's "mind" or is otherwise detrimental to your experience of knowledge.  In retrospect, it's unusual that someone like Marolyn would even have admitted to reading Time or Newsweek.  Rawat NEVER talked about having read anything (except perhaps training manuals or something).  As a premie, being labeled "negative" was a devastating insult, and would usually shut you up right away.

The really, really "negative" thing about all this is how vulnerable it made premies, and their children.  For example, to suspect that Jagdeo might molest your kid was just unthinkable, because Rawat and Marolyn were saying to just trust Maharaji, and that he's in control.  How could the Perfect Master allow his most trusted Mahatama to molest your kid?

And if it turned out that he did, well, even that could be rationalized as a lesson of some sort, to help you grow.  I actually wonder if that ever happened.