and gets off the hook for that.  Here we were, for years, walking around looking like idiots with our tongues stuffed back up our nasal passages, and following our breath while humming "so hung" and really, that was just not necessary at all.  It was all just, a mistake, and those commandments were just...wrong all along.

And then there was the countless hours I sat in satsang when I would have rather be doing anything else, and that wasn't necessary either, nor was it apparently necessary to do marathon meditations, or meditate formally both day and night. 

What I don't get is how premies pretty much let a lousy, ineffectual, incompetent "teacher" get away with that, without even an explanation, let alone an apology.

And then, of course, the ashrams, the demands for devotion and surrender, and all that, and the quiet dropping of all those things as unnecessary to the practice of knowledge, when he demanded them before, is even worse.

But I think your reaction is the only way it can be rationalized.  That what was before was just wrong (instigated by others), and finally being corrected (hard to believe when he did it all himself), or that Rawat does whatever he does and it's just perfect and you can't understand it with your mind.

It's that last mindset that people need to know about.  Most people wouldn't give Rawat a second thought if they knew the truth about that.  That new website, BTW, lays that out very well.