Those who gave the most, lost the most....
Re: Re: Fence Sitting? -- shelagh Top of thread Forum
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Joe ®

05/31/2005, 11:54:42
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Perhaps that is a bit simplistic, but I think it is by and large true.  Whatever you label the various groups of premies and how heavily each group got into the cult, and the "total surrender and devotion" that Maharaji was constantly asking for, I think that basic principle is true.

So, if you lived in Maharji's ashram for 10 years, because you believed him when he said he was God incarnate, and that the route to being saved, experiencing true love, and having meaning to your life was to devote it entirely to him (which all turned out to be lies), you were heavily damaged, even if you didn't actually HATE living in the ashrams, or if living in the ashrams had some indavertent, postive, side effect, like getting people off drugs, although I know of not even one case in which that was true.

In addition to the financial losses, of turning all your money over to Rawat, there was the lost education, job experience, relationship-forming and interpersonal experience, and basically everything you are supposed to be doing in your 20s, but didn't do, because you gave your life to the Lord of the Universe.

And for most of us, our dedication also really hurt many people we loved.  I know it really hurt my family, friends, and I missed a lot of experiences and connections with them, and they felt deeply rejected by me, because they were.  And I felt bad out it, I really did, but I thought it was one of the sacrifices I did for a greater cause, and because Maharaji many times disdained family relations, probaly because his own relationship with his own famly sucked so bad.

That doesn't mean that you can't still be successful and happy in spite of that, it just means it's a huge loss, and a loss that Rawat doesn't even recognize, let alone take responsbility for.  I, personally, take responsibility for my part in all that, and that's part of the reason I take the time to talk about it now, because that's part of taking respsonsibility for it. 

But the idea that Rawat doesn't have the main responsibility for the damage he caused, and instead to blame the victim is absurd and offensive.  As long as Prem Rawat arrogantly continues to take that position, and lie about the past, it's likely more and more ex-premies will be a major problem for him for the rest of his life.

What is that old saying about how false Guru's get eaten by their devotees in the next life?  Perhaps Prem Rawat ought to re-read that one.






Modified by Joe at Tue, May 31, 2005, 12:00:19

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