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"Devotion" meant devotion to him. Devotion to the guru. As Rawat put it in this attached Q&A session from the Gallery:
"Devotion is the flow of love from a devotee to his Lord and darshan is seeing the Lord's physical form."
If you weren't into this then you weren't playing Rawat's game and that makes you, by definition, a bad premie. I mean, come on, why can't you admit this?
As for doing whatever Maharaji says for the rest of your life, that's exactly what we were supposed to want to do. Again, if you weren't into it, good for you. But that's what the trip was all about. There's no denying.
Jim, you know that most of the people who receive Knowledge leave, some after only a few weeks. EPO estimates that approximately 90% of the people who receive Knowledge eventually leave - i.e. stop practicing.
In the late 70s and 80s I must have seen about 30 or so people get Knowledge and that was it, I never saw them again, except maybe on the street. I don't even know if they tried the techniques more than once - and that was during the Knowledge session. And these were the people were interested enough to actually ask for it. Nine people received Knowledge because of me, none of whom still practice.
I on the other hand I stuck around for 28 years - 28 years. In fact I still meditate to this day - still meditate - although a variation of K. Sure I wasn't corporate, was never in the ashram, thought for myself, did my own thing, definitely fringe, but I was a premie - a "lover of Truth" with a capital T, a lover of the energy of meditation.
So you come on for God sakes! I was a good premie. I dedicated my life to the experience and still do.
Modified by Steve at Sat, Aug 20, 2005, 21:00:38
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