I stand by calling him 'charismatic' though - inasmuch as 'to have charisma' means 'to be able to captivate an audience and guide their thought processes to where you want them to go', he's very good. We have a new evangelical church here in New Zealand (first of its type, or at least loudest and most prominent of its type) which is basically one very charismatic leader and a whole bunch of homophobia parading as 'family values', and it's charisma in that sense that I'm talking about.

Rawat's charismatic only to people who've turned off their critical faculties.  Anyone who observes him otherwise sees how vacuous and impossible he really is.  His charisma is like a hot house flower that can't weather the real elements.  What I mean is that the guy's so weak he can't endure a simple dialogue with any of his former followers.  For all his weirdness, I bet even that preacher you're talking about is able to talk with people.  Rawat can't.  He's too afraid.  If that's charisma .....