Can you point out somewhere where he says that? Or demonstrate how one could directly interpret something he says as such?

If you don't know this, you aren't listening to him.  He says he is essential to the experience.  While he no longer claims to be God and the source of the experience, which he explicity did for years until that was no longer considered something that would sell, he still maintains you need him to keep you on track.  In other words, it isn't okay to just receive knowledge and dump Rawat.  See, JHB's post below fore specific quotes from Malibu Prem.

No, but they should have, because it is, when you're doing it.

How nice, but completely irrelevent to the contradiction I was pointing out.  Rawat says knowledge is easy and natural and your real "self" but then it's really hard to experience it.  So, it's contradictory, and also what is known as "bait and switch."  People are told to give it a try and see if you like it, but then when it doesn't work, it's because it's really hard and you need Rawat.  Like I said, "bait and switch."

And I'm not talking about common sense, although that would be helpful as well.  I'm talking about taking Rawat on his own terms, and I think what happens to premies, as it did to me, is not really faith, it's something called "magical thinking," doing some of what you are doing in that you believe something and then twist reality to support it.   That's what you have to do to be a premie, unfortunately.  And that is neither faith or common sense.