I thought very little of and about Rawat. He said "Accept my Knowledge, don't accept me" and I was prepared to take him at his word. Was he the Satguru? Time would tell and it did and in the meantime I just practised ss&m as well as I could and let God worry about the details and trust Grace would shower down upon me. Seemed to work out pretty well.Really your misunderstanding is encapsulated in your question "Did you THINK Rawat was the Satguru". It wasn't about thinking, it was about experiencing.
PS In retrospect this was all just concepts of course.