During the DECA project (circa 1979-1981), which was essentially a cult slave camp for premies which did special projects for Maharaji, particularly revamping a Boeing 707 into luxury accommodations for HIM, including a gold toilet, there was a big push in the Rawat cult for everyone to move into the ashram because, well, ashram premies were a lot cheaper labor than married folk.  (DECA had both ashram and non-ashram premies working at the time, but no one was paid, although married people had to be given some money to live on, while ashram premies were paid nothing and housed in scummy, roach-infested, delapidated hotels on Miami Beach.)

Also, at that very time, Maharaji was ranting particularly loudly that "knowledge" was really secondary and DEVOTION and TOTAL AND COMPLETE SURRENDER TO HIM, were the ultimate and what everyone should be striving for.  [See, for example, the Christmas, 1979 satsang Rawat gave at DECA which was "phone fed" around the country, in which he said that if you didn't follow the path of devotion, you were destined for hell, and that, by the way, he was on the same level as Jesus Christ!]

Anyhow, the cult was ripe with pressuring married premies who were slaving at DECA  to get divorced and join the ashram, and cult attorneys in Elan Vital had a regular divorce mill going on processung the premie divorces.  It was mucho sick.  For a while, Cynthia, who posts here sometimes, worked with the attorneys who did that work in the cult.

Also, on a personal note, due to my propagation and harassment, my brother and his wife received knowledge in 1975, my brother being much more of a fanatical premie (like me) than his wife.  Anyhow, his wife saw through the con game that it was very soon, but my brother was interested in "devotion and surrender" (and why not, when Rawat was constantly saving that's what it was all about), and they separated for awhile and went through a very difficult time.  Fortunately, my brother also saw through it sometime after that, and also left the cult, and the the marriage continued.

However, my sister-in-law never completely forgave me for getting them into the cult, and causing their break-up (which was, fortunately, temporary), especially when, in 1996, my brother died of cancer at age 48.  I think my sister-in-law then felt that anytime they had together was precious, seeing as it was so short.

I apologized to her a number of times, and I think she understood that I was a totally brainwashed premie, and really believed all the crap about knowledge, and Maharaji, that we now know to be horseshit.  She said she understood, although, to this day, I still feel bad about it.