Likewise, the meditation techniques that Maharaji supposedly teaches are not secret, not new and are known about by people the world over. I knew that even then, after all breath meditation is possibly the simplest form of meditation. What I was testing by continuing to practise Knowledge was whether or not the premies' promise that Guru Maharaji had the Grace that would empower the meditation techniques was true or not. "By their fruits ye shall know them" was the constant refrain. Well at least it was until that was definitely not true and then Rawat switched to it was some sort of inner peace that couldn't be detected by anybody else and it wouldn't make you a better person or give you a better life. Well, then why bother?