That formal 'Vow' with its awful flowery language must have been something that was introduced in 73 - it was not something required of me in 72. However the 'promise' not to reveal the techniques was a clear rquirement and it is something that as a matter of personal integrity that I took seriously for thirty years.

Any vow, promise or other form of  'moral contract' only has the strength of the integrity of the context in which it was made - if the contract was based on a lie - the vow or promise can have no lasting validity. The Rawat techniques are now described in detail on at least three web sites - EPO, MikeF's site and PRMI. To forbid discussion of the techniques is absurd - it is a fundamentalist position which places a value on 'belief' that is at complete odds with reality.

Interestingly there seems to have been no ex premie discussion about what the individual techniques actually do - what is that actually happens - physiologically, mentally, psychologically, emotionally and/or (all material rationalists please look away now) spiritually - when the one uses those techniques.  Perhaps there is still a lingering taboo !

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