I agree. Although I don't think Maharaji has ever had the awareness or skill to have any kind of thought-out plan about how to proceed.  He just tries stuff and then pretends it's somebody elses's fault when it doesn't work, as it never does.

Great about the balancing act that Rawat is trying to undertake.  He needs to keep his donation base and a means of getting his pathological need to be worshipped satisfied by the 70s premies who think he's God and want to be part of a devotional cult, while at the same time, he is trying to recruit new people into something entirely different, or at least on the surface is different.  If he goes too far in one way or the other, he loses people.

True, the propagation efforts are a joke and doomed to failure.  Even if somebody receives knowledge, going through the strange and convoluted "keys" process, unless they get the devotional bug, they won't stay around, and certainly won't give money.  His hope is that they will transfer into the devotional cult-world at some point, or at least some of them will.  If they don't, they don't do him much good.  There isn't enough "there" there in the practice of four meditation techniques to keep people involved otherwise.