...a quote from the mad mustachiod Mr Nietzsche. I couldn't have put it better myself.-

"Blind Pupils:as never yet grown great without his blind

As long as a man knows very well the strength and weaknesses of his teaching, his art, his religion, its power is still slight. The pupil and apostle who, blinded by the authority of the master and by the piety he feels toward him, pays no attention to the weaknesses of a teaching, a religion, and soon usually has for that reason more power than the master. The influence of a man has never yet grown great without his blind pupils. To help a perception to achieve victory often means merely to unite it with stupidity so intimately that the weight of the latter also enforces the victory of the former." 

from Nietzsche's Human, all too Human, s.122, R.J. Hollingdale transl.

The above sure applied to me for 25 years of premie devotion to the master and his "teachings". (what are they anyway?)

The trouble was that I found Maharaji before I had made any serious attempt to find myself. I was nothing more than a  conglomeration of inherited assumptions, family stuff etc.. M and K just legitimated a comfortable state of arrested development and pleasant feelings of superiority.

I think the same was true for Prem Rawat too. He took on board a big "something" as an unconsciouss child/youth, and only slowly woke up to what he was doing in the process of time.

I think he very clearly perceived the above  Nietzsche truth, somewhere in mid stream as it were, and has cynically and opportunistically just let it ride to his advantage ever since.

"What a wanker" is my present view of such behaviour. It reminds my of Prince Charles and his  diffident embrace of all things alternative all the while with that sad powerless trapped expression that impliesthat he is imprisoned by the responsibility of his position. Bollocks! He chooses the convenient optiion, and weakly attempts to hide the fact by a veneer of lame spirituality.

"Come clean Mr Rawat, and grow up premies" is my present message, after exing four years ago.

It is SOOOO good to drop this religious bollox, friends.

I shall now.disappear back into the shadows for  a while.. Thanx to this site and this forum for the help and good reading over the years.

Love

Bryn