I am depressed because I hate the fact that for nearly 25 years of my life I followed a fraud, Maharaji, who now calls himself Prem Rawat in a sneaky Public Relations guided effort to distance himself from his past as a blatant cult leader and hijacker of lives.

I am depressed because I believed all the B.S. from Maharaji (aka Prem Rawat) like stuff in said in 1997 that saving money for retirement in the future was pointless because the money would not be worth anything.  Regardless of whether that is true or not a 'Teacher' should never ever say anything like that to his students (aka devotees) while he makes every effort imaginable to live in unimaginable wealth and decadence.

I am depressed because it seems to me in the end Maharaji (aka Prem Rawat) will win this war with his critics through attrition where the ex-premies come and go and fade away like good soldiers, yet Maharaji has a limitless war chest of money, new schemes (Knoxville, Oxford, Harvard, the Tsunami Relief, the New Orleans Relief -coming soon!), lawyers, satellite TV shows, etc.

I am depressed because a creep and a bad guy like Maharaji (aka Prem Rawat)will go unpunished and will continue to make money off of the kindness and naivety of good decent people who will become to enmeshed and embarrassed to ever consider they've made the wrong choice in their lives and will instead follow the flow down the gutter and into the drain while, this charlatan bogus Lord of the Universe, becomes more and more corrupt, duplicitous, vain, and transparent.

I am depressed because Maharaji (aka Prem Rawat) and his corrupt organization will do whatever it needs to do to hide the monster molesters of children like Mahatma Jagdeo rather than admit to their mistake and make public apologies and reparations rather than to pay private hush money in order to protect their philandering drunken obnoxious arrogant and completey vile, foul mouthed and nasty cult leader, Maharaji (aka Prem Rawat).

I am depressed because Maharaji (aka Prem Rawat) will take advantage of World disasters like the Asian tsunami and probably soon the American Katrina hurricane disaster as a way to further his own agenda of making himself richer and more palatable instead of the creepy cult leader he really is who is not that much different that Jim Jones or Marshall Applewhite or David Koresh when push comes to shove.

I am depressed because Maharaji (aka Prem Rawat) flies around the world in his expensive green house gas producing private jet with his little pet poodle dog while friends of mine, who were once premies or are still premies, suffer and live with incredible problems and financial debt because of life choices they made while under the influence of a drunken teenager Lord of the Universe boy child from Hardwar, India.

I am depressed because the man child, Maharaji (aka Prem Rawat), and drunken cognac soaked Lord of the Universe has never grown up and has never admitted he made a lot of mistakes, who, instead, blames those who came to him without cheat or deceit, who wanted something good for themselves and good for this world.

I am depressed because the man child, Maharaji (aka Prem Rawat), is not faithful to his wife and his children and who instead must have a mistress and lie about it instead of divorcing and being honest and upfront about it.

I am depressed because the man child, Maharaji (aka Prem Rawat), and an internationally renowned speaker on the topic of peace and self-knowledge is now the subject of pseudo-college courses when he himself is nothing but an ignoramus who thinks that oil comes from Dinah Shores and who barely finished the 8th grade and who was considered by the Headmaster of Saint Joseph Academy to be a nothing more than a rich spoiled brat (so said my sister who actually visited St. Joseph Academy and spoke to the Headmaster back in the late 1970s.)

I am depressed because Maharaji (aka Prem Rawat) really does look like this and this is who he really is, a cheap corrupted and drunken Playboy:

Hey Baba you have been a Giver for a long time. Helping others with the "real truth" with what you say (so well) and post. It's a very important service. And I want to *Thank You* for that!

Super Post and so True! Best Thoughts to You, Karen and Others.

It all goes back to the time as I can best remember when... I was told to burn, destroy or get rid of all the magazines, tapes, pictures or anything I had pertaining to Prem Rawat.

I was on my way out of the cult anyhow when his "Agya" (do what your told) message came to me on the local level within my community. Destroy it all! Also, no more community satsang was proclaimed (and no "chit chat") and that we should donate more money to be used for his propigation and programs.

Yet, the money needed at the time turned out to be really for his private jet. I was told about the real reasons for donating my money a few weeks later. This is long before I ever heard about the gold toilets etc. and much more.

This along with other weird things at the time. Raised Big Red Flags in My Mind. Within my "so called" dark & doubting mind.

So I saved what stuff I had about Prem Rawat because of that. Burn It? Maybe I better save it ... I thought to myself, you never know. That's the Honest to God Truth, simple as it is.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Prem Rawat is a fraud!

by the way what did your favorite conman ACTUALLY do with the jet you didn't buy?

Sure, he may be hold on to his grubby money, or at least enough to keep him in mansions and cognac, but thanks to people like you, he is unlikely to be able to dupe very many people into worshipping him.  And the only reason there IS a PR campaign is because of ex-premies like you.  It is not a sophisticated campaign to expand his "empire," it's a desparate attempt to hold on to as much of his lifestyle as he can.

The fact is, Mahatma, you have put him on the defensive, scared the shit out of him, and forced him into doing nutty things like pretending to be endorsed by the United Nations.  It's laughable, and it won't work.  He has been effectively shut down as anything other than the leader of a dwindling, aging, cult constantly trying to soak ever more cash from the duped and conned, to keep him in a lifestyle which he thinks he deserves.  But I think it's a very insecure life Mr. Rawat leads, and he knows it.  One can only imagine the tirades that go through that guy's mind, as he is constantly reminded of what a failure he is at being the "Perfect Master," and must instead accept being an obscure "inspirational speaker," but mostly only his own cult members would find him such.

I wonder if Mr. Rawat is capable of feeling embarrassment?  I would think if he is, then those excruciating videos of him dancing half naked on stages wearing a crown would elicit that, thanks to you.  If I were you, I would take some satisfaction in that.

But as they say, the best revenge is living well, so please enjoy your life of freedom from the cult.  It could be a lot worse, you could still be in the cult, trying to milk some kind of peace and satisfaction and always blaming yourself when you don't get it.  Yuck.  There are things to be thankful for.

Also, Rawat's obese, and exceedingly unattractive.