Mahatma Mac Rawat Replaces Humans with Tech

Guru Maharaj Ji's initial success among the baby-boomers had a draw-back. The drop-out rate from the haphazard method of person-to-person attraction, education and initation was very high. Rawat spent nearly 30 years lengthening and intensifying the lead up process to lessen this but a satisfactory process using human resources had not been found by the year 2000. The elephant in the room that premies could not discuss was that Maharaji was the problem and no amount of their effort could overcome this.

Maharaji believed in two things, technology and Himself and he thought that if he could just get to people directly, without his followers' interference, he would win their hearts, minds and wallets. Wherever possible he introduced new technology into the propagation process and the administration and organisation of his followers.

2000 - Knowledge works, look you mean, let's face it, Knowledge works. The Master when given that right environment does his thing and it's great. It all works."

A Knowledge Session using 2 people and a Mahatma Mac seems quite simple and easy but it takes a team of about five people two full days to orchestrate a Knowledge session. The venue had a two-page checklist of criteria that had to be met and the Knowledge Session had a 52 page manual of detailed procedures that had to be impeccably followed; everything from a hidden security detail to Smart Card registration and every detail in between including when to dim lights and how much to dim them.

After 20 years as 'Maharaji' and over 10 years of pressure on the Elan Vital local communities to propagate by showing videos of Himself speaking the results were in, and they were disppointing.