Prem Rawat: Inspirational Speaker?

Since the late 1990s Prem Rawat's followers, have been engaged in a cynical campaign to have him accepted as a world-respected inspirational speaker, Ambassador for Peace and all-round renaissance man. Some of them actually believe he is these things.

How well has it succeeded? Compare these two lives:

• In 1966 Anthony J. Mahavorick was a 6 year child of Croatian immigrants whose abusive mother was about to divorce his father. The future looked bleak.
• In 1966 the 7 year old Prem Rawat was declared to be God on Earth deserving of nothing but worship and luxury. Hundreds of thousands of people believed this nonsense.
• In 1977 the 17 year old Mahavorick now named Robbins was sent packing by his mother at knife point and worked as a janitor.
• In 1977 the 19 year old Rawat had been given numerous cars and bespoke suits, lots of ties and a Malibu mansion, oodles of money and he was about to embark on 5 year round of frenzied speeches with tens of thousands of people lining up to kiss his feet and give him even more money because he was the Lord of the Universe.

A few years later Rawat decided he should stop promoting himself as God and look for a less demanding career. Around 1995 Rawat decided "Inspirational Speaker" sounded good. For 20 years attempts to market Rawat as an inspirational teacher providing a method of improving life have been ongoing. His minions are not stupid enough to try to charge for these teachings yet as Rawat is no Tony Robbins but to beg people to try them for free.

Anyone can compare testimonials provided to Tony Robbins, a moderately successful 6 foot 7 inch, fit and healthy inspirational speaker, with those of Prem Rawat's, a 5 foot 1 inch, unfit and unhealthy wannabe. Of course walking on hot coals requires no special skills but then neither does thinking about your breathing.

Just because a man is extremely short doesn't mean he can't be inspirational. These photos are pretty closely aligned in proportion height-wise and Hayden Panetierre only looks taller then Prem Rawat because she's wearing high heels.

People who supply positive testimonials to Anthony Robbins:

On 30th July 2015 I googled their names with the word 'testimonials' and for Prem Rawat I found this page on http://www.wopg.org/about. As pages dealing with Prem Rawat are always changing I downloaded the information and compared it with https://www.tonyrobbins.com/view-testimonials. Robbins has testimonials of people ranging from Andre Agassi to Serena Williams, Bill Clinton to Oprah Winfrey, Hugh Jackman to Quincy Jones and why bother going on? Prem Rawat has testimonials from the following. No doubt they are decent people but not really inspiring but then neither is Rawat.