Dealing with Geaves' trustworthiness as a Rawat scholar 

Rather than get into another reversion war, I'll do it this way.  I propose posting the same paragraph I put up the other day.  Obviously, you premies don't like it but the fact is, it's apparent beyond question that Geaves has misrepresented the truth about Rawat's role in the Millenium hype.

Geaves said:

In November 1973, Divine Light Mission had booked the Houston Astrodome, a large sports stadium with a capacity of 90,000.  The event had taken on millenial expectations in the U.S.  with devotees announcing and advertising Maharaji's appearance at the stadium as a second-coming, complete with angelic and alien visitors.  Only 20,000 attended the event and Maharaji did not appear to have any knowledge of his American followers' expectations.  He spoke as he usually does at such gatherings with no hint of messianic promises.

Whereas, in a broadly-disseminated letter to all his followers, Rawat described the upcoming program as the "most Holy and significant event in human history", intimated that the festival wasn't just for him and his followers but the whole world, "and maybe the whole universe" and suggested that it was time for his followers to help him "bring peace to this Earth."

Any fair reader can clearly see the serious discrepancy between Geaves' account and the documentary evidence.