WOPG Events Starring Prem Rawat FKA (formerly known as) Maharaji
NOT the Hardest-Working Man in Show Business
Prem Rawat's work consists of making speeches, usually a near repetition of speeches he has made many times before and as they have little or no factual data he doesn't find it very difficult. He calls the occasion of making such a speech, an 'event.' Most normal humans call it unutterable boredom. Events are usually around 1.5 - 2.5 hours in duration though his speeches take considerably less time than that. I've never worshipped Prem Rawat not have I respected him and I am biased against him. So I thought it would be fairer to ask a person who had obeyed and worshipped him as Guru Maharaj Ji, as Maharaji and as Prem Rawat for over 30 years and get him to check the official records (2015-2023) of Prem Rawat's activities and determine just how hard-working a Lord of the Universe / guru/teacher / international speaker for peace he actually was, is and will be.
5 days per week X 8 hours per day = 40 hour work week
9 years (2015 - 2023) X 52 weeks per year = 468 weeks
468 weeks X 5 working days per week = 2,340 working days
468 weeks X 40 hours per week = 18,720 working hours
198 speeches in nine years (2015 - 2023)
I know you're trying to be fair, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say he typically speaks for about an hour:
At one hour per speech, he spoke for 198 hours out of 18,720 hours available
To be generous, I'm willing to give him credit for a half day (four hours) per speech to cover the time he leaves wherever he's staying to the time he returns to wherever he's staying, i.e., a half day per speech:
198 speeches X 4 hours per speech = 792 hours = 99 eight-hour days out of 2,340 eight-hour days available
That comes to 20 weeks work in 9 years or 2 weeks and a day's work per year
Then the questions become 1) what did he do with 18,522 hours (18,720 minus 198) when he wasn't on stage speaking; and 2) what did he do with 2,241 days (2,340 minus 99) when he wasn't being chauffeured to and from his one-hour speeches? How do you account for 18,522 hours or 2,241 days in that nine-year period?
- I know it sounds ridiculous, but give him 36 weeks (4 weeks per year) for vacation. It's typically 3 weeks or less in the U.S. for the vast majority of workers.
- He did live streaming speeches during Covid (maybe a half hour per speech with no travel time)
- Occasional premie-arranged honor or award ceremonies
- Occasional meetings with instructors, organizational heads, major donors, etc.
- He had somebody write a book or two (at least I think he had a ghost writer)
- Flight school certifications
- He probably gets daily or weekly updates on the status of his finances, aviation interests, event arrangements, TPRF, WOPG, HDSK, Timeless Today, etc. Maybe an hour a day of pretending to be a CEO… listening and barking orders before his attention span runs out.
All of the above plus anything else you can think of doesn't even make a dent when it comes to accounting for all those days/hours he has available - especially compared to someone who actually works! So what does he do all day!? I suspect he spends a lot of time dealing with problems, cursing at people, barking orders and drinking his troubles away.
One thing's for sure: I wouldn't give him any "work" credit whatsoever for flying around the world in his all-expense paid plush jet and staying in his plush residences or five-star hotels with his mistress, cook and valet- all chauffeured and catered. As one your fine countrymen said, "that ain't workin… that's the way you do it."
But Wait, There's More! We've kept the official figures going back to 2002 when the name "Prem Rawat" was just a twinkle in a minion's eye and it was 'Maharaji' who strode the earth like a collossus. These are records collated by Elan Vital and they show that in 13 years 2002-2014 Rawat went to 440 events and did about two week's work every year so that definitely proves that Prem Rawat is not lazier than he was 20 years ago.