By 1974, the headquarters of the U.S. DLM occupied four stories of a Denver office building. Prem Rawat was not yet old enough to legally manage the organization, and it had begun to develop a life and a direction of its own. The person in charge, Bob Mishler, began to feel that Prem Rawat should take on a figurehead humanitarian leadership role. He thought that the instructors should take over the responsibility for spreading Knowledge.
Another wrote, “I was working at the grandly named International Headquarters of Prem Rawat’s work in Denver. It was a time of change, but to me the most significant development was the desire of Bob Mishler, the man in charge at the time, with a charismatic but driven personality, to downplay Maharaji’s role as the teacher to a point of near invisibility. Bob felt this would be more acceptable to the American mentality. Maharaji rejected the plan, holding the role of the teacher as essential — that you couldn’t take the teacher out of the equation. Bob found the rejection hard to take, and he became increasingly unhappy, in the end resigning his role.”
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