Prem Rawat (Prem Pal Singh Rawat) whose devotees call him Maharaji (meaning Ultimate Ruler) first came to attention in the West as Guru Maharaj Ji, the self-proclaimed Perfect Master and Lord of the Universe ridiculed in the media as a fat, squeaky-voiced God boy. He had inherited his titles and position as the Satguru, The True Revealer of Light and Spiritual Master of the Divine Light Mission, India (Divya Sandesh Parishad) when his father died in 1966. His father, Hans Rawat, was a successful Indian guru, self titled HRH (His Royal Highness) Yogiraj Param Sant Satgurudev Shri Hans Ji Maharaj. As a child the youngest Rawat son was informally called Sant Ji, more formally Balyogeshwar ("Born King of the Yogis") and even more formally Param Sant Satgurudev Shri Sant Ji Maharaj. In the West Rawat dropped these more verbose titles in the early 1980's and instructed his followers to call him Maharaji. He has also changed the names of his organisations many times: Divine Light Mission (DLM), World Welfare Association (WWA), World Peace Corps (WPC) and Divine United Organisation (DUO) became Elan Vital in the early 1980's and in 2001 The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) was created and from 2010 his major orgs are Words Of Peace Global (WOPG) registered in Holland, Words of Peace International (WOPI) in the USA, HDSK (Human Development through Self Knowledge) in Great Britain and Raj Vidya Kender (Royal Knowledge Society) in India. He no longer claims to be an Incarnation of God but an internationally famous humanitarian leader and teacher of peace. He's neither.

The Results of 45 Years of Meditation in the Rawat Brothers

In January, 1964 Hans Rawat, the father of Prem Rawat, who claimed to be the Satguru, "revealed Knowledge" to the four sons of his second, much younger wife including the eldest, Bal Bhagwan Ji (Satpal Rawat) and the youngest, Balyogeshwar or Sant Ji (Prem Rawat). Prem Rawat claimed he "realised it" in a month of meditation. The techniques of Rawat's meditation are simply sticking your fingers in your eyes, poking your thumbs in your ears, curling your tongue backwards and concentrating on your breath.

Meditation is ordinarily claimed to have many valuable physical and mental health benefits and it is instructive to see what effects nearly fifty years of meditation has on the Rawat family gurus. The photos below show the possible side effects of practice of this meditation. On the face of it, the results of Tibetan Buddhist meditation seem far better than those of Rawat meditation. It is also instructive to see if this meditation has any visible effect on Rawat's Western students after up to 40 years of meditation. While most people who have been "revealed this Knowledge" have become disillusioned with it there are a few thousand true believers who continue to believe in Rawat. See for yourself.

 Prem Rawat's (Maharaji) Holy Family

With obesity being the number one health risk in modern, western societies it is obvious that the Rawats' "Knowledge" is a danger to health no matter who is revealing it. Both brothers claim they are the true revealers of these techniques of meditation but both are extremely obese and their faces are bloated with fat and their skin in unretouched photos looks awful.

Prem Rawat (Maharaji) 40 years' meditation
Prem Rawat (Maharaji) 40 years' meditation Satpal Maharaji (Prem Rawat's brother) 40 years' meditation

Actor Richard Gere has been meditating for almost 30 years. Some may consider it unfair to compare the results of meditation on the health and appearance of a Master like Prem Rawat and a Hollywood actor even though the actor is 8 years older so there are also photos of Prem Rawat and the Dalai Lama, a man 22 years older who has had an extremely stressful life, to compare the observable effects of their meditation.

Richard Gere and monks
Prem Rawat (Maharaji) 40 years' meditation Richard Gere and monks

Prem Rawat was born into a wealthy Indian family and has been cossetted throughout his life since he was declared the current Perfect Master and Lord of the Universe with donated wealth, luxury and numerous servants. The Dalai Lama is a man 22 years older who has had an extremely stressful life which included an escape on foot across Tibet being pursued by Communist Chinese troops.

Prem Rawat (Maharaji) 40 years' meditation Dalai Lama
Seems pretty straightforward to me.





































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Prem Rawat's "Knowledge" has three parts: regularly listening to his speeches, doing voluntary work for organisations serving him or donating money and daily meditation correctly practicing the four techniques he recommends. The techniques are so simple it's hard to see how they could be practiced incorrectly. First technique ("Divine Light") involves sticking your thumb and middle finger on your eyeballs (NB: with eyes closed) and your index finger between your eyebrows. Second technique: ("Heavenly Music") poking your thumbs into your ears and listening. Third technique: ("Holy Name") thinking about your breathing (NB: continue to breathe). Fourth technique: ("Nectar") curling your tongue backwards and tasting. Rawat's father taught slightly different techniques but either way it's difficult to see how these could produce the benefits claimed for them especially as Rawat claims His Knowledge is the only method of attaining real happiness and love in this life.