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.

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p10b (62K)The Ultimate Battle

So long as there is no spiritual revolution, there will be no peace in the world. We have to revolutionize the whole thing and then we will get peace. So we have to start a spiritual revolution, and this is a different kind of revolution to all the other kinds. In this revolution the body will not be hurt, but the evil propensities of mind will be killed. By giving Knowledge we will kill this ignorance and give people a new life.
ShriBal Bhagwan Ji

This is an article about war. It is also an article about peace. Wars are vast things fought with squadrons of planes, fleets of ships, and armies of men. Why do we fight with one another? It has been noted that out of all the animals of the earth, the two species that are most successful - the species that have adapted themselves to every environment on earth - namely ants and human beings, are the only species that wage war among themselves in a recurrent fashion. Armies and species, they are vast things - impersonal things. But in the mind of every man, a war is being fought. Each man is trying to calm his unsteady mind. The mind creates duality from the universe. Saint Kabir said, "Behold but One in all things; it is the second that leads you astray."

Guru Maharaj Ji commissioned this article to show people the nature of the war-making consciousness, not to terrify them, but so that they might understand the way to peace. In the following pages you will find a brief history of two wars going on at this time. After the history is an interview with two veterans of one of the wars. The most important section of the article, however, is the first section - a message of peace from Guru Maharaj Ji.

































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.