"And It Is Divine" was the name of this colour magazine published by Divine Light Mission in the USA from November 1972 until the late 1970's when it was replaced by "Elan Vital." It began as a monthly magazine attempting to carry a wide spectrum of articles relating to the wider alternative culture with highbrow pretensions and ended the same as all other Divine Light Mission magazines printing pictures and speeches of Prem Rawat's or his immediate family or close followers.
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Realize Raja Ji, Hans Jayanti, Toronto Canada, November 9, 1974 Newspapers, I couldn't care less. Write what you want to write. Premies are the ones. Because they are beautiful. They are the ones who propagate; nobody else. They are the ones who have already been propagating. Once, in Denver, Maharaj Ji said in a program, "Can you imagine when there was one premie, a single premie, and now there are eight million?" |
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Good Morning Durga Ji, Hans Jayanti, Toronto Canada, November 9, 1974 Once we receive that, we know it. There's no doubt about it. It's so beautiful that it becomes too hard to even explain the way it really is. Yet we try in all these ways to tell people that this is really it; this is the day. He's really come. |
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Shankara by Lucy Dupertuis "I bow down to you, 0 great soul, my Master! Your eyes are full of mercy. Their glance is like a flood of moonbeams. I am blessed indeed! I have achieved life's only purpose. I recognize my true nature in eternal joy. Until now, I have been dreaming. You have wakened me from my dream. You have set me free forever. Salutations to You, 0 great Master. You are one with the shining Light that casts this shadow of a world." |
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Hold On To Me Hans Jayanti, 1974 This is how it has happened. Every time the people have really been into this illusion of this world, every time, the Perfect Master has come to save them. This Knowledge and the Grace, and the satsang and the darshan is like that finger. If every premie can hold on to it - the meditation, the Knowledge, the satsang, the darshan - then the whole thing is just so beautiful. Then there is really no way left that we can go back in the ocean where there are always waves, and you get hit by one wave and you are gone, or there are things that always are there to eat you. There are so many premies who have received Knowledge. But how many premies really realize that at this moment, at this instant, we are existing, we are living, and that is due to the Grace of this Knowledge? People who can realize that, people who can understand that, and the importance of this Knowledge, they can really, really start getting into it. |
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The Gateway To Liberation Satsang of Shri Hans Ji Maharaj, November, 1963 Tulsidas wrote in the Ramayana: "I bow to the lotus feet of my Guru, who is an ocean of mercy and is no other than God Himself in human form, and whose words are sunbeams for dispersing the mass of darkness in the form of gross ignorance. |
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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.