And It Is Divine Magazine
The Light Years, 1970 - 1976

Volume III, Issue 4, Winter 1976

'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.

Front Cover
Contents Excerpts from Guru Maharaj Ji's satsang -
Introduction	3
1970: The Peace Bomb November, Delhi, India: Published in And It Is Divine, November 1973	4
1971: Little Drops of Mercy 5 August, San Francisco, California: Published in And It Is Divine, November 1973	8
1971: Piñata Satsang 10 December, Prem Nagar, India: Published in Who Is Guru Maharaj Ji?, November 1973	9
1972: This Precious Diamond 25 July, Montrose, Colorado: Published in And It Is Divine, April 1973	12
1973: I Challenge This World 9 November, Houston, Texas: Published in And It Is Divine, June 1974	17
1974: The Concept Bomb 12 May, Denver, Colorado: Published in And It Is Divine, July 1974	22
The Light Years Photos of Guru Maharaj Ji, 1971-1976	20
1975: It's Time To Decide 15 April, Jhumri Taliaya, India: Published in Divine Times, May 1975	26
The Family Album Recent photos of of Guru Maharaj Ji	30
1975: Keep on Truckin' 19 October, Sydney, Australia But the Perfect Master knows, because he is at a point which is so clear, which is so beautiful, which is so perfect. And this is why we call him "Perfect Master," the Master of Perfectness, he who is one with it, he who has accomplished, who has mastered, that subject, that art, that beauty, he who is the complete one, he who can show us how incomplete we are, and who can show us the path to perfectness. The stupidity of man is that he comes into this world and he repeats himself again and again, and again, and again. But a Perfect Master comes, he always comes … In a way, you might even call him stubborn and stupid, because he always repeats himself, too. He comes again and again and again into this world, but he comes for a very definite purpose.	32
1976: Lima 14 January, Lima, Peru: Published in Divine Times, February 1976	36
Back Cover

Cover photo: Hans Jayanti satsang, Los Angeles, 8 November, 1976
Editor in Chief Guru Maharaj Ji
Design Scott Heath
Typesetting Bertha Trujillo
Copy Editor Michael McDonald
Photography Editor Gerry Greenberg
Printed at The Rainbow Press, Denver, Colorado

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.