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.

Divine Times - August 1977 Volume 6, Number 7

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Satsang We Can Call It Devotion Excerpt from Durga Ji's Satsang in Rome, March 28, 1977 Last night's program was beautiful, but I felt that when Maharaj Ji first came it was still kind of a feeling of last year. It just seemed like a little, just a little, little remnant of last year - like very stuffy - and we clapped and "Oh yeah, and there's Guru Maharaj Ji, and hello." You know what I mean? Sometimes I look at Maharaj Ji and my mind - it's really heavy, very strong. And the first thing that that mind tries to do is try to make me doubt my own experience of Knowledge, my own experience of Guru Maharaj Ji. And Maharaj Ji has done everything for me. He's given me everything beyond what I ever could imagine, and yet that mind can turn around and say, "He doesn't love you. He doesn't care for you. He doesn't love you."	3
Aladdin's Lamp Guru Maharaj Ji in London, England, April 19, 1977 God must have miscalculated how many dinosaurs to bury, or how many dinosaurs to make. Somehow in the process of evolution or whatever you have, there should be sufficient gas in this century for the people to use. And obviously He must have miscalculated, because we are running out of gas. And it seems to become a bigger and a bigger problem in our lives.	10
To Russia In Love Until now, Jan Camp Garrett was best known to many Colorado premies as the spirited female vocalist in a lively and versatile Aspen band called Liberty. But anybody who has stumbled across her on the streets of Aspen or Denver also knows her sparkling eyes reflect the truth of one of her own lyrics - a song which declares: "There is a light, oh yes, much brighter than the sun. It shines from within you, a-all the time …" Those shining eyes have spread the light of Guru Maharaj Ji's Knowledge in many places. But it wasn't until this spring that they flashed their way into such far- flung corners as Moscow, Leningrad and several other cities in the Soviet Union.	5
A New Vine Premies throughout the United States and Canada once again had the opportunity to help with the birth of a child in Guru Maharaj Ji's family when on Sunday, June 5, they meditated throughout the afternoon. At 9:13 p.m., about three hours after premies on the west coast ended their meditation, a girl to be named Navlata (new vine) was delivered at the Malibu residence to Raja Ji and Claudia.	6
Short stop in the Deep South From "Hum Dinger," community newsletter in San Francisco - Midge Newell Guru Followers' Bus Breaks Down, Premies Enjoy Town Guru Followers' Bus Breaks Down, Premies Enjoy Town, read the headlines of the article in the March 29th Jennings Daily News.	18
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Due to the calendar produced by Guru Maharaj Ji, we have cancelled the calendar in Divine Times for the remainder of the year.

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.