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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"By making human beings experience the Self, the Perfect Master instantly relieves them from the miseries of the world and makes them happy." |
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Radar Control - Guru Maharaj Ji / New York March 2, 1974 "That person who comes to save us, we call him our Savior, we call him our everything." |
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Only One Reason Guru Maharaj Ji / Denver / February 19, 1977 Truly, we're just about approaching the end of this century, okay? Doesn't matter what you think, doesn't matter what you believe, I know one thing. There's only so many dinosaurs that lived. And there's only so many dinosaurs that produced oil. And there's a lot more cars than there were dinosaurs. And I think we are just about at the verge of it all. There have been predictions that by 1985 - which I think might be an over-calculation or might be an under-calculation. But around that time, let's figure it (five or six years is a drop in the bucket) - this world is supposed to be out of gasoline. |
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Prayer Of The Heart - Guru Maharaj Ji, Hans Jayanti, Kissimmee, Florida, November 8 1978 0 Guru Maharaj Ji, you are all powerful. There is nothing you can't do. I know that you can save me. I know that you can let me go, too. But I pray to you as humbly as I can, that if you find it in your heart, in your mercy, in your compassion, to save me, please could you? Could you please make sure this boat gets to the other side? Please prevent me from jumping off the boat. Please help me. |
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Who Is A Perfect Master? - Guru Maharaj Ji / Tokyo / October 1 1972 Dear premies, I would like to explain one phenomenon to you today. Actually we might call it a phenomenon, but it's not. It's not an extraordinary thing. This Knowledge has been preached by all the saints, by the galaxies of saints that have been coming to this Earth, to this planet Earth. Not just one saint. Lord Jesus Christ, Lord Krishna, Lord Buddha … all the saints came into this world and gave us something, something that we always have required, something that we want even now. |
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Learn Patience Guru Maharaj Ji / Questions & Answers / Toronto / September 25, 1971 You meet us with so much energy. Do you ever get tired? No. No. In a function which takes place near Delhi, I am awake three days and three nights doing the work. Three nights and three days. Only awake. Are you tired? No, God will be tired instead of me (laughter). |
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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.