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.

Peace Is Possible

Reviews cannot do this book justice.

A biographer that hasn't bothered to interview the man himself. A biography without a single reference to the public record (newspapers, books, academic articles, internet sites) of Prem Rawat's career. A biographer, Andrea Cagan, who is paid $60,000 by the Prem Rawat Foundation for this unresearched hagiography. Could this extraordinary man have created yet another new first?

It has some interest as showing how Rawat wanted to be portrayed in 2007.

To learn everything you need to know about the book go to Amazon and read the ecstatic reviews by his followers, if they haven't dissolved in their own hot air.

After reading and believing this book you'd seriously have to wonder:
Why isn't this man the most famous and respected person on the planet?

Some interesting sections from the book are available here:

Bihari Singh's version of the "Succession" (see also the Incarnation) in which Rawat's mother is slandered. What a devoted son!

Rawat's version of his association with Michael Dettmers, his long time Personal Assistant in which it claims that Dettmers made defamatory statements about Rawat in 2002. Needless to say, Rawat has never taken legal action against Dettmers, as these claims about Rawat's secret life of drug taking and sexual abuse are substantiated by many other witnesses.

Rawat's version of his association with Brian Kitt, the first Western devotee and only mahatma, Mahatma Saphlanand.

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.