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.
Holi 1980 Music Taped in The Crowd - One Foundation
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In the early 1980's Prem Rawat, then still calling himself Guru Maharaj Ji, encouraged a strong Indian devotional flavour in Divine Light Mission. He had
begun wearing Indian type clothing on stage from 1978 on after discarding them briefly when he dressed as the God Krishna and
danced on stage. His number one follower, Mahatma Gurucharanand, began singing Indian bhajans and in 1982 recorded a cassette tape of them called "Court Of Love" with some
other followers calling themselves the Holy Jesters.
The main DLM band, One Foundation, also began recording Indian bhajan style songs and a friend of mine recorded some of the music they played at the
1980 Holi Festival with a small tape recorder while sitting in the crowd listening. The tape was still playable in 2003 and I digitised the songs. The titles alone tell the story that Rawat was
teaching about Himself:
Guru Maharaj Ji He Is Our Divine Father
How Beautiful Are The Feet Of Him
Save Me
You Are My Savior
Your Love Is The Only Answer. |
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Lyrics:
Apani Hasti
Chorus:
Those who lose themselves
into your Lotus Feet
They please You, Oh my Lord
with their surrender complete
Chorus
What can be said about your devotees?
who give you all of their love
What can be said about your devotees?
who give you all of their love
Their tears of longing
bring tears to your shining eyes
Their tears of longing
bring tears to your shining eyes
Chorus
They beg You to be with us
With such a voice of longing
Their devotion compels You
to come to see your devotees
Chorus
Even though hardships, poverty
and troubles come to them
They are welcomed as gifts
from your Holy Lotus Feet
Chorus
Guru Maharaj Ji, He Is Our Divine Father
Guru Maharaj Ji, He is our Divine Father
We are His children
He's come to tenderly gather
Only at His Lotus Feet
And there we shall be forever
The love of Maharaji
Keeps this world spinning round
He is the purest vibration
No-one as pure can be found
Black, black, black is the colour of ???
His lips are something light as rain
The purest eyes and the ???
I love the ground whereon he steps
I love my Lord and now he's come
I love the ground whereon he walks
And in the perfect light I see
My life was yours ????
Guru Maharaj Ji, He is our Divine Father
We are His children
He's come to tenderly gather
Only at His Lotus Feet
And there we shall be forever
And there we shall be forever
Bhole Shri Satguru Dev Maharaj Ki Jai
How Beautiful Are The Feet Of Him
How beautiful are the Feet of Him
Who brings the message of Peace
How beautiful are the Feet
How beautiful are the Feet of Him
Who brings the message of Peace
How beautiful are the Feet of Him
Who brings the message of Peace
And gives the sacred knowledge
And brings the sacred Knowledge
The Knowledge of eternal love
And brings the sacred Knowledge
The Knowledge of eternal love
The Knowledge of eternal love
How beautiful are the Feet of Him
Who brings true love to the earth
How beautiful are the Feet
How beautiful are the Feet of Him
Who brings true love to the earth
How beautiful are the Feet of Him
Who brings true love to the earth
And brings the sacred Knowledge
And brings the sacred Knowledge
The Knowledge of eternal love
Who brings the sacred Knowledge
The Knowledge of eternal love
The Knowledge of eternal love
The Knowledge of eternal love
I Belong To You
I belong to You
Take what is Yours forever
You are no stranger in my heart
You know that we have both been waiting
Anticipating, this moment
You belong to me
We can no longer hide our love
I am no stranger in Your kingom
You have created me, so carefully
And I belong to You now
I need Your love
Just so I can go on living
Wrap me in your love
And write Your name all over me
So I can tell them
I belong to You now
I belong to You
Take what is Yours forever
I am no stanger in Your kingdom
You have created me so carefully
And I belong to You now
I need Your love
Just so I can go on living
Wrap me in your love
And write Your name all over me
So I can tell them
I belong to You now
I need Your love
Just so I can go on living
Wrap me in your love
And write Your name all over me
So I can tell them
I belong to You now
I need Your love
Just so I can go on living
Wrap me in your love
And write Your name all over me
So I can tell them
I belong to You now
I need Your love
Just so I can go on living
Wrap me in your love
And write Your name all over me
So I can tell them
I belong to You now
I need Your love
Just so I can go on living
Wrap me in your love
And write Your name all over me
So I can tell them
I belong to You now
I belong to You now
I belong to You now
Leaving This World
Chorus:
Leaving this world
When you go away
None will accompany you
On that day
Why do you say this is mine?
Everything will be left behind
No one will remain
We are here for a short time
The soul will fly away
Chorus
For the fulfillment of your senses
You are seeking wealth and pleasures
When death comes to claim you
You must leave all your worldly treasures
Nothing can you carry away
This is the river of satsang
So let you dive so deep
If you miss this opportunity
Then one day you will weep
And none will wipe your tears away
So love the Feet of Satguru
Oh premies, day and night
He will grant you perfect freedom
From darkness into light
Bondage will be cut away
Chorus
repeat
Save Me
Oh Guru Maharaj Ji
You are all powerful
There is nothing you can't do
I know that you can save me
Or let me go too
So I pray as humbly as I can
If you find it in your heart
Find it in your mercy
In your compassion
To save me
Please would you? ? Oowoowoowoo
Please would you?
Oh Guru Maharaj Ji,
You are all powerful
There is nothing you can't do
To you there are thousands
To me you're my only one
So I pray as humbly as I can
Would you please accept me
Please protect me
Just look at me
And save me
Please would you? ? Oowoowoowoo
Please would you?
This is my prayer of the heart
Keep me in your shelter
Never to be apart
This is my prayer of the heart
Oh Guru Maharaj Ji,
You are all powerful
And there is nothing you can't do
I know that you can save me
Or let me go too
So I pray as humbly as I can
If you find it in your heart
Find it in your mercy
In your compassion
To save me
Please would you? Oowoowoowoo
Please would you?
This is my prayer of the heart
Keep me in your shelter
Never to be apart
This is my prayer of the heart
repeat
Save me, please
Your Love Is The Only Answer
Well I tried to work the whole thing out
What my life is all about
All I ever seem to do
Is just fall more in love with you
There seems to be no end of trouble
That my mind can make inside my head
I'm learning to turn away from myself
And turn to you instead
Chorus:
Cause your love is the only answer
Your love is the only answer
Your love is the only answer
To it all, to it all
Well I tried looking for the reason
Why I feel the way I do for you
Just want to give up my story
Do what you want me to do
There's a lot of people searching for answers
There's a lot of people telling lies
I don't want to take any chances
I want you to show me a sign
Chorus
Everyone's searching for your love
Nobody's seen that it's you they're dreaming of
Don't let me take this life for granted
Don't let me wait to see the love that you have planted
In my heart, in my heart
There seems to be no end of trouble
That my mind can make inside my head
I'm learning to turn away from myself
And turn to you instead
Chorus
repeat
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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.
