News

Much of the crowd that filled Lowell Lecture Hall last night had come less to hear the speech in honor of Maharaj Ji than to see the speaker. For Rennie Davis, radical activist and one of the Chicago Seven, is now a follower of the 15-year-old perfect spiritual master.

Davis's message - sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Divine Light Club, and delivered to a capacity crowd - was that the movement of the sixties can find its fulfillment in acceptance of the guru. "Through this seeming madness, the vision of May Day, or workers no longer needing to serve a capitalist society, … is a very, very, very practical reality."

Davis also claimed that fellow Chicago Seven defendant Jerry Rubin was receiving instruction at an Ashram, or holy place of the sect.

"No one appreciates more than me" Davis said, "how outrageous this whole thing seems. But it is happening."

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=119288

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.