A-6 INDEPENDENT (AM) PRESS-TELEGRAM (PM) Long Beach, Calif., Sun., April 24, 1973

Meditate, not Agitate

Rennie Davis, enfant terrible of the new left during the 1960s sits Friday in front of portraits of Satguru Maharaj-Ji at the Berkeley headquarters of the followers of the 15-year-old guru from India. Davis has converted to the cause of "inner peace and a quiet sense of the center of life," but 1,000 UC students denounced him Friday as a CIA agent and sellout and even threw a few tomatoes at him during a Berkeley appearance to spread the guru's word. - UPI

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.