10    THE TIMES WEDNESDAY MAY 22 1974

Perfect Master gets married to US woman

From Our Own Correspondent New York, May 21

Guru Maharaj Ji, the 16-yearold "perfect master" from India, who claims to have six million followers round the world, married an American woman in Denver last night after receiving a special court order which allowed him to marry although he is under age.

The Guru's Divine Light Mission has proved a financial, as well as a spiritual, success in the United States. His marriage, to Miss Marolyn Johnson, aged 24, took place in a fashionable part of Denver last night, with the Guru wearing a dinner jacket.

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.