This video, titled 'Contact', a Visions International (a division of Elan Vital Inc) release, was produced in 1987/8.

It contains footage of a festival in India with Holi, Darshan and divine dancing, sound-bites of premies, some satsang given in Australia and flight footage not just of the jet-of-the-day but his helicopter and his glider as well and the big ballad has scenes of Rawat producing the recording of 'I Need To Feel It' which is the featured big, inspirational ballad.

There is a very definite exposition of Rawat's position in the lineage of Perfect Masters and their role as the unique giver of true experience rather than doctrine and dogma.

This video, titled "Windows In Time", an ILC (International Learning Center) production and a Visions International (a division of Elan Vital Inc) release, was premiered at the 'Festival of Knowledge' in Miami, July 1989. It contains historical footage from India and an ridiculously upbeat view of Rawat's early career in the West. In the 1970's the press had been nearly 100% critical and derisive of the 'fat boy guru'.

There is extensive footage of an "interview" with Prem Rawat in the back seat of a car from the late 80's and some of his 'students' providing revisionist spin on his early days in the West and rare footage of his childhood in India. It ends with an inspirational series of clips of his life over 'Teach Me Devotion' with late 1980's lyrics.

Don't miss the super clear explanation of the commitment required to practise Knowledge, at least, that's what I think it's about.

This video, titled "Festival Of Knowledge", an ILC (International Learning Center) production and a Visions International (a division of Elan Vital Inc) release, contains footage of sections of his speeches at a meeting of his followers in Brussels in 1989 and songs and montages of crowd scenes.

Rawat hasn't yet learnt to pronounce 'wisdom' which is certainly appropriate. Even after his Western followers have practised his "Knowledge" for nearly 20 years he has to emphasise hope and trust in him as the living Master and the inability of his followers to know anything on their complicated and uncertain path. He voices his sneering caricature of normal human lives and work that he has picked up from cartoons and sitcoms. He sneers at people working to make others rich without appearing to see the incredible irony of a rich parasite Master whose wealth and opulent lifestyle is totally based upon donations from those very workers.The emotional highlight is another Kim O'Leary self-reviling ballad in which Rawat's "love" must continually save her (and by extension all of Rawat's devotees) from her imperfections, depressions, lack of trust and, presumably, belief in her inability to meditate.

This video, titled "Birthday Gift, India '88" has no attribution but was produced in 1988/89. It may have been recorded from a satellite broadcast. It is part of a series that includes "Evolution", "Windows In Time", "I Have This Knowledge" and "Passages" that attempt to show an extremely upbeat version of Rawat's early career in the West and a coherent evolution of his career and teachings while allowing his devotees watching it to briefly relive their youth during the exciting, overtly divine and devotional, optimistic and successful public phase of his career. This film seems to have been produced in India and has speeches by Rawat in Hindi and some images of Rawat dressed as Krishna and others that were not shown in any similar Western videos.

This video, titled 'Evolution', an ILC (International Learning Center) production was produced in 1989. It is part of a series that includes "Windows In Time", "I Have This Knowledge" and "Passages" that attempt to show an extremely upbeat version of Rawat's early career in the West and a coherent evolution of his career and teachings while allowing his devotees watching it to briefly relive their youth during the exciting, overtly divine and devotional, optimistic and successful public phase of his career. It is certainly not an accurate picture of the history of Rawat's life and career but it is an accurate picture of how he wanted that presented in 1989 within the constraints of available archival film. It contains more extensive footage of his father and his early life in India than the others in this series but is amateurish by comparison with an intrusive, mediocre soundtrack.

This video, titled "A Freedom Call", is © I.L.C, (Internation Learning Center) d.b.a. Visions International (a division of Elan Vital Inc) production and was released in 1991. It begins with a reading by Prem Rawat of some doggerel, presumably written by Rawat, that appears to be based on, or at least inspired by, a well-know poem "High Flight" by John Magee. It can hardly be called plagiarism as it so laughably bad it would probably qualify as satire if he didn't declaim it so earnestly. The soundtrack sounds like Vangelis has dashed something off while on the toilet and in a hurry to go somewhere else, urgently, and then recorded it in the taxi on the way to the airport. Rawat is a master of verbosity delivered in mangled syntax and poor pronunciation and here he relates another long-winded story about the birth of a bird, making this everyday event a "miracle". He calls the first flight magical and then derides human life, without his Knowledge the "one certain special way" to happiness, as being as pointless and miserable as a bird trapped in a gilded cage.

This video, titled "The Journey is the Destination", a Visions International (a division of Elan Vital Inc) production, was released in 1994.

It includes Rawat answering the questions:

• Is Knowledge the only Path?
• Should we be Vegetarians?
• How does Spirituality Correlate to Knowledge?

and Rawat reading from Kabir. There are pretty graphics. The audience response during the answer to 'How does Spirituality Correlate to Knowledge?' is interesting.

This video, titled "Like The Rain", a Visions International (a division of Elan Vital Inc) release, was released in 1996.

It contains the 'Blessing of the Master' sermon, Maharaji dancing briefly, a Holi festival where some people are collecting the charanamrit and a quick glimpse of a darshan line.

"So what is the blessing for a human being. Of course we've talked about life, we've talked about that breath, we've talked about this existence and yes they're all blessings. But there is another wonderful blessing and that blessing is the Master. Master, to me, is that manifestation of the yearning of the heart. If there was no yearning of the heart, believe me, there would be no Master."

In the period 1995 to 1997 Visions International produced a series of 10 short films which were later sold on Video CDs at speeches of Prem Rawat's. While they fit onto one Video CD they were sold as a set of two, presumably to maximise the financial returns. They were not merely recordings of Rawat's speeches, though they included many quotes and his daughter Daya's singing, some historical footage of his career and shots that followers could recognise as darshan lines (ie people lining up and passing before Rawat sitting on a throne and kissing his feet) though this would not be obvious to people who were not Rawat's long time students. They include "Boundless", "He's Here" and "Total embrace"

This video, titled 'Fulfillment', a Visions International (a division of Elan Vital Inc) short (15 minutes) introductory video, was released in 1998. It combines professional sounding voice-over explanations of Prem Rawat's claims about his life, philosophy and teachings with snippets of Rawat's "satsangs". Though intended to be shown as an introduction to "Maharaji" (Great King) as he calls himself, it still contains those central dogmas of his religion that have remained constant through the decades.

This video, titled "Introducing the Possibility of Knowledge", a Visions International release, was produced in 2000. It contains scenes from two training sessions Elan Vital held to teach Prem Rawat's students how to introduce people to the "possibility of Knowledge" and a speech in Miami. The "invited guests" paid dearly for the chance to be at these sessions as their Master was going to be there. Nearly all of them had been devotees of Maharaji for up to 30 years and so the idea that they needed such training was extraordinary enough in itself. What made it even more remarkable is that most of them had been doing such personal and public proselytisation in the '70's quite successfully until Rawat had ordered them to cease and desist in 1982.

This video, titled "Four Days In November", a Visions International (a division of Elan Vital Inc) release, was released in 2000.

It includes footage of his meetings in Delhi, India in late 1999, the last program he appeared in during the 20th century. It's highlight is the first known public performance of Prem Rawat singing in a duet with his daughter, Daya, of a bhajan and includes some ad-libbing by him and some group singing with the large audience. Unfortunately, there are only a few testimonies from premies regarding his singing and their explanations of it's effect upon them as they are very interesting.

There is a full transcript of Rawat's (Maharaji) speeches from this video available.

This video, entitled "I Have This Knowledge", allows premies to reminisce watching small clips and still photos from the early 70's Divine Light Mission archives. The soundtrack is an upbeat, edited "satsang" of Prem Rawat's talking about his early life in the West, some "interviews" with members of his inner circle and pointed comments about "Indian cultural" artifacts mistakenly taken up by young Westerners of the time that Prem Rawat has "removed" from Elan Vital doctrines.

"Passages - A Masters Journey", a Visions International (a division of Elan Vital Inc) video, was published during 2001 to mark the 30th anniversary of the arrival of Prem Rawat (aka Maharaji) to the West in 1971 and to provide a coherent story for Rawat's followers to counter the criticisms of him being published on the Internet some of them by his former closest associates. It contains a potted history of Maharaji's life, his family, his organizations and his "message". Several prominent followers of Maharaji were interviewed for the video giving their very similar thoughts on these criticised aspects of Rawat and his career.

It was first shown at an Elan Vital program held in Nottingham UK in 2001, then sold for a period of time and broadcast via Satellite. The video is now no longer available for purchase or distribution via Elan Vital or their sister organizations. It contains some early footage of Prem Rawat in the West, some even earlier footage of his father but definitely not of his "Holy Family" in India, interviews with about a dozen of his most trusted followers and some background material with a professional doing the voice-overs explaining the new interpretation of his past and his Knowledge in an attempt to counter accusations against him on the internet. A complete transcript is available here.

This video, entitled "Receiving Knowledge", was copied from a broadcast via Satellite.

It contains some footage of Prem Rawat in a Pre-Knowledge session, speaking and answering some questions. It also contains interviews with some people before receiving Knowledge (aspirants), directly after receiving Knowledge and up to a year later.

We have only received two clips from this video for now. In one he gives his definition of 'religion' and in another answers the question: "But can they be happy?"

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