Bolie Shri Satguru Dev Maharaj Ki Jai! Bolie Shri Satguru Dev Maharaj Ki Jai! (Repeated Nuremberg Reichsparteitag style shouting)
Rennie Davis: It is not possible to understand the Middle East, or Watergate, or UFOs, or the super comet in the sky unless you understand the central event on this planet around which all other events now spin. Guru Maharaj Ji says: 'Life is like a chess game and very soon now the whole world will be checkmated' and if America wants to know what is happening it must first understand the main thing that is happening, the Lord is on the planet, he's in a human body and he's about to usher in the greatest change in the history of human civilisation."
Blue Aquarius Song:
The Lord of the Universe
Has come to us this day
The Lord of the Universe
Has come to us this day
And He's come to show us Light
And He's come to show us Love
And He's come to show us the Way
Back to our Father.
Open up your heart to the Universe of Love
And He will fill you up.
Open up your heart to the Universe of Love
And He will fill you up.
The Lord of the Universe
Has come to us this day
The Lord of the Universe
Has come to us this day
And He's come to show us Light
And He's come to show us Love
And He's come to show us the Way
Back to our Father
Open up your heart to the Universe of Love
And He will fill you up.
Open up your heart to the Universe of Love
And He will fill you up.
The Lord of the Universe
Has come to us this day
The Lord of the Universe
Has come to us this day
And He's come to show us Light
And He's come to show us Love
And He's come to show us the Way
Back to our Father
Back to our Father
Back to our Father
Back to our Father
Back to our Father.
Michael (token aspirant): I'm looking for peace and I'm looking to find happiness and I'm looking to find I guess the word peace would sort of describe it.
Yes we're going down to Houston
Yes we're going down to Houston
Gonna see our Lord come flying in
There'll we think you'll wanna be there
Yes we think you'll wanna be where
Our Kingdom of Heaven will begin
This is a festival that's gonna be happening in Houston (uh huh) a three day festival, big, huge spiritual festival lots of people are gonna like not only gonna be like working for peace but they're experiencing peace right now, you know
Well we're coming from the East Coast
And we're coming from the West Coast
And we're come from each land across the sea
Cause there's nowhere else to go
And there's nothing more to know
And there's no place on earth
I'd rather be
Dancing Slightly Crazed Hippie Girl: Incomprehensible Excited Chatter about America being free
Black Man: God Bless, God Bless America
Dancing Slightly Crazed Hippie Girl: America's really gonna be free now. Come see the Lord. Come.
Black Man: Yes
Older Boston Local: I'm telling you they got something. First I wanted to know if Madison Avenue promoted this and they say "No." They say that they're promoting this deal themselves and that's why I say the enthusiasm that I saw with these people here today is understandable Bill, it's it's you gotta go along with it that's all because they can't be, all these people can't be outa their nuts to follow inna this kind of a deal and uh just let it go at that. (A million Frenchmen can't be wrong, eh?) They can't be all crazy.
Famous Mature Lady Premie: I was very happy, I had a family, beautiful children, grandchildren, I have 14 grandchildren, very, very happy. Beautiful husband, beautiful friends, I didn't realize I was searching really but I am through searching, I found that thing that we're all searching for. Ironic Old Guy: 71 years, I haven't seen it yet. FMLP: You will IOG: I'm past 71. FMLP: You will IOG: All right. FMLP: You will just by you're being here, you'll know IOG: I'm willing to hear it but nothing's finding me no peace cause what good is this what good is this all Old Lady Stage Left: How did he get, I'd like to know is how did he get so many people to follow him. IOG: Well? FMLP: Because he gives that true experience of God. He gives a true experience of God. You'll see light, you'll hear music, you'll taste nectar and you'll feel the Word, he uplifts us. He is baptizing us in the Holy Spirit. IOG: He probably has something there. FMLP: This is the day that we have been waiting for, that day we have been waiting for, OLSL: They think he's another Jesus FMLP: He's come, he's here. IOG: Look we had a man up in New York, Father Divine too he didn't last long FMLP: This will, just you wait and see IOG: I'm listening, I'm listening Male Premie Who Butts In: There's a book out FMLP: How can you believe in God unless you experience God MPWBI: There's a book out FMLP: and He gives us a true experience of God MPWBI: Who Is Guru Maharaj Ji? IOG: Look you believe in God if you can see things happening but when you see what's happening MPWBI: So when you test his Knowledge FMPLP: You need proof, right? MPWBI: you'll know who He is. OLSL: That's Beautiful IOG: I don't believe in anything else When you see that light IOG: I always say MPWBI: and you feel that word FMLP: Beautiful, beautiful MPWBI: and hear that music and you taste that nectar MFLP: you'll see this happen MPWBI: then you know FMLP: You'll feel it
Oh I was a housewife, President of the Country Club, volunteer tutor, oh and the League of Women Voters, many things." "How do your friends relate? …" "Oh yes, five of our friends from the Country Club have received Knowledge.
Famous Mature Lady Premie: Oh I was a housewife, President of the Country Club, volunteer tutor, oh and the League of Women Voters, many things."
"How do your friends relate? …" "Oh yes, five of our friends from the Country Club have received Knowledge.
"Maharaji videos" usually have scenes of "beautiful people" premies. Back in 1973 it was rare to find old people so this older and very enthusiastic lady devotee was often pictured. She appeared in the "Festival of Knowledge" video from Brussels, Belgium, 1989. As time has passed most premies are now around 65 (2015) so it's rare to find young people in the audience.
Singing:
If you want to go to heaven, Guru Maharaj Ji takes you there
If you want to go to heaven, Guru Maharaj Ji takes you there
If you want to go to heaven don't die in despair
Guru Maharaj Ji will take you there
"This year the most Holy and significant event in human history will take place in America." - Guru Maharaj Ji aka Prem Rawat
Guru Maharaj Ji
"Because whatever Jesus taught to his disciples has not disappeared, it's still there. Because at that time, if those people stayed alive, it was because of the same Knowledge. And if at this time people are going to stay alive, it's because of the same Knowledge. And you're alive and it's because of that same Knowledge. So, for my sake, for your sake, for the sake of Almighty, and for the sake of peace on this earth, please will you realize this Knowledge? Thank you very much. "
Michael's Unhappy Wife Roz
"He doesn't say transportation to Houston is gonna be free. When did they say that?" "Well when they say you gotta come to Houston, you just hafta come to Houston." "They don't, they say 'Please' they say 'this is the most imprtant event' they say 'Please come to Houston.' So what." "Well what makes it the most important event?" "Well we'll find out, we're here." "It's only what's gonna come down is satsang and music." You don't knmow that." " I can hear that in New York." "You don't know that the only thing if that's all that's gonna come down then it's not the most important event in history. So we're here and we'll see if its the most important event in all the history of man. We'll see." "Well are you gonna judge whether it's the most important event in history?" "I don't know. I'll see what's here though." "You won't look at the negative facts." "Still, I accept the fact that there probably are people who'll say 'This is terrible' all right and I know there are people who'll say 'This is good.' Now I'm gonna find out for myself. I'm gonna jump into the pool and see if the water's warm or cold." "I've already told you you're in the water." "I know I'm in the water."
Crawler (if necessary): I'd crawl across three continents on my hands and knees to eat the dust off Guru Maharaj Ji's feet if necessary."
Premie, Lover of God, A disciple: I don't do anything. You know, I as a human being don't do anything, you know Guru Maharaj Ji does everything. I don't do anything, what do I do? You know. Guru Maharaj Ji, really from my own experience, this is not a philosophy, from my own experience, Guru Maharaj Ji is doing everything. He is the Doer of everything in this world."
"I would like to bet anyone who wishes to try and make some green energy that by November 15th, the Houston Astrodome will physically separate itself from the planet which we call Earth and will fly."
Rennie: You know you see this Astrodome and uh the more time we've spent in here the more we realise that it really was built for this event. Have you ever, have you been in the celestial suite or heard about that?" "No, what is it?" "Well the Astroworld here, see that whole uppper part there, on the top, the elevator goes up to the green and all the think, that's called the Celestial suite and that's where the Holy Family will stay and the bedroom where Guru Maharaj Ji will sleep is called the Master Bedroom." "Oh wow!" "There's a little, wooden plaque and it says 'Master Bedroom' and then you walk into the master bedroom
Rennie (1971):And the message is that you know we've had it, you know it's too much and uh come May 1st uh we're issuing an ultimatum to uh to Richard Nixon as as people all over the world issue their ultimatum to to Richard Nixon too and uh our ultimatum is if the government of the United States doesn't stop the war then then we're gonna stop the government of the United States.
Rennie (1973): You look back at your lifetime and you sort of feel like what you're doing now in Divine Light Mission is what you always wanted to do and it's rather like everyone sort of feels like every like whatever it was we were doing in the past, we're doing now and I'm rather getting that perspective about the whole generation that the vision we proclaimed in the streets of this country in the 1960's is actually what we're going to do now in the 70's and the 80's and it's actually going to be the generation of the 60's that is actually going to carry out this, this incredible change that we're talking about so people say well it's a big break with the past and do you look back at the past with regrets you know but I don't look at the past with any regret at all you know I just think it was really all a a warm-up you know and the political and cultural revolution it was just like, like I say a warm-up for the greatest transformation in the history of human civilisation and it's going to be far out."
Abbie Hoffman: He's a good propagandist and what a propagandist does is establish the vision as a reality and then the the people, the masses, the present moves towards that vision but unless you accept the vision as a reality then you can't function and that's What a propagandist is or a teacher or whatever the other but I don't consider Rennie a kinda a teacher essentially more as a propagandist cause he's always pushin something else that's where he's more stoic, I don't trust stoics he had the wrost taste in food I ever met in my life, he's dressing better now
Rennie: If Jerry or Abbie or Tom Hayden or someone like that had gone off to India and come back and said "You know I mean it's blown my mind but the Lord is on the planet I mean I would have thought they'd fallen out of a tree or something
Abbie: Rennie is arrogant about the future, there's no doubt about it, that is arrogant to say not that ah the difference between saying you've found God and saying you know his address you know you got his credit card I mean you got his credit card or his telex number in your pocket you know cause it's a different kind of arrogance. It's great to find God but Jesus to have his telex numer is very elite.
Rennie: "The thing we've got here is not only a movement that is incredibly efficient and incredibly together and built really on an incredible self-understanding but you see it's led by the Lord, heh heh heh."
Guru Maharaj Ji arrives at the rarely used William Hobby Airport by car as authorities at Houston airport refused to allow 2,000 premies to greet him there
The Lord of the Universe
Guru Maharaj Ji: This is just about the time that everybody comes together and understands who is God because I guess there have been too many of these phony things going around these world. Ah, messes like Watergate and things like that but it's just not America, it's right around the world, you can't just blame just one country for it. And I guess this is just about time that everybody gets together and understands who is God because it's important that people know God by now, at least. (knowing laughter in crowd)
"Those premies who came in private cars, you can leave immediately, premies that came in the buses we rented should stay here and remain here and meditate until further instructions. Stay seated" Me, me!" "Please! Please!" "You know who touched this flower, the Lord of the Universe. Touch it. A flower." "All the premies on the stage crew who had put up the stage please report to the back of the stage now."
Rennie: and it's just, it's just so incredible you know because first of all there's this magnificent chess set, you know, and Guru Maharaj Ji really loves to play chess, you know, and it's all in place and you walk in into the bedroom and there's this nice uh you know bathroom and everything but the the water fountains, the spigots on the water fountain are in the shape of a swan," "Oh no" "which is Guru Maharaj Ji's symbol, you know and uh this every little details like that its mind blowing just really really beautiful … down the last letter."
Astrologer: People are going to come here with incredible negative pre-determined notions and they're going to go away spaced out and blissed out and really turned on. Anybody who's
exposed to this vibration cannot fight it because it's stronger than anything, you know, the vibration of Guru Maharaj Ji is stronger than anything that has ever, that has ever been known. There's a rumour going around that NASA is tracing and following him around the country because his energy level is stronger than anything they've ever seen before.
Mahatma: This place has been built up for Guru Maharaj Ji. Specially (knowing laughter) cause He's going to convey the message of Truth from this place
Rennie: You know the size of this thing is very deceptive the Astrodome you know like there's a hotel called the Shamrock Hilton here in Houston, it's an eighteen storey building, a huge building. That eighteen storey building can stand on this floor and not touch the ceiling.
Knowall: Not one person getting paid money cash for this work he's doin'. If you took a million dollars and came up to some person and said "Build me a magnificent stage. I want it right out of the Bible and I want it put up in two days." The guy would say "Impossible. Impossible for a million dollars. Inmpossible. yet here's people doing it, for not for nothing because it's beyond nothing, it's beyond any monetary thing this thing that Guru Maharaj Ji can give to people and does give to people.
Hard hat worker: "Like I'm I'm so I can't even tell you how high we are now. You understand. Like I I dropped 3,000 micrograms of acid one time and I've I'm so high now I was never as high then as I am now and this is natural, this is pure.
Guy with Unhappy Parents: Before I came to Guru Maharaj Ji I was a freak, smoking dope, dropped out, completely and my parents are more happy with that than they are with this.
Guy in cap: Before I came to Guru Maharaj Ji I was defintely searching for something you know beyond this material plane because I'd realised that I there was nothing more that I could you know attain here. I had everything materially that I could gain, that I wanted and there was nothing left except to find that Knowledge of God.
Guy on the Eve Of Destruction: We were into politics, we were into you know drugs you know a lot of these different different aspects of a counter culture. Trying to could change what we thought was innately wrong with this country, what was innately wrong with the world you know we'd been handed something in this world and we didn't like it you know. We really, like our parents gave us this world and it was it wasn't good you know. It was like the only thing we had to look forward to was total destruction in our lifetimes which wasn't really much to look forward to.
Curly Headed Guy: My mother especially feels I should go back to school and do something that's truly worthwhile but ah I've been trying to tell her that uh that's the reason I left because there was nothing in school you know economics you know that I couldn't find that peace that I've (She wants you to get a job) yeah a job you know move out to suburbia you know the whole scene.
Guy in cap: The thing that I've exerienced with parents is that their biggest worry is that Guru Maharaj Ji gives you more love than than they can and that worries them because you know they're losing their footholds, they're realising that they're only our physical parents, you know they're not really you know our spiritual parents and they're realising that Guru Maharaj Ji is offering something more than they can offer and this is the love that never stops, that never ceases.
Blue Aquarius Song: Rock Me Maharaji
I was just a little child
Maya made my mind run wild
Then Guru Maharaj Ji smiled
And night time turned to day
I will give you peace he said
So at his feet I laid my head
So rock me Maharaji and roll me tonight
Rock me Maharaji and say it's all right
It's all right
Reporter: Some of the customs seem strange to us like darshan and people kissing Mata Ji's feet and we're wondering what it's like to have your feet kissed and what you think about during that?
Translater: If you you love your child and your child sometimes kisses you at your cheek or at your feet do you mind it? Do you get confused over it?
Reporter: Was he a difficult child or um did he do things he shouldn't have done?
Mata Ji is saying that you should first be clear in your quesiton you know how that that great power, that spiritual power come to give happiness to all give unhappiness to the mother?
Reporter: Many Americans are put off by the material things and yet the Holy Family seems to have more than their share of material things. I see that Mata Ji has a Mercedes. Would not a Chevrolet take her back and forth as well? (Uproarious laughter)
Mata Ji says that if you will know that Knowledge then you too will bring things for Mata Ji and then when you will know this Knowledge then the best thing you will find in the New York market you will bring for Mata Ji. That is the magic, Does she have any … that is the magic. Mata Ji is saying you should be happy with us becausewe are in living form, we are giving that Knowledge, we are sitting in that Rolls Royce and moving from one place to another place to save mankind by giving this Knowledge.
Reporter: Why America? Why right now in America?
BBJ: Because America needs it.
Does India need it?
No No. Because in America there is this whole political system which is crashing down, just crumbling down and so something spiritual must be there. When the body dies, the spirit leaves the body you see so this this program is like the spirit of America.
What's the purpose of Millenium?
The word 'millenium' means 1,000 years of peace and the purpose is to bring peace on this earth because this planet was made for peace
And what about the event in Houston?
Oh Houston is God's country. This is God's work (looks up at Astrodome roof) in God's country by God's spelling. Spelling of 'Koutek' is "KO" "Hou" "tek". Now KO is like knock-out and "hou" is Houston "hou" Houston and "tek" is Texas so KO knock out Houston Texas. It comes out very nicely.
Maharaji has a dog called 'Moti' and we give bananas to the dog and cashews nuts and he eats cashew nuts, he doesn't eat meat now so if Maharaji can change that dog just by the mere presence of Maharaji the dog can be vegetarian then I think the whole world more like can receive peace. Diamonds can change.
Reporter: What do you think is the main resistance to Guru Maharaj Ji in peoples' minds?
Ignorance.
Ignorance?
Ignorance. Definitely ignorance
Reporter:You say that a thousand years of peace will begin with this event?
Anybody who receives Guru Maharaj Ji Knowledge he enters that peace.
In South America there's a place called Columbia and there was a Mother Superior and she had a big monastery and she uh got a message and she says that two UFO's came to her and these people came out of the spaceship and they told her she should go to the ashram and receive Knowledge and then the whole church, the whole monastery came to the ashram and they were weeping, all the nuns were weeping and the Mother Superior was leading them and uh they wanted Knowledge and they wanted to serve Guru Maharaj Ji and she has written a letter to Guru Maharaj Ji saying that she hopes that the Pope will receive Knowledge and she's like completely blissed out and she's serving Maharaji in the ashram and the whole church is coming to Guru Maharaj Ji
Do you think there's any chance that the Pope will receive Knowledge?
Yes, yes this is the thing you see I think that if uh if the situation allows him then surely he'll receive Knowledge because Knowledge is for everybody. Mahatma Ji is from India. He was a very, very rich man before he took Knowledge like the Howard Hugheses of India (the Howard Hughes of India?) yes yes multi-millionaire. He left everything and then he received Knowledge.
If you don't receive the Knowledge can you still be peaceful?
You can more like I can say you can more like see that the peace is there. Like I have a glass of water but unlessen I unlessen I until I drink it my thirst is not quenched so more like the the glass of water is more like the peace that I see, that peace that people see but when they take it they can be part of it, they can experience it.
When people see this event on television what do you think the effect will be?
They'll be sorry that they were not here (laughter)
Anything more?
Nothing more
What's your part in general in the production?
Nothing. Nothing at all (What's your) I'm I'm no one (You're no one?) No one. Isn't it? (laughter)
What's your daily, what's your daily … what do you do every day?
Just hang around and just more like see these people and give them darshan. Yes this is it. I just hang around and give them darshans and this it it.
Bal Bhagwan Ji is uh is more like a bag of flesh with bones and blood and spirit inside it. Yes. Nothing else. (laughter)
Bolie Shri Satguru Dev Maharaj Ki Jai!
Bolie Shri Ananda Kanda Bhagwan Ki Jai!
We love you Bal Bhagwan Ji!
You don't know how fortunate you are. That's all I have to say.
It really is a great experience to be amongst people who just wanna learn how to love, you know, it really is like I don't know if it's the air-conditioning but you can really feel something, you know what I mean
The second part of the full transcript of the film is available here