TVTV Lord of the Universe Documentary Reveals "Knowledge"Secrets
An exposé video, titled 'Lord of the Universe', was shot as a television documentary at the Millenium 73 festival at a time when Prem Rawat's followers had full confidence that any examination of the guru, his 'Knowledge' and his followers would be positive. The TVTV team followed members of Divine Light Mission across the United States over a period of six weeks, and were already able to contact some people who had already become disillusioned with Prem Rawat and his Knowledge and they revelaed the methods of meditation, these so-called 4 techniques. Despite claims by Prem Rawat's PR spin team at the time there was a majority of people who were prepared to be initiated by a Mahatma but found the experience unconvincing and had minimal or no further contact with the guru and Divine Light Mission. This can be seen by comparing the numbers intitiated with the numbers involved in DLM activities. 'Lord of the Universe' was first broadcast on PBS on February 2, 1974, and released in a VHS format on November 1, 1991 and is available on the internet.
Different mahatmas had different styles and 12 years later Prem Rawat altered and renamed the methods of meditation blaming the use of "incorrect techniques" on the mahatmas, nearly all of whom had repudiated him and gone back to India in 1974.
I "received Knowledge" at this time and I can confirm that their evidence is correct.
The Knowledge as revealed in the TVTV documentary "Lord of the Universe":
Ex-premie: The First of the four techniques is the Light and it involves using the middle finger and the thumb, closing your eyes and pressing in and somewhat up on your eyeballs and then putting your forefinger in the middle of your forehead where your "third eye" is supposed to be and focussing your concentration your inner vision on the light, the single point of light that appears at that uh point (mm-mm) that's the technique of the light.
The Second Technique is the technique of the Music which involves putting your thumbs in your ears, closing your eyes and holding them closed with the little fingers of each of your hands, joining the rest of your fingers and forming a kind of cap or bonnet over your head and concentrating on the inner sound. That's the, that's the technique that's called the Music.
Ah the Third Technique is the is the Nectar and the Nectar involves rolling your tongue back in your mouth as far as you can past your soft palate and sometimes it's advised you use a couple of fingers because your tongue is not used to going in that direction. The mahatma said that he takes his tongue and he turns it all the way around and loosened up his muscles that for me were tight. Puts his tongue all the way back back of where your mouth turns down, the roof of your mouth then turns down and there's an opening and he goes past that opening with his tongue and the up into the canals that lead to the nose and I suppose the ears too and that is just bliss
The Fourth Technique is the Word, the Unspeakable Name of God and that is basically (inhales loudly, exhales loudly a few times) uh you know very deep even breathing while uh internally concentrating on the sound 'Soham' (sohung) ah which in the Hindu tradition is supposed to accompany the 'so' on the inhalation and the 'hungh on the exhalation and this is supposed to be the sound that is produced by this unspeakable Name of God.
Stills from the documentary showing premies meditating at the Millenium 73 festival:
After I posted these techniques on Youtube various premies posted comments about this (and me). Here are the first ones.
Disillusioned meditators speaking of post-initiation instructions:
Every morning before you got up, before you got out of bed you were supposed to cover yourself with your sheet and do at least a half an hour on the Word, at least a half an hour on the music and as much of the Light as you could and you were supposed to be doing the Nectar while you were doing all of the other three and you were supposed to do the same thing every evening just before you went to bed so you were doing at least two hours of formal meditation. Throughout the day you were supposed to be doing the informal meditation on the Word.
Right at the moment when the whole thing was over, we'd received Knowledge, then it's over then immediately he switched - the Mahatma - he switched from talking about this Knowledge to talking about Guru Maharaj Ji and didn't he some he made a jump and he said we should all come to India and um and I thought "Wait a minute. Wait a minute. You know he's just made a little jump in logic there. I'm with him all the way and then suddenly I don't understand the connections. I've got this Knowledge and it's terrific but now I should follow Maharaji for the rest of my life and I don't understand why. Why isn't? He said it's this free gift and I've just received this free gift and I say Thank you thank you you know. Do I have to say thank you for the rest of my life?"
When I really, completely freaked out on then is when I got this letter, it said well yes Maharaji is our Lord and Master but He's also a little kid and He's coming to America and He really likes to watch TV and stuff so if you have any appliances you don't need, send them in. Yeah. He He they're starting a centre in New York. Okay? And He was going to live there for when He came to America. They said He's well He's Lord and Master but he's also a little boy in this incarnation and He'd likes appliances you know so any spare ones you have send and I said "Jesus you know that's when I completely freaked out.
There was also a Scene Showing the Pre-Initiation Situation for 'Aspirants'
This was the time when the demand to be initiated was at its height. The growth in new followers of Rawat's had been astonishing for the past 3 years. It seemed miraculous. Excitement was high and there were more people "requesting Knowledge" than there were mahatmas to initiate them and teach them the techniques. At this time, Prem Rawat still taught that there was a need for a hands-on initiation by an empowered 'great soul' for the Perfect Master's grace to enter the aspirant. In the lead-up to the Millenium festival, Prem Rawat was saying this was the event that would be the "most Holy and significant event in human history." In the premie community there were predictions that it would initiate 1000 years of peace and possibly be the time when aliens from other galaxies would arrive to worship Rawat or to take the premies to another place so the pressure was on the "receive Knowledge" now or it may be too late.
Mahatmas attempted to raise an intense desire amongst the aspirants and could be ruthless in denying the possibility of initiation to the desperate for no apparent reason or making people wait even longer to attempt to increase their desire.
When he started talking this orange-robed Indian man with a shaved head came into the room it was like he was like and you just knew "Oh my God, this is it. This is it and to me it was like this is the moment I've been waiting for all my life and you know I wanted whatever he had.
And then he goes around and he asks each one of you "Are you ready to receive the guru?" and you start going through changes, right? Some people said "Aargh. No. I'm leaving now." and they split but each person that split made you a little bit tighter "If I can get away with this" right which was my feeling you know "Don't, don't let me be the one who's cast out." Then he goes around the room and he casts people out.
As soon as somebody's eliminated and you're not eliminated you feel like "Hey, wow, I'm chosen, you know, it's really a heavy feeling you know, the whole club trip. Some people freaked out when he told them they weren't ready. Put them through heavy changes you know people who thought they were ready but that finally gets all over with and he starts giving you the Knowledge.
At Millenium there was Misery Amongst Who Thought They'd Missed Out
Announcement to Aspirants: People who want Knowledge in in Houston should have heard at least two months of satsang otherwise all the mahatmas that are in America right now are gonna travel all out America completely whitewash this nation and so they'll be going to most of the cities that you probably live in. Like the Knowledge that is going to be happening tomorrow and the next day are primarily for those people who are on charters that have to go back to like Tierra Del Fuego and places like that where there isn't ashrams within hundreds of miles.
Miserable Aspirant: I'm ready to crawl the walls. I have to have Knowledge now. (ha ha) I'm serious. I'm not gonna grab your tie but I'm not coming back at ten tomorrow. I want it now. I want to sign up now.
Attractive Aspirant: Knowledge is something though that you get it when you get it. It happens. It's part of God's plan. When it happens it's perfect. You know you don't decide when you want it The mahatma told me to come after ???. The mahatmas want everybody
Miserable Aspirant: I gave up a place like she did to someone else.
Attractive Aspirant: Everybody goes through that.
Other Aspirant: I went to excuse me the last Knowledge Session I went to, it was in Denver, Mahatma Parlokanand and he said go to the Millenium and you'll receive Knowledge there. I'm here at Millenium to receive Knowledge. I've got to leave tomorrow and I'm not on a flight so does this count count me out, you know, no job now, quite the job, what?
Miserable Aspirant: I don't know how I'm going to get back. I don't have any money. I don't know anything, all I know is I need Knowledge now. I'm not concerned about those things.
Attractive Aspirant: Am I on that list for sure?
Miserable Aspirant: I live with three premies. I have for five months. I hear satsang all the time and I need this Knowledge. I'm so miserable inside that …