Regular Publications of Prem Rawat's Organisations

After the Jonestown massacre of 1978 there was intense pressure on the US government to investigate those cults seen as dangerous to their members and deceptive in their recruitment and indoctrination methods. In 1979 the wife of L. Ron Hubbard the creator of Scientology was jailed along with 11 other Scientologists for conspiracy. In 1981 Reverend Moon, the head of the "Moonies" cult was convicted of tax evasion and was gaoled in 1984 after lengthy legal appeals. It was in this period that Guru Maharaj Ji as Prem Rawat then called himself, the Perfect Master of the Divine Light Mission, directed his followers to destroy all copies of the books, magazines and other media the organisation had published in the preceding decade. Shortly thereafter he closed the "ashrams" containing thousands of his devotees who were living celibate, communal lives with all their finances and time completely dedicated to his organisation and he ended the nightly public testimonial meetings ("satsang") that had been the major focus of his followers and attempts at recruitment and disappeared from the public eye.

This is surely one of the most audacious attempts at re-inventing oneself ever attempted by a minor (albeit the Lord of the Universe in the minds of his followers) cult leader and has parallels with the criminal attempt by L. Ron Hubbard's followers to infiltrate US government departments to destroy documentary evidence of their leader's life and lies. Rawat had cut short his education in India at the age of 13 to kick-start his career in the West as the Perfect Master and Lord of the Universe and to enjoy the life-style available to a cult leader whose followers believed he was a divine incarnation and so he was probably unaware that copies of much of these texts would be stored in public libraries.

As his current organisations (the Prem Rawat Foundation and Élan Vital) are now trying to publicly present him as a world renowned and respected "Teacher of Peace" I am presenting these texts for anyone who wishes to gain a more complete picture of his career, unsuccessful and venal though it has been.

Divine Light Mission publications (1970s)

  • Divine Light: Earliest magazine published in the West by DLM in England, copies - June 1971 to February 1974M
  • Read Think And Know Cheap English language pamphlet that contains the teachings of Hans Rawat published in India November, 1971
  • Satguru Maharaj Ji Early booklet from the USA that appears to have been published in late 1971.
  • Reflections on an Indian Sunrise Early Divine Light Mission pamphlet/magazine from the USA published in early 1972.
  • And It Is Divine Monthly glossy magazine published for general public (sort of), copies - 1972 to 1977 Millenium '73 Festival Issue
  • Divine Times: Monthly magazine published in the USA, copies - 1973 to 1980
  • The Golden Age and The Divine Light News were the official Australian Divine Light Mission magazines and were published from 1973 to 1979. My own copies were burnt in 1982 by my more obedient partner after I had packed them up for storage as essential texts that documented important parts of my life in the 1970's. Fortunately copies had been archived at the Australian National Library and these are still freely available.
  • Élan Vital: Full color quarterly magazine published in the USA from 1977 to 1980
  • Affinity: Color quarterly A5 size magazine published in Ireland, copies - 1978 to 1980

Local Community Publications

  • Brotherly Love: a Philadelphia DLM community newsletter published in 1974 - 1976 (at least)
  • Hidden Light: a Washington DC DLM community newsletter published in 1974 - 1975 (at least)
  • Light Reading: a Denver DLM community newsletter published in 1977 - 1977 (at least)
  • IN LOVE: North American A4 size East Orange, New Jersey local community magazine , copies - 1977/78
  • Coming Together Part of the August, 1974 issue of a local Denver, Colorado DLM magazine
  • For Your Inspiration The first and possibly only issue of an "international premie newsletter" 1975

Élan Vital publications (1980s->)

Post 1983 Rawat made a nearly complete change of his public persona, dropped most of the Indian terminology (though he simply changed his title to Maharaji (="Ultimate Ruler") and adopted a less hectoring tone and his speeches began to be edited far more tightly in further publications though visual media now dominated his organisations' productions. Now only brief excerpts of his speeches were likely to be printed often with complex formatting and photos of himself.

  • Finding Happiness, © Élan Vital 1982
    A step into the new era of Rawatism propaganda. Bright, colourful and more professional. Unfortunately for Rawat this was more expensive and less successful than his 1970's messages.
  • IN VIEW: North American A4 size leaflet/magazine infrequently published by Élan Vital in the 1980's (at least)
  • NEWSLINE: United Kingdom leaflet/magazine infrequently published by Élan Vital in the 1980's (at least)
  • 1980s newsletters and NB: Rejoice updates
  • Seven copies of the Raj Vidya Kender English language quarterly Life Force magazine 1989-1992. Raj Vidya Kender is the Indian Divine United Organisation
  • Inspire: Electronic newsletter published by the Prem Rawat Foundation 2004 - 2010
  • ADI magazine: published by the Prem Rawat Foundation for 10 issues, available as a .pdf or print version
  • Miscellaneous Proclamations proclaiming His ability to save the world if only everyone will recognise His glory and bow down before Him and Letters to his premies attempting to boost their spirits, instruct them and give agya.
  • Miscellaneous Booklets An index of various booklets published by organisations dedicated to Rawat
  • Miscellaneous Pamphlets usually created for "propagation" ie attempting to gain new converts. As they usually contained photos of Prem Rawat (then known as Guru Maharaj Ji) and excerpts of his speeches, they were unsuccesful.
  • Miscellaneous Publications An index of various publications published by organisations dedicated to Rawat

Many thanks to the people who made these texts available on the internet for their dedication to truth.