Hans Jayanti '78, By the Grace of Guru Maharaj Ji
Kissimmee, Florida November 5th - 11th
The Procession
On Saturday the 11th November, a procession was held in which the 20 year old Lord of the Universe was driven "in procession" - actually there was not much of a procession just the guru sitting in an armchair in the back of a car.
He was excited about this, the first procession by a Satguru in the "West" and fantasized about one day being able to have a procession through a town or city like his father used to have.
I mean, it's just so beautiful. You know, even to have that little procession … it was the first time that a procession like that ever really has happened in the West. And it was so beautiful. It felt so good seeing all the premies. And maybe, you know, we will hold a program, more brothers and sisters will be here, more premies will be here. We can have a longer one. Then we take it through a major town. You know maybe it will be possible, someday. But forget about those "somedays." Now. Satsang, service, meditation. So premies, thank you very much.
He wasn't being totally crazy. He wasn't talking about the giant processions (yatras) that his father, the succesful Indian Satguru, Shr Hans Ji Maharaj, held.
Nor was he talking about the giant processions that his eldest brother, the successful Indian Godman, Politician and Satguru, Satpal Maharaj held throughout India
He wasn't talking about the giant processions that he had led when he was a young Satguru Godboy in India before he was disinherited, deposed and despised.
He wasn't talking about the wonderful processions his young committed, energetic premies used to hold before they fizzed flat.
He knew that if He was at the head of a procession moving through a town, all the people who saw him would come running to His feet if his premies hadn't f*cked it up
Hans Jayanti, November 11th 1978 video - Prem Rawat (Maharaji) speaks at Hans Jayanti, Friday afternoon November 10, 1978, Kissimmee