A Pictorial History of Prem Rawat: Top Gun

Prem Rawat Looking Like Tom Cruise - In His Own Mind *

Prem Rawat aka Guru Maharaj Ji the Top Gun

 

August 1972: Prem Rawat Begins Learning to Fly

 

September 1973: Gulfstream G2 Dream Turns to Nightmare

"the next point we are making this like it's going to be like one month of tour right round the world and we are getting this G2 which is going to make it completely flexible for us to do that because right now it's it's impossible" - Prem Rawat Palace Of Peace, London, 23rd September 1973

Gulfstream G2

Poor Prem didn't realize that reality was about to dump a steaming pile of sh*t on him and that his upcoming Millenium '73 festival was not going to be the success he expected. In fact it would be decade and a few more bumps in the road before his long-suffering premies could afford a feasible jet. In 1987 4,000 premies donated $l,100,000 towards a down payment on a Learjet 55. A $2½ million bank loan and the $1½ million annual running costs still needed to be repaid. Of course Prem decided that that jet was unsatisfactory and so the stairway to heaven has been a long and expensive road and that Gulfstream G650 is still a pie in his eye in the sky.

 

DECAPrem Rawat's Boeing 707: The DECA Project, 1979

In 1979 the acquisition and customization of a Boeing 707 for Prem Rawat's exclusive use became the dominant focus within the then Divine Light Mission. The headquarters of DLM was moved to Miami and large numbers of the most skilled and dedicated ashram premies were moved to Miami into run-down, rat-filled hotels. Work on the 1961 Boeing 707 was completed in 1980 but it's emissions exceeded legal limits so the plane was soon sold to the more famous and much, much richer Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (he had begun his career working as the accounts clerk for a major Indian religious leader, so he could handle legal details like not letting your family steal your inheritance.) The plane was used by Rawat for a US tour and a trip to Australia and New Zealand and a holiday in Tahiti.

1982 Prem Rawat's Boeing 707
1982 Boeing 707

 

Prem Rawat's Devotees Lease A Lear 35 (1984)


1984 Learjet 35
1984 Learjet 35

 

Prem Rawat's Devotees Buy A Lear 55 (1987)


Learjet 55

 

Prem Rawat realizes He Needs a Canadian-Made Challenger 601 (1990)


Challenger 601

Some people are never satisfied and so Prem Rawat has had his plane upgraded a few more times and at staggering cost. These aircraft are not purchased by Prem Rawat but are leased from the actual owners by a cabal of Prem's rich devotees. Leasing an aircraft apparently has major tax benefits for people wealthy enough to make use of them.

 

Prem Rawat Is Upgraded To A Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV (1997)

Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV - cost about $25 million

Gulfstream G IV N41PR

Gulfstream G IV N41PR

 

Prem Rawat Is Upgraded To A Gulfstream Aerospace GV (2000)

 

Gulfstream GV N54PR
Gulfstream GV N54PR

 

Prem Rawat Is Upgraded To A Gulfstream Aerospace GV-SP (2007)

Gulfstream G550 Gulfstream G550

 

His Most Blissful Peacefullest Moment - Prem Rawat Is Upgraded Up To A G650 (2013)

The Prem Rawat Foundation took delivery of Gulfstream N650PR at Bradley International Airport on 19 November 2013 - cost app. $65 million

Gulfstream G650 Gulfstream G650

 

The Ultimate Humiliation - Prem Rawat Is Downgraded Back To A G550

Gulfstream G550
Biggin Hill - EGKB on Jun 20, 2017

Gulfstream G550
DeKalb Peachtree Airport on Mar 31, 2018

His Loyal Worshippers Can't Pay for the Running Costs and Maintenance on a G650

After all He's done for them …

From the Boeing 707 project and the first lease of the Learjet 35 Prem Rawat's rapacious demands for yet another faster, more confortable, more powerful jet have stretched his followers' wallets further than they can actually go. Like Rawat Himself they have been on a treadmill with the carrot just beyond their collective noses and yet for such a relatively small group they have provided quite astonishing amounts of money in the last 50 years for very little apparent reward. For over 30 years I knew a large number of Rawat's followers as friends amd acquaintances. They weren't the happiest, most satisfied, most exciting, peaceful people I've ever met. They were relatively normal though they tended to the more depressive side of humanity with a significant minority having drug and alcohol problems.














Tom Cruise is actually a not very tall actor not a Top Gun pilot