Prem Rawat's Knowledge Session
The Initiation of Prem Rawat Into Knowledge By His Father

The first Divine Light Mission Mahatmas were sent to the West to recruit new members by revealing them the "special, secret meditation techniques" and giving them a short course in Rawatism (a simpified version of Hindu Vedanta philosophy and the Perennial Philosophy as taught in the Sant Mat tradition) they were prepared to initiate pretty well anyone, even if you'd walked into the room by accident.

The drop-out rate from this haphazard method in the West was very high and Prem Rawat and his devoted followers/minions have tried lengthening and intensifying the lead up process and the initiation ceremony to lessen this but a satisfactory process has not been found. In 2006 he thought more participation for new initiates might be a cure if only could you get current PWKs to do service.

If Prem Rawat's Knowledge actually is what he claims then a short and simple introduction and a quick and straightforward teaching of the techniques is all that should be required.

After All, That's What Happened To Prem Himself - as he told it a few times

By 2006, Maharaji had begun to talk of speaking about peace since he was four years old. One assumes he thought the people he spoke to would not know of his scandalous years as the teenage Lord of the Universe. Below are copies of his 3 earlier speeches in which he spoke about his father revealing the Knowledge to his sons. They are consistent despite the 6 years and 15 years between them. What he said to Mehrotra is total fabrication. He had his father speaking in his own decade 2000s concepts and vocabulary.

as told in India on may 17th 2006
My father, it was very fascinating because what he was talking about is exactly this … I'm offering the water and he called and he sat us down and he says "Do you want to be able to get in touch with that beauty that is inside of you?" and we said "yes!" … Well, this is what he said "Do you aspire, do you aspire in a real way?"

In all the speeches of of Shri Hans we have copies of (59) he never mentions offering water as a simile for Knowledge, he does not equate drinking water with quenching your thirst for Knowledge. In fact in a poem he says "Without water, I have quenched my thirst." In his master work, Hansyog Prakash (Union With Light) he uses the word 'water' 75 times, never in the way his son talks of in this interview. He does talk about the thirsty deer chasing a mirage of water and that only a swan can drink the milk out of a mixture of milk with water.

as told in New York City on September 11 1971
And then finally one day Shri Maharaj Ji just called us into the sitting room, and asked us if we wanted Knowledge. And we all said, "Yeah." It was nothing like, "Here is the Gita and here is the Bible and here is this … And look, this talks about Knowledge and that talks about Knowledge." It was pretty flat and straight: "Do you want Knowledge?" And everybody said, "Yes." So he said, "Okay, sit down." And we sat down.

And I very clearly remember, he turned to me and he said, "How do you do meditation?" And so I folded my legs and I went like this and I said, "Like this. This is how you do meditation." And you know, that reminds me of when I see people doing meditation who really don't have Knowledge: "This is how you do meditation.") And he just laughed at me and said, "Yeah, externally, this is how you do meditation. But not internally." He said, "You are like a hollow bamboo. It doesn't matter how strong you are on the outside, but when somebody beats you, you sound empty."

So it was so beautiful, because then that started happening, and I received Knowledge. And it was pretty fast. And then it was completely up to me. And he said, "Look, you have Knowledge. This Knowledge has always been within inside of you, and now you have to practice. If you really want it, it's not the matter of me giving it to you, it's the matter of you - now that I have opened the door to you, now you start utilizing. Now you start building the building. And you'll experience it more and more in your life."

as told in Munich, Germany on April 10 1977
And then finally one day Shri Maharaj Ji just called me, called us in to sit in his room, and asked us if we wanted Knowledge. And we all said, "Yah." And there was - but then He said, "Bible talks about Knowledge, Gita talks about Knowledge, Lord Ram just talks about Knowledge, and that talks about Knowledge, and that talks about Knowledge. It's pretty flat and straight: Do you want, do you want Knowledge? And everybody said, "Yes" and He said, "OK, sit down" and we sat down.

And I very clearly remember, He turned to me and He said, "Why don't you do meditation?" So I folded my legs and I went like this and I sat like this - this is how you do meditation! And He would have to remind me of when people - of when I see people doing meditation who really don't have Knowledge, because a lot of you do meditation. And then He just laughed at me and said, "Yeah, exteriorly this is how you do meditation, but not really internally." He said, "You're like a hollow bamboo. Doesn't matter how strong you are on the outside, but when somebody beats you, you sound empty." So, it was like, so beautiful, because then that started happening and I received Knowledge, and it was pretty fast.

And then He said, "Look! You have Knowledge. This Knowledge has always been within inside of you, and now you have to practice. If you really want it, it's not the matter of me giving it to you, it's a matter of you. Now that I have opened the door to you, now you must try to utilize it. You'll experience more and more in your life."

as told at the Shri Sant Yogashram in New Delhi on 13th April 1991
"My Master has revealed this Knowledge to me. Such beautiful Knowledge. And how did he give it? We were playing outside. These days lots of aspirants are waiting there. But there was no question of aspiration. We were busy playing outside. Somebody came and said, "He (Shri Maharaji) is calling you." In my family there was a sort of a regulation that when he called, it means something serious. In those days, during the time of Shri Maharaji, there was a pet dog named Tommy. We were very young. And that dog used to bite everybody. He was always chained. He used to run after every one to bite them. But when Shri Maharaji came back from tours and was sitting in a chair, that dog used to sit there quietly. He (the dog) knew quite well that if he would be nasty, he would be punished. Anyway, the message came, "He is calling. He is calling in the parlour." Now, 'calling in the parlour' indicated something else. If he called us into the dining room, that had other significance. If he called us to the verandah, that had different implications. If he called us into the bedroom, it meant something else. But 'calling in the parlour' was a signal of very serious significance. His different calls differed in degrees in terms of the purpose and seriousness of the situation. So he called us, "Sit down. Do you want Knowledge?" He asked. "Yes sir," was the answer. "Take it. This is technique one, this is the next technique and this is another one…" He gave the techniques and then said, "Now go away. That is all. Did you understand?" That's all. But somewhere we needed to be empty. Had there been no emptiness inside, it would have been almost impossible to understand anything. "Go and do practice." No tall talks. Within minutes he explained everything and then said, "Well, go and play."