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Cynthia ®

10/24/2009, 11:39:14
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I've gotta say this is different for a blogger on Maharaji. This man or woman says they knew Guru Maharaj Ji when he was 13 months old. What stands out to me is that he describes the techniques with photos but then mentions that one has to watch the Keys to know one's thirst. Mike or Saph -- do you have any idea who this might be?


Guru Maharaj Ji, the present Guru Maharaj Ji, was only 13 months old
when he would wake every morning at four o'clock. This was at Dehra
Dun, in the Divine Residence there. Many mahatmas and many premies and
those people who are very dear to Shri Maharaj Ji were living at the
Divine Residence at this time. And every morning at four AM Guru
Maharaj Ji would get his stick and wake everybody up one by one,
telling them to do meditation. He would quietly go to each person and
get him to do meditation.

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Some of the blog is plagiarized
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Posted by:
Mike Finch ®

10/24/2009, 12:29:13
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Hi Cynthia

I don't know what to make of this.

Alot of it is just copied, or lightly edited, writings from elsewhere.

The bit you quote, about Maharaji waking everyone up in the morning, is an old story that Charnanad has told frequently, and I have seen it written down in magazines etc.

Much of the description of the techniques is copied from an article on the Knowledge on my website, word for word but with the negative bits taken out. Compare my para on the third technique:

The third technique, or Holy Name, or the Word, involves following your breath. Many meditation traditions involve watching the breath in some way, but most traditions give clear instructions on how to do this, since in fact you can use your breath in many different ways to create many different mind states. But Maharaji says very little about it. In the early 1970's you were supposed to imagine, or in fact actually hear, the sound of the in and out breath as so-hung: 'so' on the in-breath, 'hung' on the out-breath (so hung up, as one wag said!) This changed in the mid-1970's to a very vague instruction to just 'follow the breath'.

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The third technique, or Holy Name, or the Word, involves following your breath. Many meditation traditions involve watching the breath in some way. In the early 1970's you were instructed to imagine, or in fact actually hear, the sound of the in and out breath as 'so-hung' (soham): 'so' on the in-breath, 'hung' on the out-breath. This changed in the mid-1970's to an instruction to just 'follow the breath'.

On the other hand, all the stuff about pushing Maharaji in the park and meeting the Sikh is original as far as I know, but all the old mahatmas had stories like that.

I have no idea who it might be.

-- Mike




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Posted by:
ocker ®

10/24/2009, 13:49:01
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Actually it seems word for word from my site:

http://www.prem-rawat-bio.org/initiation.html

If it appears to be plagiarised from your site that's probably because I plagiarised you. I know I got those photos from ex-premie.org/

The childhood stuff is from http://www.ex-premie.org/papers/childhood.htm
which is: Printed in Divine Times
Volume II, No. 23 - December 11, 1973





As told in satsang by Mahatma Gyanbaraganand Ji,
November 26, 1973, Denver. Translated by Mahatma
Rajeshwaranand Ji








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Re: A blogger that says he knew Maharaji as a baby or little kid..
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karenl ®

10/24/2009, 13:01:26
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Hi Cynthia,

I think he is retelling the tale. I have heard this story before. he never says "I saw."

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Karen







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Re: The Miraculous One! (of many)
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10/24/2009, 19:13:31
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There are many thousands of Indian gurus.  Almost every one of them has some flimsy paperback hagiography detailing the details of their birth and their inspiring
days as a toddler.

Tiresome, really. What do you really know, Guru-Ji?  I'll tell you what: Maharaj Ji doesn't know much.  His insulated and bling-filled life has allowed him to blithely ignore the pursuit of what most of us know as "knowledge."








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lakeshore ®

10/24/2009, 22:42:16
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The photograph in the blog is not that of a thirteen month old Prem Rawat.  Moreover, to say that one has to watch the Keys to know one’s thirst makes me want to curse on the Forum, and I have no doubt that Prem Rawat would agree with me, whichever words I choose.

(I’ve been doing a lot of painting these past few days, so my repertoire is in fine shape!   )

So that makes this blogger flat out wrong as far as I'm concerned.

I drew the line at the Keys.

The first time I got pissed off at Prem Rawat was when he had the unmitigated gall to ask me to watch seventy more hours of his mug on a screen because, according to him, I needed to do that to be clear, as if thirty years and everything those thirty years entailed wasn’t enough to do the trick.

“No bleepin’ way!” I said to myself.  It was all I could do to work, practice an hour a day, do my participating, eat properly, get enough rest and maybe a little exercise, and keep up with my chores.

And I didn’t even have children (or young adults) to care for!

What was he thinking!!!

This, in Prem Rawat’s own words thirty years before the Keys, was supposed to be "easier than wearing eyeglasses!"

I swear he makes it all up as he goes along, which proves that he didn’t know what he was doing with our lives in the first place.

Bob






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