"Supporters say that indeed Maharaji expressed his understading that there is only one perfect master, but that he never said he was one. That is up to the student to ascertain. Throughout the years his claim has always been that It is up to each human being to “find the one you can trust to help you get where you want to go and stick with him.” See also Importance of the living teacher."

Excerpts from an interview by John Wood of the Boston Globe,with Guru Maharaj Ji AKA a Prem Rawat, August 3, 1973

Wood: Would your role be analogous then to John the disciple or Jesus the Christ?

MJ: Well, I just don't put myself in any of those: I'm just a humble servant trying to present this Knowledge to people.

Wood: Humble servant of . . .

MJ: Of God. Of this most Supreme Energy. I don't say I am a Messiah, I don't say I'm a prophet. I don't say all these things.

Wood: They are said of you . . .

MJ: People say, people say . . . actually the most common thing they say is that I am Perfect Master. And what they mean by this is the one who can reveal perfectness. Like one who teaches you math, you call him a math master, one who teaches you science, you call him a science master, one who can teach you perfectness, you call a Perfect Master. And I can teach them what's perfectness, so they call me Perfect Master.

Wood: "What is your opinion about a Perfect Master?" Is there one, is there two?

MJ: "I tell them my opinion, that there is only one Perfect Master. Because perfectness is one, not two, not three. So, there is one Perfect Master in this world. And because he is perfect, that's it. He is perfect. You just can't divide perfect. I think it's funny saying that; it's just as funny as saying that the car had tires on top and car had tires on the bottom. That's just like saying there are two Perfect Masters. You are just dividing perfectness into two - you can't do that. There has to be one Perfect Master, because perfectness is infinite you just can't divide it. It has to be one".

Okay, so what does Maharaj Ji, AKA as Prem Rawat actually go on to say about himself, "Perfect Masters" and "Knowledge" in this same interview. You be the judge . . .

"Because we are so ignorant. And that's why there is a Perfect Master on top of our heads to tell us that we're looking the wrong way and to turn us around. That's what Jesus did. He went to people and told them about this Knowledge, he told them what was right and wrong."

"This Knowledge was only given to those disciples of Jesus who came to him. He couldn't give it to Pilate. He couldn't give to all these soldiers. Otherwise that would have been the best thing for him to do and they would have understood that he was Lord and the Messiah of the time."

"History is a pendulum, it goes and comes back again. Jesus was there, and people were seeing him. Some people said, "Oh, we believe he is a Perfect Master", and other people said, "I don't know, I just don't want to get confused." And the same is true with a larger amount of people than at that time. But, when the sun shines, it does not need proof. When the Perfect Master comes and reveals himself, that's it."

"Now just imagine: I have a following of six million people, and whatever I tell them, they are going to do that. And among those six million people, there are millions of people who are criminals. They have murdered people, they have committed many crimes. They have been to jail and they know what it's all like. And if I tell them now, they would do it. They would murder anyone off the street. We could be hijacking planes and stealing cars off the roads and killing people and doing other things."