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Much of the crowd that filled Lowell Lecture Hall last night had come less to hear the speech in honor of Maharaj Ji than to see the speaker. For Rennie Davis, radical activist and one of the Chicago Seven, is now a follower of the 15-year-old perfect spiritual master...
...Maharaj Ji's mother and three older brothers literally worship him, kissing his "lotus feet" whenever they are in his presence. To them as to his other followers, he is the "Perfect Master" and "Lord of the Universe." By their testimony, the Maharaj Ji began, while still a toddler, to deliver inspired satsangs (sermons)-and to amaze the devotees of his father (then the Perfect Master) by awakening them in the morning with the exhortation, "Get up, get up. Do meditation! If you don't, I will beat you with a stick...
Silver Steed. When his father died, the Maharaj Ji was eight. "I didn't want to be the guru," he says. "I would have been satisfied to be a mischievous little boy. But a voice came to me saying, 'You are he; you are to continue.' " At the funeral, therefore, he confronted his father's mourning flock: "Why are you weeping? The Perfect Master never dies. Maharaj Ji is here, amongst...
Four years later, in 1970, Guru Maharaj Ji inaugurated his international mission with a triumphal ride through Delhi in a golden chariot, trailed by miles of elephants, camels and devotees. In 1971 the master's American premies (loved ones) heralded his advent in the U.S. with a press release stating: "He is coming in the clouds with great power and glory, and his silver steed will drift down at 4 p.m. at Los Angeles international airport, TWA Flight 761." That was enough to attract a coterie of guru buffs and various other seekers. In little over a year their...
...offers the gift of knowledge designed to open the initiate's "third eye" of inner awareness and thus bring him perpetual peace. Knowledge sessions sometimes last twelve hours or more and are conducted by 2,000 delegated mahatmas throughout the world. "If you can become perfect," the Maharaj Ji told his disciples in Delhi's Ram Lila Grounds last week, "you can see God. That...