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In July Rawat and his wife travelled to Copenhagen to meet with 8,000 followers, an event that marked his wife's first public appearance. Later that night Spanish premies serenaded the newlyweds from the street below and were invited in by Marolyn for tea and cookies.<ref>Cagan, A. ''Peace is Possible: The Life and Message of Prem Rawat.'' Mighty River Press. ISBN 0-9788694-9-4, pp. 201</ref> In November, seeking more privacy for himself, his wife and his entourage following security concerns, Rawat moved to a four-acre property in [[Malibu, California]].<ref name="MHomeBase">"Maharaj Ji Buys $400,000 Home Base in Malibu Area", JOHN DART, ''Los Angeles Times'', Nov 27, 1974; p. B2</ref><ref name= "LAT1979" /> Purchased by the DLM for $400,000, the property also served as the DLM's West Coast headquarters.<ref name="MHomeBase" /><ref name= "LAT1979" /> Described as a "lavish hilltop estate" in the press and a "little house" by the premies, it was damaged in a 1978 brush fire.<ref>"MALIBU Metamorphosis Is Hollywood's Haven Growing Into Just Another Miami Beach", NIKKI FINKE, ''Los Angeles Times'', September 3, 1989</ref><ref name="Cagan219220">Cagan, A. ''Peace is Possible: The Life and Message of Prem Rawat.'' Mighty River Press. ISBN 0-9788694-9-4, pp. 202 & 219–220 <small>Judy Osborne recalls Maharaji asking the staff to leave immediately. "He didn’t want any heroics," she comments, “even though this was his home and everything that he had was in there." His concern was for their safety. "The fire came but it blew right over the house," she remembers. "All the trees were burned, and so were the grass, the shrubs, and the hills around there. And then there was the soot. Everything in the house was filthy from soot." Maharaji and his family stayed with his brother, Raja Ji, for a while, and then within a few months, they relocated to Miami while the Malibu house was being repaired.</small></ref>
In July Rawat and his wife travelled to Copenhagen to meet with 8,000 followers, an event that marked his wife's first public appearance. Later that night Spanish premies serenaded the newlyweds from the street below and were invited in by Marolyn for tea and cookies.<ref>Cagan, A. ''Peace is Possible: The Life and Message of Prem Rawat.'' Mighty River Press. ISBN 0-9788694-9-4, pp. 201</ref> In November, seeking more privacy for himself, his wife and his entourage following security concerns, Rawat moved to a four-acre property in [[Malibu, California]].<ref name="MHomeBase">"Maharaj Ji Buys $400,000 Home Base in Malibu Area", JOHN DART, ''Los Angeles Times'', Nov 27, 1974; p. B2</ref><ref name= "LAT1979" /> Purchased by the DLM for $400,000, the property also served as the DLM's West Coast headquarters.<ref name="MHomeBase" /><ref name= "LAT1979" /> Described as a "lavish hilltop estate" in the press and a "little house" by the premies, it was damaged in a 1978 brush fire.<ref>"MALIBU Metamorphosis Is Hollywood's Haven Growing Into Just Another Miami Beach", NIKKI FINKE, ''Los Angeles Times'', September 3, 1989</ref><ref name="Cagan219220">Cagan, A. ''Peace is Possible: The Life and Message of Prem Rawat.'' Mighty River Press. ISBN 0-9788694-9-4, pp. 202 & 219–220 <small>Judy Osborne recalls Maharaji asking the staff to leave immediately. "He didn’t want any heroics," she comments, “even though this was his home and everything that he had was in there." His concern was for their safety. "The fire came but it blew right over the house," she remembers. "All the trees were burned, and so were the grass, the shrubs, and the hills around there. And then there was the soot. Everything in the house was filthy from soot." Maharaji and his family stayed with his brother, Raja Ji, for a while, and then within a few months, they relocated to Miami while the Malibu house was being repaired.</small></ref>


By 1975 Rawat's message was available in 58 countries on six continents but in the U.S. he was the subject of numerous newspaper articles picturing him as primarily interested in the accumulation of wealth, rather than changing the world.<ref name="Downton"/> His affluent lifestyle over that period, maintained despite the DLM's financial difficulties following the Millennium '73 festival, generated considerable controversy and, according to Bromley and Shupe, even defections among premies.<ref>Bromley, David G. and Anson D. Shupe, Jr. Strange Gods: The Great American Cult Scare Beacon Press, Bsoton 1982, p. 137</ref> Still a teenager, he was, Jeanne Messer writes, fascinated by the technology of the age: cars, airplanes, stereos and computers.<ref>Messer, Jeanne, "Guru Maharaj Ji and the Divine Light Mission", in ''The New Religious Consciousness'', Charles Y. Glock and Robert N. Bellah, editors. University of California Press, 1976, p. 52.</ref> Besides the Malibu estate, which by 1998 was valued at $15 million, Rawat had homes in London, New York and Denver;<ref name=HT>"Whatever Happened to Guru Maharaj Ji?" in Hinduism Today by Himalayan Academy, USA, ISSN 0896-0801, October 1983.</ref><ref>"Fomer guru on a different mission, Rebecca Jones, ''Rocky Mountain News'', January 30, 1998</ref> he had two planes, sports cars and motorcycles at his disposal, a Rolls Royce awaited his arrival in London, and a chauffeured Mercedes 600 was on hand in Denver, all of them said to be gifts from disciples.<ref>"'You're a Perfect Master'", Newsweek November 19, 1973</ref>
By 1975 Rawat's message was available in 58 countries on six continents but in the U.S. he was the subject of numerous newspaper articles picturing him as primarily interested in the accumulation of wealth, rather than changing the world.<ref name="Downton"/> Rawat's rejection of the renuciate lifestyle generated considerable controversy and, according to Bromley and Shupe, even defections among premies.<ref>Bromley, David G. and Anson D. Shupe, Jr. Strange Gods: The Great American Cult Scare Beacon Press, Bsoton 1982, p. 137</ref> Still a teenager, he was, Jeanne Messer writes, fascinated by the technology of the age: cars, airplanes, stereos and computers.<ref>Messer, Jeanne, "Guru Maharaj Ji and the Divine Light Mission", in ''The New Religious Consciousness'', Charles Y. Glock and Robert N. Bellah, editors. University of California Press, 1976, p. 52.</ref> Besides the Malibu estate, which by 1998 was valued at $15 million, Rawat had homes in London, New York and Denver;<ref name=HT>"Whatever Happened to Guru Maharaj Ji?" in Hinduism Today by Himalayan Academy, USA, ISSN 0896-0801, October 1983.</ref><ref>"Fomer guru on a different mission, Rebecca Jones, ''Rocky Mountain News'', January 30, 1998</ref> he had two planes, sports cars and motorcycles at his disposal, a Rolls Royce awaited his arrival in London, and a chauffeured Mercedes 600 was on hand in Denver, all of them gifts from disciples.<ref>"'You're a Perfect Master'", Newsweek November 19, 1973</ref>
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Draft 1

The first part would be inserted after the second sentence of the first section, "Childhood".
The second part would be inserted after the third paragraph of "Coming of age".
The first sentence of "Aviation interests" is moved here, and would be deleted from that section.

Prem Rawat had a wealthy, high caste father[Moritz][McKean] and was born into luxury.[Downton 1979][Larson] There is a tradition in India of supporting gurus in luxury. [?]

In the 1970s Rawat become known for what one scholar called "ostentatious opulence".[Hunt][Levine 1989] Press reports listed expensive automobiles such as Rolls Royces (one of them a gift from followers), Mercedes Benzes (including a 600 limousine [Morgan 1973]), a Jensen convertible, and a Maserati (a wedding gift) plus motorcycles. Some of these were reportedly bought tax-free due to the DLM's status as a church.[AP] When asked at a press conference Rawat said that "If I gave poor people my Rolls-Royce, they would need more tomorrow and I don't have any more Rolls-Royces to give them." Two Cessna airplanes were obtained for Rawat's use and he got his pilot's license in 1973. He later piloted private jets, including a Boeing 707 and a Gulfstream GV-SP, after obtaining an Airline Transport Pilot License and type ratings for a number of multi-engined aircraft and helicopters.[4] He was reported to have homes in London, New York, Colorado, California and India.[Morgan 1973][Moritz 1974] When asked Rawat said, "That life that you call luxurious ain't luxurious at all, because if any other person gets the same life I get, he's gonna blow apart in a million pieces in a split of a second." [Levine 1974] Sources close to his mother said that his materialistic lifestyle was one of the reasons she disowned him.[AP] A follower told a reporter that Rawat fired a pistol at prized vases in the backyard to "to teach us the worthlessness of material possessions."[Levine 1974] A spokesman said, "He isn't saying, abandon the material world. He's saying it is our attachment to it that is wrong."[Newsweek 1973]

Draft 2

The first part would be inserted after the second sentence of the first section, "Childhood".
The second part would be inserted after the third paragraph of "Coming of age".
The first sentence of "Aviation interests" is moved here, and would be deleted from that section.

Prem Rawat had a wealthy, high caste father[Moritz][McKean] and was born into luxury.[Downton 1979][Larson] There is a tradition in India of supporting gurus in luxury. [?]

In the 1970s Rawat become known for what one scholar called "ostentatious opulence".[Hunt][Levine 1989] Press reports listed expensive automobiles such as Rolls Royces (one of them a gift from followers), Mercedes Benzes (including a 600 limousine [Morgan 1973]), a Jensen convertible, and a Maserati (a wedding gift) plus motorcycles. Some of these were reportedly bought tax-free due to the DLM's status as a church.[AP] Two Cessna airplanes were obtained for Rawat's use and he got his pilot's license in 1973. He later piloted private jets, including a Boeing 707 and a Gulfstream GV-SP, after obtaining an Airline Transport Pilot License and type ratings for a number of multi-engined aircraft and helicopters.[5] He was reported to have homes in London, New York, Colorado, California and India.[Morgan 1973][Moritz 1974] Sources close to his mother said that his materialistic lifestyle was one of the reasons she disowned him.[AP]

Draft 3

The first part would be inserted after the second sentence of the first section, "Childhood".
The second part would be inserted after the third paragraph of "Coming of age".
The first sentence of "Aviation interests" is moved here, and would be deleted from that section. The sentence about the watch would be deleted.
The quotation from Hunt in the third paragraph of the "Westernization" section would be deleted/remainder moved.
Prem Rawat had a wealthy, high caste father[1][2] and was born into luxury.[3][4] There is a tradition in India of supporting gurus in luxury.[citation needed]

A source of considerable controversy in the 1970s was Rawat's lavish lifestyle, which continued even during the DLM's finacial difficulties.[5] Press reports listed expensive automobiles such as Rolls Royces, Mercedes Benz limousines[6] and sports cars, some of them gifts.[7][8] Some of the vehicles were reportedly bought tax-free due to the DLM's status as a church.[9][10] Rawat took flying lessons begining when he was 13. Two Cessna airplanes were obtained for his use. He later piloted private jets, including a Boeing 707 and a Gulfstream V, after obtaining an Airline Transport Pilot License and type ratings for multi-engined aircraft and helicopters.[11] He was reported to have homes in London, New York, Colorado, California and India.[12][13] When asked why he did not give his Rolls to the poor he explained that he only had one and once it was given he would have no more Rolls to give,[14][15][16][17][18] and that what he gave was more valuable than money. Followers said that the messiah came as a king this time instead of a beggar,[19][20] that he did not want the gifts but people gave them because their love was so strong,[21] that the gifts are from a "Western culture whose fruits are watches and Cadillacs",[22] and that Rawat's lifestyle was an example of a lila, or divine prank, which held a mirror to a "money-crazed and contraption-collecting society".[23] A follower told a reporter that Rawat fired a pistol at prized vases in the backyard to "to teach us the worthlessness of material possessions."[24] Sources close to his mother said that his materialistic lifestyle was one of the reasons she disowned him.[25][26] Former officials of the DLM in the 1970s, including the founding president, the vice president, and a financial analyst, complained that the movement appeared to exist only to support Rawat's "opulent existence".[27] Critics have complained that his lifestyle was supported by the donations of followers.[28]

[29]

Draft 4

The first part would be inserted after the second sentence of the first section, "Childhood".
The second part would be inserted after the third paragraph of "Coming of age".
The first sentence of "Aviation interests" is moved here, and would be deleted from that section. The sentence about the watch would be deleted.
The quotation from Hunt in the third paragraph of the "Westernization" section would be deleted/remainder moved.
The clause "for instance that money was increasingly diverted to Rawat's personal use.[17]" would be deleted from the last sentence in the second paragaph of the "Critical viewpoints" section.
Prem Rawat had a wealthy, high caste father[30][31] and was born into luxury.[32][33]

A source of controversy in the 1970s was Rawat's lavish lifestyle, which continued even during the DLM's financial difficulties.[34] Press reports listed expensive automobiles such as Rolls Royces, Mercedes Benz limousines[35] and sports cars, some of them gifts.[36][37] Some of the vehicles were reportedly bought tax-free due to the DLM's status as a church.[38][39] Rawat took flying lessons beginning when he was 13,[40] and began training in a jet by age 15.[41] In 1972 two Cessna airplanes were obtained for his use.[30][42] Later he would obtain an Airline Transport Pilot License and type ratings for multi-engined aircrafts and helicopters,[43] and had a private jet at his disposition.[44] He was reported to have homes in London, New York, Colorado, California and India.[45][30] When asked why he did not give his Rolls to the poor he explained that he only had one and once it was given he would have no more Rolls to give,[46][47][48][49][50] and that what he gave was more valuable than money. Followers said that the messiah came as a king this time instead of a beggar,[51][52] that he did not want the gifts but people gave them because their love was so strong,[53] that the gifts are from a "Western culture whose fruits are watches and Cadillacs",[54] and that Rawat's lifestyle was an example of a lila, or divine prank, which held a mirror to a "money-crazed and contraption-collecting society".[55] A follower told a reporter that Rawat fired a pistol at prized vases in the backyard to "to teach us the worthlessness of material possessions."[56] Sources close to his mother said that his materialistic lifestyle was one of the reasons she disowned him.[57][58] Former officials of the DLM in the 1970s, including the founding president, the vice president, and a financial analyst, complained that money was increasingly diverted to Rawat's personal use,[59]and that the movement appeared to exist only to support Rawat's "opulent existence".[60] Critics have complained that his lifestyle was supported by the donations of followers.[61]

[62]

Draft 5

The first part would be inserted after the second sentence of the first section, "Childhood".
The second part would be inserted after the third paragraph of "Coming of age".
The first sentence of "Aviation interests" is moved here, and would be deleted from that section. The sentence about the watch would be deleted.
The quotation from Hunt in the third paragraph of the "Westernization" section would be deleted/remainder moved.
The clause "for instance that money was increasingly diverted to Rawat's personal use.[17]" would be deleted from the last sentence in the second paragaph of the "Critical viewpoints" section.
Prem Rawat had a wealthy, high caste father[30][63] and was born into luxury.[64][65]

A source of controversy in the 1970s was Rawat's extremely affluent lifestyle, which continued during the DLM's financial difficulties.[66] Press reports listed expensive automobiles such as Rolls Royces, Mercedes Benz limousines[67] and sports cars, some of them gifts.[68][69] Some of the vehicles were reportedly bought tax-free due to the DLM's status as a church.[70][71] Rawat took flying lessons beginning when he was 13,[72] and began training in a jet by age 15.[73] In 1972 two Cessna airplanes were obtained for his use.[30][74] Later he would obtain an Airline Transport Pilot License and type ratings for multi-engined aircrafts and helicopters,[75] and had a private jet at his disposition.[44] He was reported to have homes in London, New York, Colorado, California and India.[76][30] When asked why he did not give his Rolls to the poor he explained that he only had one and once it was given he would have no more Rolls to give,[77][78][79][80][81] and that what he gave was more valuable than money. Followers said that the messiah came as a king this time instead of a beggar,[82][83] that he did not want the gifts but people gave them because their love was so strong,[84] that the gifts are from a "Western culture whose fruits are watches and Cadillacs",[85] and that Rawat's lifestyle was an example of a lila, or divine prank, which held a mirror to a "money-crazed and contraption-collecting society".[86] A follower told a reporter that Rawat fired a pistol at prized vases in the backyard to "to teach us the worthlessness of material possessions."[87] Sources close to his mother said that his materialistic lifestyle was one of the reasons she disowned him.[88][89] Former officials of the DLM in the 1970s, including the founding president, the vice president, and a financial analyst, complained that money was increasingly diverted to Rawat's personal use,[90]and that the movement appeared to them to exist only to support Rawat's "opulent existence".[91] Critics have complained that his lifestyle was supported by the donations of followers.[92]

[93]

Draft 6

IN PROGRESS / NOT COMPLETED

In the early years in the United States, the teenaged Maharaj Ji changed his lifestyle in a manner that his mother disapproved of, including fashionable hairstyles, western clothes, and a level of luxury that included expensive cars and mansions, as well as adopting a hippie vocabulary.[94] This, being at odds with the ideal of traditional Indian gurus, caused his mother to later disown him.[95] Scholars such as Stonner & Parke refer to the young Rawat beginning to lead a life that was not in keeping with his image as a holy man;[96] when premies purchased an estate in Malibu into which the newly married couple moved, his mother disapproved of the marriage and the lifestyle of what was then a successful guru, accusing her 16-year son of breaking his spiritual disciplines.[97] Pilarzyk described in 1978 how media accounts by youth culture publications focused on the "materialistic fixations" and the physical condition of the guru.[98] Between the years 1972 and 1975, the mainstream media and the popular press focused on the apparent luxurious lifestyle, as well as making negative comments about Rawat's physical appearance. Downton describes these numerous and unfavorable media reports as picturing Rawat as more interested in accumulating wealth than changing the world.[99] According to Hunt, critics focused on what appeared to be an opulent lifestyle, arguing that it was supported largely by the donations of his followers.[100] Melton reports that in 1977, a former president of the Mission complained that the ideals of the group had become impossible to fulfill and that money was being diverted to the founder's personal use, but that these charges did not affect the course of the organization, and that through the late 1980s there was no further controversy.[101]

[102]

Draft 7

To be inserted in the Coming of age section, replacing the text from "Rawat had by then ..." to "... "valued at 15 million". Uses one press source: "'You're a Perfect Master'", Newsweek November 19, 1973

STILL IN PROGRESS

Following the loss of his family's support Rawat, who never charged for teaching Knowledge or for his talks, was now dependent on his Western followers for income for himself and his work. Their generous contributions allowed him to follow the lifestyle of an American millionaire and run a household for his wife, his brother, Raja Ji and Raja Ji's wife, Claudia as well as financing his entourage of family, close officials and mahatmas on their frequent trips around the globe to attend the mission's festivals[103][104]

In July Rawat and his wife travelled to Copenhagen to meet with 8,000 followers, an event that marked his wife's first public appearance. Later that night Spanish premies serenaded the newlyweds from the street below and were invited in by Marolyn for tea and cookies.[105] In November, seeking more privacy for himself, his wife and his entourage following security concerns, Rawat moved to a four-acre property in Malibu, California.[106][107] Purchased by the DLM for $400,000, the property also served as the DLM's West Coast headquarters.[106][107] Described as a "lavish hilltop estate" in the press and a "little house" by the premies, it was damaged in a 1978 brush fire.[108][109]

By 1975 Rawat's message was available in 58 countries on six continents but in the U.S. he was the subject of numerous newspaper articles picturing him as primarily interested in the accumulation of wealth, rather than changing the world.[104] Rawat's rejection of the renuciate lifestyle generated considerable controversy and, according to Bromley and Shupe, even defections among premies.[110] Still a teenager, he was, Jeanne Messer writes, fascinated by the technology of the age: cars, airplanes, stereos and computers.[111] Besides the Malibu estate, which by 1998 was valued at $15 million, Rawat had homes in London, New York and Denver;[112][113] he had two planes, sports cars and motorcycles at his disposal, a Rolls Royce awaited his arrival in London, and a chauffeured Mercedes 600 was on hand in Denver, all of them gifts from disciples.[114]

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  103. ^ Price, The Divine Light Mission as a Social Organization. pp. 279–96 "Immediately following Maharaj Ji's marriage a struggle for power took place within the Holy Family itself. Maharaj Ji was now sixteen years old. He had the knowledge that his personal following in the West was well established. It is likely that he felt the time had come to take the reins of power from his mother, who still dominated the mission and had a strong hold over most of the mahatmas, all of whom were born and brought up in India. Another factor may well have been the financial independence of Maharaj Ji, which he enjoys through the generosity of his devotees. Note 27: Contributions from premies throughout the world allow Maharaj Ji to follow the life style of an American millionaire. He has a house (in his wife's name), an Aston Martin, a boat, a helicopter, the use of fine houses (divine residences) in most European countries as well as South America, Australia and New Zealand, and an income which allows him to run a household and support his wife and children, his brother, Raja Ji, and his wife, Claudia. In addition, his entourage of family, close officials and mahatmas are all financed on their frequent trips around the globe to attend the mission's festivals."
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