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September 11,
2000
Dear Elan Vital,
As a former follower of Maharaji, and a former
'volunteer' employee of Elan Vital for many years,
I feel the need to complain about the false,
misleading and inaccurate statements on your
website under the title 'FAQ' (frequently asked
questions). As both a former devotee of Maharaji,
and a former employee of your organization, I am
very concerned about these statements.
Although a number of the answers to the
rhetorical questions asked on your website are very
misleading one, in particular, regarding whether
Maharaji ever said he was the incarnation of god,
is downright false and can be proven so through
documentation in my posession, and in the posession
of many others, which was, in fact, published by
Elan Vital.
This false statement is exacerbated by a short
video clip of Maharaji himself, in which he also
appears to lie, although his statements are so
disjointed and it is difficult to tell for sure,
although it is clear Elan Vital believes the
support the false written statement on the
website.
Specifically, you website states the
following:
DID MAHARAJI EVER SAY HE WAS GOD?
No, Maharaji never at any time claimed to be
God....
If this is true, how do you explain the
following quotes? The first is found in Elan
Vital's publication, 'And It Is Divine,' published
in 1974 under Elan Vital's earlier name, Divine
Light Mission. The letter is addressed to readers
of the magazine, and contains Maharaji's own
signature (Sant Ji Maharaj), and states clearly
that Maharaji claims to be the manifestation of the
'Lord of Creation.' The letter says, in pertinent
part:
Dear Reader,
...
There has never been a time when the Lord of
Creation did not manifest Himself in human form,
and come to this planet Earth to do away with evil
and spread the True Knowledge. But history is a
pendulum which is always in swing. There have been
so many scriptures, but still people have never
been able to understand Him.
Divine Light Mission wants to bring world
peace by sharing the Knowledge which is within us
by the grace of Almighty Lord. In this magazine, we
hope to give information about the peace which
lives within us, which Guru Maharaj Ji
reveals.
Sant Ji Maharaj
The second is from a speech Maharaji gave in
Essen, Germany on August 31, 1975 and is also
published in an Elan Vital publication. Again, in
this speech Maharaji clearly claims to be 'the Lord
in Physical Body.'
And if there has to be devotee, he has to be
in a physical form. A devotee has to devote
something. Have you understood now? To devote
something, he has to be in a physical form. And
where is it possible for him to be in physical
form? On the earth. And with whom can he be in the
physical form? With the Lord, who is in His
physical form ! He has to be with the Physical Lord
who has come into this physical world with a
Physical Body. Understood.
Third is a speech Maharaji gave in Malibu,
California on June 11, 1978, again as published in
an Elan Vital magazine. In this speech, Maharaji,
without any vagueness whatsoever, claims, as Guru
Maharaji which website admits he called himself
then, claims to be 'the Lord all powerful.'
In this lifetime, we have the opportunity to
realize, to be with GURU MAHARAJ JI. Be it not GURU
MAHARAJ JI - You know maybe they didn't call him
GURU MAHARAJ JI - Maybe they called him Lord,
anything to be with that power. To be with that
thing. To be not infinite. And yet to be with the
infinite. To be here as individuals. And yet to be
able to be next to the person who is everything,
GURU MAHARAJ JI. The Lord all powerful.....
Finally, the Elan Vital publication, 'The Living
Master', published in 1978, contains the following
quote from a speech Maharaji gave in Denver,
Colorado, on October 12, 1974. In this speech,
Maharaji clearly equates 'Guru Maharaj Ji,' with
'God.'
It's been said that Guru Maharaj Ji comes, or
God comes into the world, when there is a decline
in religion. God comes, Guru Maharaj Ji comes, and
helpsthe world.
Given the overwhelming evidence, and there are
many other statements made by Maharaji that add to
what is stated above, that Maharaji expicitly and
implicitly, for many years, claimed to be the
incarnation of God, and given that Elan Vital
itself, has produced publications over the years
promoting Maharaji's claim to be the incarnation of
God including those mentioned above, shouldn't Elan
Vital remove the false FAQ and video clip from it's
website, just in the name of accuracy, fairness and
honesty?
Moreover, given than anyone who wants to do so,
including the media, prospective aspirants, and
anyone else, can easily research this issue and
easily prove both that Elan Vital and Maharaji to
be lying on the Elan Vital website, isn't it in the
credibility interests of both Elan Vital and
Maharaji to come clean with the truth, and end the
cycle of lying?
Joe Whalen
San Francisco, California
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