Maharaji Music

From its creation in 1971, the Divine Light Mission had an important role for Prem Rawat's followers who are musicians, this role continued long after the organisation changed its name in the early 1980s. Music is an important tool for reinforcing emotion, and to a large extent both mirrors and sets the actual tone of Prem Rawat's followers' emotions. It is an important indicator of beliefs in the group and it's evolution reveals much that is not available from examination of the groups' other publicly available material.

It especially shows the extent of the worship of and devotion to Rawat as a divine figure and exposes the current Élan Vital revisionist history that Rawat attempted to remove the beliefs in his divinity as well as the Indian trappings of Divine Light mission in the 1970's. A cursory examination of the "Court Of Love" tape by "the Holy Jesters" published in 1982 by Élan Productions shows that Indian style devotion was being openly promoted in the organisations even as the renaming of Divine Light Mission as Élan Vital, was in progress.

The sample music below is certainly not exhaustive and any further information and copies of media would be greatly appreciated.

Where actual lyrics or excerpts are given (as underlined below), these  demonstrate in sharp relief the importance of music within a cult setting and how it reinforces a group milieu. In the case of the Prem Rawat cult it is mainly the extreme personality worship that is undertaken and reinforced.

Also see 'You are my everything' by One Foundation.

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