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 Newly Discovered Documentary Evidence That Affects this Article's Accuracy

I have recently found a 1979 booklet of questions and answers with Rawat printed and distributed by Divine Light Mission, Inc. which bears heavily on some of the issues central to this article.  This document was published at least five years after the family split, seven or eight years after Rawat came to the west and when he was either 21 or 22 years old.  In other words, at the time he uttered these statements, he was an adult who was long familiar with western culture, spoke good English and was very much his own man.  Here are a few of the questions and answers:

Some people say you are a divine incarnation, and some people say other things about you.  What's the truth?

You yourself must realize what is the truth.

So God cannot teach anything, except through a Master?

What is God?  You don't know what God is.  God cannot be a human being.  God is Light.  God is Power.  God cannot talk.  Electricity cannot give light, only the bulb gives light, but electricity has to be put through the wire for the bulb to give light.  It's power.  Power cannto do anything.  It has to be put through a medium.

Why does a Perfect Master have to have a living body to give Knowledge?  Why is he necesssary?

Are you feeling thirsty?  Can you see that photo of Lord Shiva?  You see the water coming out from the top of his head?  Drink that water.  Drink, drink.  Can you?  You can't drink that water.  It is a picture.  You need everything living.  If you have doubts, you cannot ask Lord Krishna questions.  What's why you need a living Master for the circumstances of this world today.  When Jesus was here there were no nuclear bombs.  But now there are nuclear bombs, and the Perfect Master, the Perfect Savior [sic], has come to save you from nuclear bombs.

Is the living Master able to reveal Knowledge?

Yes, that's why you call him a living Master. 

Guru Maharaj Ji, Jesus Christ performed many cures.  Can you do the same?

At His time there were not so many doctors, that's why he did that.  But I am curing mental sickness.  If you have got mental sickness, come to me.  And when you do meditation, you become so natural that any other diseases you have are automatically cured.  That's why I tell you this Knowledge is very practical.  It makes people natural.  They stop being plastic.  They become natural and the best way of ending disease is by nature.

What happens to a person's karma when they receive Knowledge?

It starts choking up. It starts finishing up, because when you realize Knowledge, you've got to go and be one with God.

Will this Knowledge save us from rebirth?

Yes.  Once we have this Knowledge we reach the heaven from where we cannot return.  

Guru Maharaj Ji, are you permanently in God consciousness?

......[torn page] ...permanently in God consciousness.  

The lower part of the last page in the book is intact and it's a quote that reads:

""I have found that missing link.  As soon as I found that missing link, I became one with everything.  And therefore I became everything.  Not as an individual but by merging into that infinite thing which has no beginning, which has no end, which cannot be destroyed.  And I have that for you to experience.""

He signs this last quote:

""Guru Maharaj Ji""

I maintain that there are several aspects of the article that need to be corrected or, at minimum, balanced by this evidence.  For instance, it flies in the face of the 1999 quotation from Rawat's then-website wherein he said:

People through the years have tried to place me in a mold, and from the very early years I have not been able to oblige them. When I was very young, people were looking for the ""old silver-haired Guru with flowing white robes."" I was only eight. When people were flocking to India for their search, I was in the West. When people were looking for sophisticated discourses, I spoke of simple things. When people wanted nirvana, I said, ""You need peace."" When people said, ""Tell us of the scriptures,"" I said, ""Look within you."" When people asked, ""What is your qualification?"" I said, ""Judge me by what I offer."" To this day, some people see me the way they want to. After all, I guess it is rather inconvenient to see things as they really are. I have evolved, but my message stays the same. Externally, I have changed but within me, something stays the same. 

Long after Rawat was ""only eight"" he was playing games about whether or not he was God, he was saying that the reason he doesn't cure people like Jesus did is because we have lots of doctor