A look at Prem Rawat (Guru Maharaj Ji), the Divine Light Mission, Millennium ’73 and the cult-like movement that attracted millions of followers in the 1970s…
I recently watched a documentary called Lord of the Universe. It was about a teenager who, at one point, had millions of followers across the world. He called himself Guru Maharaj Ji, but he was actually Prem Rawat from Uttarakhand. By the time he was 16 he was going on tours globally.
This documentary is about an event called Millennium ’73, which was basically a huge concert/satsang he did in November 1973 where followers from all over the US converged. The whole documentary felt fictional — so bizarre that I immediately fell into a rabbit hole afterwards. I found out all I could about this “guru”.
Here’s what I found.
