Editing Techniques of Knowledge (section)

==Knowledge sessions==
In his early days in the West, Prem Rawat or his instructors (called [[Mahatma]]s in India) conducted these sessions face-to-face with small groups.

Wim Haan, a student of theology who belonged to a critical movement within the [[Roman Catholic]] Church, wrote that receiving Knowledge involved a formal initiation that the aspirant had to keep secret and that he believed that the reason for the secrecy was a direct connection between the techniques, the initiation and the need to live a life of devotion to Rawat. Haan, who did not receive the techniques of Knowledge, also wrote that the fact that other groups may also use the same techniques would probably not help to increase the interest in them. Haan wrote this article based on observations of the Dutch branch of the defunct DLM between 1980 and 1981.<ref name=Haan>Haan, Wim (Dutch language) ''De missie van het Goddelijk licht van goeroe Maharaj Ji: een subjektieve duiding''  from the series ''Religieuze bewegingen in Nederland: Feiten en Visies'' nr. 3, autumn 1981 (Article is based on the Dutch branch of the Divine Light Mission) {{ISBN|90-242-2341-5}}.</ref>