Satpal Maharaj
| Satpal Maharaj | |
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| Cabinet Minister to the Government of Uttarakhand | |
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Assumed office March 2017 |
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| MLA of Uttarakhand | |
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Assumed office 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Tirath Singh Rawat |
| Constituency | Chaubattakhal |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
21 September 1951 Kankhal, Uttar Pradesh, India (now Uttarakhand, India) |
| Political party | Bhartiya Janata Party |
| Spouse(s) | Amrita Rawat |
| Children | Shradhey, Suyesh |
| Mother | Rajeshwari Devi |
| Residence | Dehradun, Uttarakhand and Punjabi Bagh, Delhi |
| Website | www |
Satpal Singh Rawat also known as Satpal Maharaj born 21 September 1951 in Kankhal (a small colony in the holy town of Haridwar, Uttarakhand), is the son of famous spiritual master Yogiraj Paramsant Shri Hans Ji Maharaj and Jagat Janni Rajeshwari Devi.He is a National Executive Member of Bharatiya Janata Party. He was also a member of the lower house of the Parliament of India (15th Lok Sabha) for the Indian National Congress party. He left Congress Party and joined Bharatiya Janata Party BJP on 21 March 2014.
Satpal Maharaj studied at St. George's College in Mussorie.
As of 2014, Maharaj is the head of the Manav Utthan Sewa Samiti. He teaches the meditation techniques called "Knowledge". The movement has students and ashrmas all across the globe with its head office in India. It claims millions of members and has events that regularly draw 100,000 people or more to its main ashrams in Haridwar and New Delhi. According to Lise McKean in the book Divine Enterprise: Gurus and the Hindu Nationalist Movement, in the Samiti cult of the holy family, Maharaj, his wife Amrita Rawat and their two sons are worshiped as divine beings, with individual members of the holy family held to represent diverse aspects of divinity.
The Divine Light Mission (DLM) (Divya Sandesh Parishad) was an organization founded in 1960 by Satpal Maharaj's father, guru Shri Hans Ji Maharaj for his following in northern India. During the 1970s, the DLM gained prominence in the West under the leadership of his fourth and youngest son, Guru Maharaj Prem Rawat.
During the customary 13 days of mourning following Shri Hans's death, the succession was discussed by DLM officials. The youngest son, 8-year-old Prem Rawat, addressed the crowd and was accepted by them, as well as by his mother and brothers, as the "Perfect Master". Though Prem Rawat was officially the leader of the DLM, because of his youth authority was shared by the whole family.
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