The festival of Holi is celebrated on the day after the full moon in early March every year. Originally a festival to celebrate good harvests and fertility of the land, Holi is now a symbolic commemmoration of a legend from Hindu Mythology. Today Holi is an excuse for Indians to shed inhibitions and caste differences for a day of spring fever and Big Fun. Teenagers spend the day flirting and misbehaving in the streets, adults extend the hand of peace, and everyone chases everyone else around, throwing brightly colored powder (gulal) and water over each other. Elan Vital is a cult based around one supreme leader and so rather than interact with each other, his followers stand and receive their Master spraying them. Their practice of Holi is a quintessential example of their practice of "Knowledge".

Prem Rawat is also an inventor of sorts. Here he uses a powerful coloured water pistol to delight his followers in his modern version of Holi. .wmv file 3.0M

The colourful Holi wet dhoti scene from the Contact video, India 1988.

Scenes of Holi and darshan in the mid 1990's from the 'Like The Rain' video of 1997

Prem Rawat, the would-be internationally-known teacher of Inner Peace lectures around the world on achieving Inner Peace and Contentment.
He and his followers also celebrate annual festivals. Hans Jayanti in honour of his father. Guru Puja in honour of himself. Holi ...
In India, Holi is celebrated as a very democratic carnival in which Hindus shed inhibitions and caste differences for a day and throw buckets of water and coloured powder over each other.
Prem Rawat and his students have a relationship in which he is the all-powerful divine guru and they are the powerless supplicants.
This relationship is mimicked in their celebration of Holi where he stands atop an extremely elevated stage and fires enormous streams of water over them from an extremely powerful pump.
It is a microcosm of their everyday relationship with him. They acknowledge him as the source of their life, love and devotion which he gives as a gift and for which they must feel gratitude.
They respond with their usual adoration, devotion and gratitude.