Words of Peace - Prem Rawat - Podcasts

Passion

2011-10-04T15:21:00.000-07:00

[5 min] Prem Rawat talks about the difference between a true passion and a hobby. “Whatever it is I am passionate about,” he says, “I need for that to be real, not a figment of my imagination. And it has to be amazing. Passion isn’t one of those things that you generate. You unleash it. It’s already there in you. You open the gates, and it comes pouring out.”

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One by One

2011-03-26T17:44:00.000-07:00

[8 min]Prem Rawat talks about how each person has been given something—the gift of life, of breath, of serenity—but we do not understand its value. Each one of us needs to feel peace, he says. And to light the world, we need to be lit up one by one.

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Dancing with Gratitude

2011-03-16T15:32:00.000-07:00

[8 min]Prem Rawat talks about the possibility of feeling peace and joy and the gratitude it brings. “Gratitude comes when there is a beautiful experience of life,” he says, “when it is not full of words, doctrines, and dogmas, but it is filled with a simple reality.”

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The Beauty of Existence

2011-02-21T18:52:00.000-08:00

Prem Rwat talks about the things we do on the outside to be fulfilled, comparing this pursuit to trying to fill a pot that has holes in it. There is a place within, he says, that is always full, a place where we can feel the beauty of existence.

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A Singular Gift

2011-01-27T08:24:00.000-08:00

Prem Rawat speaks about knowing how to receive, how to appreciate the gift of life we have. Breath does not judge; it simply comes.

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It’s About You and Me

2010-12-01T15:03:00.001-08:00

[4 min] Prem Rawat talks about the journey of life. “It’s about this life, this existence—not an idea, not a theory, not rules, not some printed pages, but about you and me. The most incredible thing is taking place: you are alive … your existence, your being on the face of this earth.”

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Do Something Different

2010-12-01T15:02:00.001-08:00

[2 min] “Do something different: instead of looking on the outside, look on the inside, because on the inside you will find your answer. I'm talking about heaven, here, now.”

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Life is Afoot

2010-12-01T14:59:00.000-08:00

[2 min] “You can be confused in this world, or you can be in peace. Pick one,” Prem Rawat says. “Is there something inside of you that is favoring peace? Because if there is, then congratulations: you are a human being. You have just reached, and felt, your most fundamental want.”

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You are Alive

2010-12-01T14:58:00.001-08:00

[3 min] “To understand things through calamity is obvious. But to understand things without calamity is wisdom,” Prem Rawat says. “Understand what this breath, what this moment, what this existence means to you whilst you're alive. Understanding it just before you die is going to happen, but that's not wisdom.”

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You Are the Angel

2010-12-01T14:55:00.001-08:00

[2 min] “Who are we waiting for? We look up to the sky, waiting for the angel to come down and fix all of our problems,” Prem Rawat says. “You are the angel that can fix your problems.”

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Feeling the Need for Peace

2010-06-18T16:11:00.000-07:00

[4 min] Prem Rawat talks about a peace that has nothing to do with religion, geographical boundaries, ideas, or wishes. Rather, he says, there is an aspiration for peace that is universal. “And the resources of the joy, the peace that you are looking for,” he says, “exists with you.”

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The Ability to Be Happy

2009-11-03T09:58:00.000-08:00

[4 min] “Every day you have to ability to feel happy, to feel content,” says Prem Rawat. “Think about this: Does your ability to feel contentment ever vary? And the answer to it is no. The ability does not vary, but the joy that I feel does vary.”

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Equilibrium

2009-11-03T09:50:00.000-08:00

[5 min] “When we are centered,” Prem Rawat says, “when we are placed in that equilibrium where our hearts are full, then our true nature shines—and the true nature that we have is beautiful. It’s real, and that is the place of true peace.”

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Promise of Life

2009-10-16T16:46:00.000-07:00

[6 min] “This existence that you have, this life that you have, despite all the problems, is beautiful, wonderful,” says Prem Rawat. “Look at the desert. When it rains, mysteriously, even the desert holds in it the promise of beautiful life, of delicate flowers.”

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What are you busy with?

2009-08-25T14:53:00.000-07:00

[4 min] Prem Rawat says, “We allow ourselves to be busy, but we never ask ourselves, ‘What are you busy with?’ You’re busy with your career. You’re busy with your life. You’re busy trying to make some dream come true. But where is this headed? How does this all end?”

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What is Peace?

2009-07-27T16:56:00.000-07:00

[3 min] Prem Rawat says that wherever he goes, people want peace. But when he asks what is peace, “everybody has their own version of peace, because everybody is looking at it from a totally different angle. Peace,” he says, “begins with every single human being.”

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Rain of Peace

2009-07-14T13:40:00.000-07:00

[10 min] Prem Rawat talks about how we are the only ones who can make ourselves happy. “Let it be that I know myself, that of all the people I have tried to understand,” he says, “that I understand myself, because I want the rain of peace, of understanding to come.”

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With the Heart of a Child

2009-06-22T16:07:00.000-07:00

[8 min] “To understand the ultimate truth, … you have to be utterly simple because truth is simple,” says Prem Rawat. “How simple?” he asks. “With the heart of a child. What does a child have that you don’t have? Simplicity.”

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Coming and Going of Breath

2009-06-01T17:34:00.000-07:00

[6 min] Prem Rawat talks about the miracle of life. “You want to know how to recognize a miracle? Then understand that today was a miracle,” he says. “And, if tomorrow comes, that is going to be a miracle. And the coming and going of this breath is a miracle.”

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The Core is You

2009-03-23T13:12:00.000-07:00

[5 min] “Your life is associated with your jobs, with the things that happen around you. That is not your life,” says Prem Rawat. “The core is you. You exist. And because you exist, there are certain things that also exist. And at the hub is your existence, your life.”

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Life is a Road

2009-02-03T09:35:00.000-08:00

[4 min] “What kind of road is life?” asks Prem Rawat. “Some parts are hilly; some are flat; some have a nice, gentle slope; and some way too much slope, slippery,” he says. “Walk. The key is not to measure how many miles you have come, but to enjoy every single step you take.”

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The Pivotal Question

2009-01-19T09:05:00.000-08:00

[1 min] “Is peace a manifestation of something that happens inside a human being, or is peace something on the outside only?” Prem Rawat asks. “Where does the desire for peace come from? Is peace innate to every human being? This, in my opinion, is the pivotal question.”

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Because You Are Alive

2008-12-24T12:36:00.000-08:00

[6 min] “Each one of you, because you are alive, will make a voyage. What will this voyage be like? Who are you? What is the purpose of this voyage ? Why does it have to be made?” These are some of the questions asked by Prem Rawat in this excerpt.

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Play It With Passion

2008-12-17T11:14:00.000-08:00

[8 min] “The human being is an incredibly sensitive, experiencing instrument,” says Prem Rawat. “Place in it the truth that resides in you, and it will sing out with ecstasy. Play it with the passion it deserves, and you will hear sounds you have been yearning to hear all your life.”

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Its About You And Me

2008-12-03T15:03:00.000-08:00

Tribute to Existence

2008-11-10T13:04:00.000-08:00

[3 min] Prem Rawat says, “I need to do everything possible to pay the most magnificent tribute to this existence every single day of my life,” says Prem Rawat. “And, in turn, when you pay this tribute, it fills you with the gift of joy … the gift of peace … the gift of true contentment.”

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Made to Enjoy

2008-10-27T19:13:00.000-07:00

[8 min] Prem Rawat talks about the human being’s need to be comfortable and avoid pain. “What do you like to hear?” he asks. “That which brings you enjoyment. What do you like to see? That what brings you enjoyment. This is how you are. This is who you are.”

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The Seed of Kindness

2008-09-16T18:41:00.000-07:00

[4 min] Prem Rawat says, “When we come in this world, we’re given seeds. There is the seed of anger, but there is also a seed of kindness. There is a seed of love…a seed of understanding. Whatever seed you have sown in your garden of life is what you’re going to sit under to rest. You have the intelligence to choose what will benefit you the most.

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The Voyage

2008-08-18T13:34:00.000-07:00

[5 min] “Happy feels good. Joyful feels very good,” says Prem Rawat. “So perhaps the purpose of this voyage is not suffering, but to be able to experience the ultimate experience. Why should we experience this? When you do, you experience the truest, truest, happiness.”

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Love

2008-05-13T15:12:00.000-07:00

[8 min] “Do you know that, wherever you go, whatever you do, there is love in you and there is hate in you?” asks Prem Rawat. “Do not be under the misunderstanding that the love is in someone else. No, no, no. Love is in you.”

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Truest Nature

2008-05-13T14:51:00.000-07:00

[6 min] Prem Rawat distinguishes between appearances that change and the actual nature of a human being. “When we begin to look for our truest nature,” he says, “we will find that there is peace. In our nature, there’s understanding, there is the truest love.”

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Personal Quest

2008-04-25T14:28:00.000-07:00

[7 min] Prem Rawat talks about a personal quest for peace, “a peace not of consequences but an individual peace for every human being on the face of this earth. People want to stop wars, conflicts, but nobody addresses the individual—from where peace has to begin.”

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This Is Your Life

2008-02-28T15:54:00.000-08:00

[7 min] Prem Rawat asks, “Is there something more to you than the sum of all that you see? Is there something more to you than the sum of everything you project?

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The Miracle Is Existence

2008-01-23T08:21:00.000-08:00

[7 min] Prem Rawat talks about the miracle of life. “The most beautiful miracle is: from nowhere comes this breath and brings the gift of life to you. This is your story. One breath at a time. That’s your beat. That’s your rhythm. Do you understand what a miracle this is?"

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The Promises You Made

2008-01-16T14:15:00.001-08:00

Prem Rawat talks about the wants we have had since we were children and the promises we made to ourselves to fulfill them. “Have you kept them?” he asks. “Look within you for the thirst,” he says, “because it is the thirst that will lead you to water. Understand what you have been given because it is magnificent.”

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What Reality?

2008-01-16T13:50:00.001-08:00

Prem Rawat talks about the reality that comes with being alive: “This is the only reality, the only kind of reality that allows you to be rich and to be poor. Allows you to shed a few tears and to crack a smile. Allows you to dance and to sit still. Allows you to call others your own. Allows you to be an uncle, a mother, a dad, an aunt. Because without that reality, none of this is possible.”

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Feeling the Need for Peace

2007-10-25T11:45:00.001-07:00

Prem Rawat talks about the universal need for peace. “Not as a society,” he says, “but as an individual. I strongly believe that it is the individual that has to understand what peace is. And feel that need in their lives. Then and only then can we begin to see the movement towards peace, because the foundation is solid.”

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What Makes You Happy?

2007-09-27T15:38:00.001-07:00

Prem Rawat talks about how a cow is happiest being a cow and asks, “What makes you happy?” He talks about the priceless wealth every person has been given—the yearning to be happy and having the source of happiness within.

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Something from Inside

2007-09-03T16:01:00.000-07:00

Prem Rawat talks about the quest for peace prevalent throughout civilizations as a fundamental need of each human being. “Something from inside stirs every single day,” he says, and calls from within. “Something inside us,” he says, "tells us, 'Let me feel, let me experience that state in which I am not burdened with conflict.'”

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Resources of Peace

2007-08-08T15:07:00.001-07:00

Prem Rawat talks about a peace that has nothing to do with religion, geographical boundaries, ideas, or wishes. Rather, he says, there is an aspiration for peace that is universal. “And the resources of the joy, the peace that you are looking for,” he says, “exists with you.”

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The Ocean Inside

2007-07-12T12:48:00.000-07:00

Prem Rawat quotes a couplet from a 14th century Indian poet, "That there is a drop in the ocean, everyone knows. But that there is an ocean in the drop, only a few understand." "You are the drop," he says, "and there is an ocean inside of you that you can know."

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Desperate for Peace

2007-07-03T11:50:00.000-07:00

“Have you ever felt desperate for peace?” Prem Rawat asks. He talks about how people often hide their need for peace planning for tomorrow, for their favorite day to come. But that one day, he says, can only come as today.

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A Witness to Beauty

2007-05-29T14:34:00.000-07:00

Maharaji, as Prem Rawat is widely known, talks about a way to look within where people can be introduced to themselves. “If you ever want to see a wonder,” he says, “I suggest you take a look at yourself. Not the concepts, not the ideas, not the goods, not the bads. But a timeless purity of existence. A witness to the beauty that is.”

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What You Practice

2007-05-15T14:12:00.000-07:00

“What do you practice in your life?” Maharaji asks. “Whatever you practice, you’re going to get good at. If you practice peace, you’re going to get very good at it. If you practice knowing yourself, you’re going to get very good at it. And you will know who you are.”

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Living Is a Celebration

2007-04-19T12:13:00.001-07:00

Maharaji, as Prem Rawat is widely known, talks about understanding the difference between juggling daily activities and the need of the heart to feel fulfilled. “Living is a celebration,” he says. “And you need to thrive every single day that has been provided to you.”

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Maximum Benefit

2007-04-06T16:41:00.001-07:00

Prem Rawat talks about recognizing the ultimate blessing in life: “Breath has been bestowed upon us. And not just once, but again and again and again.” He says that finding peace and joy is each person’s potential, “where you can take maximum benefit of this existence.”

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A World unto Yourself

2007-03-16T10:49:00.000-07:00

Maharaji talks about the miracle of existence. “Look around you as the sun rises, and…as the sun sets,” he says. “Look at you as the time envelops you and you pass into that time. Look at you. You are a world unto yourself.”

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The Heart Speaks

2007-03-07T11:50:00.000-08:00

Prem Rawat talks about the similarity in every human being: the want from the heart to be fulfilled. "Why not get in touch with that perfection that is within you?" he asks. "Why not understand what your heart is trying to say to you?”

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A Peace, Yet Undefined

2007-01-30T10:34:00.000-08:00

Maharaji talks about the difference between philosophies and a reality that each human being wants to know and is searching for: “A nature of a human being is to try to find. Always, always. Trying to find a comfort…a joy…a peace. A peace, yet undefined.”

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Every Minute Counts

2007-01-17T15:19:00.000-08:00

Maharaji, as Prem Rawat is widely known, talks about a fundamental need for peace that is innate to everyone. In a busy world where every minute counts, he says, of all the possibilities that exist, there is also the possibility for each person to be content.

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Avenues to Contentment

2006-12-26T15:00:00.000-08:00

Maharaji talks about the search for contentment and the avenues and formulas to find it. “There is a magic formula,” he says. “In me, in you. The solution lies within us—in our understanding that, yes, peace is a possibility.”

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What You Perceive

2006-12-08T14:45:00.000-08:00

Maharaji talks about the importance of each person seeing what they have been given, based on their own individual experience, and fulfilling their truest thirst in life. —How much of what you perceive is because you have experienced it,” he asks, —and how much of what you perceive is looking at this world through somebody else’s eyes?”

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Writing History Now

2006-11-21T14:48:00.000-08:00

Maharaji talks about a peace that begins with each person, and about the possibility of making peace a reality: “What do you want in the history books of tomorrow?” he says. “Do you want people to read about the existence of peace? Or do you want another repeated chapter of war?”

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Wearing Peace

2006-09-18T14:51:00.000-07:00

What would the world look like if every human being had peace? Maharaji was asked. “Every human being would look beautiful because human beings wear peace so well.”

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A Gift Unparalleled

2006-08-23T12:54:00.000-07:00

Prem Rawat talks about the uniqueness of every human being, the incredible gift that it is to be alive, and the understanding that everything a person could ever want, they already have.

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The Value of Breath

2006-08-15T13:55:00.000-07:00

Maharaji talks about how, while often the importance of a day is based upon failures or successes during that day, the value of existence is forgotten. The greatest value in existence, the greatest blessing, he says, is the breath.

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True Wisdom

2006-07-21T16:00:00.000-07:00

“Personal peace,” Maharaji says, “is not a luxury, but a fundamental necessity for each individual.” Speaking about wisdom, he adds, “Listening to the voice that calls out again and again to feel peace within is true wisdom.”

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Looking for Joy

2006-06-30T17:13:00.000-07:00

Maharaji, as Prem Rawat is widely known, talks about the basic human wish for peace and joy, and says that this ultimate wish can be fulfilled. “Everybody is looking for peace, is looking for a fulfillment in their life, is looking for joy,” he says. “I’m here to tell you that that’s what you have.”

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Your Existence

2006-06-19T11:30:00.000-07:00

Maharaji, as Prem Rawat is affectionally know, compares a human life to a construction site—a work in progress that can become more magnificent than the greatest works of art.

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Remembering What’s Important

2006-06-02T09:51:00.000-07:00

Maharaji talks about remembering the most important thing in our lives: One life. One existence. One incredible gift, he says, that we have been given.

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Now Is the Time

2006-05-18T13:33:00.000-07:00

Maharaji talks about the demands in life and how much effort it takes to make others happy, and emphasizes how important it is to find contentment and peace, as well. Now is the time to be fulfilled, he says: “This is your time to be happy.”

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A Peace That Is Felt

2006-05-01T13:07:00.000-07:00

Prem Rawat talks about two kinds of peace: one is a peace based on a formula of what a person should and should not have in life; the other is a peace that is experienced. “If you want real peace,” he says, “it has to be felt—not once, but every day of your life.”

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Seeing the Possibility

2006-04-11T11:09:00.000-07:00

Prem Rawat as Maharaji is widely known, speaks about the possibility for each person to have peace in their life. “People of this world are the bricks, are the mortar … of this structure,” he says. And if we at least try to see the possibility of how peace can happen, he says, “maybe—at least hope indicates—there will be peace on this earth.”

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The Fabric of Existence

2006-03-24T12:07:00.000-08:00

Prem Rawat, as Maharaji is widely known, talks about this special moment called “being alive” and about being aware of the peace inherent to existence. Maharaji says that the peace he talks about is “not an absence of something, but the very presence of something. . .the very fabric of who we are.”

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Being Conscious

2006-03-11T20:31:00.000-08:00

Maharaji, as Prem Rawat is widely known, talks about the value of our existence and about being conscious. The simplest of wishes is to be happy, he says, and fulfillment begins by being conscious of the gift of life we have been given.

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The Peace That Lies Within

2006-02-23T14:25:00.000-08:00

Maharaji talks about a peace that already lies within each individual. The possibility for everyone to be in peace, he says, begins with each person understanding and acknowledging their own fundamental need for peace.

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Being in Synch with Life

2006-02-09T12:34:00.000-08:00

Maharaji talks about the one thing that we can all be good at, whoever we are, wherever we live, no matter what’s happening in our lives: feeling peace and joy. It is our choice, he says, to feel peace every day and to be grateful for life.

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The Hidden Thirst

2006-01-26T11:25:00.000-08:00

Maharaji talks about a hidden thirst we have for something within and of our need to take on that thirst. “Of all the things that we can achieve in our lives,” he says, “there is one more that we can achieve….and it is to be fulfilled.”

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Request from the Heart

2006-01-12T10:36:00.000-08:00

Maharaji talks about how we’ve been given a mind to think, question, and understand, and a heart to feel the joy of being alive. Within each one of us, he says, is a request from the heart to be fulfilled.

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When Peace Begins

2006-01-07T13:32:00.000-08:00

Maharaji talks about the power we have to appreciate and about the most worthy thing we can appreciate: life itself. What he offers, he says, is a mirror to see, to experience, the peace within: “When there is tranquility inside, that is when peace begins.”

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The Fundamental Need

2005-12-30T18:06:00.000-08:00

Maharaji talks about a feeling of joy that is already within each person and needs no catalyst on the outside to manifest. Joy within is constant, he says; it is “the one simple reality that is knocking in the heart of every person.”

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Real Peace

2005-12-26T11:32:00.000-08:00

Maharaji talks about how we develop theories of peace and how everyone has a version of peace that suits them. Real peace, he says, is a peace that is common to every single person on the face of the earth.

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Life: This Moment

2005-12-18T20:07:00.000-08:00

Maharaji talks about how everything in life changes; as we go through life, good times and bad times unfold. The most auspicious thing, he says, is the coming and going of the breath because it brings us the gift of life in every moment.

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Life unchanged

2005-12-10T06:36:00.000-08:00

Maharaji talks about three things that happen for everyone: birth, death, and “this most amazing thing called life.” We need to learn to live with life, he says, because it will be there, unchanged, when everything else leaves.

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Recognition

2005-12-02T21:05:00.000-08:00

Maharaji talks about the responsibility each person has to recognize the joy and beauty in life that can bring fulfillment. Every human being wants to be content and feel peace, he says, and the wisdom is to recognize, while we are here, what we have been given.

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Value of a Moment

2005-11-25T21:44:00.000-08:00

Maharaji (Prem Rawat) talks about how a little drop of rain joins with others to form a river that can change the shape of mountains. In the same way, he says, as the seconds come together and make minutes, hours, days—a lifetime—for each person, moment after moment, when peace is experienced, their life is transformed.

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The Home Within

2005-11-18T13:40:00.000-08:00

Maharaji (Prerm Rawat) talks about how we know other people better than ourselves, and uses the analogy of a house inspector who makes sure everyone’s house is safe but their own. In our own house, he says, every time the breath comes, it brings hope and joy.

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Rich Beyond Belief

2005-11-18T13:36:00.000-08:00

Maharaji (Prem Rawat) talks about the heart that calls for each of us to be fulfilled, to extract from life as much as we can, to feel the joy of being alive—from within. He talks about a goldmine that is buried under each person’s hut, as we keep looking on the outside. Dig, he says, and “you will be rich beyond belief. Dig and you will have peace in your life.”

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Compass of the Heart

2005-11-06T02:09:00.000-08:00

The challenge in life is to understand the beauty that lies within us, Maharaji (Prem Rawat) says, and to have access to it whenever we want. We have a wonderful compass called the heart, he says, that points to that beauty within.

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Where Peace Dances

2005-11-02T02:45:00.000-08:00

Maharaji describes our existence as a note that plays in a beautiful symphony and that “needs to find itself” by discovering the peace that resides within. When the heart is filled with gratitude, he says, the note finds itself, the thirst within is fulfilled, and there is a beautiful dance.
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Quest for Joy

2005-10-22T17:10:00.000-07:00

Maharaji talks about a quest we have for a peace, love, understanding, and joy that is not on the outside, but within. He offers a mirror, he says, that allows each person to see the beauty within.
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Life Unfolding

2005-10-19T11:32:00.000-07:00

Maharaji talks about the ability we have to feel, not just to reason, what life is all about. It is possible, he says, to experience life itself as it unfolds and as it brings joy unparalleled, absolute peace, and singular clarity.

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Changing the Picture

2005-10-12T11:21:00.000-07:00

Maharaji talks about a peace that is not the absence of war, but rather a feeling that is already within. This world is a screen, he says, and the way to change the picture is to put in film that is full of joy, hope, clarity, and peace.

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Touched by Beauty

2005-10-01T14:25:00.000-07:00

“What can I offer you when you already have all that you need within you?” asks Maharaji. He talks about his passion for giving each person a mirror so they can see how beautiful they really are.

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Prem Rawat’s Address at United Nations’ 60th Anniversary

2005-09-23T12:11:00.000-07:00

On the occasion of the United Nations’ 60th Anniversary, Prem Rawat, widely known as Maharaji, addressed an audience of diplomats as well as government and civic leaders at a special event held in the historic theater in San Francisco where the UN charter was signed. In this excerpt from his address, Prem Rawat talks about the need each person has for peace and asks what the world would be like if everyone had peace.

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Alive

2005-09-18T22:28:00.000-07:00

There are complexities in life, Maharaji says, but there is also the simplicity of breath. Because of breath, he says, there is existence; because of this breath, this body is alive every day, and every day life plays out in the most serene ways.

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Drop by Drop

2005-09-08T09:02:00.000-07:00

Maharaji talks about how little drops of rain come together to make a mighty river and how the seconds in our life come together to make a lifetime.

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The Author

2005-09-03T20:14:00.000-07:00

We are writing the story of our life, Maharaji says, and as the author, we need to make sure it has a beautiful ending: peace and joy.

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Enjoy the Play

2005-08-23T17:21:00.000-07:00

Maharaji talks about the process of discovery within and reminds people to enjoy the greatest play there is: life.

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What a Symphony

2005-08-09T15:29:00.000-07:00

Maharaji talks about a peace within that is independent of all that is outside. Experiencing this peace, he says, redefines the word “enjoyment.”

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Where the Story Begins

2005-08-01T15:02:00.000-07:00

Maharaji talks about the story of life, and tells how each person is unique and has their own expression of joy and peace.

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A Good Detective

2005-07-22T19:53:00.000-07:00

Maharaji talks about becoming a good detective by picking up the magnifying glass of clarity, being aware of existence, and seeing the hope in every situation.

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The Other Way

2005-07-18T12:36:00.000-07:00

Using an analogy, Maharaji says that often everyone is walking in the same direction, although no one knows where they are headed. Then, he says, someone comes along who is walking the other way.

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An invitation to enjoy

2005-07-08T12:30:00.000-07:00

Maharaji talks about how each person has been invited upon the stage of life to enjoy every breath.

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The Quest for Contentment

2005-07-06T13:47:00.000-07:00

Maharaji talks about the quest every person has to be content. The want to be happy is not something learned or memorized, he says, but an innate thirst that can be recognized.

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Touched by Thirst

2005-06-30T17:45:00.000-07:00

Maharaji talks about every person’s thirst for peace and about the water within that can quench that thirst.

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The Unfinished Story

2005-06-10T17:52:00.000-07:00

Maharaji talks about the unfinished story of every person alive and the opportunity to know peace, contentment—a joy unparalleled.

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Enjoying

2005-06-03T12:50:00.000-07:00

Maharaji talks about the art of enjoying life and reminds us, in the midst of responsibilities, not to forget the peace and joy within.

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Will Today Be the Day?

2005-05-26T17:20:00.000-07:00

Maharaji talks about the need each person has to feel peace, joy, gratitude for life—and to ask ourselves: “Am I feeling this today?”

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The Ability to Feel Joy

2005-05-26T17:19:00.000-07:00

Maharaji talks about the uniqueness of every person and their ability to feel joy, to understand what it means to be fulfilled, and to appreciate every breath.

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