Welcome to the World of Life

Prem Rawat talks about the moment a baby is born and “the one concern: breathing or not?” At the end of our lives, he says, we have the same concern. “Everything you are is predicated on something so simple. This reality is beautiful. Welcome to the world of life.”

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Who We Are

“The baby knows how to cry, how to laugh, how to be,” says Prem Rawat. “These are innate. These are fundamental things nobody has to teach. The desire for peace is also fundamental. This is who we are. This is our foundation, our need, from our heart.”

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Love

“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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Personal Quest

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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Truest Nature

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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One by One

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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This Is Your Life

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

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

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?

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

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?

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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On Being Fulfilled

Prem Rawat talks about being fulfilled in the journey of life. “Fulfillment cannot be weighed,” he says. “There is no scale for it. When you have one one-billionth of fulfillment, it is the same as having a universe full of fulfillment.”

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Something from Inside

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

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

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

“Have you ever felt desperate for peace?” Maharaji 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

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

“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

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

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

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

Maharaji 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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Knowing Who You Are

“There are more important things going on inside of you than you realize,” Maharaji says. “When you begin to know yourself, you begin understand the stage on which truly a dance of life is taking place. A dance that is beautiful. A dance that is all about you.”
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A Peace, Yet Undefined

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

Maharaji 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

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

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

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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The Greatest Gift

“Peace begins with our understanding of what we have been given,” says Maharaji. “Why is this important? Because the entire world is telling us about things that we do not have. Nobody is pointing out to us what we do have. What we have been given is this life, is this existence. And this existence needs to mean something.”

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Wearing Peace

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

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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Love That Which Is Within

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

“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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Where Is Freedom?

Maharaji speaks about the freedom every person has within them—the freedom to feel joy and clarity that lies in the depths of a human being no matter what is happening.

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Looking for Joy

Maharaji 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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Your Existence

Maharaji (known also as Prem Rawat) 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

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

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

Maharaji 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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Peace and Freedom

Maharaji talks about the need that each of us has for peace and freedom in our lives. The peace that can be felt even in the middle of a war, he says, and the freedom that can be felt even in prison—“This is what every human being on the face of this earth wants.”

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Seeing the Possibility

Maharaji 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

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

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

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

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

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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The Beauty of Existence

Maharaji 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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Request from the Heart

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Maharaji 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

Maharaji 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

Maharaji 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

The challenge in life is to understand the beauty that lies within us, Maharaji 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

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

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

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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