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Maharaji - 'The Basic Wish'

Audience

Coming back from a tour recently, it was very foggy driving home. We had to drive so slow. The fog was very thick—like soup—and we couldn't see. Being in that fog reminded me of what happens to us. When the fog comes, it obscures our vision and stops us from seeing what we need to see to proceed on this path of life.

This is important because this is but one life. It isn't just, "Here I am." This is everything. It isn't a question of comparison, of my problems, my dramas, my traumas. Is this a better day? Will tomorrow be a better day?

It is that you exist, that you are alive. It is about listening and understanding your own passion. Your passion. For me, it is to be quiet enough to begin to hear what my heart is trying to tell me. There is a lot going on, calling me, "Do this; do this; do this." There are a lot of things that disguise themselves as "fun," but my life, my existence, is not about the "fun." It is about feeling contentment, feeling joy. These are the needs of every human being—the wants, the desires, the wishes—above and beyond everything else.

Maharaji

People talk about noise pollution and air pollution, but there is a real pollution; it's called "thought pollution." A person is constantly bombarded, "This is important; that's important; yes, that's important."

Do you realize what is being sacrificed? Your time on the face of this earth. Your possibility of being fulfilled every moment is being sacrificed. And only you can answer this question: Can you afford that? What is the most important thing to you?

I realize that I cannot afford the fog, and that's a good realization. Drama, trauma comes—I cannot afford that. I want to understand the passion of my heart. Somehow, this person was created and given the ability to feel. And of all the things that I can feel, I can feel joy, I can feel peace, I can feel that feeling within me, and that is the most magnificent.

What is the basic wish that has already been given to you? Listen to it. Understand what it is saying, how it is addressing you. Then you can fulfill it. But first you need to know what it is. And it has always been the same.

Unless that one thing is fulfilled, all the explanations and ideas can be there, but if that basic and fundamental need is not fulfilled, what is the point? And who are you going to rely on? This is something that you have to do. You have to understand that this is your life. You can make it happen—that joy, that beauty—every day in your life. And it's very easy. A lot of people think the only way it will happen is if I change the world around me. That's not easy.

Audience

People think they need to change their kids or their job or retire. Waiting—just think of all the things you're waiting for. You don't have to wait anymore. You don't have to change all the things outside; you can't. All you need to do is change your priorities. Just rearrange. Take the priority to be content and put it at the very top. That's all.

Contentment in your life is very possible. That is your possibility. Recognize it. Understand it. Grow with it every day. This is one of those things that does not stop growing. There is no limit. There is no limit to enjoyment.

There is no limit to clarity. There is no limit to joy. There is no limit to truest learning. There is no limit to understanding. You can never say, "I understand this too much." There is a limit to ignorance, but what limit is there to understanding? Understand every day that there is a beauty that I can fill myself with today. Again and again and again.

Maharaji

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Prem Rawat - 'The Most Incredible Dream'

Audience

I'm here to remind you what is important. It is important because it is important. Then there are those things we give importance to because they are not important. A tremendous amount of support has to be found to give importance to those things, because in your heart of hearts you know they're not important.

So what is important? What is important by its very nature? It begins with the most beautiful gift you have been given: the gift of existence. If this life were an instrument, when placed in the right hands, with passion and knowledge, this instrument would produce the most enchanting melody that would move anyone who heard it. But the most tuned instrument in the hands of somebody who does not know how to play it will make a lot of noise that sounds like scratching.

Do you have a role to play in making this instrument sound incredible? Yes, you do. For the instrument which is me, I'm responsible. For the instrument that is you, you are responsible. Somebody comes and sees a potential that this existence is perfect—it's not dented, broken, corroded; it's perfect. And when this person says, "I see something that's not imperfect; it's perfect," there will be arguments: "How can it be? Look at this. It is not possible."

In your life, what do you see? What do you dream of? Do you dream of contentment, of peace, of fulfillment, of joy? Do you dream of a passion? Do you dream of that perfect melody? Or do you dream of a two-story house and a cute little pudgy dog that gets along with a grey cat? That's it?

Prem Rawat

Have you encouraged that passion in your life? It is extremely important to nurture in your life what you hold precious. Ask a farmer; that's how it works. If you nurture joy, your fields will be filled with joy. If you nurture serenity, your fields will be filled with serenity.

Then this life starts to become a beautiful dance, because it is a beautiful dance when you give it the freedom to express what this life wants to express, when this heart can be filled with gratitude and not pretense.

Freedom is being able to express your heart, to accept today. Freedom is being able to say thank you that you are alive. That is freedom. And the truest of all freedoms, no one—but no one—can take away from you.

So, what is your expression of your existence? What is it like for you? You wish peace and goodwill to others. Have you wished peace for yourself?

If you want to shine for a lifetime, it begins with every day, every hour, every minute. Consciousness—to be conscious that you are alive, that you exist. The most incredible dream, the most incredible wish anyone could wish for, has come true. Tragedy should not be your teacher; let consciousness be your teacher. You can awaken every day with admiration and a full heart. These are the possibilities. This is when you sound melodic—not scratchy, melodic.

Maharaji / Prem Rawat

Beneath the whole facade of this world, this is what is going on: the simplest of wishes to be happy. How wonderful is this realm of joy, of peace, of fulfillment. How fortunate are those who walk in the company of peace, of joy, of fulfillment, of truth.

Coming and going keep happening on the face of this earth. Trillions have come; trillions will go. There'll be new problems, new things, old things. There'll be memories, memoirs, history. There'll be lies, and people will want truth. There will be someone who will try to define what truth is. And then there'll be the ones who say, "Feel the truth in your life."

In your life, you have so much if you have peace. It is not automatic; you have to work for it. If you want peace in your life, if you want serenity, it is very, very possible, but you'll have to garner it.

I say to people, "Take a little time out in your life for you." How beautiful is it that you can be content, that you are alive, and reality dances within you. The most important thing is don't let the dream stop. The biggest mistake people make is they stop dreaming. It's not about being old; it's stopping to dream. When you were young, all you did was dream. Don't ever stop dreaming. Dreams are free.

Anything is possible. The joy, the love, the feeling, the understanding, is truly possible in your life. It is. How beautiful to be able to say this, and I will say it again and again for as long as I am around. When I was young, I had so many dreams. They all came true. There are people all around the world enjoying this peace. And yet, I can't stop dreaming. The next dream will be much bigger, more spectacular. The possibilities are endless.

And the dream continues to unfold. Part of that dream is that it also unfolds for each one of you—that you find that joy, that happiness in your life. That is what I've been working on. That is what I do.

Maharaji 

Audience

 

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Incumbent upon Us

Audience

What I have to say is really quite simple because it deals with every individual. Recently, I was going for a walk, and I found myself in the midst of some really tall buildings. And it hit me that what I see is a massive building, but what is it? I see the face of it, the windows, the decorations, but what is this building?

I sometimes forget that a building is standing on a foundation that I can't see because it is buried. Only when something like an earthquake happens does my attention even go toward the foundation, hoping that it will stand. I also forget that, however tall this building is, it is built of blocks, of components that are much, much smaller than the building. And the integrity of the building actually relies on the integrity of those far smaller components.

When we talk about peace, it isn't any different. We look at the world. We see huge nations, countries, cities. What we forget is that all these countries are actually built on little components called human beings. We are the components. And the integrity of each country depends upon the integrity of the individual components.

We talk about countries. What we don't talk about is people. But if a person does not have peace in their life, whatever they are trying to achieve will never succeed.

Prem Rawat

Peace begins with our understanding what we have been given. The entire world is telling us what we do not have. Nobody is pointing out what we do have. What we have been given is this life, this existence. And this existence needs to mean something. When existence means nothing to us, human life—that one thing that is irreplaceable—loses its value. Then any cause can take on a greater meaning for war than for peace.

You are alive, and that needs to mean the most to you. You, yourself, need to understand the preciousness of your existence. Do you want peace in your life? Or do you want chaos? The potential for both exists in every person's life.

What is it that we are looking for? Everybody has their own definition of what will bring them happiness. That's what we're looking for—happiness, contentment. So we look, and we search, and we do what is necessary. And in all our searching and in all our doing—who do we forget? Us.

What is it that you want in your life? In whatever equation you have created for happiness, please put yourself there, because otherwise it will mean nothing. Without you, without your heart, without your understanding, without peace in your life, there can never, ever be world peace. This is where war starts, and this is where peace resides—within you.

Maharaji / Prem Rawat

Peace begins with you. Peace is possible with you. Yours is this life, the gift that you have been given. Realize what a gift you have been given. Understand the beauty that is dancing in front of your very eyes. Don't wait. This is your time. Grab the request for peace in your heart; find that contentment in your life. That's what peace is. Peace is beautiful. Peace is real. Peace is that passion for existence, a feeling, an understanding of what life means—what every day means, what every hour means, what every breath means. Then I can begin to savor what peace is all about.

Understanding the value of each person finding that contentment, one at a time, is the only possibility for world peace that has never been tried. To solidify every brick, every block and to say, "Yes, indeed, this building can stand tall because every block is solid, has integrity. When the earthquake comes, it will not fall down." That is the integrity that is needed.

The people of this world are the bricks and the mortar and the steel girders of this structure. It is incumbent upon us to at least try to make a difference. Rather than to offer logic of how it cannot be done, to at least try to see the possibility of how it could be done. And then maybe, at least the hope indicates, there will be peace on earth.

Maharaji 

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Foundation of Reality - by Maharaji

Prem Rawat

What does it mean to live, to exist? To feel every day the solidity, the firmness of this breath? To many people, breath is just air going in and out. There is more to it. There is a firmness. And within its simplicity, tremendous solidness has been placed.

What is your foundation made of? Does your house rest on that which is solid and real? Or does it rest on assumption after assumption? What is your safety net? You venture, you think, you imagine, you go out, you do things. You weigh realities, and your realities change from day to day: "Right now, this is real; right now this is what's happening, this is what's important."

Somebody said to me, "I just became a grandfather." I said, "Congratulations." And I started thinking, "You became?" One day you became alive. That's the main day. After that, things have happened, and things will continue to happen. They will be what they are. Some you will call good because they will fit perfectly into the little shell that you have created.

Prem Rawat

How many days do we live paying attention to the sweet call to be content? People talk about peace; I talk about peace. I say peace is possible. Some people like that. Some say, "No. That's not the way the world is." Why? A picture has been painted of what peace is.

There is a reality. And that reality is bright and it is beautiful. It's more beautiful than any one of those pictures you could ever make. Every day, it is fresh and real, and it is dynamic and beautiful. It has no constraints. Is there sorrow? No. Is there joy? Yes. Is there darkness? No. Is there light? Yes. Is there discontentment? No. Is there contentment? Yes. Is there complication? No. Is there simplicity? Yes. Is there hate? No. Is there love? Yes. And that is the foundation that is the reality of your existence, of the gift you are given every day.

What does it cost to have all that? Nothing. All you have to do is open this heart and let it in. That's all it takes for the sunshine to come in. When the sun is shining, open the window and let the light come in. Let that breeze come in, because it is blowing, because it is happening.

  
Prem Rawat
  

Peace is dancing inside of you, waiting to be felt. People create expectations. The world's definition of peace is: "Everybody's always smiling, nobody's fighting each other, they're saying only polite things to each other." If that really happened, this would be a weird place.

What about the heaven here? This is where heaven makes the most sense. This is where I have the simplest ambition from my heart to be content. This is where I have the opportunity to build my house in which I can be content. It is not a house of imagination, but a house built on very, very real foundations.

That safety net is made out of breath. When even your power to speak goes away, this is the only thing that will still rumble through you, and it will be the last thing you know as it fades away. The challenge is to be in peace in the middle of all the turmoil. For as long as you are alive, you can experience the joy that is within you.

Maharaji

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Potential for Joy

(translated from Hindi)

Prem Rawat

Why are you here? Who are you? Where did you come from, and where are you going? How many days are you here for? What is pain? What is joy? What is the soul? As human beings, we have these questions. And we look for their answers on the outside. We look everywhere: we read the paper, we go to the movies, we travel to different countries. But have we ever looked within ourselves: What have I been given?

All those questions are telling us that there's one thing missing. There's one thing we have not understood. What is it? It is what is within.

When will peace happen? Where is peace? Why do people fight? When a human being cannot understand who he is, what he is—when a human being becomes a stranger to himself, then everyone else is a stranger, too. And when everyone is a stranger, who is he going to become friends with? Who is he going to love? Who is he going to look at and say, "This is a human being, and I'm a human being, too"? Everything becomes separate.

Prem Rawat

Every human being is one—no matter who you are, how you are, where you're from. Even in pain or happiness, you're one. You've come here as one and will have to leave, as well. In the life of each human being, there is the possibility to experience supreme joy. The greatest potential is the possibility of that joy in a human being's life.

When a human being is born, it is their opportunity to experience peace and joy, to fulfill this life. Everything else they can attain and let it go. But peace is one thing the human being can attain and hold onto.

It is because of the calling of our heart that we want to complete our life, to capture what has been given. We can catch onto something that will be with us throughout our entire life, that will support us.

Fulfill this life. This is your life. It's been given to you. What you do with it is completely up to you. You can throw it away or save it. You can attain joy and fulfill your life. Every day is precious, priceless. Will tomorrow come? Nobody knows. All we can do is hope it will. Every day that is given is a blessing.

Prem Rawat

We talk about miracles. What is a miracle? When the sun rises, isn't that a miracle? The miracle is what is going on within you. The fact that you exist is a miracle. This life that comes day after day is a miracle. And when you start seeing that, your life will be filled with joy.

So if you want that, then accept it—not with blind faith, but from an experience. Only through experience can a human being move forward and take the next step.

The story is still being written—yours and mine. It's not finished. What the ending will be like is up to us. If we want the story to be that this person understood the supreme joy, fulfilled their life, and spent their life in joy, then that story can be written. It's up to us.

Maharaji 

 


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True Peace - by Maharaji

(translated from Hindi)

Audience

Is there a human being who doesn't want peace? Everyone wants peace. But today, people have complicated things so much that nobody knows what peace is. People say if there is no war, there is peace.

What is true peace? It is a peace that can be experienced even in the middle of a battlefield. It is not the peace that people talk about, that if this happens or that happens, peace will come. True peace resides in the heart of every human being. It can be experienced not just once, but again and again, just as we eat again and again. We don't just eat once and never need to eat again. When we are hungry, we need to eat.

Do you want true peace? It is up to each person. True peace can only happen when a person learns to stand on their own two feet and understand what is within them.

Our culture says, "Look outside." People want to find the truth. They search and search on the outside. There are so many books written, some just to criticize other books. The more a person reads, the more confused they get.

Prem Rawat

You have to look for peace in the right place. You don't need to search for it on the outside. If you search the whole world, you won't find it, because it is within you.

Experience that for yourself. It is not selfish. Being selfish is doing something that benefits you but harms someone else. When you do something that benefits you and no one else is harmed, that is not selfish. If you steal someone else's food and eat it, that's selfish. But if you eat your own food to satisfy your hunger, it isn't. So, experiencing peace is not selfish. When you experience peace, you experience it for yourself. It is a very personal experience.

Who are you? This mind, this intellect, this body, this life, this experience—you are a compilation of all those things put together. You are who you are because of all of those things. This life that you've been given is an opportunity that won't come again and again. What do you need to do with this life? Be fulfilled.

Audience Rawat

The day will come when you have to leave. So fulfill this life now. What does it mean to fulfill this life? It means that your garden can be beautiful and green and lovely. For that, I will give you the seed. If you plant it and give it the water of trust, then definitely that seed will grow, and your garden will be beautiful. This you can experience. As long as you are alive, your garden can be beautiful. You can live in that peace. It's not just something that you heard or that was written somewhere. This is something practical.

Maharaji

 

 

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Joy and Gratitude - by Maharaji

Audience

The fact is you're alive; I'm alive. In this world, many problems come, and people get stuck in them: "This should happen to me," or "That should happen to me." I have seen it and experienced it myself. The thing is, if you have patience, even that will pass.

Life is trying to teach us. We need to learn, to understand. Again and again, no matter what happens, the question always comes: What is the most important thing to you? What do you want in your life? Do you want joy? Do you want the peace of your heart?

Pay attention to that. This is what life is teaching us. Whenever our attention is swayed from that, we feel pain. We wander here and there, trying to be free of that pain. Then it becomes clear that in our life we want true happiness.

People do so many different things to find it. Recently, I was reading a newspaper, and I thought, "The stories don't change—just the names." It's the same thing over and over again: Someone did this; someone did that. "I haven't done this; I haven't done that." That's all we keep thinking about: what we need to do and all the things we haven't done. We forget to express gratitude for the gift of this life, this human body.

Prem Rawat

Who can express true gratitude except a human being? Maybe all the insects and animals express it in their own way; I don't know if they do or not, but the human being can. And it is so important that from our heart we express gratitude for what we've been given.

Truly, only the person who has experienced it can do that. So, experience what has been given to you. Don't weigh your life by what isn't there; look at what you have been given. If we weigh our lives on the scale of the heart, we will see that we have been given so much that we can't even grab it all. There is no bag we can fill with what we have been given. And we are receiving every day, every hour.

One breath. Just one breath—coming and going—what is the value of it? It is priceless. There is no amount of money or gold or diamonds in this world that is equivalent to the value of just one breath. People have made so many different advancements. They have gone to the moon. But who can bring back a breath? Nobody.

Without doing anything, we are being given this gift. The Creator doesn't say, "You're a sinner. You did this; you did that." Whether someone is in pain or in joy, the Creator is giving the gift of life equally to everyone. But what if the one who is thirsty stops going to the water? How will their thirst be quenched? That's why thirst is there. It beckons us, reminds us. All our attention goes there so that we don't forget.

In your life, don't put aside joy, because if you lose your joy, what will be left? We can waste our breath in worries or we can accept joy in our life. The one who accepts it will understand and fulfill their life.

Maharaji 

 

 

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Choice - by Maharaji

Audience

Whatever you want in your life, you have to ask for it. If you don't ask for it, you won't get it. You need to be able to say, "This is what I want in my life."

Happiness. We can assume that we all want happiness. Maybe we don't. But if we do want happiness, it's there. If we want sadness, it's there, too. If we want misery, it's there. If we want joy, it's there. You have the choice every single day. And you have to choose, even though some people would rather it be totally automatic.

That happiness is what you want in your life is fundamentally a choice that has to be made every day, every moment. For some, that is exquisitely beautiful: "This is what I'm choosing." And for some, it's not. But it cannot be just once: "I've smelled a rose once; that is enough." Every flower has its intricate way of being.

Prem Rawat

You look at trees. Once upon a time, the great-great granddaddies of the trees you see were all in the ocean. They made a step to come onto land. And when they did, they had problems because they could not continue their species. In water, they could just let off seeds, and the seeds would float along, and everything was great. On land, it didn't work like that. They had to form partnerships. They had to devise strategies that would work.

Some came up with pollen, a powdery substance similar to what was used in the ocean. Others wanted to be more selective, and they formed a partnership with bees. Others didn't have access to bees, so they formed a partnership with birds. And not only that, they formed partnerships with particular types of birds. There's a flower that only works with a hummingbird that has a really long beak that can reach the nectar.

Audience Rawat

And then there are eucalyptus trees. They devised the strategy of fire: "If we can sustain ourselves in fire, everything else will get burned off, and we'll survive." So they developed a bark that is so loose it burns off—like a fire suit. The outcome is other kinds of trees have disappeared, and the eucalyptus has continued. But they have to make a choice all the time.

Every tree, when its seed is planted, is in a state of peril. Will it get the right ingredients or not? And when the time comes, it cannot procrastinate. It cannot have philosophical discussions. If the tree next to it falls, it has to be ready to go. No questions asked. No selfishness involved. No religion involved. It is a basic impulse that has been given, that has been programmed, and it works rather well.

In our lives, we get caught in all the ideas, all the logistics of, "Is this right, is that wrong?" "Give me a proof—give me a rainbow." We start to give meaning to things that are meaningless. "This is this way. This person looked at me this way. This means this. This means this."

It can be really simple: ask. No assumptions. No philosophies. If you want help, ask. Ask, and it shall be given. Knock, and it shall be opened unto you. But you have to knock. You have to ring the doorbell.

Maharaji 

 

 

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Unimited Joy

Translated from Hindi

Prem Rawat

The things we run after will one day be left behind. This is a human being's nature. When young boys see a nice car and a beautiful girl in it, they will turn around and look at her. Their necks start to bend. This doesn't happen to an old person. A time comes in a human being's life when they can't see properly or they are in pain when they turn their neck. Nobody is exempt from it; this will happen to everyone. The things you run after will one day leave you. Whether you lose them or not, they will lose you.

The things that are valuable for us we keep safe. What is the one thing we need to keep safe? It is our joy, our happiness, our heart. If we do not guard our joy, who will guard it? Everybody worries about their own happiness. It is not possible to worry about somebody else's happiness.

If somebody is uncomfortable, I can give him a cushion. If he is hungry, I can give him food. If he is tired, I can give him a bed. If he is thirsty, I can give him a glass of water. But if he is unhappy from the inside, what type of cushion can I get him? What kind of water can I give him? What can I do for him? Nothing. When he listens to his heart's cry and takes steps to receive joy in his life, then it will become possible for him to feel that joy.    

Prem Rawat

The real joy is within us. That is who we are. Not experiencing this joy in life is like eating food that has no taste. You can have everything in life and still be missing that one thing that should be there. If a human being doesn't recognize himself, how can he recognize anybody else?

When I was growing up, we had a little dog named Tommy. He was so hot tempered that he bit everyone except my father, Shri Maharaji. When Shri Maharaji sat outside, if somebody came toward him, Tommy would start barking. Everybody teased that dog. If you put a mirror in front of him, he would start barking at it, and he could spend the whole day barking at it. Why? He couldn't recognize his own face. If he couldn't recognize himself, how could he recognize anybody else?

We do the same thing. We don't recognize our own face. We look at everybody and ask: "Who is that person?" "He is black." "He is from India." "He is from China." That person is just like me. He feels pain and joy like I do. He gets hungry and thirsty; I get hungry and thirsty. He goes to sleep; I go to sleep. When it rains, that person gets wet like I do. The world has taught us how different we are. When you haven't seen your self, you will see the differences. Yet, we are all one.

Prem Rawat

How much joy can you feel? It's up to you. It depends on your effort. If you are thirsty and drink only a spoonful of water, that's how much your thirst will be quenched.

Fulfill this life. Receive joy. All the other joys have limitations, but the joy within has no limits. We are here for that joy, not for anything else - just for that joy. The outside joy will come and go, but the joy of the heart is stable. It is inside of you; it is happening, and it will stay with you until your last breath.

Maharaji

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'Where Peace Resides', by Maharaji

Maharaji Prem Rawat

When it comes to learning, even a parrot can learn. A parrot can learn to say, "Polly want a cracker." But the parrot doesn't understand who Polly is or what a cracker is. All it understands is that every time it says something like that, it gets something to eat.

We need to go a little bit beyond that and understand what is really needed. We think that if we bring prosperity, riches, everything will be taken care of. But there is something more than all those elements. And that one most important thing for human beings is the aspiration and yearning for peace. It doesn't matter where we go, what religion we belong to, where we live, what we do. At the end of the day, we all need to experience peace. Why? This is the nature of a human being—the composition of a human being.

Maharaji Prem Rawat

When you have something in abundance, you don't recognize its value. When it is taken away, all of a sudden you're enlightened as to how incredible this one thing is. We are in this world, we see things, we do things, but we don't recognize how important it is to be alive, to exist every day in fulfillment, to be grateful for what we have been given—every day. And to understand and recognize our fundamental need for peace.

When it comes to food, our hunger needs to be satisfied. When it comes to peace, it is the same way. We need to feel peace, not just say, "Peace, peace, peace," like a parrot. But peace needs to be felt by every single person. Fundamental. This is the heart that we have been given. Through our mind, we try to comprehend the universe. Through our heart, we can comprehend our own universe. Through the mind, we try to measure the depths of the ocean. Through the heart, we can measure our own depth.

Maharaji Prem Rawat

Every single human being on the face of this earth is a universe unto themselves. Do you know how unique you are? There is no one like you, and there will be no one like you. The way you smile, the way you laugh, the way you cry, the way you hurt, the way you sing, the way you are joyful—every single intricacy is a gift of the Creator that you have been given.

Yet, how do we look at this gift? We look at its shortcomings. We say, "This is what I do not have." Our scales measure the negative, when we need to understand that every breath is a gift. It is a gift that has been given and given, and nothing is being asked in return.

No one can substitute for another person. Nobody can say, "You go feel peace for me." That would be the same as saying, "You go drink water for me. You go eat food for me. You go sleep for me." There are certain things you cannot send a replacement for. Can you imagine being too busy to go to your own wedding and saying to your best friend, "Go get married on my behalf"? It would not work.

So I say to people that it is incumbent upon you, and you alone, to reach out to that one place within inside of you where peace resides.

Maharaji

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