Prem Rawat's Greatest Success - 2022
Being "Interviewed" by Sara Sidner

1973 WIGM? videos/wigm.html

See, people were waiting for Jesus to come before. Before he came they were waiting for him as anxiously, or more, as we are waiting today. But when he came and was standing on this on this place, and people were passing by, and some said, "Oh, we believe. He's the Perfect Master," and some said, "No, he can't be Perfect Master." Because you see, so far we say, "Perfect Master is going to come." This is an intellectual thing. Because we think he isn't here, and he is going to come.

But Perfect Master is always with us. If Perfect Master is God. See, it says, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and the Word was made flesh. And the flesh was Jesus." And if it was the Word that always had existed, how could Jesus come, and how could Jesus go? He was there with them before, and He is with us now. Why are we waiting for Him? Otherwise, He is not Perfect Master; He is not God. He cannot do anything to us, or if He does, and if He is perfect, He is with us, now, in our hearts. Because He's the Word.

1974 Aliens videos/aliens.html

"Peace in this world has become very strange for people. Peace in this universe has become a antique. And if we want to today receive and achieve this point of peace we have to go to him who is known as Perfect Master. Now why do they call me Perfect Master? See, if someone teaches you Maths, if someone teaches you English, if someone teaches you Science, you call him Maths Master, English Master, Science Master, respectively. Same way I can teach people peace. Uh now, again I tell this to people that I'm not prophet, I'm not a prophet. I'm just an ordinary human being with two legs, two eyes, and I work and I voluntary put myself here so that I can reveal this Knowledge to people. I think because people need it, people have forgotten what this Knowledge is and I'm just teaching them perfectness and that's why they call me Perfect Master."

1976 Keep On Truckin videos/gmj_keeponsuckin.html

And all our lives we try to search for it, all our lives we try to feel for it and we use our bodily sense trying to experience that beauty, that joy, that perfection, that ultimate experience and this is what the Word is all about. Peek out of your windows and you will see that whatever there is in this world, that 10 storey shopping center to that little Volkswagen to whatever there is in this world is a make-believe world. It is no different than that little child's world who makes believe his world. But the only thing is that the scale of the proportion it's done at is so big, so huge that there is so much worthless energy put into it but nobody is understanding, nobody is relating, nobody is finding out what is that thing that is motionless and still makes everything move in this world. You see in that experience is when people realize, that's what we call, for people who haven't realized Knowledge yet, that experience when we understand, when we pause for one second, turn around and say "What are we here for?" and all the premies who realized this Knowledge. See this is the realization, they seek their Lord, they seek their Guru Maharaj Ji and He is waiting, He's always behind you, He's like your shadow and He's always waiting but He's not going to talk to you unless you turn around and what he does, this is, I mean this is what has, the Perfect Master has done this every time He has come into this world so what He does, He sends His devotees out in front of you and what they do is they go (points, laughter) and some people say "Forget it, this guy's cuckoo" and they walk off. Some people stop and they're looking (rubs his face) at the mirror, they think maybe there's something on their face. But really when that beautiful, beautiful experience comes to us and we realize it and we understand it and we know it and we feel it we call it, in brackets, getting blissed out.

Guru Puja, 1975 And it's so beautiful, some people sit there and think about Knowledge, they figure out Knowledge. Knowledge is not a thing to be thought about. And this is why they don't experience Knowledge because they keep on thinking about Knowledge. Knowledge is something that you experience. You see, you can sit down and you can think about food and think about food and think about food. Your stomach is never going to get filled up. Food is something to be eaten. Water is something that you drink not think about. So premies, Knowledge is something that you experience, that you realize within your heart not that you something you sit down you say "Hwey uh man, what is this? It's this and it's that and … no, it is something that is already within inside of us and it's vibrating within inside of us and we have to merge inside of us and we have to be one within inside of us and so premies there's so much satsang can be given but it's lie unless we really make ourselves, we have to make that decision. You know it's not like we sit down and we hope for something to happen, just to blast off into the sky. No, we have to make that decision that really yes we want that experience, that yes, really we want to do it. We want to do it. We want to do it. We can do it. God has given us, within inside of us that Grace, that ??ness, that energy which can definitely make it possible for us to do it. We have it built in within inside of us, standard. So do it, realize it, you know because we never know of this lifetime, of this opportunity until there is a crucial moment and we really understand that Oh brother, it's a different story altogether. And this is the reason, you know, I mean, there is a definite reason to this because every Perfect Master who has come has said "realize this Knowledge now! Understand it, now!" Not, not, don't, not, not three years later. Not one hundred years later. Not five hundred years later. Now! You see and so now is the time.

1977 Birthday 76 videos/gmj_birthday76_transcript.html

19th December, 1976: There is a reality that we can all experience, there is a truth that we can all come together for. I mean look at this Atlantic City Festival, what is this, what is this begin, how did this occur? What happened? It's a good question. This was not premeditated and at least not from my side or maybe then it was because premies came together and that is the premeditated thing, whenever premies come together. But it was like I arrived from Frankfurt in New York and some premies had gotten a lounge together and that was really beautiful. We came down and in the lounge there was this big brochure sitting, big beautiful brochure and I just picked it up and it said Birthday Celebration 19 and I figured well it's not my birthday celebration I wasn't born on the 19th. Then I opened it up and it said that premies wanted to celebrate the birthday of their Perfect Master. And I didn't really give it much thought, there was a lot of talk going around about this festival. I didn't give it much thought but then it just totally started to happen. After my birthday, after the 10th everything started to fall in place, it was just Grace and it was constant Grace that made me come here. It wasn't like "Okay, let's get into this." No, nobody got into this, it just, it just came together all by itself. It just happened, nobody fudged it, nobody tried to get on the phones and do this and do that, just slowly happened where the love of the premies and the understanding of premies brought everybody together, brought each other together and brought me here.

Every Perfect Master, to me it's like every Perfect Master has come in this world and tried to beat those drums. And it's just they got somewhere close to it, but they didn't quite beat it, not loud enough, not loud enough for everybody to hear. And it didn't pierce the tons and tons and and miles and miles of barriers that people have between them. But for some uh for some reason, I have this hope. I have this dream. I have this … not an idea, it's not an idealism, but as a service, as the aim of my life: to beat these drums so hard, so hard, that it might break down those barriers that people have placed between them, and that there might be Peace in this world. (applause)

1977 Holi 77 videos/gmj_holi1977.html

Prem Rawat aka Maharaji at Holi 1977

When is this humanity going to come together? When is this humanity going to pull together, and really recognise the Grace of the Perfect Master? Why does a Perfect Master come into this world? There is a Being that comes into this world to grace us with this Knowledge, with this experience that so many scriptures have described, that so many saints have come and tried to describe it for us. This Knowledge is now available, and now - that same Knowledge, by Guru Maharaj Ji's Grace, has been revealed to you.

Look at it not as necessary because you want peace of mind, look at it as essential as your breath, because that's what is it, and that is the way you have got to understand it! You know, you've got to really open up to that Truth, got to really open up to why are we here. Is it to just let this mind run and to persuade this mind? Or is it, in fact, to persuade something more beautiful, something more subtle, something more fantastic, which is within inside of us?

The time is coming where that peace bomb is really going to start exploding very soon, (cheering, screaming and applause) and we have to be all ready before it does.

1977 Shrine Auditorium videos/gmj_shrine_18091977.html

Today is Sunday, of course, and a lot of things are closed. But on Monday, that's the way it's gonna be, you know. There's gonna be a lot of people. And these lot of people are going to be doing a lot of things. And then these lot of people, after they have finished doing a lot of things, they're gonna go back to at home, go back to their homes, to relax, not to do anything. And yet, they'll be still doing a lot, thinking that they are fulfilling their lives. But premies, that is, that is the ignorance. And that is why a Perfect Master comes into this world, to tell people that, "What do you think?" and, "By which means you think that your life is going to be fulfilled, that is not possible. There is only one thing that is going to bring that fulfillment into a human being's life. That's just that Knowledge, that Grace, that experience, our effort to try to

1978 Greatest Magician videos/gmj_grossestmagician_part1.html

And every time a Perfect Master has come in this world, that's what he has told us: that there is something far more superior, that there is something far more greater than just what we seek in our world, than just what we seek in maya, that just what we seek in our concepts. There is something far more superior, there's something that's far more greater, and that's what we have to achieve, that's what we have to get at.

Denver 25th February 1979 videos/gmj_denver790225_part2.html

And people don't know. As far as people are concerned, some crazy thing is going to happen. "A convention." "Oh, you guys going to hold your convention again?" I don't know what people think we do in here. And this is the convention that has been held ever since man was created. Most authentic; most genuine. Devotees and Master came together. And the Master said something to the devotees. And this has been going on for ages and centuries. And that's why we come.

1979 Malibu Ashram videos/gmj_malibu_ashram79.html

And you just look at it and there are all these scriptures and these scriptures are merely indicators that look something existed just like your history book. Just like you history book, now it could have happened, might not have happened, might be imaginatory, it might not be imaginatory. That's all that is, it's a history book of religion. It's a history book of a, of a Perfect Master, you know, you look at Bible, you look at Koran, you look at Gita or you look at Ramayana. That is a history of a Perfect Master and what He did, you know and that's, that's the limit, that's where we go till but if the God, if God Himself was to appear in front of us, there are no chambers, blocks or system in our system to accept Him as God. And this system has not been invented by 1978 or the people of the 20th century. This system has been present since a long, long, long, long time.

When Jesus came they just simply could not understand because there was no system to understand. There was, their scriptures did not say "Look there'll be a time when there'll be a Perfect Master in your time and it is up to you to determine whether or not you follow Him. Those contingencies in our society have been taken out and who suffers from it, not the people who maybe made it that way, not the society maybe who formed it that way but we who live in that suffer from it. And so all that we try to fight for for so much is really not worth anything. I mean we fight to live in this system, we fight to exist, we fight to, we fight to do so much and yet it has no value, it's, it's completely terminal. It's just completely, you know, it's it has no value, you know. So there is man and I mean you don't have to look at it as 'man' as a third person, see this is one thing else, you know, we get up and give satsang and we, you know the initiators getup or I get up or Marolyn gets up or Raj ji and we go "There is this man and he is completely confused." We don't have to say that, you see, we are the man or the woman or the person. We don't have to, you know, associate it with a third person. We are the person and this is what we have to look at, that it is our own experience of Knowledge and it our own experience of truth that we have to look upon and that should never be justified. There is nothing in this world that can actually justify your experience. Just cannot, because Knowledge is not like raspberry, Knowledge is not like an apple, you know and you walking through the jungle and all of a sudden you come across a fruit and you look in your manuals, "What is this?"and it says if it is you know 4 inches to 3 inches to 2 inches in diameter, red, you know, and describes this whole apple then you can say "Oh yeah, I know what that is! That's an apple."

And same thing in our lives, Guru Maharaj Ji has to synch up and yet, you know again that's one way of putting it but that's wrong, we have to synch up to Guru Maharaj Ji. There has to be a synch between us, you know, and Guru Maharaj Ji which is the manifestation of Knowledge. And we have to realize that. We have to make that alive, we have to make that present in our lives, not just in front of an altar and or or under a meditation blanket. But we have, we have to really, we have, we are premies, look there's nothing to be ashamed about, you know and the purpose and the goal and the and the everything that we have to do I mean what tell me one thing that we have to be ashamed of in this world? We, if we are premies, you know, then the world should be ashamed. Those people should be ashamed who are not premies, not us. We should be proud we are premies not ashamed that we are premies or be shy in any manner that we are premies. We premies of Guru Maharaj Ji and that's our realization! You know, so we should be proud and what we have to do in this world to spread this Knowledge in this whole world is nothing to be ashamed about it is the greatest thing that that can ever happen and recognition of Guru Maharaj Ji is nothing to be ashamed about, it is the greatest thing that ever happened to this world. And you know that every time a Perfect Master comes that is the greatest thing that ever happens to this world. And every time a Knowledge is spread into this world that's the greatest thing ever happens to this world.

"synch up to Guru Maharaj Ji, there has to be a synch between us, you know, and Guru Maharaj Ji which is the manifestation of Knowledge. And we have to realize that. We have to make that alive, we have to make that present in our lives, not just in front of an altar and or or under a meditation blanket. But we have, we have to really, we have, we are premies, look there's nothing to be ashamed about, you know and the purpose and the goal and the and the everything that we have to do I mean what tell me one thing that we have to be ashamed of in this world? We, if we are premies, you know, then the world should be ashamed. Those people should be ashamed who are not premies, not us. We should be proud we are premies not ashamed that we are premies or be shy in any manner that we are premies. We premies of Guru Maharaj Ji and that's our realization! You know, so we should be proud and what we have to do in this world to spread this Knowledge in this whole world is nothing to be ashamed about it is the greatest thing that that can ever happen and recognition of Guru Maharaj Ji is nothing to be ashamed about, it is the greatest thing that ever happened to this world. And you know that every time a Perfect Master comes that is the greatest thing that ever happens to this world. And every time a Knowledge is spread into this world that's the greatest thing ever happens to this world.

"And you just look at it and there are all these scriptures and these scriptures are merely indicators that look something existed just like your history book. Just like you history book, now it could have happened, might not have happened, might be imaginatory, it might not be imaginatory. That's all that is, it's a history book of religion. It's a history book of a, of a Perfect Master, you know, you look at Bible, you look at Koran, you look at Gita or you look at Ramayana. That is a history of a Perfect Master and what He did, you know and that's, that's the limit, that's where we go till but if the God, if God Himself was to appear in front of us, there are no chambers, blocks or system in our system to accept Him as God. And this system has not been invented by 1978 or the people of the 20th century. This system has been present since a long, long, long, long time."

1979 MIami Guru Puja videos/gmj_gurupuja_miami79.html

And Krishna says, "You have to go to the Perfect Master of your time," so clear, it's so clear. You know this in Guru Granth Sahib is, there's this, there's this bhajan that Nanak, Guru Nanak wrote and I love it. And I just really love it you know. It's my favourite song to hum in the shower. And the reason is so clear is because it says in the bhajan Guru Nanak says that without Guru Maharaj Ji, nobody's going to get across, (quotes in Hindi) without Guru Maharaj Ji nobody is gonna get on the other side. And then it talks further about Guru Maharaj Ji, "Guru paramesha …" "Guru Maharaj Ji is that Supreme Power. Guru Maharaj Ji is that power. Is and always will be!"

MAy 1979 Within Our Hearts videos/gmj_withinourfarts.html

peace is within, happiness is within, that love is within and in this world how many times do we look for that offer of satisfaction, for that offer of peace, for that offer of, of love that we all so desperately want. I mean we like to think that yes, we really want that, that yes we really look for that and yet does it ever happen in our lives? No. Only when Guru Maharaj Ji comes in our lives, only when somebody can really offer us that, only when somebody can really give us that, when that happens, when somebody comes in this world, not of ideas, not of concepts, not I mean maybe in one sense, even not of our own type, you know, because to us, world is everything. Whatever this world has got to offer is it, look there's nothing else behind it, besides it and when Guru Maharaj Ji comes in our lives, he doesn't offer us this world, he offers us Knowledge, he offers us something that is inside of us, that is our own true satisfaction, offers us ourselves.

you need a Perfect Master. And whatever your head says, "This is what it is. This is what it is. This is what it is - Perfect Master …" A lot of people have asked that question over a period of time, "Are you perfect? Are you the Perfect Master? Are you perfect?" There is a vast, vast difference in those questions. Perfect is one thing. The body cannot be perfect. Anything that was created once, anything that had a beginning, anything that once was not, is stamped imperfect and shall never be perfect. Ever. But only that Knowledge is perfect. And the one who can teach us, one who can guide us, is the Perfect Master, the perfect guide, the perfect teacher. And that's what we need in our lives.

1979 Hans Jayanti

It's like a water tap you know. What is that water tap? The purpose of that water tap is to have water being flown out of it so the water will flow from that water tap but there is a small contingency. The contingency is that there is a little valve that also has the power of stopping that water from flowing. That's the minute difference. That's a small difference but that's what makes the tap a tap and when that little valve is straightened out, when that valve, little valve is removed the water just completely flows out of it then it's really beautiful, then it's really serving the purpose. What is the purpose? To have the water flow from the tap otherwise if no water ever flowed from the tap, what is the difference between a water tap so-called or this chair? Sometimes this chair the water comes out of this, the condensation from the air-conditioning. When we cannot have an experience 24 hours, when we cannot have an experience 24 hours then truly and sincerely what is the difference between us and a little doggy? A little puppy? You know I guess even that little puppy is lucky sometimes because every timer it wants food it thinks of its Master, you know, every time haha I don't know, it does all those things, it thinks of its Master. And yet, do we?

Do we think of our Master? Are we really faithful, faith, are we truly faithful to Guru Maharaj Ji? Have we, you know, what what what are we tryin' to do? Are we tryin' to repay Guru Maharaj Ji? With all the things that we do, are we tryin' to repay Guru Maharaj Ji? How can we repay Guru Maharaj Ji? What do you give Guru Maharaj Ji to repay Guru Maharaj Ji? What? What conceivably, what possibly can you give? Except that love, except this life, except being just really a premie. That's what Guru Maharaj Ji wants is a premie. If Guru Maharaj Ji didn't want premies then there is this whole world right? Thousands of people here and there. Go sit down in a football game, "Oh Guru Maharaj Ji there's all your little creatures that you made one day." And it's like that, it's not gonna, that's not gonna please Guru Maharaj Ji's heart to see these dumb creatures that he made on a dumb day to sit there and watch a dumb thing happen, kicking around a little football or whatever.

That's it, I mean, look at it, these guys you know they really try to get good at that football and they go out there and they practice and they practice and they practice and they practice and they practice and they practice and they practice and I mean even of all those people only a few are selected to make a team and then they're lectured upon it and they practice every day and then for entertainment, you know, there is these big arenas I mean you know just like where the program was held in New Orleans was this big Superdome. It's bigger than Astrodome, supposedly and we were not, we weren't occupying the whole thing just a fraction of it on the side and I walked in there, it's enough to make you feel dizzy it's so big, it's huge, I mean it's just gigantic and yet what is it for? To come and to get entertained.

Rome 1980 Ashram videos/gmj_1980-06-25_rome_ashram_transcript.html

What is a, what is a premie, what is the definition of a premie? And the definition is one, you know, who has received the gift that Guru Maharaj Ji has bestowed upon that being, practices that gift, has that love, has that faith, and has surrendered in his heart towards Guru Maharaj Ji, towards the living Master of this day. Then you may say that's getting close enough to a definition of 'premie'.

videos/gmj_1980-04-12_holi.html

Because what is, what is, you know why does a Perfect Master come in this world? He doesn't come to fulfill our ideas. He doesn't come to fulfill our wishes. We have so many wishes, so many times. And those wishes cannot be fulfilled. But for our destiny that we don't know and this is where we have to stop and look. This is where that surrender comes in. Because you have no other substitute for surrender. There has never been a substitute for surrender. There will never be a substitute. And there never can be a substitute.

That faith, there can be no substitute for that faith. That has to come out of you. It doesn't matter in which form, in which, in which shape, that cloud forms. You know, but what it has in it, you know, be it stratus, be it cirro, be it alto, be it cumulus - it doesn't matter in which shape it comes in. But it's that, it's that thing that it has. And time to time a Master comes in this world. And when the Master comes, the devotees have to listen. And that's it. If we just listen and understand, if we just listen you know and have that feeling to go, then, then there is a possibility that our destiny will be fulfilled. But taking it as our concept, in our different little ways, because Guru Maharaj Ji comes in this world for us. For every one of us. It's hard to believe, but for every individual, every little being. You know not as a cluttered group or a mass or anything like that, You know for every one of us. And that's not our identity, but we have to lose that identity and become a devotee. Just become a devotee, just be a premie. Because that's where the start is. That's not the end. That's the start. Become that premie of Guru Maharaj Ji, so Guru Maharaj Ji can take you where he has to take you, where it has to be, in that experience of satsang, service and meditation, in the experience of that love, in the experience of that Truth, in the experience of that peace, you know.

That is exactly the way in this world for a devotee. If we can just take those concepts and just look at it from an another perspective - because there is an another perspective. There is the perspective of looking at it from what our ideas of are of devotion, of satsang, of service, of meditation, of Guru Maharaj Ji, and then stop that for a minute and just look at it from an open heart. Because what is, what is, you know why does a Perfect Master come in this world? He doesn't come to fulfill our ideas. He doesn't come to fulfill our wishes. We have so many wishes, so many times. And those wishes cannot be fulfilled. But for our destiny that we don't know and this is where we have to stop and look. This is where that surrender comes in. Because you have no other substitute for surrender. There has never been a substitute for surrender. There will never be a substitute. And there never can be a substitute.

Holi 1980

A devotee has to flow, has to follow his Perfect Master, a devotee has to follow his Lord, a devotee has to follow his Master, a devotee has to follow his Guru Maharaj Ji, wherever Guru Maharaj Ji goes, in whichever way he flows, we have to follow. We cannot say "Oh Guru Maharaj Ji, this is the way I want everything to be", you know, "This is the way I want it to be." It won't happen, you can, you can imagine it. It'll happen in the most incredible way, that it'll manifest, you know. It'll manifest the way it has to manifest, the way it wants to manifest and I'm not talking about destiny, I'm talking about grace moulding that destiny. I'm talking about that grace coming and creating that destination for you in your life. Talking about bringing that, you know because what, what, what, what, what all is our destiny before Knowledge. There's so many premies here, you know, what were they, what were they gonna do, what were they gonna become? No, for, for so many, no, Marilyn had ideas she wanted to become a nun. Anyway, she was all she was a stewardess and somehow she would have had to get back on the ground and become a nun, you know, that's what her idea, she wanted to become a nun. If John Hampton would have found anything better he would have still been in the army probably, mm. So, every single case history that we've got, you know, ??? there are people who are definite thugs and they'd still be thugging if, ah, they were left too.

Look, we've gotta face it, that we're all sinners, you know, that's the only way you can come. If you were already saved, what are you doing here? If you were saved, then where do you fit into the whole process of being saved? Nobody is saved. We have to be saved, yes. We can be saved, yes. And we should be saved, yes. We should find that Master, yes. Because Guru Maharaj Ji makes it so simple and we make it so sophisticated. Every single time the Master comes, open His arms and says, "Let me in. Let me in. You know, it reminds me of that song, you know, that the Lord becomes a beggar and it goes in this, in front of this devotee's house and knocks on the, on the door and the song is just going, you know, saying, "Oh devotee, you know, your fortune is really come, your, your, your luck, your, your destiny is unfolding now. The Creator, the Giver of everything is at your door begging from you. From you." That has created, that sustains, that destroys, that holds this ultimate, this holds this universe in the palm of his hands has come to your door, do not refuse. Which Master didn't come to everyone of these human beings and come to me open up. Regardless of our confusion, regardless of our concepts.

Right now this world is entangled in a mess of religions. You know how many religions there are? I have no idea. (laughter) I think there are more religions than there are people. (laughter) Because some of them do follow two religions, you know. There are definitely people who, who go by a church and will bow down, and go by a temple and bow down and go by a temple, you know, wherever they are, they'll (nods head) go at it. And I see that the core is missing, the basis is missing, it's, it always is missing cause what happens? We all come together, when Perfect Master was there, one, look at the example of Jesus. When Jesus came in this world, you know, he, he, he's born then all of a sudden, you know, he grows up and, and there, there the whole scene starts to happen. He never created a religion, years and years and years after him his disciples got together and said, you know, there was a nice thing going there. How about us doing something about it, you know, years and years and years after him was the Bible written, that's composed some of the thoughts of those disciples of theirs and from the all that, somehow, something happened that Jesus has nothing to do with comes forth a religion.

You look at the same thing with Hinduism. I don't even know that most of the Hindus know where the generation of Hinduism begins, you know, you look at the, you look at this whole world and there is, you know, the scientific fact that the world definitely did exist, you know, before the set amount of time and that it didn't quite start off with Adam and Eve, you know, eating an apple and doing the whole thing. And yet you look at every single religion and you find that a whole bunch of people come together who probably never even saw the Perfect Master in his life and they start something because they want something to believe in and every time a Perfect Master comes there is always the possibility of starting off a new religion. Which Perfect Master hasn't come yet and has fought religion? Every Perfect Master that comes in this world, the first thing he has to do, is he's got all this, all this work cut out for Him, you know, He's gotta save the people, he's gotta find His devotees, He's gotta give them Knowledge, you know, and, and take care of His confused premies, not so confused premies, you know, keep tabs on propagation, give satsang to the people who want Knowledge, you know, and, and keep and besides having all that work cut out for Him, He's gotta somehow fight religion, every Perfect Master has fought religion.

Yet nobody has ever learnt yet why not just do away with 'em? Make it one step simpler, when Perfect Master comes in this world he wouldn't have to fight religion, you know, cause what has it brought? Never peace, people fight, you know, I mean look at in Christianity says very clearly love, you know, thy neighbour and there are these neighbours, you know, fighting it against each other in, in uh Ireland. Love they neighbour tat tat tat tat, you know. (pretends to shoot gun, laughter) I'm sending you to Heaven earlier than you expected (laughter).

1980 You Are My Saviour videos/gmj_urmysaviour_transcript.html

Look, I'm not saying that you have to give up every idea you have. You can have all you great ideas, how to invent a binocular, how to invent a television, how to invent a new car that doesn't use any gasoline, have them, enjoy those ideas. The only thing is your idea how to save yourself, give it up, cause it's not about to work, it hasn't worked for anybody. Don't you understand in no one civilisation yet has been saved yet. Civilisations come, civilisations go. Human beings come, human beings go and the saga continues and for every civilisation, for every human being comes a saviour, very humbly requests for everyone of us to press reveal, reveal it to us, request and I see you know I just I know my Guru Maharaj Ji, the day he gave me the solution, you know, it's like, I don't know there is nothing in this world that can describe that feeling that all of a sudden, all of a sudden, you know just, just imagine that, you know, you try to fight, you try to understand, you try to comprehend this whole world, you try to have a solution for everything, you have so many, so many millions and millions of questions and then all of a sudden the Master hands you a solution and from there on you don't need to know anything, from there on you're content, from there on all your questions have been answered. What an incredible feeling, that's it. I know what I need to know. I know the secret of the universe. I know the secret of existence. I know the formula of existence. I do then become immortal. I do then go beyond, I beyond the cycle of life and death. I do then have salvation. I do then become a citizen of that kingdom of heaven on earth.

I just see what a graceful opportunity, what a graceful game and it's just like everybody frantically running around, trying to find the solution and all you've gotta do is in your hearts right here somewhere, there's a little button, maybe up here and it says "Press to give up" and you press it and you give up and bam something really manifests, something really happens, something incredible that happens, I am sure that that's what happened with the disciples when Jesus was here. Give up, I have the answer, I have the solution for you. Why did they come? What was the difference between them and all the other guys running around at that time. They didn't press their buttons, they did, the few ones that did had an incredible experience and then, then that love really manifests, the purpose really becomes alive and there is a reason to be alive. Then the reason to exist, the reason to be, there's a reason to enjoy, there's a reason to be happy, there's a reason to smile. There's a reason to love one another and I just see that's the solution that mankind needs. Not, not another joke, not this century. No, the solution, the ultimate solution is what we all need, the ultimate grace is what we all need. (frenzied) I know that to do I myself do not give up. On my little thing, on my little hanger that I always hang from. I have to come down, I have to give up, I have to understand, I have to let go. I have to come to the Master and say, "Okay, this is it. Give me, take me, take me, let me have an experience. Give me what you have to give me. Take my doubts away. There is that song "I surrender to my Satgurudev who has taken my doubts away, Satisfaction grew in place of discontentment" That's what needs to happen to everyone of us. We can play this little game always with ourselves, "Me, I'm a premie, I've got it made." Sure, you have it made so far you try, so far you press that button up there or here. "Help me." Then yes we do because the precious gift we have been given is incredible. It is upon which the universe is existent. It is upon which this entire human life depends on. It is what sustains us. It is what is everywhere. It is life, it is energy in the purest form, it is the real you and me. It is the Creator, it is what the moon dances on. It is what makes the sun shine. It is the essence of this entire existence wherever that existence is, within you and me.

1980 Olympia 230880 videos/gmj_olympia230880.html

Within us lies that thing called omnipresent, everywhere, present everywhere, within me too and yet I do not know perhaps the way to get inside and that is why I need a Master. A Master who can show me how to connect myself within, that's all. Maybe that's all there is to it, you know, you don't have to study any books and you don't have to, you know, go to any college and you don't have to go to any school and you don't have to do anything. A Master who has the Key, who can help you, who can guide you, because somehow in the jargon of this world which is very truly described as Maya, illusion, we get lost in it.

August 1980 Lingfield Guru Puja videos/gmj_lingfield_gurupuja79_part1.html

And Guru Maharaj Ji comes, you know, Guru Maharaj Ji comes into this world and everybody thinks that Guru Maharaj Ji is also going to pick up a piece of canvas, a bunch of paint brushes, paint and start painting a picture and we'll all see the picture and Ta-da, that'll be it. And we - Guru Maharaj Ji comes into this world and we all think that we know the kind of picture that Guru Maharaj Ji is going to paint and when Guru Maharaj Ji comes into this world, that's true, always comes into this world but he doesn't paint a picture, no. We translate, after a Perfect Master leaves, disciples take what he has said and try to paint it into a picture but never the Perfect Master. Perfect Master never paints a picture cause he knows there isn't a picture to paint. That picture that he would paint is already within every one of us. That thing, the ultimate goal of life is already within all of us and yet we're ignorant. We do not know. We are unaware and that's no sin, that's no crime. If we do not know, we do not know and that's the why every time the Perfect Master comes into this world to give us, to give us, to teach us perfection. If we all knew, do you think a Perfect Master would come? Do you really think so?

You know sometimes we are holding IDP candidate program at the residence and sometimes I come in there, its happened before. I come in there and "Have you got any questions?" is my first question. "Have you got any questions? Would you like to ask any questions?" Because if they have any questions they can ask me and I'll answer them. I'll gladly answer them. Because I understand that they do not know and I accept that and there is nothing wrong with that. You know, my theory is and I've said this a lotta times that a person who asks 100 times if he's not clear, if he's not sure, asks a hundred times to be sure is a lot smarter than the person who assumes that he knows. And if they have a question , if they have a doubt, because I know that they have mind and I know their mind troubles them just like everyone of you here, you know, and if they have a question ask me and sometimes they don't ask. And this happens with initiators too. Sometimes they just won't ask me a question. And a lot of times I have said "What do you think you are perfectly realized souls or something that you don't have a question anymore?" And even after that they don't budge. I just feel like getting up and leaving. And yet I know that they those questions and that's why I come the next time and ask the same exact questions, "Do you have a question? Would you like to ask a question?" And there is those differences that we try to paint. Guru, to me Guru Maharaj Ji is an extremely and a highly respected thing in my life.

But the thing is, that what is Guru Puja? Why have we all come here? Ha, we came for Holi and we'll all come for Hans Jayanti and we are here for Guru Puja. Guru Puja, if you have a guru, if you have a Perfect Master, you can't do anything but worship him every day of your life. You tell me, if you really have that Perfect Master in your life, what can you do except to worship him every day? Get up and worship him, pray, know, surrender. Every day of our lives!!!!!!!!!!

And yet we all come here, you know, just to experience what Guru Maharaj Ji has to give us, just to experience what Guru Maharaj Ji has to give us more and more and more. Just to experience to be putting, to be put back on the road, to experience, to be brought into that harmony again. You know, and maybe there are several aspects of Guru Puja and yet in our hearts there is no other way you can worship Guru Maharaj Ji. I know there is going to be a lot of Indians, there, there used to anyway bring ???? you know little trays with the red stuff in it and the arti tray and the rice and the sandalwood, chundun and I mean a lot of things some sugars, sweet stuff, ??? and all this because they feel that's the way you worship Guru Maharaj Ji. Guru Maharaj Ji, you can only worship Guru Maharaj Ji from heart and that's it, from your love and that's it and to me to come to an occasion, to me to come to a place, to come to a point in our hearts where we can even pray to Guru Maharaj Ji, where we can even see Guru Maharaj Ji that's the greatest opportunity in our lives, that is the greatest thing in our lives. And we just have to open up and really look around and really realize what we are here for, what we want, what Guru Maharaj Ji has given us, what Guru Maharaj Ji has showed us because where were we, where were we going, where were we headed towards, everyone of us.

1981 Message of the Heart videos/gmj_1981_moth.html

(Applause) Peace is eternal. Peace is within you and me and nothing more that an experience of who I am and what I am and nothing more than the experience of that supreme thing itself is going to bring me peace and not until every human being is in peace with himself will he be within peace with anybody else either. Cause he has no necessity to. And yet I see that that Creator creates us with such love, such care, such tenderness to bring us, to put us here, give us an experience and what is demanded? No more than to just open up, no more to go that Master, to go to that teacher, to go to that one who has got that realization and to ask and then that realization is imparted to us.

Prem Rawat in Baltimore 1980

I'm not talkin' about this one day experience that you get hit over the head and fantastic. I'm talking about an experience that is continuously happening, a power, to tap into that source that's all around me, to tap into that source that's infinite, to tap into that source that'll never end because everything I do will definitely have an end, it'll definitely have an end. If I say OK in this life, if I got a grand mansion that'll make me happy then there'll be certainly one day either I won't be there to enjoy it or the mansion won't be there. If I was to say to myself "Well if I, I mean, there is this one saint that says you can acquire the whole world, the whole wealth of this world, that's a lot, that's a lot, from where the sun rises to where the sun sets and you can walk acquire all that wealth yet even that cannot bring you that peace, cannot bring you that satisfaction. And that's always been the Master's message to come in this world that you can enjoy this life, you can have that joy, you can have that bliss, you can be happy. This is what I'm saying to you now too, we can all be happy. There is that knowledge, there is that experience. That if we understand we can be happy and it's for everyone of us. It's not a way of life, it's not a way of thinking, it's not a philosophy, it doesn't, it doesn't come from any scripture, all scriptures come from it but it doesn't come from any scripture. It's the Knowledge, it's the ultimate knowledge.

What is the Perfect Master? He's a human being just like you and me. And yet that soul is enlightened. That soul is full of that Knowledge. When that recipient soul becomes eager, when that recipient soul becomes hungry and realizes that hunger then that soul that is enlightened, that is full of that joy, is full of that bliss imparts that Knowledge to that other soul. Presto. Why? One lamp lit can light, really, millions of lamps. Because that, that light can just be on and on and on for us too. Our lamp is not lit enough.

1980/81 Eyes of Faith videos/gmj_liesoffaith.html

The whole achievement of mankind have gone looped, up and down, up and down. There have been dark ages, there have been ages of high achievement, there have been ages again of darkness, there have been ages again of height achievement. If you can just imagine this line going up and down and up and down and up and down. And then a very consistent message coming right across that didn't go up and down with the message, with the trends but stayed simple, stayed consistent. The message really of the truth, the message of the Master who came in the world to give us the message.

Rome 1981

Guru Maharaj Ji isn't going to doom me, he's going to give you that hope and not only give you that blind hope, it's not a blind hope, it's not just a thing where there's a 50/50 chance. Has ever a Perfect Master in this world come and said to a soul, "You have 50/50 chance of salvation." if if the Perfect Master started coming in this world and started giving us a 50/50 business we'd that'd be it. We couldn't take it. We couldn't stand it. Only a 50/50 per cent chance when the odds are 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 per cent against us? Fifty per cent is minuscule, too minuscule, and yet know there is a chance and not even a chance it's a sure fire method, it's guaranteed and all we have to have that trust, all we have to have that faith, all we have to have is that ???? to surrender. Surrender to Guru Maharaj Ji. We surrender to the this Maya every day. What is surrender? What is that effort? Surrender, to believe, to let go, to believe, even for one moment to believe and why, why? I mean it's almost a situation where Guru Maharaj Ji has got us by the hands and he is pulling us but we are so programmed in our heads "Oh I'm doomed, I'm doomed, I'm doomed" that we're kicking and splashing and trying to get rid of his hand from our wrist. And Guru Maharaj Ji says "Look, make it easy on yourself, believe, open your eyes and look, look what's happening, wait a minute, don't kick around, don't thrash around, don't try to rid my my grip from yourself but just look what I'm doing. Of course for any devotee who stands there for one second and says, "Wow, look I'm in the clear. I'm standing on top of a rock, I'm standing on the shore. Everything is okay. I don't need to kick, I don't need to I mean because left to us we would jump right back in the water.

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