Santiago, Chile 2012-04-16

Prem Rawat in Santiago Chile, 16th April 2012

People are understanding something, are bringing peace in their lives, and you can be a part of the magic, regardless of where you are.

Well, that's a nice, warm, Chilean welcome. And I'm here, of course, to talk about peace. Because it's not everybody that recognizes in their lives the need for peace. And why is it? Because I'm not here to argue for peace. Because that's an argument that should never be made. I'm not here to try to say something that would counter all those people in the world who go, oh, there will never be peace. There can never be peace. How can there be peace? There's so much problems in the world. Because to me, to live this life, you need one thing. And that one thing is clarity. If you don't have clarity, you're not going too far. If you don't have clarity, you're going to have everything but nothing. If you don't have clarity, you will not be able to understand the value of life, the value of existence, the value of peace. So even if you remotely agree with me that as human beings, we need clarity, then, of course, there is a question. And the question is, what is clarity? It's a good question. So maybe you never ask that. You go, clarity, clarity, yes, I have clarity, you know. They say, claro, claro, claro, claro. So, sounds good. But what is it? The ability, the ability to see without it being tainted.

Now, so far we are concerned, we see, but whatever we see, is contaminated. I don't care how expensive the lens is. I don't care how expensive the camera is. And I don't care how expensive the scene is. But if the lens is dirty, it's not going to be able to take a clear picture. So we see, but we don't see as it is. Contamination comes into play. Dirt, grease, contaminate a lens. What contaminates a human being? Fear? Anger? Doubt? Lust? All of these things contaminate you. I will begin with the simplest one. People fall in love. They see another person. Wow! They don't see that person for who they are. They see that person from their eyes, from their angle, not exactly who that person is. Two months later, one side wedding, one side divorce. This is what happens. People say, Oh, you are so beautiful. What do you mean beautiful? Have you got a little pepper, or a little salt, or a little chili, the same way, a little lust? If you do, you are not seeing. You are not seeing reality. You see God's creation? Do you see God's creation the way it is, or do you see God's creation with your perspective? Do you see peace as peace is, or do you see peace from your fear? Oh! This world is too crazy for there ever to be peace on this earth. This is what people say. Oh, that's too difficult. It just happened less than 48 hours ago. And I'm like, why do you say that? Just to me.

And I'm going to tell you this, and this is my observation, that all this craziness that is in this world, all the stupidity that is in this world, all the violence that is in this world, is learned behavior. It's not natural. It is learned behavior. Learned. This is my observation. I'm not stating it as a fact. This is my observation. And because it is learned behavior, that's good news. That's really good news. Because whatever is learned behavior can be unlearned. Not even animals fight for no reason at all. Human beings do. Why? I'm bored. You see life, but do you recognize its preciousness? No. No. Do you see your life, and do you recognize the preciousness of your existence? A lot of people go, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. And then when you forget. See, in life, one second of conscious thought, just one second of conscious thought, can save you a lifetime of agony. Do you know that? Just one second. One second of being clear can save you a lifetime of being miserable. That is the value of consciousness. Now, how conscious are you? Oh, people go, I try to be. Is that good enough? Is that good enough? What is going on here? In life, what is this thing called life? I mean, what is it? What is it? Is it really your house, your job, your dog, your cat, your relatives, your car? This is it? It will be my pleasure this evening to shed light on another aspect of existence. That's why I'm here.

So, how does it begin? How did it begin for you? Well, let me tell you. I could already hear your brains going, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la. Singing the song, everybody sings the song. That's not how it began. Let me tell you how it began. When you were born, you did not come out breathing. and then everybody waited so you would take your first breath and how did you take your first breath? Was it out or in? In! And it began. Your color changed, your before that you were blue. Not nice. After that it began to change. Everything begins to change. Up till that point you are being supported by the mother. Through the umbilical cord from the placenta attached to you, you are being given the blood, the oxygen that is necessary. When you take your first breath, the signal is sent, I am here. And the blood starts to wane. And then you exist. Oh you run, you learn, you think, you do this, you do that. Somebody tells you good, somebody tells you bad. You learn, you learn, you learn, you grow, you think, you think, you think, you think, you think. And all this time you don't care too much about this breath. Eh, what is this breath? Aha. Till the last day. In the last day, the last moment, do you think it comes in or goes out? What do you think? Even if you took it in, in that last moment, it goes out. That's it.

Now, ah. You remember when you took your first breath, the signal sent, I am here, blood not needed, color changed, everything. Remember? Now it's in reverse. Now with this breath gone, the color will change again and guess to what? I'm not making this up. I'm not making this up, I'm not trying to threaten you, I'm just stating a fact. Because after all, isn't that what clarity is, to look at something as it is? Because once you understand, wow. Being alive, being alive, is the core of all that happens in my life. Being alive is that core. And in that core, is this beautiful blessing called the breath, that I am given. Day and if you stayed in the most beautiful house, for one day, you would not get tired of it. Two days, no. Three days, no. Four days, no. Five days, no. Six days, maybe. Seven days, definitely starting to get tired. Even if you eat your favorite food, eat, eat, eat, eat, eat, eat, eat, eat, every day. Lunch, breakfast, dinner. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Same thing, same thing, same thing, same thing, same thing, same thing, same exact thing, you will get tired. Same movie, same movie, same movie, every day, same movie, same movie, same movie, same movie, same movie, you will get tired. Every day, same song, same song, same song, same song, same song, same song, same song, you will get tired. It even happens with children.

So, you got your children, they're staying home, they're staying home, they're staying home, there's 10, no problem, 12, no problem, 13, no problem, 15, no problem, 16, no problem, 32, 56, 70. It's like, when are you going to leave? But there is something that happens all your life, again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and you will never get tired of it. You know what that is? It's this breath. Don't you find that fascinating? I mean, if nothing else, like, hmm, wow. The ability to see as it is, without coloring it, without tainting it, without changing it, without contaminating, to see as it is. That's all. To see something beautiful, to see something beautiful, does something to you. To experience something beautiful, does something to you. This is the law of that beauty. This is the nature of that beauty. A rose is beautiful. Take it to the desert, it's still beautiful. They put it on a dead body, it still looks beautiful. They put it on their jacket, it still looks beautiful. They put it in a vase, it still looks beautiful. Why? Because it is beautiful. Because it is. And so, when I say that when you look within yourself, in reality, there is a beauty that you cannot imagine, and that beauty is your reality. And when you can see that beauty untainted, will it make me rich? You know, people want peace. Why do people want to, why do people want peace? Oh, I get so frustrated. So I still want to go in this world, I still want to drop things on my toes, but I don't want it to hurt. People say to me, oh, there are so many people in this world that bother me. Right? There are people in this world that bother you too, right? They just bother you. For no apparent reason, they just bother you.

Solution? Have patience. So why do you need peace? So I'm going to tell you something shocking. Shocking. It's really shocking. And what I'm about to tell you is clarity. It is not tainted. It is clarity. The reason why you are here in this world is so you can be in peace. I know some of you are going, but what about the world? I mean, what about all the economy and the production and the Ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta. It is irrelevant. It is irrelevant. So far the primary purpose of your existence is fulfilled. Doesn't matter what you do. You invent cars? Don't invent cars. Doesn't matter, make tall buildings that will fall down, doesn't matter, look, because people don't look at reality. In Japan, not too long ago, there was a terrible earthquake, and after the earthquake, there was a terrible tsunami, you all know, right, terrible. And I was reading about it, because I know a lot of people in Japan who are very dear friends, who love peace, so I was very concerned, so I was reading, reading, reading, and when I was reading, I came across something very fascinating. They came across a stone that was placed on the side of the mountain a long time ago, and you know what it said? Do not build below this stone. First of all, it touched me deeply, because to me, that was an incredible, incredible charity, to leave a message, do not build below this point. But did people remember that? No, there is always an excuse for everything we do, but there is no excuse for unconsciousness. There is no excuse for not having clarity in our lives. Now, this is just a little play. We are here for a time that is way too limited. How limited? 25,550 days.

That's from start to 70 years, and I don't see any babies, so reduce quite a bit from that. That's how many days are left. I want you to understand your fragility, your fragileness, and at the same time, I want you to understand your strength, because there is a strength you have that is unparalleled, but it lies in the realm of clarity. You become weak when you are in doubt. You become strong when you are in clarity. You become weak when you are in anger. You become strong when you are in peace. I'm not saying these things. These are just observations. This is how you are. This is how you have been for a long time on the face of this earth, and this is how it's going to be regardless of what happens on the face of this earth, till this earth is no more, till the sun is no more, till the moon is no more. Everything in this incredible dance, this opportunity, wow, opportunity that exists for all of us to feel, to see. In one way, we create these buildings, we create these, you know, palaces, we create these things. Would you really go and interior decorate a house that is going to be torn down? You think that's wise? Is it wise? No. If it's going to be torn down, what are you doing? Well, guess what? When the earth is no more, everything is going to be torn down, but we go and we build like we will remember. Oh, we are very concerned about people remembering us, very. We are obsessed that we are not forgotten. So, one day, who will be there to remember? You see, we forget, not because we ever remember, but we forget that once upon a time, we were not here. We think we've been here forever. We were not here. Once upon a time, the earth was not here. And the rule of thumb is, if it wasn't and is, it won't be. That's the rule. And there is only one thing that is exempt from this rule, because it reads, it was, it is, and it will be.

And that's what's dancing inside of you right now. Right now. Right now. It makes all those planets spin, the universe be. That's the same thing that puts you together. Dirt. Dirt. No, no, it's not. Don't call me dirt. Yeah, it is dirt. This is dirt. Ah, but so far, this divine is dancing. It's not dirt. It talks. It sees. It laughs. It smiles. It cries. It hears. It walks. It thinks. And when that magic is no more, all becomes undone. Waiting to become something else again. Everything on this earth that you see is pretty much recycled.

You know, this gets recycled too. But the magic of your existence is to recognize your thirst, your need, your passion for that beauty. That's when peace begins to make sense. Otherwise, what is it? Political peace. Oh, absence of war. That's political peace. That's not the real peace that is inside of you that is dancing. That is the human peace. The reality. The reality of this breath coming in and going out. The reality that this dirt dances. This is reality, my friends. This is reality. This is reality that this is dirt. Now you go, no, no, no, no, that's not dirt. That's skin. Do you realize you're 70% water? 70% water. Do you know that one of the things that made Darwin famous was his theory that we are all basically related. Including the crab, the crow, the cockroach. We're all, all living things are basically related. But he could not prove it. He could not prove it. Because he did not have any way of testing DNA. And now they have.

And they confirm, yes, we are all related. All of us. That little ant is related to you. It's your relative. My relative. Next time I see a cockroach, but then again when I see some of my relatives I scream anyways. So that's okay. Wow. What a saga. Here we are. Living in this world. Thinking we are so different. End up being related to the one we go like this to all day long. So what do we know? Do you know? The self? You? Do you know? You? No. We are busy trying to know our friends. I want to meet you. I want to know you better. Let's go to a restaurant. And we can talk. And I can get to know you better. Which restaurant are you going to take yourself to? It's so amazing. It's so amazing. One of the worst punishments. If you are really bad in a prison. Bad. You get this punishment. It's called solitary confinement. You are all alone. Nobody there. All alone. Just you. And you. And you. For one day. Two days. Three days. Four days. Five days. Six days. And people start to go crazy. Could it be? You become bored of your own self? Are you that boring? No, no. Here is my point. People get put in solitary confinement. And they go crazy.

And then there were those. Who did it on purpose. Like Buddha. And come back with enlightenment. What happened? What happened? Clarity. Clarity happened. And you could see. What is there. Without the doubt. Without the fear. Without the anger. Without the prejudice. It becomes obvious. United States. America. Europe. Going through big economic crisis. Still going through big economic crisis. They have not solved it. And I was at the Parliament. The European Parliament. And somebody said. What do you think is going to happen to EEC? I think it's going to fall apart. Very concerned. So. Here people were. And oh. There is 10% growth.

There is 20% growth. There is 30% growth. There is growth, growth, growth. Everything is growth. Everything is wonderful. Yes, growth, growth, growth. You go to the bank. You say. I would like to borrow some money. To buy a house. And the bank goes. Just one. Why one? Buy two. And so people said. Really? I can buy two? No problem. Just two. Are you sure? Just two? You don't want three? And so then in the newspaper. There is 10% growth. There is 20% growth. There is growth, growth, growth. There is growth, growth, growth. Till one day there is no growth. And everybody goes. What happened? What happened? And so I go from country to country.

And people tell me. Oh, there is 10% growth here. I say. How do you know? Simple question. How do you know? Oh, that's what they say. You are going to believe the them. Intoxicated. Intoxicated. From the liquor. Of ego. Mean. Look who I am. Who are you? Then let me tell you a little bit. About who you are. You are the platform. On which the divinity. Dances. For a. Few years. Right around 25,550. Divinity. Has moved. In. With. You.

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No. No. You? You think? You think there is no peace in this world because there's a shortage of peace? Now we have come to such a place of abundance but alas, alas, we are like sims. All that's good, going right out. All that's bad, we hold it. Yeah, strainer for tea. All the good bit, all the bad bit, that's what happens. But the day you determine that you want to see with clarity, that you want to see with that joy, that you want to see with that gratitude, that you want to see the way it is, the day you decide to see it the way it is, that is the day you will see a view you will not be able to believe. I guarantee that. That's what people do. Oh, I am searching. I ask people, what are you searching for? Oh, I'm searching for peace. Sounds good, right? Sounds good, somebody's searching for peace, that's a good thing, no? But if you see it through clarity, you'll see how stupid that is. Why are you searching for something you never lost? What is the joke? The glasses are on the head? Where are my glasses? Where are my glasses? Where are my glasses? And somebody goes, huh? Where? You think, you think you can be alive without the divinity in you? You think so? You think peace is going to be a hundred miles away from the divinity? So, so far you are alive, and look at yourself in the mirror, or slap yourself, whatever it takes to figure out you are alive, if you are alive, you're full of peace. So why don't you feel peace? Because you're too busy searching. Too busy acknowledging it's not there. Too busy, in this life, succumbing to other people's concepts of what peace is. See, I'm not here to give you a definition of peace, that would be stupid. You need to feel peace yourself, then you can define it however you want. I'm not here to give you some lecture on making you feel all really good, like, oh yes, now, you know, go out there. No. They do that. People do that. And you will go out there and just work really hard, give your 150%, work really hard and make a lot of money and, you know, just go, go, go, go, go, go, go, and then you're gone.

No, no, I'm here to give you the good news. Peace is always in you 24-7, so far you're alive, peace is in you. Joy is in you. Clarity is in you. The divine is in you. Don't be lost. Don't be lost. Listen. Listen to your thirst. It's beautiful. Listen to the thirst. When a person is thirsty in the desert and they hear the sound of water, you think they would just let that slide by? No. They would stop and they would go, shh, listen. That's why I'm here to tell you to listen. Listen to the thirst, to the eyes of clarity. Embrace this time, this moment, this joy, and understand how blessed you are. You are, you are the most beautiful rose and you are so concerned about the background you will be staged on that you have forgotten your own beauty. Background doesn't matter, not in life. Every day, every day is your opportunity to realize, to recognize, and to be fulfilled. And then, if you're looking for prosperity, bring peace, prosperity follows. Bring peace, prosperity follows. No peace, even with prosperity, it's horrible. This is all I have to say. That's the simplicity of my message.

So, thank you very much and in this life, no, no thank you. We have already been going over an hour. It's already been over an hour. So, maybe it makes you hungry still for some more. I'm around. I will come back and there'll be more. So, thank you very much and good night. Thank you..