Good morning everybody. [Audience] Good morning.
How are you? [Audience] All right.
Are you well? [Audience] Yes.
I’m very well, thank you for asking.
I think, with Prem Rawat here today,
you allow TSiBA Education to boldly declare that
this is where
in relation to the dialogue around social change,
and the dialogue around peace,
and
So, let me introduce the man.
Quite impressive, if I may say so in conclusion before I start.
We have this rare opportunity to listen and speak to an expert
on the subject of peace today,
and we’re so pleased to have him here
at our little TSiBA, making such a big impact.
So please join me in welcoming Prem Rawat.
Who are we?
Do we know?
What are our true ambitions?
What is nurtured in us?
What is a heart?
We talk about heart: “Oh, I love you from the bottom of my heart.”
What is a heart?
And I have been asking people this question:
“Do you know what a heart is?”
I mean, obviously it’s not this thing that goes
“dhonk, dhonk, dhonk”
that’s also called a heart.
Because once it stops, you put electricity to it
and crank it right back up,
or, if it’s getting its tubes fouled up,
you put stents in it, one after another,
to open it up and get it going again. What is a heart?
So then, let me
tell you what a heart is.
I’m not here preaching to you. This is from my experience.
Then the heart, in me,
is where my clarity resides.
The heart, in me, is the place
where the courage to know reality exists,
the courage to be in joy exists,
the courage to be a human exists.
This is the place
in me
that my understanding resides.
This is the place in me
where I am
rather than the reflection
of people’s wants and need.
So many people –
especially when you become a father –
you have your children,
they look at you as a father,
you think about their needs day and night.
You become a mother, you look at your children,
you think about their needs day and night.
And all of a sudden you stop being you, and you start being a father.
But a father who is not himself,
a mother who is not herself,
a wife that is not herself, a husband who is not himself.
And pretty soon you are a citizen of this world,
but who is not himself,
or herself.
So the value of it becomes the nest that is empty.
Because once the birds fly away, that nest is nothing any more.
The wind will come and throw it out.
All the effort that went into weaving that nest together
will get dismantled,
and then that’s it.
In life –
because this is everything –
we hardly have an understanding of what it means to be alive.
This is a powerful number.
Even if you live to be a hundred years old,
and that’s pretty good,
do the math.
Three sixty-five.
Do the math.
It’s only 36,500 days.
That’s all you have.
That’s
Do you live your day like it lives in you?
With precision.
A second does not waste itself, does it?
But you waste a second.
An hour does not waste itself. An hour never goes missing, does it?
A day – does it ever go missing?
But you go missing from the day.
You have a watch, but you don’t know what time means.
And so
we try to live,
but we don’t
We try to love, but we don’t
We try to be,
but we don’t
We don’t even know what qualities we embody in us.
We don’t know that we have generosity.
To us, when we walk into a room and throw the lock,
we are alone.
We’re alone. Really?
Really!?
Excuse me.
Your anger came with you in that room.
It’s right there.
You may not be angry, but the anger is ever-ready,
and it’s right with you.
You did not leave your anger in some other room.
Wherever you go – even when you fly
and they say “are you flying alone today?”
and you say “yes”, you’re lying.
Because that’s not true.
You’re flying with a lot of excess baggage,
called anger, called fear,
greed. Always, wherever you go, it’s right there.
Ever feel lonely?
You should never feel lonely.
You have lots of little friends
that are right there.
Think about it.
You never leave home
without anger, and fear, and greed, and lust.
And
you never leave home
without understanding, without clarity.
They’re also there with you.
The question becomes
what have you been nurturing in your life?
Two fields: what is the difference between a garden,
and an abandoned field?
What is the difference? Soil is soil.
And sometimes you see an abandoned field, and a wall, and then a garden,
so you know it’s the same soil.
But one is lush, green, and has flowers growing in it;
the other one is barren and has weeds growing in it.
What is the difference?
Well, in one, somebody planted the seeds of the beautiful flowers,
and gives them water, and nurtures them.
And in the other one, nothing was planted, and nobody nurtures it,
and what grows is despicable. And what grows in the garden is beautiful.
Peace is in your heart, peace is in you,
and all it needs is nurturing, to flower,
to be,
to come to fruition.
This is life.
One life.
One life!
This is what you have.
And no excuses.
This is your possibility.
To live fulfilled
every single day.
To live fulfilled every single day.
That’s what peace is.
And it emanates
from the place
called the heart,
where the courage lives,
where the clarity lives,
where the compassion lives, where the understanding lives.
This is your reality.