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Passion for Peace- Las Palmas, Gran Canaria [59:02 min] In May and June 2014, Time for Peace Festival took place in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands. The islands hosted two weeks of celebration, exploring the theme of peace and solidarity, and featured many cultural activities and speakers from several international organizations. Prem Rawat spoke on the final day of the festival.
Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. Saturday 7 June 2014

Prem Rawat in Knoxville- Life is calling [69:09 min] It's a pleasure to be here. Talk to you about something which is so simple and yet so profound. Some people may think what will I talk about, this time. Well, I will talk about the same thing. I want to remind people of something they already know. It is amazing how in our life, we keep all that is good, and we save it for the last. Who came with this idea! It is the stupidest concept. To take the best, and save it for the last. Maybe it started from deserts, I can understand that! Because maybe the food is so pathetic, that a sugar at the end is all you need. Life is not like that. Life is a beautiful journey that takes place every single day, which is dancing and calling you. It wants you to actively participate with it. Recently, somebody was driving me who was having a bad day. Every single way that he took me was a wrong way. Next day we started again, and started talking. He said it was a perfect disaster. I said no it was not. You were alive, it was beautiful. I had to go to funeral once. In fact I knew this person, and knew that it is time for him to leave. I had said him goodbye before taking a long trip to India. But still it was shocking. People get shocked when someone has to leave, and yet you know that everyone has to leave. In the cemetery, there are a lot of headstones. What do they represent? They represent someone who died, but it also represents history. History of a person who had good days, and bad days. And what is the different between that headstone and me? If I don't awaken to being alive, and if I don't awaken to a moment that came into my life, and that will be the value of that moment? I am concerned about all the things that is happening around me, and least concerned about something that is so important. The only difference between the headstone and me, is that b.r.e.a.t.h.

It is so fine that we cannot even take photograph, cannot paint, cannot make a statue of it, or even give, buy or trade it. And it is all the difference that you are. And because it comes, you are intelligent. Because it comes, you are Mr. or Ms/Dr/Captain/Professor so and so. Because of this gift of breath you have the capability to understand, to question, to reason, observe, to learn- Thanks, thanks this gift of breath that comes into you. People say "I've had my job for 27 years. I have been flying for 11,000 hours."" I said that to somebody! that I have 11,000 hours of flying. And I started thinking, that I do not remember how many breaths I have taken. Every hour that I flew proudly is by the courtesy of this breath. Why do I forget what is so important. What am I saving for the last? The possibility of being in peace, am I saving it for the last? If so, change of plans are required. I need to experience that every single day that I'm alive. For real, not an abstract concept.

Limitless Possibilities [21:04 min] Prem Rawat delivers his message of peace directly to the residents of Melbourne, Australia. Again he stresses the importance of peace in each individual, and also reminds us that peace is waiting in each of our hearts, waiting to be felt. Peace dwells in the heart of every living human being.

What is your echo? Ipoh, Malaysia [65:17 min] Ipoh, Malaysia had the opportunity in April 2014 to host an event with Prem Rawat for the first time. In this fun and insightful address, he spoke about the importance of finding the value of being alive in the midst of constantly changing circumstances.
Ipoh, Malaysia. Wednesday 2 April 2014

University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur [36:04 min] Vice Chancellor, Captain Dato’ Professor Dr. Hashim Yaacob, describes Maharaji's message to be intriguing. The University of Malaya (Abbreviation: UM; Malay: Universiti Malaya) is the oldest university in Malaysia. The university motto, Ilmu Punca Kemajuan (Malay: Knowledge is the Key to Success), reflects the philosophy of the University in its constant endeavor to seek knowledge in all fields to produce successful graduates and a successful nation.

Fulfillment [23:45 min] There is so much speculation. People have all kinds of ideas. Ideas about heaven, hell, how to reach heaven and all sorts of things. People try to figure out how can we get fulfillment. People say "read this book and you will fulfilled. Follow this path. Go down this road, Go to this holy place. Go to the himalaya, renounce everything." The other part is, the more money you have, the more fulfilled you will be. The problem is, the two schools of though don't come to common point.

Where will you get fulfillment? Who are you trying to fulfill? Your ideas? Because if you are, then I've bad news. This (pointing to brain) can never be fulfilled. That is it's nature. You are surrounded by technology. Tell me, this simple question. Has your nature of suffering changed? Has it?

Just because you've a new phone, doesn't mean that bad is not bad. Bad news is still bad, be it 200$ phone or 500$ phone. What has changed for you? Are you still not human? Do you not like to sit down when you are tired? Sometime I see on airport, when they are totally packed due to technological problems. You can see people sleeping on the floor! Why? Because the humanness of a human being has not changed. What you talk through has changed, but your need to talk has not changed.

Court Clarity [25:47 min] Guten Tag! That's about the limit of my German. Anyway, I'm so glad that we have this chance, and that this event will happen.
The main thing is that you in your life experience and enjoy the gift that you have been given. We have such a bad understanding of life. So bad, that infact if we were a driver, we would never have been let anyway near a car. It's true. Because we don't understand the greatest gift that we have been given.
We're so busy in rationalizing everything that we do. We justify all the things we have to do when we wake up in the morning. We call it being practical. You know what is the most important part of a boat? Do you know? I know because it happened to me. There is a plug at the bottom of the boat. This plug has to be screwed in. You can have a perfectly good engine, good rudder. But as soon as you stop, you start to sink in.

The infinite within [25:43 min] We are human beings- the containers of the divine. Time has come for us to understand ourselves. As socrates said, "Know Thyself!" The time has come to understand the divine within us. That divinity has a level of generosity that is unparalleled. It has given you the most amazing planet earth. It has given you the ability to feel joy and happiness. It has given you the gift of breath.

The Call of the Heart [28:04 min] What is this breath? What is this life? What is this existence? When I have it, I have everything and when I do not have it, I do’nt even have nothing. And when I have it, I do not have to earn it, I have it. And what do I have? And the world goes, always what you could have.
Every advertisement, every sign, that you see, is about what you could have. Not what you need! There are no advertisements for peace and the world says to you that if you want to be happy, this is what you should do. But it never shows you, that this is the person who did all this and he was happy, No. Its a formula the world gives you and there is no equals sign at the end. It is just a formula. What does it equal? What does it produce? What does it do? Nobody knows. Do all of this, do all of that. And mind you, I am not criticizing anything. What I am saying is the "Key ingredient" missing in all that which is happening in the world is "you". Because in your life, you have all your responsibilites, but do you also take the responsibility of recognizing this breath which has been given to you.
I am sure all of you would have gone to beautiful concerts, and enjoyed them. You must have enjoyed beautiful symphonies playing. I am sure you must have heard a lot of lectures and discussed them, over a cup of coffee. Now let me ask you a question. Have you heard the call of your heart? Because if ever there was a poetry written, no poetry was written as sweet as "The call of the heart". If there ever was a perfect lecture, then it is the lecture of the heart. And if there is a voice that is sweet, then it is the voice of the heart. And if there was a song, that was most beautifully sung, then it is the song of the heart. Listen to it. Pay attention. Because something wonderful is happening in your life, something sweet is manifesting in your life. Listen to what is being said. Listen to this request, about peace, about joy, about being fulfilled. Not tomorrow, not day after tomorrow. But now.
There is a beautiful saying, that to see a reflection in the water, you need the pond or the lake or the surface of the water to be still. Then when you look, you see yourself. But if the water is rough, you look but you do’nt see yourself. Knowledge is just that, knowledge is like the mirror and in that mirror I won’t see other peoples faces. I would see mine. It is very true that the mirror needs to be of a quality that when I see my reflection, it should be accurate. It becomes so important that the mirror is clean so that I can see my true reflection in it. That is knowledge.

Appreciation [28:03 min] What is it that you do that is very unique? What is it that we as human beings do really really well? And the amazing is, we don't actually think like that. What is my strength? What am I really good at? And one of the things that you're quite capable of doing, and you do it well, is appreciation!