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born 1957 India
Prem Rawat (born December 10, 1957, in Dehradun, India), widely known as Maharaji, has, since the age of four, been addressing people around the world on the subject of finding peace within and says that he is able to offer a practical way to do so. He calls this method "Knowledge" and describes it as taking "all your senses that have been going outside all your life, turn them around and put them inside to feel and to actually experience you".
Also known as: Current teachings of Prem Rawat, Maharaji (Prem Rawat), Maharaji Rawat, Balyogeshwar, Divine Light Mission, Guru Maharaj Ji
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“Self-knowledge starts with understanding that you’ve got the single most important thing absolutely right – you are alive.”
If this guy is God, then this is the God that the United States of America deserves.
You can start going around and taking examples and taking stories and taking everything. Or you can just one straight thing: 'Guru Maharaj Ji, take me'.
Ask yourself for a moment what is really important to you—not by anyone else's definition but your own.
Knowledge is not spiritual, nor is it a religion. Knowledge belongs in neither of those two categories. Knowledge says there is a consciousness inside of you, that you are complete.
That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within.
There is something so beautiful inside you that if you knew it, you would fall in love with it. It is irresistible. You can truly experience that.
To be here as individuals, and yet to be able to be next to the person who is everything; in which everything is, and he is in everything. Guru Maharaji. The Lord. All powerful.
Q: So God cannot teach anything, except through a Master?
Peace is not the absence of anything. Real peace is the presence of something beautiful. Both peace and the thirst for it have been in the heart of every human being in every century and every civilization.
This peace is not the absence of anything. Real peace is the presence of something beautiful. Both peace and the thirst for it have been in the heart of every human being in every century and every civilization.
Note: This is one of Maharaji's first published addresses. He was 4 years of age at that time.
"receive this Knowledge and know God within yourself. That pure energy, God, is within your own heart".
Every human being has to find their own peace. Peace is within you and me. When you and I can experience who we really are, what life is, and what we are doing here, that’s the day peace will begin in this world.
Good, bad, right, wrong, this is not what your life is composed of. There’s a lot more. If you have only seen two colours, there’s a lot more colours to this rainbow than you realise. There’s a lot more to every moment of your life.
This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is to me the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.
People think God is a man. People think God has got ears, nose, teeth and he rises daily in the morning, brushes his teeth and washes his mouth. And he is an old man and he has a beard. All these things people think. But no, God is energy. God is perfect and pure energy.
Question: Is life as difficult as it sometimes seems to be?
Reporter: I was told that probably the best question to ask you, out of sincerity, is: who are you?
Note: In November 1970, when he made the following declaration, Maharaji was 12 years of age and had yet to leave India.
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