“What I talk about is not dogmas, theories, descriptions, explanations,” Prem Rawat says. “This is about finding the joy in your life. And not just once, but to have that joy available to you for the rest of your life. If you’re looking for descriptions, explanations, rules, something to believe in—you won’t find them here, because this is the realm of the heart.”
Prem Rawat says, “When we come in this world, we’re given seeds. There is the seed of anger, but there is also a seed of kindness. There is a seed of love…a seed of understanding. Whatever seed you have sown in your garden of life is what you’re going to sit under to rest. You have the intelligence to choose what will benefit you the most.”
There are “6.7 billion reasons why there should be peace on this earth—6.7 billion being the population of this earth, approximately,” says Prem Rawat. “And we, the people, can make the difference for peace on this earth.”
There are “6.7 billion reasons why there should be peace on this earth—6.7 billion being the population of this earth, approximately,” says Prem Rawat. “And we, the people, can make the difference for peace on this earth.”
TPRF has made a grant of $10,000 to provide food for more than 750 disabled women and children in Niamey, Niger, who are in various educational and training programs. Mme. Mahadi Zeinabou Sangaré, coordinator of the program, said that the grant will enable women and children in the program facing abject poverty to “stay in the NGO center rather than beg for food in the streets.”
The gift of life is about “that one day, one minute, one second you are touched by the pure joy, the pure reality, that resides in you,” Prem Rawat says. “Wherever go, whoever you are, the gift keeps coming. All you have to do to put your world right is to accept it.”
The Prem Rawat Foundation has made a grant of $100,000 to Community Water and Ecological Sanitation Care (CWESC) to provide 10 impoverished communities with potable water and proper sanitation essential to eliminating debilitating diseases associated with contaminated water. The grant is the third in a series that will help a total of 23 communities and nearly 100,000 people in Ghana.
“You exist. You are alive,” says Prem Rawat. “Gather your strengths, not your weaknesses. What are your strengths? Your strengths are consciousness, kindness, understanding, acknowledging, rejoicing, loving. And when you walk with these, the outcome is beautiful.”
Prem Rawat talks about the possibility of feeling peace and joy and the gratitude it brings. “Gratitude comes when there is a beautiful experience of life,” he says, “when it is not full of words, doctrines, and dogmas, but it is filled with a simple reality.”
TPRF has granted America's Second Harvest – The Nation’s Food Bank Network US$40,000 to provide food and water to those stricken by recent flooding in the Midwest. “We are extremely grateful for The Prem Rawat Foundation’s interest in supporting our efforts to respond to the unprecedented flooding in the Midwest,” states Vicki Escarra, President and CEO of America’s Second Harvest.
“Things will change—you will change—but the passion for joy, for clarity, will remain with you for the rest of your life,” says Prem Rawat. “Choose that in your life. This is a choice that has to be made every day—to enjoy your life.”
TPRF has offered a US$50,000 challenge grant through the Facebook “Causes” page to help thousands of people at risk of starvation in Haiti due to the recent dramatic rise in food prices. TPRF’s challenge to Facebook members is to raise an additional $50,000, for a total of $100,000, which can supply food for 60,000 people for one month. Karen Sendelback, President and CEO of Friends of the World Food Program, says: “TPRF’s generous contribution will not only help the people of Haiti through this critical time but also encourage the online community to donate.”
“The want for peace has been on the face of this earth as long as there have been human beings,” says Prem Rawat. “The need for peace was identified a long time ago. And the need for peace comes from within you.”
“Wars happen again and again,” says Prem Rawat. “And every time there is a war, there is a call for peace. Is that a new invention? No. The call for peace has been there. The quest for peace is within us, and the solution to peace also lies within us.”
Prem Rawat tells a story of life and the potential to enjoy it to the fullest. “The purpose is not to entertain you. There is a simple and beautiful reality, and it’s the most magnificent story. It is about what is—this beautiful creation in an incredibly hostile universe.”
Prem Rawat talks about the moment a baby is born and “the one concern: breathing or not?” At the end of our lives, he says, we have the same concern. “Everything you are is predicated on something so simple. This reality is beautiful. Welcome to the world of life.”
Prem Rawat talks about the moment a baby is born and “the one concern: breathing or not?” At the end of our lives, he says, we have the same concern. “Everything you are is predicated on something so simple. This reality is beautiful. Welcome to the world of life.”
“In spring, on the ground are delicate little plants,” says Prem Rawat. To survive the winter, he says, they shed their leaves “gambling that summer will come again and, when it does, once again will be made whole.” He asks, “Are you ready for the spring in your life?”
TPRF has donated $20,000 to the Maryland-based Correctional Education Association (CEA) to underwrite the costs of telecasts on the Transforming Lives Network (TLN) that present Prem Rawat’s message of hope and the possibility of personal fulfillment to U.S. prison populations. CEA sources say the TLN programs reach at least 500,000 and as many as 900,000 inmates nationwide as well as about 300,000 correctional staff and workers. Anne Charles, project director for TLN, said, “We believe that ‘Words of Peace’ will help bring positive change to offenders and corrections workers.”
