Prem Rawat on tour - A Conversation with Deepak Raj Bandhari

Since the beginning of March, Prem Rawat has been traveling throughout rural India, speaking at events in places where people have not heard him before. As part of the accompanying crew that helps with these events, Deepak Raj Bandhari has been able to witness firsthand the impact Prem Rawat and his message are having on the people who come to hear him speak. In this interview, Deepak describes what he has seen.
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Maharaji Inaugurates First 'Food for People' Facility in Northeastern India

Maharaji, has inaugurated a new facility which will provide free hot meals each day year-round to people in a tribal area in Jharkhand, northeastern India. "Food for People" is a custom-built, well-equipped 10,000 sq. ft. facility providing 45,000 free meals of their liking to people in need each month. Hot meals are served to 500 children every morning and evening and to 500 adults every afternoon.

The opening of the first "Food for People" marks the launch of an innovative model of food aid by the The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF), developed and operated in consultation with local village elders. With support from Raj Vidya Kender, the organization that promotes Prem Rawat's message of peace in India, a 6-acre plot of land was purchased, and a well-equipped facility was built. Fifty villagers were then trained to operate the facility at the highest sanitary and nutritional standards.

Dr. Kamal Chand Singhal, representing the World Health Organization at the inauguration, said: "This valiant effort directly supports the efforts of the World Health Organization. The healthy food and clean water provided each day by Prem Rawat's Foundation at this impressive facility will help many children and adults in Jharkhand become less vulnerable to disease and death, and go on to live healthy lives. This is a noble and generous initiative, for which Prem Rawat and his Foundation need to be acknowledged and wholeheartedly thanked."

Linda Pascotto, president of TPRF, said: "The initiative was born from the vision of Prem Rawat, who has brought his message of peace to Jharkhand in recent years. When he first came to this area and saw the undernourished children, he envisioned how proper nutrition could help them get healthy, acquire a better education, and later hold jobs to support themselves and their families. This initiative pioneers Prem Rawat's vision to bring the food-aid help where needed, in a manner that maximizes the resources available and compels the local people to become involved and take ownership. For the first time, when people in Bantoli wake up in the morning, they are assured of having a hot meal and are able to focus on taking care of their families. We are grateful for the support and collaboration provided by the village elders as we developed the project."

The tribal area in Jharkhand is one of the poorest areas in India. Many people work in mines, but conditions are brutal, and many die on the job. Women and children labor alongside the men, working more than 10 hours a day for an annual income of less than $100. Others subsist by farming, gathering forest products, and raising small animals. Field laborers go for days without food, chewing a root plant that kills the appetite. Seventy-five percent of the women are underweight, which in turn leads to increased mortality in childbirth. For children under 5, the mortality rate is twice that of the rest of India.

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'Lake of Joy' - by Prem Rawat

The experience of joy is the best thing in life, Prem Rawat says, and when we turn within, we can experience the joy and fulfillment we long for. For those who are thirsty for that joy, he offers help: “If you can’t find it,” he says, “come to me. I have a lake full of joy.”

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Maharaji Brings Message of Hope to Indian Villagers

During the past few weeks, Prem Rawat visited many remote villages in India, addressing more than 175,000 people, and then went to New Delhi for a three-day international event. One participant, who had attended several of these events, said that Prem Rawat's message is the same for all people, whether rich or poor.

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Prem Rawat - 'The Basic Wish'

Each of us has a basic wish for joy and peace in our life, Prem Rawat says, but sometimes other priorities get in the way—like a fog that obscures our vision. When we put the priority to be content at the top of our list, he says, there is no limit to the joy we can feel in our lives.
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Prem Rawat - 'The Most Incredible Dream'

We dream of so many things, Maharaji says, but of all the things we could wish for, the most wonderful would be contentment, peace, joy. Dreams can come true, he says, even this most incredible one, because joy and love are truly possible in our life.
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Prem Rawat Addresses International Audience in Florida

Prem Rawat, known also by the honorary title Maharaji, addressed a capacity audience at the Broward County Convention Center. People from 22 countries came to seek his inspiration and guidance.

Speaking before Prem Rawat, Joan Apter, a New York resident, recalled meeting him in India when he was 12 years old: “I loved watching how he enjoyed explaining his message to people and seeing their response to the possibility of fulfillment. His passion, his enthusiasm, never changes.”

Mario Burbinski, a Miami resident who recently learned Prem Rawat’s techniques for finding peace within, talked about how he had searched for contentment and the enjoyment he found listening to Prem Rawat: “Listening to him, I've learned that life is more than words. And I've learned that a good teacher holds up a mirror for me to see myself.”

Prem Rawat, addressing the audience, asked, “What do you dream of? Do you dream of contentment? Do you dream of peace? Do you dream of fulfillment? Do you dream of that beautiful happiness? The most incredible dream, the most incredible wish anybody could ever wish, has come true. How beautiful is the news that you can be content. Truly, joy is possible in your life.”

Michelle Spinella, PhD. and researcher at the Florida Department of Health, commented on the event: “I’ve known Prem Rawat for many years. I continue to listen to him because he always inspires me to be the best that I can be. I enjoy his humor and his down-to-earth perspective on what could be a very complex life, but he makes it possible to live life in simple happiness.”

Hilton Seibert, 20, a student at Ramapo College, New Jersey, attended the event with his mother and sister: “He made me think about things I haven’t thought about before, the way he looks at life. There’s no filler. Every word he speaks is meaningful.”

Listening to Prem Rawat had a profound impact on Lucy Laccavole, 40, who lost her home, job, and all her belongings to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. "I felt my life was destroyed. He said not to stop dreaming, and that really meant a lot to me. I lost everything, but through it all, I have kept hope.”

Prem Rawat started traveling, presenting his message of peace 40 years ago, since July 1966. “It’s been 40 years," he said. “I am privileged to bring people such good news. I’m on my way to say it again and again, for as long as I am alive.”

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'Incumbent upon Us' by Prem Rawat

his world, Maharaji says, is like a massive building made up of many small components—human beings—and in order for the structure to be solid, each individual must also be solid. In the same way, for the whole world to have peace, he says, it is incumbent upon each person to find the peace that already lies within the heart.
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Leading Cultural TV Channel Features Maharaji’s Message of Peace

ARTV, a prestigious arts channel in Chile, airs a program called “La Posibilidad” (The Possibility), which features Prem Rawat’s message of peace. Because of its success, the broadcasts have been increased to four days a week and now reach people in 20 cities. The number of viewers is growing each week, and one of the programming managers said, “Every time this program is aired, more and more people have the possibility to hear this outstanding message.”
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Foundation of Reality - by Maharaji

Every day holds a joy that is fresh and beautiful, Maharaji says, and that experience is the foundation of life itself. Like opening a window so that the sunshine can come in, he says, all it takes for us to be able to feel that beauty is to open this heart and let the joy in.
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CANCUN, Mexico, Jan. 18 -- A generous donation by TPRF provided roofing for 200 homes in two of the poorest neighborhoods near Cancun devastated by Hurricane Wilma. More than 1,000 residents in the communities of Zetina Gasca and El Milagro (Spanish for "The Miracle") were recipients of this help from The Prem Rawat Foundation.

The entire project was organized by students of Prem Rawat, who is known internationally by the honorary title Maharaji. A team of nine volunteers surveyed the neighborhoods and spoke to residents to see who needed help. They hired trucks and six people to bring 25 tons of roofing materials from the city of Merida-about a four-hour drive from Cancun-and then they personally delivered the materials.

The team completed the deliveries in two nine-hour days. According to the project manager, Michael Dorfman, owner of a local art gallery, "It was wonderful to see the response of the people, one of tremendous gratitude."

A team member, Pedro De Leon Pesqueira, a veterinarian, said, "I have observed that people who have the least seem to have been most affected by Hurricane Wilma. Many of them have been out of work, and their children became ill because of the rainy, cold weather. They did not know how to ask for help. Some were disheartened and reticent to believe that help would actually be provided. It was a very gratifying experience to bring help directly to their homes."

One of the recipients, Ernestina Pamol, said, "Thanks to you, I can now repair my little home. Thank you for sending us the help we need."

Gisela Edmai, a housewife, added, "I have a plastic covering over my house, but it moves a lot and doesn't cover everything, and a lot of water comes in. Now help has come. Now we will have a solid roof over our heads."

Another recipient, Rosa Almeida, asked that a message be sent to Prem Rawat. "I hope that you receive in return what you have given us," she said. "I don't know who you are, but I, and all of us, thank you with all our hearts for what you are doing. It is fantastic that a person so far away would worry about us."

The delivery was made between New Year's Day and Jan. 6, "Three Kings Day," which is a special gift-giving holiday in Mexico. For the volunteers, it was a "great joy."

Delia Ortega, a project volunteer, said, "We were very happy with the results. It was an honor to represent Prem Rawat and his Foundation by extending this hand towards helping our community. The warm glances of the people, their surprised smiles and gratitude, were a gift for us all."

The Prem Rawat Foundation promotes the message of peace of Prem Rawat and supports significant humanitarian initiatives.

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Banner Year for Maharaji's Message of Peace

Last year, more than 1.7 million people sought Maharaj’s inspiration and guidance at over 30 events worldwide. His audiences varied from government and civic leaders to villagers in remote areas. The Prem Rawat Foundation, established to help people most in need, responded promptly and generously to natural disasters across the globe, providing food aid to people in need.

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Sky TV (Eurobird) Brings Maharaji’s “Words of Peace” into Homes across UK in over 30 Countries in Europe
“Words of Peace,” a half-hour award-winning series which features Maharaji’s message of peace, is now being broadcast every day on Sky TV’s open access channel, allowing this program to reach homes in the UK and over 30 countries in Western and Central Europe. Gordon Richards, who helped launch the project, said, “The potential for bringing this message to so many people is phenomenal.”
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Joy and Gratitude

Whenever we lose sight of contentment in our life, Prem Rawat says, our heart reminds us that we need to be fulfilled. By recognizing the value of what we have already been given, he says, our heart becomes filled with joy and gratitude.
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Prem Rawat Brings Message of Hope to Prisoners in New Delhi, India
Responding to an invitation from the superintendent of one of the jails in the Tihar Prison complex near New Delhi, Prem Rawat recently addressed an audience of 1,000 prisoners, prison officials and staff. Many prisoners had been watching videos of Prem Rawat’s adressess for almost two years. The superintendent called Prem Rawat’s message a “ray of hope to the prisoners.”

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Personal peace, Maharaji says, is a peace that “begins with knowing who you are.” When we feel the need for peace in our life and look to ourselves as the source of that peace, he says, true peace becomes possible.
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A three-day event was held at Raj Vidya Kender, a 100-acre facility near Delhi, India, where more than 70,000 people from many countries and all walks of life came to hear Prem Rawat speak about finding peace and contentment within. One attendee said, “Being here is a celebration of life like no other anywhere in the world.”
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A center called “Inspira” has opened in Buenos Aires, where Argentineans can come and discover Maharaji’s message. One visitor said, “I always enjoy coming here. This is a beautiful place, ideally located in the middle of the city.”
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Each of us has a heart that cries out for joy, Maharaji says, and the contentment we seek is within. By listening to the heart and taking steps to receive that happiness in our life, he says, it is possible to feel unlimited joy.
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Prem Rawat, known also as Maharaji, recently completed a brief but successful tour in rural India. Entire villages came to these events, and nearly half a million people in total were able to hear his message of peace. In a very poor area, one attendee said, “I am surprised that such a great teacher has come to our doorstep.”
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