Remember the joy

As Maharaji travels around the world talking to people, he introduces Knowledge to those who are interested and encourages people who have Knowledge to practise it.

Great care, concern and gentleness has to be exercised to ensure that those people who do have Knowledge are enjoying it.

Because we tend to forget This is not a question of knowledge. We forget everything. Do you remember the day you were born? We forget so much, it is only natural that we would sometimes forget what Knowledge has done for us; what it has brought us; and what that experience has been. We are not trying to become part of a corporation or part of a society. We are not part of a club, but in fact we are trying to celebrate our own life, that very thing, so mysterious and yet so evident, called life itself.

Sometimes, I go to a place that I didn't even know existed and see people and they're smiling. They are not smiling because somebody has told them to smile. They are not smiling because something has happened to them that is forcing them to smile. They are smiling because they feel something within inside of them. That smile comes from them. It's not forced or brought by anybody. It is not part of a dogma.

So this ambition and this adventure continues. To go on around the world. This year has been pretty fascinating. I really took time to be with the people who had received Knowledge everywhere and get the basics completely straightened out. There are still many countries to go around the world. I've only done 13 of these Rejoice programs and we will probably do another 23 of the Rejoice '87's and '88's and '89's. It was really beautiful to see the response from everybody. Something so beautiful was awakening inside them; not ideas, but getting in touch with that simple beauty. How many of us do tend to forget the beauty that exists? There was a day when we approached someone and said, 'Yes, I would like Knowledge' There was a day in which we were able to enjoy ourselves. That day has to be immortal. That day has to be immortalised in our lives. That day has to be there every single day. However, so many times I have seen people get caught up in everything else.

We get caught in something and people say, 'Well now you have to be mature: Look, either you are or you're not. Maturity is not tobacco that you can go and buy, put it in your mouth and chew on it for a while. That's not what maturity is, that's not what it's all about.

People say, Now I have to be really responsible' Either you are, or you're not. All of those things are irrelevant. You can be responsible but you have to find out what you're responsible for. You have to be really responsible for your life. That's the crux. Everything else is easy come and easy go. Everything else is changeable and has the absolute potential of giving you nothing. Everything except this life, which has given you so much and continues to do so.

Those people who know something, more than belief, are the ones who can understand something. I was watching an interview where an old professor was asked, 'Do you believe in God?' He stopped and mumbled for a while, then he said, 'I know, I don't believe. I know' Really I like that. There will always be believers. Then there will be those who know. Those who know what life is. We need to feel and experience what we have been given. It is such a joy to be alive, that is one thing you would not trade for anything. To be, to know, to be able to be curious, to be able to enjoy, to be able to say 'yes' and to be able to say 'no, to be able to say 'that's wonderful, and to be able to say, 'no, that is not wonderful' We exist. This is what consciousness means. The first step of being conscious is beginning with the closest thing you have; this life - is you. It begins with that.

There is something alive within us, that transforms us. There is something that moves us, and changes us.

It forced you to understand. It moved and changed you, moulded you, folded you, not just a facial expression but there's something very deep inside. That's what is always real. We need to recognise, know, feel, and be a part of it.

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