REACH THE DESTINATION

Prem Rawat aka Maharaji aka Guru Maharaj Ji the Perfect Master 1974
Prem Rawat aka Maharaji aka Guru Maharaj Ji the Perfect Master 1974

This satsang was given by Prem Rawat (Guru Maharaj Ji) in Los Angeles, California on August 24, 1974.

Dear premies, I look at all the premies, and some premies are extremely happy. You can see that, I mean there is nothing to hide it. And some premies look like their fuses are blown out. It's really something …

One night in Denver, the motor home was parked outside the Denver residence, and Ron was working on it, and the lights were all on. I don't know what happened, but the fuse got blown off in it, and I came out because I wanted to see how it was going. I saw it was all dark, and said, "Uh-oh. Something is the matter with it." Because there is supposed to be light in that motor home; someone is supposed to be working inside.

When that fuse gets blown off, I tell you, it's pretty dark. In that darkness, a person cannot hide. He has to also show that darkness, that expression of darkness.

We all want to experience love. We all want to experience that great joy. It's really so beautiful, because if you go to a person who has never experienced Knowledge, never experienced all that happiness, and you go to him and you say, "Do you want happiness?" he says, "Yes." Somewhere along the line, he knows there is something like happiness. It's really beautiful, because maybe in his whole life he has neverexperienced happiness. You ask him, "Have you ever experienced? Have you been really happy one day?" And he says, "No. I've never really been happy."

Some people don't even know what happiness is. I mean,that's something. As soon astheywere born they were not happy at all. But somewhere along the line there is something - and that's what's so beautiful - which tells them that there is happiness.

Now that same feeling inside of us has been kind of put into English words, and we say, 'happiness', 'feeling of happiness.' But this is a human fact, that

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Prem Rawat aka Maharaji aka Guru Maharaj Ji In all these years that man has been on this planet earth, he has completely blown that actual experience. It's like, "Hey, man, would you liketo be happy?" "Oh yes. Certainly! What is happiness?"

Prem Rawat aka Maharaji aka Guru Maharaj Ji the Perfect Master 1974
Prem Rawat aka Maharaji aka Guru Maharaj Ji With His Wife Durga Ji
Prem Rawat aka Maharaji aka Guru Maharaj Ji the Perfect Master With Bihari Singh 1974
Prem Rawat aka Maharaji aka Guru Maharaj Ji With Bihari Singh 1974
what man does is if he finds something that's too much for him, because he is so lazy, he puts a name to it. Of course the name doesn't describe anything, but then he makes a whole explanation behind that name.

This is what man has done. And that is why in all these years that man has been on this planet earth, he has completely blown that actual experience. It's like, "Hey, man, would you like to be happy?" "Oh yes. Certainly! There's no question about it. I like to be happy. What is happiness?"

I mean, today that infinite experience, that beautiful experience, has been shot down into one word called 'happi-

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Prem Rawat aka Maharaji aka Guru Maharaj Ji the Perfect Master 1974
Prem Rawat aka Maharaji aka Guru Maharaj Ji the Perfect Master 1974

Prem Rawat aka Maharaji aka Guru Maharaj Ji the Perfect Master 1974 ness.' Everybody can relate to that word 'happiness', but that is the reason why everybody cannot relate to the true meaning of happiness.

A little kid asks, "Have you ever been happy?" So a man looks back and he says, "Oh yes, I have been happy. That was my ninth birthday, and it was really beautiful, and I was really, really happy." When he wants to relate to happiness he goes back to his ninth birthday. That was not happiness. That was just something that was physical entertainment for him.

But what happiness is, is within inside of us. And it's so beautiful. There is not a single person in this whole world who can describe that happiness. And really, if we want to realize that happiness, it'son a different level.

In this world, we have been living, and at that level of living we have experienced so many, so many, so many, so many millions and trillions of things. But if we want real happiness, we'll have to slightly change ourselves. See, that's the most important part.

Like, you have your radio tuned to 109.5, and you wantto hear the radio station 107.5. You might as well forget it. You will have to slightly, I mean it's not very much at all, very slightly change your one station to the other station. How much is that distance? If you've got a giant radio it could be a lot, and if you've got a really little radio, like in a car, it could be just a little, or if you've got a digital radio, you don't know how much distance. You just press a few buttons, and there it is.

So it could be a few buttons away, could be a few feet away, could be just a few millimeters away. But, dear premies, we'll have to tune ourselves to that.

Really this is why most of the people come down, they listen to satsang, they say, "Yes. I wantto receive happiness; I have decided in my mind that I want to receive happiness." And then they say, "Okay, when is the mahatma coming, Mr. DUO director?" So he tells them a big list about where he is going to be giving satsang, and this and that. Then the mahatma comes along, and they just sit there, you know, just to say that, "Yes, I listened to that many satsangs."

The Knowledge session comes, they walk in, the mahatma says, "Do you really want to receive Knowledge?" You say, "Yes, I certainly want to receive Knowledge. I mean there is no

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In this lifetime, we are not trying to reach a candy store. We are not trying to reach a store that sells groceries. We are trying to reach the destination of our lives. And that ain't no joke.

Prem Rawat aka Maharaji aka Guru Maharaj Ji the Perfect Master 1974
Prem Rawat aka Maharaji aka Guru Maharaj Ji the Perfect Master 1974
Prem Rawat aka Maharaji aka Guru Maharaj Ji the Perfect Master With His Wife Durga Ji And Pet Dogs 1974
Prem Rawat aka Maharaji aka Guru Maharaj Ji With His Wife Durga Ji And Pet Dogs 1974
question about it." Beautiful. That person says, "Oh, certainly I want to listen to 107.5. Certainly I want to listen to that station." And then this guy comes up to you and says, "Listen. You will have to change from 109.5." He says, "What?! Nobody told me about that!"

It's really funny, premies, because it's like a whole cartoon that's in front of us. Because in this lifetime what we are trying to reach is slightly different. We are not trying to reach a candy store. We are not trying to reach a store that sells groceries. We are trying to reach the destination of our lives. And thatain't no joke, and that ain't no play. That's pretty serious talk.

This is why I wanted to give satsang. Because I came here and thought, "Well, I guess this time I'll just listen to some music,

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Prem Rawat aka Maharaji aka Guru Maharaj Ji the Perfect Master 1974
Prem Rawat aka Maharaji aka Guru Maharaj Ji the Perfect Master 1974

Prem Rawat aka Maharaji aka Guru Maharaj Ji the Perfect Master 1974 If we really want to feel something, premies, we will have to open ourselves, and that's to change from one frequency to the other frequency. If we really want to receive happiness, we'll have to tune ourselves for it.

Prem Rawat aka Maharaji aka Guru Maharaj Ji With His Wife Durga Ji 1974
Prem Rawat aka Maharaji aka Guru Maharaj Ji With His Wife Durga Ji 1974
and see how the premies are doing." So I come here, and they start playing music, and I see people's faces.

The thing is, if you really want to feel something - I mean, you can be sitting in a Volkswagen and suddenly a Cadillac passes by and you say, "Eie, I like that car." So you sit exactly the same way as the guy sitting in the Cadillac. You say, "Oh, I am gonna get the same feeling. I saw that he was sitting like this, so I'll sit like this." You sit like that, and it doesn't do anything.

This is how it is. Premies, we will have to open ourselves, and that's to change from one frequency to the other frequency. How have we done that? We took the tuning knob, and we turned it so that the receiver could open itself to 107.5. That's all we did. And really premies, this is all we have to do if we really want to receive that happiness. We'll have to tune ourselves for that.

In this life the first thing we have to understand is how important it really is for us. I'll tell you, there are some people who are very, very old, but unfortunately, they are still not mature.

And there are some people who are very, very small, and they are mature. Because they can understand that, yes, this Knowledge is very important for us. If you don't understand that, this Knowledge will do you no good! You see? This Knowledge will really, really, do you no good.

This is what happens to many people. If we do not have the understanding, then the Knowledge just goes down the drain. But, if we have the understanding of how important this Knowledge is, then it will really work for us. Because that way our hearts are really open to it. If we know the purpose, then our hearts can really, really beautifully open to it.

This is what I want to tell to every premie. Maybe it really sounds stupid, because every time I come here I repeat the same thing over and over again.

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Prem Rawat aka Maharaji aka Guru Maharaj Ji With His Wife Durga Ji At His Feet
Prem Rawat aka Maharaji aka Guru Maharaj Ji With His Wife Durga Ji At His Feet
But really, we have to understand the importance of Knowledge. There are many, many premies who do not understand the Knowledge, they do not understand the importance of this Knowledge, and because they don't … You know, it's like everything is lined up. Service, meditation, Knowledge, realization … it's all lined up, and all you have to do is push one button, and the whole thing ignites.

Have you seen these firecrackers where there are a lot of firecrackers, but they are all tied up to one? You just light it from one end, and the whole thing triggers off. Because it is set that way.

Premies, first is your understanding of Knowledge. And it's completely up to you. I mean, there is no screw that could be taken and adjusted forthatthing. You are not a car that has a carburetor that you just take two screws down and start adjusting it and put a little device and see the ball, say, "Oh, okay, you are adjusted now."

It's something that you will have to open yourself up to. And once you do, it's so beautiful, because, you know, here isa guy who has a camera, and he's taking pictures. He presses the shutter. What tells him to leave the shutter? What tells him the picture has been taken? There is that sound, goes crack! See? It tells him the picture just got taken.

That's exactly how it works. As soon as you will get tuned, click! Your stereo light will come on, and there will be sound in the speakers, 107.5. It's that easy, but we have to tune ourselves to it, premies.

Prem Rawat aka Maharaji aka Guru Maharaj Ji the Perfect Master 1974
Prem Rawat aka Maharaji aka Guru Maharaj Ji the Perfect Master With His Wife Durga Ji At His Feet 1974

This is why I wanted to give satsang. Because I came here and thought, "Well, I guess this time I'll just listen to some music,