Maharaji, The Value of a Moment 2005 E171

Sometimes you come across something so tiny, unimportant but ridiculous it makes you scratch your head. Last week while checking out a 2008 speech Rawat gave in Portland I saw him saying "Believe me, most of everything I say gets edited" and I thought what a ridulous thing to say. Nearly everything he says is such nonsense and there is so much of it that he continuously blabbers out that it is 100% obvious no editing is ever done except on printed materials.

Well, there is a lot going on around the world. People slowly but surely getting an opportunity to listen to this message. But of all those people around the world, today is your turn. And you have to watch a video. You can hear this in person. And what's the difference? Believe me, most of everything I say gets edited. So what you get is a very small amount of edited stuff. Because I'm here to talk to you, each one of you. Whether you have Knowledge, whether you're aspiring to receive Knowledge. This life, this time that we have, I want somebody to come along and point to the preciousness of that. The importance-ness of that. Because that just doesn't exist.

And then this morning, quite by accident I found 2 videos of the same speech where editing had been done. Who would go to the trouble to make these changes? For what possible reason? Well, the excisions were made for the DVD released by the Prem Rawat Foundation starring Mr Prem Rawat.

How can you? Drop, a drop can change the shape of the mountains, form canyons that are unbelievably deep. A drop can take large boulders, stones, and toss them like they were a little toy, break them down to make sand, create civilizations and destroy civilizations. A drop does this and then mysteriously to go and join the ocean again and lose all of its identity as if it did not exist. No more flowing, no more ebbing, no more turning, nothing to go and join the ocean again.

Why am I talking about a drop? What has this got to do with inner peace? and Self-Knowledge?" - excised Well, wait a minute. Let's just get down to the ground level here. Because the Creator has given us feet and really seems like he wanted us to kind of stand on those and not other things. So let's stand on our feet for a while and - excised just take an inventory of what we've got. What have we got? A few seconds come together and make a minute and before you know it a few minutes come together and make an hour and before you know it a few hours come together and make a day and before you know it a few days come together and make a week and before you know it a few weeks come together and make a month and a few months come together and make a year and a few years come together and make a lifetime. A lifetime.