Prem Rawat Celebrates His Father From Whom
He Inherited Everything
Hans Jayanti Festival 10/11/1979 Video

And yet Guru Maharaj Ji offers this entire life to be completely entertained always 24 hours fulfilled in an experience of that love, you know, not one moment or not two days out of a years or not ten days out of a year but always. To have this festival become a part of every day, an experience to completely engulf us, completely totally surround us, be with it. And a small price to pay. What is this small price to pay? What is the best thing that you could possibly give to Guru Maharaj Ji? If it really came down to it, what is the possibly the best thing you could ever give to Guru Maharaj Ji? What is the best thing you have? You. You are the only thing you have. Nothing else belongs to you. I guess, you know, you don't even belong to yourself. And but there you are, that's the most prized possession. Here, this human body, this human being. Mind, body and soul. To just let go of all that, that we clutch on to it. Surrender, surrender is such a sweet experience. Surrender is such a beautiful experience because in the surrender, I see, I realize one thing that, one thing that I truly can see when I surrender is who really I am. Who am I? When I don't surrender I've got my concepts of who of I am. I mean that's the way it is with everybody. When we are not surrendered, when we are stuffed with our ego, when that becomes our backbone, then there is no sweet experience. There is no beautiful experience. Then Guru Maharaj Ji keeps coming and going, not Guru Maharaj Ji keeps coming and going but, we become inconstant. We come and go, come and go, come and go, come and go, come and go. We fluctuate back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.

What we think all this is real, you know, I mean that, just that story about Raja Janaka, you know, what was his experience when he truly I mean how intense would have that dream be for a person when he wakes up and he cannot make up his mind about what is real and what's a dream. What is that exp, I mean how incredible must have been that experience? What an intense dream, really, Janaka would have had to have to wake up and say "Am I dreaming?" Which is real? And yet when Janaka finally found the answer, what was the answer? What is Ashtavakra tell Janaka? No king, both are dreams. What you dreamt was a dream cause it was a dream. What you see, what you think is real, is also a dream. So we are constantly dreaming. We're constantly and how do we dream there's only one way you can dream and that's if you're asleep. And so we're constantly dreaming and then we are constantly asleep and in this dreaming and in this thing we do all these things and Guru Maharaj Ji comes to wake us up, wake us up from this dream. And to show us clearly the reality who's, who's really? What is real? What is a fact and what's a lie, what's a truth and what's a lie.

You know, a dog is carnivourous it's been designed, made, manufactured to be carnivorous. A lion and yes for us it's a sin, it's bad or whatever, you know, even doctors and the medical researchers finding out that what you eat so you become, sort of, and in, in definitely Hindu religion they won't even touch it, they won't even touch anybody who's got anything to do with it. What about the dog? Ii it okay for that Hindu dog to eat meat? Is it okay? Is it justified? If you don't give it meat, you know, I've, I've seen some dogs who don't get it and they're alive, their hairs fall off and they look ugly and they get rabies and you name it. So is it okay or is it not okay? Is it justified that a lion goes out every day, I mean a lion doesn't, lioness does. Lion just sleeps all day long and the lioness is the one who goes out and does the hunting, the housewife. She's the one who kills. Is it justified? Is it okay for that little lioness to go out and kill the deers? Is it okay for the wolves to hunt and kill? Is it okay for the hyena to go out and kill? Is that all okay? It's their nature, they were made like that. And so there is a fact, it's a fact, they kill and it's like even the incredible thing is they don't just kill. Do they enjoy the killing? No, it's a hard, hard labour to kill, that's the way they acquire their food. Give them okra, they won't like it, you know. But this is soya bean, this is dahl, eat this. No, they've got nothing to do with it.

So if we, see the purpose is where the meaning is attached. I guess purpose and meaning go hand in hand. If you can find the purpose you can find the meaning. And if you can find the meaning you can find the purpose. If you can find the reason then you can realize. If you can find the sun then you can distinguish the night. And yet what is it, what are those facts for the human being? I mean, even in India, you know you see all these dogs. I mean look at it, every culture, every religion, or every society has refined their ways or system of living. It's in Taiwan or one of these places you know these guys walk in, I mean, in America, I guess in America or Europe on some of these other countries they love dogs, dogs you know, little doggie and all that stuff, you know the little doggie that wigs wal wags it's tail out of the car's window and gets happy and jumps up and down and fetches your, fetches your sandals and one who goes out and brings in your newspaper every day and you adorably love so much and everything. You know this cute little dog that always stays little cute, all nice and you know nice-looking little dog, a little toy poodle or something and in this one country (fiddles with his nose) you walk into a restaurant and in the very middle of this whole restaurant are these little cages and in these cages are little, cute little puppies, cute little doggies and you go there and pick the dog that you want and they'll take the dog, slaughter it and serve it to you and the cuter and prettier the dog more money the owner of the restaurant will get for it. Outrageous huh? They don't think it's outrageous. They, they also say "Oh what a cute nice-looking dog. I'll take that one."

You know, to them what was justified in a minute, what was justified becomes all of a this is why it's a dream, it's justified that all this is a dream because for what one second is real for another second isn't real. For one second what is true, the other second isn't true. It reminds me of this one joke, I heard a long, long time ago, you know. There was this one guy (rubs nose a lot) and one day (laughs) I don't know how to even tell you this joke. One day I guess he got his finger, you know, messed up not hurt or anything just messed up in some doo doo whatever you'd say it and so he came into the village and he said (rubs nose), "You know what happened today, I got my finger all messed up you know in the doo" and there was this one guy there said "Oh my God I can't understand that, if that was me, that would happen to me, I'd cut off my finger. You know washing just isn't good enough." And so 2 days go by and the same thing happens to this guy too, this time he's still got it on his finger and he walks like this (holds his arm our straight) through the whole village on his way to the ironsmith to get it cut off. And he walks all the way over to the ironsmith and he doesn't wanna even look at it and he puts his finger on the little table of the ironsmith and says "Pick up your hatchet and cut my finger off." And the ironsmith looks a little moody nature, a little funny guy so what he did, he turned the hatchet the other way and instead of slamming it on his finger, he just slammed it right next to his finger and it made a big bang noise, it didn't hit him, just made a big bang noise and he thought his finger was cut (laughs) off and so he took his finger and stuck it in his mouth and said "Ouch!" you know. For one moment this guy was ready to get his finger cut off and the other moment "Ouch!" and nothing had happened his finger was just still intact and full of it too. (laughter) And I sincerely hope that's all it is, is a joke not the real thing you know I guess a gruesome twosome

I mean it's a same thing as this life sometimes, it's one time you know "Oh my destiny is this I have realized my destiny" and the second time it's all stuck in it, completely upside down and say "Oh God, get me out of this horrible mess. What I wouldn't do to." To constantly live to find the pleasure of the life, what do we do in fact to receive the pleasure of the life. The search becomes our destiny and that's it. All our lifes long we just dream and that's it! We search and search and search and search and search and search and search and search and then one day we just die and we still are lookin' for it. And one you know in in in this ashram in Prem Nagar there were these 7 gates, 7 round arches and one time Shri Maharaji said "Well whosoever sincerely walks with a desire for me through those gates is saved" and that's incredible because if we just even approach Guru Maharaj Ji on that level to be saved we will be saved because when we go to Guru Maharaj Ji Guru Maharaj Ji will take us, will accept us, there is no ifs ands and buts about it. Even for that premie, I mean how lucky he was in one sense for these thousands of people waiting to receive Shri Maharaj Ji's darshan, waiting for hours and there even if he was driving by and got one glimpse of this one premie, stopped the car, turn around, go back, you know, give it, let him have it for one hour or so and get back in the car and off we go.

But quack quack perhaps we don't need luck like that. Yes there are people you know who have gone to the tops of Himalayas, they've gone inside Himalayas, renounced this entire world. How do you renounce it? You know once upon a time there was this king, and he decided that he wants, he wanted truth and satisfaction. The only way he could get it if he renounced the entire world. So he renounced everything and went into the jungle and the queen who has the Knowledge, you know, said "Well, if this king goes away, who's gonna manage this whole kingdom?" So she went to him and said "What are you doing here?" And the king said "Well, I've renounced the whole world." And she said "Oh really, what do I see behind you? This hut, who does it belong to? You? You know, who does it really belong to?" He said, "Well it belongs to me" he said. "Well then have you really renounced the world?" And he burnt it down. Then he had a little, (Rawat practices Nectar technique 58:10) you know, a little thing to keep water in. "Who does this belong to?" "It belongs to me." "Burn it down, you know, you haven't renounced anything yet. You've got your hut, you've got this." He burnt it down. Took one look at his clothes and said "Who does these belong to?" "Well, they belong to me." She said, "Hey well, have you really, truly renounced the world?" And he burnt his clothes down. And she pointed at his body "Who does this belong to?" So in, even in the ultimate of what we might think to renounce the entire world, you might find peace and satisfaction and happiness, it isn't even there.

There are these Mahatmas from India, you know, and they have shaved heads and they have saffron clothes and I don't know I hope they're happy and because they have Knowledge and they have a chance and they have an opportunity to practice Knowledge in their life to experience Guru Maharaj Ji in their life and it's wonderful. But there are so many sadhus walking around there who've with of most of these Mahatmas, not the Mahatmas who have Knowledge, but these other Mahatmas and sometimes even the Mahatmas who do have Knowledge is they always have a tendency to make everyone uncomfortable around them. You know, every, a Mahatma comes into an ashram or something, finds a poor premie, you know, sick and tired, who's just trying to rest for the last breath or something, "Will you have my clothes ironed, ha ha? Give me a glass of water! Massage my feet! Massage my head!" You know, sometimes it doesn't quite gell like that, you know. "You better do service to me, you know, don't you know you have to take care of me very well? Above and beyond every specification." ??? sometimes, I mean, these initiators here, you know, don't have their heads shaved off, you know, don't wear saffron clothes but they have it too, you know, they enjoy themselves out there, you know, lunch or the water, you know, sometimes to a very, very high specification, sometimes I don't get served like that, sometimes the way they get served, I don't care.

You know, but the most important thing is that it really is where it should belong. In the experience of Guru Maharaj Ji, not in the experience of each other, not in the experience of maya, not in the experience of this illusion, not in the experience of this mind. Oh yes, we can sit up here and talk about mind, all the horrible, miserable things the mind does but yet where will the experience be because that's not what the experience is, the experience of Guru Maharaj Ji let's get it there, let's put it there. Let's bring it there and then ss see the pleasure manifest, then see the beauty manifest. You know for most of us, perhaps even a little bit is like "Oh my God, this is a lot." And yet what Guru Maharaj Ji wants to give us what is beyond what you can call a lot, is beyond you could ever imagine, beyond your wildest imaginations. Do you want it? You know and if you do want it and something inside of you really does because that's its food, you can eat food to satisfy your stomach but there is something inside that doesn't just get satisfied by eating food, by sleeping, by doing all of the notorious things. It doesn't get cleaned very time you take a shower, it doesn't look pretty every time you wear nice clothes, it doesn't get satisfied or quenches its thirst just when you drink water, it only gets satisfied when it has the experience of Guru Maharaj Ji. That's you, buried in there, in this physical body you know. It only gets clean, you know, when Guru Maharaj Ji you know showers the downpour of the Holy Name, you know. Then it gets clean, it feels clean. It gets satisfied when it sees Guru Maharaj Ji, when it has darshan, when it hears satsang, that's its food. There is no mystery about it. Then when that thing is satisfied then it doesn't matter whether it rains or is sunny or we are hungry or we are not taking a shower yet. Then it just doesn't matter. Just like for that one devotee, you know, she, I mean, I guess, it was just everything to her to hear that Krishna was there, she didn't care, she didn't care what she looked like, she didn't care what she was gonna give him, just right in front. She started giving Krishna the peel of the banana and started throwing the inside part away and when truly, when that love is truly captured then the whole world of devotee comes alive.

Because that is the signal, now, I mean, it's hard to say, I mean, I don't know how many of you are standing on the threshold but I can definitely feel that some of the premies are standing on the threshold you know and what bugs me the most is that for some stupid reason I feel that all those premies that are standing on the threshold are somehow not going to walk through it and I can't stand that. If you made it all the way ten years, ten years of walking, of cracking, of ego, of mind, of grace, of every single trip, everything. Ten years' worth of all that, standing in front of the threshold and then one straw that breaks the camel's back and you turn around and walk off. It's so close, you know, it's so incredible because it is so close. I feel that even just if premies could make that little bit of an effort that they would be there, you know. Just that little tiny little thing that they could really and truly the separation from their mind and yet you know more premies that come to the threshold more bugs me because I don't want them to walk out of there. I want them to make that effort even more to open up that door knob and walk right through and stay because in this human life you will still have that chance, you will still have that option that even after you've crossed the threshold that by a human idiocity you will open the door from the other side and walk right out again.

Look, it isn't like one day you will have an, an incredible experience that Guru Maharaj Ji will walk the threshold or whatever and then after that you will never need satsang or you will ever never need Knowledge or you will never need Guru Maharaj Ji. No that all has to be there because that's what keeps us, once we are in it keeps us in and once we're, when we are out it pulls us and pushes us and pulls us and pushes us to that threshold. Constantly brings us closer every moment and I mean we haven't, I'll tell you the truth, we haven't reached, if we have reached the threshold, we haven't reached it by our doing, don't take any credit for it, please, you know, we had nothing to do with it. We didn't understand it, we can't understand, we don't understand anything about the whole path, the system, the way it works, you know, to us it's all Greek really and for the Greeks it's Greek to them too. That expression, it's all Greek to me you know. But Guru Maharaj Ji has brought us, seen us through thick and thin, seen us through our miseries, seen us through our bliss, seen us through our happiness, seen us through sadness, seen us through everything and and has seen us through that point and now Guru Maharaj Ji asks for only one single thing that when he opens that door, when he opens that door, you take that step. To constantly keep alive that experience of satsang, service and meditation every day in your life. To constantly be in touch with Guru Maharaj Ji. To do what Guru Maharaj Ji wants you to do for a change and not what this stupid thing has told you for such a long time. Give it a break. Let it go on a vacation. You know, let it go somewhere, it has done such a lousy job for such a long time, ask it for its resignation and empower and entrust Guru Maharaj Ji with that authority and only Guru Maharaj Ji and then truly there can be the kingdom of heaven for you.