The Most Precious Gift: Prem Rawat

My Prem and The Key

WE tend to chase after so many ideas that our minds and the minds of others through up under the belief that it will help up satisfy our souls.

Whether it be seeking riches, fame or glory or getting a new car, new job, new house or new partner, there we go putting so much effort into achieving what we have already done before, over and over again.

The mind is like a genie that can achieve so much yet disappoint us so much; sometimes it just won't stop, telling us this or that plan, worrying about the future or regretting the past. It can be like a genie that we can no longer control; it must keep busy for that the nature; even when we sleep! It can distract us from what we try to focus on.

And what ought we focus on?

Surely not things that we really know will not bring lasting peace and joy and a sense of real fulfilment?

Of course we need to know first is there anything that will bring us those things and that will last?

Some say follow your heart, not your head. That's not the heart that beats no more than it is the head that sits on your neck. It means the heart that feels and not the head that thinks. Of course that does not mean to stop thinking or to stop using our brains (the genie), but it means stop letting our minds control everything we do and everything we strive for.

So where is that heart, what is that heart! Our minds will of course try to tell us. It may try to think up feelings of peace or joy. It may try to build us up or tare us down, and we will go up and down with it. One day we feel good about life, one day we feel bad. One day we feel everything will be OK, next day we feel we are all doomed.

Such is life, some may say.

It's like the surface of the earth, up the mountains and down the valleys, and we go with it on our journey. Remember of course that most of our planet is sea, and that does not go up and down in quite the same way. We can, nowadays, use a helicopter or submarine, which would make our journey maybe more level. We need to fly above or float below the surface.

How lucky the human that has learned to be. How lucky the human that has found the heart, for in that place is the peace and joy we seek.

We do not need to stop living in this world or live in isolation in a cave to do that.

We just need to be shown what we once had, that knowledge of self My teacher Prem Rawat was the one that showed me.

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Introduction to the Keys

NOTE TO SELF: WHAT I NEED

 NOTE TO SELF: WHAT I NEED

First, what don’t I need?

I don’t need people telling me how bad the world is, or that we are doomed with no hope, or telling me about problems that I cannot solve.

I don’t need people, governments or even my own mind telling me what I should do or not do, or should have done or not have done.

I don’t need to do things that I do not “feel” are the right things to do. I don’t need to follow my mind down roads that will lead nowhere, or into trouble, for no good reason.

I don’t need to wallow in misery, despair or fear, mine or somebody else’s.

What I do need is to follow my heart, not just my head.

I need to use my mind and my abilities to achieve something positive, not be led by my thoughts, just like a person driving a horse and trap, he needs to guide the horse where he wants to go, not just let it run wild, unless of course he wants a magical mystery tour and is prepared to face the consequences without moaning about the horse.

I need to try to help people but not those that refuse help. I need to listen but I need to be listened to – we need to learn from each other and acknowledge that there are things we know and things we don’t know, and learn from our mistakes and the mistakes of others.

I need to focus on problems that I can solve, alone or with others, and find satisfaction in those solutions. I cannot feed the world or bring world peace but I can feed a hungry person or try to help them simply to feel better.

I need to focus on what lifts me up and makes me feel good.

I need to appreciate the good things in my life, past and present, not moan and grumble about the bad or what I don’t have or what others do have. 

Vast fortunes, power, fame and glory, the love or hate of others? Well, just look at the people that have those and ask, are they really happy or are they just exercising their face muscles into smiles. And if they are happy with their lives and what they have, why do they want more?

Sometimes I have thought I’d be better of if I did such and such, or lived in another place even a cave, but I need to accept that those are just thoughts.

And for anyone that is happy and feeling peace, however achieved, good on them – I need to feel happy for them.

I need to appreciate that I am fortunate enough / lucky / graced to know that there is nothing in this world that will bring lasting peace, joy, clarity and understanding.

I need to acknowledge that when I do feel peace and joy, I feel it inside of me, not as a thought or a wish but as an experience. I need to appreciate that I have been shown how to look for that place where that experience happens, within in side of me. I thank Prem Rawat for that.

Some thoughts and feelings I felt I should share

Some thoughts and feelings I felt I should share:

This is rather long, as it turned out, but I hope at least some of you will enjoy it

A lot of people, maybe even the majority of this people, in all walks of life, rich or poor, educated or not, healthy or not, are living in fear right now, fear and anger, disappointment, frustration, a sense of being lost and all those negative feelings.

And most of us want to blame somebody else - the Government, the rich, the greedy, the warmongers, the scientists and even our family or neighbours, for this or that situation, often one bad thing after another, in our lives.

Now I am not saying that those people are blameless or faultless for many of the bad things that happen in this world, whether viruses, wars, climate, poverty etc - but are they to blame for how we feel within inside ourselves?

Many of the world's "leaders" are actually quite pathetic, not suitable to lead us anywhere good, with misguided or selfish aims, cravings for power and money.

Truth is they are scared and lost and confused too; they too, in reality, need to me led out of this mess. And they want to blame somebody else too, they will not admit that they find themselves in such a mess because they allowed themselves not only to be in it, but have led others into it too.

They like us live their lives in the hope that somebody will come along as lead them out of their mess, ease their fears and "put the light on".

But how do we choose our leaders. In most countries it is through elections. Somebody puts themselves up for the job and the people, living in ignorance and fear, often thinking little beyond themselves and maybe their families, by majority, elect. So fearful and unhappy people elect their leaders? And really, look at the choices we get!

But this fear and confusion, the sense of loss, of not being able to achieve what we want and what we think will bring us peace and fulfilment in our lives, is nothing new.

Whether local war, gangs or thugs on the streets, violence at home within the family or tribe or neighbours, the dwindling ozone layer, climate devastation, famine and disease - right now this corona virus (once it was Spanish Flue (which apparently originated in America), bird flue, AIDS, SARS, Ebola right back to the Black Plague) - we have become almost accustomed to fear to such an extent that peace and love is rare.

About 50 years ago, I used to do fell walking. One time, up a mountain with a group, a heavy mist came down. We could hardly see 6 feet in front of us. One guy stepped up declaring that he had a map and compass and would lead us back down. Hardly walking twenty yards, he almost fell over the edge. We didn't even elect him to lead us. Then we all looked at the map and compass, of course assuming they were correct, and decided to walk the other way. We did get safely down out of the mist. Should we have blamed him had we followed him over the edge? Would blaming him have helped?

So who can we turn to to lead us?

Firstly I would say it has to be somebody I know and trust. But who?

I have found that politicians, teachers, doctors, lawyers, clergy and the press and media including the internet, have told me lies. I find it hard to believe them. I find it hard to even give money to charity!}

So, I do not want to lead others until I can lead myself; I have to find my way before leading others and only then would i be happy if others choose to follow. I have to remove the mote from my own eye first.

So I have to look within myself - all the words "greatest" teachers have said that the answer lie within, the Universe is within (Buddha), the Kingdom of Heaven in within (Christ), true Knowledge is within (Krishna) and so on - could there be truth in that?

And if yes, how do we do that? Think? Meditate? Yoga? Music? Dance? Chant mantras?

WE have to find a way to do that. And that cannot be through seeking richness, academic qualifications, friends or even marriage, fame or glory or trying to just put it all right. Because if you look at the rich, the powerful, the famous, the well education, the healthy, the married, the people that live alone in places they think just right for the, they often seem lost, afraid and unhappy too.

So the first step is to turn within, find somebody that will show us how to look in the right place. We have to stop blaming others, stop following fake leaders, stop trying to put the world rights, stop wishing for great leaders or being from space to sort it out, and to appreciate that we are alive and breath comes in and breath goes out, without our consent - we cannot stop it, we cannot stop it stopping one day, but we can appreciate it and realise that all the answers are within, all the feelings good and bad are within (when you love or hate somebody, you do not feel it in them you feel it within yourself), peace is within?

Have you felt the good feelings? Look for them again, focus on them, and I guarantee your life will improve. Lead yourself within, find yourself. Put that first.