With the publication of the award-winning Splitting the Arrow, Prem Rawat’s stories have addressed time-honored themes valued in the most diverse traditions.
Who better to give voice to these stories than the author himself? For the newly-released audiobook of Splitting the Arrow, Prem Rawat accompanies the listener through the entire collection of 11 stories. His unlikely array of characters – a resourceful coconut, a gifted archer, a forlorn pot with a hole and more – bring to life chapters that include Choice, Peace, and Life, among others. The audiobook also includes the author’s additional commentary and responses to questions from audience members at his live talks worldwide.
We hope you enjoy this addition to TimelessToday’s growing library.
Prem Rawat:
Just imagining that day—because people got up in the morning—and I don’t think anybody was really expecting to die... Going about their business.... Standing here today, looking at that, I wonder, “What have we learned? When something like this can happen where, instantly, hundreds of thousands of people are just wiped out from the face of this earth?”
And it isn’t just those people that are wiped out. It is their generation that they would have given birth to, and that generation, and that.... The wars are still happening. And there’s no one thing that’s going to solve the problem.
Onscreen text:
Prem Rawat, Peace Ambassador
Prem Rawat:
But every human being taking on that responsibility of knowing themselves, and establishing peace for themselves, that’s the only solution that has not been tried.
And here, the river still flows—and here’s a tree, and here’s that building, a reminder—we are human. And we are on this beautiful planet Earth, and there has to be some understanding of what it means to really be alive. We have woken up to the world, but we haven’t woken up to life!
[rings bell four times]
Onscreen text:
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
Cenotaph for the A-Bomb victims
Flame of Peace
Atomic Bomb Dome
The Hall of Remembrance
Bell of Peace
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