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Prem Rawat:

You are fortunate – you are fortunate to be alive. And what makes you alive, at the very fundamental stage, is the coming and going of this breath. If this breath is not coming and going, you will be declared dead. 

In fact, it is the final part. They look at it electronically, “Are you alive; are you dead?” You know, “rinnng,” everything is flatlined, flatlined, flatlined? The last thing ... And when this isn’t happening either? They can sign it. The doctor can sign, “You’re dead. You’re gone.”

So, don’t live in imagination. Live in reality. Because reality is beautiful! If you understand and link up with the Divine in you, you’re not going anywhere. Neither can you die. That’s what Kabir says! “How can I die? If the Divine doesn’t die, how can I die?” But he had linked himself to the Divine. What have you linked yourself to? 

So, link yourself to that which is real. So, you know, be in that beautiful place; enjoy. Be conscious; be aware. And take full advantage of the time that you have. It’s too short. But it’s supposed to be just the right amount. No more, no less. And when you understand that? You get it. 

You know? It’s not about everything else; it’s about you – your life, your existence. You’ve been given the spade. And you have been turned loose in the mine. Dig, dig, dig, dig, dig. This is the wealth that will never ever go away. It’ll always be there.

Prem Rawat

Of all the things you could see, and of all the things you could accept, if you could accept the new.

The newness of this breath. Then you have it. Then you have it. You have it. What is “it”? You have the clarity.

You have the understanding. You have the simplicity. You have the courage. You have the understanding. You have the rhythm, the rhythm of existence. There is no rhythm of sorrow.

There is no rhythm of doubt. There is no rhythm of envy; there is no rhythm of fear. But there is a rhythm of clarity. There is a rhythm of being alive. There is a rhythm of understanding: “Gift, another gift, another gift, another gift.” And then, life begins to transform from darkness to light, light that has always dwelled inside the heart of every single human being. Yes, every single human being. Even if that person did not accept that possibility.

Can a thirsty person go up to a river? Absolutely! Can a thirsty person dip their hand in the river? Absolutely.  And just because the thirsty person went so close to the river, will the thirsty person’s thirst go away?
Okay.

If you are one of those “spiritualists”? This is what they say! “Oh yeah! Just go by the river; that’s all you need to do is if you get close by the river, the river is so powerful, your thirst will be gone.” No, it won’t. No, it won’t. Not until you drink the water.

That’s the difference between believing and knowing. So, do you look at the practicality of things? “One life. It won’t always be there.” What are you going to get out of this existence? Just like everybody else before you, you came. Do you know their names? A few you do, yeah. But there were a lot more than that! Billions and billions and billions!

Do you know who they were? Where are they? Gone. What did they look like? What were their struggles? What did they do? Where are they now? What were their hopes? What were their fears? Gone. Are you in line? Or do you want it to be different? If you want it to be different, you can make a huge difference in this.
You can make a huge difference in this. And the difference you can make is by seeing the obvious. The obvious! The obvious? You’re alive. Obvious?

You exist.

Obvious? That you are filled with joy. Obvious?

That the possibility that will fulfill you is within you. Always will be.

You have a propensity to want things your way. You want everything to be your way. Right? You want to always win an argument, don’t you?

Do you ever argue to lose an argument? You want to win that argument. You want to be always right!  You know you are not going to win the ultimate argument.

The day Death comes to get you, there will be no argument. And guess who’s going to win every single time? Every single time for every single human being that ever has been on the face of this Earth, it was Death that won. They’re gone. You won’t be able to have it “your way.” No way will you be able to have it your way; it’s not a happening thing, so wake up! 

Because you’re not going to win the argument, “A few hours more, please, few minutes more, or this, that, that.” This is why it is heaven. You can experience. You can be. It’s going to happen. Don’t be sad. You weren’t sad when you were born. Were you? Maybe you were. Maybe that’s why you were crying. It’s not about sadness. Whatever you were, you were no more when you were born. And like I said a while ago; I said, “If you’re not here, you’re somewhere else!” But did you learn to trust? Did you learn to accept? That’s the big question. If you trusted, if you accepted every day, you will accept. 

You’re not ready for it; nobody wants to talk about it. It’s going to happen. How do you prepare?

By accepting today. Everybody wants to know, “When will it happen?” Nobody can pinpoint unless you’ve got a death sentence. Even then, they can’t pinpoint. Because sometimes they do it and nothing happens.

Learn to accept. It’s okay! If it wasn’t okay, then don’t learn to accept. But it’s okay to accept.

Ultimately, the person who lives every day and admires every moment, cannot possibly have fear of death. Because he knows this very simple thing – this came to me one day, how simple it was. Because people call me. Somebody close to them dies; they are dying; they call.

I was in Honolulu; I didn’t want to do an event – because I wanted to save it. Should have done it, well, not saved it but – ended up talking to a lady who was diagnosed with a very severe disease. She wanted to meet me; I met her and I talked to her.

I said, “It’s simple as this. If I’m not here, I’m somewhere else.” Right? Right? [Audience: Yes.] Do you understand that: “If I’m not here, I’m somewhere else”? So, before I came out here, I was not here; I was backstage. Before that, I was at my house. So, if I’m not here, I’m somewhere else!

Okay, don’t overthink; it’s really simple. If I’m not here, I’m somewhere else, right? [Audience: Yes.] There is your answer: “If you’re not here, you’re somewhere else” – if you can understand that. It’s profound. But it’s so incredibly simple. Because I have understood the “I” in the “am.” I have understood the “I” in the “I am.”

And when you understand the “I” in the “I am,” then you understand, “If I’m not here, I’m somewhere else.” A lot of you are dumbstruck, going, “Why’-wha’-wha’, wha’-wha’-why’-wha’?”

I just solved the quandary for you of “What happens to me when I die?” I just did. Because when I am not here, I am somewhere else. Because that “I” in the “I am” is indestructible. And that is what it means to know the self: you understand the “I.”

You were trying to understand the whole package: “I am.” “I am” will not be around. When you die, you will not be “I am.” The “am,” (a-m) will stay. The “I,” if it’s not here, will be somewhere else.

I was talking to somebody whose mother passed away, and this person was you know, “What about this, what about that?”

And I said, “Look…” And this is something I said, even I liked it.

And I said, think of her as the earth and the moon. The moon came from the earth, and as it separated, it went out and it’s just there. It’s not part of the earth anymore, but it’s just there, going around this earth beautifully affecting it. Every night, every day, making the tides, the life, the motion. All you have to look up and see the reflection of the sun on this beautiful surface, glowing. Glowing.

For those who go, think of them the same way. Your little world, now they’re the moon and hopefully, they’re going to affect you in the most beautiful way that you will remember their memory, the tides, the life, the drama. And on those particular nights when it is really dark, they will glow and there’ll be a little light for you. Not only to admire but maybe see by.

- Prem Rawat

Prem Rawat:

In this life, people start off, “I’m going to do this, and I’m going to do this, and I’m going to accomplish this, and I’m going to accomplish that,” and all the million things that they want to accomplish. And then it comes down to that one day where if you took another breath, you have accomplished a lot.

I have seen it with my own eyes. I have seen it with my own eyes. It was a long time ago—he was a friend of mine, I guess. Yeah, well, also a very rich man. So, I finally get the message, “He’s on the deathbed; he’s dying. Would you please come say goodbye to him?” I happened to be going from Miami to LA. I said, “Sure, I’ll stop by.”

I stopped, went to the hospital where he was. He was not a tall person. But lying on that bed, he was hooked up to a heart-lung machine. And he was about this big; that’s all. He was curled up. He was already gone. He was hooked up to the heart-lung machine; the heart-lung machine was doing everything for him.

After I left, they asked his then-girlfriend/wife, “Should we pull the plug?” She said yes. They did; he was gone.

He didn’t open his eyes; he didn’t say hello to me. And there was no one cent that could have done anything for him. Success is, (maybe you believe me; maybe you don’t believe me)—but I say to you honestly, “Success is when you are lit.” That’s your success.

You have imagined heaven? I’m sure you have imagined heaven because you have been told so much about it. But I’ll tell you what heaven is. Heaven is when you are lit. That is heaven. That is true heaven. That’s true understanding.

Somebody just told me a person I had just seen not too long ago, passed away. And he knew he was going to go. But that wasn’t the issue. That was not the issue! The issue was that he was going to be in that joy as long as he could, regardless of his situation. I was not shocked. Because I was looking at a lamp that was lit. That’s what happens.

It’s not about all the mundane things. It’s about this life, this life, this lifetime. And when you can see that, when you can understand that, then you understand all there is to understand. Maybe you don’t know the chemical composition of the moon. But you see the kin-ness of all that is dirt. Then you see and feel, truly, the glimpse of the divine.

That’s why you want to be lit. You want to see all that that the darkness hides. And when you are lit, no longer can the darkness hide that. And you can see how beautiful, how incredible this is, this journey, your existence, your opportunity. Make effort to be lit. To understand.