It's Now

There are people in this world who will tell you how to cope with all your problems, not get rid of your problems, cope with your problems, “Manage your anger.”  When things are not right, the gears grind, that’s anger.  And people say, “No, don’t get rid of it.  Manage it.”  What?  Breed it more?  “Manage it.”  There is a whole industry out there that is like, “Listen, you just learn to cope with your problems.”  Then there is somebody else saying, “What problems?  These problems?  They will automatically go away.  Don’t worry about them.  One day they will all be gone.  You won’t have them.” 
The greatest problem you have is not recognizing the self.  Your life will never be in balance regardless of what you do, if you don’t put the self first.  Self is the one.  Everything else is a zero.  You can have three zeroes and then put a one.  And what is the value of one, and what is the value of the zeroes?  Zero remains zero; one remains one.  Put one in front of those zeroes and what do you have?  A thousand, ten thousand.  Keep adding the nothings but, so far you keep that one first, it’ll just keep going, million, hundred million, a hundred, hundred billion, trillion.  Flip it, and zeroes become zeroes, and one still remains one.  A little formula.  If you can place that self first.  Not being selfish, not the self like, “I need to be in front of the light,” no, I’m not talking about that.  That’s not placing the self first.  That’s being selfish.  That’s being stupid.  That’s being arrogant.  No.  The self, in your own life, the self that you are, that swan, by whose presence all things happen, by whose absence nothing happens, by whose presence you are who you are, by whose absence you are nothing, by whose presence you are adored, by whose absence you are buried.
The good news is that this understanding, that this clarity, is possible.  It’s all about joy.  This is one life you have, not two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.  Get it right.  Get it right, now.  How many mistakes have you made in your life?  People have their birthdays…50, 60, 70.  Statistically, you’re getting there.  But don’t be fooled.  Don’t be fooled.  Statistically, it all has started when you were born.  You have been moving towards that one day at the same exact rate all your life.  It may look faster now, slower before.  That’s a grand illusion.  You have been moving at a constant rate towards that day.  It is not about where you are between the two points that counts.  It is only when you get it that’s what counts.  Even if it is two minutes before, but you got it, that’s it.  You got it.  Get it.  Now. 
Now is never too early, and never too late.  It’s now.  And if you do, it becomes simple.  No more wars, no more wars.  The war inside.  This war has been raging on for a long time.  And there is a graveyard where the slain moments lie, slain moments, moments lost to unconsciousness.  And it’s huge.  The cemetery is huge.  You need to put an end to this war.  That war outside is a reflection of this war.  Does somebody else have to put out their war before you will put out yours?  No.  Be in peace.  There are people who talk about being in peace, around the holiday times.  I talk about being in peace year-round.  People want to be in joy.  They talk about being in joy around the holiday time.  I talk about being in joy year-round.  And forget about year-round, I actually inspire people to be in joy every single moment of their living life, because it’s possible.  It is possible and it’s possible in your lifetime. 
So, all those wonderful things, I hope they come true for you.
~ Prem Rawat
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