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You have the most powerful friend. And that is inside of you wherever you go. You don’t need fear. You need strength. And the strength that I am talking about is inside of you.

Knowledge of the self, of you!—so you can understand, so you can see, so you can feel, so you know! And not learn to live in a world of beliefs—but to know. To welcome every single day like you will not get another one.

And that’s when every day starts to become a gift.

The question becomes: is the focus to have that joy in this life? Is the focus to be content, to be fulfilled? Or is the focus on bewilderment? What do you entertain as a thought every single day? Gratitude? Or “I wonder what’s next?”

You have both possibilities. You have the possibility of being in a place where you entertain that one singular, most beautiful thought of gratitude, of fulfillment. Or you have the possibility of bewilderment.

Bewilderment will not bring you gratification. Never has, never will. Knowing, feeling, experiencing will. Don’t let them go to waste. Don’t. Live your life consciously in gratitude, in knowing, in clarity, in simplicity—and prosper! Of course, prosper! Absolutely, prosper! Bloom. Be fulfilled.

- Prem Rawat

In Sao Paulo, Brazil, the Words of Peace television series had been airing for over ten years reaching over 10 million homes in the city of Sao Paulo and over 40 million homes in all of Brazil. To celebrate this milestone in 2013, Fernando Mauro Trezza, President of the Brazilian Association of Community Channels, sat down with Prem Rawat to ask him about his work, his message and why peace matters.

Fernando Mauro Trezza: "For many people today, peace seems to be a boring subject. Can this perspective be changed?" 

Prem Rawat: "Of course, because they're coming from a concept of what peace is. They're not coming from the need. They have to feel the need."

In Sao Paulo, Brazil, the Words of Peace television series had been airing for over ten years reaching over 10 million homes in the city of Sao Paulo and over 40 million homes in all of Brazil. To celebrate this milestone in 2013, Fernando Mauro Trezza, President of the Brazilian Association of Community Channels, sat down with Prem Rawat to ask him about his work, his message and why peace matters.

Fernando Mauro Trezza: "For many people today, peace seems to be a boring subject. Can this perspective be changed?" 

Prem Rawat: "Of course, because they're coming from a concept of what peace is. They're not coming from the need. They have to feel the need."

About 46 miles south of Johannesburg, South Africa, is the township of Sebokeng, where Prem Rawat addressed an audience on December 9, 2016. Sebokeng continues to deal with the poverty and racial tension that persist in the prolonged aftermath of Apartheid. As news reports that gang violence is escalating and spreading, there is another story to be told. People in Sebokeng who are passionate about peace are on the rise, listening to the message of Prem Rawat. In the video of this event, he tells them, “You have to feel peace. Not think about peace. Because peace is not about thinking—peace is about seeing, knowing, feeling!” For a man struggling with his identity, who calls himself “the Prince of Suffering,” Prem demonstrates that only a lit candle can light unlit candles, and encourages him to discover the power of being a lit candle.

Written by Francisca Matos