A spirited conversation about self-discovery. Renowned journalist Burt Wolf attended two live events with Prem Rawat and found his message to be timely, significant, and entertaining. Over the course of that next year he taped a series of conversations with Prem Rawat where they exchanged ideas about life, the world today, and what motivates human beings. Here is a glimpse into this dynamic exchange.

In February, 2009, Prem Rawat spoke to an audience in Tel Aviv, Israel, where he responded to questions and expressions from the audience: 

Q: Hello. I’ve just finished my fifth key preparing for Knowledge. I’m very excited, anticipating. And I love listening to your stories. You make me laugh a lot. My question is: I have a very scientific way of thinking. I have to know, I have to understand. I feel that I’m missing something.

A: Well, when you hear what you hear, what do you feel inside of you? Do you feel good? Do you feel happy? 

Q: But I don’t understand.

A: All you have to do is understand that. Feel that joy, feel that happiness. Something inside of you is responding. This isn’t about a scientific experiment or proving a hypothesis. This is about feeling.

We all began with some simple fundamentals. We were able to feel a need and to express that need. We somehow think that is insignificant. We become very analytical, because this is what the world tells us to do: “It’s this way. It’s this way. It’s this way.”

On a visit to Mazara del Vallo, Sicily in February 2009, Prem Rawat was awarded honorary citizenship. Following that ceremony, several high school students came to the microphone one-by-one to ask him questions. What follows are excerpts from that exchange.

Q: “Life is a journey, and the journey of life is so beautiful that it does not require a destination.” I read this quote of yours, and I wanted to ask: without a precise destination, don’t we run the risk of drifting away?

A: Every journey has to have a purpose. Now, in some journeys, the purpose is to reach a particular place or destination. But in the journey of life, the purpose is to enjoy. And that in itself is the destination of the journey—to enjoy being alive. Yes, I agree with you that we cannot drift away from the enjoyment of this life. That is the purpose of this journey.

In a lively interview with Spanish journalist Eva M. Peña of Business & Class magazine, Prem Rawat responds to questions like, “If peace is within each person, why are human beings constantly struggling?” and “What do you consider to be the worst ‘evils’ of the twenty-first century?”

Eva M. Peña, a Spanish journalist, interviewed Prem Rawat for Spain’s Business & Class magazine on April 27, 2006. 

You live to spread the message that peace can be found, but what is peace?

If peace is within each person, why are human beings constantly struggling?

We are so geared to look for solutions outside us, that when it comes to peace, we look for it on the outside as well. It’s a bit like somebody who has a gold mine under their house but doesn’t know it. Maybe they beg all day long and they suffer, but the solution is so close to them and so simple. If they could find a way to access the gold mine under their house, they would never have to beg again. People struggle because they cannot find the peace within them. That is my message: Peace is within you. And not only that, I offer a way to be able to get in touch with that peace.