Maharaji Needs Trust

It's understandable that after Prem Rawat wound up Divine Light Mission, renaming it Elan Vital, closed the ashrams, closed the nightly satsang meetings, got a haircut, renamed himself Maharaji, changed his vocabulary and removed nearly all the public Indian trappings and concepts that had got him Western followers in the first place, the one thing that his shell-shocked true believers would need was trust. Trust in him. So he stressed it far more as Maharaji than he'd ever done as Guru Maharaj Ji.

Maharaji's presentation at the North American Convention, Miami Beach, July 5, 1986

• Life is calling every one of us to move. it reminds me of that beautiful saying, "You cannot change the direction of the wind, but you can adjust the sails." I don't know if the power of life can be changed according to my whims or ideas, but I can try to adjust my sails. I can try to be taken every step of the way - not by being caught up in a lot of definitions, but by trusting. trusting me for a change. I can trust that my life is not a mistake. Think about that. I have not been put here by mistake. It's deliberate. It's precision at its peak. It's absolute, not a fluke of nature or random choice
• But I also know in my heart, that the power I speak of has compassion for us. I have absolutely no doubt the power could end it all any time it wanted to. And yet, here we are, having an opportunity to be able to witness and understand the beauty in all of us. That power is not going to change our goods and bads. It's not going to change our book. But it will give us something better to look at than our goods and bads. it'll give us something like ourselves to look at. That's where that power has put the trust. The power, the beauty, has put the trust in you. So you can glorify it. So you can love it. So you can sing the praises in your own little way.
• Maybe there are things in the past that have been hard, but the evolution has taken place. It's been demanding, but it's also been kind. It's been difficult, but it's also been gentle. It's been an unfolding. Every petal is blooming, flowering, opening up in its own sweet time. And you are becoming more beautiful with every opening petal. trust in that evolution. trust in that power that moves us.

Prem Rawat's Speech at a Los Angeles Public Program, 21st February 1988

• All of a sudden, somebody is making a claim that you can experience it for yourself, you think that's easy to swallow. No, not as easy as you think it is, not as easy as you think it is because you have up till now trusted everything else in your life. You trust your car, doesn't matter how lousy it is, you trust it. You get in that driver's seat and you put the keys in the ignition and you turn the ignition, you know what you're doing? You're demonstrating your trust in the car that it'll start and sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't and that's an irrelevant trust. It doesn't matter if it doesn't start, you go out, kick it a few times and it starts. If that doesn't work you call the AAA, if that doesn't work you get rid of it. Big deal, trusting your car. You trust your house. When you get back from your job it'll still be there. When you leave your job you demonstrate that you trust your house. You demonstrate that you trust your family that it'll be there, that your husband or your wife will still be there. You demonstrate that, they may not be, that has nothing to do with it, they may have split. All of you, all you may find when you get home is a little note "Goodbye, good riddance" but when you leave your office or you leave somewhere to go back to your home you demonstrating a trust. But these days divorces are coming by the dozen, if the husband leaves the wife will find another one. Hey there's plenty on the mark there and vice versa. So, the kids, you're demonstrating the kids will be around. They may have also written that note "Dad, bye, love, see ya" and gone but what about when is it that we are ever challenged to really really really trust ourselves? Just us, nobody else, nothing else.

Prem Rawat's Speech at the Festival Of Knowledge, Brussels Belgium, Morning Address, December 9th 1989

• I don't know if you know that your Creator has given you this tool called trust.
• when the process of inner learning is such that it is surrounded by uncertainty and when the process is such that in the uncertainty there is pleasure and joy and in the outs uncertainty there is hope, then the kind of tool you need to survive through that, to come out on the other side, is trust and that's why that Creator in this incredible beautiful loving wissdom (sic) gave you the tool called trust. When everything gets dark, trust is that little light that comes on and illuminates that path
• No charts, just feel and a hope that that living teacher, living Master brings. A soothing feeling, it's okay, it's okay. Many have sailed and many have made it. Remember trust, be aware, and although this is a complicated path, although it's a very uncertain path you'll make it and that's hope … yet you begin to accept, you begin to relax and you begin to trust.
• You gotta trust, you gotta trust and how wonderful that there can be someone who can allow this process to unfold within us … Every human being striving, wanting, desiring the answer which lies within each human being. Find it, look, search, seek, trust, have that hope and there's Knowledge, the key, the mirror, the necessity that allows that process to unfold.

Prem Rawat's Speech at the Festival Of Knowledge, Brussels Belgium, Evening Address, December 9th 1989

• there'll be days when what the Master is trying to tell you will not make sense, there'll be days and you'll say "Gees, I wonder what he means." And you will need hope and you will need trust … I don't know what's gonna happen tomorrow and I don't know what's gonna happen day after tomorrow but things happen, things revolve around me and I need a lotta trust and I need a lotta hope and I need a lot of openness to accept these things
• how wonderful it is that that person, that that teacher is allowing, allowing you to depend upon so that you can have that hope so that you can have that trust so that you can have that gratitude. Why do you need gratitude? You don't need gratitude? You know this is something I'm starting to learn.

1990 Rome

• How beautiful it is to be empty and to trust, to have that trust. When that farmer takes that seed, when that gardener takes that seed and the seed is sown, it's planted. He's not gonna come every day and dig it up and see if it's working. trusting. trusting that age old process of wait, patiently wait and do you think that that little seed is not at work? Do you think that that little plant is not at work? Oh it's at work. I mean it always amazes me, this delicate little thing, I mean have you ever touched a new shoot, it is so delicate it's so soft it, it's so tender and yet you know how strong it is? It's so incredibly strong that it can shake and move the earth out of its tiny little way and come right up. That's strength, that's trust, that's that process, that in that scheme of things even that tiny little plant has been given the strength that it needs to move whatever is there out of it's way, for it to take shape.

Shri Sant Yogashram, New Delhi, April 13, 1992 Public program translated from Hindi

• But practice this Knowledge. Have faith. Have trust in the Master. trust this Knowledge. Enjoy this life. Enjoy this Knowledge! Let those feelings fill up your heart, which may increase. your regard for the Master and the Knowledge.
• But if you have trust within you and really the Master is there -- the Perfect Master -- to take care of you, and if you actually have trust and faith in your heart then there is absolutely nothing to worry about.
• Now look, it is what is called proper time. And it is a matter of trust … So, this is what is called 'trust'

Maharaji's Brighton Aspirant Satsang June/July 1993 transcript

• I am that instructor, I am the person responsible when things don't go right it is me that grabs the yoke and goes "Oops" but that beautiful thing I never had to create and I don't today because it's always been within the and when you can begin to learn that you can trust, you can trust. For me I have been through many many things in my life but that magic I completely trust because that magic has not changed once.
• I wanna attach myself, I wanna latch myself to the unchangeable because that will go on much more than when this body is finished. Cause that's one of my natures. To be able to do that takes a tremendous amount of trust. trust that which you believe. If you have found your heart I can tell you you listen to your heart and listen to it closely. I cannot make you trust it, you must do that. trust it and flow. Sometimes that's the way it has to be.
• Follow that, make your heart the leader. trust, trust in those things that will not lead you astray. Do not trust, do not trust in speeches and do not trust on plaques that hang behind people.

1996 Rome

• everybody is trying to believe in something, trying to trust something, and then the Master comes along and says you should trust in that one thing that is the most important to you. Don't trust in this world because this world is in transit, it is in motion, it moves, you try to stabilize it and it becomes unstable. Do not put your trust in the ideas and ideals because they change too
• Everything else is going to be transitory, that is its nature. This is what I have been saying to people believe, then believe in that one thing that also believes in you. trust, then trust that one thing that also trusts in you and if you're going to love, then love that one thing that also loves you.

Maharaji's world wide addresses 1983-1994

• There is no reason to distrust. The sunrise this morning, the sunset this evening - all made possible by the courtesy of this one breath in and one breath out. I can say I've had terrible days, but in retrospect, they were all good. When I was going through them they were terrible. In retrospect, "The only survival kit that we have is our moments of enjoyment and trust." Am I afraid of it? Yes and no. It is unknown, and yet from the nine months that I was in my mother's womb something has cared for me every living moment. I have absolutely no reason to distrust this feeling, this power, this grace - whatever you want to call it. Just as I don't distrust it for the moment I have now, I have no reason to distrust it when it comes time for me to leave. So, in a nutshell, I trust. I don't know if I will wake up tomorrow - no one does - but people assume they do. By force of habit we say, "Tomorrow, I will do this," or, "this will happen." We don't know that, and it's always a great shocker when somebody doesn't wake up in the morning. The only survival kit that we have is our moments of enjoyment and trust. That's what I was alive and I lived through them. Wisdom? To learn from that. To know that I need to trust even more. I'm not trusting in something blind. I'm trusting in something very real. Nothing is more real to me, personally, than this one breath in and one breath out.