FILLING YOUR POT Imagine you have a clay pot. It’s not antique or anything special. It is what it is: a relatively inexpensive clay pot.

If you fill the pot with diamonds, its value will go up. Conversely, if it is filled with garbage, its value will go down. And when that which is in it is taken out of it, it will return to its base value.

Our human body is like that clay pot. Its value is what it is. And when something incredible is placed inside it, its value increases a hundredfold. When the human pot is filled with valuables like clarity, understanding, love, peace, sincerity, fulfillment, it becomes priceless.

Prem Rawat spoken wordsfrom ADI Magazine

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What you admire in a person is not their clay pot, but the value of what is in it. And if you want to increase the value of your own being, then you must fill your pot with precious items.

Are you interested in increasing the value of the time that you have on earth? I don’t want to fill your head with what’s going to happen to you after you die, because I don’t think you can afford to speculate about that. What you have to do, you have to do now.

THE VALUE OF TIMEWhat if heaven is inside you right now? What if heaven has always been inside you, a heaven that can make your life so sweet? From bitterness—the venom of misunderstanding—to incredible sweetness? When you are in love, love bestows on you a nectar. When you are clear, clarity bestows on you a nectar. And when you are unclear, when you are in doubt, when you are questioning, confusion bestows on you a venom. And it’s puzzling, because you know the confusion doesn’t feel good. You don’t know how to get out of it, but you know it’s not good. In pain and suffering, you know it’s not good. But you should also know that the solution lies within you.

You have to fill your pot with something precious. Not once. Again and again and again until it is full. Anything less is a compromise. Every moment that goes by without fulfillment is a moment wasted.

You try to understand the value of time. You shouldn’t be worrying about time because there’s nothing you can do about it. The only way you can do something about time is to take off from earth in a spaceship and travel at the speed of light for an eon. Then you might be able to do something about time.

But on this planet Earth, time is the wrong thing to be worried about. What you should worry about is what you are going to do in the time that you have. Do you not know that your time is limited? How quickly you forget that. The very thing that is so fragile has forgotten its fragility. The very thing that is destined to go one day—as it has come one day—has forgotten about leaving.

PEACE OR CONFUSION?There are a lot of people who say: “I am not under any illusion.” Really? I think you’ve fallen for a pretty big illusion if you don’t understand that one day you’ll have to go—and you had better shape up and do what you need to do while you can do it. I’m just stating a fact. You can run around confused in this world, or be in peace. Pick one.

Is there something inside you that favors peace over confusion? If you find that there is, then congratulations: you are a human being. You have just reached out and felt your most fundamental want. You have had many things in your life, and I hope everything is kind to you and you have many more. But unless you have that one thing called peace, life is going to feel empty to you.

Unless you have peace, life is going to feel empty to you.

I didn’t make that rule. And I didn’t put the idea into your head so that you might begin favoring peace—you did that yourself. All I did was ask, “Which one do you favor: confusion or peace?” And you instantly knew the answer.

The issue is: Can you be fulfilled every day? To me, this is not a question, because I know the answer. And the answer is, “Yes, you can. Every single day.”

When I feel hungry, I need food. Can I say to myself, “I had food yesterday, the day before that and the day before that—I don’t need to eat today”? It doesn’t work like that. You are hungry; you need food.

When you feel sleepy, you need to sleep. You cannot deduce, “I slept yesterday, the day before that and the day before that—so tonight I don’t have to sleep.” You have to eat and you have to sleep, every day.

What is your necessity? Many of your necessities are dictated by your body, by your thoughts, by your ideas, by your responsibilities. You understand those and that’s good. But what about the necessities that are dictated by your heart—from inside of you?

It is not about explanations: it is about feeling. Love is not about explanations. Truth is not about explanations. Those things can only be felt, not written down. God is not about explanations. If there is one thing that is most misunderstood, it is God. That is why there is so much trouble in the world in the name of God.

TO BE RICHWhen I feel the closeness inside me to my God, I smell a perfume. The perfume of God is peace. No more dualities. No more confusion. Just understanding. No questions. Just answers. I feel gratitude

because truly I have been gratified. Fulfilled. And then I walk this earth knowing and understanding, even through all the bumps. Life is not about the bumps. Life is not about the storms. Life is about being a human being.

Pain is pain. Suffering is suffering. And peace is peace. Regardless of your age. Regardless of your money. Regardless of your stature. Regardless of your accomplishments, peace is peace. Regardless of your failures, peace is peace. The heart wants that peace and that’s it. The only way to be fulfilled is to feel peace. To feel joy.

It takes two things to be rich. One, you have to have something very precious. Two, you have to have a lot of it. If you have some gold that’s just the size of a pin, it’s not going to make you rich. You have to have a lot of it. Do you know that your breath is not only precious, but you have a lot of it? If you could find the preciousness of the breath, you would be rich. Very, very rich.

Can you be fulfilled?Yes, every day!

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