Completion

"If a painting is not complete, its true expression will never come to bear. A symphony, if it is not complete, will not express what the musician wanted to express," says Prem Rawat, who is known in many countries as Maharaji. "Here's a very simple question—what makes a human being complete?"

Maharaji has been talking about the universal human need for completion, for fulfillment, all his life. Since his early teens he's devoted most of each year to speaking to large audiences around the world about the possibility of satisfying that need, and offering his help in doing so.
"Fulfillment is not a joke," he says. "Look around in this vast world. That's what people are trying to find. For centuries, some people had a dream of flying. Now that dream has been fulfilled, and it's getting to the point where the skies are getting too crowded.

"There's one dream that goes much further than the dream of flight. That is the dream of having peace on the face of this earth." The peace that Maharaji talks about is not something brought about by treaty, he says, but a feeling within every human heart. It's the dream of "those who have studied the passion of the heart and come to the conclusion that peace is necessary in their lives because they want to be complete, not incomplete. They want to accept the gift of being alive in its entirety, not in little bits and pieces."

The need for peace, he says, "needs acknowledgment—and most importantly, it needs to be fulfilled. We need to turn within ourselves to find peace. Because until this dream is fulfilled, it doesn't matter what else happens: Something will not be complete."