The most challenging quest anyone can undertake in life has nothing to do with climbing the world's highest mountains. It's finding out who you really are, says Prem Rawat, popularly known as Maharaji.
"The biggest adventure," he says, "is not climbing
Each life, Maharaji says, is like a story unfolding. "What should your story be?" he asks. "Should it be about suffering, pain, anger, and all the things you don't have? Shouldn't this life really be interesting, an adventure?"
To know yourself, he says, you have to tame the dragon of anger and desire that's within all human beings.
"If you don't tame that dragon, it'll destroy you," he warns. "If you do tame that dragon, you get to fly on its back to wherever it is you want to go."
Even before he started school, Maharaji began talking publicly about the need within every individual to be at peace. He traveled to the West in his early teens in response to invitations from people who had heard him speak in his native
"It's fun. Here it is —you are never, ever far from yourself. The closest you will ever be to anyone is to yourself. Yet the one you don't know is you. You know everybody else. What you have to do is find yourself, the one person who is closest to you."
While many people find Maharaji's words inspiring, there is more to what he offers. If you choose the adventure of discovering you, he says, "I'm here to help. I can help."
