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Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat

Prem Rawat’s podcasts bring you a weekly audio message aimed at providing education and entertainment about the path to inner peace and knowing yourself.
Series 4
Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat Season 4 Podcast – Episode 30 Who’s Here for Fun?
Who’s here for fun? Tune in and enjoy. Why do ever want to get on a carousel ride when we know we’ll end up exactly where we started? And what does that question have to do with the future of humanity? We dive into these deep questions with journalist Anabela Almeida...
Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat Season 4 Podcast – Episode 29 What about school?
What about school? Tune in to learn more. Most of us go to school, but what really happens there? What do we really learn, and is there more we could learn? In this educational episode of Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat, we join TV personality Lumka Ngxoli in...
Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat Season 4 Podcast – Episode 28 Is world peace possible?
Is world peace possible? Tune in to the surprising answer. War. Conflict. Violence. The news is full of it. Is there anything we can do to make the world more peaceful? In this classic episode of Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat we travel to Kuala Lumpur to explore...
Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat Season 4 Podcast – Episode 27 Sandwich of a Lifetime?
The sandwich of a lifetime? Tune in for the recipe. We’ve got two slices of bread and our favorite ingredients. What can making a sandwich teach us about life? Australian journalist Wendy Hughes helps us answer this and other intriguing questions from the land down...
Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat Season 4 Podcast – Episode 26 What’s the Value of You?
What’s the value of you? Tune in for real success. We talk a lot about the value of things – our careers, our possessions, our future. But did you ever wonder about your own true value? In this valuable episode of Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat, we travel to...
Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat Season 4 Podcast – Episode 25 Why war?
Why war? Tune in for humanity. Around the globe, many people have to leave their homes, their countries, their cultures, all because of war. How did the world get so off-balance and what can we do about it? Miami journalist Kike Posada helps us answer audience...
Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat Season 4 Podcast – Episode 24 Are you paying attention?
Are you paying attention? Tune in to find out. We human beings seem so distracted these days, don't we? In fact, some people pay so much attention to their phones, they walk in front of cars! But where should we put our attention? Swedish television personality...
Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat Season 4 Podcast – Episode 23 What’s your greatest asset?
What's your greatest asset? Tune in for real value.Of everything you own, what has the greatest worth? Is it your car, your house, your bank account? Or is it something different? Swedish TV presenter #FillipaLagerback helps us explore this invaluable question in a...
Series 3
“Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat” podcast series 3, episode 17 – How can we silence the noise inside us?
“Somehow there is a want in us to conform to society, to be ‘normal.’ What is the definition of 'normal?’ Nobody actually knows. It’s not published in a book that says, ‘This is normal.’ Therefore, you have to believe what is normal. So, you then officially are...
“Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat” podcast series 3, episode 16 – Taking Back Your Time
“You should be the first person to dictate what you do with your time. You’re the one who was born, and you’re the one who’s going to die. And between the birth and the death, this is the time that you have—and you should be the first person to dictate what happens...
“Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat” podcast series 3, episode 15 – A Change of Perspective
“Whatever the difficulties may be, whatever the issues may be, and however big they may be, don’t confuse 'easy' and the fulfillment of the objective. It may not be easy to find peace. But to have found peace is a fulfillment, is a success unparalleled.” —Prem Rawat...
“Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat” podcast series 3, episode 14 – Embracing the Human Experience
“We carry these loads on our shoulders. And that hunches us over, bends us over, makes us uncomfortable—every day, makes us uncomfortable. And if we put that load down, we can then stand up straight—as we are meant to stand up straight. And then continue.” —Prem Rawat...
“Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat” podcast series 3, episode 13 – How can you become the narrator of your own story?
Who’s narrating your life story? “You play a part in many, many stories. But you have to always remember that those stories in which you play a part are not your stories. You have your own story. And you have to make sure that your story plays out well—with...
“Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat” podcast series 3, episode 12 – Do you want to know how to discover the priceless You
What makes you priceless? As news of the coronavirus continues to stoke fear, it can often lead to anger. The pandemic may still be keeping you isolated from family members or surrounded by them 24/7. Tensions can run high, and conflict can escalate to verbal...
“Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat” podcast series 3, episode 11 – How Can I Become a Better Person?
How can I be better? The impulse to improve ourselves and our circumstances is innate. We strive to be better parents, better children, better employers and employees, better friends. We may have faced those confronting moments of blurting out something unconsciously...
“Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat” podcast series 3, episode 10 – Is Your Drive to be Perfect Really Making You Happy?
Will being perfect make you happy? We rank and score our ideal objects of desire. Even people who consider themselves a “5,” want someone who’s a perfect “10” to fall in love with them. Maybe you practice the art of feng shui and obsess about everything being just so,...
Series 2
“Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat” podcast series 2, episode 17 -Today Carries a Message for You
Today has a message for you! Tune in now! Prem reminds us to take life one step at a time, one moment at a time. We can plan for tomorrow and remember yesterday, but we also have the capacity to understand what today is all about and the fantastic capacity to see what...
“Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat” podcast series 2, episode 16 – Life’s Shopping Center
What if life is a shopping center? Tune in for a shopper's guide to life. Today Prem talks about the opportunity for us to be happy, to enjoy, to be simple, and to have an understanding that your relationship between the two walls is about you. It isn’t about the...
“Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat” podcast series 2, episode 15 – The Preciousness of Life
Can you find opportunity in the face of the storm? Tune in to learn how. In this week’s podcast, Prem Rawat talks about the meaning of simplicity. The meaning of being simple and being in isolation due to Coronavirus is the breath coming into you without any effort,...
“Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat” podcast series 2, episode 14 – Reach for Courage
Where can you find the courage to continue? Tune in for the surprising answer. Prem reminds us that we need to become human again. Despite all the fearmongering, the fundamental rules of COVID are simple. Don’t get the virus and don’t give the virus. Isolation is the...
“Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat” podcast series 2, episode 13 – Love has No Boundaries
How can I find beauty and peace with so much darkness in this world? Tune it to “un-change” your life. This week’s podcast is another rapid fire Q & A with Prem reading comments and answering questions from Lockdown viewers. We look for the beauty and peace inside...
“Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat” podcast series 2, episode 12 – Peace is not what you have. Peace is what you Feel.
How do you feel real peace? Listen to learn about the Peace Education Program. In this week’s fast paced Q & A podcast, Prem reads some questions and comments from participants in the Peace Education Program. Most of the questions answered have come from...
“Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat” podcast series 2, episode 11 – Be fulfilled. Be real. Be true. Be.
What is the heart’s call to action? Tune in and find out. In today’s podcast, Prem talks about how to be fulfilled, real, and true. He begins with a story about a young man seeking wisdom on how to make the most out of life. The message is that we walk with a heavy...
“Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat” podcast series 2, episode 10 – How to thrive and feel good
Feel like a victim? Losing direction? Tune in to find your own beacon of hope. In today’s podcast, we are reminded by Prem that we can feel hope and not be victimized by the COVID 19 crisis. We need to find our hope and clarity. The reality hits and we ask ourselves...
Series 1
“Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat” podcast week 22 with Wendy Hughes, journalist at Ipswich Times, in Australia.
In this week’s podcast Prem is interviewed by Wendy Hughes in Australia. They talk about how the country is in a great position for peace to grow and flourish. The need for peace is the same as in any other country as people everywhere face the same challenges. He...
“Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat” podcast week 23 – Lite FM Radio on Compassion
In this podcast recorded in Malaysia, Prem Rawat is being interviewed by radio hosts Steve and Shiraz on Lite FM radio about compassion. They discuss how the Peace Education Program has helped to keep released inmates from coming back to jail. The program is now being...
“Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat” podcast week 15 with Filippa Lagerback: The Boat of Life
Prem Rawat joins TV personality Filippa Lagerbäck in Milan, Italy for this entertaining and lively conversation. The two talk about the busy and distracted lives we live and our thirst for peace. We each have the opportunity to experience peace as a state of...
“Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat” podcast week 16: At United World College in Norway
This week’s podcast is a special treat. In this round robin conversation with international students from Red Cross Nordic Student Circle at the United World College in Flekke, Norway, young people talk with Prem about conflict in their countries. Many of these...
“Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat” podcast week 17 – Wellbeing and Eating Disorders
Prem speaks to patients in Sicily, Italy at a clinic for eating disorders. He asks us about the problems and issues in life and where our focus is. What is the meaning of wellbeing and the whole issue of peace? First, you must understand yourself and that you are in...
“Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat” podcast week 12 – Stories for Life
TV presenter Maxi Sarwas interviews Prem on the book Splitting the Arrow. Prem talks about how what we practice we become, and why we should respect our families. He tells the illustrative story of the archer and the oil salesman to reinforce the point of how we...
“Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat” podcast week 14 with TV presenter Anne Igartiburu – Rain in the Desert
In this week’s riveting podcast TV presenter Anne Igartiburu interviews Prem in Madrid about his book and the power of storytelling. He speaks about taking advantage of the opportunities we have in life so we can understand who we are. They discuss how to face...
“Life’s Essentials with Prem Rawat” podcast week 10 with Graeme Richards – Unlocking Hope
TV presenter Graeme Richards interviews Prem on a diversity of topics including child rearing, the power of beliefs, telling the difference between facts and fiction, unlocking hope, and beauty. He reminds us that light is never far away from joy and joy is never far...