On Sunday, January 29th, over 2,430 guests made their way to the Long Beach Convention Center in order to spend an evening with Maharaji. With his usual humor, he touched on diverse subjects such as the drama of human existence, the disease of unconsciousness, the relationship between questions and answers and ultimately the peace that lies within.

Here are some excerpts from his talk:

All I am trying to do this evening is to draw your attention to certain things that you usually don’t pay attention to — even though you know them. Like clarity, like understanding, like simplicity, like fulfillment. Like your heart. You know these things. But you don’t acknowledge them — not always.

Nobody has to bring peace to you. You have peace already inside of you. You have consciousness in you, and you have unconsciousness in you. You have hate in you, and you have love in you. You have clarity in you, and you have confusion in you. You have the mortal in you, and you have the immortal in you. Talk about everything. Right there, you've covered it — the mortal in you, and the immortal in you.

I can tell you one thing: Every person that has been within has called out to all of humanity and said, 'Wish you were here.' Because there is no place like home. And that’s your home. And because it is a reality, it works — even in the confines of a correctional institution. That’s just a façade. A human being is a human being — and as long as there is a human being, within them is this most precious thing that is available to them.