Why we have gone wrong is because matter has become so important to us.
We are so much identified with the matter, with our body, with all that is material for us. People are so much worried about the material things. What I find that the whole culture has become materialistic and they’re absolutely ashamed about it, but still they continue, the way it is so shameful and so degrading. It degrades human beings.
As I have come in the West I see this trend very clearly. For example, in a household whatever they purchase is for sale, all the time. So whatever they will purchase, they will see to it that it should be of a certain standard. Like, it should be, if it has to be a diamond, it has to be a perfect diamond, because it has to be sold again.
If they purchase the house, they are afraid that we should not spoil it or we should not make it beautiful, we should not try to do something that will lower the price of the house because we like the particular type of decoration.
Everything is for sale. They never enjoy any matter, you see. The enjoyment is not there. Whatever they buy, they think that “can we sell it back?” Say, even about – I’ve seen even precious stones.
Like in India, everybody can afford to have precious stones, because the rich will buy the most expensive ones, then the poor people can buy ordinary ones, like silver everybody can have, because some can have silver which is hundred percent, some can have little mixed up, some can have with some other material.
We are human beings. We have reached the state of human awareness. But we do not know what is the absolute truth. We are living very, very relatively. Some people think this kind of government is good, somebody thinks that kind of government is good, somebody thinks that economics should be like that, another thinks like that, and there’s all the time discussions, arguments and fighting going on.
Ultimately, we end up in wars. This relative life that we have, doesn’t give us any clear-cut idea as to what is the absolute. Unless and until we find that absoluteness, we cannot understand the truth. So, those who are seeking truth have to strive to know the absolute.
At this human awareness, the problem is that we are either involved with our body, mind, also so-called spirituality. Emotions, all these are just appendages, you can say, appendages for your being. We say, “This is my body, this is my body, this is my mind, this is my mind, this is my emotions, this is my house, this is my wife”. Who is this mind? Who is the one who owns it?
The one who owns it is the Spirit, is the Spirit in your heart, the Spirit which has not yet come into your attention. The light of the Spirit has not yet come into your attention, that’s why you think you are this body ,you are this mind. You are not. You are the pure Spirit. You are, whether you know it or not.
Also, there another thing one has to know, that there is the All-pervading Power of divine love which does all this living work of producing these beautiful flowers, running our heart, looking after our digestion. Every sort of a living work is done by this All-pervading Power of divine love, in Sanskrit, we call it Brahma Chaitanya, whatever you may call it.
In the Bible, it is called as the cool breeze of the Holy Ghost. It is the power of the Holy Ghost. Also in Quran, it is called as Ruh. In the religions where they have talked about Nirakar, about Formless, they have talked about it. So, this All-pervading Power of Param Chaitanya exist and we have to get united with that.
That is the real yoga. Standing on your head and doing acrobats is not yoga. Or reading books and doing mental acrobats, is also not yoga. What is important is that you have to grow above your mental capacity.
All the Western world is full of mental projections. And these mental projections are linear in their nature. They go up to a point, but they are not substantiated by truth. So, they decline and they fall. So, we have now decline in all our standards.
Sahaja Yoga Awakening Health, Joy, and Spiritual Light
Firstly, that you get rid of all your illnesses. Most of the illnesses can be cured – if they are at an early stage – by Sahaja Yoga. Most of the mental illnesses can be cured with Sahaja Yoga. Your material problems can be solved by Sahaja Yoga.
Your spiritual problems like going to wrong gurus and wrong people whatever you have accumulated within you can be corrected. But the highest of all that you become sensitive to joy. Then you start seeing joy in everything.
You don’t have to think that, “Oh, this is the thing which is marvellous”. No. It just happens, you see it is. Just you enjoy without thinking about it.
You become a peaceful personality. You become a dynamic personality. Your are not spade by other veils of things, like some fashion coming up, then some sort of a nonsensical idea coming up, then some medicine coming up and you treating yourself and getting to trouble.
You just rise above all the these things at a higher level and you start see everything as a witness. You become the witness of all the jokes that are going on and you just watch it and you think, “What’s all this? Is just a play”. Many people have said that, “Mother, You always laugh so much and You have always smiling face, so the people are not going to take You seriously”. I said, “I don’t want them to be serious”.
There’s not going to be any seriousness needed. What are you serious about? You should be happy. It’s fun. We have to be happy people. We have to be happy. Most people who think, they are very guilty, should punish themselves by saying, “You are not guilty, you are not guilty” 108 times.
That’s what we have in Sahaja Yoga. Is just the myth. All these are myths; we are working with myths and making our lives miserable, which is meant to be joy, happiness and all the overflowing blessings of the Divine.
Whatever I’m telling you about we have within ourselves all the great powers hidden of our brain, of our liver, of our heart, – they are to be enlightened. And then in the light you see everything. But as in this room you have so many lights you have to just push in one button and the whole thing comes out.
In the same way it happens. But if I start telling you about the history of electricity in the dark and all about how it came here and what all happened, you’d be just fed up with it. So what we are doing is to tell you that let us put on the button first, you better have your light and see in that light if it is true or not.
If it is true you have to understand and accept it honestly. You have to be honest to yourself that is the main point I’m trying to tell you. We are not to play about with ourselves and play about with our conditionings.
We have to be honest and to get to our properties that are within ourselves. I’m not here to oblige you at all, there’s no obligation. Is just like a catalyst, I would say, and you become the catalyst oneself once you get your Realisation. And you can do all that I can do, it’s very easy and very simple.
Path of Material Pursuit or Spiritual Awakening
Question: I have a search for the material and a search for the spiritual, but while I am young should I use it for the search for the material or the search for the spiritual?
Shri_Mataji: If you get the Spirit you get the material automatically. The whole material is controlled by the Spirit. Is very surprising how you get it. Is you enter into the realm of God. You’ll be amazed that in England, there’s such a lot of joblessness, people don’t have jobs at all, unemployment. See all these words I don’t know.
Unemployment. But not a single Sahaja Yogi is unemployed. Not a single Sahaja Yogi is unemployed. The other day, one gentleman was to come from Paris to Australia for a particular seminar and he thought he wanted to come because this is the other side of the world and all that, but quite excited. But he didn’t have money, and suddenly he got the money which he wasn’t to get for eight years.
Suddenly he got the money, he is here. All such miracles work out. From Australia I’ll tell you one miracle that’s most interesting. There was a little girl, she wrote a letter to me: “Mother, I want to come and see you in India, but I don’t have so much money to come.
She and her mother they both wanted to come and they had a fete in the school and she had taken a trinket for selling and when the teacher saw it she said, “This is gold, better take it to your mother.” And when they went to the jeweller the amount was the same as they would need to go to India.
So in so many ways you are helped. You don’t know the realm of God is very different. So efficient, works so fast. We haven’t entered into that realm.
