Post 35: Alternative
"We aim to hold a conference where representatives from different religions around the world will come together to discuss how organized religions are lacking. The aim is to take the concept of a universal, 'pure' religion and to offer as an alternative a 'Universal Religion of the Spirit'."
1900-0000 Two Quotes from an article by Catherine Kelly (a writer and broadcaster who lives in London) Reproduced in a 2001-1200 article 'Age of the Truth' by Audrey Hopes in a Local Newspaper from Los Angeles Area
Version 1:
"You must say the mantras during Pūjā, but with complete śhraddhā. There is no alternative to śhraddhā. When your śhraddhā is exquisite [profound], then only you should sit for a Pūjā. That way the Pūjā is done by heart. That time waves after waves of joy start flowing because when Ātmā Tattwa is the focal point there can not be any thoughts. The way people fill madirā [wine, alcohol] in a glass, same is with you performing Pūjā, your śhraddhā is the madirā [wine, alcohol] and the glass is nothing but the recitation of mantras and sādhana. While drinking this madirā [wine, alcohol] you are completely engrossed, with no thoughts, and you swim in this joy. How to express that joy in thoughts [words]? The madirā [wine, alcohol] which is inside the stomach, who is going to pour it back into a glass? And that too in an inferior glass made of thoughts. Joy after drinking this madirā [wine, alcohol] is eternal. It is your wealth. Many Pūjās like this have happened in front of Me and every time a big wave comes and takes you to a new shore. Those experiences from different shores become your own. They give grandness to your personality and open new doors of joy.
It is best to do a Pūjā in the heart. If you can look at the Photo and then bring it into your heart, or after a Pūjā if you can bring that scene into your heart, then the joy of that moment can become permanent and will last for a long time. Read this letter to all Sahaja Yogis and send them copies of this letter."
Version 2:
"You should say the Mantras in Pūjā but with great faith (śhraddhā). There is no alternative to śhraddhā. You should perform the Pūjā when śhraddhā grows deep, so that heart itself gets all Pūjā performed. At that time waves of bliss start flowing because it is the Spirit that is saying, how can any thought come at that time? People pour their madirā [wine, alcohol] in the glass. Your Pūjā is like that. In that, madirā [wine, alcohol] is your faith and the glass is the recitation of Mantras and the worshiping. When you are drinking that madirā [wine, alcohol] forgetting everything, how can a thought come! Then only bathing in the Ocean of Bliss! How can that joy be expressed in thoughts? Who will pour that madirā [wine, alcohol], back in the glass, which is to be drunk and that too in the inferior glass of thoughts? However, the joy that you get after drinking the madirā [wine, alcohol] is eternal and ever-present. It becomes your asset. Many such Pūjās have been performed in My presence. Every time a big wave comes and take you to a new land. Experiences of many such lands become your own. They give vastness to personality and open new gates of joy.
Best is worshiping in the heart. If, the Photo by looking at it, can be placed in heart or, after the Pūjā, its view goes to heart, then the joy which you get only at that time, can become everlasting and ever-present. Show this letter, to all Sahaja Yogis and send its copies."
1976-1012 Letter to Nirmalā (sister of Rājabhāī Modi) (Marathi), On Pūjā, London, UK
Version 1:
"Now instead of thinking and planning, if they realize the planning of the Almighty, then they don't have to take that headache upon themselves. First understand God. Meaning, His All-pervading Power is doing all the planning by Itself. If you abide by that planning then all your tasks will work out beautifully. If instead you take it upon yourself, then you will always encounter some hindrances and obstacles. You can see for yourself the state of our country due to the existing planning. "
Version 2:
"Now instead of thinking and planning themselves, if they understand the planning of the Almighty, then they don't have to take that trouble upon themselves. First understand God. Meaning, His All-pervading Power is doing all the planning by Itself. If you abide by that planning, then all your tasks will work out properly and beautifully. If instead you take it upon yourself, then you will plan, evaluate alternatives and work out the solutions where there will always be obstacles."
1979-0223 Public Program (Marathi), Kuṇḍalinī Śhakti ani Sat Chakra (Kuṇḍalinī Śhakti and the Seven Chakras), Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India
"There is no alternative to this. It is a very subtle. Only one or two strands of the Kuṇḍalinī rise from inside of it."
1979-0318 Public Program (Hindi), Day 9, Sahasrāra Chakra, Śhāmiyānā, Garden, Pataudi House, 10 Ashoka Road, New Delhi, India
"Then there can be only two possibilities. Either you recognize the Self-realization within you, and rise up to its greatness and go deep in it, or leave it altogether. There cannot be a third alternative.
As someone asked, "How many turns are there in London?" "Only two: left and right." "
1979-0818 Public Program (Hindi), Ātmā and Paramātma, Saradār Patel Vidyalaya (School), Lodi Estate, New Delhi, India
"There were some people who came to Me whom I called druggist or chemist. Means they used to be in state of coma. Such high consumption of drugs. But they got out of drugs from next day itself. Liquor, cigarette everything. Ninety-nine percent [99\%].
But one percent [1\%] may still be stuck. Some are stubborn, but they should strive hard, and they do strive else one gets catches. Then you realize that there is a catch on the left Viśhuddhi, this and that. Then it pains. There is no alternative except removing the catch."
1980-1209 Talk to Sahaja Yogis (Marathi), Day 1, Sane Gurujī Vidyālaya (English Medium) School, Bhikoba Waman Pathare Mārg, Near Dadar Catering College, Shivaji Park, West Dadar, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
"How there are ... there is no alternative for Sahaj Yog, no alternative, one must know. Everything that is living has no alternatives.
For example, if a mango tree says that, 'I will create a pomegranate,' it cannot. There is no alternative.
Whatever is there it has to see and enjoy. But not to force its way on [unclear].
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Look at the little ones: how they came forward to give Me flowers, every step, every movement was so joyous, was creating such a beautiful delicate ripple in My heart. And it's written as history for Me to see these little, little sweet, innocent Gaṇeśhas coming forward.
That in wisdom becomes so [unclear] that you know the Source of Love as Gaṇeśha [unclear]. For He did not know anything else but one that which is the Source of Love. Never questioned. Never argued, no alternative. No new ideas came into head, He's just steadying in."
1981-0321 Birthday Pūjā, Wisdom, Āśhram, 10 Clarence Street, Burwood, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
"Now if you say: 'Which is the way a flower has to become a fruit?' There's only one way! [Laughing:] There have no two ways. Living things do not have two ways and five alternatives. These are all for human beings to take lots of decisions and [laughs] do all these things. But for any living thing, it's only one way it works out.
And that's how it is the germination within you, which is a living force of the Living God, is the only way: is the Kuṇḍalinī awakening. And that's why we can say, Sahaja is the only way! It is! There's no other way out!"
1981-0331 Talkback Live Interview with a Gentleman for the 'Forum' Program of 'Macquarie Sports Radio' Station (call sign 2UE), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Śhrī Mātājī: So-o, to become closer to God, you have to be closer to God. That's as simple as that.
I mean somebody would say: 'How do I know that I know that ... what ... how to drive a car?' When you know. 'How do I know I [laughing:] can drive a bike?' Say, for example somebody says, 'How can I use a bike?' I mean when you are that you are that! I mean is there any other way out? 'How will I say I've got eyes?' When you can see! Finished! I mean it's so simple as that.
So, how can you say you are nearer to God? You yourself will know you are nearer to God. Because the joy of being that tells you.
You need not be close to Me, you need not be touching My Feet, you could be anywhere in the forest, you could be very close to Me, and those who thing [unclear] they are close to Me because they can make a little face and, you know, behave in a very artificial way or some dramatic styles, you see, they are very far away.
And those who cannot understand the commands of the brain are useless things!
Now supposing one nail starts growing big, all right, and piercing inside the skin, we'll take it out, isn't it? There's not listening to the brain!
Sahaja Yogi: [unclear].
Śhrī Mātājī: We'll have to throw it out!
Another Sahaja Yogi: [unclear].
Śhrī Mātājī: Any malignant growth is that growth which goes beyond the control of the brain, of the central nervous system. If the parasympathetic cannot control a growth of a particular cell, that is a malignant cell!
So, if you become malignant in Sahaja Yoga, you may think you are a very great person or very some thing. You may think, you will be thrown out. Because you are a disease! You are a diseased person. You'll be thrown out.
So to be reluh ... relevant, is to be relevant! There's no alternative for that.
Paryāy (alternative) [unclear].
Another Sahaja Yogi: [unclear].
Śhrī Mātājī: Paryāy (alternative) [unclear].
Sahaja Yogi: No compromise in it.
Śhrī Mātājī: No compromise.
1982-0206 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Action and Desire, Research Station, Niphad, Maharashtra, India
"Like Blake has said, that, "Men of God will become Prophets, and the ... these Prophets will have powers to make others Prophets."
He said it so clearly for you English people, but I don't think you people like Him very much. [Laughing:] Because ... because the way peo... few people I have seen, who really appreciate Blake. And some of them have said that, "He is mad!" Naturally, among all the mad people, a sane person may look mad also. But He is the one who has so clearly said.
And in this country, this great man should be born, and should talk about Jerusalem, is remarkable!
Because you cannot think, in England, where people just believe in dominating other countries and using the ... their power to dominate others, you could get Jerusalem established!
But what He said was of these days, when those false ideas have dropped off, when people do not think of domination, they do not think of materialism, they are fed up with all these things, and they are seeking today.
And who are these seekers? These seekers are the men of God.
So, recognize yourself. First of all, you must recognize your Self before recognizing anybody else, that you are seekers and that you are men of God.
Unless and until you have found God, you are not going to be happy by all these nonsensical ... uh-uh-uh ... alternatives people are giving."
1982-0515 Public Program, Day 3, The Creative Power, Central Channel, Brighton Pavillion, Brighton, East Sussex, UK
"I mean, you may, in your myth, you see, hallucination, think it is different, and fight.
It's, I ... I sometimes feel you are just fighting your shadows! This is the, you have created shadows, and the shadows are fighting. And just to make the shadows fight, you fight, otherwise shadows won't fight. [Some laughter.] It's all a shadow! There's no truth in it!
To Me, it looks like that. It's all madness. What is there to fight?
This is One World. Everybody is blessed by God. They all should enjoy His blessings: to enter into the Kingdom of God. He is the King. He is the One who is the Ruler.
In His Kingdom, there is nothing like a state.
So, that's a very different world you are entering into.
There are no alternatives there! It's only one Absolute State of Mind, where you become the Spirit. That's all.
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Foods also, natural food you must eat, more natural food, than artificial. All that will give you a better living.
And that is called as alternative, all right. That's alternative is important.
But that doesn't mean you go on a bullock cart.
You can export your trains to India, or your cars to India and get khādī from there. All right?
Mu... mutual understanding. Because we are part and parcel of one Whole.
And we just cannot exist by our only growth because then we become malignant, you see. One cells eats another. They ... you have to!
If you have a machinery, you have to eat other! Because you produce so much, you must find markets for them, you must supply them, you must send over. Then you must have other countries to exploit them!"
1982-0607 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Ego and Humility or You Must Improve Yourself, Nirmala Palace Āśhram, 99 Nightingale Lane, Balham, London SW12 8LZ, UK
"More so in places which are supposed to be developed. In developing that part of your systems you have exhausted yourself much more. I mean, it was all right up to a point. But when human beings know something, they'll go to the extreme end of everything.
Now, if you know electricity, then everything must work on electricity: your lift will work on electricity, this will work on electricity. Now, computer have come, all right. Now, they will make human beings into electrical lid ... electrodes, I don't know what they are going to make out of that. I mean, going to that extent. Then ilectriti ... electricity fails, finished.
Now, petrol started: petrol, use petrol as much as you like, all right. Now, petrol is getting exhausted.
So there's a shock, [laughing:] future shock conditions: in a trauma we sit. In that confused state you are in a shocked state, 'Oh, God! What's going to happen to us?'
But why play into the hands of these things to that extent?
The countries which are not so developed, see, you can say countries which are little underdeveloped and developed, you see, where a motorcar runs and a bullock cart also runs: if the motorcar fails they can use the oxes [oxen] to run the motorcar[s]. We call it 'Ox Ford'. [Laughter.] So, one can rely [laughing:] on something else: there is an alternative already available.
But when you cut out all the alternatives, then how can you find out in alternatives?
For example, now we've got calculators. I was amazed in the shop: they can't count one, two, three, four, five. They, if they make mistakes in somewhere, if you tell them that, 'There's a mistake,' because you know how to calculate, they'll say, 'How can it be? Machine is not wrong.' 'But your fingers were wrong somewhere.'
They have no alternative left now! I mean: they have to depend on the electricity; they have to depend on petrol; you have to depend on all these elements. So, if you find with little detachment: you are already slaves of all these elements. Instead of becoming free birds, we have become now slaves of this.
So we start finding out alternatives. Now what can alternatives [laughing:] we can have? We have lost all deftness to do any hand work. After some time I think people won't be even able to clean their dishes! [Soft laughter.] They will need a machine! As it is they can't clean their cloths, I think, they can't comb their hair. What's going to happen? You will need even a machine to feed you! Going to that extent.
When we go up to such a limit that we become absolute slaves, the confusion is worsen."
1982-0614 Public Program, You Are All Bound by One Thread (We All Are Expecting Something Great to Happen), Caxton Hall, 10 Caxton Street, Westminster, London, UK
"For a greater cause you have to give up something. That alternative remains."
1982-0705 Conversation with Sahaja Yogis, How to Deal with Bhūts, Guru Pūrṇimā Seminar, Day 3, Nirmala Palace Āśhram, 99 Nightingale Lane, Balham, London SW12 8LZ, UK
"Now the question about Sahaja Yoga is very simple to understand: all that is vital is extremely simple.
For example, the way we breathe is so simple. We don't read any book, we don't do any exercise for that. We don't have to go and learn from anyone, we just do it.
In the same way, if our seeking has some meaning, and if we have to find out something, it must be the most vital thing offered. Is not just an alternative life. Many people have a feeling that the seekers are nothing but they are finding alternative theories, and to alternate with the present norms and condition. Is not so."
1982-0730 Public Program, All that Is Vital Is Extremely Simple, Community and Leisure Centre, Caldene Avenue, Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire, UK
"These are alternatives to that Absolute. But you find the real: you give up all these alternatives, automatically. All right?"
1982-0816 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Media and Other Problems, before and during Lunch, Caxton Hall, 10 Caxton Street, Westminster, London, UK
Śhrī Mātājī: You start understanding Sahaja Yoga so well ... when your vibrations are steady.
[Touching the left thumb with the right index finger:] Now this finger, this is catching. Now this is catching means: the person has been to somebody who is unauthorized in spiritual life. Anything! Say ESP, you call it EST, then you have got parapsychology, even psychology. Then you have got other things like all these gurus, false gurus, you can say this aura business ...
What else is there? Just now he was telling.
Sahaja Yoginī: Uh supernatural, Mother.
Śhrī Mātājī: Supernatural and under-natural, and [big laugh]. All these things, you know: all alternatives you can think of. Anything you can think of, all these things and the books, and the Lamas and the Dhamas, and everything. [Some laughter.]
Even people who go, sort of adhere to a church too much, or adhere to Catholicism, again. Because they are not connected with Gou... God [touching again:] and they are unauthorized.
1982-0818 Workshop, Nirmala Palace Āśhram, 99 Nightingale Lane Āśhram, London, UK
"So we should also see what is our background just now: 'Where are we? At this moment, how are we placed?' We do not realize that we are precariously placed at this moment.
It's a time whether you jump over to your emancipation or you just go to Hell. These are the only two alternatives left, there's no third. There's no compromise. I must tell you it's a fact!
One has to accept when you see all around you people are fighting, quarreling, there're big big wars are been threatening. One button you push and the whole world can be destroyed. Such a situation!
Some people have to think there has to be some way out: out of all this madness, out of this rat race, out of this self-destroying uh organizations that we have built up around us. There has to be something!
If so, then what is our responsibility? What is our ... best approach? What should be our attitude?
We are taking everything for granted. We are just sitting down, think[ing], 'Oh, it's all right. As long as we don't do anything wrong, it's all right.' It is not so! It is not so. That time is over! That time that were ... you were leading a very good life and dhārmik life, that is not sufficient today. That is not going to help!
First of all, we have to know: that if you are seekers and honest seekers, you have to play [loudly:]a very dynamic role in this great work of God."
1982-0913 Public Program, No Other Way Out and Inauguration of Don's Book 'Sahaja Yoga', Caxton Hall, 10 Caxton Street, Westminster, London, UK
"Now, when we come to Truth, we have to know about its other alternatives and the fakeness of it. Every truth can be faked.
Every flower, which is living, can be made into plastic flowers.
And to make plastic fowe... flower is very easy, you can make them by thousands. But the real flowers are rare, and are real because they're actual flowers living on a living force of life."
1982-0926 Public Program, Day 1, Spirit Resides inside You, Urania Volkshochschulen, Volksbildungshaus, Uraniastraße 1, Vienna, Austria
"When I will tell you about Sahasrāra and about Āgñyā, I will tell you: 'How this brain becomes [a] receptor of the Ultimate Truth. How through this brain you start receiving the knowledge of Absolute Truth. How this brain, when enlightened, gives you the power to know what is Truth and what is not truth. And there are no alternatives.' This I'll tell you later on, when the Kuṇḍalinī I'll describe at the brain level. "
1983-0131 Public Program, Day 2, The Nābhī Chakra, N.D.M.C. Park, Hanumān Road, New Delhi, India
"So it's a big confusion! That is the modern times: are the confusion. That the Western people are confused.
They have seen the value of this material affluence, so they are trying to give up the material affluence s-s... style, that style. They are changing the style, alternate styles.
But by changing the styles also, you don't achieve much. That's another doing something else.
Ah while the Indians think that they are poor and God should help them to make them rich. This [is] another alternative style. This is also outside.
Or they have no children, then they'll come, "Mother, I've no children." If they have too many children then they [will] have no job. You get them the job, then they'll say, "Marry my elder daughter to someone." [Laughter.] Then you do that, then they will say that, "Do this."
But nobody says, 'What about my Spirit? What about my Ātmā? Mother, what about it? What is happening to it? Where is it? Am I all right? Am I clearer?' "
1983-0208 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Our Goal Is to Become the Spirit, Universal Sahaja Yoga Temple, Āśhram, 78 Kṛiṣhṇa Nagar, Safdarjung Enclave, New Delhi, India
"And then you have to have the detachment even of a kind of a collectivity that we think is collectivity. I call the fraternity of the bhūts, not collectivity. Always, all the useless Sahaja Yogis will form a group, and will have a very strong objection to everything that is sensible. And they will have suggestions for everything.
There has to be no suggestions at all. There are no alternatives, because Śhiva is absolute. Once what He said is said! You just do it and see, that's the best. Alternatives will be second best or third best or maybe useless. But there is no alternative for Śhiva Tattwa.
I'll give an example, I told Delhi people that, "You organize, say, program for seven days outside with other people." It was sensible because I knew it was to rain. At ... it has to rain also. Rain can be stopped, but it was to rain for all the other villagers, you see. We cannot stop them for only Sahaja Yogis, can we? Of course, Sahaja Yogis are important, so I said, "Let them be with other Sahaja Yogis." Now they started an alternative, only thinking that, 'You see, they won't be comfortable and ...' I mean it was good, but on a no ... other level that, 'They will not be comfortable with Sahaja Yogi,' another level.
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So all these ideas of giving alternatives at the mental level is also wrong.
I give any ... anything I say, immediately there will be ten suggestions. I try all these tricks with you. Because you are used to conferences, you see. [Laughter, laughs.] So I said, "All right, Subramanian [from New Delhi], what do you have to say about it?" [Laughter, smiles.] Because, after all, Lord Subramanian['s] mind is there, must ask him. Then I ask Venugopalan [from New Delhi], then I'll ask Gavin [Brown], Warren [Reeves], all these people. "Now what do you have to say?" And then they give their suggestion[s].
But, if you see, in the conference of all the Divine Deities, there is no suggestion, no suggestion, no alternative. No alternatives to your Mother's ideas, nothing. Absolute, it's absolute. Nobody gives any suggestions to Me, never. No question. They won't listen to you, They won't listen to anyone. There's no question. Such harmony, complete obedience. And not only, They are fixed with Their qualities. They are told that you have to do it, They'll do it. [Snaps Her palms.] This is the difference.
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Every time you do something, I tell you something, is just for you to learn something. I don't have to learn anything. Do you thinks that way, that I have to learn something now anymore? Not. So you have to learn something.
And that is what if you understand, then a kind of a detachment will build in you and a surrender. You will be amazed your ... [you will] be so much relieved of nonsensical headaches that you have and the burdens you carry if you understand that, 'The whole joke, the whole work, the whole drama is done by Mother, on I am just playing into it.' There's so simple. That is to be felt, to be understood.
And the enjoyment lies in that. Not in judging or finding alternatives. You try! Those who have tried it have enjoyed it very much."
1983-0211 Śhivarātri Pūjā (English + Hindi), Śhiva Tattwa within Us and No Alternatives to Your Mother's Ideas, Universal Sahaja Yoga Temple, Āśhram, 78 Kṛiṣhṇa Nagar, Safdarjung Enclave, New Delhi, India
"So, you have to be under complete obedience of the Divine. Which is: one cannot understand sometimes that how to be like that, because we have not been brought up that way. We don't know how to do it and it's very difficult.
So many people say, "Mother, it is very difficult to surrender." Is not that they don't want to surrender. But they say, think that, 'We are still, you see, popping up somewhere. Mother says something but we start questioning Her. Mother says this, then mm we think that we should, mm-mm mm we can suggest to Mother there's another alternative and this and that.'
But there is no alternative. You see, there's no alternative for a person who is a sensible person.
If he knows that Divine is only thinking of your hita, of your well-being, and whatever It sees and does, you see, knows much more than you do, much, much more. And in so many dimensions that, if somebody says so that, 'Do like this,' best is to do like [that].
Sometimes it shocks people.
People have ideas about sympathies, ideas about being, you see, kind to others and to be compa-ssionate to others. But what is a human compassion? He doesn't do anything, he just talks!
While the God's compassion works! It works! It works on people. It doesn't talk that, 'Oh, I am very compassionate! I am full of compassion!', nothing. It just works, it manifests itself.
So, one should understand: to be a complete egoless personality, one should try to obey the Self within yourself.
Now how do you obey your Self within yourself? It is through vibratory awareness. Try to obey through your vibratory awareness. Any question you want to ask, anything you want to do, you must obey it through your vibratory awareness.
Now some people are not so sensitive, that's true. The reason why they are not sensitive is because they think about it.
Now you think with your brain, all right? If your brain can be enlightened, then you will think as the Divine thinks and your sensitivity will improve, because sensitivity comes from the central nervous system. Now, in the central nervous system, if there is any blockage it is actually in the brain, because all the centers are represented in the brain.
So, the best thing is to say that, 'Mother, come in my brain. Please reside in my brain. Please make Your room in this brain. You be the controller of this brain. Let this brain be guided by Your Divine Wisdom.' And you don't think for yourself.
And this word 'I think' should be dropped completely from Sahaja Yogi[s]. 'I think' means, goes on, you see, funny ways. It can be anything, you see.
Like once we went out and we had one of My very stupid uh-uh-uh relations staying with us, a girl. And the, as I was going out, we had no servants that day, so I, I was cooking, but that day when we were going out so I tell her, "I'm going in the morning, can you make a little bit of khichaṛī for us? When we come back we'll have that."
That's the only cooking she did in her lifetime, maybe she did not do [that] also.
So [laughing:] when we came back, uh-uh-uh-uh she told Me that she has not cooked. So I said, "Why? Why didn't you cook? Because we were supposed to take our food here." She said, "I, I thought that maybe you may not come, maybe you're not hungry, maybe you may not like to eat, maybe I may not do well." You see, it's all these four alternatives not to do the cooking. But I said, "Why didn't you think, that we may be hungry [laughter], that we will eat? Why didn't you think this way?"
But, "I thought." You see, this is an explanation for uh not having one in the brain, I should say, that there is no Divine uh Guidance in the brain. Then the guidance comes from your ego or from your superego, which said, 'I, I thought that this might happen.' But to how, why, why did you think like that? I ... why not the other way round? Why didn't you think the other way round?
But that is how it is.
And when these things happen, we really are so much used to this kind of justification and alternative-s to be offered, that this becomes again the habit of the brain, and the brain gets separated from the Divine.
So, you tell your brain, 'But, but why? Why did you think like that? Now will you stop thinking about these things in, on these lines? Let us think of the positive thinking.'
Now positive thinking is nothing but is a thinking, as according to Sahaja Yoga, is not aggressive thinking, but it means that a thinking which helps to manifest the Divine. That is what is positive thinking. And the ... and the ...
[Aside:] It's all right, you see.
And, and the result of that is that: your nerves start opening out, and you start feeling the-eh ... feeling the manifestations of Divine Power in your fingers, in your being.
And this is the basic thing that doesn't happen in the West or in the Western culture, because we have a very big idea of always giving an explanation for anything."
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So, one should not be extremely uh on the thought waves and on the depending on their thinking. Because, you see, thinking has an alternative. Thinking always has an alternative.
You can say, 'I was thinking this,' or, 'I was thinking that.' But whom are you blaming? It was you who were thinking so you are responsible for that. So, if you take the responsibility for your thinking, then you may not do such a thing as to say that, 'I thought, if I had done this thing it would have been.' Because you are responsible for your thinking!
Supposing an engine driver decides that, 'I thought I better go by [laughing:] the other route,' and had a big accident [some laughter]. People will ask him, 'Why did you think like that? What was the thing that made you think like that?'
But in everything day-to-day life I find human beings are always saying, 'I think,' 'I think,' 'I think,' all the time giving alternatives. And that's why they go up and down, up and down, up and down like that.
But for fire, or for water, or for Mother Earth there is no alternative, no more alternative. If I just touch the Mother Earth and I say, 'Suck in their problems, please!', She sucks them. If I tell the fire, 'Now, come along, you have been ignited.' I don't even tell! I don't even tell, they immediately suck in. Their Kuṇḍalinī rises you can say. You put a fire in front of My Photograph, it's vibrated. You put a light, it's vibrated. It has no alternatives! It doesn't think, it has no alternatives, is just enlightened, it has its own quality of enlightenment in the purest sense.
Because thinking makes it impure. Your enlighten-ment becomes impure by your thinking, by giving explanation, by giving all these nonsensical mh-mh-mh alternatives.
So one should know: for Divine there is no alternative. In Sanskrit the word is paryāy: there is no paryāy for Divine, Divine Instrument. There's nothing like that.
Supposing, you don't want to accept it, you'll have problems. And then you'll say: that, 'Mother, how did we have problems?'
As you saw in Delhi [end of January, beginning of February]: I told these people, many a times, that, "Please do not have any program for eight days, and let all these people stay with s-some friends."
They wouldn't listen to Me. They arranged their program in that flat business. And they were thinking they will have a big uh pandal in which they'll give you ... give them the food to eat and all that.
But you know what happened? It rained, and rained, and rained. Now rain knew what I wanted!
[As laughter starts:] And -- because it had to rain for the rabi core ... uh crop! You see, you can, I ca[n], you see, you have to look after the whole universe!
And that's why I said that, "For these eight days don't allow them to stay in this because it will be difficult for them to move out, better keep them with some other people so they can carry them along and do that."
But they did not listen.
Ultimately, it turned out to be a fiasco: they had to arrange for the stay of all other people into some houses.
So this is this situation there.
Now, they might say that, 'Mother, You better stop the rain.' I will not. Because it isn't, they must know that the question of rabi crop is also equally important for Me, and they have to have their share. After all, they are human beings and they are to be helped!
But why didn't you listen to Me?
And then he came to Me and he said that, "Mother, will You please stop the rain tomorrow?" I said, "All right. Tomorrow I will."
He went back and he told the other gentleman, he said: that, "Let's put up the śhāmiyānā, let's put up the pandal, and the uh-uh-uh ... let the ... uh, let us cook there." He said, "But no, it will rain." He said, "No! It will not because I have take ... told God Himself." Uh she [he] said, "Where did you meet God?" He said, "I did meet Her. And now is done."
The next [day] it was, he got up at five o'clock, the other fellow, to see the thing. And he saw the whole sky so clear, he said, "Look at that! You have told God, and God has listened to you." [Laughs.]
So, this is it.
Then when you are that much one with God, I mean, if you tell anything it will work out, anything. Anything you ask for it will work out.
But we are not! We are all the ... always finding alternatives, you see. And these alternatives is the game the, all these people have played with you, all the gi... time giving you alternatives.
You see, see now, in the market if you go, just now I asked him about how, "What car you have here? So he told Me, "There are so many combinations, this, that, if with cylinder this, that, so you go mad. You say, 'All right, bābā, give me something, whatever it is.' "
And then, you see, they ... this is all playing with your brains, all the time giving you alternatives: 'Whether you want this or that.'
And you feel that you are really a great personality that you can decide about: 'I'll have this color and that thing!' Very seriously people do it!"
1983-0304 Pūjā, Mother You Be in Our Brain, Rented House, Adelaide, SA, Australia
"Now when we come to this point of Realization, we have to know that the problems of this world are due to one fact: that we have not achieved our Absolute.
Some people think: 'By doing alternate work, we'll be happier.' Is supposing somebody is a capitalist, he become[s] a communist. Then if he's a [laughing:]communist he become[s] a socialist. These are all manufactures of this brain.
But actually, if you ask, I uh ... [am a] complete capitalist because I have all the powers, and I sm a complete communist because I can't live without giving it to you.
So, how the communism and capitalism, which is so artificial outside, becomes a reality with you, that you become empowered with your real powers and not unreal powers. Because possessions and things are unreal. They are not real powers.
And once you get these real powers, you want to share it with others, you want to give it to others, you want to work it out for others."
1983-0307 Public Program, Day 2, Meeting Room, Town Hall, 128 King William Street and Pirie Street, Adelaide, SA, Australia
"Today, in the world if you see, everywhere I go there are so many seekers, so many seekers!
Such a time was never there before, say about fifty years back, we did not know the word seekers. People did not believe that there are seekers.
But today you find so many seekers all over the world: they have gone to all kinds of other alternative things, they have tried to find out if they can find truth by altering their lives by doing this or by doing that. The reason is: they are not at all satisfied with what they see. They're intelligent enough to see that is not the end of our lives and we don't live just for insurances."
1983-0308 Public Program, Day 1, Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton Gardens, 9 Nicholson Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
"The third great quality of Spirit is that It is absolute and because It is absolute It is not relative. You jump into a life that is absolute. There is no relativity, there is no alternative.
You see, these vibrations will tell you always the truth, nothing but the truth because Spirit is the Truth and it's [unclear]. It is the Truth.
So when you want to know about somebody, 'Now how is this person?', the vibrations will tell you. Another person who is a Sahaja Yogi will say the same thing. Even if you have ten children and tie up their eyes they'll tell the same thing that this person has this problem or this problem or this problem. Everyone will say the same thing because Truth is one and that's why you just say, everything says the same and there is absolute collectivity among Sahaja Yogis.
There's no quarrel, no fighting, nothing.
It is said that helium when it is heated up every molecule fights with each other. There's a big commotion there but when it is cooled down it becomes collective and starts moving in the same direction.
In the same way what happens that everything that you do becomes nothing but your vibratory awareness because you get a new awareness, a new dimension by which you can judge others."
1983-0323 Public Program, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
"So many people in this country have taken to lives which are alternate lives, as they call it, and also their dress is changed, everything changed, but some outside. And by that they felt that they have achieved a kind of a change within themselves, but is not true, is not true.
The unreal must drop out. The whole unreal must drop out.
Once it drops out, then only you become the real personality. By changing outside, nothing changes. And that has to happen to all of you, to all the seekers of the world."
1983-0520 Public Program, The Danger of This Horrible Ego which We Have Created of Our Own (Sensitivity to Reality, Why People Don't Progress in Sahaja Yoga, The Situation of Today's Seekers, How We Break These Ego and Superego Barriers Within Human Beings, and The Solution of All the Problems of the World), Caxton Hall, 10 Caxton Street, Westminster, London, UK
"We have been working in Brighton for quite some time, and it has done lot of good to many people, because I always felt that Brighton is a place where there are many seekers, and they are seeking the Truth very earnestly.
Their seeking has tremendous power behind it, but some or other they are misled.
Like I have found so many lost in so many cults. If not the cults, then the drugs and all such things.
These are all signs that they are seekers. They are seeking something beyond.
Nothing wrong with them, because there was no alternative. They might have done some mistakes, they might have gone to a wrong thing, but as long as they are seeking the Truth, they'll find it. That's what it is."
1983-0525 Public Program, Within Us there Is a Power Which Can Fulfill Our Seeking, Lewes Town Council, High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, UK
"In ... in Switzerland, I found the Catholics are the greatest drunkards. I really tell you, I'm sorry to say but horrible condition. They ... they ... they ... [as laughter starts after a short extra translation:] they drink ... I really tell you, oh because I happened to meet some of them and I was amazed that Catholics: they will drink on Christmas Day, they will drink on Easter Day, somebody dies they will drink, and somebody is born they will drink, at the least, you see. Some of them start drinking since morning till evening.
Surprising, I can't understand. If you follow Christianity, how can you take to such an alternative to escape life?
Their religion is alcoholism, not Christianity by any chance. And that can be in any religion."
1983-0906 Public Program, Day 3, Mittlerer Saal, Urania Volkshochschulen, Volksbildungshaus, Uraniastraße 1, Vienna, Austria
"Now, to know the Truth, people have gone to various type of enterprises. And also to feel joy, they have tried all kind of alternatives, which, now, so many realize was not all right. Because they have landed now in a very precarious position: any day it might explode to ruin this world.
For example, first man thought that if he was a powerful country, or a powerful human being, he can overpower others and can grab them, and by that he can enjoy the power. But somehow, at present time, we don't think much of such people who are aggressive.
Then people started thinking that joy lies in accumulating lot of uh ... possessions, money, wealth. And ultimately people found out that that's not really giving joy at all, on the contrary it is [a] headache to have money.
So, some of them thought of having a political uh-uh-uh ... uh-uh-uh ... change in the subtra [supra] structure. But that also has it's limitations, because something else has to happen within us, in our consciousness, so that we achieve our Spirit first.
That means Truth lies much beyond these enterprises.
So far, whatever we have worked out, our solutions, are on mental level.
And even the religion has become a s-s... just a mental projection of human beings. Uh they believe in something blindly, and it is just an artificial sort of ritualism tthrough which we go and we are quite surprised: 'How can it be like that?'
And the mental projection always makes a man extre-mist. And the only alternative they can cling on to fanaticism of the worst type, where people do not want to even listen to something that is sensible.
So, running away from these religions is also not a proble... not a solution or alternative.
So what is the alternative left for the whole human beings? Perhaps the awakening, the awareness that we have to find the real alternative is very, very uh much uh ... allowed everywhere in the whole world.
That shows that so many people, who are thinking, who are of a higher evolution, a special category, are seeking solutions beyond what they have so far tried."
1983-0908 Public Program, Day 1, You Are the Spirit, Sala Borromini, Biblioteca Vallicelliana, Piazza della Chiesa Nuova, 18, Rome, Italy
"So this is one of the greatest problems, of today: is that whatever you say, eem ... everybody must answer, everybody must argue, everybody must say, 'No, this could be that way, that could be, there are alternatives, this, that,' everything goes on. There is no need, at all, [laughing:] to do all that.
And when you start doing that, then all the Gods and Goddesses get angry one by one, and that's how you start losing your light within yourself.
So this is the most displeasing thing for Gods and Goddesses, that you don't recognize Me. That you don't recognize Me fully. That you still argue with Me. Still you start asking questions, still you start giving Me alternatives. Absolutely, this is just not necessary for you to go on arguing, to go on discussing it.
It is just that you assimilate whatever I am saying, and that assimilation itself will open out those new dimensions within you, which God wants to be opened out.
So better surrender, in that way, your ego. Ego is the one that makes you say something, argue something, discuss something.
And this is what is the biggest problem, what that I have seen when the first day of the waxing [waning] star[ts].
So today is the first day [laugghing:] when we should say that oh ... phu ... that our ego should not start that drooping down."
1984-0218 Śhrī Chandramā Pūjā (Marathi + English + Marathi), Vaitarna, Maharashtra, India
"In the light of the Spirit, you understand immediately what is good for you. All kinds of mental processes, which have made us stupid, drop out.
For example, a person who is not realized does not know who is right person, who is a wrong person. If he's a futuristic man, he will say: 'All right, I have to buy this house. But maybe, it may not be available, maybe available, maybe this problem, that problem.' He will think about the problems first, waste all his energy before is facing the thing, situation. All the alternatives he'll give of problems.
As a result of that mental activity you really create problems. Because whatever is in the mind, takes the form."
1985-0613 Public Program, Day 2, Session 2 (evening), All Great Incarnations Are just One, Salle Centrale, Geneva, Switzerland
"Lastly, oh we are all now they're going for many marriages. Again, ah there are about sixty-five already, and maybe some more may be added, but I would say keep it at sixty-five, is [a] better idea, and for others we'll have it next year. But, and this I would say, you shouldn't make anybody marry unless and until that person is reasonably ah understood by the leaders and is certified. Anybody purs... anyone who has even little doubt one should not try it. It can always do it next year. Because the first alternative is there, that if they cannot get along, they can marry again. Or they can give up. But supposing you marry them first, then the second alternative is horrible: they have to divorce, they have to run away, or do all kinds of things. And we have seen [that] there are some mishaps. So, I would suggest that you must judge your fiancé, or anybody you call, and see how it works out."
1987-1230 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, On Different Matters and Marriages, before the Evening Program Organized by the Mayor of Kolhapur and Western Sahaja Yogis, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India
"The attention is, once we come in Sahaja Yoga, 'How much money can we earn?', or, 'What all we can get?', then we cannot achieve it. Raise your attention above this.
Then also attention is on, 'How to cure our diseases?', or, if goes up, 'To have the darśhan of Mother,' or sometimes people come from Aurangabad or Delhi. There is no alternate word for it. Why you came I don't have time or you have to quarrel with everyone."
1988-0918 Śhrī Gaurī Gaṇeśha Pūjā (Hindi), Suryavanshi Hall (near Śhivajī Park), Dadar, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
"Secondly, I want to say that whatever I tell you should be sincerely complied without suggesting alternatives. When you suggest alternatives to what I tell, it troubles Me and to you too. Hence, please do not tell Me which does not make any sense. Whatever I tell you to do, you should immediately accept with [the] response, 'Yes, Śhrī Mātājī, I will do it.' Otherwise, it is very troublesome. It troubles Sahaja Yoga too.
If the people had not proposed alternatives, we would have had beautiful apartments at Mumbai and Pune as well.
At that time all harassed Me with their different ideas that now I have decided to tell to the one who suggests an alternative to what I tell, to not to do so and I am going to do what I am telling. No matter if you feel sad about it."
1988-1217 Pūjā (English + Marathi), We Have Certain Dharmas within Us and These Dharmas Are to be Observed to Get Puṇyas, Pandal, the banks of Mutanwadi River, Pune, Maharashtra, India
"I must say: AIDS patients have been cured with Sahaj Yog. I must say! Is a fact! No doubt1
But what we can do in this country I don't know. I have no idea because I don't want to get arrested. [Some soft laughter.] [unclear].
But in England, alternate uh-uh-uh medicines are allowed. And if people could reach England, we might be able to help them."
1990-0531 Public Program, Day 2, Hall, Cafe Del Rey Moro, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
"I am just telling you because we are not aware as to how these entrepreneurs are befooling us. There's no alternative left for us to be befooled, that's all, I think.
If you come to Sahaj Yog, you develop that age-old wisdom, which is there stored up in your head. Because when the Kuṇḍalinī comes up here, She enlightens you completely. Then you understand how mad this world is, and then you realize how you can be benevolent to yourself, how ... how .... how you can bring benevolence to everybody else, because you get empowered."
1991-0802 Public Program, Day 2, The Liver, Its Problems and Treatment, Koningszaal, Artis (Natura Artis Magistra), Plantage Middenlaan 41 A, Amsterdam, Netherlands
"In our Marathi language we have ten alternatives for each word. Thus our language is a very rich language. Hence we cannot explain in one word.
But still to be aware at that time, to have presence of mind at that very moment is very essential."
1991-1215 Śhrī Gaṇeśha Pūjā (English + Marathi), Shere (Pune), Maharashtra, India
"Now there's a very big trend that according to the newspapers, that people are taking to alternate religions now: they are fed up with Christianity. They are going to Buddhism and other things. So one has to talk to them: that, 'Buddhism, what Buddhists have got? Nothing!' They are so much indebted."
1992-0222 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, On Departure, Airport, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
"Thirdly, look after your body properly. Your chakras, your Sahasrāra, head, everything, is so important.
Now, the about the children also, they have found out that the [laughs] children in the West are very wild. And they think is better to keep these children in Dharamśhālā [Dharmaśhālā], because also their immunity system is very poor. What I learnt that, here, from their very childhood, people start, doctors start giving them antibiotics. That is how they develop this immunity system uh in such a, I mean, such a bad shape. And is very dangerous. Because they catch everything! Somebody is coughing, they start coughing. Somebody has cold, they catch cold. I mean, everything. So their immunity system we'll try to develop.
So you have to remember not to tank [take] any medicine, homeopathic, or, say-ee, any other alternative medicine or allopathic medicine, unless and until you have consulted your leader or Me."
1992-0412 Talk to Children and Sahaja Yogis, The Responsibility Has to Be Taken with Wisdom and with your Powers and On Medical Matters, Nirmala House, Sant'Angelo Romano (7 kms N of Guidonia), Italy
"When I see Western people seeking, I find that there is a basic reason ... why there's such a strong desire to seek. Because we are born with a faith within ourselves. It is there, innately built in. We have faith in our future, and innately we have the faith that there is something divine.
While in the East we have so much talk about the ascent.
But in the West, when the science challenged your faith, you did not know how to cope with it. Also, the religion could not provide the answer. And people started asking question[s]. This mental process made them struggle to use some sort of a means by which they could resolve this struggle between the faith and these challenges. And they had no alternatives.
So when such a market started expressing itself, people from the East, also from the West, came as fake masters. Because you were not aware as to what is [there] to seek, what is [there] to achive, they just made money out of you, and did[n't] give you anything that they were claiming. Like all the religions, they were money-oriented or power-oriented.
Because of this deviation, all the religions became fundamentalist. They could not see that all religions are born like flowers on a tree, the Tree of Spirituality, at different times. But they plucked the flowers, and started fighting among themselves with those dead flowers, that, 'This is mine,' 'This is mine.' "
1992-0701 Public Program, Day 1, Cultureel Centrum 'Artemis' (now Rijksmonument), Keizersgracht 676 (at the Vijzelstraat), Amsterdam, Netherlands
Śhrī Mātājī: Our country is poor because we are not patriotic. Even the politicians are not patriotic here. When we become patriotic we will become prosperous.
The World Bank grants donations to our country, but much of it goes into Swiss bank accounts. One quarter of the resources are here, and three quarters are in Swiss banks. The World Bank then gets us loans from the Swiss banks, and then we become indebted. This is how the debt increases. Then how will we become prosperous?
You only elect people who are known thieves and notorious. What to do? It's entirely your fault. During elections, they distribute cash and get reelected.
Gentleman: [unclear]
Śhrī Mātājī: Kyā kare?
Sahaja Yogi [repeats]: "We don't have any alternatives." Śhrī Mātājī: Brother, you are the alternatives. Now, you people need to become the alternative to this situation.
One day I said that, "Sahaja Yogis will enter politics." So many newspaper journalists came to Me to ask about this. I said, "Oh My God!" I said, "No! No! If you people are going to follow us like this, we won't enter politics." Everything is all right but there is a limit to everything.
1993-0322 Public Program (Hindi), Bharat Scouts Ground and Guides Marg, Nizamuddin, National Zoological Park, Sundar Nagar, New Delhi, India
"Despite all these so-called religions, we have had so many problems with the fundamentalist[s].
But some people do see but they don't know [that] there is an alternative. There is an alternative: that you are to be born-again, that you have to ascend and transcend this human awareness to a higher level.
Surprisingly, Gnostics as they were in those days, Thomas also has written a beautiful treatise in [Nag] Hammadi."
1993-0718 Public Program, Alpheusdal (now Zaal Apollo), Filip Williotstraat 22, Berchem (5 kms SSE of Antwerp), Belgium
"Above all, you jump into the Ocean of Joy.
Joy is singular.
When our ego is happy we become happy, when it is punctured we feel unhappy. So we move from happiness to unhappiness and happiness to unhappiness.
But joy is-s-s an experience, which is ... which has no alternative. You can enjoy everything, and you can find solutions to everything."
1994-0719 Public Program, Saal F (Floor 0), Austria Center, Vienna, Austria
"Now, what I am saying, you should also have alternate methods as I told you, through economic uh ... uh ... development of handmade things and all that. You can have that. But you should try to propagate that we all have to become Spirits." [Concludes with the right palm on the sofa.]
1995-0725 Public Talk to Representatives of Ecoforum and the Vice-minister of Health, Sofia, Bulgaria
"Our country is such, that along with Rānī Padminī, thirty-two thousand women jumped into a pit of fire to save their honor, to save their purity.
So in this country what other alternative do they have? They cannot live a life of honor and dignity.
Their situation becomes so bad that I feel that if anyone gets some disease, at least he can go to a hospital. Some solution or others can be found for him or her. But tell Me, in the case of these unfortunate women, in what way can we lessen their burden. So much sorrow and not even a sympathizer!"
2000-0407 Śhrī Bhūmī Devī Pūjā (Hindi), Inauguration of the H.H. Śhrī Mātājī Nirmalā Devī Foundation, Nirmal Dham, Behind BSF Camp Chhawala, New Delhi, India
"The other day in America, in a very big organization called as I... IM...U [NIH], something like that, which is working out all kinds of uh-uh-uhm ... all kinds of uh-uh [medical] alternatives, and there when doctor asked one Sahaja Yoginī, who was not a doctor: "All right, tell me on your fingertips what's wrong with me." And she said: "You have a bad heart. There's problem in your heart." He was surprised because he said: "Only one month back I had a bypass, bypass surgery."
So you can imagine: how on fingertips you can say what's wrong with you and what's wrong with other[s[. Absolute Truth, you can feel it on your fingertips."
2000-0926 Public Program, Day 1, Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, London SW7, UK
"Sahaja Yoga is not just a fashion, cult or alternative method. Thus there is no organization as such in Sahaja Yoga. There is no membership in Sahaja Yoga except that we had to have a nominal Trust. By that Trust we have to operate for legal affairs, but it has no permanent list of names of people. There is no dead organization, but a living collective single organism. The body has the cells, after Self-realization the spirits of the cells are enlightened by Sahaja Yoga. The seeker's being has to actually be sprouted by Kuṇḍalinī awakening. Then becoming is important."
1991-0700 Book 'Sahaja Yoga', Chapter 1: Sahaja Yoga
"One of the big problems of the intellectuals is that they never want to accept anything as absolute, but they always want to find alternatives for everything. Now there is no alternative for one's ascent. As a seed has to grow its primule, so the Kuṇḍalinī has to be awakened. But some of those who have come to Sahaja Yoga have also gone away, saying that there must be some other methods and powers that should work it out. This is just escapist reaction. Supposing you are diving a well and you find water in one place, what is the use of digging in other places? Whatever you have found, it is the water, so why not make the well there? But this is how many people are escaping reality. One should face it and get it. There is no other way human transformation can take place, as has been said in so many ancient books. Still, if people want to escape it, then you cannot help it. You cannot force them. You cannot in any way condemn them.
So the problem remains: how to make these people know that this is a living process, which has already started, is working in so many people when they have no other alternative. They should become Sahaja Yogis. Actually, one requires tremendous patience with these people, because they can be saved if they understand that it is for their benevolence, it is for their good. After coming to Sahaja Yoga very few people have suffered from any serious diseases and there are so many who have never been to a doctor or to a dentist. It is also for one's mental peace. So many of them have written to me, that they have found their mental peace at long last. There are so many who write how they have achieved proficiency and balance in their work."
1991-0700 Book 'Sahaja Yoga', Chapter 2: Vishwa Nirmala Dharma
"If the Truth is not accepted, it will destroy those very brains that reject it. They will take to other alternatives in most cases and they will have to take to self-destructive styles. They have accepted wrong ideas that originate from those many human beings who are teaching falsehood in the name of Truth. It is an extraordinary thing to witness, that to approach the subject of truth compassionately, one has to really beg people to listen, to hear about the Truth that they all have their divinity intact and that it can manifest itself in the great event of their ascent through the Kuṇḍalinī awakening. It is such a great pity, I must say, that this kind of convincing and cajoling of the complicated Western brain takes such an unnecessary long time. It is quite ironic that those leaders and teachers who are fake, who are modern anti-Gods, who are against the Divine, who are for the destruction of human beings, actually become very successful and achieve a worldwide following in such a short time. It is also true, however, because of the activity of the Paramachaitanya and law of polarity, that false teachers are being revealed for what they are and all the false ideas perpetrated by them are being exposed and destroyed very quickly. They appear and establish themselves easily, but in this age of Kṛita Yuga, it is only for a short time. The trouble is that after the exposure of one guru people are so weak that some immediately start looking around for another one. When they settle down with one, they usually end up lost as moneyless recluses. This guru shopping is now a common and fashionable lifestyle in the West of the seekers. It is the same with other kinds of ideology. Communism has failed in Russia, and fundamentalism and racialism have filled the vacuum and begun to prosper in the so-called democracies.
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Now they are mugging and even killing people who are only slightly more affluent than themselves. So, as these developed societies become richer and richer, by another action of the Law of Polarity, they also create increasing numbers of thieves and more and more sophisticated Mafias, who make money by kidnapping rich people who have made money and spread corruption and misery wherever they spring up. These alternative Empires of the Mafia cannot be controlled, but can (and do) themselves control everyone, even governments and politicians."
1995-0929 Meta Modern Era, Chapter 1: Modernism and Rationality
"If you ask an enlightened soul: "What will you like to have for yourself?", he may start thinking: "What could I possibly need?" He already has everything. On the contrary he will think, 'If I really have to go shopping, then I must buy something by which I can express my love to others.' An enlightened soul will purchase something only if it is a thing of spiritual value because there are certain very beautiful things created by human beings, which do emit Divine Cool Vibrations and relax enlightened people. Alternatively he might support some artist, or poor person, who is trying to make a living by creating something artistic. So, underlying his purchase, there is not the principle that, 'I like it,' but there is the principle that, 'My Spirit enjoys it.' "
1995-0929 Meta Modern Era, Chapter 2: Choices
"In America according to law, no alternative medicine could be practiced. Our Lord Jesus Christ would be arrested if he cured any American in America.
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When the White people get sick and have no hopes of recovery, only then do they start searching for new alternatives. Then they don't think about what skin the doctor has."
1995-0929 Meta Modern Era, Chapter 4: Racialism
Jay Śhrī Mātājī!