Where is your attention

The Spirit has come just like a vision to you, an experience to you, but the growth of your being has not yet started and if it has started it's so slow that you may not achieve much in one lifetime, because your attention is on all various things. You have been misidentified from the very beginning, since the time you were amoeba you have been misidentified. The matter played a big role in your life, so matter was important. Then all the five elements that are within us were very important to us because we can see them, feel them, we have lived them for years, thousands and thousands of years. So they are part and parcel of your being and that is why you are so much identified with it. That should be, no doubt. But in the living process it never happens like that. There are some seeds which grow so fast that within one year they become trees after they have been sprouted. They bear fruit in one year's time. Some trees are such, but some of them linger on and linger on and linger on and they take too much time. So much so that maybe when they are not yet fully developed, any storm, any wind, any one of these things can just push them down. So you have to make a rapid growth within. Even after realization I have seen people do not pay attention to their Spirit. So for every Sahaj Yogi today I would say they have to ask, "Where is your attention, Mister? Or Missus or Miss, whatever it is. Where is your attention?"

-- Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi