Sahaja Yoga does not mean sit and doing meditation

Today is a very auspicious day, and this day we give sesame seeds and jaggery to all and request them to speak sweetly. We say to others but we should understand ourselves also. Because it is very easy to say to others that you speak sweetly and I may speak as I like. Because of such tendency today nobody speaks sweetly, wherever you go you find people shouting. Can’t understand what has happened, they can’t talk without shouting. But actually we have imagined some things about ourselves. We don’t know anything about God’s blessings. God has given us a big blessing in this country.




See, nothing much is thought about cleanliness in this country. There are various kinds of germs and various kinds of parasites in this country. I say that parasites of the whole world are in this country. Those you won’t find anywhere else are in this country. If parasites go to other countries from here they get destroyed, they just cannot survive in such cold. By the blessing of the Sun, many parasites are here in this country and a scientist once asked me how we stay alive by winning over them. “How can people even stay alive in your country India?” I said not only are they alive, but they live happily, enjoying themselves, they live happily – and the reason is this Sun. This Sun has taught us to keep our homes open, to keep our hearts open. In England if you have to go out somewhere, it takes you fifteen minutes to change clothes. You have to go out wearing everything, wearing helmet etc., otherwise the cold there enters your head and eats it off. So such is the situation there. Today you are sitting here in the open, you are sitting like this here, it cannot happen like this in England. Everywhere, in all countries, they are tired of the cold. Even in our country there are such countries (states), there are such provinces, where we can say for e.g. Bhuvali or if we go that side, ahead of Nainital, like ahead of Dehradun, if we go towards that side of Himalayas – like those places, it is just like that here, it is so cold there, just like it is in England or America, it is like that here. Where even small insects cannot survive, there even small insects cannot survive.




There are big forests there, and those forests have beautiful flowers. People call it “Valley of Flowers”, it is so beautiful that it seems like the Garden of Heaven, but it is very temporal. It is so cold there that one has to think even to see, even to open the eyes. One has to wear spectacles and go out otherwise it’s a problem. It is so cold there, like this despite being in other countries they have achieved their progress. Like that, even in our country they have fought the climate and erected their countries. Even though we have this big blessing we do not pay attention there that we have such a big blessing of the sun. There is a lot of solar energy in our nation. If we start using it we will have no problem of energy. We can also run the machines from it. Those of us who are in positions of power, the attention of such people is on other things that’s why such a big blessing of the Sun bears no fruit, it causes problems, there is an excess. We can do a lot of work by saving it.




The main thing to be learnt from Sun is the power to give. The Sun keeps on giving, keeps on giving, doesn’t take anything, keeps on giving. And it has such a power of giving that the same power drives the rain here, the same power drives the agriculture here, the same power drives the harvest. If there is no sun then nothing will happen. We are in this state today only because of this power of love. But what we have to learn from it is that the power of giving should also come in us. But if we see from top to bottom we find people thinking how to save money in this, how to keep for myself. Supposing I give money for some programme, even in that people say we should save money in this. Who asked you to save money? They say to save and keep. But for what? If you have been given to spend why do you save? So somehow to suck from it, to save something, it is the habit everywhere. Go anywhere in the market, anywhere, they say that we have increased the price in that. So what for? Because he has increased so we have increased. Yes but if the cost is the same then why increase? Howsoever this power has to be sucked. Now even if some small work is taken up, people say, “Mother, see this will not work out properly.” So I said why? “Because they eat (take) money.” So I said, “Is it? We eat food and they eat money, so will it not work out?” I mean, they are such strange people, those who are supposed to do the benevolence of the nation, those who are the administrators, those who have been given all the positions by God, even they don’t understand that we have to give, one should learn from this Sun whether we are for giving or for taking. Basically till the condition of man doesn’t change that we have come for giving, not for taking; one should be fond of this.




Like how your mother is fond of this that my son will come, what should I do for him? What should I cook? Today should I cook this, or that? How a mother is fond of that? Whether it is there at home or not, after collecting some money from here and there, from neighborhood, some sweet or the other she will cook and serve you. She feels whether do this or that? Without developing such a fondness from inside, without collectively developing such a hobby, without developing such a hobby for others, welfare cannot be achieved not only for our country but for any country. But from whom can we loot what, from whom can we take what, from whom can we ask for what, whom can we entangle where, we keep on thinking this only. And because of such thinking our children would also be in trouble, we would also be in trouble, no work can happen in this country. If anything is said, in my in-laws’ place it has started that we will dig and make a big lake. If everything is eaten by hem then what will we get?




Today this Sankranti we are celebrating in the Sankrant, Sankrant means the “auspicious” revolution which has to be brought about that we should inculcate the habit of giving. Now everyone says that the habit of giving should be developed; now if we go to any priest we are supposed to donate. Does donation mean giving to the priest? Its not like that. Or else someone will say one should donate, to fill ones stomach one should donate, these people give lectures etc. like that. There is no meaning of this. You donate to me, what is there in you like that? Why should we donate to you? If donation has to be given, then to whom, this question arises. So with open heart, for our country, for our brethren, for people around us, what we do, that is to be seen. We should not try to avoid bothering ourselves. We should do charity with an open heart. There is a special joy in that, which we always enjoy. One should give with full heart and soul, the joy that is in that, it is nowhere else. Today’s festival has to be celebrated to get that joy.




Means our behavior should be like this Sun. It does not occur to it that it does something. It doesn’t know anything, it is in the ‘non-doer’ state. It keeps on burning continuously, and it nurtures you by continuously giving light to you, joy to you, life-force to you. Daily we see it, many people bow to it also, but that’s it, we do not absorb anything from it. Its power to give, and its capability should come in our country, I had said a small thing, that all Sahaj Yogis should plant Banyan trees at the edge of the trees. Do we need money from the government for that? There is no expense in making a fence around it. This only this year. Let us plant a tree and there is no substantial expense in making a fence around it. There is more expense in smoking beedi. Try to do this only. I mean it should be visible that we do something from somewhere. Instead of that how to rob someone, how to take money from someone, how to save oneself, this country cannot progress from such a habit.




But earlier the people were not like this here. I tell you, when we were young, we have seen only people who give, only people who give. We did not see people who take, they did not like to take. I remember at my father’s place they had made silver chairs, and Chhatar. Everyone said why have you done it, what was the need? So he said that in marriages etc. one has to get it on rent, it is better it will be at home, let it be. Then he was strolling somewhere, so someone said I need the chhattar, so he said it is there where the marriage happened last time, you can take it from there. From there to somewhere else, then someplace else, and then where it disappeared nobody knows. But what I have to say, his thought process was like that, what to do, now I have money, what to do with it, it should be used to do something collective, something public only.




If you have to make a Badminton court then everybody should play there, it should not be that only my children should play. If he has bought a motor-car then all children should go to school in that, so a big car has to be bought, everyone should go in that. This collectiveness, this making our temperament public we should learn from the Sun. Today’s day is a special day, this day we should take this essence that from today we will do some or the other public work. How can food go in peoples’ stomachs, I don’t understand. You have not seen your neighbours, you have not done any public work, I say a small thing – you start by planting one-two trees only. Even then how many Sahaja Yogis are there in our Maharashtra? If every Sahaja Yogi plants one tree and takes its care it will be a big benevolence for them. Such is my request to everyone that do some or the other public work but we have to collect money in that, we have to do like this, don’t do such things. Not like giving money to the priests. Straightforward with open heart, with love we have to do something for the people and have to enjoy that, this is desired. Now this doesn’t mean that you do freeloading. I will never say that Sahaja Yogis have come from somewhere, give them something for free, never.




But this thing has come in these people. And while coming they have got so many presents, I also have a small hand in this, even then they have got so many by themselves, to give to you people. They have got so many things out of their own wish, earlier I thought it is what I had bought from Rome but they said no Mother, we have not taken yours. We have bought and got our own, like yours. They are very happy that they got this, got that, gave this, but they don’t know what they have given to whom. Here I sat and give him, give her, take his name, take another’s name. And there Indians were sitting and saying, “My child did not get till now, my mother.” The mother also came in front, limping; I said take this for your mother. She did not get the Nauvar saari. Now I did not have the Nauvar saari. I said give the saari, okay, fine. Such people are there. These people are the opposite. These people came here so they got so much, they say they got 2 tons of material. My hands started aching distributing these two tons. Like this two tons was distributed to everyone. I don’t say that you have to give them like this, but we should present before them such ideal character, like we are no less. If you have come then we are standing in front of you for your service. You have come and we are here to look after you. There is no problem in whatever we can do. There is no expenditure in that, there is no trouble in that.





Only the temperament of the heart should be changed. If that does not change in Sahaja Yoga then I don’t think there will be any change of heart through Sahaja Yoga. The biggest temperament that should be developed is that of giving to others. The Kundalini gets awakened in Sahaja Yoga, and we become the Spirit, and the essence of the spirit os to give to everyone like the sun. You have seen my photograph, in it such a big sun has come in my heart. In reality there is a Sun in my heart. And because of that sun only I never feel as if I should rob anyone. How it is I cannot understand means from which corner in the brain does such a thought come that we should rob them I do not know. People who are like this should not come in Sahaja Yoga. But we should daily think what we can give from our side. What can we do, now how can we do.




In your Rahuri also I have started an organization which we have named “Sahaja Stree Sudhar, Samaj Sudhar”, something like this. This organization has been made like this because such work cannot be done through our organization, ‘Life Eternal Trust’, so we got it registered here. Everything is done. So people from Canada are ready to donate, people from there are ready to donate, but we can’t find anybody here, for ‘Stree Sudhar’ If the women here take up this job then this can happen. The space is here, everything is here, but we don’t find any time, how will we go? These people have come from there to give you money for you, uplift the women community here. 14 machines have been sent for you. Sit there and teach something to the women. Can’t you see, they are roaming here and there empty stomach. Make them sit, get them involved in some work. They will get some money in their hands, that will bring their welfare. We should think a little like this. Why only think of oneself.





A Sahaja Yogi should understand that one cannot think like this. We cannot think only about ourselves. We should come forward for the welfare of the world. I always say that the saints are there for the welfare of the world but the world is there for the welfare of the saints only. Means then it will be done. In such a situation only the welfare of the saints would be achieved. Therefore the saints that you are, you will have to keep the perspective of a saint and the first sign of a saint is that he has to give, has to keep on giving. We have never heard that the saints have ever looted anyone. He remains a saint, such a thing never enters his head. So we should think what we can give from our side, how much love can we give, how much welfare of the people can we do. And we should not do things like what has started nowadays as public work like election etc. but we should work without any self-interest.




Like the Mother’s love is interest-free, there is no interest on that, like this the love which is resilient, which flows till eternity, we should know how to give such love from which you will automatically understand what needs to be given. Slowly this correction should happen, it should happen in all Sahaja Yogis. You will have to give some time for this, you will have to get involved after giving time, its not that Shri Mataji came, gave the lecture and finished, not like that. These people have done a lot of work, like they have started schools, and they are doing a lot to improve the society, we should also start like this else in Sahaja Yoga we have got our realization, we are wallowing in the ocean of joy and we become gods of lethargy, it should not be like this. How should we help others? We should look everywhere around us and with a vision of love we should think what can be done by us? Till now I have not come to India, just see after coming I am going to put everyone to work, so it will be better to start before itself.




Sahaja Yoga does not mean just sitting and doing meditation. What kind of Sahaja Yoga for only doing meditation? For that go to the Himalayas. If you have to do Sahaja Yoga sitting here then it should be for the welfare of the people. And not at all like the public works of nowadays but real work will have to be accomplished. Then only can it be said that we have established Sahaja Yoga. Now enough of my praise, I have heard much praise, heard the song, I felt very nice, felt very contended, people recognized, etc. etc. etc. But one thing should be understood – you should work to understand what you are otherwise you won’t be able to look at yourself in the mirror. You should see what has been given to you. Like you earlier used to cook at home, look after your children, if now also the situation is like that then which has no collective or public dimension then I cannot understand what you have gained even after getting Sahaja Yoga. You are like you were.




Therefore in the New Year minimum of minimum everyone should tell how many trees of Banyan have you planted, this is the first thing. And secondly I should get to hear which collective work you have done. Any collective work which you see, whatever catches your eye, whatever you can do, and do nicely. No money is required in that, only preparation of the heart is required. When I had established this Sahaja Yoga, then by giving realization to one lady, without even a single paisa, I didn’t get any kind of support. I started. But it has spread much today due to the sincerity and truthfulness of that work. Now every one of you, each man, each woman, has this big responsibility that we have to tell people about Sahaja Yoga by giving some or the other proof of it. There is no need to take any rule in your hands, there is no need to do anything illegal, nor is it required to do anything wrong. On the straight path you just have to see with your open eyes that what can we do? What welfare of the people can we do and where. I am sitting here to give power to all of you so you should get involved in this work. I do not want any votes for this work, I do not want any post, nothing. Promise me that we are going to start some such work.





The second point is like this that there comes an obstruction sometimes when people start working they start asking for money at different places. First get the money. Don’t ask for money at all. Whatever work can be done without money start that work first. First collecting money, everyone thinks that no work gets done without money, you have the power why do you need money?




If someone is sick in the neighbourhood you should go and see him, someone is sick there, they are troubled, you should go and see. The other day, a householder, an ill person whose hand was like this (hanging). It was a two-minute job, any Sahaja Yogi could’ve could have cured him, but they got him to Me and that too in the middle of the program – “Mother, please cure his hand.” You are so many Sahaja Yogis, the power is flowing through your hands, these people have never come. If you cannot even cure this much then why are you called Sahaja Yogis? Then my mother is sick, my father is like this, his feet are broken. Then you set it right! You have the power, at least try it out. So you should help the people, without having any expectations, with joy, with that feeling, there is really a lot of joy in that. I am nothing, just an instrument of the divine, in this world, in this country, in this family, we are giving something or the other, how big is this concept, of how much pride is this thing if you understand this and resolve then something or the other would be done from your hands, and then it will be proved to the people that what is the meaning of Sahaja Yoga. Now what is the meaning of Sahaja Yoga for everyone? That everyone is sitting in meditation, done! If something untoward happens in the nation then everybody is just sitting in meditation. Now my wife doesn’t cook food, it was asked why? Because she is sitting in meditation. Is it? Who told her? First she has to cook. Even five minutes are sufficient for meditation. You have been given the power to cook excellent food.




Like this there should be a confidence in you, and there should be a capacity to work. I give you the power, take it. There is no use of just meditating daily. You should see what welfare of the people you have done. You have benefited, I should benefit, my child should benefit, set right my job, set right my mother, set right my father, set that right, come to my home, do like this, do like that, if everything you will put on me then what will you do?




We should also do something; we will do something special and show Mataji! We should resolve in our hearts like this. And the picture of Sahaja Yoga is in front of me, as described by Gyaneshwar, “Talking oceans of ambrosia, oceans of ambrosia,” where are they? That is what I want to see. So a very sweet blessing to everyone that everyone does good to everyone, does welfare, behaves with love with everyone, and speaks with love.


(Marathi Speech, Sankranti Puja, Rahuri, India, 14th January, 1987)