New Year’s eve Puja (English part). Kalwa (India), 31 December 1998.

Firstly I will speak in English language as we have many Sahaja Yogis from abroad. They have asked me to talk about Indian culture today because Bombay is the place where Indian culture is disappearing, that’s what they say. But I don’t think so, because the roots are so deep that we cannot give up that culture so fast.

Now as it is for the people who are coming from other countries, they have to realize that this country had no religion as such, because there was not one book, they didn’t follow one person, they didn’t have any organizations as we have for other religions, we never had a higher priesthood or all those appointed people, it was all done very spontaneously. The whole thing worked out very spontaneously.

But behind all that was, as I told you before, the attitude of Indians or our style was, not to challenge or to question what these great saints have given us. Because we accepted their status as saints, as higher personalities in a way – in a sense they were higher than us. So we didn’t want to challenge them, and whatever they said we accepted. As a result that became sort of, you can call it, a way of conduct or way of life.

But as a religion we had nothing, except that later on the caste system developed. Before that there was no caste system because non-Brahmins wrote about Shri Rama or wrote about Shri Krishna. It’s very surprising how we accepted all that, never challenged whether it was written by a Brahmin or not.

Brahmin was that who knew about Brahma principle, the principle of all-pervading Divine Love. Everybody was not a Brahmin, but later on they made it like this, whosoever is born in a Brahmin family was a Brahmin, whosoever was born in another caste belonged to that. But because of the father’s heritance, you can say inherited, they also had the profession that they were following. So according to the professions, the religions, or you can say the castes were established; no religion, but caste.

And that is how we had different, different caste systems in India according to the professions. It is very interesting. Recently, I discovered there is a caste called Ghadani, among Marathas, which you may not be knowing. They only believe in the art. They do music, or they have paintings, they make statues, they make temples; that’s a caste, that’s a profession. And they marry among themselves because it is easier to marry in the same profession and to have the same ideas and styles about life and the profession especially. Now later on, apart from being a profession, it started becoming a very consolidated nonsense. And then they used, I mean I think, it is the British who used it very much to separate us from one to another.

Now the schedule caste and all that was not also like a religious thing. We have got saints like Chokha Mela and all that, who were also greatly respected and regarded. Also Ekanath, Namdev, they all tried to be one with all the castes, and especially the schedule caste. So this saintliness was regarded as a another caste you can say, which did not believe in any caste whatsoever. They had no caste, they were a caste-less people without any religion, without any caste.

So the ultimate aim of every caste was to get to Self Realization. So they enter into the clan, you can call it, into the system of saints. And all the saints, whether Muslims, or Hindus or Jains or anything, they all were put together as saints, as you can say they were Sufis. Sufis from the Muslim heritage they came. Then we had also among Jains, Tirthankaras and all that. The main point was that they were the people who believed in the ethical life, ethics, believed in the higher life, spiritual life and lived like that.

Now as you are all Sahaja Yogis, you have lost your religion, lost your caste, you have lost your heritage. You are Sahaja Yogis. Yogis, means you are the people who are believing into the ethical side of life. In this country all this was used and was exploited also, for politics, for all kinds of segregation of people. And that has really gone into such rigid ideas about every one, every caste, that first thing they used to ask, not now, before, ‘What is your caste?’ Now that’s over, they don’t ask, at least thank God, that much sense is there, that they don’t ask for the caste, but they used to ask religion and caste formerly when we were entering into any examination or any kind of competition.

Now gradually it’s vanishing, but the politicians wants to use caste as a method of working out the opposition and the majority part of it. This democracy I don’t think is very helpful to us because in democracy anybody can start an organization, can say that, “We belong to this caste and that caste.” And when the constitution was made also in this country, it’s very surprising, Ambedkar was one of them who wanted that there should be a privilege for the schedule caste for forty years. My father was there. He said, ‘No, you can have only two types, ones who have and those who don’t have.’ And that kind of thing if you have: those who have and don’t have, it would make such a difference. Then in other countries they have the same type, so that the needs of the people who haven’t got the minimum necessities for a good life will be helped instead of creating a caste.

Now there’s one fellow called Mandal who created a great problem in our country. He as a student had a car of his own, used to live very lavishly, and he was fighting for some people who were supposed to be downtrodden. And so many bad things have been done because of his report that he gave. Now if he had made that kind of a proper, sensible, ethical division in this country, things would have been much better.

But now because of this problem of creating artificial caste, this country is suffering a lot and the castes of the gurus, the castes, we can say, of the Sufis, other castes of the saints is very much polluted and we had many people in our country who started becoming gurus and this and that.

But the main thing is the ethics, which was the culture of this country, was the ethics of dharma. Without that they thought human beings were worse than animals. Ethics was very important to every caste, to every person. Even when I was young we had the same thing. But now it has become such a mixture and such a problem, that unless and until Sahaja Yoga really spreads in a real way I don’t think we can improve the condition of this country.

Now the essence of it is that once your attention is only towards ethics and Aadhyatama (MEANS spirituality -ed), then you start discovering all the inner deeper meanings of your life. You work it out in a different way. In a very different way you work it out. If it is material gain, then one can become like America. If it is some sort of a very low level hankerings, then also you cannot be an Indian.

The principles of Indian life were embedded in spirituality, in morality. An immoral person was regarded as a very low level person. Such a person could not get married, he had no place in the society, he had no place even in the homes, their own homes. That such a restriction on people, just to see that the society is kept clean, and such a person was thrown out of the society.

Anybody who even drank wine or anything, was regarded as a person who is not dharmic, he is adharmic. Can you believe it? Drinking was regarded as adharmic. I think very few people must have seen drunkards, only on the streets.

When I went to Russia they asked Me, “What do you say for ‘cheers’?” The Russians say ‘cheerio’, they don’t say ‘cheers’. I said, “What? Cheers for what?” For drinking. When you are on the table, what do you say? I said, “We never drink on the dinner table, that’s not done in India. At least, I don’t know if somebody does it, but it is a very, very western style of life that openly you sit down at the dinner table before your children and start drinking, and say ‘cheers’. Cheers for what? For becoming unconscious? For becoming stupid? For getting into troubles?

But it became like a practice there. Whether somebody dies in the family, they will drink, can you imagine! If somebody is born in the family they will drink. So this culture, the whole culture was so bad, even among the worst in this country they wouldn’t do that. Secretly some people used to drink, and they would go on the street. Then the Islamic influence came. And surprisingly when it is prohibited, absolutely prohibited, in the Islam, to drink, they all started drinking as a reaction, but only those Nawabs and all that. And because of them, because they were in authority, others also took to drink.

But still, it is not yet a custom to drink, to celebrate something. I mean supposing, even in the church they give drinks and they make also some sort of a Benedictine, in the church organization. Imagine! This is such a perversion of religion. In India also, in the temples and all that they started all kinds of nonsensical things, no doubt. But Indian philosophy is such that it gives you complete freedom and you can do what you like. But not in the name of religion, you can’t do it, not in the name of God, not in the temple. And if they do it, people will throw them away, they bring a court case, do this do that and, I mean, just remove it completely. So it is kept pure.

We had a horrible incidence of horrible things people were doing, adharmic, but all that had to be cancelled completely. Why? Because the people wouldn’t have it. People wouldn’t like it. I was told that at Ganapatipule they are secretly offering some sort of a beer. But if the government comes to know about it, it will be banned. I mean, whatever is pure must be kept pure.

Christ, also, He took one hunter in his hand and started hitting people who were selling things in the temple. So the purity of that church or the purity of that religious place have to be kept. So the first thing I think was purity.

Here now I have seen, the other day, there was a boy, was for marriage, and it’s very surprising, they were all very well off, very rich, everything was there. But they found out that he had a girlfriend before. And the brother of the girlfriend tried to stab him. Finished. Now for him to get married is an impossibility in this country. He might get somebody from abroad, I don’t know what they will do. But if he had a girlfriend like that, openly, he is finished.

So the restrictions came from the society, a society which was built up on ethics. And all these ethical values are penetrating up to the lowest level, up to everywhere. But unfortunately, unfortunately now the other cultures are coming and people think we are rather rigid, very rigid people. We should really relax a little bit and take to other things. But I have to tell you that if you go out of the line of ethics, in any direction, the only saving is Sahaja Yoga to come back to normalcy, there is no other way out.

And once you come to Sahaja Yoga you cannot deviate from the path of dharma. If you try to do that you go out of Sahaja Yoga. It is as simple as that. It is not that, ‘All right, doesn’t matter, Mother should forgive.’ and these things. I forgive, all right, I forgive, because you have got some still human weaknesses left in you, I forgive.

But in Sahaja Yoga you cannot. Sahaja Yoga has to maintain its purity. If you allow all such people to enter into Sahaja Yoga, then there will be no purity of Sahaja Yoga and then everybody will start doing this or that just to say that, ‘After all, you see, we are also Sahaja Yogis, they are also Sahaja Yogis, if they have done it, why not we?’

What is very surprising to Me is the western people who have taken to Sahaja Yoga are scrupulously following Sahaja Yoga. Scrupulously. I am not such a strict Guru, as you know. But they understand one thing, that this is for our betterment, this is for our growth, this is a very, very important part of our lives, that is ethics. That has to be there. And once they understand it, I tell you, I am surprised how these western people who have seen their parents drinking, and also other people doing all kinds of things, even their friends and all that, they just give up, completely. I am very proud of them.

For us Indians, it is natural, because we are brought up that way. All the time we have seen people being corrected and, I mean of course drinking and all that was of course not out of question but even if somebody looks at a girl, you know, the father would say, ‘I will pierce through your eyes!’ And that’s why the eyes remain steady, and I don’t know how but we don’t do all that. Normally. I mean if somebody has been abroad and all that and thinks that they are very free people and why not we can do, that’s a very different thing. But normally we don’t, we don’t believe in that.

Of course in India we do have some elite societies, so called; they are the people who believe in all kinds of elite behavior. I don’t know what is that supposed to be. Maybe some of them have started some nonsense, especially in Bombay. Now it is spreading out also to Poona. And in Poona there are girls who are behaving funnily. I mean I can’t believe it. They drink, they smoke, they would become call-girls. All this has happened because they don’t know what is their idea about life. Or maybe it’s an actress or something they follow, but what is the life of that actress?

Unethical behavior, when you compromise with your value system, ultimately, where do you end? It’s showing results. We have AIDS, we have so many diseases coming from this kind of irrelevant, unethical life. It is happening everywhere to suggest that we should take to very normal life, to very good family life of obedience and understanding. But because you are very free in the West it is difficult for you to accept, but once they come to Sahaja Yoga I am really surprised, I am really surprised, how they have accepted Sahaja Yoga so beautifully.

They had the freedom, complete freedom to do what they liked. In India we don’t have such freedom for children. They can go wherever they like, they can do whatever they like, the teacher cannot correct them. Because of that freedom that they had, there’s one thing good that has happened. So many are lost, all right, but those who are saved are rare people.

Because of that growth of freedom within them I think they learn our Indian music in five months, four months. No Indians can do it because they are restricted all the time, they are controlled all the time, they are kept on the path of religion. So ultimately the freedom that some of you had and enjoyed has given you a special personality. That you pick up very difficult things without any effort. Now whether you should have that freedom or not is your own lookout. But too much restrictions on children, I think, is not a good thing.

Now in music, I know, Ravi Shankar when he was young, his guru had broken a tanpura on his head because he put a wrong note. Can you imagine? They used to beat them, tie them upside down, put them in the well, I mean all kinds of things they did and the disciples listened to all that discipline. Can you imagine? But I think that curbed their capacity to absorb something difficult. This is one of the reasons why I see this has happened, that people have picked up this difficult music in four months, three months, it’s a miracle we think. Why not this happens with Indians? You put them to anything, they pick it up so fast. With Sahaja Yoga, born with Sahaja Yoga, those who are, should be given full freedom I think. Such children should be given full freedom for they will not do anything wrong. And you will see they will pick up things very fast.

Not that westerners are more intelligent or alert, but the way they are given freedom, their growth, their personality. Sometimes they are like a vagabond, I think. Sometimes just like a tomboy. Sometimes to me they look like very vulgar, but once with that wealth of freedom they come to reality, they shine. So I would request also Indians, not to suppress their children too much. We enjoy the children very much in India, no doubt, but we suppress also them, very much. ‘Why are you standing? Why don’t you sit down?’ And children don’t mind because it is accepted, this pattern is accepted in India.

So too much restriction on children also curbs their personality, this is what I have discovered. But the western people go through such hell first of all, develop such problems to begin with and ultimately what happens is this, that they can be discarded as bad, bad, bad people. But if they come as good, good, good they are marvelous. All the freedom they have enjoyed before is showing results, otherwise how can this miracle happen to western people. There is no justification.

Now the problem is to give freedom or not. We have a proper sense now, after Realization, that a child is a born realized. In the beginning he won’t understand, he won’t understand. But gradually such a child will show results, maximum capacity to absorb and to express.

So today I am telling you about this freedom, which is the freedom of the Spirit. We should have understanding of such children who have that spirituality in them. They have dharma in them. And we should not try to constrict them or to trouble them. Let them do what they like. They’ll never do anything wrong because they are born realized.

So I am talking about the future Indians. Some of them I have seen, eight year old children, six year old children, they are geniuses, I tell you. They sing as if we feel that these old musicians are reborn or what. It is very surprising how they show their talent. There was a programme I saw on the television of children below eight years and a three year old girl singing just like Hirabai Badodekar. I was amazed. They are born realized but also they have the talents from their past life. They have got it from the past life.

So we should not try to control and check our children too much, that’s a part of our Sahaja culture. It doesn’t fit into Indian culture, I must say, but it should fit into Sahaja culture, to understand the value of our children who are realized souls. I enjoy their company, they speak so sweetly of all the things, of all the persons, and they describe about everyone so sweetly. Just allow them the freedom to talk and they’ll tell you all kinds of things.

Now I have praised you a lot I think. The outsiders we can call them, non-Indians, and it is a fact, the way they have taken to Sahaja Yoga is remarkable. But the way they are taking to this Indian music and to Indian art I can’t believe it, really I can’t believe it. I can’t understand it.

So you have freedom, but now use this freedom for expression of whatever you have achieved in Sahaja Yoga. Because you are already grown up with your freedom and if you do not utilize that personality full of freedom in expressing Sahaja Yoga in your own languages, you won’t help your people. You have to help them because your percentage is very low, your quality is high. But in your own country your percentage is low. So you have to go all out to get them into Sahaja Yoga and to let them know what they can achieve and what they are. You are duty bound, I think.

Transcript of 1998-12-31 New Year Puja Talk, Kalwa, India (Hindi/Marathi) video

[Marathi to English translation]

Here, small children have too much of freedom, too much because as per the law they can’t do anything to the children. If a teacher shouts at a child, then they can remove the teacher from the job. This kind of freedom they have there. And the children are in vain (‘वाहियात’) there, I agree to this. They behave the way they want, they do what they want. And there is no one to stop them, no one to tell them. One day I was going by a train, I was in the first class and there were around 25-30 children who came in my compartment. And in their hands they carried knives (‘सुऱ्या’) and blades. I thought are they going to kill me. They said, ‘we are not going to do anything to you as you are sitting quietly.’ I asked, ‘what do you do?’ They said that ‘we tear the cushions (in the train) and see what is there in it.’ I said, ‘there will be only cotton in it, what else.’ They said, ‘no-no, you let it be. We want to see.’ They started tearing all of it, cutting it. I don’t understand what type of children they are. At the train station, I was a scared, I called the station master. Then when he came, (we came to know) that these children were going to very good schools and there were some 3-4 under age children in the group who were beat (by the station master) black and blue. When they were asked, why you did this, they said that, ‘we were seeing what is there in the chairs?’ I did not like them beating (the children), why to beat? Now what happened has happened. They said ‘Don’t talk (to us) like this.’ I said, am talking the right thing. The children were beaten and they were all crying. They were all small-small kids, their age may have been around 7-8 years. And these 4-5 people came and started beating. Then they asked, ‘in your India, do children behave this way?’ I said ‘they will never behave this way, no chance.’ Children going to good schools will never do anything like this. They will be silent. Even when someone comes homes, they will be told to sit silently and not talk. If they go to anybody’s house they should not ask anything. So the children, if they are given anything, they will look up in a way asking, whether to take it or not? The question they have is if we take it, will we get beating back home or what? The mother or the father will say yes, then only they will take it.   

And when the children are turned around, then it feels nice, you feel good when you behave well with the children. But then we are too much (‘जबरदस्त’) knocking down. We always go on dictating children, sit here, sit there, have you done this, have you done in the morning, I think we are too much throaty (‘गलचिपळी’) of them is what I feel. Because now when I see their children (referring to the foreigners) when they first came to our school, the school is in the jungles, again the school is at height (above the sea level), where they will fall, will slip (‘धरपडतील’), or what they will do, is what we are worried. Slowly-slowly they understood, it came in their mind, now such small children, what houses they build, what paintings they do, our children can never do it. Means the competence (‘कर्तृत्व पणा’) that they have in them I think is killed within us. The competence should not be killed, we should get the righteousness, we should get the innocence. Not only that, but there should be respect for elders within them. But respect achieved by beating is of what use? Now these people (referring to the foreigners), they are not kids, all are big, when they came to our academy, within three months – four months, they were able to play the ‘malkauns’ raag. I said to myself, ‘Oh my God’. For our people to play the ‘malkauns’ raag our people have austerity (‘तपस्या’) for ten-ten years and still no one achieves the state of a Guru even by force. They open up by that force (‘झोरपडण्यातनं’) somehow to become a big musician, their only health is good. In that after in numerous beatings, the disciples are ready. This Ravi Shankar (famous Indian music composer) has taken so much beatings from his Guru.

Not only him, I have heard about others as well, they have got a hammering and in the end what after constant abrade (‘रगडल्यावर’) for 10 years, 12 years, 14 years, they learn music. But how did these people (Shri Mataji is referring to the foreigners) learn it in 3 to 4 months? These people don’t know anything about us, our music, culture. And how did these people learn, they have learnt the tune (‘रागकारी’), they learnt everything (about music). Then a thought came to my head that we have (pamper) our kids a lot, they have become very gentle like feather (‘पंखकपृष्ट’). Kids are not treated with love, always why are you behaving like this, why you are sitting here, sitting there, like this, like that, it goes on. I have never done this to my children. But I can see others doing this. And giving children every now and then (‘उठल्या सुटल्या’) something else by which their self-esteem diminishes. Things like this is too much in our place, due to this the children will learn, will read a lot, but they will not learn the art or the creativity in it. Appearance of Shrikala (‘श्रीकला चा प्रादुर्भाव’) is less, but more stress should be on establishing the righteousness. If it comes in a free mind then it is special. What is the point of chanting ‘Ram Ram’ forcefully? It should come in a free mind. But after coming to Sahaja yoga, you should understand this much that your kids who are born realised, those who are realised by birth itself, then you should keep their respect. Sages, saints are coming to your house. You should respect them, listen to them, what they say should be heard. If you listen to what they say, you will be surprised. They have an amazing brain, amazing understanding, that even we can’t manage they can manage. My, my granddaughter, grandson, they are all realised, so they have that much understanding that my saree was put in the ground by our maid, then she went and bit the maid. The maid said, ‘Mad, why did you bite me?’ My granddaughter replied, ‘Whose saree is this, do you know? You are putting it on the floor, tomorrow I will put you on the floor.’ The maid got a fright, she said ‘Ok I will take care of your saree.’ So what they are, so their behaviour, their fondness, or what they are showing in their lives, we should be seeing it, we should appreciate it. And we should see what these children are talking, in that we will not lose our greatness (‘मोठेपणं’). For us our mother and father are great, and even more are the grandfather and grandmother. Maybe one time even the grandfather and grandmother will agree but not the mother and father. So this is what, here we have to reduce the discipline (‘शिष्ठा’) on them. There is no need for that. But from that they are realised people. They are born realised and many of them now are getting their realisation. Then we should see their behaviour, we should see their thoughts, we should talk to them, even if we talk to such children you will feel tremendous joy, they tell so much entertaining stories. and if you give them a slap, and ask them to shut up, you should not do such things. But the thing that came to my mind is that these children who go to the school in foreign countries, there the teachers are not even allowed to keep a stick. If the teacher says anything, she will be legally sent to jail.    

But what has come from that freedom is this. If they are born realised then should we not be respecting them. You became Sahaja Yogis afterwards, they are born seers (‘सिद्ध पुरुष’). You have to keep their respect and in that respect you should not make fun of them, but you should really give them respect. Means, I know very well that they will stand up to these children. But even if there are fully enlightened and realised children, if you handle them (‘हाथाध्ययचा’) this way, by this the children will become useless. You should keep their respect, you should understand them. They should be educated about Sahaja Yoga completely from the heart. If this comes within us, even our children will not be less than anyone and our country will prosper in every way. Means what we call as spirituality that spirituality is there in abundance in our country but in that, which people feel about spirituality is that everyone should go and chant ‘Hari Hari’, become inactive (‘निष्क्रिय’), don’t do any work, become useless, it is not like that. After all the power is transmitted, you will become people with quality. The result of that power will happen and you will become attached (‘सॊलग्न’) to it, this happens directly. But I feel special about your children because I can see the future of this country, these dutiful (‘कर्तबगार’) children got birth through your womb, they are quite great people. They are great saints and sages. They have taken birth from you because you are realised people. But even if you don’t understand that, then such great sages and saints will be wasted (‘वाया जाणार’). Hence beating children, giving them punishment, shouting at them, getting angry at them, should be completely stopped by Sahaja Yogis. Till date I have not mentioned this, but today I only though about it that I should explain this to all of you. And the powers that they have within you should further awaken it. Not only this, by awakening it for such children, they should be made to sit in such a place where there complete progress will take place. The complete lines of their lives will change and they will understand that they are something special. What will happen due to this is that the enlightenment becomes coral (‘बोध मुणगे होतात’). They should not become people whose character is killed because these children are born for this (Sahaja Yoga) only. In what all work they will prosper cannot be said. They will correct the entire state of our country. This is a big blessing of Sahaja Yoga for our country. This is happening at your door, at your homes, where such great sages and saints have taken birth. You have heard so much description of those sages and saints, they are in reality present in front of you, how are you not able to recognise them? You should recognise them and after you have recognised them if you keep their prestige completely, then those children will take you to great heights. You will be surprised that India’s good luck is in this. In Sahaja Yoga many things are taken care, your illness is cured, your obstacles are cured, you get good children, those who could not conceive, get children. But what after that?

We have to remember our country always that we have for this country given birth to these children, not for us. And to get this executed (‘कार्यान्वित’) whatever qualities they need to have should be completely blossomed (‘प्रस्फुटित’). We should keep this thought in our mind. These children will never do anything which is wrong because they are saints and sages. But scope should be given (‘वाव दिला पाहिजे’) to them, this is what I feel myself. Today everyone asked me to speak on culture, let your great heavy culture be. But culture has to have some meaning. Children should be completely obedient (‘आज्ञाधारक’). They should not move from here to there at all, to do all this the mother and father need to also be very wise. Let these children behave the way they want. Appreciate them, understand them, you will come to know that these children have abundant qualities, you do not have to tell them anything. One or two of them may go astray, I don’t say that will not happen, but mostly they won’t. Then I am saying that, I can’t see it, shouting at children and other things, I can’t see it and I don’t like it. I don’t do it at all, I have never done it. Make them understand, if there is something explain it to them, the children will understand. If someone has done something wrong, you should make them understand. But just to show off that we have control (‘ऊतपथ’) over the children, we shouldn’t do that. When the empire of these children will come then we will know how much great this country is. So there is nothing wrong in giving them complete scope (‘वाव’). Today I thought what will happen if I go on talking about culture, what is in the scripture remains in the scripture (‘पुराणांतील वांगीं पुराणांत’) (means it is not put to practice). But to get the true interest (‘रुच्याला’), we should understand what is required to our lives. So much restricted, so much force, then you say that they don’t listen, to listen to you who are you? Are you a sage or a saint? Tis is so wrong, I am telling you this is wrong because by law there is not restrictions on us. These foreigners have (restriction by law), they can’t do anything. If they touch the children they go to the past (‘गेले गेरे मध्ये’). According to them, in their empire, children are the property of the country, they are the wealth (of the country), not yours. You have to recognise the children, if they are born realised, of they have those qualities, instead of encouraging (‘जिगुनित’) it if you try to suppress it, they will run away from you. If they don’t run away, they will do wrong things and even if that doesn’t happen, they will be wasted. You have got lotuses in your hand and if you drain it (‘गुस्कारून टाकावी’), then what to say. Now it is the New Year. In the New Year you should decide that we will not put any kind of restrictions on our children. 19.18 secs (Youtube)   

[Transcript of Talk in English]

Today is a New Year day. So I am telling them they have to decide now Indians that these children are born realised you should not put any sort of pressure on them. Of your culture, I don’t add. The culture of love is the culture of Sahaja Yoga. Of course Indian culture is very deep rooted, very beautiful, everything but the, I think the, to the thieves of this great culture, you have to give that some nourishment, some water of love. Unless and until you use that they will not grow. So that is how we can take and give something nice from each other. I will be very happy to see that all those children who are born realised grow to be the saints of this country and the same with the western people. They should also respect their children, love, give all the freedom that is needed for their growth instead of cutting all the time. If you go on cutting the trees, they will never grow and they are on the natural grounds of Sahaja Yoga. So this culture, Indian culture which is very great, I must say, but there is one thing that is missing in it is the water of love. Even the Gurus you see, oh my God (‘baap re baap’), I have heard about them that the way these used to treat their disciples, I said let these Gurus go to right, who cares. And those who would not trouble will be satisfied if you give them some money. With money they are satisfied, but they would not hit you, they wouldn’t do anything. There are only two types of Gurus. One who would take money, exploit; the others who would cheat them just like, I don’t know what. Sahaja Yoga is in the centre. It is in the centre. It is the one that keeps everybody flowered properly and to understand the value of their family, value of their freedom. If that happens, you should also respect that for younger generation which is coming up. May God Bless you. 22.49 secs (Youtube)   

[Hindi to English translation]

Now there is no need to talk in Hindi because you all are Englishmen and know English. And the second things is that for the Maharashtrians I have surely, because I have lost the habit of speaking in Marathi, so I thought that I should speak a little in Marathi. Hindi speaking people, they all know English language, it is not needed to explain to them. The thing that I have told, needs to be understood properly that when we forcibly groom our children, we don’t consider that as persecution. If all these children have come to your homes as sages and saints then you should be respecting them, taking care of them, you should be loving them which will give them growth. You should give them freedom. They can’t do anything wrong as they are saints and sages. But the way you look at them is different. You at all times your, in Marathi is called monarchy (‘मंकतशाही’), this is a new word that I have learnt now or else (you can call it) Hitler-shai, you can add all the shai’s. In this thing, I think there will not be anyone who is more than me in this matter. I don’t like it at all if anything is told to children, I don’t like it. If there is an issue, then make them understand. Now these children have to flourish (‘पनपणा’), tomorrow they are the citizens of this country and these children will only enchant (‘करामात’) you. These people’s children were also given the freedom, then with that freedom I am seeing today that how much extrovert (‘बहीया’) they have become. Some have also become waste. You have the support of the culture, now on that support you should take care of the children. You can explain to them what our state is. So many things can be completed in a straight, simple manner. About our country, about the great people of our country, no one knows anything. No one knows at all that with how much sacrifice we have received our freedom. We should tell this to these children. In the house we should keep the photos of great people, great leaders. What all struggles happened, that we need explain to them. In the schools this should be explained, a similar environment should be there. Now we can see that the children know all the cinema actors and actresses but our people who had sacrificed so much, they tried so much and gave the freedom to our country, they don’t know anything about these people. This is a very big opposition here in our place. So instead of shouting at the children on wasteful matters, make them understand and explain to them that the country in which they are born, you are its heritage (‘धरोहर’). What all has been done for you, so much sacrifices have been done, in that way. Then the patriotism towards the country will build within them and the citizens here of tomorrow will be patriots. They are Sahaja Yogis, it is easier for them to be brought into patriotism, it is very easy. My blessings to all of you.