Advice at Bordi Shibir (English part) Bordi (India)

Advice at Bordi Shibir (English part). Bordi, Maharashtra, India. 22 March 1979. You develop a hypertension, you become very agitated, you start dancing and doing all kinds of things.  These things can happen – that you may start dancing, jumping, shouting, doing all kinds of things, getting into licentiousness, permissiveness. Because that’s how you are let loose. The control on your being of the wisdom is lost, and then you just get into it. And you don’t feel the pinch of your conscience. The pinch of the conscience is no more. You just go arbitrary and you just shoot off. It can happen to people even without feeling this. Even without feeling this some people can get into that kind of a mood. That’s how they become alcoholic and they become all these things where they have no control. (Break in recording.) …eventually he was absolutely on [his] deathbed because he got cirrhosis of the liver and he was going to die. He had left Sahaj Yoga, he wanted to do it on his own and all that, and he just lost it, poor thing! Within three months he started showing results. And he was so badly off and I brought him home. My husband had gone abroad and when he came back, he said, “What’s this? You have got a dead person in the house! They are going to prosecute us; we are all going to be in jail. He’s going to die next moment the way he is. Read More …

Chitta KI Gaharai, False Gurus Bordi (India)

Public program, ‘chitta’ (Hindi-English), Bordi (India) 24 March 1979 You all have come in Sahaja Yoga. Some are there since a long time, some are new. Slowly the number of Sahaja Yogis is going to increase. There is no doubt. The truth always establishes itself slowly. Truth takes time to get established [within ourselves]. Some people came in Sahaja Yoga and took 8 to 9 months to get their realization. To achieve the truth, we should have depth inside us and the most important thing is we have to be pure inside. If we have been to many gurus, our chitta [attention] becomes impure. Secondly, when we are living in today’s society, due to many distractions outside, our chitta [attention] is always directed outwards [towards the physical world]. We get impressed by all these distractions and also we have been brainwashed by society that these things are important for us. Hence, we put our attention to the things which are not at all important and neglect those which are necessary. Therefore, we go on collecting the things which are useless for us which we call ‘junk’ in English. So, our mind becomes heavy with all the ‘junk’ it collects inside. Our minds can’t carry this burden. It gets tiring. When people get together in the society, they can’t talk to each other for a long time because their mind is so heavy with the thoughts that they are tired. Even while talking to each other, they need to do something Read More …