“What Have You to Surrender?” (aka “Being Connected to God”), Third Seminar Session, January 24, 1982, Lonavala, Maharashtra, (India) Shri Mataji: Before Realisation whatever you do, as I told you, before this, is artificial, towards God, because you are not connected. Any kind of worship you do, anything you do, is not really reaching the principle of that.  Now, for example the flame: the principle of flame is light. And unless until you are awakened, you cannot awaken the principle, you cannot touch the principle of flame. So, once you are awakened, then, as you are on your principle, you can go on the principle of the flame as well. After Realisation, when you start using the flame, you must have seen that it gives soot, black soot come out of it sometimes. I know of somebody who told me that the whole wall became black when he was putting hand towards me and he was amazed how the wall became black! Then you have seen also that the flame reacts: if my photograph is there then you definitely awaken that flame, because so many have been cured through my photograph. How it has happened? What happens is that, when my photograph is placed, and you put the flame there, the flame gets awakened, and the light that passes through that flame carries the vibrations over.  Material things carry [my vibrations], like sound. Now sound waves, you have seen that, I get can clear you out by touching my different Read More …