Shri Ganesha Puja. Rahuri (India), 7 January 1983. English Talk You have come here to learn something, to go deep into your experiences of the knowledge of your roots. Shri Krishna has said that this is a tree which is upside down: the roots are upwards and the leaves are outwards. In the same way, you know that Kundalini, really, when it rises in the Sahasrara or above Sahasrara, then you start getting the feeling of Kundalini. So one has to understand that when we are now getting subtler and subtler and trying to feel the Kundalini, we should try to get out of a materialistic attitude and materialistic viewpoint and materialistic sticking point. I met one guru before – because you know I went to all of them – and I asked one of them, I said, “Why do you take money, so much money from these people who are Western people? So much, why do you take and just they become beggars, absolutely like beggars they become, because you charge them so much and so heavily?”  And he told Me that, “Unless and until you make them beggars, they will never take to God. They are too rich to be near God.” I mean, this explanation I just could not understand. It was absurd. I could not understand: How can this explanation have any proper meaning, that you should make people beggars and then they’ll be nearer to God? I said, “In India we have many beggars; do you Read More …