“The Spirit is Paramount, it is the Highest Thing”, Sahasrara Puja Evening Talk. Thredbo (Australia) 3 May 1987. I hope today’s lecture did not shock you very much. I had to tell you about it, otherwise you would not know your importance, your greatness, your responsibilities. But I must warn you about the ghost as I told you, because a mother has to warn about the ghost to frighten the children: that’s important, and the ghost is materialism, as I said, which has become so important. Matter always tries to overpower the Spirit, all the time. All the habits are formed because of the matter. Even the habits of drinking, say, habits of taking drugs, is nothing but these horrible, powerful material things which are dead are trying to overpower us.The Spirit is paramount, it is the highest thing. Nothing can reach it. It keeps you away from all the skirmishes, all the cheap and superficial problems of the world. Materialism has grown much more today than ever before. It has become very important for people to worry about things that they possess. I find in the West it has grown so subtly and so sophisticatedly that it is difficult even to find out how far we have gone with it. It’s like plastic, which can penetrate into everything and can hold it. This materialism has brought us to the cracking point now; the whole world is bothered about it. First of all there are ecological imbalances. People are watching Read More …