Guru Puja: Detachment, Silence, Faith Avignon (France)

Guru puja. Avignon (France), 8 July 1990. In Sahaja Yoga the Guru puja has a very different significance from any other guru puja. When you worship your Guru you are also worshiping the Guru within you. This is not in any other guru-disciple system because, in you, the Guru, the Master has been awakened. And so, when you are worshipping your Guru, then this Master within you is also worshipped, you respect it, you glorify it, you awaken it, and you manifest it. This we have to realise that – in Sahaja Yoga – if you are a Sahaja Yogi. Now, the quality of Guru, first and foremost, is that he makes you meet God: means he raises the Kundalini and establish the relation between the All-pervading Power. And as your Guru is Adi Shakti, you make that person meet, also, the Adi Shakti. So you have a double advantage that, at the same time, when you give them Realisation, not only that you make them feel the union with the Divine Power, but you can make them meet the Divinity Itself, the source of Divine Power. So your responsibility, as Sahaja Yogis, is very great because in you is there is the Guru. Now in our mantras we say that, “Mother, I am my own Guru.” But, saying that, do we realise that: if I am my own Guru, this “I” and “my Guru,” between the two, what have I achieved? Where am I? Can I guide myself? Have Read More …

Evening Program, eve of Guru Puja Camping Parc des Libertés, Avignon (France)

Musical program, camping “parc des Libertés”, on the island of Barthelasse, Avignon, France, 07-07-1990 Shri Mataji: Give her a chair. Give her a chair otherwise she won’t be able to play harmonium. Ah, [Hindi] Can you keep it up there? Ah. On that. [Hindi] You can move that. Come on. Have a sit there. Sahaja Yogi: We would like to present you with a “Bharood” [Marathi religious song] by Sant Eknath. It’s a song that, in a style that is designed to teach people what will happen to them if they don’t behave in a, in the correct way. In this particular song, Sant Eknath is talking about what happens to people if they’re not if they trick people badly. If they are, if they are rude to them if they cheat them. Sant Eknath gives example in particular of Duryodhana who took Draupadi and humiliated her in his court and it was eventually his brother, the brother of Duryodhana drag Draupadi into the court to be humiliated. And was eventually punished by Bhishma, punished by Bhishma in a dual. In the same way, Ravana who kidnapped Shri Sita was duly punished by Shri Rama. And so on in many cases. In reality, there are only four people that Sant Eknath mentions who are free from any kind of problem in his regard. For example, Bhishma and Hanumana those two are examples. Sant Eknath concludes the song inviting us to be sweet with each other and not to abuse each Read More …