1981-1014 Public Program, Day 3, John Muir School Santa Monica, California, USA Today I want to talk to you about the Spirit which you have heard about for such a long time. You have known that you have to be the Spirit, you have to become the Spirit, the Spirit is going to give you rebirth and what is this Spirit supposed to be. Actually so much has been said about it that Spirit is the Truth, it is the Truth and you have to receive the Truth. Now we must understand at the very outset there’s a big difference between something that is true and something that is Truth. Like if it’s a true statement, true is an adjective. It’s a true statement that you have to become the Spirit. It’s a true statement that you are to be born again. It’s a true statement that Spirit rules everything. But it is not the Truth in the sense that unless and until you become the Truth, a true statement is like an advertisement – like a place or a signboard that indicates. For example, somebody says this is Saint Monica but that is not Saint Monica. It just puts a signboard. If you see the signboard and you see the arrow going towards it, unless and until you go into it you are still standing at the signboard. And this discrimination we should understand very clearly that the Truth is the thing that you become and true is the Read More …

1981-1013 Public Program Day 2, John Muir School, Santa Monica, CA Yesterday I told you a general idea about the chakras and about the powers we have within ourselves. My main concern yesterday was to instill in you the sincerity with which you must seek, that you have to be honest to yourself to get to the truth. This is the only payment you have to make for Sahaja Yoga, that you have to be really honest to yourself. I’m not here to gain anything from you. That’s one point that should be absolutely clear. You cannot give me anything, I cannot take anything from you. When we come to that point, the second point, is we have to be honest about it. Many people believe that whatever way you go, you go to God, is not true. Also some people believe that if you do wrongs and harm to others, still you will go to God. It’s true, no doubt but not because you have done anything wrong. You will go to God because you have decided to be good people, to be people who are seeking God in the true sense of the word. So when you are seeking the truth, you must, first of all, ask a question within yourself:“Are we really seeking the truth?’ So many fixations we have within us have to be dropped. Gradually you will see for yourself as you grow in your self realization, these fixations drop automatically. Like a flower becomes Read More …

1981-1012 Public Program Day 1, John Muir School, Santa Monica, CA We have people here who, I believe, are seekers of truth. They’re really seeking the truth. And we are not to be identified or should have any fixations about anything whatsoever. Even what I say you need not believe. But you must have an open mind because it’s not a philosophy. You’ve had enough of philosophy – sat chit anand, this is this, that is that – I mean you’ve heard all these names, everything already. You people know so many names here that it is hard now for people to find out who speaks what. You must have realized from Gregoire’s speech that it is not what I say or of what you understand mentally that is important. It’s not a mental acrobat but it actually is a happening which is to happen to all of you, it was to happen to you, you are built that way, that the whole instrument within you is created that way. And it has to happen. It’s a happening. We don’t understand the meaning of happening also. That’s our trouble. First, we should realize what we should expect to happen. Nobody says that, but I would explain to you what should we expect to happen to us. We are seeking because whatever we have as a human awareness we are not satisfied with. We don’t think we have reached our absolute point. In the unconscious we feel that. That’s why you Read More …