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> BIRTHDAY PUJA 21.03.1994

Every year you have birthday of various people and every year we make a vow, that this year, I will not do this, I will not do that. This is a very good way of seeing, how far, we have come in life. Many people who really have achieved a very great height in their spiritual life, did not need a birthday. But everyday they felt its a birthday. To start, to go ahead, to understand, to learn, everyday is a new year for them. In our own life, we see that our surroundings change very slowly. Sometimes it is shocking, sometimes we are surprised, how the surroundings are not changing? But, in a subtle way, there is a tremendous change that is happening within us and without. The whole atmosphere today is governed by human beings. I don't know how far Paramchaitanya works it out. But it is for us, to open ourselves to new dimensions in our life. For example, if we find, we still have through our introspection, we locate that we have all these subtle nonsensical things, still hanging around us. You don't have to vow for it. You have to just witness it and the destructive path which it is taking you to. Immediately you will give up. You don't have to worry as to put a vow upon yourself, because now your are ‘Samartha' - it means now you are absolutely empowered. Whatever you think is wrong, your attention itself on it will slowly, gradually remove the doubts, about having those problems, those connections, conditions and ego that are lingering. Definitely you will drop them. With your attention, it will run away.

Then you will realise that everyday your attention is getting purified, getting powerful, getting compassionate. Normally whatever reaction you have, in your attention, just disappears and you start witnessing the whole thing. And your power of attention through that witnessing force acts and it works. It works not only on you, but on everything that surrounds you. Firstly, through your meditation, in the state of meditation, you expand within yourself, you stay in the present. The other day somebody asked me, 'Where was your last birthday?’ I just forgot. Otherwise my memory is very good, like an elephant. But this I just forgot. Perhaps, every time, everyday you live in the present and you grow, so you forget when and where this growth has taken place. My own growth has been like this. That everytime I go to a place, I find very nice, new people coming in and some of the horrible ones from the old lot disappearing. Its something like when the tree grows, the leaves go on falling and new leaves start coming. But in Sahaja Yoga, it's something different. I find that on the tree of Sahaja Yoga, very few - very, very few leaves fall off and you sometimes face a lush garden of beautiful people. To me it's like a miraculous fireworks. It starts like a small line and then opens up into several beautiful patterns. It is impossible to envisage or to visualize what will happen to earth, to Sahaja Yoga, and to all of you. I have never learnt to imagine things. But the vision that you see is really remarkable, is very remarkable.

That I see all the Sahaja Yogis drenched in divine love and expressing themselves in a very beautiful and very deep manner. This when comes in, that really makes your attention absolutely enrapt in such divine bliss that you forget that moment. One of those moments are when you celebrate my birthday. I even forget for how many years I have lived on this earth. Sometimes I say I am seventy three, sometimes I say I am seventy. I just don't know. Because as I told you, it does not leave any mark of time, of date, of years in that blissful state and if sometimes you can think that you went to see something very beautiful like Taj Mahal, without knowing what it is and suddenly you find such a beautiful building, unexpectedly, you just get like stunned - in Hindi we call it --- you don't know how to express. You become speechless and invariably you will find that time, you forget the time. You will forget, how you came there. All the story behind, all that finishes off, as soon as you see the reality of the vision. This reality of the vision is something beyond even my thinking and imagination. I cannot even now sometimes believe that there are so many Sahaja Yogis who have got this subtle knowledge. I never knew that there are so many seekers together. I never knew that there are such subtle seekers on this earth. Alt over the world, wherever I went, whether I went to Nepal or to Brazil, suddenly I find faces, so many beautiful seekers. If you ask me, when did you go to Brazil I won't be able to tell you the date. I have very bad memory for dates. Because everytime I see a vision and the time also just stops, for that moment. It doesn't express itself, nothing is recorded except for the experience. And this experience is in an abstract form. You cannot describe. It is beyond words and beyond any description. At that time you really become thoughtless, and that is the time we have to really enjoy.

The greatest curse of modern times is the watch. All the time we are just seeing the time. What time it is now and after two seconds again also you want to know, what is the time. We have crossed the limits of time 'kalateet'. Try to understand, why we have crossed because time moves according to us. You can experience it. The other day, I was coming from Delhi, and in my household everybody seems to be very particular about time. So they were after my life, come along, come along, getting late, getting late, now just can't get into the plane, this, that. And when I reached there, they said that the plane is still waiting. It's not necessary for you to hurry up, it will take at least fifteen twenty minutes for you to go. So also, this name of the airport makes people really jumpy, I will say. They have to go to the aeroplane means as if some war is there, or I don't know what it is? So far, I have never missed a plane, never missed a train in my life time, though I travel I think, quite a Iot. Every time, I have found invariably, that the plane itself is waiting for me, it won't go. Like I will give you a very interesting example, if you are relaxed.

We were in Taaha and we were supposed to go to Poland via Vienna. We had a very great Sahaja Yogi with us who told me that the plane will be leaving at 11 O'clock. And from the airport we came to know that the plane will be leaving at 9:30. If I want I can be ready in 5 minutes or I can. take two hours, depends. So I was ready and I jumped into the car and reached the airport. We. were late by fifteen minutes and the ground lady started shouting at me, at the top of her voice, "You people, you are VIPs. You are this, you are that." All kinds of things she said to me. And this Sahaja Yogi could not bear it, and he felt that it was his mistake and he told me the wrong time, that is why this lady is shouting at my Mother. He couldn't bear it. He was very unhappy. So we went into the aeroplane with this lady shouting behind. We saw that the pilot and the engineer were busy doing some correction of the machinery.

They said it is a little bit out of order and it will be ready. So we sat down.

Now this Sahaja Yogi could not bear it and the tears started rolling down his eyes. Then another Sahaja Yogini, she said, brother, it's all right, don't cry. They were sitting behind me, I just turned round. I said, It's all right. Don't worry. He said, "No Mother, because of me, she could say all these things. Now I can't bear it." And he couldn't stop crying. Within one minute, the sky which was absolutely open, was covered with big clouds like huge big elephants walking into the whole area.
All the Sahaja Yogis who were standing on the other side, on top of the airport saw it happening. The whole thing became absolutely jet black. Oh my God! I said, see the tears of this gentleman had such powers. Then the airport people told us that this plane is out of order, so we have to get down. We got down. We came back. Then he went to this ground hostess and told her now whom should we shout at? Now the plane is not going. Should we shout at you? How dare you shout at my Mother and all those things? But all the people there at the airport who were still under the same regime and style got such a fright.

The manager himself walked to me and said for your plane, there are still five hours and if you want out we can give you permission, all of you can go out. He took by a special way. I could not understand his reaction. So, I went out and did some shopping or something and when we came back; we were surprised. All the airport was rather stunned by us and when I walked, that was the only plane that was leaving. All the traffic had slopped except for this plane. And when we walked down to board the plane, the gentleman who was there said, "Mother, can you help me?" I said, "How?" "I have got a terrible back pain". I said, "How can I do it?" Then one lady walked in to say, "Mother please, I have pain in my shoulder, can you put your hand on that?" I just put my hand on her shoulder, and she said, I am feeling alright. She started lifting her arm. Then I went. I thought, I better now take to the aeroplane. When I was walking, the.same gentleman came to me and said, "Why not put your hand on my back?" I said, "I have to board the plane." He said, "I will walk with you,You just put your hand on my back. I am sure, I will be airight." And we walked together for two minutes or so and he said, I am aIright. The whole atmosphere changed.

It was such a tremendous effect on these people who have been under a regime and had been living military life, and the whole treatment was so funny. The whole thing changed in such a short time. I was amazed, how the tears of this Sahaja Yogi has worked this wonder. Now imagine a moment when tears started rolling in his eyes. That moment, just manifested a big drama, and ultimately what you find is that the people at the airport became extremely humble and respectful. So, when we start thinking of time and time and time, we have to understand that time is our slave and we are not slaves of the time.
There are thousand and one stories I can tell you, how by delaying in a plane, by getting late in a place by not caring for the time, I have seen such beautiful manifestations, such beautiful dramas, the art of the divine power, I was amazed, how people worry so much about the time? If time is really necessary, if we are all watching our time, every year, as our birthday, and if you think that time is very important, it is in a way, in these modern times, we really need the time for meditation, for collective meditation, and for Sahaja Yoga.

I know, when there was the war of independence in this country where my parents fought with all their 'Tana Mana Dhana' that time I remember how they never cared for anything. They went all out because it was very important to get this country freed from the clutches of the Empire. And this was so important, they had to meet somebody at such a point, that man supposing, is escaping from the jail or there is some sort of thing on, they could not afford to miss the time, they could not afford to just neglect that important time, important meetings, important discussions etc. Because everything had become an emergency. For them, nobody told them, no body gave them lectures, but for them, from inside. They were all legendary people, I should say, the way they fought, for their freedom.

This is today, the same situation. It is an emergency. A very subtle emergency. That. nothing is more important than spreading Sahaja Yoga. If some people will miss it, will not know about it, we will be responsible for it. At the time of Christ, Buddha or Mahavira or any one of them, there were no aeroplanes to travel, there were no loud speakers, also other communications and televisions and all those things.

All these things have come now, that has been manifested now. It is a work of 'Paramchaitanya'. Through scientists through other knowledge, all this manifestation has taken place. Also these people did not have to face people, so many, not this way. They were not supposed to give realisation in such a big way. So all these inventions, all that you see today as modern ventures which we have got, they are all for Sahaja Yoga. Without Sahaja Yoga, you cannot imagine what would happen to this world. The first and foremost thing is, that we have no peace within our hearts. You talk of peace. I know of people who have got awards for peace, but no peace within their hearts, no peace. Unless and until we human beings have peace there cannot be peace in the whole world. It's we who create wars. It's we who do all kinds of violence. It's we who ruin the possibility of people getting into the 'Kingdom of God'. So peace can be only achieved by establishing peace in the hearts of the people.

And that is only possible that you achieve the state of thoughtless awareness. You remain in the present, and there you will be amazed, you will be standing like a rock because you will have reality in your hands. You can work out the way you like.
Actually, I don't work out anything whatsoever, really. You may say, you do this, you do that, but I don't. It's the Param Chaitanya, which works. In the same way, it will work for you also. But you must have faith in yourself and an absolute faith in Sahaja Yoga, absolute. That's the only way, we can achieve bliss that many, many people, most of the people of the world; I would not say, all of them, rather difficult to say but may be possible, should enter into the 'Kingdom of God. It's the most important thing, more than all these worldly things and more than all these nonsensical things. So, the attention should be, how many people we are going to bring to Sahaja Yoga? How many we are going to save? What are we going to do about it? When you have to think about it every morning, how can you remember the time and date when you are in an emergency now and you know that this emergency has to be fulfilled, then how can you pay attention to all worldly things, all worldly achievements. That will take it's own course. You don't have to worry. That works out automatically. Only thing there, you really need is your own diversion or your own focussing on Sahaja Yoga - in and out. If you really want peace on this earth, if you really want progress for ourselves, if you want all kinds of physical, mental and emotional problems being solved, all for our good; why not we come to Sahaja Yoga, where we don't have to do anything, except for raising our Kundalini, except for meditating for it, for very little time and to achieve that state of joy.

Today, my feelings are really full of joy, because now I can see, how things are happening. How one person can produce thousands and thousands of Sahaja Yogis. I saw one miracle. I told once, that one seed has all the thousand trees, it's going to produce and when I saw a new technique of 'tissue culture', I was amazed that on one little seed there were so many little, little primules who had come out. In the same way, you are all capable and you all can do it. But what is needed is, faith in yourself, and also complete sincerity about Sahaja Yoga. If that happens today, you have really celebrated my birthday, if you think that my birthday is important. For me very important is that everybody gets their spiritual birthday.

May God Bless you.