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> JANAM DIWAS PUJA 21.03.1997

That was for Indians, not for you people.

Thank you very much for all this celebration, for all these beautiful balloons. But looking at these balloons, we have to see, some of them who have lost their air completely. This is another problem we face in the West Because, to have ego, according to the western culture, is a very great achievement When we start living with our ego, I know, how one looks like. He really looks like a stupid fellow. When he talks, when he describes himself, you don't know where to look because we just feel like laughing at his stupidity. Ego is the outcome of stupidity. I don't know what to say, how to give a simile to ego because it is just bloated and makes you float in the air. When it bursts, you are down on the earth. But you are not down on the earth, the way a Sahaja Yogi should be - down to earth, but completely finished.

All your arrogance goes to waste. You can never understand Sahaja Yoga, if you have this ego in your head. I have known people who have this ego. They have come to Sahaja Yoga and still they think they know more than anybody else. To know about yourself, you have to go deep down and to go deep down you have to give up all this idea which makes you float in the air. Imagine if you have big balloon attached to you, how can you go deep down into the sea? You cannot. That kind of air which makes you float in the air, absolutely in an area of stupidity. Then you may think whatever you like about yourself, you can behave the way you like but what do you achieve? You achieve nothing out of it. Whatever you achieve, people are jealous of you, they want to harm you, you have no friends. Nobody cares for you and in Sahaja Yoga, people know who has got this problem.

Once I had an experience, long long time back in Pune where the people who were owning that hall, said that we cannot have Shree Mataji's programme because she is not a brahmin. So, the Sahaja Yogis said, all right we will give it in the newspapers that because She is not a brahmin we cannot have the programme. These people came to my programme, the owner of that hall was sitting in the gallery. He couldn't even walk. He was suffering from some kind of a funny disease. They didn't tell me, that these people had protested. Now these people started shaking before me. I said, what is this? They said Mother, we know You are Shakti but please stop it. It is too much. But what did You do? They said we didn't do anything. We just said this is a brahmin’s hall and this area is mostly resided by brahmins. So we thought that you cannot have your programme. I said, really, that’s all. They said, yes that’s all. But they said, see on the other side, those people are also shaking with your power. So I asked them (the other group), who are you, are you also brahmins. They said we are certified mad people from Thane.

How are you here? They said, "There was one mad fellow who was cured by you. Our superintendent brought us here. We are certified mad." My goodness. These (hall owners) looked at me I said, see now, you are shaking and they are shaking. Now you tell where are you.
They all became Sahaja Yogis. Not only that, the gentleman who was sitting upstairs, I told him you get up and come down. He came and since that day he surrendered his life and did a lot of work for Sahaja Yoga.

So, anybody who talks like that, that this is wrong in Sahaja Yoga, this should not happen, we should not have paid so much, he should take a thin paper in his hand and sit before the photograph. If you can stop the shaking then you are all right. All of you can try this. Then try on the right hand. Very practical. If the paper is shaking that means Mr. Ego is shaking.

You know how to treat your ego in Sahaja Yoga. Thanks to Mohammed Sahib. He has told us how to treat it. Now these two problems are within us. One of them is our conditioning and another is this ego. We make our mind out of that and we are playing under the governance of these two things which we have used to make this mind. You have to be careful. You find out with left hand. If the left hand is shaking then you are conditioned. If the right hand is shaking then you are egoistical. So, now you treat it. You treat these two things.

Before me you will get your vibrations because I am your Mother. But that doesn't mean you are all right. You try on my photograph, that’s much more sharp. So being Mother, I play around and I don't what should I say, but may be you may not feel that way. But before the photograph you put on the left hand side a little thin paper and on the right hand side another paper. One by one you try and judge yourself, what are you. After all you have not come to Sahaja Yoga to emancipate me. You have come here to evolve yourself. Because of that, you have to face yourself and see for yourself, what is within you which is very strong, which is troublesome, which is dragging you down, which is killing.

Sahaja Yoga is nothing but ocean of joy. I thought that in my absence you will be all enjoying it, all right. You do. At the airport, I have seen sometimes, I am late because of the plane, 4-5 hours. And everybody is so fresh and so nice early in the morning. I said, what's happening. The whole night we have been enjoying Mother. So what you enjoy - that is collectivity. That collectivity you should enjoy only by getting rid of your boundaries that you have built and then you see the joy. All the time you will be floating in joy. There is a sense which people have, which you may not have, before realization. Some of the people, I am amazed how deep they are, how they took to Sahaja Yoga.

Supposed to be very great men. Supposed to be people of very great principles but very hot tempered. They took to Sahaja Yoga just like this because in side there is a big depth. So everything is absorbed without any problem.

Everybody can achieve it but one has to be careful, as to the two wheels of our mind. One is the ego and the other is conditioning. All kinds of conditionings are there, especially in India. In the West it is all kinds of egos - different, different, so many types of varieties of egos, I was surprised. So to face that, I didn't know what to say. It is a very, very subtle thing which people have carved out of their minds. So for you today, it is to be decided, that you are only still small children and like small children, you must have a very clean heart - to accept, to absorb, the beauty of peace that is within you and also the beauty of purity.

Without purity you cannot enjoy anything.

So in Sahaja Yoga though we have so many people, I must say, the purity of these few saints who lived earlier, we have to yet achieve. For example yesterday, they were singing about Ah. I was so very happy because he. was an incarnation. And his purity people are singing now. Not at that time. He was killed at that time. He was tortured, as always they do. Then we have many others. We have here Dum Dum Sahib. What a great thing to come to. We have here Nizamuddin Aulhia. We have so many people in our country itself that no body no other country can claim. They have one, say in England, they have William Blake. We had so many people, why? Not because we were very good people but because we were to be improved. Things had to be done so they were born here. Though this is a Yoga Bhumi, anywhere you go in India, I was surprised in Haryana, so many great saints lived there. But they were all tortured, troubled, never understood. It is so painful and hurts you, how these stupid, ignorant, blind people tortured them. It is our duty as Sahaja Yogis to find out who is a saint. Even among Sahaja Yogis as I described in Hindi language, there are people who try to trouble others. If you have no recognition and understanding of what is the truth, what is love, what is pure compassion then you are not a Sahaja Yogi. It's a like an obtuse angle. You look at a person with an obtuse angle you don't see anything, one sided.

Now at this juncture when I am so old, I have to request you that you turn your eyes to yourself, introspect.

Because among you there are some people who will try to divert your attention, who will try to say things. It is very easy to say that he is dishonest, he is very immoral. Very easy to say but what are you. We have to now understand that Sahaja Yoga is to be consolidated through synthesis. We are believers of synthesis. Any divisive thing that domes to your mind, you should just throw it away. This is a request on this day, I make you, that you please introspect unless and until you introspect you cannot respect yourself, you cannot even love yourself. If you love yourself you will introspect and find out what is wrong with you. Supposing I love this sari then if I find any dot somewhere, I will get it cleaned. I wilt not be proud of it, wear it and go round and say, ah, see I have got so many spots. In the same way, you should be not proud of, whatever asahaja temperaments, you have, within yourself and don't talk like that. Christ has called them 'murmuring souls'. He said beware of the murmuring souls. I would say throw away all the murmuring souls...That's the only way.

In Hindi as they say, 'bakwasi'. Their name is 'bakwasi' - means the ones who just chatter, chatter, chatter, talk all nonsense about others. He doesn't know what he is.

It is much more in India, I must confess. I am sorry, though I am an Indian. It is a habit of talking ill of others. Sitting down, just chitchatting it. They will not talk of Sahaja Yoga. How many people know Sahaja Yoga in the proper way. If I have to give degrees, what degrees I should give to you. Tell me, you don't know even about your vibrations. Of course you are Sahaja Yogis because you have fallen into this 'trap' of achieving evolution. But how many are really grown up into it. You can. So I have to again and again tell you to make me happy, you have to give up all these nonsensical, cheapish talks. But try to understand from each other what we know of Sahaja Yoga. Discuss it and contribute to this knowledge, by describing your experiences of Sahaja Yoga.

There are many who do it. I am not saying they don't do it, but even there is one bad fellow, he can spoil all of them, like one bad apple can spoil all the other apples. So what do we do? Throw away the bad apple out of the basket. It is important, I feel all this standing like a witness to you, silent witness. Then I see big-big mountains and I think they are like great saints who are watching. And they are trying to record what is happening in this world because they also understand, they also know. I have to again and again tell you that today is the day to see your own self, your own chakras, your own, I should say, defects. That will give you permanent thing - the joy that is promised. You will get thoughtless awareness. Also you will get doubtless awareness but never get into the trap of your conditioning and of your ego. This is what I have to tell you today on this day where you are celebrating that you celebrate your own birthday. Celebrate it. See for yourself, what you have achieved and what you are going to achieve.

It's time for you to celebrate than to celebrate my birthday. I will be very happy to celebrate your birthday than to celebrate mine.

So, may God bless you.