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> EXTRACT FROM A TALK ON GURUSHIP

We have to realise that we are now part and parcel of the Cosmic Consciousness itself. The Brahman, the one that creates, which coordinates, which plans everything, down to the last details, the one that loves through its creation - that is through its own expression - handle it. We can regulate it. We can use it. We can work it out. When we are in this state, we are Guru. 'Guru' means that which is higher or stronger than the gravity of the Earth.

Now, what is the 'gravity of the Earth'? Superficially we mean something that acts on our body to keep us on the ground. Also there is the weight of the atmosphere like many elephants standing on our heads, plus the Mother Earth who has the gravity to pull us towards herself. This is how, on the gross level, we understand the Guru principle.

On the gross level we think a good Guru is that person who just attracts you towards himself through bodily attraction, or other attractions which are gross. And that's why people always go to false Gurus, even though they are superficial. But the one who is above the gravity of the Mother Earth - above the gross, the subtle, the subtle and subtlest, beyond all these attractions of the created world in all its aspects - that is the one who is the (real) Guru. So, we can see how on the gross level people are normally attracted towards others through the body element.

Gravity (or 'attraction') acts through the body. A guru who looks like a cinema actor is very much appreciated nowdays, for people cannot see the totality of beauty, but just the external aspect. The earlier (false) Gurus used to paint their faces even, in India. Or they just would go to special decorators who would make their hair look like Shankara's 'jattas' (the looks of Shri Shiva) and their eyes were painted with dark, black charcoal up to here, and their whole body was covered with a funny type of a powder. Or they would wear a "Kashaya" (dyed clothes that have been given the colour of saffron without even using real saffron). For 2 rupees you can get that, and yet people would be attracted towards such a person. They would bring an elephant along, or sit on an elephant even, to add to the attraction of their superficial, material 'gravity'. They would walk through the streets like this and people would bow to them and give them whatever they wanted. But this sort of trickery cannot elevate anyone. Bodily attractions can in fact enslave you, but cannot give you foredoom. Such things will give you habits for you body - that is enslavements - and it will also enslave you to your Guru, if he knows how to keep himself attractive to you in various ways. The whole understanding of the Cosmic Consciousness can be put in one little sentence: it cannot be attracted by any (material) gravity, not of the stars, the Earth, the Moon and the Sun.

The other material attractions that come from the Mother Earth are all for food, greed, lust, etc. - materialism at its worst. The word 'materialism' comes from 'matter'. All this comes from matter, and once you start getting used to it, you become a slave and not a Guru. So the first task for anybody who wants to be a good Guru is to get over material attractions.

Where is your attention? That is the pint. If you are (supposed to be) the Guru, where is your attention? If you attention is on the correction and the nourishment of yourself and of others, then you are first of all a Sahaja Yogi. And once you rise above the gravitational pull of materialism, then you could be called the Guru.

Anything that is living has a capacity to rise against the pull of gravity - up to a point. But that capacity is limited. Like trees, for example: they come out of the Mother Earth and grow upwards to fill a certain space. Every type of tree has its own limitations. The Cedar will grow to be a Cedar, and the Rose will grow to be a Rose. It is all controlled by the gravitational force.

But there is one thing which rises against the gravitational force and which has no limit, and that is you Kundalini. It cannot be controlled by the gravitational force, unless you want it to be controlled.

Nothing can control it, but you yourself. You can control it. So, as soon as you become 'in charge' of your Kundalini, you have made one important step forward, because you have overcome the force of gravity.

Usually the cycle of the five elements is bound together. All the five elements have to go in a cycle in such a way that nothing is wasted, nothing is spoiled. Everything is interconnected and organised. But that cycle can be broken - by the awakening of the Kundalini. Because then, you enter into the highest of highest, which is the Cosmic Consciousness and which you know how to regulate yourself. That Cosmic Consciousness is the "Param Tattva", the principle of all principles, which controls all principles. It also controls the principles of all the five elements (and the power of the three channels). It controls the "Manashakti" (on the left side). It controls the evolutionary Power (in the centre) and gives you the power to evolve others (on the right side). And yet, THIS GREAT "BRAHMA SHAKTI" IS AT YOUR LOTUS FEET. Perhaps Sahaja Yogis do not realise what they have achieved.

The only difference between the Adi Guru and a Guru - a 'Sat Guru' (a real, enlightened Guru) I should say - is this that the Adi Guru knows that he is the controlling power. He knows that he is in absolute oneness with Brahma Tattva, with the Cosmic Consciousness itself. This is the source of the authority with which he talks, the complete confidence with which he says things. There is no doubt in his mind. In any one of his teachings he'll say: "I verily say to you..." That confidence: that "I am controlling all the Tattvas", makes him a prophet. Because, whatever he says, about the past (etc.), is the Truth. And he knows that. He has no doubts. This is the source of the authority with which Moses talked, the authority with which Socrates talked, the authority with which Lao-Tse talked, the authority of all these great Adi Gurus from Adi Nath to Shirdi Sai Nath. They didn't say: "If you do things this way it will be good, or that way would be good." No! they say: "This is what it is, you'd better do it!" "This is what it is!"

But in modern times that strict sort of Guru may not work out. That is why a Mother had to come. First to give you Realisation. Because these Gurus did not realise another point: that their disciples did not understand them at all. Whatever the disciples did in obedience to those Gurus, they did out of awe. But awe doesn't have understanding in it. At least, even if the earlier followers had such an understanding, the generation that came afterwards did not have. So, they turned the Gurus into a mere 'facade', and the whole building (which they constructed behind this 'facade' of genuine realised teachings) they treated as their own, creating all kinds of problems, and destroying the universality and the collectivity of the original teaching. For the Brahma Tattva is the power of collectivity. It is in everything: in the atom , in the molecules, in the human heart. Everywhere. But the brightness of it's reflection depends on the quality of the reflector. The Brahma Tattva is also the power that controls.

This much understanding the Gurus had, but the human understanding, perhaps, they did not have: that if we tell them something, they might listen to us today, but tomorrow they will forget. This is the reason why it was necessary that you should all be given Realisation. Otherwise without Realisation, what's the point? What's the use of talking to people about colours if they don't have eyes to see? So, Realisation has to be given. But it should not be done with diffidence.

It's only when a Guru does not feel vibrations properly, that he becomes diffident about giving Realisation. But even when he feels it clearly he will not say things in an authoritarian way. We should not confuse authority with aggressiveness. Authority does not in any way mean aggressiveness. Authority is there, only when you really have it. That's why you can express it. Just as this light is now shining on my face. It is not 'aggressing' it is 'shining', because that is its quality: that it has to shine. So, it is 'shining', because that is its quality: that it has to shine. So, it is shining. In the same way, a Guru shines before the disciples. It's very easy to understand this word 'shining". When you have something dirty, it does not shine. Even gold, which always shines because it is not tarnishable, if you cover it with mud, it won't shine. So you have to wash it, clean it, and polish it nicely, so that it shines. But with the Guru Tattva it is from the basics that you have to start. Before gold came into its own pure state of 'gold', it was mixed with many other things. So, it had to be heated up, melted down, sieved out, etc. So many processes of purification it had to go through in order to become gold. So, when you become full Sahaja Yogis through a such a process of purification, you also have become 'gold'.

Now the second job is to keep this gold shining. And the third would be to get a place in the Crown of your Mother, so that you can never be tarnished. One has to go all these three stages.