Every Sahaja Yogi has to become a Guru
01.11.1982, Nirmala Palace London
....the Primal Master is always placed in looking after our Void, in sustaining us, and giving us a model of an ideal master. And he always took birth either in the most difficult places like hills and dales and mountains, or they took places - which are even more difficult thing, among the people who were horrid, and who needed their help. So in India, that time somehow Punjab was regarded as the place where people did not respect God or traditional Hindu idols, or you can say the statues that were regarded as the vibrating ones. But they worshipped money (even now) and they worshipped power. And as at that time there was a King who was very anxious to convert people to Islamic Religion by giving them money, many were taking to Islam. As a result the Hindus started hating the muslims and a big hatred developed among Muslims and Hindus. That's how, in those circumstances where there was a quarrel going on between the followers of Mohammad and followers of Hinduism, Mohammad himself took his birth on this earth, though he had decided not to take any more births, he thought that it would solve the problem. Although, this incarnation is such that it never dies. Even if they leave the body, they are always around. And they are the ones who perform lots of miracles when any other incarnation comes on this earth. They help support and guide the seekers to go to the incarnations. So, to celebrate his birthday on such a date is also a myth, because he never died. He is eternally living. They never grow and they never die.
But his birth is important, because symbolically he came on this earth not to propogate any particular type of the void - as Mohammad did or say Moses did, and before that Abraham, Lao Tse, or Socrates - which followed into a religion. But he came to create amity - we can say, to create understanding, to create unity between religions. This was a very big step for Sahaja Yoga. After that as you know, he was born again - God knows where - no one knows where he was born, but he appeared as Shirdi Sai Nath. He too said the same thing, that to talk ill of any religion is a sin.
But these efforts are quite lost. Because the people who were Islamic at that time, or those who were Hindus, are now very great fanatics. So instead of them coming closer and loving each other they have become fanatics. Though we find that Islam is spreading so fast Sikhism is spreading very fast too. ..
Actually if you believe in God - nothing can be killed. But I think that Guru Gobind thought that he had to take it.
In all these prophetic religions, if you see, all the prophets who have spread all the religions, they were always attacked so badly that they had to take to weapons. Even in Islam they had to take to weapons to protect themselves. Now when these people took to weapons they had some discipline put on the people. Without the discipline nothing is possible. And very strict discipline was there for the Sikhs. Now today's Sikhs are no more Sikhs, they are just outside, and inside they are not. I would not describe all the strictness and discipline they had to go through. But every disciple has to go through a very severe disciplining of himself if he has to become the Guru. There is no doubt about it.
It is not that only somebody like Me comes and tells you do this do that, and next day you forget these things. It is very serious matter, one has to understand. You have got your realization through Sahaja Yoga Now you have become Sahaja Yogis. But still I would say you are not full Sahaja Yogis because every Sahaja Yogi has to be a Guru Otherwise he is not a Sahaja Yogi. First of all you are Yogis because you got your realisation. But Yogis are of no use, you have to be Sahaja Yogis. So you were told about all the chakras, every thing that you are doing, about all the problems of Kundalini how to cure them. Everything about it was told to you. Now you became, with that, a different type of a race, a different type of people, who are twice-born, who are born by the Spirit, not by the flesh. Remember that that's a very important point and which John has said. That you are born by the Spirit not by the flesh. Those who are born by the flesh are in flesh. But if you are born by the Spirit, that's how you are twice born. And when you know all about the Spirit and the Kundalini then you are a Sahaja Yogi. But unless and until you become Guru, you are not a full Sahaja Yogi.
So to begin with, we must understand that the Spirit is described as a Kala, a a phase of Moon, one phase of moon. But a Guru is described as the full moon - purnima -Guru Purnima. Guru is the full moon, it's not just a phase. So from one phase you have to go to the stage where you become a complete Guru. 16 phases there are altogether, and you have ro cross the 16 stages to become the Guru. Now how do we do it? We have to become extremely objective about it. How do we become the Guru? Because we have to become Gurus, no doubt. Now you cannot just say that, Mother you give us a tape and we'll learn by heart and we'll go on to another person saying blah blah blah blah blah. Same thing, whetever I've told you, or take my type and show them that this is our Mother, and She's like this and like that. But they will say alright She may be, but what about you. Sir ?
Now Sahaja Yoga has a 'very' big responsibility, which I don't think people understand. I wish they could listen to me very intensely and understand it. So far if you see. Gurus remained Gurus and no disciples became Gurus. They were still regarded as disciples of a Guru, whether it was fake or anything. They never became Gurus themselves. So there was no need for them to grow, they had to take the name of their Guru alright. Christ and his disciples, Mohammad Sahib had his own disciples. Nanaka had his own disciples, Shirdi Sai Nath had his own disciples. None of them became Gurus. But now it is in your lot, sorry to say, that you have to become the Gurus. It's a privilege, actually. It's a very great privilege to become the Guru. And to become the Guru, we must learn what we have to do. This also sometimes becomes just a lecture. I think so. Because I've already told you on Guru Purnima what are the 10 attainments we have to have.
Today all these 16 stages are to be seen, how we have to grow into a Guru.
First is, we have complete discipline put on ourselves. Nobody has to tell you. Like Mr Nick is attacked by everyone, No. you attack yourself. You become Mr Nick now. You have to make this body subservient to you, that is the first mastery. The mastery is that my body can sleep anywhere, it can starve itself, it can live under any circumstances, it dare not grudge. Anywhere; it should be able to sleep any time, it should be able to keep awake anytime. This body is to be mastered. Even if you read 'Ashtanga Yoga' first thing is mastery over the body, they say. So after realisation the first thing you have to do is master this body, and is the most difficult thing for western people; because the matter is sitting on their Spirit. First the Spirit has to come - first phase - at least the Spirit has to be there.
If you have to be the Spirit then thematter of moon has to be covered with that light. In the first phase we have to master our body. So what do we do to master our body ? First of all we must see that what are the things that drain out our bodily mastery. We must know all the crooks who try to master us.
So I have to first face my body. That first and foremost thing in Sahaja Yoga we learn that we have to respect our body. This is the first principle of respecting our body. Means indulgence is sinful to the body, because indulgence gives you a body which is no good: First of all you must respect your body so that you can master it. If I do not respect you, I cannot master you. So to master the body first of all respect your body. And to respect your body, you must look after your body very well. But no indulgence. That doesn't mean that you go and stand in the mud or rain for hours together or get exposed, to make your body absolutely sort of a abode for all the diseases and colds and coughs and things like that so your Mother suffers cleaning your vishuddhi! It's like a horse whose neck is down. So you must look after your body by hot giving it diseases. Laziness is against it. Persons who are lazy must know that laziness is against your body. Lazy people who are not bothered to dress up properly, to cover themselves up properly, look after their body properly, put oil into different screws that they have, to massage themselves. Look after the body, that's the point. To look after the body you must give some time, because this body is the temple of God. And now you have become the temple but if the temple is dirty, is sick, is unimpressive, is like a stick, or like a balloon, nobody is going to come near it. So try to improve your personality, that it has to be a beautiful temple. I mean, I have given you so many tips, that I think that in my lives' time I have not given so many tips, even as Guru. Because normally people who came to a Guru in those days were really, really great seekers. They would hang themselves upside down, just to please the Guru, for months together. So that was a very different quality people - but one or two. And when you have quantity quality goes down, I accept. But why not you people take it upon yourselves that we'll make our quality first class ? So first of all train up your body well. You must take some exercises in the morning, I have told you. That people sleep after breakfast I am told, I was amazed. I mean, this is too much. You see, God has given you this house as a blessing, to be more alert, to give His light to others. Instead of that if the candle is not even flickering what's the use. So what you have to do is to first of all brush up, yourself, completely. Make your body alright, alert. Actually at your age one should not sleep for more than six or seven hours, I tell you. No need. Six or seven hours of deep sleep is sufficient. I also, in the night I sleep about - never before eleven sometimes at twelve, Yesterday we slept at 20'clock, got up at 5. 30 as usual. So how many ? Three and a half hours sleep. And just now I slept for about at the most for half an hour or an hour or so finished. When you don't have to work, like me, in the sense that even when I sleep I am working. So to rest your body for such a long time you make your body sit on your head and it will be very very difficult for you to be alert. So first of all body must be looked after. There should be no self-indulgence. I mean it can go to any extent of self indulgence. Like people don't keep their rooms clean, their clothes clean, they have no activities - all these nonsensical things, only it is too low, too base to talk about; but it happens. People can go to any base limit - you know, that's the problem, what
to do?
On this full moon day one has to realize that on a full moon day you are over-active. As the moon starts growing the activity starts. In the night also. But none of you so far are active in the night except for me. But if you come up you will be surprised, even in your sleep you will be active. So first and foremost thing is that you must look after your body. The body should be presentable. And should not go with the so-called fashions of the day. It is very important. One should not go with the fashions of the day, and take to something which is nonsensical, which is not good for your appearance, which makes you look funny or very fashionable like a dandy person. We have to wear a dress which is in the centre, dignified, which is good.
Now I'm told that it is very difficult even to wake up in England. Somebody had told me, when I was young, that don't wake up an Englishman. I haven't tried that, even with a barge pole. I just tell you at this time, never in the morning time. Because I've been warned: never wake up an Englishman, that is the greatest sin on this earth! So why should the English be so much addicted to sleep! The whole country is sleeping today. They want more wages, more wages so that they can sleep more. Eat and drink, drink and eat in between, sleep. This is the three - programmed life. It was very difficult, from the very beginnig I saw Sahaja Yogis coming, in that to wake them up was difficult. And these are the same people who were known for punctuality that they won the war at Waterloo because of punctuality, and they were so punctual that people used to set their watches - even in America. They are the same people. Now the other side of it is that they sleep like log of wood. They used to sleep before also must be, because this is an old saying that. Don't wake up an Englishman. But I used to think something else about it why it is said, but it is nothing but simple laziness. So try to see why we sleep so much. If the left side is strong, people sleep. If the back Agnya is strong people sleep. If the front Agnya is working too much then people don't sleep. So even if I say, "Don't sleep", it mean that you put your right Agnya in working condition, that means you start thinking. Which is against Sahaja Yoga again. So it would be left agnya, right agnya, right agnya, left agnya, left agnya, left agnya, right agnya, left agnya... It will be going from one to another. So in the centre you have to be with Christ. He is alert every second of the day; killing; beating, hitting, curing, looking after, guiding. Twenty four hours a day. And go and ask any realized soul who is called as Avadhuta, the one who is a master, they will tell you they hardly sleep for three hours or four hours. Because they cannot work when they are sleeping, so they sleep for four hours, the rest of the time they are working: either they meditate and do things by projection, or they work with their hands. They are busy people, they are very busy. You have to be very busy people because now you are employed by God. And you have to do full justice to this employment by working hard. On the contrary you have seen that it is very easy to get lazy. So now, as many of you are already feeling sleepy, put your.... First thing should be for all those people who are lazy, is to put their right to the left seven times - let's have it. With the right hand....It's better? Now the back Agnya. Let's have it. Laziness is first. Shri Krishna was against laziness. Anywhere he got a chance he talked against laziness, Alasya. Now watch me. On the photograph you can do the same....Better now? Tonight we have to keep awake; it's a big problem. But don't sleep formally here. Alright ? Informally you can. Better ? Put your eyes, try Again. So the mastery should be, first of all, of your body. Say, you are sleeping on one side, you get a pain - then what do you do? You sleep on the other side. In the same way, this body is to be made immune to different shocks, you see. Like you put the watch in the water. You shock it with the water, so it is waterproof. So a Sahaja Yogi has to be an all-proofed person. So he has no place to complain, because he's supposed to be all-proof, you see. Anybody (Sahaja Yogi) who complains, you can say, "How are you complaining? Because you have to be all-proof." So no complaints of any kind, of Sahaja Yogis are to be accepted or sympathized. If you start accepting people who are complaining type you will be always busy looking after them, and you will be of no use to Sahaja Yoga. Those who have habits of complaininig and all that should .....
== be continued... other time ...... but, as usually the best is to watch the tape with this talk so there is place for no mistake (text/etc)
===
