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Puja,Talk on
Chastity,Brighton, UK
From Sahaja Yoga Book Project
Today we have gathered here on the right occasion and very
auspicious day to worship Shri Ganesha. Shri Ganesha is the first
Deity that was created so that the whole Universe is filled with
auspiciousness, with peace, bliss, and spirituality. He is the source.
Hes the source of spirituality. As a result of that all other things
follow. Like when it rains and is windy you feel a coolness in the
atmosphere. In the same way when Shri Ganesha emits His Power
we feel all these three things within and without. But it has been so
unfortunate, specially in the West, that the most important
fundamental Deity has been completely not only neglected, but
insulted and crucified.
So today though I did not want to say anything to upset you people,
but I must tell you that worshiping Shri Ganesha means there has to
be a thorough cleansing within you. When you worship Shri Ganesha
keep your mind clean, keep your heart clean, keep your being clean
- no thoughts of lust and greed should come up. Actually when the
Kundalini rises Ganesha had to be awakened within us, the
innocence has to come up - which obliterates all such degrading
ideas within us. If ascent has to be achieved, we have to understand
that we have to mature.
People are sick now. All over the western life one feels they are sick.
Sick because they have never recognized Shri Ganesha. If one Freud
came that doesnt mean that you should accept him. But you did as if it was such an important thing to be done, there was nothing
more important than that. So today we are faced with our power of
ascent and the power of conditionings we have had. When Freud
talk of conditioning he didnt know he was putting another type of
horrid conditionings on you, terrible.
Sex is not important for human beings at all, is not at all important.
It is only when you want to have children actually a human being
who is of the highest level will indulge into a sex. The lure, the
romance, this nonsense and all that doesnt exist in a pure mind, its
all a human creation. And this servility one has to that is so much
surprising, it comes from a very low grading within us. It comes from
the low-graded human beings that one becomes servile to it. You
should be the master of that. And today when I see around Myself,
in the West, which is also part and parcel of the same creation, so
much of sickness that has come, I am really aghast, how to turn
your attention now to the maturity of sex.
When the sex matures you become a father, a mother, and a pure
personality. When you hear about a ninety-year old woman marrying
a nineteen-year old boy, I mean, you just dont understand, this is what sort of a society it has been created in this world, this kind of a
stupid behavior? We have to mature ourselves. That doesnt mean
Im saying austerity at young age, that doesnt mean that. Another
absurdity is that. But of course you must mature; you need a
tapasya [means penance] for that. Unimportant thing when
become important and such unimportant thing that theyre just like
anything that we have, like we have hair. Even if you lose hair it
means something. But if you lose sex, whats wrong with it? Its very
good. Good riddance of bad rubbish. Such a waste of energy. So
much interest, so much of a precious attention, so much of
auspiciousness is spent in this kind of a nonsensical thing.
So to worship Ganesha one has to understand we have to mature.
Maturity has to come within us. We have to go deeper within
ourselves; our attention has to go deeper within ourselves,
spontaneously. How do we achieve the depth if we are still like
worms? Otherwise its a great sort of a sacrifice or a pressure on
people. These tags and these pressures have been very costly for
you people, very costly. You have paid through so much; you have
gone through so much. For what?
So the priorities have to change if Shri Ganesha is to be worshipped.
What are we worshipping today is the innocence within us. We are
worshipping that is auspicious, which is innocent. Innocence, which
is deep down within us - thats our character, thats our nature,
thats what we are born with - is the basic of this whole Creation; is
the essence of this Creation.
So when matter becomes active, all right, reproduction starts,
animal stage comes in, then comes the stage of human beings who
are primitive, then comes the stage where human beings are
developed. Not the way what we understand of the developed
world, horrible. Ill never call them developed by any chance at all.
What is development is not outside. What is the within development
one has to see. What have we grown inside. What have we got
inside ourselves. Anything that gross, big, is plastic, of that kind.
The one which hasnt got any inner power grown, say, for example, I
give you a mango.
I said, All right, now you eat it.
And you see it just has the cover and nothing inside it, what will you
eat? Will you eat that plastic? Anything that grown like that is
plastic, is dead. What is the substance inside, lets see. What is our
substance within ourselves? This is what Christ preached morality
point. So important for Him it was. Because after dharma, which was
a balance, where of course morality is very important, but it was
necessary for Christ to talk of the innate, deeper morality, which is a
part and parcel of a being, it is not just taught, or told, or frightened
because theres a fear of God and wrath of God. But it should be
your own innate light, thats why Christ talked about it. And the
same Christ was used to demolish innocence.
And I would not say that people were not warned. Freud was not the
only person who was born. The other day I went to Prado in Spain
and I saw paintings after paintings of the hell. And all these modern
times we see those lanky pankies going around without clothes, sort
of people were shown with all kind of funny things, stupid things
they were doing. This was Bosch. I was surprised, a German, Bosch,
who showed all this nonsense there, very clearly - way to hell, then
the attack of the death, all these things. I mean he was quite a
recent person. If you call Blake as a madcap, so what about Bosch?
Everybodys a madcap, except for the stupid useless people. So
much warning has come for us. For example, we can say, since long
we know about hell. Mahavira of all the persons wrote so clearly
about hell. This is hell.
But in the West the priorities are absolutely upside down. What is
your power? Just think of it. Think within yourself. Is it mental power
thats important? I have told you mental power has nothing to do,
because it is just linear, it moves in one direction, falls off, comes
back to you. It has no substance in it. Is just a mind projection,
plastic. What is your emotional power? Emotions that you have
takes you where? See you have emotions for, even good emotions
you have. Say, you love your wife very much. Where does it take
you? There was a poet called Tulsidasa who loved his wife very
much and she had gone to her mothers place. So he couldnt bear it
and went to see her and he climbed over to her balcony and she got
a fright.
She said, How did you climb?
He said, You had put a rope there.
She said, No.
And they saw it was a big snake hanging.
So she said, The amount of love you have for me, if you have that
for God, where will you be?
So where does these emotions take you - to frustration, to
about Christ. I tell you, unbearable, I dont know. Ive faced His
crucifixion, which was unbearable as it was. But this kind of a thing
you say about somebody; to an Indian woman if you pass such a
remark, to an Indian ordinary woman, she would commit suicide. Is
never said that anybody comes and says, You looking very
beautiful. Its all right, you can say to your mother, youre looking
nice, is all right, thats different. But you dont say to any woman
like that. You have to turn yourself out. And this is one of the
reasons why people are very hot-tempered.
The magnet within you is Shri Ganesha. Many people know that I
have a great sense of direction. That comes through this magnet
which is perfect. This magnet is the one which keeps you sticking or
adjusted or all the time pointed towards Spirit. If you dont have the
sense of chastity you will dangle this way, that way. Suddenly you
become a very good Sahaja Yogi, tomorrow you become a devil because theres nothing that keeps you binding to the great idea of
the Spirit. Let us face it up. Now the time has come for all of us, all
the Sahaja Yogis, that the greatest thing within us is not sex, but is
chastity. And thats what will mature you.
Its very amazing how some people were behaving in Bordi, I came
to know about it, I was amazed, how could they behave like this
before the villagers of Bordi, who are innocent, simple people? But
the best part of it that when you indulge into frivolous and
nonsensical behavior, insulting your chastity, you really lag in the
action of it. Like, if you fritter away your petrol, your car cant move,
its like that, something happens to you. All the time you go on
pinching people and frivolously talking to each other and to, what is
the need to do all these, I just dont understand. And then end up in
the divorce case.
Once I had gone to a Selfridges, I must tell you a very interesting
story. And in such a crowd there were two people, man and woman,
kissing each other all the time, least bothered there are other
people who are also going on the same escalator. Escalator they
were kissing, in the thing they were kissing, I mean, torturing all the
Indians who were there or maybe the other people, Chinese, for
example, Egyptians. Such an exhibition going on. And I saw them
next time. They were not kissing.
I said, What happened?
We are divorced.
I said, Why were you kissing that day so much?
So they said, Because we were going to be divorced, so wanted to
have the last bit of it.
What a level it is. Imagine, what a level. What love, what feeling you
have for anyone, nothing of the kind. All the time quarrelling with
each other, ending up in the divorce cases and showing off all this.
Any deep personality doesnt show these things outside. Of course,
Im told here that here in the public school it is said that you should
never show your emotions outside. But otherwise you can show
anything else, ridiculous or shameless. But not your emotions. What
an absurd place it is. You have accepted all these values just like
sheep, without thinking about it.
Like I was in France, one girl came and she was crying. She said, I
will - horrid, horrid, I will never go to these psychologist.
So I said, Why?
They were saying dirty things about my father.
Imagine. And people accepted those ideas of this horrible Freud. Is
basically wrong. Whether it is historically they are, or whatever it is,
you better give it up. Whatever wrong is wrong, in the Divine.
Whatever is right is right, in the Divine.
But theres a real objection now, that people when they go abroad,
husband and wife and this and that, they kiss each other and tease
each other. What is the need? You kiss the person and come and tell
Me against that person, Ive seen it. If there has to be some selfpreservation, this has to be your chastity, your privacy. Thats why
you have no willpower to do anything, no willpower. Let some stupid
fellow come and tell you something, youll say, All right. We
accept. What is the essence of your personality is your chastity.
And in Sahaja Yoga you can re-establish everything whatever you
have lost, you can. Thats why the depth is lacking. And this is the
reason there is no consistency in the temperament of people, no
consistency. Now youll get twelve hundred people for My lecture
and next day not even one, all lost. Because theres no base, you
know. Like a loose connection. Theres no connection, connection
point is your chastity.
So there is no consistency, sthaapayati [Indian means nature of
being established?] is not there. If you tell them, You have to get
up in the morning, have a bath, do some puja, its too much for
them. But if you tell, say an Indian ladies or Me, if you say that that
you wear such and such dress, I just cant, I just cant, no, not
possible. Is not possible. I can keep the whole night awake, but that
thing I can not do, just cannot do it.
So the priorities are changed because where is your attention. You
have everything within you. You are the storehouse of chastity,
which is your power. Everything within you, nothing has gone out,
its all there. All that fragrance is within you. Is all preserved, dont
condemn yourself. And you are so fortunate Im here to tell you all
about it. You are so fortunate I am with you. Do you understand that
point? You dont have to go to Himalayas; you dont have to stand
on your heads. You dont have to do anything like that. You see,
formerly these saints used to sit, you know, you wont believe, in the
cold frozen water or on the Himalayas in the open they used to sit
for hours together to freeze their nonsensical ideas. Now thats not
necessary. Its all made very easy. But change your priorities now.
The whole attention once goes to your own Spirit youll be surprised
the whole chart will change.
Whats the most important thing? To meditate every day. I have
seen people who want to do some course, say, for example, I told
that You better do some course. Every day they will go for that
course and join that class and they will work it out and theyll pass
that course and do it up and finish it. But meditation they cannot do
regularly. But now theres a little gap you should understand, that
once we get the inkling of that joy which is eternal, we start moving
towards that more and more, more and more and establishing
ourselves in the ocean of that joy. A little. You see, when somebody
wants you to swim, you are frightened, you dont want to do it, you
are very happy on the gross shore, you dont want to swim.
Somebody pushes you, again you are back, No, baba, I can not do
it. But once you learn to swim you enjoy that swimming. And when
you like it then you want to do it every day, regularly, religiously. So
theres a little gap, which has to be achieved.
Second point is that as Ive been always saying, you are lotuses, but
under a mire. And you know what mire is, while India is the ocean,
so its very easy for the lotuses to come out of the water. But to
come out of the mire is very difficult. Say, somebody falls in the
mire. If you kick it, you go deeper. If you try to do anything you go
deeper. Best thing is to keep watching it and still. And thats the
best way is to witness yourself. But your attention is not all right,
how will you witness? Attention is: somebodys going that side - that
person youll see. Another person going that that person youll
see, must see every person. But you dont see the flowers, you
dont see the trees, you dont see the Mother Earth, you dont see
anything. What you see is something hopelessly bad, worse than
you.
Today is the day they say one should not see the moon. If you see
the moon it becomes inauspicious and you get a bad name. They
say Shri Krishna saw the moon and then He got a bad name, He was
ranchordas [Indian], means He had to run away from the battlefield.
But that was His trick, He had to run away. So you are not supposed
to see the moon. The reason is, why it is said, that today we have to
see Shri Ganesh, who is the Mother Earth, who acts through Mother
Earth. Most of the things that we have are from the Mother Earth. So
this time you must see the Mother Earth, the Kundalini and Shri
Ganesh, today. The Mother Earth has created Shri Ganesha. So you
dont see anything outside, you dont even see the moon. Just see
the Mother Earth. Because the Mother Earth in Her love and
compassion has done so much for us, your Kundalini has done so
much for you. And Her Son, Who is the innocence within us, is to be
worshipped today because He has done the maximum. Despite all
the insults we have put on Him, all the ridicule, all the filth, all kinds
of nonsense, still He stands up like a little child to amuse us.
If Shri Ganesha is within you become like a child, childlike
innocence, you dont get angry with somebody like a dog barks;
there are some Sahaja Yogis I know who all the time barking, just
like dogs or beggars in India. But you become like a child who is
very sweet, who always tries to amuse you, always tries to say nice
things, always tries to make you feel happy. The source of such joy.
And thats how you become a source of joy, source of happiness,
source of fulfillment. All the time bubbling with laughter and
happiness, bubbling with beautiful things. How the children amuse
you, just see and watch. How they come round with little-little
hands, how they work it out. How they know what is the right thing.
A child who is a Realized soul is much more sensible than a grown
up person, Ive seen that.
Like My youngest granddaughter was about, I think, three years of
age and the maid was folding My sari and by mistake she put it on
the ground. This child just couldnt bear it. She just lifted the sari,
put it to her head and put it on the sofa.
She said, What you mean by putting this sari on the ground, what
you do know about my Grandmother? She is the Goddess of
Goddesses and you put Her sari on the ground. The dogs are going
to bite you now, she said, Be careful.
And she again went and put the sari, kissed it and kissed it and said,
Mother, forgive her, Grandmother, please, forgive this woman, she
doesnt know what shes done to You.
But that sensitivity comes from the depth of your chastity. You listen
to the children and youll be amazed how they talk and what they
say, how they behave, how they try to amuse you. I mean, in the
West children are very much spoiled, I must say, they do not amuse
you so much, they trouble you quite a lot. Because again, again the
same thing. If the father and mother dont have chastity, the
children dont feel all right, they dont feel peaceful, theyll become
restless, and then they develop the same restlessness within
themselves. A chaste man can never get possessed, take it from Me,
can never get possessed. You might be very intelligent, you might
be anything, you might be a great writer, but you can get
possessed. But a chaste man, an ordinary chaste person can never
get possessed. Bhoots are afraid of chaste people. If one chaste
person is going on the road, all the bhoots run away. They just run
away. At least Ive known many cases but some of them I can tell
you, that there were three of them, who used to go by motorcycle in
the night about twelve oclock on a road. And some people who
were possessed wrote letters to Me, saying that Please dont allow
them to go there in the night, because where should we go and
stay?
I was amazed. These are the people who were possessed by some
sort of horrible bhoots who used to go and rest on these trees in the
night where these three persons used to go on the motorcycle and
they actually wrote letters to Me. Very possessed people, I knew
them, saying that, Ask them not to go that way, because where are
we to live? And they were like mad, mad people themselves.
I said, Why did you write like this?
They said, These people go that way and they trouble us.
And the negative within us disappears with the light of Shri
Ganesha. You can see it so clearly in another person. If you dont
have chastity you can never see who is unchaste or chaste, you can
not. Everybody just the same, Very good, very good, very nice
person, very nice person. I mean real possessed people are
certified as very good people, in Sahaja Yoga also sometimes and I
start wondering, Whats happening, what is it? How is it these
people are certified as that? Cant they feel it? Theres no light.
Even if you get your Realization, even if your Spirit is working out
your collective consciousness, even if you are giving Self Realization
to others, you are nowhere if you have no chastity. Thats like a
broken glass which is trying to reflect something; it can never give
the right picture.
Its so important. And I have to tell you this now. The time has come
for Me to tell you this is the snag in our life. First thing people will
ask, Whom Im going to marry? What is such a hurry? Of course,
marriage I call it an auspicious thing, marriage should be there,
there should be a collective sanction, everything, but for what? To
adore the chastity within us. Then they are married, then they have
children. Then they want to have a house, then they want to have
this. Theres whole such an insular business goes on, and on, and
on, and the light of your life doesnt spread. But Ive known people
who were just in the hell and have come out and have spread light,
beautiful meteoric heights they have achieved. Ive seen people like
that.
generous, its so kind, its so beautiful, always fresh and young, yet
so sublime and so dignified.
Now twelve years have passed since Ive been here. Two more
years, very intense work is needed, within and without. Within we
have to work very hard for these two years, very hard, real tapasya
we have to go into, all of us, whether men or women. And then well
see. I can say that we have done good job. With little jump, courage
and faith we can achieve a lot. Have faith in yourself. Not mental
faith but actual chastity is faith. Chastity is the consolidation of your
faith. When you have faith in God, you are chaste. When you have
faith in yourself you are chaste. You have faith in your wife, you are
chaste. Why should you have faith in your wife? Because you are a
chaste person, how can she be unchaste? Your faith in your child - is
chastity, because you are chaste, how can your child be anything
else? Crystalline form of faith is chastity. And that you can have
even before Realization. Many have. Actually like the camphor,
which, you see, is volatile and evaporates into the fragrance, in the
same way we can say chastity acts into faith.
If you dont have chastity you cannot have faith, in anything.
Because either you are dealing with your emotions that you are
emotionally attached to Me or maybe you are mentally attached to
Me. But if you have sense of chastity faith will be apparent. Within
yourself you dont have to have faith, Now Mother I will have faith
within myself. You cannot. Faith is something, which is volatile and
the volatile fragrance comes from chastity.
So from today we are not going to look at the stars or the moon,
butyou are going to look at the Mother Earth. In the Universe She
represents the Kundalini, is nothing but chastity. Shes just chastity.
Can you believe it? What a power. Motherhood, everything is
chastity. Fatherhood, any relationship is chastity. Purity is again the
fragrance of chastity. Goodness, compassion, everything comes
from chastity, a sense of chastity, which is not mental. If you are
mentally chaste, you can be horrid. Like some of the nuns are or
some of those people who are austere, not that. Chastity is an
innate built-in Kundalini within you, which acts because it
understands Me. She understands Me. She knows Me, Shes part
and parcel of Me, Its My reflection. So make your Kundalini strong
by being chaste. People try to do things to look very attractive and
this and that. Dont waste your energy like this; you are saints, live
like saints. Traditionally as we live, we have to live that way and
evolve out of the tradition, dont do something new, something
absurd, nonsensical. We dont have to attract anyone. Chastity is
the fragrance in the flower, which attracts the bees, is the honey of
the flower, is the essence of our existence.
So this time you are all coming to India, I have to request you to