Today we are going to worship Shri Ganesha. It’s a very opportune time today, I feel, where the innocence, especially in the European and American countries, is under attack. There’s no respect of the innocence, no value for the innocence. They don’t understand how important it is for human life to have innocence being respected, within themselves and also without.

The human life is different from that of animal life. Animals are controlled all the time, or we can say they are under a complete imprisonment, you can say under the will of Lord Sadashiva. That’s why he’s called as Pashupati. But human beings have been given freedom to choose their ascent, to choose the right, to choose the truth. Only through innocence, they can achieve that. Only the innocence is the source of joy. Without innocence, you cannot enjoy anything fully. This innocence is today completely under challenge and to finish the innocence, in a very subtle way, there are very negative, cruel, criminal type of people who are working it out.

Their minds, if you say possessed, it doesn’t look like that because otherwise they are quite intelligent. They are also, in a way, creative of horrible things. So, you can’t say they are not intelligent but from where do they get this knowledge of creating something so horrifying? In this Kali Yuga, as in Sahaja Yoga, everybody can take birth. There’s freedom. It was not before so much so, that all kinds of evil people have taken birth on this earth. These evil people generate evil thoughts and people catch them and start moving with it. Even a good person can get swayed by it. Even a saint can get swayed by it.