So many problems we have individually, socially, politically, economically, appear very clearly: it is so evident to understand that the human fibre is lacking in something; that it’s the human beings who are responsible for this chaotic world, for all this modern confusion. For God has created a beautiful world, I assure you. It’s really a very beautiful world and He has created you also very beautifully.
You all are very beautiful people, extremely beautiful. You cannot feel your beauty: then how can others feel your beauty? Because the light that shows your beauty is not there. You have fragrance, which is the fragrance of all the flowers put together. You are the essence of all the beauties of nature that is created; all the symphonies and all the music that you hear. All the art that you have created has come from you. That is your part. While you are the whole, you are the totality. But you do not feel your totality, that’s [what] the problem is: that human beings do not feel their totality.
Out of you all this has come up. All this is your creation. But you cannot feel that, if your hand has produced something, it’s your hand; if your eyes have produced something, these are your eyes; that you are one; that in totality you will know the One who has created you.
For example, supposing I do not have eyes: I may be able to see you partly – in the sense I can feel you – but I won’t be able to see you fully. If I don’t have [a] nose, I won’t be able to know how your fragrance is.
In the same way, if you think of a human being as a part and parcel of the whole, then you can understand why the total experience is necessary. You have to feel that, sitting down here, you can know about somebody in Australia or maybe in Africa.
We are very aware mentally: [if] anything goes wrong in the world, we all become alert and start thinking about it. For example, once the spacecraft (Apollo 13) was going to land, they were Americans, but Russians that time started worrying about Americans. All the communists forgot about their communism, the democracies forgot about their democracies. We all forgot what we are, so-called, [and] we just became what we are – human beings. Everybody was worried to find that the spacecraft lands. Very carefully they were watching it. They were about four, five people. Makes no difference to this world if the four, five die, does it? But it does make every heart beat faster. Something of the totality is getting lost. It was so important that time, that something so precious was getting lost. This is the subtler understanding of totality we have faced sometimes. Sometimes it comes up.
To say that, “We are all one,” that, “we are brothers and sisters,” and “One God has created us,” is good to give a lecture like that, and many do that. It’s just a big lecture! To feel that you are one, something has to happen to you.
Your heart has to be opened out; not rationally. Through your brain if you think something, it will have its limitations as rationality has its limitation. Your heart has to open out. And what resides in that heart, in the lotus of that heart is your Spirit, is your Atma. And the light of that Atma, the Spirit, enlightens you, enlightens your beauty, and gives you collective consciousness. It gives you. It’s an actualisation. It’s a happening that gives you [an] actual personality which can perceive, can feel, the collectivity that resides within us.
As human beings we are many cells. There are many cells within us. All the cells are, somehow, capable of feeling the totality of one personality. Supposing there’s a pin prick on my finger, immediately the whole system goes into action and the hand is pulled out, the another hand reaches there and tries to stop the blood. The whole body feels unhappy, and you say, “Ah!” or something like that. All the cells are in unison, whether there is emergency or not. But today we are in the modern times. It’s nice to be modern. These are the times promised, long time back, in the ancient scriptures of India. Even William Blake has prophesised about these times to come: that England is going to be the Jerusalem. And here we are at Caxton Hall, trying to build it up.
Modern times are the times of great confusion. The confusion comes because there is no integration. For example, if my finger touches some point where it burns, it is pulled out by itself. All the cells know that it should be pulled out. But supposing if it is touching my finger and burning me, and I am again pushing it down, that means there’s a confusion. And this kind of confusion exists when there is no integration among cells.
In the same way, in the human beings, there are different selves and if they get disturbed and non-integrated, or disintegrated, then the confusion starts. When your physical self, mental self, emotional self and spiritual self are not integrated, then there is a confusion in a personality.
The growth of human beings has been outside as well as inside. As you have been growing outside, there has to be growth inside. As a tree grows higher and higher, it has to seek the source of its sustenance. In the same way, the totality of [the] human race, which has advanced outside too much, is seeking; the totality is seeking the source inside.
You are the cells of that totality which is seeking inside and not the ones which are seeking outside. That’s why I say that you are the seekers of Truth. Because the source of all the sustenance is the Truth, is the joy, the bliss, and the vital Life Force within us, which has given us all this power to produce outside, to create outside.
That is why in these modern times only, there are so many seekers. There were never so many before, I can assure you, because I am quite an ancient personality (laughing). And it really gives me the greatest pleasure to know that somehow this outward growth has led to this kind of a mass seeking, and that there are so many people just ready to reach that point of Source.
As I said, God has made you very beautifully. Every one of you are real creations. It’s a fact; which you will discover later on. Just now, you don’t have any light to see inside. There is no way you can take your attention inside. If I say you put your attention inside, you don’t know what to do; and with this many people have gone astray. There are people who have tried all kinds of things to believe that they are going inside, deeper into themselves.
But one has to know one thing, that whatever knowledge you have today, has come to you from some unknown source. Because if it was known, it was not knowledge. Whatever is unknown has come to your knowledge. And whatever further has to come, has to come from something unknown.
But the difference is that our awareness has come to us spontaneously. We have done nothing, nothing whatsoever to become human beings. I mean, just think, we were monkeys the other day! Imagine! And we were amoeba the other day, before. In seven days we have become human beings. How have we become human beings, we don’t know, why we have become human beings, we do not know. But, thank God, through science we know that we were not human beings seven days back.
Why have we become human beings? The scientists have stopped thinking about it. They have turned round. You see, it’s better to turn round, your back. That’s the best way to avoid the Truth. Because you cannot find the Truth, you cannot know about it, so best thing is to turn round and say, “All right. Now we are human beings, so we have reached the end. Now let us go ahead with it!”
But that’s not the way you can find the Truth. You will find the Truth the way you have found your awareness, spontaneously. It’s a living process.
People don’t understand what [the] living process is. It’s so simple. If I tell you that, “To make this flower into a fruit I’ll have to stand on my head,” what will you think of me? You will think I am mad, isn’t it? Won’t you think that way, all of you? Or if you find somebody sitting in a posture which is very uncomfortable and saying that, “I am going into a trip of becoming a superior personality!” You may think, “Oh, he must be a great man!” But just think of it. Do you think that monkeys did some sort of a trick or a technique to become human beings? The poor things do not know any techniques except for copying human beings. And what technique amoeba could have put in? I mean just think of it. If you have to apply something to human beings, you have to apply it to all the animals too. What about the fishes? What technique they can do? They don’t even have hands! (laughter) Or, only you are the people who have to do something special to become something higher?
It’s spontaneous. The only problem is that human beings are very difficult for spontaneity! I am sometimes surprised, when I have now studied them, how is it that they eat like this. They could have eaten like this [instead], because to do something straight is difficult for human beings. Anything straightforward, they think, “Oh, how can that be so simple. It’s silly, to eat like this, it’s absolutely silly. How can you eat like this? You have to put your hand round like that, and eat it like that.” That’s how we are not spontaneous.
All that simplicity is not with us anymore. We are sophisticated, you see. I wouldn’t be surprised [if], next time, we might find people devising some technique of eating food, which is a simple thing. And if you see that everybody’s life has become nothing but a bundle of techniques. It’s such a problem, I tell you. Unnecessarily we are so confused, so upset and so worried. The tension is mounting up. We are planning something, and none of the plans come true. Now, see, in our country we have had five-year plans, three of them, the result is everything has gone to waste! In this country, I need not say. We plan out something and end up with a war or end up with some sort of a violence. The trouble with us [is] we cannot become simple people. We think to be simple is to be silly. But simple people have a sharp intelligence, extremely subtle intelligence; and they reach the point much faster than a complicated one, naturally, because he goes straight while the others go round, round, round, round, round. And that’s why, when I tell people that, “Sahaj Yoga is a spontaneous living process,” they think it is silly. “Why to do that?”
You cannot do it. I am sorry. It’s your right. You just have it! You don’t even have to ask permission for it.
Even if you go to somebody’s house, you have to ask permission. “Should I telephone?” You cannot think of such a right that you don’t have to ask any permission, it’s your own. It’s your own property. So much [your] own, that you cannot have such a property in the world, in the human language. Even if you have your ‘freehold’ house, you have to ask for permission for changing the shape of one brick! No permission is needed. It’s your own right. It’s your birthright. But still whatever I may say, you won’t understand how much it is your own because there’s nothing that is that own. It’s not comparable. It is that innate. Something that is beyond human comprehension.
Now, there’s no map (chakra chart) here? We have within us a being which I call ‘the Spirit’: the Spirit which is also the part and parcel of the totality that is love, totality that is God, totality that is joy, totality that is knowledge. And that Spirit within us is watching us. It is not watching like a guard or a police inspector.
That also we human beings cannot understand. If I say the Spirit is watching, people get a fright, “Oh God!” The Spirit is the one that is love. Can you understand total love? Can you understand something that just gives and enjoys giving, and not asking for anything? Can you understand someone like that? Can you?
Loving for love’s sake; that’s what is your Spirit. It is watching you with that love, that total love. That totality of love is watching you to give you that what it is. Now here, I would say, you are the Spirit and you are this self, another one, which is this awareness, this human awareness which you have got. This human awareness has to be enlightened by that totality, that Spirit. When it enlightens that, then only, you know that you are a part and parcel of the totality and that you are beautiful; you are really beautiful. Sometimes one feels a little bashful to know how beautiful one is, and so fragrant, and so grand and so dignified.
That new dimension one has to achieve. For that, God has placed within you the power, which is the germinating power which has to rise and to give you this Realisation: this is your Kundalini. About this in the Bible there is [a] reference of “Tree of Life.” To be nourished by the “water of love.” This is all prophesised. That, “He will appear before us as tongues of flames.”
Two thousand years back Christ thought it was sufficient [to say this]. I mean, people didn’t allow Him to speak much, you see. They just saw to it that He would not explain Himself. Very ‘intelligent’ people. They could not understand the simplicity of Christ. He was the fundamental, He was the foundation, He was the support of this Universe. And they crucified Him. Wonderful! He was the Spirit. He came on this Earth not to teach you what Moses taught you, because Moses had already taught you what was to be taught.
They did not come to repeat the same thing, but to give you a higher idea. Why? Why Moses said that, “Don’t do this and don’t do that!”? Why did He say? It should have a purpose. People don’t understand even this much. Why you should not tell lies? Why? What’s wrong? Why should you not steal? Why should you not commit adultery?
What’s wrong? What goes wrong in it? Supposing there were no human laws: there’s nothing wrong in it. Do as you please! Why these laws were created? For what purpose? Because by observing these laws you stay in the centre, you don’t go to extremes. You don’t get lost, you don’t get attacked by negativity, by people who are trying to exploit you and to torture you, who are against God, who are against your evolution.
But then, after all, the ultimate is to get your Realisation, to become one with your Spirit. That’s what it was [for]. All this show for what? For example, in a wedding you arrange everything and everything is bought, and the hall is arranged and is all decorated and everything; people are wearing very nice dresses; and there the bride doesn’t appear. So what? [So] it’s not a wedding. What is most important is that both of them should get married in the church where everybody is sitting down, or wherever it is decorated, in a temple; instead of that, all the decoration, if that becomes important and not the wedding, then what’s the use? I mean that’s exactly we are doing about our religions, believe me.
I live near one Catholic church and I have lived always near some temple or a church or a mosque, somehow, all my life. And I have seen them making preparations all the time. Today they are singing beautiful hymns there. They have been singing for the last two years. Nobody’s bothered about their Realisation. Their parents must have sung. For generations they are doing the same thing. Very busy, you know, organising everything. Very busy, extremely busy, they have no time to talk to anyone. They are all preparing.
But for what are you preparing, my children? What are you seeking? When are you going to see the bridegroom and the bride?
That’s what it is: that Christ came on this Earth to give the second phase, to show the second phase of evolution, is the resurrection, is the resurrection of your being. What about that baptism? You are to be baptised. He came for that, and how many of us are really seeking a real, actual baptism?
Again I say you don’t have to do anything about this seeking, you have to just ask for it, and it is going to happen. It’s going to happen. It has happened to many, many people all over the world. In England also it has happened. Of course, ups and downs are there, but it happens. It should happen to all of you that this Kundalini should rise, should pass through all the centres and pierce through your fontanel bone area, and you must get your Realisation. All other nonsensical things that people tell you, all other things that people tell you: you may go there if you like, I have no objection.