1988-0731 Guru Puja Talk, Andorra DP-RAW

Today we have all gathered here for
worshipping your Guru.

As you know that the principle of Guru
resides in the Void.

This is the principle which gives you
balance,

which gives you the gravity.

The gravity that we have in the Mother
Earth

is expressed through your Guru principle.

The first point of gravity is

that you should have a personality,
a character and a temperament

that people would see that you are
a personality

who doesn’t get dissolved into worldly
things.

Is a personality which doesn’t get ruined
by the skirmishes of life.

Is the personality of a Guru which sits
down deep into his -

into his being and is not easily disturbed
or dissolved by

any solvent what-so-ever.

This is the first principle of the Guru, is
the gravity.

As I told you, it is something which cannot
be dissolved into anything.

It settles very deep down into your
personality.

So it doesn’t float in the water.

Now you see, in the countries which are
developed very much

we think that we have a very great power
of individual attainment.

That individually we are absolutely free,
we can do whatever we like

and that’s why individual freedom becomes
the goal of all democratic countries,

neglecting the collective. Of course,
individual is important,

and it has to become all right to nourish
the collective.

But if the individual does not have
the gravity,

then they float on the surface and anything
can impress them.

That’s why we find today people get
impressed by fashions.

By fashions, which by no logical reason are
good for your health, for your wisdom.

[To somebody, "Sit down".]

No fashion is good for your health, nor for
your development as a personality.

Sometimes you look so odd with it,
so funny, so stupid.

Then this, ask your question, “What’s
wrong in becoming stupid?

What’s wrong in becoming foolish?”

The reason is, you have an individual
freedom, but your personality has not grown.

You personality is zero. You have no
personality left.

You cannot decide anything for yourself.

Whatever is the fashion you just run after
that.

Is this situation of the Western countries,
but in the countries like India now

there are also in some sort of a craze.

Because they have to still pass through
this so-called affluence that you have.

So they'll take to the crazes, like
supposing

somebody sees a very beautiful carpet with
someone,

then all rush to buy that carpet.

They’ll do anything for getting things
to themselves.

So they turn towards materialism also
in the same way

as you people turn to fashions.

The individuality is all right up to
a point, but then it becomes a madness.

Especially in the west the personality is
so low, is so missing

that any entrepreneur can develop any
craze, any name

and everybody runs after that and is
impressed.

Like a stupid fellow can call himself by
some name,

say, he can call his… by some funny name -
now, say "Poison", as he says.

Now to everyone to buy "Poison" is a very
great thing.

Because it is by some stupid man who has
taken a name and so everybody must buy that.

It is nothing special about it. It is
nothing special,

it is nothing – remarkable. It is nothing
that will make you something great.

But people will buy that particular make,
because it has a brand

which everybody will accept. “Oh!
It’s from that particular brand.”

And it’s such a madness about it.

Then comes to the anything from hair style,
up to your foot style,

to your neck style, to your nail style,
to your eyebrow style.

I mean, anything, any stupid thing that you
could do to your body is available

and people take to it because they have
no gravity in them.

The persons who have gravity do not take
to such changes.

First logically, they’ll try to know if
this change is good or not.

But only because it’s a change, it's
a craze,

it's a fashion, they do not take to it.

This is one of the signs of gravity in
a person

that he doesn’t float on the ground like
straws.

But it stays, it stays like a beautiful
pearl

in the deep shores of understanding.

So those who are today here to worship
the Guru,

they have to worship their own Guru within
themselves

and have to understand that first thing
and foremost thing is

that we must have gravity in temperament.

You do not need education for that,
university education.

You need not read books, you need not
do anything.

Only thing is that you have to have your
value system corrected.

When your value system is corrected, you
understand

what is good for the society, what is good
for you.

For example, if it’s a lotus flower, it
will never emit filth and dirt.

The fragrance will be always there; if it
is a rose or any other fragrant thing,

it will emit fragrance only.

It cannot emit something that is filthy.

Now those who think they are Gurus and have
achieved that gravity

will never write something which is ugly,
say something which is dirty,

will never use their mind to appreciate
anything that is filthy and wrong.

This is the second sign of your value
system.

In your value system you have to first
of all understand what is auspiciousness,

what is Divine beauty,

and what is morality of the Spirit.

These three things are to be realized and
are to be part and parcel of your being

so that when people see you, they should
say, “Here is a person we can see

who has that gravity, here is the person
who has that beauty.”

It acts inside, outside.

A person who has that sobriety inside
dresses up in a sober way.

He doesn’t dress up to impress others, or
just to show off or to hide something

or to expose something. But just to respect
his body, he dresses up.

When he talks to others, he talks wisdom.

He doesn’t talk frivolous things, useless
things

and things which are of very baser level.

In his own enterprises, I would say, he has
a kind of a decency and a decorum.

Like a person tries to become an expert.

A person who worships his Guru, tries to be
an expert in his work,

like supposing, there is a person who is
an engineer.

He doesn’t care for money, he doesn’t care
for fame,

he doesn’t care for applauses
from others.

What he cares is, does he really understand
his subject matter. It won’t be mediocrisy.

Musician has to be perfectly a musician.
Artist has to be a perfect artist.

He does not use the general methods
of expertise,

but his Spirit, the guidance of his Spirit
he tries to improve.

Like there’s a poet, he tries to improve
his poetry on the level of his Spirit,

but not on the level of money, because
normally people would write things

just to please the majority of the people,
so they can sell their books

or something filthy which is not benevolent
to the society,

nor to the name of the writer, they don’t
mind, they become shameless about it.

So not that the Guru himself has the value
system, but through his life style,

through his own preachings, through his
own behavior

he radiates gravity to others – he radiates
gravity to others.

So it builds up our value system, value
system of a balance.

But it does not mean that if somebody wants
to become an expert on one subject

then he neglects the other side.
It’s in balance,

it has to be in balance, a person say,
for example, who is a musician

and cannot understand a painting – he is
not an artist.

Supposing you are an artist and still you
do not understand Sahaja Yoga,

then you are not a Yogi.

So if you start from the central point of
your spirit, you’ll be surprised that

the knowledge that you receive or whatever
you give is absolutely integrated

and radiates from one point.

So, in every way you become an expert, in
any subject you become an expert.

Anybody asks you a question, you know
everything.

But in that you know what is worthless and
what is of worth.

You try to understand what is important.

You know, you give up whatever is worthless
and you would not like to know

the names of different alcohols. You don’t
want to be expert in that.

You don’t want to be an expert on knowing
all the names of all the carpet styles.

You may not like to know all the varieties
of sarees.

You may not like to know all the names of
all the cameras.

You may know, but need not feel that you
do not.

But whatever is important for the gravity
of a personality, you will know.

So if you want to make it simple, we can
know about auspiciousness.

What is auspicious? You’ll know about
fair play.

What is a fair play towards others.

You’ll know about what is justice in
the eyes of God.

You’ll know about the Divine music that
elevates your Kundalini.

So as a result of this gravity you get
discrimination.

That you know what is your personality and
what is the water surrounding you.

You know how to discriminate and this
discrimination

is also actually innately comes from your
Guru principle.

But once this Guru principle goes into

a bizarre state or into some sort of
a turmoil or confusion,

by so many other things like you have
a wrong guru, you have a false guru,

you have false ideas, you follow false
doctrines, you follow false theories

or you follow false books, then this goes
bizarre.

As a result of that you develop Ekadesha
Rudra on top of your head.

Also in case, when you have problems

of not temperant and moderate life, if you
are an extremist,

if you work too hard or you don’t work
at all or if you only go on

projecting yourself into one side and not
paying attention

to the other side of your life,

with all these imbalances, physical,
mental, emotional and spiritual,

you develop problems of your Guru
principle, as a result, you develop

this Ekadesha Rudra, which is the beginning
of your destruction.

So how important it is to look after your
Guru principle, you can see

that most of the diseases are caused by
this principle, when neglected

and ultimately they reach its high – their
heights,

when it reaches the state of Ekadesha
Rudra.

Now as realized souls you have crossed
the limit,

you have come out of your Sahastrara, you
have transcended all those things

through your Brahma Nadi. But that does not
mean that you have developed that gravity.

You have now achieved a state.

If a flower is there and you put the flower
on the water it will float.

But when it becomes the fruit and matures,
then you put it in the water,

it does not float, it goes deep down, it
doesn’t get dissolved.

It keeps its own identity. That is what is
to be done now

that you have to become the fruits of
Sahaja Yoga, fruits of Sahaja Yoga.

Blossom time is over now, you have
to become fruits

and people who see you should know
that you have no imbalances at all.

You are the people with special gravity.
So when you talk to people –

when you have any kind of Sahaja Yoga
program,

you do not behave in a childish manner or
stupid manner.

I’ve seen people sitting before Me raising
their Kundalini. It’s stupid.

Or giving bandhan to themselves, is stupid.
So, even coming in the Sahaja Yoga,

one can have that kind of a stupid behavior
or behavior without gravity.

Even after coming to Sahaja Yoga, if you
have the same style as you had before,

then you have to grow, mature, you have
to become still the fruit.

And that is the sign that you become really
the Guru principle people.

It is important that we have to know
the gravity of the Mother Earth.

How she revolves with such a tremendous
speed

holding all of us together to her heart and
then

she emits her beautiful Divine love through
the various beauties

that are surrounding us, now we can see
for ourselves.

Specially when I see the big mountains,

I feel they are like great saints sitting
and meditating here.

But they are the only ones who can catch
the Guru principle emitted by the sea.

As you know the sea is the Guru principle,
and they are so high

that they can catch the Guru principle. So
despite the fact you have that gravity,

you are people of very high standards. And
you are beyond any temptations,

any stupid ideas or any ideas that can
pervert or spoil others.

You stand above everybody else, Stalwarts,
as we had very great people on this earth,

I have given you the names and we said that
there have been ten Gurus,

starting from Adi Nath, we had Confucius,
we had Socrates

and later on we had Abraham, Moses and also

up to Shirdi Sai Nath, we had about ten
great Gurus.

Now we have so many here sitting down, they
are all Gurus

and they have to behave like Gurus and
they have to do the job of great Gurus.

And this is what today we have to see if we
can develop that gravity within ourselves

and understanding within ourselves. When
that peace resides within you,

the joy of becoming Sahaja Yogis will be
really felt,

will be really understood and will be
enjoyed by all of you.

May God bless you all!

Here is a symbol of a dog because the Guru
always carries a dog

because he is the one who knows only one
master.

And this is the disciple principle of
the Guru.

So the disciple principle is like a dog,
who guards the Guru,

who shows complete devotion and dedication
and all the time on the watch

that wrong type of people should not come
to the Guru.

But on the contrary, I think sometimes in
Sahaja Yoga

people always bring wrong type of people
to Me.

It watches and it knows, it has such
discretion.

It knows what to do and how to behave.

This is what is the symbol of a disciple

and so this symbol has to be understood
by all of you.

Now for the puja today you sit in a very
surrendering mood

so that this principle awakens within you.

Nobody should try to raise the Kundalini
or do anything,

everything will work out smoothly and
nicely and nobody should stand up.

Everybody should be seated, whichever way
you like.

That's important because as I said this is
the gravity, to settle down, to settle down.

That's very important, as we call Gruhastha
means the one who settles in the household

is the Gruhastha or we call it in Indian
language as the baithak,

is the sitting capacity, how much you can
sit down on things.

This child, you better ask the child to go
away. Whose child is this one?

Is very disturbing… one second to that
child, yes.

Just speak him up, that’s all, he’s
the disturbing one … I don't know...

Let him sit outside, then he will be
alright. He’s alright.

Sometimes something goes wrong with
them, you see…

These two girls - they should pay
attention. Children should not...

These two girls there - they should pay
attention, that’s important,

because that’s how they are going to be
helped.