Shri Krishna Puja, New York 1997

Shri Krishna Puja. New York (USA), 8 June 1997

We have decided to have a Shri Krishna Puja in the land of Shri Krishna. Though this is the land of Shri Krishna, people ask me why the people are not spiritual. How is it they get entangled into different types of seekings which are not leading to truth? Why is it the people in America are not so alert as to recognize what is the truth and what they have to find?

Shri Krishna’s time was, you know, at least 2000 years after Shri Rama. Shri Rama created lots of disciplines for human beings to follow in the path of their ascent. According to the time everything works out. So people were extremely rigid, disciplined and it so happened that people lost touch with the truth. They would leave their wives, and ill treat their wives, do all kinds of things in the name of Shri Rama. Because always human beings take to something which is not right. On the other side they never saw how Shri Rama went after Sitaji to find her, and he fought the horrible rakshasa Ravana to get back his wife. So the other side people never see. Only this side they saw that, if the wife stayed over at some function or other, he got very angry and shouted at her and threw her out and all this. That is how Shri Krishna came in.

Always incarnations come one after another to correct themselves only. When Shri Krishna found out that it was on the otherside of ego that men thought they were very powerful and could do whatever they liked, they had all the power to judge their wives, so Shri Krishna came with a new diversion, or I should say, with a new idea about life. He talked of freedom, he talked of abandonment, and he talked that life was for enjoyment. Radha is the source of joy. ‘Ra’ is the energy, ‘dha’ is the one who sustains the energy. She was the source of joy, and his idea was to enjoy life the best way, is within. And that is why he said “you should enjoy yourselves, you must have „ras” by which you enjoy group dancing and, freedom”.

So people thought that is the way one has to live, is to be absolutely free, live as you like. Especially in America. They thought that to enjoy life is complete abandonment, no discipline, no bindings. You can divorce your wife 8 times, husband 10 times. That sort of a life started long time back, but it really prospered in America. Prosperity of this kind of a culture came to such a level that now we do not know what is going to happen to the family system, to the joy part of it.

Adi Shakti first created Shri Ganesha. Shri Ganesha is the source of wisdom. He is the source of auspiciousness, and he is a child. He is an eternal child. And this behaviour of abandonment is very destructive if there is no wisdom. First thing he wants to establish is, wisdom, within ourselves. But we start a theory or a kind of pattern of life without any development of our wisdom. But the worst was when the freedom became the criteria of life. People became extremely dominating and egotistical. The first answer you always get is..... What’s wrong?... You ask them why they are doing this? they say.. What’s wrong?.. I mean it is wrong because it is not auspicious.... What’s auspiciousness?.... Absolutely like, you can call them, people without brains. Brainless people. Brainless means there is no wisdom. What is the power of the brain is wisdom. So life started drifting into a destructive pond, we should say, of no return. And every kind of faith was accepted as a blessing, and nobody would think that this is wrong, this is not for human life. Even the animals are not like that.

Added to that came the stupidity of drinking alcohol. I don’t know how they discovered alcohol. Long time back, long long time back. But they say it came out of the Mantana, and out of the churning of the ocean by the Suras, Asuras, Rakshasas and the Devas. Must be some sort of a trick to get these Rakshasas drunk, and to somehow or another manage to get the Umba, the pitcher of amruta, of ambrosia; so that these Rakshasas would be lost drinking and then the Devas would get their due, which was amruta which was ambrosia. That might be one of the reasons that it was created out of the ocean, among all the 14 things that came out of the ocean. So kind of oppositions, opposite quality of things was created.

Another thing they created were prostitutes. One may ask why prostitutes came out of the Mantana. Because now you have freedom, you are given freedom to choose, and so you must have full vision whether to choose an auspicious life, a holy life, a divine life, or choose destructive life. This opposition came forward because your freedom had to be respected. That was very important in the growth of human awareness. It was very important to respect the freedom of human beings, because animals, if you see, they have no freedom. A snake will be a snake, a scorpion will be a scorpion, a lion will be a lion. They live with their own qualities, you cannot make them do something that other animals are doing. We have passed through all these different animal journeys and now we are human and now we have freedom. Now why do we have that, one may ask this question, because they ask questions for everything you see. Why freedom is needed? Like I have told you before in the school the teacher, they teach you 2+2=4, and you have to remember. But when you grow and when you go to college you are supposed to have the freedom to understand everything yourself. In the same manner your awareness was to be brought to that level that you could use your freedom.... WISELY!

Now you have to have temptations. How can you judge a person whether he is blind or not blind. Supposing you ask a blind person... Is this a flower? He might feel it say.. no no it is a bee... so he has to have his eyes to see, and once you give him his eyes he goes amok. He doesn’t know what to do, what is good for him. So he chose all that was not at all good for him, auspicious for him, and detrimental for his growth. So the drinking started and with the drinking you don’t know how we get abandoned. I have heard people that they lose their sense of relationship with brothers, with sisters, mothers – everything, if you get drunk. So many drunkards have told me this. That in this country we have funny kind of relationships, one cannot understand. How can it be? But it is so, by drinking all these things have happened and they don’t know who is your sister, who is your mother, who is your wife. In India we also have different type of thing. That they will ill treat their sister, they will ill treat their mother, they will ill treat their wife. The other way round also. But here they do not ill treat, they love, but in a very perverted manner. See the reaction of 2 countries. So this grew up very much and today we see a country which is America in a complete chaos.

So this freedom without any wisdom at all growing, starts creating a terrible ego. When auspiciousness is given up, then Shri Ganesha sleeps, and as Christ, who is the incarnation of Shri Ganesha, also doesn’t bother. So the rule of Christ is finished. So what rules is the ego. This ego which thinks it is free, but doesn’t know it is bound by all kinds of enemies of very horrible types. The time of Shri Krishna he said that the worst enemy humans have is anger. But I think in modern times that the worst enemy human beings have is greed and jealousy. Greed has no meaning these days. I mean what do you say to a person who has 3,000 pairs of shoes? That is mad. There are all sorts of things you know in greed that you see these days. We don’t know how people are really behaving. No one can explain. I know of someone who has 5,000 dolls. What is she doing with those dolls I don’t know. She has. Like all countries even in America, I think much worse, much worse. Now we may call it anything, consumerism or anything like that. Your economics, which is acting very faulty, doesn’t understand human beings. Whatever it makes. Whatever it may be, it can never bring benevolence neither to the person who thinks he is rich, nor to the people who he is exploiting. As far as spirituality is concerned, they are all far away from the realm of divinity.

Now the mind starts working with the ego, ego takes over like a computer, and it starts suggesting ways and methods by which how much money we can earn. When you start earning money, this same Mr. Ego tells you how to destroy yourself with this money. They do all kinds of things when they have money, I mean that money is not the lakshmi prasad. It is some sort of a money which becomes a rakshasa, or a devil, and devours you. It takes you to all kinds of wrong places, it takes you to such horrible theories that nobody would accept such theories. This ego makes you feel that you are perfect, you know everything, whatever you are doing is the best. But with that way what happens? You become restless, you cannot sleep. Now the problem here is that people have the problem of.. tension.. of stress. I mean in our young day we had never heard about it, tension, stress. Even now in India very few people know about it. Because you yourself are destroying yourself. So with this money say you want to entice some woman. Take a very low level thing. Then you run after her, give her this, give her that, spend all your money till you become bankrupt. And then you start sitting and crying. I don’t know why do they make films like this. To show what happens to a person who runs after money and goes on spending that money. He doesn’t know what to do. You see money also eats the mind. On the otherside we have people who are extremely miserly. With the money. They become so much greedy that they keep their money under 7 locks at least.

Now they see the world, there are people who are suffering so much, who have so many problems, why not spend some money on them? So then there are agents who come up. Like our Swiss bank. Swiss bank is the outcome of our greed. Completely the outcome, because we have so much money we don’t know what to do with it so we put it in the Swiss bank. Swiss banks is alright will look after it. Because we are greedy as well as miserly. I mean miserly people are another crackpots. I should say. The way they live, but also the people who have money are crackpots. They have no sense of self respect, neither of self esteem. Imagine a 80 or 90 year old woman going for a shake dance. as I have told you. They think they should do this, competing with the young people, because they have money. If they have money, if they get it without cheating anyone or deceiving anyone, If it is a real good money then they should give it to some good cause, they should try to propagate goodness. But money itself seems to be something bad, like poison. Because either this money makes you mad how to spend it, or mad how to save it. As if you become a slave to this money business, and in that slavishness you go on drifting and drifting.

I have seen people when they talk, I don’t know why they talk like that. Then you discover they have a bank account. That’s why they are talking like that. If you don’t have a bank account then you wont talk like that. I mean more than that this country is overflowing with money., with all kinds of money transactions, and permutations and combinations, and this and that, and whatever you can do with money. Because Shri Krishna is Kubera, he is the deity, or we can say he is the god of wealth. But at the same time he is a very mischievious god. You can see clearly this is supposed to be Shri Krishna’s country it is overflowing with money. At the same time you can find horrible things happening, worst in the whole world. I mean nobody can beat the Americans they say, in stupidity, in vulgarity, indecency, exploitation. So this is the curse of money on human beings, which is to be understood, that freedom without wisdom is the most dangerous thing to human beings. It is better not to be free if you have no wisdom, because God knows what you will do if you have freedom and no wisdom.

I have seen here, heard about women who are killing their children. Nowhere else will you find such a thing. Killing small children. Now how this money makes you so dry that you have no love, no feeling. Just for killing sake also people kill here.

Now there is another thing that this money does it created a disparity. There are some who are very rich, there are some who are very poor. Those who are very poor are against those who are very rich. They can’t understand why these people should have so much money, so they think its a matter of crime, and to snatch all that money from them and to use it for themselves. But the same money can destroy them also. So snatching that money with violence, or grabbing it, is not going to give you any blessings.

So what is the purpose of wealth? That is very important for people who worship Shri Krishna to know. In Shri Krishna’s life, he saw that they who were creating buttermilk or butter, were carrying all that all the way to Mathura, where in Mathura this horrible King Kamsa was reigning. And they used to give it to all the soldiers there. He did not want them to do that, because they would fetch much more money, be paid more. So these women were greedy about that. Instead of giving to their own children, to their own families, they used to collect all that and take it to Mathura.

Shri Krishna used to take stones and throw them at the pitchers, and break the pitchers because he didn’t want all that to go to Mathura to feed those horrible soldiers. This is what it is we have to learn, if we have say some surplus money or something, you have to think what you can do with it and what joy it can bring., by sharing it with the right type of people. Not in the pubs, I don’t mean that, but sharing it for their needs and whatever. Actually a disciple of Shri Krishna should be a self satisfied person. Look at his life, how self satisfied he was. Every episode about him talks about his complete oneness with himself. For example, when Arjuna asked him... Why don’t you drive us Pandavas, and fight with us?... In modern times, in a competitive life, if you see those races, they are so anxious to win, to have a higher position. Then all the big politicians are trying to bring down other politicians to have their own power. But what did Shri Krishna say? That – I will be your charioteer I will drive your chariot, but I will not lift my weapon against anybody..... We can’t think of anyone like that today. Some people will never say – that, alright, I will stay down and you be on the throne... Very difficult to see even one person who could behave like Shri Krishna. Because whether he is the charioteer or he is the one who was Arjuna, or he was the captain of the whole thing, he knew what he was. What was the need for him to become this or to become that?

But these days you see that to become something there is such a struggle going on. Some want to be say Prime Minister, that is the highest I know, and then some want to dislodge the Prime Minister. Then you start from the pion upwards, everyone wants something higher and higher. This is another very subtle type of greed., which is working out in our minds. Even in Sahaja Yoga, I have seen, that leaders (now have settled down this time, they are much better) but used to be such a terrible fight for leadership. It is a myth, such a myth, but they used to fight about it. And they would write letters after letters, there were groups, and one group used to write against another group, another group used to write against this group, and I used to just laugh! Because there is no truth in it. Leadership is no truth, its just a joke. But even if I told them its just a joke they would not understand its a joke, and not to be so serious about it and to fight about it. Gradually they have settled down about it and are much better, its much better. But what is there is this greed. That was the mistake of Shri Krishna, that instead of anger he should have put greed as the worst thing.

Actually you see, these incarnations don’t know much about human beings, and they would not know how far they would be going, same happens to me. But they are absolutely unaware of what these human beings are, what good are they. What they will make out of it. Their brains are so sharp that they will pick up whatever is wrong for them and never see whatever is right for them. Shri Rama tried something, it was of no use. Shri Krishna tried something, it was of no use. So we come to Shri Jesus Christ. Nowadays people who are suffering are ardent disciples of Christ. They have no wisdom of any kind. Like mad. They are going about, I mean if you read their pamphlets, read about their organizations, what they do, you are amazed. How can they be disciples of Christ? In no way do they have any right of Christ to begin with, because they don’t know anything about Christ.

First to know, then to imbibe his qualities, are something very very, I should say, impossible to understand. Some will say, why was he born in a poor family? He should have been born like... Mr. Ford... some would say.. I mean finding faults and criticizing is the only thing left to use now. Because you can’t do anything else that’s why. Then they would say.. why did he get himself crucified?.... He didn’t crucify you, he should have crucified you, actually he crucified himself, that was his mistake.

It is also difficult for human beings to understand incarnations, because they are in juxtaposition. They are very different things, that’s why human beings can’t understand. Now they are there to lead them, they are there to tell them what is to be done. But the way they understand, its just absurd. For example, you know in Chicago I met the head of Hari Rama. Another puzzle he was to me, really! Because he came in a very thin dhoti and it was very cold, and he was shivering before me. So I said „ Sir, why are you wearing such a thin dhoti, you are shivering, I am very sorry „ He said „”Why? My guru told me to have a thin dhoti” „Why?” „ To go to heaven to achieve my ascent. ” I said „Really he told you like that? But Shri Krishna he never wore a thin dhoti. ” „But I am not Shri Krishna” he said. See how the human mind tries to avoid. So now. Then he had shaved his head and had a big pony tail behind it. So I said „Why have you shaved your head?” and he said „my guru told me you have to shave your head if you have to go to heaven „ I said „But Shri Krishna did not shave his head” „No No but he was an incarnation, I have to shave my head so I have to go to heaven” So I told him „See Kabira has said “these sheep are shaven and shorn every year, twice. And if they all go to heaven where will be a place for you?” He never understood and he got very angry with me and he said „ Mother you are talking ill about my guru „ I said „ I am not talking ill, I am your Mother; I am just asking you what’s the use of wearing this thin dhoti that’s all. A Mother has a right to ask „ He got very angry with me and he went away. And he is the head of these Hari Ramas.

So to understand an incarnation also you have to be a realized soul. Otherwise you cannot. Because they look very absurd. Without asking any questions, if you can become a realized soul. If you ask questions its one degree less. Without questioning if you can take your realization, without any questions, then you have the highest marks. Because your mind is very active, and a person whose mind is active cannot achieve something beyond the mind. You have to achieve it beyond the mind. This is one thing at least if you all understand, then I think my work is done. All tricks tried by Shri Krishna, all disciplines put by Shri Rama, all the Gurus who tried their level best to tell you what to do, is only to make you a yogi by taking you beyond the mind. And then what happens, then you are in connection with this all pervading power, which is looking after you, which is protecting you, which helps you. In every way you are absolutely in charge of this Paramchaitanya.

Now supposing I do not take the citizenship of America. Of course I may never take it, but supposing I don’t. Then this government is not in charge of me. But if I take it, then of course they’ll tax me do all kinds of other things, doesn’t matter. But at least they’ll be in charge! But this Paramchaitanya, when it takes over, is love, is absolute love. Love which thinks, understands, coordinates, cooperates, works, and is extremely sensitive. It works! I am surprised, so surprised, the way it works. Without fail, without making any mistakes. Don’t have to even tell because you are there. But to believe you are there, is also a difficult task. With all the experiences you should believe you are there. That is also quite a difficult task.

So when we say they are established Sahaja Yogis, what we mean is this, that they are completely one, under complete charge of Paramchaitanya. That’s what we have to be. If you want to save this country you have to be that. No argument, no explanation, nothing. No fighting, no strikes, nothing. No placard is needed. You are the ones who will advertise Sahaja Yoga. Everyone of you should understand that your life is very important at this juncture. And you have to become that special person who reflects reality through divine love.

May God bless you.

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