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Today is a special day. There is a combination of two things happening.
Adi mai English maday bolte pan Marathi boliye (meaning: First I will speak in English then Marathi)
Today is first in the morning time, at 8:50 in the morning, was a very important day that
started at 8:50 in the morning, called as Ratha Saptami – is the seventh day.
And it is said that Sun travels with his seven forces, or say, seven colours in a big chariot.
And today they celebrate this day as a day when Sun travels with a divine vibrations
all over the world, and illumines.
So it was too early for anyone of you to do this, so till…I got up very early of course
and worked out that part for you.
The second important thing which is a combination, which is a very, very auspicious thing – that
you get on one day, two dates.
One is Ratha Saptami, on that day you cannot do havan because it is the Surya already is
there.
So the second thing is, [which] today we do, is a very great puja of Ashtami (eighth day):
is the day when the Goddess killed nine rakshasas together with Her eight hands.
So today is a very special day for which a very special attention is needed.
It’s only at the behest of the bhaktas that the Goddess took Her form and killed all these
rakshashas.
Also with Her eight hands, She killed Mahishasura.
That’s why She’s called as Mahishasura Mardini.
She’s called as Nava Chandi, one who has killed nine Chandas, means nine rakshashas
She has killed.
So is a very important day and very vital and very deep.
It’s very simple to say, “Mother, we have fixed Your puja on such and such day.
” Nobody thinks what Mother has to work behind the whole thing, you see.
You can’t fix My puja.
It’s not proper.
It is I who can tell you what time is the best for you to do the puja.
So it starts at two minutes past twelve.
So now we can start it and that’s why I delayed my bath.
But that would be too late, I started my bath little early.
Then only we can do it.
So today is the day of the Goddess, a very important day that you are here.
Somehow we are having all the pujas of 9 days, and that’s why I am wearing this special
type of a sari, which is to be used for Ashta Puja’s.
Vahana, is a tiger as well as a lion.
Imagine where I’m staying, there is a photograph of a tiger and a lion both, in that room.
You can go and see for yourself.
Normally you never get these [together] but that is there, beautiful photograph, enlarged,
a tiger and a lion.
So in the morning the Surya was very beautiful, I don’t know if you saw the morning sun?
At least tomorrow try to see.
It’s not important how long you sleep here, what food you eat, whether you get it in time
and all that.
You should get rid of these habits, it’s very important that these regularities and
all these mundane type of things, the bounding of timing and all that – you must get out
of it space and time, everything.
And should not go on worrying about things because you get so exhausted, without doing
any work you feel exhausted.
Because you are so fixed up, so fixed up that you can’t get out of these habits, you see.
While the Indians are not fixed up like that, they know that Mother knows the best, She
will come at the time when the puja has to be done.
So, one should try to understand that if I am the One then why should you worry?
But I have one problem with the Western mind is that if they cannot conceive it, they start
criticising.
Instead of making yourself subtler and subtler to conceive the beauty of the Divine, if you
don’t get it you will start criticising on any point, anything you can get hold of
and you start criticising.
So that’s not the way we can grow.
That’s why I’m telling you beforehand that this puja is very important, and at this
puja, you have to request that these nine Chandas, who are still there, should be killed
and this Mahishasura also should be killed, they should be driven out.
And that’s how it is going to work out and it’s very important.
It’s very important, I have to work it out myself.
You see, it’s not easy just to organise a programme like a, preside over something,
you just come along, it is not that way.
It’s much, much deeper, it is much deeper significance, much deeper work has to be done.
So many things have to be worked out.
It’s a very subtle thing.
And the more you discuss it, the more you talk about it, you lose it, you should keep
quiet and absorb it.
So today is not a day of such a mundane type, is very important in this small place, where
we are sitting, we are doing a tremendous job.
And you people, who have suffered the most on account of these rakshashas, should be
absolutely intensively be careful that these sinners must go out.
Something has to be done.
Instead of thinking about yourself and your inconveniences, your troubles and whatever
you call them which are not so important at all.
(a *** crows) You are saints and you must support all divine work with complete understanding.
On the contrary if you are so much worried about your own things, I mean you are of no
use, to yourself or Sahaja Yoga.
So I would say that even some people will see that this happened, that happened.
Perhaps the group is bit too big to accommodate in all these places.
I always had a feeling that the group is increasing bit too much.
And we didn’t have any idea of so many people coming in.
But doesn’t matter – they are sharing, we are settled down, there’s a place to
sleep.
And if you can understand this, you see, that these things are not important then you go
to England and just sleep or you go to Australia and just sleep.
I mean you have all the time to do all that.
Just now you are here to become subtler and subtler.
Now the time has started and the brahmin also came at the right time.
So we have to be one with the subtleties.
Sahaja Yoga is not possible if you want to see it from a gross level: you cannot understand
Sahaja Yoga that way.
I have already told you that without realisation,you cannot have Sahaja Yoga.
But even after realisation, if you stick on to those old things which belongs to the egg
time, you will have no advantage.
So try to become subtler and subtler, and don’t think about it.
You will relax, you will feel better, it will act.
[Don’t think] that you should have food at the right time, you must have this at the
right time, this should be the food.
This is, I mean, its such a stuck up thing, you know.
We cannot be stuck up with food, we cannot be stuck up with all these things.
You are going to a level where nobody has reached.
With this understanding if we become surrendered – means not to give Me anything but to get
rid of your ego and your stuck up ideas which there have been – it would be a very good
thing.
When you discuss also among yourselves, nobody should discuss inconveniences.
I had told you that in a village it’s a very difficult thing .
You don’t have to go to Himalayas but traveling through India is not an easy thing, and I
had told all of you.
I live with much more conveniences and comforts than anyone of you live but I can adjust myself
much more, so you should also try to forget about it.
Don’t talk of your inconveniences.
That will make you very gross.
The one who becomes subtler and subtler can only achieve something.
Today is another day, is called Bhishma Ashtami, is the day when Bhishma, who was a great saint
who took a great vow and that vow he carried out all his life.
It was a great vow he took.
So today also is the day of a vow.
He took on an Ashtami day.
On the Ashtami day he took a vow.
So today is another day for you to take a vow.
So also you should try to take a vow and with that vow, you should be able to achieve something
which has not been yet achieved.
This achievement is not only for this place, is not only for Maharashtra, it is not only
for India, it is not only for the whole world, but for the whole Universe.
So you are playing a very important, vital role and one should try to improve one’s
quality of life, quality of personality.
Unless and until you have that substantial quality, nothing is going to work out.
This is what I am telling them: that you must work out in such a way that you become substantially
dedicated to Sahaja Yoga.
Not just for your sake, not just for your family or for your country but for the whole
Universe.
So you are the seeds who are going to create that great atmosphere that will bring forth
the great change that we are expecting of Mahayoga.
It is very important to understand that so many people have talked about this and I have
come across a book which was written 2000 years back which describes about this Mahayoga
and what is going to happen.
It’s very interesting.
After the puja and havan, I think Mr. Chauhan will translate it to you and you can understand
what is about.
So let us start now.
