A REAL GURU OVERCOMES MATERIAL ATTRACTION
The whole understanding of the cosmic consciousness can be put in one little sentence: that it cannot be attracted by the gravity of any stars, earth, moon or sun.
The other attractions one has from the Mother Earth are all for food, greed, lust – materialism at its worst. It comes from matter.
All that comes from matter, once you start getting used to it you become a slave and not a guru. So the first attempt should be for anybody: to be a good guru is to get over material attraction.
In a subtler way we can see it happens like this: a lady or a gentleman buys an ashram in Sahaja Yoga. And a Sahaja yogi start living in that ashram. The owner of that house starts worrying about the house and all material things in that house rather than the emancipation of the disciples or the Sahaja yogis who are there.
The whole attention is towards the material upkeep of the house and not towards the emancipation of the Sahaja yogis who are supposed to rise into the cosmic consciousness.
And such a person, if he starts believing that he is the guru or in any way even a Sahaja yogi, he is sadly mistaken.
Where is your attention is the point. If you are the guru, where is your attention? If your attention is on the correction and the nourishment of yourself and of others then you are first of all the Sahaja yogi. And once you rise above the gravitational force of materialism, then you could be called as the guru.
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Jul 6, 1986
