" Now Diwali is very significant because today is the darkest day, darkest night and longest night, and to end it up they put lights.
Now in the atmosphere it is all very dark, black, the sun is gone. So they put on all these lights. In the same way it is Kali Yuga . Now, Kali Yuga you can consider as one day. It is very dark, horrible, it has lots of problems , it has made our lives miserable and we don't know how to move with life. And this moment what is necessary is to enlighten people. Kali Yuga at its worst now. The kind of things people are doing even in the name of God is shocking.
But that is Kaliyuga, where we have lost all sence of direction. We do not know which way we are going. All kinds of wrong things we are doing and we think it is all right, after allwhat is wrong in it ? Everything you tell them -- ' what is wrong? ' You tell them, 'do not do it ' . They will say, ' what is wrong ? ' And that is how everyone has very , become very individualistic. In a way he is not , because they follow a fashion, they follow a style ---I mean they are not, they are slavish-- but they believe they are very independent, they are free people, they can do whatever they like.
As a result of this freedom in this Kali Yuga or the idea of freedom, what has happened with them is that they have become extremely ugly. The kind of things they are doing in Kali Yuga is unbelievable. Even they are priests, they are in the churches, this thing, that thing, they become so horribly immoral that cannot believe how can that be in the name of God,under this roof of God ? But it has started, that is Kaliyuga has to be finished.
So what do we do to remove the darkness of the night is to put lights. In the same way people should be enlightened. There should be light in the heart of the people. Once they are enlightened, this darkness from which we are suffering because of our ignorance will be finished and we will have the absolute knowledge. "
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Greece. 07-11-1999
