Becoming Capable Instruments

 

BECOMING CAPABLE INSTRUMENTS

First I used to say, “Count your blessings” because that was the best way to make people understand that there are blessings in Sahaj Yoga. Now I would say, “Count your deeds.” What have you done for Sahaj Yoga? Sahaja Yoga has done so much for you. To say that Paramchaitanya will look after is absolutely absurd. If Paramchaitanya could do everything, why should it create human beings? One Adam and Eve were sufficient. You have to do it. Unless and until you become deep, it cannot trigger. It is helpless. It’s only through you it is going to work out.

Now if there is no instrument, electricity cannot work, can it? Now you should say, “The electricity itself must come before me and must do everything.” You have to have the instrument and you are the instrument and if you do not want to do it, how can Paramchaitanya do it? It will be something like saying, as I told you, that “Let electricity do the job, we will not have any instrument.” Can I work it out? Can you work it out?

So Paramchaitanya has its own style. It can only work if you people want to work it out. It’s an energy and you are the instrument. But the instrument is more busy with the job, with the family, I don’t know, all kinds of nonsensical things. Now supposing this instrument, which is meant for My lecture, forgets what it is and acts like a ladle in the kitchen because it’s fond of food, say, for example, then what’s the use of making this useless instrument. It doesn’t do what it has to do. It doesn’t know what it has been made for. It has no purpose at all. It’s such a useless stuff.

So I feel there’s a kind of a lethargy, a kind of a very subtle lethargy working out, could be like this that, “We’ve done our job. Let the young people do it now.” You are matured and the mature have to do the job. “We have done our level best.” What have you done so far?

So much to be done still. And somehow or other, I don’t know, we have to touch that area where such people remain like yesterday’s player. He is not doing God’s work. He’s an artist and he’s working so hard to achieve perfection. He will get the same amount whether he’s perfect or not, but he’s practising at home, he’s listening to it, he’s trying to develop it, all the time working it out so that his performance should be excellent. So he’s seeking an excellence. Mediocrity has no place in Sahaja Yoga. Only through excellence you’ll enjoy. Only through excellence you will really become Sahaja Yogis.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

23-Apr-1990