Makar Sankranti - From Tropic of Capricorn to the tropic of Cancer

 

FROM TROPIC OF CAPRICORN TO THE TROPIC OF CANCER

So, now the heat is going to come more in this country [India]. So to prepare for the heat and to prepare people for that they give a little jaggery and sesame seeds or sugar and sesame seeds and say that “We give you sweet so you also speak sweetly”, because the heat makes people rather bitter. And, if there’s heat inside you, then you start talking very bitterly to each other. So to pacify that heat they give the sugar or the jaggery for your livers. But you can’t just give that, so with that there is ‘teela’ (sesame) which is also a soothing oil.

Now. It’s very symbolic, that’s all. It’s a symbolic thing. And it is done every 14th of January in this country. It is called as ‘Makar Sankranti’. It’s the change to ‘makar’ – means Capricorn. And it’s surprising! Like in the ancient times Cancer was called as ‘karka’ (कर्क) in India and you also call this thing as cancer since long. Now, the disease cancer is also called ‘cancer’. Just see how it is related. And in Indian language also it is called as the disease of the Cancer, in the sense karka, they call it karka roga (कर्क रोग), you see – two words. They also call it due to the ‘karka roga’ and that also called ‘karka roga’ means – heat producing. It produces heat first of all. And secondly it had another meaning, that in cancer, cancer stands for the Mother. So when you commit sins against the Mother, cancer is produced. Sin against the Mother. Cancer sign is the sign of the Mother only; and when you try to commit sins against the Mother this starts. And since my advent this disease has become very prevalent because sin against the Mother is the biggest sin in the modern times. So, one must know that the sin against the Mother will lead, ultimately, to cancer. So it started from Ganesha tattwa.

Many people who have this problem, Ganesha problem, they may be very good in other things but still, if there is the left Ganesha problem, they should be very, very careful. It’s like a hole in your being. And to overcome that problem you may cover up with something else. Like such people may say, “Oh, I am so great. I will never feel like this.” That’s not a good thing. Just overcome your Ganesha problem with which you are perverted. So all these perversions must be sucked in just like a tortoise sucks in the four limbs within themselves. That is how you must suck in those things. And do not try to overcome by Right Vishuddhi, by saying that you are great or you are this or you are that.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Jan 13, 1983