Celebrating Diwali

 

"Now Narakasura was the one who was the devil from Hell, they say: very cunning, very clever, and he was killed by the Goddess. Actually he was killed by another Incarnation, Kartikeya, but Goddess gave Him the power to kill. So when he was killed it was celebrated because the evil was killed, but we don’t find that– these days the evil people are getting peace awards. So what is the reason for this kind of a perverted brain? How is it they are using perversion? Just the opposite of it. What has worked out these things?

So again we find the same so-called freedom to become also evil. So we have freedom to become evil. First of all, we have freedom not to be benevolent, and secondly to become evil we have freedom. So the Narakasura within us must be killed, the one which teaches us evil, to do evil to others. If you are busy doing evil to others, you can never enjoy. Because you enjoy doing evil to others. So that has to be faced within ourselves, not in other people. It’s very easy to say that this Sahaja Yogi is caught up, that Sahaja Yogi is like that, but very difficult to say: "Mother, I am caught up. I have got this problem within myself. So when you start seeing yourself, your heart opens out. Unless and until you learn how to open out your heart, how can you enjoy? Open your heart. Many people live on very superficial level. All right, some of them might say that: "I am possessed, Mother. I’ve got this possession." Why? "I’ve got this conditioning, that conditioning." But why? You don’t want to enjoy. So watch yourself, see for yourself. This is my conditioning, "All right, I’ll put you right." See in the mirror. Tell yourself: "This kind of a useless conditioning I’ve got it from where? Because I’m Indian, because I’m French, because I'm English." Open the heart. And opening the heart is only possible if Narakasura sitting on your heart is killed, finished, once and for all. In small, small things there is joy. In very little things also there’s a ripple of joy. If you are sensitive you can catch it. And why not enjoy? Why to have these stupid conditioning on our heads for nothing at all that we can’t enjoy? Enjoyment is only possible if you take out this one sitting on your heart.

So, that is the second part of the Diwali that you have to open your heart. Forget your nationality, forget your race, forget everything. It’s a funny kind of things Sahaja Yogis have. They must be respected, they must be treated like this, or maybe that we are something great and they are no good. If you cannot mix up with the collective, something’s wrong with you. Nothing wrong with others. Easy to find faults with others. But what’s the use? If you start finding faults with others you do not become clean. Supposing I find that your clothes are not clean. My clothes are not going to get clean by that, are they? It’s so practical and simple it is that we should see ourselves, what’s wrong with us, and improve ourselves, so that we can really, really, from our hearts, enjoy."

Excerpt:

Diwali Puja: "The world is your problem"

Montecatini Terme (Italy),

29 October, 1989.

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