Meditation is Very IMPORTANT

 

The most important thing in Sahaja Yoga is that, to progress in it, to grow, you have to meditate. Meditation is very important. You may not do anything else, but if you remain in meditation, then you can progress in Sahaja Yoga. As I told you, this is a new path. It is a new dimension; it is a new thing in which you have jumped into. With your unconscious mind, you have entered that great ocean, that is true. But if you want to go deeper into it, then you will have to meditate.

What are you saving time for?

All the time, you should think that the watch that is tied on your hand is for Sahaja Yoga and meditation. And it is tied for the work of Sahaja Yoga only, I have tied it for that only, otherwise I would never have tied it. A person whose entire time is spent in Sahaja Yoga, it is not necessary that he does not do household work. It is not necessary that you do not do office work; you can do all the work but do it in meditation, work can be done in meditation because you have been put in meditation.

While doing every work, you can be thoughtless and as soon as you become thoughtless, you start getting the beauty of that work, its “complete” knowledge and all its joy.

For meditation you should remember one small thing, that the thing on which the aalap [slow tempo opening part of Indian classical music performance] of meditation will be started, the veena [stringed instrument] on which this beautiful song is going to be played, should be clean.

You are not that veena, you are not that aalap either, but you are the one who is going to listen to it and play it. You are its master. So if that veena is out of tune, if its strings are rusted or some of its strings are broken, then it is important that you get it fixed. If they are not fine, then there will be no sweetness in your life. That beauty cannot come inside you, a strange kind of irritability, strange kind of roughness, dryness and distraction will be seen in you.

It is a very big thing for Me, to see a Sahaja Yogi sitting in meditation with a very determined mind. And I see that some Sahaja Yogis are going deep inside and some are very distracted. I am not saying whether all people can reach that state or not. But whatever is possible must be done in this life only. Whatever time is there for earning, it should be spent on this. And whatever can be obtained, everyone should get it in this, whether there is anything else or not.

Whatever is important, keep your eyes on that.

Wherever you are settled, just be settled there, in your place, on your throne. Instead of having a thousand useless people, ten good people are the best thing for Sahaja Yoga.

Become one of those ten good people. These people, who do the work of Sahaja Yoga with great love and are enjoying it, flowing in it, progressing in it, and stand in the advanced rank. Like the Himalayas are the highest in the world. Everyone’s eyes are towards it. Become like that. You can become the Himalayas within you and you can see that the world looks at you and says that if I want to become, I should become like this man who has risen so high in Sahaja Yoga. This is an internal rising, not an external one. And I know about everyone, who is reaching where.

You are your own obstacle, and nobody else can stop you. No person in the world can cast any spell – sorcery on you.

Excerpt:

Talk to Sahaja Yogis

Mumbai (India).

9th February, 1975.