Shri Mataji: "So the fanaticism of Sahaja Yoga is most blinding"
The Paraclete Shri Mataji “I have seen many people get fanatic about Sahaja Yoga also. They think they are the real Napoleons or Shivaji! In Marathi we call him Shivaji, but Shivaji was a much better person than Napoleon, better to call him Napoleon. Then they start guiding you in everything -"This is not good, that is not good. I am a very great Sahaja Yogi! You are like this," and all that, and very hot tempered because they are fanatics. Fanaticism and temper goes together. There is no love in fanaticism. If you tell them don't be a fanatic, they will start crying. So the fanaticism of Sahaja Yoga is most blinding. It is something like, in front of the Temple of God you beg from other people for money. Sahaja Yoga is one thing which should not lead you to any fanaticism. You have to be prasanna-chitta, which means you should be a very happy, joyous personality; and not a tense, abrupt person. But this only achieves it's maximum result when everything is done in complete innocence.
But many people confuse innocence with stupidity. They think, to be stupid is innocent. And a stupid man gets into an ego trip in no time. Innocence is the wisest thing. You 'cannot' befool innocence, that's the main thing. No one can befool me, I am very innocent. Innocence is that which does not harm anyone, that does not think that it can solve the problems, but, it leaves everything for God to solve. It is just existence itself-in the blessings of your Mother, as Ganesha was, just living on the complete blessings of His Mother. It gives you concentration.
Have you seen a child being nursed by mother, how concentrated the child is. Suck ing everything! It doesn't bother who is who, where he is sitting, what is it, what is catching. It doesn't bother as to who is next to you, what is your relationship with others. Or it doesn't bother, at all, as to the future, as to what he is to do next.[...]
Because in the west people don't understand even innocence towards children. So you have to be childlike, not childish, confusion must not be there. But some people confuse it. They think it should be like a big baby, you see; and that you have to be treated like a big baby all the time, from bottle feeding to nappy changing, in Marathi it is called"Motha Bal.” And there's no end to it. So this kind of thing, if it is done to someone, that really will become a stupid fellow in no time.
But Ganesha's enchantment has dignity. He may look like a child, but He is an old man. He is the eldest of all. And despite all these years, he has kept His innocence intact. So sometimes people confuse it with over doing or caring too much, and the innocent person doesn't like it much. Even if somebody does it, He does not mind, because it pleases the other person. But it does not go to his head or anything. On the contrary, when you are doting on such a person, you start learning.[...]
Now, in Sahaja Yoga another very important point I have to tell you today, which is not so much besides Shri Ganesha's point, regarding which we always make mistakes. Certainly in India there have been lots of Mistakes like that: Now I give you one example of Mr. X who is a great Sahaja Yogi, in the sense that he is a great organizer he has done this, he has done that, and we start adoring him. Or we may be jealous. One of the two things happen, either we adore or we are jealous. Now, if you adore that person, then you should follow his footsteps. And if you are jealous, then it is more reason that you follow his footsteps so you become like him. I am talking of wisdom. Now, but instead of that when you adore - even whether you are a boy or a girl, you will jump on him, you will hug him and kiss him, you do all kinds of nonsensical things. Which is 'not needed' to express that way.”
The Paraclete Shri Mataji
Shri Ganesha Puja, Tivoli, Italy—September 11, 1983
"So now, you should see what are you worried about. Are you worried about people who have problems, who are no good, for whom you cannot say that they'll be Sahaja Yogis, or you are enjoying the people who have got Sahaja Yoga? This temper sometimes has made people really mad, I tell you, can go into your head and can make you mad and we have some mad people in Sahaja Yoga. We have still, but they have become so mad that now they are no more angry, they are no more troublesome. They're just mad, that's all. For such people, you shouldn't worry. There's no need to witness others. Witness yourself.
And I sometimes feel that anger comes through too much austerity, too much of extreme nature, also. Some Sahaja Yogis are extremely austere, austere about everything. It's maddening. In Sahaja Yoga, everything is Sahaj, is spontaneous. You are not to be austere. You should not be particular. I said now it's not better not to wear a black sari or something, if I say so. Then it doesn't become a sentence from Brahma. Supposing then somebody's wearing a black sari and coming, you will all run away from that person — or black clothes. It's not that. You are gurus, yourself. Why should be afraid of any kind of person who comes to you, whether it is black, white or any type? Why should you have any fear.
The another side of temper is fear. A man who is hot-tempered always has fear because he sees himself in others, he sees that another person also must be having the same kind of temper and he'll attack. So he's always on the protective. In a Sahaj manner, what we do is to live without fear. It's said that wages of sin is fear. But I would say wages of anger. Those people who were very aggressive, say for example, develop frights, all kinds of frights, those countries who have invaded other countries and rule other countries and have got experience of their ego, of their anger become extremely frightened people, specially the soldiers who go on the war, kill so many people and come back and they are frightened. I asked one of them in America, I said," What are you frightened of?”He said," I feel I have killed so many people, now so many will kill me.” "But," I said," Why do you think like that? Why should anybody kill you?” "This is because — why did I kill others? Why did I kill others? Because I killed others, so anybody can kill me, isn't it, without rhyme and reason.” Logically, I agreed, but his fear was so much, but when he came in My presence was just shaking. The whole body was shaking with fear.”
The Paraclete Shri Mataji
Shri Guru Puja, Cabella Ligure, Italy—July 24, 1994
"So in Sahaja Yoga also we should not become fanatics. I have seen people even in Sahaja Yoga become very fanatic. Fanaticism, we are against it. We are free people. We have Self-Realization which is a birth by your Spirit and you are not bound by anything. You will never do wrong things. All bad things will drop out automatically. You don't have to be told," Don't do this, don't do that.”After some time I have seen all Sahaja Yogis become alright and they come to their senses. Even those people who have left, I am sure, will come back, because, you see, after all, there is Kundalini. She is sitting there, She'll rise all the time. Correcting them. Many times, it will happen everywhere. People come to Sahaja Yoga, after some time they will disappear, again come back... But once they are there, they are there quite a lot. And that's how Sahaja Yoga is growing.”
The Paraclete Shri Mataji
Advice to yogis, Hong Kong—December 18, 2001
"Of course. You can't have it any more, that's very true because you see the essence is the same. You see, fanaticism comes from word"finite"We should say. When you go into infinity, how can you have fanaticism? You finite yourself, I'm this, I'm this. That is clubbing, actually it is nothing but ordinary clubbing, you see. We have clubbed, like somebody puts the, say the table-ware on the left side—is one club. They put it on the right side another, then they distribute, you see, that's just like stupid clubbing, that's all. You cannot club God or Christ or anyone of these incarnations, they are all brothers and sisters and relations of each other. They are all related to each other. But those people, who were in charge, tried to destroy them , as soon as possible, take the charge.”
The Paraclete Shri Mataji
Press Conference, Vienna, Austria—July 7, 1986
"Is not necessary to have this ritualism, this kind of a rigmarole. Oh, all the time you go on. Everyday, morning till evening, nonsensical these things and they become fanatic. They start becoming absolutely fanatic about Sahaja yoga and this fanaticism can be very dangerous because they try to remember everything by heart, this and that. No, not necessary.”
The Paraclete Shri Mataji
Desires against Real Joy, Cabella, Italy—June 14, 1995
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