"...don't consider yourself to be endowed with some sort of a special power as a leader..."

... Secondly, the leaders must tell off people who are to be told off, it's very important.
If you cannot tell off people, it's no use. And that's how the leadership is not going to be respected, if you do not tell off people who are negative.
One negative problem comes in, immediately they'll report it, I immediately know this is his wife or husband must be doing nonsense there. Immediately it is reported, "This is happening, that is happening," is a sign of negativity. Immediately you can solve the problem, give bandhans.
The simplest way is to sit before My photograph and just say, "Mother, please this is the problem," finished!
 There's no need to take a telephone and telephone to Me at about two o'clock in the night. Just do that!
But the trouble is :
you cannot because your system has not yet reached that point.  It's such a vicious circle!
Your system must reach that point where the connection is absolutely there: you don't care for leadership, anything, but you care for your inner growth. If your inner growth is in that position it will happen automatically. This is what it is, very difficult for people to understand that we have to be sensibly placed towards ourselves.

Now about the leaders I would say this about others also, that we have to be very, very sensibly placed about ourselves. Are we sensible towards ourselves? Some old people behave like children, some children behave like old people in the sense that start telling off, answering back, misbehaving. We must know our age, our group, everything, and behave in a manner that is dignified. In a small age also if a child talks like a child, he can be very, very positive. I must tell you that I've had some very, very funny reports about some people which was so shocking that how did they arbitrarily behaved.
And it's only  one thing that is behind, it  is the sense of leadership." I" wanted to be leaders, "this" wanted to be leaders, "that" wanted to be leaders.


There's nothing like leadership in Sahaja Yoga, you don't know your Mother is too capable. She doesn't need any leaders, you don't know Her, better know Her. She's too capable, very clever and cunning woman. She's all-powerful and She knows everything about you, She knows how to handle situations. She's not going to allow Sahaja Yoga to disappear because of somebody's stupidity. Know that! Sitting down here I know about everything about everyone. I may look very simple, it's not so.
That's why I have to tell you that you:
don't consider yourself to be endowed with some sort of a special power as a leader.
Only that you have the power through your Mother,  which you have to assert. So, "Whatever I'm doing is the Mother Who is doing it." And when you do that you'll be amazed that whatever you want will be sensible, whatever you'll ask for it will be sensible - sensible means which is related to Sahaja Yoga. And whatever you do will be sensible. All your dignity, everything will pile up together, but foremost thing and the most important: at any cost you must meditate.

1986-01/14: Sankranti Puja, India    ... starting at 22mn30

- How should we introspect, 25 years after, without Mother speaking

physically to us? 

- Can we just sit  and talk to the Photograph, have reached that point? (or not?)

- Is our " inner growth in that position (that)  it will happen automatically" ? (or not?) (considering what has happened and is  happening, maybe not, neither individually, nor collectively)

- About leadership, what is the responsibility of Trustees, and of each of us,  2008-puja-Gurus  ?