BUDDHA in modern times: «this COLLECTIVE LIFE will definitely give you what Buddha got through His individual efforts.»

In Lumbini

In Sahaja Yoga, we have now understood that all other desires are not pure desires. Firstly, whatever desires are fulfilled, we are not satisfied by it, first thing. And secondly, all these desires have a repercussion. So what is the pure desire? That, you all know, is the kundalini. Kundalini is the power of pure desire, which fulfils your pure desire to be the spirit, to be Buddha, to be enlightened.
Buddha means a person who is enlightened.
So Gautama become... became Buddha, as you people now have become Sahaja yogis. But because He went through all these various penances, whatever He learned became part and parcel of Him, but in Sahaja Yoga it is all sahaj.
So we always conclude everything that "This is, after all, sahaj." And when we try to work out anything, we always say: 

"Oh, it will work out spontaneously. It's all right, Mother will do for us everything."

This is a common failing in Sahaja Yoga. 
So whether to put you all through that long process or to give you realization was a question before me. Because, in these days of confusion there cannot be much time to put you through all which Buddha had gone, and He was one individual, I had to put all of you. That would have been very difficult. I don't know how many would have sustained it. Most of them would have dropped out half way, or maybe quarter of the way. 

So it was done in a sahaj manner. You did not have to sit in a banyan tree. Ultimately you got your realization. Your kundalini was awakened and you got your enlightenment.
But that enlightenment which settled in Buddha, is not settled in us because our chakras were not cleansed as He had cleansed His chakras. We had the same body, the same mind and the same attitude when we got realization!
As we were looking at the house of God, still we are looking at the house of God, but you have entered inside the house and you have to look out from the windows. This you forget. And though we are sitting now on a hilltop out of all the congestion and all the traffic, still you see a car, you get frightened. You don't know you are sitting on top of a hill where your Mother has put you nicely. And that is how you try to behave. When I get reports about Sahaja yogis, I am quite amazed that they do not know that they are realized souls now.
That's why Buddha talked of desirelessness. 

It's not possible before realization, even after realization I find it's difficult. Some sort of a subtle desire exists and where you have to work it out, you do not work it out, saying that "Our ego will be catching." So wherever it suits us we work that way, wherever it suits we work this way.
The solution of the whole thing is one which I have found out Myself, was this: that it's a collective happening. A person who is an individual can never get over his ego. Individualistic person cannot get over his ego. The one who lives individually, wants to enjoy everything individually, can never get over his ego because you have not gone through all that penances. Or else, if you are an individual then you better go through all these penances and then come back. 

So the solution is to wash all our chakras, cleanse our life in the collective, and this is what was the solution of the problem of ego. Formerly, everybody worked out individually. Like they had to go to Himalayas, take some guru, then the guru would throw him out. Then he would go to another guru, then work there, then he'll throw it out. Then next life he'll be born again; again he'll be thrown out. Ultimately, if one guru accepts, all right, very well. He's beaten up, he's tortured, he's treated every way, hanged upside-down. And then ultimately, if any guru gets nearer to any one individual, he would give him realization. This was the situation. 

But in Sahaja Yoga, the door is open - anybody can come in, anybody: Get your realization!
Because I have faith in collectivity, this collective life will definitely give you what Buddha got through His individual efforts. 

But there also we fail 
that we do not 

know how to be

collective. 

Individualism is all the time around us. In every way we think of individuals. Wherever collectivity has worked, Sahaja Yoga has prospered; and wherever it has not worked, there has been a problem. So it is very important that we should look at ourselves, and see for ourselves and see how much collective we are.
Do you enjoy collectivity, or not? Are you aiming at collectivity, or not? 
As soon as I thought of this Cabella - place you have seen, and I thought I'll make a little ashram there, near the river, for you. Immediately people said: "Mother is it all right if we buy our own houses here?" Immediately. Then what is the purpose? And then they will call Me, "Mother please come to my house for dinner. Please come to my little house for some tea." I'm not interested.

So in Sahaja Yoga, unless and until you really become collective in every sense, you cannot ascend and you cannot wash yourself, you cannot cleanse yourself.
This point He did not say, but in a way He did say because He has said,…/… "Sangham sharanam gacchami." Sangha means collectivity, I surrender myself to the collectivity.
1991-08/04: You must become desireless, Shri Buddha Puja, Deinze, Belgium