A Sahaja Yogi: How can you keep your Self-Realization if you are not in touch with the collective?
Shri Mataji: You can not.
You have to keep some connection with the collective.
It's like, say, nowadays it's autumn you have seen. In autumn what happens?
A bark, like a cork, develops between the leaves and the tree. And such a leaf falls off, and dies.
You have to be in the collective, you can not keep your Self-Realization without collectivity. Is very important to be with the collective.
This is one point people fail, because they think they'll lose their individuality. It's a wrong idea. Actually, when the leaf dies it has no individuality. On the contrary, when it is on the tree you'll be surprised, that one leaf can not tally with another leaf in the whole world. Such an individual thing it is!
It, I would say, unity in diversity, complete unity in diversity. Because that is the variety which is the one that gives beauty to this world.
Otherwise if we are all sort of dressed of the same way, walking the same way, it will be such a boring company.
Shri Mataji: You can not.
You have to keep some connection with the collective.
It's like, say, nowadays it's autumn you have seen. In autumn what happens?
A bark, like a cork, develops between the leaves and the tree. And such a leaf falls off, and dies.
You have to be in the collective, you can not keep your Self-Realization without collectivity. Is very important to be with the collective.
This is one point people fail, because they think they'll lose their individuality. It's a wrong idea. Actually, when the leaf dies it has no individuality. On the contrary, when it is on the tree you'll be surprised, that one leaf can not tally with another leaf in the whole world. Such an individual thing it is!
Marriages, /Chhindwara, 2011. The circles are produced by the dust particles on the lens. |
Otherwise if we are all sort of dressed of the same way, walking the same way, it will be such a boring company.