Why freedom?
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In this country we had a struggle of freedom. I was part and parcel of that, my parents were part and parcel of that. They were rich people, quite rich I should say, from every standard. You will be amazed, my father burnt all his suits - they were stitched in England- my mother burnt all her saris. They used to spin their own clothes and wear them. My father sacrificed everything, every pai [= cent] that he had, for the freedom struggle.
1985-0206: A New Era - Sacrifice- Freedom- Ascent, India tour, Bordi
But the worst was when the freedom became the criteria of life, people became extremely dominating and egoistical. The first answer always you will get it, "What's wrong?"
You ask them: "Why are you doing this?"
"-What's wrong?"
"-I mean, it's wrong because it is not auspicious."
"-What's auspiciousness?" is there - absolutely, like you can call them people without any brains, brainless people. "Brainless" means there is no wisdom. What is the power of brain: it's wisdom. So life started drifting into a destructive born, we should say, of no return. And every kind of filth was accepted as a blessing, and nobody would think that this is wrong, this is not for human life. Even the animals are all not like that.
Added to that came the stupidity of drinking alcohol.
…/… Another thing they created, were prostitutes. One may ask why prostitutes came out of that manthana [ Sanskrit: stirring round, churning] - because now you have freedom. You are given freedom to choose, and so you must have full vision whether to choose an auspicious life, a holy life, a divine life, or to choose destructive life.
This opposition came forward because your freedom had to be respected, that was very important. In the growth of human awareness, it was very important to respect the freedom of human beings. Because animals, if you see, they have no freedom: a snake will be a snake, scorpion will be a scorpion, lion will be a lion. They live with their own qualities, gunas; you cannot make them do something that other animals are doing. We have passed through all these different animal yonis [Sanskrit: matrix ] and now we are human beings, and now we have freedom.
Now "why freedom?", one may ask - because these days they ask such questions for everything you say - why freedom was needed? Like I always told you before, that in the school they teach you "two plus two is four", and you have to remember it. But when you grow and when you go to college, you are supposed to have freedom to understand everything yourself. In the same manner, your awareness was to be brought to that level that you could use your freedom wisely.
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So this freedom, without any wisdom at all, is growing, starts creating a terrible ego. When auspiciousness is given up, then Shri Ganesha sleeps and, as Christ, who is the incarnation of Shri Ganesha, He also doesn't bother. So the rule of Christ is finished.
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So what rules is the ego, this ego which thinks it is free. It doesn't know it is bound by all kinds of enemies of very horrible types. At the time of Shri Krishna, He said that the worst enemy human beings have is anger, but I think in modern times the worst enemy human beings have is greed and jealousy. Greed has no meaning these days. I mean, what do you say to a person who has three thousand shoes - I mean, pairs of shoes? Must be mad!
So this is the curse of money on human beings, which is to be understood, that freedom without wisdom is the most dangerous thing to use. It is better not to be free if you have no wisdom, because God knows what you will do if you have freedom and no wisdom.
1997-0608: Freedom Without Wisdom is Dangerous,
Shri Krishna Puja, New Jersey, USA
the politics of a Sahaji
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So a sahaja yogi is not a person who is just a sort of lives without any connection with the society, with the politics, with all that is happening. He has to be seeing all those things that are happening. He must read newspaper if not in the morning, in the evening time.
Means: he must know what is happening. He must put his attention to all these things. Only putting attention to things, it works out. I have done that all the time. Even Hitler lost his success because of that attention. So one has to know that you have that attention that can work, that can really create what you want. But you must keep your attention alert, not only limited to yourself. Not only up to say, India tour or we can say up to bhajans. But must go beyond and put your attention everywhere, what's happening.
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Supposing you go to any other country: try to find out what is happening in this country, in that country what is happening. Because now you are international people and you have to bother about everything that's happening in this world because we have to change everything, we have to transform everything. It's a hazardous task. But I have done the biggest job is to create the roots for you that you have been, you have become now the sprouted people, or we can say the elevated people, the special selected people. And now you cannot live like other ordinary stupid people. You have to be alert. You have to understand your responsibility. And every Sahaja Yogi in this tour has to take a vow (click!) that
"I have to be responsible for Sahaja Yoga."
1988-1220: Puja Talk, Brahmapuri, India
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