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today we are celebrating here a special daycalled makar sankrant.for the information of the foreign sahaja yogis, i will explainto you what it means. [shri mataji explains that she will speakfirst in english then in marathi]. it means the day, today is the day the suncrosses over from the tropic of capricorn to the tropic of cancer. it is a very big day for us because, now duringthe summer time we have the harvest, and we look forward to the rain and so many thingsthat happen in every country. the sun falls at right angles in this countryduring the summer season and so we welcome the sun.

we eat something - that you must have eatenalready - what we call as til and jaggery. it is to prepare your body and your mind togive it sufficiency to receive the sun. because if you are living in the cool season,then all your body, mind becomes lethargic and you become also sometimes very lazy aboutthings in the sense, that the day is so small, that you cannot achieve many results. so the body has become cold as we call it. we take these things, which give us heat sobody is prepared to receive the heat of the sun to welcome. to overcome the inertia setting by the coldweather and also to invigorate the body’s

strength, tuned to the sun, people take toall these ways of greeting you by which they give you something that is heat creating inthe body. but it has another very subtle expression,which i find is this, that when they give you these, they say now, you take now tiland gul, and you say things, which are sweet. because when you are taking til and gul, yourbody gets heated up and you become right sided person, and when you become right-sided person,you seldom speaks sweetly. so, it is a contrast that they give you athing to heat you up so that your body gets heated up, but you must be sweetly. so there is a warning, that you are eatingall these things, but that doesn’t mean

now you ride on a big horse of ego and startsplashing every one. it’s a very subtle thing to understand thatwhen we become temperamentally right sided, we are so much covered by our ego that wedo not feel that we are hurting others by what we say. if there are two egoistical people, they canmanage among themselves. but if there is one egoistical and anotherone who is subdued, then the subdued will be finished. that’s why they say, today is the day whenwe start speaking very sweetly. even if there is some enemy or somebody whois not friendly with you or there has been

some misunderstanding, this is the day wesay that : "all right take this and say something very sweet." talk sweetly to each other. but today only i think i received a letterfrom a sahaja yogini, which was so full of harshness that i was surprised that i shouldreceive it today - not to me, but some other sahaja yogi. so one thing today we have to decide and takea vow, that to another sahaja yogi we are not going to say harshly. and talk to him in a way as if he is an ordinaryperson.

now supposing he is a leader, then there ismore reason that he receives respect. and if he is a senior leader, then there ismore reason that you must respect. the first thing one has to learn that we haveto respect. now the sun is so much respected in this country,that in early morning time all the people get up and say namaskars to surya with allhis names and do a particular type of exercise to show that they are completely surrenderedto the will of the surya. when you do that then the ego doesn’t comein. now the sun, when he shines here, it givesyou a feeling that you have to be active you have to work very hard.

as a result of that you might develop ego. but when you develop ego then its surroundsyour brain completely and when the brain is surrounded with ego you do not know whichway to go. you do not know what is right what is wrong. you do not have any discretion and no direction. you do what you please, whatever pleases ego. and this is the day when we celebrate it,in a way to surrender ourselves to the surya, to the sun which is, as you know, is the residenceof shri lord jesus christ. he resides on the sun.

so how humble he was, how humble he was residingon the sun. the more you live on the sun, there shouldbe much more humility. of course i must say in india, people arehumbler. but still, the quality of sun can make youextremely arrogant and very unpleasant person. this unpleasant person can really ruin allkinds of good relations. but the worst thing that happens to us, isthat we lose our integration. because when we say harsh things to anyonewe feel guilty, so we have another problem, our heart feels bad, our liver feels bad everythingis upset and thus you feel absolutely disintegrated. and this disintegrated is the sign of ournot evolving at all, or we should say devolving.

this integration is such a common thing thatwe see, in ourselves, we see that we fight with our ego, then we fight with our superego, then we fight with our heart with our emotions and all the time we are fightingwithin ourselves. so at least, within ourselves we should speaksweetly on this day. then we can start speaking to others very,very sweet. now some people think, to speak sweetly isa sign of weakness. in some countries people believe that if youspeak to someone sweetly, it is a sign of weakness. it is the greatest strike [?] of sahaja yogito speak to others with respect with proper

protocol and with proper understanding. now because of arrogance, people also forgetwhat is their situation is, and this indiscreet temperament gives you no sense of direction. you move in every direction and you don’tknow where you are going. as long as your ego is satisfied you go aheadwith it and by the time you discover that you have really become a humpty-dumpty, youdo not know what you have done to yourself. so the best way to conquer your ego is tospeak sweetly first. it is such a small thing to be done but itbrings you to that synthesis of character within yourselves first of all and to thesynthesis of all the beautiful principles

of lives. like you talk to somebody sweetly, the personmay like you. he may tell you something, which he may beknowing of a very great importance for you. if you talk to somebody sweetly then you mayget the peace of mind because you have given peace to another person. whatever you give to another person, thatyou feel within yourselves. but if you are quarreling with another person,actually it is the reflection of your quarreling nature within yourself. today there is a big dirt and big cry andbig organizations working out the peace missions.

the peace mission is within yourself! let us start all of us the sahaja yogis whoare great saints sitting here decide today that we are going to make peace with ourselvesand with others. but first and foremost thing the peace cannotbe made with quarrels. you see like america and russia want to decideit, with missiles - the peace part. they say : “let’s fight as many as willremain, they can live in peace. let all those who are fighting, kill eachother! [shri mataji laughs] they think this is thesolution of the problem. it is the other way around.

let everybody live peacefully within themselvesand give peace to others, so that this peace will become a nucleus for the peace of theworld. so your great task today is to establish agreat source of peaceful people. we have so many sahaja yogis here. you’re sitting in complete peace and happinessand joy, you don’t know you are emitting all that peace, channelizing it and doingit. but still, there are some who are sufferingfrom horrible ego, and with hurt ego, and they are trying to do something, which theyshould never do, is to think just now. [shri mataji smiles] if you are thinking justnow, you will not register what i am saying.

because this is another quality of a personwho is ego oriented, is not to register. you may say anything you like, but they don’thear. they hear what they want to hear or they don’thear. so this is another thing we have to, today,decide, that we’ll register things than to tell out. let us register. this is a sign of a character that wants toknow, wants to know more about. the criteria of ascent is synthesis and integration. a person who is not integrated with othersahaja yogis is not a man who has ascended.

who tries to divide and talk of divisions: “we, the english, we, the germans, we, the indians”. then they are not sahaja yogis, they are indiansall right, but not sahaja yogis. sahaja yogis have no caste, creed or nationality. we have to carry our passport only becausewe are born in this jail. so we have to carry our criminal number. [sahaja yogis laugh] but actually you don’tneed it. you don’t need all those things. now for us today to decide first of all inyour heart that we will take to peaceful methods,

when we are troubling, we will be taking topeaceful methods. anybody who is trying to provoke you or tryingto create a problem or divide you on any issue whatsoever, run away from that person as fastas possible. anybody who talks of peace, the peace makers,stick on to that person then only you will understand that you are also getting peace. you, here, you have come to get peace, notto create problems or to listen to your problems, but to get to peace. peace is a nature or is the quality of yourspirit. so, once you jump onto your peace, somehow,what happens that you go beyond the cause

and the effect. you are beyond the cause and the effect. so the cause disappears and the effect alsodisappears. so today we all have come here to worshipthe peace, the within and the without. let us be peaceful within. let us not join groups who hate, who talkhate. who wants to hate one person who wants tocreate a group. who says “we, the americans” or “we,the this”, just. in sahaja yoga you must learn from peoplewho have advanced who have very much progressed.

for example i would say among all the europeans,australians have done very well. there is nothing to feel jealous. all right if australians have done well, allright, that’s your glory. so ask them how they have done, how they haveworked it out. tomorrow, may be that americans - i wish thatvery much- may do the best. so then you should ask them, how have youdone so well? that’s the way we re going to live. we are not going to compete, we are not goingto be jealous, but we are going to absorb all that is best.

this is sahaja yoga. like, if they discover something like apilotless bomb, â then they will discover something as, which is a machineless bomb. no. it is another oneâ : we develop a mind, whichabsorbs everything, and then we develop a bigger mind, which gives everything. there is no secret in sahaja yoga. everybody who has known something better,have had some good experiences of sahaja yoga, should tell.

but then in ego i have seen people start preachingthat all right this method you try, that method you try. there is no need to do that also, becauseof lack of discretion. if you had discretion, you would have knownthat this is not to be done. what is not to be done in sahaja yoga is notto be doneâ ! but how will you know when you don’t have the discretion, like a lost ship? so then you have to see how your mother would act at such a position. and then i am sure you will go beyond thecause and the effect.

so today is the day i should also not sayanything that is in anyway hurting to anyone and i am trying to make you smile and laughbut you are so serious [big laughts] . so today we decide on peace. peace with ourselves, peace with others andthat is how we worship the sun, christ the one who was the emblem, who was the absolutepractical symbol of that peace. and once you understand this, i am sure youwill try to follow that instead of hitting everybody, getting angry with everybody. just forget all these things. you have come here to ascend and your gainis your gain.

your fighting is not your gain, remember that. your quarrelling is not your gain. the gain is the peace that you have achieved,the love that you have developed, the compassion that you can emit, the amount of relationshipand the rapport you can penetrate into others. this is your gain which we have to receivetoday, a mind, a heart like a lion and not chicken hearted people. not people who would be angry and this, toboast of your anger. these days are gone, we boast of our peace,we boast of our contentment, we boast of our glory and we boast of our state. and that is the state where we are now in the kingdom of god.

may god bless you!