The sign of life is that it goes against the matter, the one that is jara. Like the tree goes against the gravity; like the great human beings have lifted their body against the gravity in a straight posture. In the same way, if you see, the flame goes against the gravity.

Nobody has heard of fire going from the top floor to the ground floor. It starts from the ground floor and it goes upward. But the fire also comes from the matter which is burning. So the matter has to be burnt, if you want to rise. If your attention is all the time towards baser things, materialistic things, towards physical pleasures, you cannot rise. You may do any amount of meditations, use My Photographs, come to My Pujas but if your attention is imbedded it’s like you are standing on a crocodile trying to get into a boat.

Now, that doesn’t mean when a flame burns it gives up matter, but it gets detached and it burns it. So this body, this mind, this ego, this superego, is all to be burned to keep this flame burning all the time.

You don’t have to give up anything but to use the same thing for a higher life, and that is what should be the aim of every Sahaja Yogi.