Tending to the Self

June 14, 1982

Supposing a seed evolves into a better fruit — it doesn’t have to do anything about it, somebody else has to do. If you sprout a seed then you have to look after it throughout. Sprout the seed then take the seedlings, put them right somewhere then let them grow into a tree, then you have to prune the tree. Whatever you have to do, you have to do all the time, you have to look after the tree. But after this evolution, this jumping, this happening, when you become the Self, you have to do something about it: you have to. Because you become the master of your being. It is you who has to work it out.

In Sahaja Yoga there are many people who get Realisation: it’s very easy. The confusion is so great that people want to come out of it, [so] they get it. But again they are drawn back into it because that time which is so important, the intermediary time, where you have to stick on to that area, to that new dimension of collective consciousness, your willpower doesn’t act, and that is the time you require this will power. Already you are exhausted. So many are exhausted because of seeking, because of worrying, because of thinking, wrong seeking, gurus, this that. All kinds of exhaustions are there: family life, married life. Every sort of problem that you have faced, you have already exhausted your willpower. And when even you get Realised, you have the cup, but you have no strength to lift, within yourself, to raise it to your mouth and to enjoy the nectar of your Realisation. More so in places that are supposed to be developed. In developing that part of your systems you have exhausted yourself much more. I mean it was all right up to a point, but when human beings know something, they’ll go to the extreme end of everything.

Now, if you know electricity, then everything must work on electricity, your lift will work on electricity, this will work on electricity, now computers have come, all right. Now they will make human beings into electrical electrodes! I don’t know what they’re going to make out of that. I mean, going to that extent.