Spy on yourself – not others

January 15, 1984

[T]he first job of Sahaja Yoga is to establish Shri Ganesha within you, to awaken Him. As soon as the Kundalini awakens, you must know that Shri Ganesha comes into being. Without His awakening within you, Kundalini cannot be raised. But it could be temporary, or it could be a permanent thing.

It could be very temporary with people who are not yet adjusted to the new method, or to the ways of God’s love. Those who have not understood, or those who have not gone through those traditions, it is rather difficult for them to establish Shri Ganesha within them.

At this point I find, there are people who fight with their problems, and try to overcome the outward problems, and establish Shri Ganesha. But there are other people who are still not there; they start doubting others’ innocence. In Sahaja Yoga is a very common failing.

I have seen people complaining about others, saying that their innocence is not established. Is the first sign that your own innocence is in danger. Because you doubt yourself, you are doubting others. If you are doubting others, then be sure that you are not going to gain anything. Your job is to look after yourself, and not others. And if you start doing like this, gradually in your Mooladhara, there will be lots of these bhoots that will just jump in. And they’ll give you more ideas and more ideas of doubting others.

By doubting others, you can never correct them, and never yourself. So those people who indulge into this kind of practices, go away from their innocence. They try to find out what others are doing, what are their ways of using other people in Sahaja Yoga, for their own purposes. Or some sort of a funny spy-like attitude, they develop. In Sahaja Yoga, you have to only spy yourself, and not others.