A day should come when you all will raise your heads with great pride and glory because your ideals will shine like ornaments. I want to see those days when all those who claim to be Sahaja Yogis become that. That’s the most important thing, all other things are useless. Getting an ashram, getting this, doing this, doing that – forget it. What you have to manage is this child which has to grow, who is still naughty sometimes, tries to misbehave. Now put it right. You give it a name. You call yourself a Sahaja Yogi and that child as Mr. X, Mr. Y whatever your name has been and always try to tell: “Now will you behave yourself.” Get up in the morning, have your bath, sit down for meditation. “I feel lazy,” the child says, “I can’t.” Then you accept the child, then the child will become the mother and you will be losing your powers – excuses. The child knows, very intelligent, it’s a very clever child, extremely intelligent, knows how to deceive you. But the child also knows innately what it needs. If it comes to know that the mother in you has developed that personality, then it accepts mother’s personality. But if the child knows the mother herself is weak then he starts taking advantage of the mother.
So you have to not fight yourself but to tame and this is very easy. You’ll start enjoying it, looking at yourself: “Oh Mr. so and so.” Then you won’t be angry. “I know how to handle you, you’re hiding behind there, all right, giving excuses.” And the child grows big, so big that mother sees that and is amazed.