Practice more than precept

March 13, 1983

So the first is that Sahaja Yoga is not just a precept, is not just a precept: it is practice. It is not just a mental idea. Now you got realisation, all right, but it is not sufficient. Even if you think that you got realisation so now you are all right, you become the Spirit, all right; but still, it is more a mental conception than a real identification.

So it is not that if you get your realisation, and you start the awakening of your Kundalini, starts very well. Still it is to be understood that it is the practice of Sahaja Yoga which is more important than the precept of it.

There are many people in India who can’t read or write, who don’t have all these mental activities as you have and are not so complicated as you are [Shri Mataji is laughing]; some of them are aboriginal people, just living in the villages, very simple people. They get realisation, they feel the joy much faster than the complicated ones will and they just start working on it.

You have to work it out. This is not the compassion that speaks, talks, elaborates and advertises, but it works. Sahaja Yoga is a thing that works, the religion that works. And this is what we must understand first of all, that it is not the talking, it is not the precept that you are a great soul: you have to become.

Not that you are not- you are. But you have to be aware of it. More light has to flow into you.

Definitely you must be something special to get it, no doubt. But you must allow your lamp to be cleared out, cleansed, so that more light is given. And it works wonders for people who honestly want to ascend in spirituality.

As I told you before also that it is a concept that many people have that Sahaja Yoga cures people. It is not true. It is just as a by-product it may cure you; just as a by-product.

So one must understand the blessing has come to you only because you are a seeker, you have done lots of good in your past life and this life also and that God has chosen you to be in His Kingdom.

But it cannot be demanding, you cannot demand, you cannot demand anything from God, He has to give you, because He knows what you deserve. And He gives you much much much more than what you deserve.