Prepare Yourself for Puja
(Shri Ganesha Puja During 3 Day Seminar for new People, Seminar Day 2, Santa Cruz, California (USA). 2 October 1983)
... Just before that you have to prepare yourself physically and mentally. Physically you must give yourself a bandhan and a bandhan is nothing but, you give yourself a protection to your aura. How you do it is very simple which I will tell you just now how to do it and then you sit down for your puja. Then mentally you have to put yourself right. First of all, you should not feel guilty at all. If you are guilty you cannot do my puja. You should be absolutely above that. There should be no tension in your mind. You are not guilty, you are in the present.
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You should not feel guilty or tense. Everything that is done is the best. You shouldn’t worry about it. It’s not your responsibility even to arrange it. Just think that everything is done sahaj.
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If something is not arranged just forget it, just leave it, just don’t worry. That’s the best way you have to live. Then what happens is that you become one with the present and you can overcome all your problems of tension. Tension mounts up when we want to do that which you are not supposed to do, with which we are not successful. There is also a mental barrier between ourselves and our mind that we want to do a particular thing in a particular way. If you can give up that, then you will be surprised that you become absolutely one with the Divine and you start working it out in a very beautiful manner.
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This is how a Sahaja Yogi should behave. Not to take responsibility and put others into tension: “This must be done.” “This is not here.” “That is not there.” It’s not necessary. It’s your love that is important.
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Whatever is done out of love is a thousand-fold better than that is done out of tension and problem. I should never like to cause any tension in your mind of any kind.
For small, small things you should not worry. You must give up your tensions absolutely and understand that you are the children of God. You are to be looked after. You are to given everything that is available in His realm. You should not get into tension at all. Firstly, not to feel guilty, thirdly to feel that we had to go to this guru, that guru? All right, forget it. Whatever has happened has happened. Forget it. Don’t worry on that point also because that will tie you down all the time saying, “Why did you go to that guru? Why did you pay money to this fellow?” Why did you do this? Just tell your mind, “I am not bothered. Whatever has happened, has happened that person is finished.