(1985-08-06 The Priorities Are To Be Changed, London)
Now, in this religion, you yourself are awakened into religion yourself! You become sensitive to religion yourself! The coding and everything is within yourself. You have to yourself feel it: How you feel vibrations? When you feel vibrations? How do you lose vibrations? What happens? All those things are just within yourself. Of course, after some time, we might be able to say what behavioural changes one should take. But you can find out yourself, if you want to find out – what is right and what is wrong and what is to be done to keep up the vibrations.
But vibrations are, [in] one way, extremely charitable, very charitable things. Even if you do little wrong they may not disappear that moment, but you’ll get a feeling within yourself that this wrong. After some time you’ll find, it will show, that you have no vibrations and you wouldn’t know that you have no vibrations! So the first principle of sahaj dharma is, or what you call Vishwa Nirmala Dharma, is that you should be able to keep up your vibrations going as they are, or increase them or improve on their sensitivity. The more sensitive you are the better you are. If the sensitivity is lacking then one must say that Sahaja Yoga has failed in you, so far, and you have to work it out.
But the problem of human being is very different, that is that, when they’re ascending, when they are trying to get out of the bhavasagara, there are so many human things which are with them, and those things try to bring them down again, back to the place from where they started.
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So, the first attitude to develop this dharma within us…the dharma here means the one that is going to develop in our central nervous system. Our own new dimension we have to develop within ourselves. In a deeper way it is what we call the subtler being that is within us. Is to be awakened [so] that it lies in the nerves we can say, itself, in the central nervous system. To develop that we have not worked out, why? Because our attention is still outside. We are worried about another person, we are worried about third person, we are worried about this, “He shouldn’t say this”, “he shouldn’t do.”
But the person who is really trying to improve himself will always go inward.
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But in the ashram it should be a rule! Every morning there should be some nice music to be played. In India the radio starts at about 6 o’clock, in Bombay. I don’t know if you have seen to that? And six o’clock the first thing is the one, what we call the awakening of the gods, Bhupali (raga) they start it. They start singing that. From 6 to 8 nothing but bhajans and God’s songs are there, nothing else. The whole of Bombay has to listen to that, there’s nothing else, no news. So, early in the morning when you get up, you can start with some sort of a conch or anything that you want to, or with the bells or maybe what we call the ghanta that thing we have like that. Or you can start with a bhajan so that everybody gets up. Go and have your baths. Keep the room hot. Come and sit down for your meditation.
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You have to treat your body in such a way that it becomes your slave. You have to use this body for enslavement, and not this body for your enslavement, your Spirit’s enslavement. So if you could just understand that the only way to ascend is through meditation and not through all kinds of politics talking, jabbering, mental feats – nothing of the kind!
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But the state [you] must reach, where “I just love You for nothing at all. Just love You because I enjoy it. I enjoy that love for my own enjoyment. Just for my own enjoyment I love You. Not even for the ascent or anything but I just enjoy that love within myself. For nothing at all, just for myself I love You.”
(1985-08-06 The Priorities Are To Be Changed, London)