Christmas Puja Date : 25th December 1995 Place : Ganpatipule Type : Puja Speech : English Language CONTENTS I Transcript English 02 - 12 Hindi - Marathi - II Translation English - Hindi 13 - 20 Marathi - ORIGINAL TRANSCRIPT ENGLISH TALK Happy Christmas to all of you! It is a great day when Christ came on this earth. And you know about how He was specially created to come down as a human being to work out the salvation of the people. It is said that He came to India, in Kashmir, and He met there the King Shalivahana. It's all in Sanskrit; I've read that the conversation took place between Christ and King Shalivahana, who was a great devotee of the Mother. And he asked Him, “What is Your name?” In Sanskrit it's all written. So He said, “I come from a country where people believe in filth, and I think this is My own country.” So Shalivahana said, “You are such a great person, who has come on this earth, so You should go back to those countries to save them and to tell them about the pure principle of life.” In Sanskrit it was written Nirmala Tattwa. And Christ went back, and after three and a half years only He was crucified. These were special days, I call them the days of tapasya. Same time Buddha and Mahavira were born, at the same level of the Virata's forehead. As you know that according to Vedas, there are seven awarenesses we can go through, or the subtle qualities we have within ourselves. The first one was the Bhu. Bhu is Ganesha was created. Second is Bhurvah, meaning antariksha, means “all that is created around us.” The third one is Swaha at Nabhi Chakra. Swaha is the one where you consume everything. Is in modern times, you see, people go on consuming everything. All kinds of books they will read; they'll go to all kinds of things, and if you tell them, “Why do you do it?” “What's wrong?” “Why do you dress up like this?” “What's wrong?” This just consumption of everything goes on. But then at that time also there is another great thing within us is called as Swadha, where we sustain the dharma within us. Swadha. Dharma of everything. See, those people who say there should be no blind faith and this and that, it's not blind, but it's an inner urge. Why we love our parents? Because there's a dharma within us. Why do we live, we live in our country? Because there's a dharma within us. All these dharmas are there. Why a wife loves her husband? Because there is dharma. Why the husband loves the wife? Because there is dharma. When this dharma is within you - we'll not call it religion because it can mean something else - this one is sustained, dharaiti. Once it is sustained within ourselves, it becomes Swadha. That's our capacity; that's our quality. We can call it a innate understanding. Some of them are even in the animals, like attachment to parents, attachment to their masters. Then comes the higher awareness where your Manah - now it's not mind. There's very confusion; there's a big confusion. Mind, you see, English language is really quite confusing. Manah means “by which we have emotions.” Now recently I read that they are now talking about, not only of IQ but EQ, means emotional coefficience. That means a person who has only intelligence is not all right, he must also have the balance of emotions. They are coming to it now. But first they only used to praise people who have IQ. That's not the situation. So now it is different, perhaps they are realizing that through intelligence how people have created chaos, violence, all kinds of destruction on this earth. So now they are talking about a higher capacity within us called as EQ, which capacity is emotional. This emotional capacity comes to you as a inner urge, as a inner capability which you cannot avoid. A person may be anything in life, but if he has no love, if he hasn't got any emotional feelings, then he is 2 Original Transcript : English not complete. Now these emotional things also could be very limited, no doubt. There could be something that get attached to somebody, or something can happen, as also the IQ, where we get attached to some idea. Like Hitler had some idea, and he believed that it was the truth, and he has to do it. So when you get attached to one idea like that, you can just do things which are not at all helpful, supportive or nourishing to reality. All these things have happened: wars, destruction, also, as you see nowadays, the people are trying to secretly destroy others. All these are coming as the anti-feeling where the Manah has developed a domination of the intelligence, where emotions are dominated by intelligence and rationality. So there is another awareness within us, another capability within us, another urge within us, innately built is the Janah. Janah means the people, the communication. You cannot live alone; you see a man who goes to jail, he's quite happy, he's quite comfortable, he doesn't have to do any work, everything is done for him if he has a good class, he lives very well, much better than he would live outside. But the only thing is, he cannot meet other people, he cannot communicate. And when this capacity of communication which is within us - I mean, which is a part and parcel of human existence - is taken away, a person in the jail feels absolutely frustrated and unhappy. He doesn't mind laboring, doing all kinds of menial work, as long as he's not in the jail, cut out of the communications with others. So this communication is also a inner urge within us. In that also people sometimes go too far and neglect other dharmas. They are more bothered about communication than about other dharmas which are very important. So there is no balance in a person. Then comes the sixth awareness within us, which is a very interesting thing. One was where we take to conditionings. Say, if I am an Indian, then I am very proud of Indians; I can never see anything wrong with them, or I may see everything wrong with them, it can be both ways. How you have been conditioned is the point, and this conditioning comes to us through our sixth center of Agnya. And the another thing that we develop when somebody tries to condition us or to control us, we try to get out of it, or sometimes we try to dominate. This dominating capacity is also within us innately built. Both things are innately built within us that we go on getting ourselves conditioned. For example I would say that in very stupid, silly manner, people get conditioned, is impossible to get them out of it. It always comes out of self-centeredness that a person has no value for understanding. Like now somebody comes to your house, he's a vegetarian, all right. Now he stays with you. So, "I'm a vegetarian, you must get new utensils to cook the food because I can't have food in the utensils where the meat is cooked.” All right. Then, “You must get your servant in a proper manner, so send him to some place where you can get the well water.” The servant must be absolutely drenched - this is typical Indian old style - and should go and draw the water from the well, and “bring me it for drinking and cooking,” while the servant dies of pneumonia, doesn't matter. All such stupid conditionings we have, but it's not only that in the East you find all these conditionings - the West is even worse. For example, they have clubbing. Now, there are clubs where people wear particular type of clothes; it's a club. Now, if they wear something else then everybody will laugh at them. Or how to use the spoon and fork is very important in the West, how they use spoon and fork. Specially English have this nonsensical conditioning. If somebody uses the fork and spoon in a wrong way then, finished! He is nowhere; he is not sophisticated. The ideas of sophistication and all that comes through conditioning of ages, because maybe they were primitive to begin with, they had no clothes, proper clothes to wear, might be they were covering themselves with some leaves or something, I mean, only hundreds of years back. So now they have jumped to the other side, very particular about their dress, very particular about fork and spoon. And they just can't bear something that is different. “I don't like that,” is very common there, “I don't like. I don't like.” 3 Original Transcript : English Now, they came to India, “We don't like.” “What you don't like?” “We don't like the way Indians dress up.” “All right, you dress up the way you like, let Indians dress up the like they like. Now why do you think that your dress in England will suit here in India, which is such a hot, hot, hot country?” But no, “This is how we are.” It's quite funny the way they have, and this conditioning goes on into such a deep manner that nobody sees the stupidity behind it.