While worshipping Shri Ganesha you have to know
that such a powerful thing
you have to establish within yourself
and by that establishment
you have to manifest the powers of Shri Ganesha
and the power of Shri Ganesha's
greatness is auspiciousness.
It's a coefficience;
it's a formula, we can say in scientific language,
that emits auspiciousness.
It's a magnet in the Mother Earth.
The same magnet is within you,
which is Shri Ganesha.
You leave Me alone and I can tell you
which is the north, south, east, west.
Close My eyes, still I'll tell you.
You know there are so many birds who fly out
all the way to Australia, to Siberia
because they have that magnet with them,
they have that innocence with them.
There are so many fishes,
which have got actual magnet placed in them.
Scientists should find out.
In the same way Shri Ganesha within us is magnetic.
So a person who has Shri Ganesha awakened within himself
becomes magnetic
and magnet attracts the steel
-- not dried leaves, does not -- steel.
And steel is like the Guru Tattwa.
Is a man with the steel, say.
"Man of steel" -- a person who has character, conviction
and who cannot be dominated by temptations,
is a man of steel.
So this magnet attracts the steel.
Steel has only one badness, bad thing about it that it is
not pliable, it's rather dry
but the magnet attracts, means
it creates that special quality in the steel
that it moves towards the magnet.
In the same way when this magnet is awakened within you,
you'll be amazed.
Instead of people running away from your ashrams
they'll be running towards you.
I find it impossible. I go to any house,
if they come to know I am there, God save Me
-- anywhere, any place.
So what is this magnet?
Is pure love.
Is pure love
and the concept of pure love is that it doesn't depend
on anything whatsoever but on itself.
It is the support of itself.
It's like light that spreads just by its own nature,
doesn't want anything,
doesn't expect anything.
Just spreads all over and enlightens other people's hearts.
That's why they get attracted.
Those who have not even seen Me,
those who have not even known Me,
just with My name, I've seen,
places like Calcutta, we had such a problem, such crowds
that they said, "We have to call the police".
I said, "There's no need to call the police but
we'll manage somehow."
In Poona we had such crowds
that the fellow who gave us the hall got a fright.
He said, "Mother, I'll give You very big area
where You can sit down in a big open place
but I am sorry, my hall all will be finished."
I said, "You don't worry,
everything will be in proper place."
We had such crowds that people were sitting on the ground,
on the staircase, everywhere and till I spoke
nobody moved an inch, you see like a picture.
And I spoke for one and a half hour.
Just like a picture.
No movement of hand, feet, eyes -- nothing.
Just sitting like a picture.
And the gentleman who owned that hall
had never seen such a thing before.
Throughout for one and half hour,
no movement of any kind.
What is it, that working, is the magnet.
Even if you are the steel, it will attract
but if you are a magnet then it will attract
in such a way that it will never leave this magnet.
So, for yoga it is important that you fix up your magnets
of Shri Ganesha who is the child-like personality.
A child, there's one child,
everybody is attracted towards the child.
One child gets stuck-up somewhere in the air,
whether you are a Russian, American or an Arab,
everybody would be worried about the child.
What's happening to the child?
They will not think: it's an Arab child or an American child, no.
Unless and until it's a devil.
Why this attraction for children?
Because their magnets are intact.
Their ego has not yet developed.
Our ego developed, had to develop
because we had to decide in our own freedom,
what is right and what is wrong.
So the ego developed was all right.
Up to a point we should have developed our ego.
But we overdeveloped it and overdeveloped it,
overlapped the superego also.
No conditioning, nothing.
We'll do whatever we like.
Today we are wearing a half-pant,
tomorrow we will wear a long pant, all right.
Then we'll cut our hair or we'll do this, we'll do that.
No conditioning of any kind.
All superego was also covered -- ego.
This ego would have been all right
if you had kept your Ganesha tattwa.
And what is that is the wisdom power of Ganesha.
The second power of Ganesha is that He gives you wisdom.
If you see a farmer and a big professor
or a very well educated man
and talk to both of them. You'll find the farmer
has much more wisdom than this, MAD PhD.
Why? Because he deals with Mother Earth everyday.
He knows the living process.
He knows about the innocence of the Mother Earth.
So an innocent person is the wisest among ...
A child who is innocent is much wiser than
ten ego-oriented people.
So the second capacity of Shri Ganesha
is that you become a wise person.
When you speak, people start looking at you.
You speak like Kabira, you speak like Nanaka.
You speak like something that makes people feel their spirit.
This is what I call is a Sahaja yogi.
A Sahaja yogi who does not have wisdom
is good for nothing.
He comes to Sahaja Yoga
and he is like a bull in a china shop,
goes on hitting this person, hitting that person
and hitting that person.
And when you ask these three wounded persons,
they say, "That bull, the same bull".
Everybody reports about the same bull.
"Oh, that's the one, all right."
So it grants you wisdom.
When you have the power of Shri Ganesha,
your eyes are radiant.
You get a spark in your eye, a light in your eye,
when He is enlightening you;
then you cannot look at anyone with lust and greed.
But this glance is so powerful
that even one glance is sufficient
to purify thousands of people.
Just the opening of the eyes are necessary
and you find whole thing changes
into a beautiful morning
from a complete dark night.
Glance can awaken the Kundalini.
The Mother Kundalini cannot move,
unless and until Shri Ganesha gives the permission.
He is like the Vice-Chancellor sitting on all the chakras.
He has to certify, "All right. Pass. Go," on every chakra.
And when the Kundalini rises,
Shri Ganesha is awakened, otherwise Kundalini cannot rise.
But then when He sleeps down,
Kundalini sucks, is sucked by Him.
Now we think we have lost our innocence.
That's not easy to be lost. It is not destructible.
Only thing what you have done is to cover it
with something that cannot allow
Shri Ganesha's principle to manifest in us.
You have pushed it down. You have brought pressure on it.
You have brought loads and loads of nonsense on it.
That's all, but it never dies.
It is an eternal principle of the whole universe.
The another quality of a person who is endowed
with Shri Ganesha's powers is that
He removes all the hurdles.
If one person of this nature is in some place,
all the rest of the people who are nearby
will be saved if there's an accident or if there's any problem,
which is destructive, all of them will be saved.
You will find this happening.
He being the Ganapati, He is now the Master of all the Ganas.
He guides you.
Sahaja yoga cannot workout without Shri Ganesha.
He is the one who is Sahaja.
He is the one who creates all spontaneity of the world.
He is the one who takes you to the right path.
He is the one who gives you everything easily.
He is the one who creates all the chamatkars,
all the magic, all the miracles of the world.
He is the Ganapati. He is the one who is sitting on Ganas,
in the sense that He is like the king of all the Ganas.
The one who has pleased Shri Ganesha
has pleased all the Gods and Goddesses
because all the Gods and Goddesses
are pleasing Shri Ganesha, so what is the need?
And Shri Ganesha is very clever.
He knows,
please His Mother is the only simple thing He has to do.
To have all the powers of the world,
just keep the Mother pleased.
There are so many qualities of Shri Ganesha,
which can be described.
He is the one who gives us the joy of eating.
If you eat some food, you may like it, you may not like it
but He is the one who will tell you
this is made by Sahaja yogis, made by your Mother.
That means He gives you the taste of love
in the food that is cooked for you.
Because He is love.
He gives you the ideas how to express your love.