You must be wondering why we are having this strange happening – abishekam for the Mother. There are times in your life when you realise how selfish man is and I think that a realisation dawned upon me in the recent past weeks: that selfishness is the greatest aspect of our being. Many of these abishekams have been done by different people and we become so accustomed to them doing the abishekam that we don't realise it is even being done and that the Mother is being dressed. And when those individuals decide they don't want to do the abishekam any more, we get into a fix. It's pournami on Sunday and abishekam has to be done, so we decided that in future on the Friday before pournami all of you will do the abishekam and then we're not relying on any one person to come. If you don't come it's your loss.
We accustom our lives to such an extent that materialism is a chief aspect, and spirit, God and religion are just options. And we live as if God is an option. Everything else around you is an option except the truth, and the truth is God. You don't have to go to Edgars. That's an option. You can go or not. But you don't have to pray or do a ritual – that is not an option at all. That should be the main aspect of your being. And if you truly, madly and sincerely strive, you will attain that ultimate state of Being. But you don't have the state of Being, you have the state of physical being. As much as we worry about the physical body, it is something that is absolutely useless. Let's take an animal like a cow. You kill a cow and every part is used, including the dung. Nothing goes to waste. That is why the cow is revered to such an extent. None of your physical bodies are worth anything when you die. Even the worms in your body will leave it at the time of death. Know that to be the truth. But if you know God you don't need to worry about the body because that supreme bliss, that eternal state of joy is what you will experience day in and day out. Nothing will matter to you.
The East has given to us everything. Max Muller was asked some time ago: 'If you needed wisdom, if you needed evolution, if you needed to know the self, where would you look?' And he answered, 'I would look to India'. And what do we do? We don't care about the possibility we have. We have great possibility because we can evolve. Evolution is part of being. but we don't want to evolve. We don't respect our parents or our mother, and I think last week I spoke about how important our mother is in our lives. But I don't think it went into many of your heads. Many of you think, 'This guru is good at talking. He opens his mouth and some words come out, and he thinks he's done a good job'. We are turning far away from God, spirituality, Self and being.
As of now abishekam will be done by all of you like this, and dressing will be done afterwards. I'm not going to go on my knees any more and ask you to do abishekam. I did it for too long. The beauty, the energy, and the positive attitude that you will attain by doing abishekam for the Mother is something you will not get anywhere else. So you need to sincerely do the abishekam. I want all of you to experience the beatitude, peace, love and joy of doing abishekam. It makes you a different person.
Hari Om.
