Hari om.You know, we make spirituality and God secondary in our lives. And during Navaratri and now, at this pournami, it clearly indicates that we pray when we feel like praying. We go to service, to temple, when it suits us. The time has come now for all of us to hold onto God dearly. I think I say this every time. We need to understand one thing: that this life of ours is not about just enjoying the material aspects. It is about enjoying the material and experiencing the spiritual. The only way you can experience the spiritual aspect is when you go to places where bhajana, or service, is rendered, where the vibration takes you into states of ecstasy; that place is called a temple or an ashram. Nowhere else can you have that kind of ecstasy, yet we're so engrossed and caught up in the material aspect that we forget to render some service to God. My guru always said to me, “Always get up from your little dreaming and realise who you are”. And live that realisation for the rest of your life. Because this journey that you are on now, this material journey, is only a maya, a dreaming, nothing more than that. Tomorrow morning you might not wake up. That's how this journey is. It's only a maya, a great illusion in front of you, and yet you enjoy this illusion to such an extent that you forget that you, the self, exist. You've forgotten that.
Spirituality is a state of ultimate sense. What that means is that when all the nonsense is out of you, then you are spiritual. As long as you have the nonsense material aspects within, you're not spiritual at all. Do not become God-fearing: “I have to go to pournami because I put my name on the board”. You don't have to go. It must be something that happens from within you. An automatic urge, a divine urge, a spiritual urge, a condition within you that allows you this space, time and moment. And only at that time can you make the connection with God, and that process is called yoga. To unite with God. If you don't make the union with God in this life, you're going to come back here to this miserable material plane, and live through this life again – you might enjoy three days of happiness but four days of pain. Those three days of happiness that you enjoy cannot overcome the pain. In your karma you've done so much good in your last life that you've been given a chance to be human in this life - not a dog or a rat, but a human being who can think, understand, and logically work through things. A rat and a dog can't do that. There's no logic in them. They only have instinct, but you behave like you have more instinct than the dog and the rat!
We need to wake up, experience God, and find those moments of stillness within us. And when you find that moment of stillness, enjoy it. It doesn't happen to you all the time. How often you drive from point A to point B and don't remember driving? You don't remember anything on the road, or on the side of the road? How many times have you done that and you don't remember anything en route? Many times. What is that moment called? That is the moment of experience. In that moment you can experience every kind of ecstasy. If you can concentrate that much on your driving, you can take the same thing and concentrate on God. God is not just unique He's a Super-Engineer. He engineered your being here, the way you look. The Bible says you were created in His image. If you're created in His image, why can't you act like Him? Why do you act any other way? Why can't you act like God? Because within us we have this thing called atma, and from where does that come? From paramatma, which means that we are a unit of that big Super-Unit called God. And if we are a unit of that Super-Unit then we must have some qualities of God. One of the highest qualities of God is Anbu Shivam Shivam Anbu, 'God is love, and love is God'. My guru, Swami Murugesu, lived in that anbu, and the only reason he did is because he lived through the troubles and obstacles of normal life. God, in His wisdom sent such a man to us and yet we cannot follow any of his teachings.
We, the Gayathri children, have the unique opportunity of experiencing God in guru, without even thinking about it. Just sitting here you can experience God in guru, but you're not interested. You have too many other things to do. We give you a calendar for twelve months - and the dates are right - and you will not come to a prayer or pournami because somebody gave you an invite two days before the pournami. Think about that logic. We tell you twelve months in advance. And if you can't make the time to be here, you're the biggest loser. Some people will come on a Friday and if pournami is on the Saturday, they won't come because they've done their quota for the week or month. We need to get a wake-up call. Right now! You'll know about this in a few weeks time and why I said this. But we need to wake up now.
There's no other time better than this time. Don't worry about yesterday, you made all the errors then. Don't worry about tomorrow. Worry about today. Worry not about yesterday, worry not about tomorrow. Worry about today because tomorrow will become today tomorrow. Tomorrow we'll call it 'today' no matter how you look at it.
So please, I can't tell you anything else. I can't push God down you – it's not like a child who doesn't want to eat. We can't do that to you. God is not something you have to digest, God is something you have to experience. In whatever form you desire, God will present himself. And you have the ability to logically analyze within yourself, and experience God. That's all I have to say to you because it is very important that I say this on this pournami, and that you experience somehow the grace of guru and God.
Hari Om.
