Imagine if you have big balloon attached to you, how can you go deep down into the sea?

Thank you very much for all this celebration, for all these beautiful balloons. But looking at these balloons, we have to see, some of them who have lost their air completely. This is another problem we face in the West Because, to have ego, according to the western culture, is a very great achievement When we start living with our ego, I know, how one looks like. He really looks like a stupid fellow. When he talks, when he describes himself, you don't know where to look because we just feel like laughing at his stupidity. Ego is the outcome of stupidity. I don't know what to say, how to give a simile to ego because it is just bloated and makes you float in the air. When it bursts, you are down on the earth. But you are not down on the earth, the way a Sahaja Yogi should be - down to earth, but completely finished.


All your arrogance goes to waste. You can never understand Sahaja Yoga, if you have this ego in your head. I have known people who have this ego. They have come to Sahaja Yoga and still they think they know more than anybody else. To know about yourself, you have to go deep down and to go deep down you have to give up all this idea which makes you float in the air. Imagine if you have big balloon attached to you, how can you go deep down into the sea? You cannot. That kind of air which makes you float in the air, absolutely in an area of stupidity. Then you may think whatever you like about yourself, you can behave the way you like but what do you achieve? You achieve nothing out of it. Whatever you achieve, people are jealous of you, they want to harm you, you have no friends. Nobody cares for you and in Sahaja Yoga, people know who has got this problem.


H.H. Shri Mataji Niramala Devi
Janam Diwas Puja
Delhi, 21.03.1997