Shri Ganehsa Puja
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Cabella Italy
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Little children – they are the ones who are
incarnations. They are the ones who are going to lead humanity into some great advancement.
The humanity has to be looked after. They are tomorrow’s humanity and we are
today’s. And what are we giving to them for them to follow? What is their aim in life? It
is very, very difficult to say. But with the Sahaja Yoga they will all go in the proper way.
They’ll behave in a proper way and the whole thing will be a different mass of Sahaja Yogis
coming up. But it is the duty of bigger Sahaja Yogis to look after them, to have better
moral standards, to have better lives so that they follow your life and become genuinely
good Sahaja Yogis. It’s a very big responsibility. Perhaps we don’t recognize it, we don’t
understand, but all these are little creatures who are after the image of great souls and they
should be brought up in that way, respected in that manner and loved with great care.
This is to be understood.
The problem with our elderly people is this: that we do not consider children to be
considered, to be bothered about, to be understood about. We think we are too intelligent, too good and we need not waste our energy with them. This is the trouble of the
elderly people....
We should know they are all incarnations of Shri Ganesha and they should be given
proper attention, proper understanding about themselves. I find a certain amount of children who are very well-behaved, who are very sensible and there are some who have no
idea as to what they are doing. So it is the duty of the elders to put ideas into their head,
to properly understand about themselves and the self-respect. The same thing I would say
for the elder Sahaja Yogis who have to look after their younger brothers and sisters.
In this family of ours, which we call as Sahaja Yogis, there are all kinds of people, all
types, all behaviors. Of course, they should not be regimented, there should not be uniformity, but in that variety there should be this beauty, there should be a beautiful trend
of being one with each other....
What should the elders do to achieve that? What is our solid contribution to their
lives? The first will be to tell them who is Shri Ganesha and what are the qualities of Ganesha, what does He represent.... Once they start understanding that – though being a little
boy, He’s so generous, He’s so kind, He’s so forgiving – they’ll be amazed because they are
also small and they’ll also take to that kind of life.
I find some children very sensible, very good here. Some are naughty and some don’t
understand what we are doing here. Whatever it is, they are, after all, children. And what
you have to do is to look after them, respect them and give them the full idea about Shri
Ganesha.