1989 1029 The Recognition Of Benevolence

Original file: Excerpt highlighted by the app: “Every Day with Shri Mataji” for Android ______________________________ But the “Diwali” word is from “deepa wali” means the “rows of lights”. It was celebrated firstly because thousands of years back, Shri Rama was crowned on this day. That means the benevolence of human beings was crowned, was accepted. And in Shri Rama’s life, you see an ideal personality being shown to be a king, to be the benevolent king as described by Socrates. So this was a great joyous thing that a benevolent king was crowned. That means we have to have a king who is benevolent. That’s only possible if the people who choose the king have no other consideration but that of benevolence of all the people. So one has to come to the conclusion that they have to be Sahaja Yogis, because others think that: “How much money we’ll get out of this power that we’ll have.” Some think: “How much power-oriented we could be?” Some think: “How many countries I can win?” or any other domination. ... So in the freedom loving people who are supposed to be free, the idea of benevolence is finished. Because whatever good for you, whatever is benevolent for you, can be only understood if you have wisdom, if you have depth. But if you have this kind of freedom is to go amuck, do what you like: “Because everybody’s doing it, I must do it. Everybody is singing like this; so I must do it.” But from where does this idea come in? From where these ideas come in are the entrepreneurs who want to befool you, make slaves out of you, and this slavery is so-called freedom for you. But actually, I think it’s complete slavery because you do what they tell you, behave in the same manner as whatever they say. There are no fashions in that country, very few, very few women indulge into fashions. Nothing. And men are also very simple. They have no fashionable things. They have only things which are convenient, good for their climate. That’s what they wear, whether you laugh or don’t laugh. It’s everybody laughs here. If anybody laughs at them they’ll say: “This is stupid, you see, I’ll have pity for him, that’s all.” So one has to understand that it was the king, Rama, who was made the, actually accepted by the public, like a crown was put on his head to say that benevolence is the highest thing. And whatever is benevolent for us should be accepted in our freedom, country.