We had very bad experiences sometimes in England. Like, the BBC people called me on the television and asked me to speak on that, but they said we can’t believe that you should do it without money. I said, “Why? How much will you pay me?” He said, “No. An Anglo-Saxon brain cannot understand anything without money.” I said, “Then an Anglo-Saxon brain cannot get realization. That is the equation.” How much Christ charged you? If you understand Christ at all, must know that we sold him, and we are still selling him.

You cannot sell God, and you cannot sell all these things. That’s what they were surprised at. And they wouldn’t have me on the BBC. I said, “I will not say anything against businesses, but as far as my work is concerned, you cannot pay me. How much will you pay me? You just tell me.” This is just love and just affection. Like Sid came and just said “Hello” to me. How much should I pay him for that?

Love doesn’t, cannot, charge. All right, for your hall, you can, for other things you can. This is one thing we cannot understand. And I went to Toronto, I was surprised they asked me a question, “How many Rolls-Royces you have?” I said, “I don’t have any.” Then they are not interested in me; there’s no business about it.

Now, we have to understand that we are seekers of truth, and we are seekers of peace within, silence within, the love within, and that power that gives you, empowers you, to love others. Now when we love others, our idea of love is either there is some sort of a possession, or maybe some greed, or maybe some lust or something. But this love has nothing to do with that. It’s pure love. And the pure Divine love is such, like a sap in a tree, which rises, goes to all the parts of the tree, goes to the flower, goes to the fruit, goes to the leaves, and comes back. Supposing it gets entangled into one flower: The tree will die and the flower will also die. It doesn’t get attached, but it nourishes. It is absolutely involved, but not attached.

All this discretion you develop when you have your vibrations and you are surprised that you start talking like a third person. Like we had one lady from India, she came down with me to Los Angeles and we had her son from Honolulu. She said, “Mother, give him realization.” I said, “I have tried, you give.” She said, “How can I? He’s not getting it.” So I said, “Then how can I?” Then I said, “All right, give him a certificate: he’s a realized soul.” “How can I give him a false certificate, Mother?” I said, “That’s the point: he’s not getting realization. That’s the point. Accept the truth.” “So what should we do?” I said, “That’s a different point. But he is not getting realization. One must understand that.” So she said, “Yes, it’s true. It doesn’t go; it doesn’t work.” It. She didn’t say, “I have done it” or “I do it.” It doesn’t work. You become a third person. You start talking in a third person language. As in Sanskrit, we call it as akarma: that your action becomes non-action.

You do not act anymore, but it becomes a non-action, a detached action. You just say, “It doesn’t work out. It doesn’t move. It doesn’t come out.” Or, “It does.” So it’s something else that is doing it. Actually, you are raising the Kundalini, but you don’t say that.

And this power all of you have got. All of you have got this power. All of you should have it. Why should you hesitate not to have it, I just don’t understand. Supposing you belong, say, to somebody, or some special dogmas, or anything. That has not given you full satisfaction. That has given you nothing. So why not have this power which makes you absolutely dynamic?

Now, you know my age is, I’m very old and I am a housewife. I’m a grandmother and I have so much things to be done on the other side of my married life and I travel so much—everything I do. I don’t feel tired at all. And you can become very magnetic. And, such a person becomes such a pure personality that even a glance of such a person can create peace, can give you joy, can lift you, can cure you, can do anything.

Such an ocean of power is within your reach and why shouldn’t we get it? It’s very simple. This is what all of them have said it. It’s not that it was said only by Christ, but every one of them has said that you have to get your realization. Say it was thousands of years back when Rama came. Even before that we had many other people. They came. Then came Shri Krishna, then came in this world, as you know, Buddha, Mahavira. All of them said, “Get your realization.”

Buddha and Mahavira went to such an extent that they said, “Don’t talk of God. Don’t talk of incarnations. Just get your realization.” Only self realization, nothing else. Because they thought when you start talking about God, they just slip off.

So tell them you get your realization is the point, and that’s what is important. So people called them anishvarvad (अनीश्वरवाद): means the ones who are atheists, that don’t believe in God. They did believe in God, no doubt, but they didn’t want to talk about it, because they thought talking about God becomes a talk and a talk and a talk.

So now the time has come to have the experience.

Unfortunately, Houston seems to be a little far away for My touring and all that, but in the whole world we have thousands and thousands of people who have got realization and are doing this work. Not necessarily that you have to give up your job; nothing else to be given up. You are so dynamic. You don’t have to change your names and wear funny dresses. Nothing of the kind.

Some people think you have to develop some horns, you see. There’s no need to do all that nonsense.

Wherever you are, it is an internal change that takes place. It becomes your own power. Only thing: the glow on the face is different. The glint in the eye is there. And such a person is a very loving, affectionate, and peaceful person; doesn’t get disturbed, no pressures of any kind, nothing of the kind. A very, I should say, a contented person. A very contented person. All this is your own. Just this breakthrough has to take place and I’m sure it will work out.