-------霎哈嘉瑜伽的政治學觀點------
人類在政治上也發展出兩種不同的理論，一種是偏向左邊的，另一種是偏向右邊的。偏向左邊的是民主政治。在民主体制下，個人(individual)是較重要的，每一個人可以做他喜歡的事，他有完全的自由去追求他所喜歡的，而且別人也不應該去阻止。所以結果就演變成個人可以割自己的鼻子、割自己的眼睛，大家忙著把自己的根基(root)割除。因為個人就是至高無上，在此理念之下，集體(collective)完全喪失了。民主主義(democracy)變成了魔鬼主義(demonocracy)，每一個人都是魔鬼(demon)。
和民主相對的則是比較有紀律、比較有侵略性、有較多的控制、比較右脈，我們叫它是共產主義。在這之下，個人受到較多的控制，因為強調集體(指國家、民族)，所以個人必須犧牲。在這種情形之下，個人反而變得比較脆弱(weak)。個人比較脆弱，那麼集體也不可能強壯。舉例來說，你看那些共產國家或回教國家出來的個人，一旦他們來到西方世界，一旦他們没有這些控制，他們反而比西方人喝更多的酒。他們在原來的社會只是因為恐懼，而偏向比較有紀律的右邊，但是他並不是真的較有紀律，他的内在並没有被轉化。他並不是真正如此，他並没有能力控制他自己。一旦有機會，他就會陷入其中(如酒醉)而摔倒。這就爲什麼我説共產世界的個人比較脆弱。
強調個人主義、你可以盡情地做你喜歡的民主社會最終會走向頹廢墮落，因為個人並無能力去承擔這麼多的自由、權力與金錢。他們甚至無法承受愛與仁慈，他們也無法了解内在真正的平靜(peace)，因為他們只是一個個人-----與集體分離的個人。
在霎哈嘉裏，人經由中脈而昇進，個人變成集體的一部分。當個人變成集體時，他會給集體帶來更大的力量，集體也反過來照顧、保護與引導這個個人。這就是霎哈嘉的政治學。個人必須在霎哈嘉裏變成集體的人格。當你行事如集體的一分子，你就與無所不在的神聖力量 (Divine)合而為一。此時太陽也會照顧你，月亮也會照顧你，母親大地及所有的基本元素都會照顧你。祂們都會為你工作，你也會被完全保護與祝福，讓你能完全去享受這喜樂。
註一：江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji 的談話1988-04-03 . JSM ! 敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹們指正.
In politics also these people have developed two types of theories. One is left-sided, one is right-sided. The left-sided theories are democratic — where you can indulge into anything you like. It’s the individual that’s important. The individual indulges into everything and you should not stop him from doing whatever he likes. He is an individual so he has a right to cut his nose, he has a right to cut his eyes, to do what he likes. An individual is allowed to do what he likes to do, and then what happens? That we find this democracy becomes a demonocracy. Everybody is a demon.
Everybody is busy cutting throats, cutting all the basis and the roots of life because everybody is Brahma, becomes a great personality, because the individual is so great and the collective is lost, completely lost.
But on the other side, where it is more disciplined, more aggressiveness, more controls and everything the right side, which we can call as communism, where people have control all the time. Now why? Because for the collective the individual must sacrifice. In that case, the individuals become weak and if the individuals are weak, then the collective cannot be strong. It cannot be strong. Individual has to be strong. For example, if you wil see that the people who come from communist countries, they drink more than people who can drink here. Or those who come, say from Islamic countries, where they don’t touch anything, can drink more than even Sardarjis. So you can imagine what is the situation of human beings is that out of fear if you try to control him he goes to the right side. But he is in no way perfect. He is not transformed, he doesn’t accept the situation. He doesn’t become that, he doesn’t have that power to control himself. He doesn’t get over his sitting aptitudes. He’s still there. As soon as he gets a chance he falls into it. So that fails. So the individuals are weak in that case.
And where there is complete abandonment, do what you like, live the way you like, indulgences, all kinds of things. So you find, I mean, all, everyday you see and you say, “Oh God, this is a decadent society, this is happening.” Decadency is because an individual whom you have given all these powers has no power to bear them. An individual cannot bear money. He cannot bear power of any kind. He cannot bear love. He cannot bear kindness. He cannot understand peace because he’s still an individual.
But when an individual becomes the collective this is the ascent through the central path. When he become the collective, in his strength he strengthens the collective and also the collective looks after, protects, and guides the individual. This is what Sahaja Yoga is. So the politics of Sahaja Yoga is that you have to become the collective personality and there where we feel that still we are something great, we are different, we are Indians or we are from England or France, still if we are identified then you are not collective.
In collective sense we are all one, part and parcel of one being. Then you are really acting as collective being and you are one with the Divine. Where the sun is looking after you, the moon is looking after you, the winds are looking after you and the Mother Earth and all these elements — they are working. Ether, everything is working for you and you are so well-protected and blessed by this special quality to enjoy the joy.
