Monday, November 16, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Change
How often have you started a new program of change in your life only
to feel discouraged three days later that "nothing is happening"? Or
maybe you actually stick with a new ritual or a new diet for a whole
two weeks and you see some change ... but it's not happening fast
enough.
<><> A Small Change Now is All It Takes <><>
What do you do? Before you decide that everything really is hopeless,
take a moment to look at the process of change with the help of this
magical principle: "A small change in the present produces a larger
change in the future." This is the basic principle we use in spellwork
and it means that if you make even the tiniest change today you will
see bigger change in about a week. And that bigger change will lead to
an even bigger change in about two weeks. And so on.
So let's suppose you've started working with a new magical practice.
Say you've decided to start meditating for 15 minutes each
morning--nothing fancy, just sitting quietly and clearing your mind as
much as possible. On the first morning of meditating you will probably
notice an immediate change because your mind is quiet at a time when
it normally is not. You're content that your new program of meditation
is going to be useful and helpful. More importantly, a small and
highly contagious molecule of change has been born.
<><> Nothing Happening? <><>
Now what happens a week after you start meditating? Maybe you've had a
really hectic week and you feel tired and irritable. All of sudden it
seems like the 15 minutes of meditation is too much--it takes too much
time when so many other things are pressing on your time. It seems
like nothing is happening, no change is occurring.
But "nothing's happening" hardly describes what is going on inside
you. That highly contagious molecule of change that was born the day
you began meditating has been busy reaching out and touching and
transforming other molecules inside you. Now a greater percentage of
your molecules than ever before has the quality of quiet that you
create during your meditation. The more quiet you have inside you, the
more you're able to listen to your inner intuitive voice, the better
your work will be, the better your life will be ... but it's still too
small a percentage for you to notice.
<><> It's Like the Penny Doubling <><>
But if you stay with your new meditation practice that small sense of
quiet will begin to spread. It's like the example of starting out with
a penny and doubling it every day for 31 days. Here's what you get at
the end of each week:
Day 1: $0.01
Day 7: $0.64
Day 14: $81.92
Day 21: $10,485.76
Day 28: $1,342,177.28
Day 31: $10,737,418.24
So at the end of the month you have over $10 million. The same is true
with your new meditation practice but the key is how long it takes you
notice. If you ever take the time to observe your life you will be
amazed by how easily you are hypnotized by the incessant buzz and hum
of daily activities. There's voice mail and email, gossip, your car
running low on gas, the need to feed the cat, or all of your troubles
at work. There are a million things that take up your attention while
this small quiet molecule formed by your daily meditation goes around
and changes you from the inside out.
<><> Be Aware of Change <><>
The difficulty lies in being aware of change. In the example with the
penny doubling, it may take you 31 days--when you already have $10
million in your pocket--before you notice that something has shifted
and life is different. But it's worth it, right? I'd say $10 million
is worth it. So, as they say, don't give up on change five minutes
before the miracle happens. Stick with whatever you've decided to do
to change your life and prepare to be awestruck!
to feel discouraged three days later that "nothing is happening"? Or
maybe you actually stick with a new ritual or a new diet for a whole
two weeks and you see some change ... but it's not happening fast
enough.
<><> A Small Change Now is All It Takes <><>
What do you do? Before you decide that everything really is hopeless,
take a moment to look at the process of change with the help of this
magical principle: "A small change in the present produces a larger
change in the future." This is the basic principle we use in spellwork
and it means that if you make even the tiniest change today you will
see bigger change in about a week. And that bigger change will lead to
an even bigger change in about two weeks. And so on.
So let's suppose you've started working with a new magical practice.
Say you've decided to start meditating for 15 minutes each
morning--nothing fancy, just sitting quietly and clearing your mind as
much as possible. On the first morning of meditating you will probably
notice an immediate change because your mind is quiet at a time when
it normally is not. You're content that your new program of meditation
is going to be useful and helpful. More importantly, a small and
highly contagious molecule of change has been born.
<><> Nothing Happening? <><>
Now what happens a week after you start meditating? Maybe you've had a
really hectic week and you feel tired and irritable. All of sudden it
seems like the 15 minutes of meditation is too much--it takes too much
time when so many other things are pressing on your time. It seems
like nothing is happening, no change is occurring.
But "nothing's happening" hardly describes what is going on inside
you. That highly contagious molecule of change that was born the day
you began meditating has been busy reaching out and touching and
transforming other molecules inside you. Now a greater percentage of
your molecules than ever before has the quality of quiet that you
create during your meditation. The more quiet you have inside you, the
more you're able to listen to your inner intuitive voice, the better
your work will be, the better your life will be ... but it's still too
small a percentage for you to notice.
<><> It's Like the Penny Doubling <><>
But if you stay with your new meditation practice that small sense of
quiet will begin to spread. It's like the example of starting out with
a penny and doubling it every day for 31 days. Here's what you get at
the end of each week:
Day 1: $0.01
Day 7: $0.64
Day 14: $81.92
Day 21: $10,485.76
Day 28: $1,342,177.28
Day 31: $10,737,418.24
So at the end of the month you have over $10 million. The same is true
with your new meditation practice but the key is how long it takes you
notice. If you ever take the time to observe your life you will be
amazed by how easily you are hypnotized by the incessant buzz and hum
of daily activities. There's voice mail and email, gossip, your car
running low on gas, the need to feed the cat, or all of your troubles
at work. There are a million things that take up your attention while
this small quiet molecule formed by your daily meditation goes around
and changes you from the inside out.
<><> Be Aware of Change <><>
The difficulty lies in being aware of change. In the example with the
penny doubling, it may take you 31 days--when you already have $10
million in your pocket--before you notice that something has shifted
and life is different. But it's worth it, right? I'd say $10 million
is worth it. So, as they say, don't give up on change five minutes
before the miracle happens. Stick with whatever you've decided to do
to change your life and prepare to be awestruck!
Monday, October 19, 2009
The Meaning of Puja
...Now for Puja, one has to understand that without Realisation, Puja has no meaning, because you are not "Ananya", is you have to become aware of your whole.
Krishna's description of Bhakti is "Ananya". He says "I will give you Ananya Bhakti", He wants Ananya Bhakti, means when there is not the other, means when we are realised. But when it comes to giving, He says, you have to come to Me with Ananya Bhakti, means when you have become one with Me." Then you should have the devotion, not before that, before that, you are not connected."
Now Puja is a left hand side projection. Is the neutralisation of the right side, very much, specially for people who are very right handed, atmosphere which is very right handed, Puja is ideal for them. Is the Bhakti, is the Devotion that you project. Now what happens actually when you project with Puja? It has been found out, and now as I am telling you, that first you have to awaken within you the Deities that are still asleep, by worshipping Them. But as these Deities, Primordial Deities, are with Me, you warship Me, and every Deity in Me is awakened, by which your deities are awakened.
So first, your vibrations must improve, to receive. If the reception is not good, what's the use of any Puja or projection? So first of all, we sort or prepare our instrument, or prepare our projecting instrument. That preparation done by praying to different Deities, as we call that, a Kundalini Puja.
By praying to My Kundalini, you improve your reflection. Because then the vibrations from Me start flowing into yours, and they awaken it. This is the projection as far as you are concerned.
Once the instrument is alright, then you project outside. And now, how do you project? By worshipping the Goddess as the Protector of the whole universe, praising Her different attributes, even Her Face, Her Hands, everything has a meaning. Praising Her Powers. By saying that, by repeating that, you echoe in your projection Her Powers, and then your projection becomes that powerful. It's a very subtle happening that takes place. It's miraculous. These things look so simple, just like washing my Feet. Simple thing is washing my Feet. Now see these Feet, I don't know if you see, the whole universe I see there, and I really get stunned by them.
When you wash My Feet, what do you do? Actually , My Feet have been working very hard. And then, you put a little water, to soothe them, to suggest that you can feel the effort put in by these Feet... and a kind of a very sweet, melodious love flows out of these Feet then. Like today I was coming, and I suddenly saw Paul standing: "Same thing happened to me." See, what a care it is, what an understanding! Mother is coming, She should not get lost!
It's that, and this thing all started melting. Because this love who understands everything, doesn't want anything, but is only excited if there is somebody to receive the love. Then how do you say you are going to receive? By expressing these small small things. So when you soothe My Feet, wash Them, clean Them, you know what They mean: you recognise. That recognition, how are you to show? You see, these ceremonies, little ceremonies are important, because they express your recognition. It could be absolutely dull, dead and finished. And it could be absolutely living, if you know why you are doing it. Then you apply some oil and things, again soothe My Feet. Just say "Mother, You have worked very hard, Your Feet have worked very hard".
Just saying that itself, I mean makes no difference otherwise, if you say in a very rational manner, but to that Love that are these Feet, it makes a very big difference. This sweetness, the little thing a little baby just put her hand on her mother's cheek, just to express the gratitude, and the mother's heart starts jumping with love...
It is a very reciprocal behaviour, it's very subtle, and that kind of a subtle working is fixed already: it works that way only. The more you more you love from your heart, the more the joy will be there. The more you are rational and more mental, there won't be so much. It should be first of all your cleansing is important, but the projection should be towards your Mother, that is the height. Once you achieve that height, then you become all powerful, and then you can give to others. But that giving is nothing but is a very mutual and absolutely reciprocal, because the Devi knows about you, everything: if you are trying anything else, She knows and She will also tell you frankly that this should not be done, that should not be done, it should not be done, clearly, so that you do not be under any misunderstandings.
But still, to work it out, you must know it has to be reciprocal, it cannot be one-sided, it has to be both sides. Then it works out better, and a kind of a homogeneous feeling with that Love comes in, sort of a lubricant, a beautiful feeling of movement within yourself comes in.
Puja really is the triggering thing, triggers you, it triggers you into another realm, it's really miraculous. Once you have done the Puja, then you can project out, much more, in your silence only. Your silence itself becomes so powerful. Now in this special case of our Western lives, we have to establish our Innocence, very important.
It is the first thing that is attacked, Innocence is attacked by so many things. So we have to establish our Innocence. And Innocence is the most powerful thing: it doesn't see anything bad, it doesn't see...
...how people are: they don't love! So Ganesha is very important for the Western countries, very important, because that's the Essence of everything, I think, that's the most essential thing, that's why we worship Ganesha first. And Ganesha was created first of all, because He is the eldest son, He is the first son, He is the eldest brother you have, and though Kumara is treated as an elder brother always, while Ganesha calls Himself as a younger brother, but He was the first created, because He remains young always, never grows, so in a way, He is always younger to you also.
It's a very, very subtle understanding: a very young little thing is so much wiser, He is wisdom. Can you imagine a little baby is so intelligent, a little baby so wise? Much more, He is like a grown-up little baby, a very matured, wise, little baby. So by age, you are always older than Him, but by wisdom, He is the eldest.
Then like this you should understand how we evoke all the Deities within us, by doing these small things, by saying Their mantras, because now you are awakened, every word you say is awakened now, is "siddha mantra".
On this Guru Puja I'm really going to give you the way of how to do the "siddha" is the establishment of the siddha, to master to master every chakra and every Deity bestowed upon it, to master it, how to do it, I will tell you this Guru Puja no doubt, I'm going to work it out. But this Puja is to be done with full understanding, and with full recognition:
It's a great fortune. Even the Devas are jealous of you, all the rishis are jealous of you, so many are jealous of you. The greatest advantage for you, greatest fortune. Make full use of it.
And they are very simple things that can please, very simple. You know your Mother can be pleased with very very simple things. It's like that only: it's how much heart you have put into it, is the point.
I think tomorrow we should have the puja, today we have understood about it: it is more to be felt and understood and realised, than to be thought about. Because you'll go into thoughtless awareness. It is more source of triggering.
For example, I think I'll ask Harry to give the miracle we had yesterday on our way. He was loosing his way throughout, and Regis was navigating him, so we were all lost...
But then we had a miracle while coming back: there was on the M-1 a complete jam, and miles together we could see there is no movement, and suddenly, within two minutes, what happened? What I told him, and how he worked it out. It's a problem, you see, to get after everything, to do it... Now he thought that I have told that you put your attention inside. Now he has a slope in his left side, and when you do it too much inside, you go on the slope... and he understands that something's going wrong.
I never said that you get after anything. Now, "put your attention inside "means: if you get Realisation by that. If you don't get Realisation, there's something wrong somewhere. You have lost your way, that's the main point. So I told Harry that you don't put your attention inside, because you go on the slope...
Just they were there... This is what is Maya that upsets you. Project yourself outside...
There was another experience I told these people was this: that there where two journalists, one Mister Marathi and a friend who are Sahaja Yogis. And I went to the journalist's association, they had a meeting. And there is another one who told Me: "No, no Mother I have complete faith in You because there was a miracle that happened to a friend of mine Marathi who is a Sahaja Yogi".
I said :"What happened?". He said they were coming from Poona down to Bombay, and the breaks failed, and the slopes, you see, on the gaps, it moves very fast. And suddenly they saw a huge big truck coming up, with all the lights on top, and they didn't know how to control, and they were about to dash out. And just they closed their eyes and they said: "Now, Mother, save us!" And suddenly they found that the car had crossed the thing, and the thing was moving upwards, the truck was moving.
They didn't know, as if somebody had picked up that car and put it on the other side. So these miracles can work out, in case you project yourself out. But for projecting outside, first you should be cleansed inside. But for that also, all the time if your attention "where am I catching?" then you go onto rationality: "I must be catching because of this, I must be catching because of that".
I have told you hundred times not to say "WHY?". Give up this word "why?". "Why am I catching?" It will settle down. This maddening must go away! You cannot answer "why" of anything in Sahaja Yoga, can you? Why did I meet you? Why did you get Realisation? Ask hundred questions, two hundred, three hundred, five hundred, you will not have any answer.
So, give up that: it's not your rationality, it's the Grace, it's the whim of the Grace. That's working it out! What are you trying at? Just ask for the Grace. Finished. It's silent. It works out.
This is maddening! You will become mad people. This is the greatest madness that people want to know why of everything. How can you understand? You don't have that "chitti" to understand anything.
Can you explain? How can you? If you make a little ant understand human civilisation and this dirty politics you play, it may understand. But you cannot understand why of God. This is the relationship. So now, you give it up asking questions like that. It's too tremendous for this rationality. Why God is doing? How He does? What are His powers? Only thing, as scientist, you note down: "yes, it is so, yes, it is so, yes it is so". Verify it and note down. Only your awareness is changed from the scientist's, that you can see subtler working.
But why it works? That's His whim! He'll do what He likes! Who are you to question God? How can you question God? Just give up asking this question "why?" and you will feel very much better. It is god you see! He does it! This is what is faith. Not the blind, but real with understanding. I have told you this story of My grandmother many a times, as she used to tell Me about faith, and which I have repeated so many times, but again I'll repeat it today: There were three people at different places, and one man was going to see God. So they came to know about it. So one of them was in the forest, standing on his head, doing all kinds of yogas and things like that, and praying to God - must be with both hands towards Him, and soaking the feet, may be - like mad, you see, and asking: "Why don't You meet me? Why don't You meet me? I want to meet You! why don't you meet me?"
And the man who was going to see God was going through that side. He said "Now please go and ask Him why don't You come and see me, You better come and see me, Why don't You do it?" So he said "alright, I'll come". He had become thin, you see, absolutely thinned down, condition very miserable. He said "alright, I'll go and tell God about you". Go. Then he went up to God. No, no, before that. Then he met another type who was sitting on the street. And will be at the street side, and he said: "Oh! I heard you are going to meet God?" He said yes, he is going to meet God. So he said: "Then communicate one small little thing." He said:" "What?" He said that "Just tell Him I have had no food, please send me my food now, I'm hungry."
He said "What?" - "Yes, you just tell Him that much." So he went up. He saw God. So God asked: "Did you meet some people on your way?" He said "Yes, I met a horrible one who is all time saying "why not, why this, should I do it and should I not, and this and that, it's going on. So, will You go and meet him? He's asking."
He said "No, better tell him to do it little more, you see... still he has to do. He requires more effort: he won't be satisfied: Till he gives up his efforts, let him go on!" I mean he would have become mad like that. But now God says: "Alright, let him go ahead! What to do? If you tell them, they don't want to listen, so let them go ahead!"
Then he said: "Then I met another mad fellow, who was on the street, he said that: "I'm hungry, ask God to send some food foe me, please ask. - He said: "Really?" Then called His managers He says: "Please! Send his food! Have you not yet arranged his food and order? Please arrange it!"
He was quite surprised. He said: "What is this? This man is just telling "I'm hungry", and God is so much worried about this fellow and not worried about the fellow who is standing on his head and asking such a lot of questions to God!"
So God knows everything, so He told him: "Alright you are going down, you just tell them one story to both of them, and see their reaction, and then you will know. So He told him a story. "You tell them that "I went to God and saw there, God passing a camel through the eye of a needle."
He said: "Really?" He said: "Yes, you go and tell them." So he came down. This fellow was still on his head. He came back: "What did God say?" - He said you have to go on still. - Oh! Really? Well all glory to God! - He said "Yes, he said so." - He said: "Really?" Then, "Did you see something special there?" - He said: "Yes, I saw that He passed a camel through the eye of a needle!" - He said: "No, no, don't tell me stories! How can such a big camel!..How can it pass through the eye? After all it's impossible! It is impossible! This is impossible! You are just now trying to befool me. No, no, I cannot take it. I cannot take it!"
So he went to another fellow. He was nicely eating his food. He said: "Yes! I knew, you see, I just told you because you asked me if you have to tell you anything, I knew God will send my food and everything. I'm quite alright." He said: "Did you see anything wondrous there?" - He said: " I saw the wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles, that God passed a camel through the eye of a needle!" - He said: "What is so miraculous? He is GOD! He's GOD ALMIGHTY! What? He can pass even universes after universes through that hole!
What is it for God? He is God Almighty don't you understand? God Almighty! Because you have met Him, you think He is nothing! Because you did it so easily, you think He is nothing! Because He behaves like you, you think He is nothing! He is GOD ALMIGHTY! So what? to Him, what is it?"
Then he realised. This is Faith. That is what is enlightened within you with Puja. Not your rationality which is brought down actually quite a lot. So with this idea, tomorrow we'll have the Puja, alright?
May God Bless You.
Krishna's description of Bhakti is "Ananya". He says "I will give you Ananya Bhakti", He wants Ananya Bhakti, means when there is not the other, means when we are realised. But when it comes to giving, He says, you have to come to Me with Ananya Bhakti, means when you have become one with Me." Then you should have the devotion, not before that, before that, you are not connected."
Now Puja is a left hand side projection. Is the neutralisation of the right side, very much, specially for people who are very right handed, atmosphere which is very right handed, Puja is ideal for them. Is the Bhakti, is the Devotion that you project. Now what happens actually when you project with Puja? It has been found out, and now as I am telling you, that first you have to awaken within you the Deities that are still asleep, by worshipping Them. But as these Deities, Primordial Deities, are with Me, you warship Me, and every Deity in Me is awakened, by which your deities are awakened.
So first, your vibrations must improve, to receive. If the reception is not good, what's the use of any Puja or projection? So first of all, we sort or prepare our instrument, or prepare our projecting instrument. That preparation done by praying to different Deities, as we call that, a Kundalini Puja.
By praying to My Kundalini, you improve your reflection. Because then the vibrations from Me start flowing into yours, and they awaken it. This is the projection as far as you are concerned.
Once the instrument is alright, then you project outside. And now, how do you project? By worshipping the Goddess as the Protector of the whole universe, praising Her different attributes, even Her Face, Her Hands, everything has a meaning. Praising Her Powers. By saying that, by repeating that, you echoe in your projection Her Powers, and then your projection becomes that powerful. It's a very subtle happening that takes place. It's miraculous. These things look so simple, just like washing my Feet. Simple thing is washing my Feet. Now see these Feet, I don't know if you see, the whole universe I see there, and I really get stunned by them.
When you wash My Feet, what do you do? Actually , My Feet have been working very hard. And then, you put a little water, to soothe them, to suggest that you can feel the effort put in by these Feet... and a kind of a very sweet, melodious love flows out of these Feet then. Like today I was coming, and I suddenly saw Paul standing: "Same thing happened to me." See, what a care it is, what an understanding! Mother is coming, She should not get lost!
It's that, and this thing all started melting. Because this love who understands everything, doesn't want anything, but is only excited if there is somebody to receive the love. Then how do you say you are going to receive? By expressing these small small things. So when you soothe My Feet, wash Them, clean Them, you know what They mean: you recognise. That recognition, how are you to show? You see, these ceremonies, little ceremonies are important, because they express your recognition. It could be absolutely dull, dead and finished. And it could be absolutely living, if you know why you are doing it. Then you apply some oil and things, again soothe My Feet. Just say "Mother, You have worked very hard, Your Feet have worked very hard".
Just saying that itself, I mean makes no difference otherwise, if you say in a very rational manner, but to that Love that are these Feet, it makes a very big difference. This sweetness, the little thing a little baby just put her hand on her mother's cheek, just to express the gratitude, and the mother's heart starts jumping with love...
It is a very reciprocal behaviour, it's very subtle, and that kind of a subtle working is fixed already: it works that way only. The more you more you love from your heart, the more the joy will be there. The more you are rational and more mental, there won't be so much. It should be first of all your cleansing is important, but the projection should be towards your Mother, that is the height. Once you achieve that height, then you become all powerful, and then you can give to others. But that giving is nothing but is a very mutual and absolutely reciprocal, because the Devi knows about you, everything: if you are trying anything else, She knows and She will also tell you frankly that this should not be done, that should not be done, it should not be done, clearly, so that you do not be under any misunderstandings.
But still, to work it out, you must know it has to be reciprocal, it cannot be one-sided, it has to be both sides. Then it works out better, and a kind of a homogeneous feeling with that Love comes in, sort of a lubricant, a beautiful feeling of movement within yourself comes in.
Puja really is the triggering thing, triggers you, it triggers you into another realm, it's really miraculous. Once you have done the Puja, then you can project out, much more, in your silence only. Your silence itself becomes so powerful. Now in this special case of our Western lives, we have to establish our Innocence, very important.
It is the first thing that is attacked, Innocence is attacked by so many things. So we have to establish our Innocence. And Innocence is the most powerful thing: it doesn't see anything bad, it doesn't see...
...how people are: they don't love! So Ganesha is very important for the Western countries, very important, because that's the Essence of everything, I think, that's the most essential thing, that's why we worship Ganesha first. And Ganesha was created first of all, because He is the eldest son, He is the first son, He is the eldest brother you have, and though Kumara is treated as an elder brother always, while Ganesha calls Himself as a younger brother, but He was the first created, because He remains young always, never grows, so in a way, He is always younger to you also.
It's a very, very subtle understanding: a very young little thing is so much wiser, He is wisdom. Can you imagine a little baby is so intelligent, a little baby so wise? Much more, He is like a grown-up little baby, a very matured, wise, little baby. So by age, you are always older than Him, but by wisdom, He is the eldest.
Then like this you should understand how we evoke all the Deities within us, by doing these small things, by saying Their mantras, because now you are awakened, every word you say is awakened now, is "siddha mantra".
On this Guru Puja I'm really going to give you the way of how to do the "siddha" is the establishment of the siddha, to master to master every chakra and every Deity bestowed upon it, to master it, how to do it, I will tell you this Guru Puja no doubt, I'm going to work it out. But this Puja is to be done with full understanding, and with full recognition:
It's a great fortune. Even the Devas are jealous of you, all the rishis are jealous of you, so many are jealous of you. The greatest advantage for you, greatest fortune. Make full use of it.
And they are very simple things that can please, very simple. You know your Mother can be pleased with very very simple things. It's like that only: it's how much heart you have put into it, is the point.
I think tomorrow we should have the puja, today we have understood about it: it is more to be felt and understood and realised, than to be thought about. Because you'll go into thoughtless awareness. It is more source of triggering.
For example, I think I'll ask Harry to give the miracle we had yesterday on our way. He was loosing his way throughout, and Regis was navigating him, so we were all lost...
But then we had a miracle while coming back: there was on the M-1 a complete jam, and miles together we could see there is no movement, and suddenly, within two minutes, what happened? What I told him, and how he worked it out. It's a problem, you see, to get after everything, to do it... Now he thought that I have told that you put your attention inside. Now he has a slope in his left side, and when you do it too much inside, you go on the slope... and he understands that something's going wrong.
I never said that you get after anything. Now, "put your attention inside "means: if you get Realisation by that. If you don't get Realisation, there's something wrong somewhere. You have lost your way, that's the main point. So I told Harry that you don't put your attention inside, because you go on the slope...
Just they were there... This is what is Maya that upsets you. Project yourself outside...
There was another experience I told these people was this: that there where two journalists, one Mister Marathi and a friend who are Sahaja Yogis. And I went to the journalist's association, they had a meeting. And there is another one who told Me: "No, no Mother I have complete faith in You because there was a miracle that happened to a friend of mine Marathi who is a Sahaja Yogi".
I said :"What happened?". He said they were coming from Poona down to Bombay, and the breaks failed, and the slopes, you see, on the gaps, it moves very fast. And suddenly they saw a huge big truck coming up, with all the lights on top, and they didn't know how to control, and they were about to dash out. And just they closed their eyes and they said: "Now, Mother, save us!" And suddenly they found that the car had crossed the thing, and the thing was moving upwards, the truck was moving.
They didn't know, as if somebody had picked up that car and put it on the other side. So these miracles can work out, in case you project yourself out. But for projecting outside, first you should be cleansed inside. But for that also, all the time if your attention "where am I catching?" then you go onto rationality: "I must be catching because of this, I must be catching because of that".
I have told you hundred times not to say "WHY?". Give up this word "why?". "Why am I catching?" It will settle down. This maddening must go away! You cannot answer "why" of anything in Sahaja Yoga, can you? Why did I meet you? Why did you get Realisation? Ask hundred questions, two hundred, three hundred, five hundred, you will not have any answer.
So, give up that: it's not your rationality, it's the Grace, it's the whim of the Grace. That's working it out! What are you trying at? Just ask for the Grace. Finished. It's silent. It works out.
This is maddening! You will become mad people. This is the greatest madness that people want to know why of everything. How can you understand? You don't have that "chitti" to understand anything.
Can you explain? How can you? If you make a little ant understand human civilisation and this dirty politics you play, it may understand. But you cannot understand why of God. This is the relationship. So now, you give it up asking questions like that. It's too tremendous for this rationality. Why God is doing? How He does? What are His powers? Only thing, as scientist, you note down: "yes, it is so, yes, it is so, yes it is so". Verify it and note down. Only your awareness is changed from the scientist's, that you can see subtler working.
But why it works? That's His whim! He'll do what He likes! Who are you to question God? How can you question God? Just give up asking this question "why?" and you will feel very much better. It is god you see! He does it! This is what is faith. Not the blind, but real with understanding. I have told you this story of My grandmother many a times, as she used to tell Me about faith, and which I have repeated so many times, but again I'll repeat it today: There were three people at different places, and one man was going to see God. So they came to know about it. So one of them was in the forest, standing on his head, doing all kinds of yogas and things like that, and praying to God - must be with both hands towards Him, and soaking the feet, may be - like mad, you see, and asking: "Why don't You meet me? Why don't You meet me? I want to meet You! why don't you meet me?"
And the man who was going to see God was going through that side. He said "Now please go and ask Him why don't You come and see me, You better come and see me, Why don't You do it?" So he said "alright, I'll come". He had become thin, you see, absolutely thinned down, condition very miserable. He said "alright, I'll go and tell God about you". Go. Then he went up to God. No, no, before that. Then he met another type who was sitting on the street. And will be at the street side, and he said: "Oh! I heard you are going to meet God?" He said yes, he is going to meet God. So he said: "Then communicate one small little thing." He said:" "What?" He said that "Just tell Him I have had no food, please send me my food now, I'm hungry."
He said "What?" - "Yes, you just tell Him that much." So he went up. He saw God. So God asked: "Did you meet some people on your way?" He said "Yes, I met a horrible one who is all time saying "why not, why this, should I do it and should I not, and this and that, it's going on. So, will You go and meet him? He's asking."
He said "No, better tell him to do it little more, you see... still he has to do. He requires more effort: he won't be satisfied: Till he gives up his efforts, let him go on!" I mean he would have become mad like that. But now God says: "Alright, let him go ahead! What to do? If you tell them, they don't want to listen, so let them go ahead!"
Then he said: "Then I met another mad fellow, who was on the street, he said that: "I'm hungry, ask God to send some food foe me, please ask. - He said: "Really?" Then called His managers He says: "Please! Send his food! Have you not yet arranged his food and order? Please arrange it!"
He was quite surprised. He said: "What is this? This man is just telling "I'm hungry", and God is so much worried about this fellow and not worried about the fellow who is standing on his head and asking such a lot of questions to God!"
So God knows everything, so He told him: "Alright you are going down, you just tell them one story to both of them, and see their reaction, and then you will know. So He told him a story. "You tell them that "I went to God and saw there, God passing a camel through the eye of a needle."
He said: "Really?" He said: "Yes, you go and tell them." So he came down. This fellow was still on his head. He came back: "What did God say?" - He said you have to go on still. - Oh! Really? Well all glory to God! - He said "Yes, he said so." - He said: "Really?" Then, "Did you see something special there?" - He said: "Yes, I saw that He passed a camel through the eye of a needle!" - He said: "No, no, don't tell me stories! How can such a big camel!..How can it pass through the eye? After all it's impossible! It is impossible! This is impossible! You are just now trying to befool me. No, no, I cannot take it. I cannot take it!"
So he went to another fellow. He was nicely eating his food. He said: "Yes! I knew, you see, I just told you because you asked me if you have to tell you anything, I knew God will send my food and everything. I'm quite alright." He said: "Did you see anything wondrous there?" - He said: " I saw the wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles, that God passed a camel through the eye of a needle!" - He said: "What is so miraculous? He is GOD! He's GOD ALMIGHTY! What? He can pass even universes after universes through that hole!
What is it for God? He is God Almighty don't you understand? God Almighty! Because you have met Him, you think He is nothing! Because you did it so easily, you think He is nothing! Because He behaves like you, you think He is nothing! He is GOD ALMIGHTY! So what? to Him, what is it?"
Then he realised. This is Faith. That is what is enlightened within you with Puja. Not your rationality which is brought down actually quite a lot. So with this idea, tomorrow we'll have the Puja, alright?
May God Bless You.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
100th monkey theory and evolution
Have you ever heard the theory of the 100th monkey?
In the 1950's biologists and anthropologists were studying the behavior of a species of monkeys that live on some of the outlying islands around Japan. In order to gain the confidence of the monkeys and get close enough to study their behavior, the scientists would place sweet potatoes on the beach. The monkeys adored these moist potatoes (called batatas), but disliked the sand clinging to them. One day an adolescent female monkey (about eighteen months old) on the island of Koshima, solved this problem by washing her batata in fresh spring water.
She taught the "trick" to her mother, and then to her playmates, and over a period of time most of the monkeys on the island learned to wash their batatas to get rid of the sand. At this point perhaps 99 monkeys had been trained in this behavior. One day the 100th monkey learned how to wash his batata. By the next day every single monkey on the island of Koshima was doing this - even the ones who lived a bit more isolated from the others and had never witnessed a demonstration.
But what was particularly astonishing was that this new behavior was suddenly observed in the populations of these same species of monkeys on the other islands. Every monkey in the remote outlying islands was washing away the sand on their sweet potatoes without ever having been taught how to do it!
The number 100 may not be exact, but the theory of critical mass evolved from this study: That once a certain number of a species learns a new behavior and that number reaches a critical mass, it can spontaneously be transmitted to all members of the species. This was very encouraging to metaphysicians and philosophers, who envisioned a time that a significant percentage of the human species, having learned to live with one another peacefully and harmoniously, would reach a critical mass and transmit this behavior to all of humanity.
I first learned about this study about the time I opened my private practice in LA in the mid-80's. I so enthusiastically embodied the ideal of the 100th monkey, that whenever I treated a new patient I would think "maybe this is the 100th monkey. Maybe if he or she can learn to take responsibility for the state of the world and make the appropriate inner changes, the world will become a better place."
One day I made an important discovery: I AM THE 100TH MONKEY! Taking responsibility isn't about being at fault or blamed. It's a conscious recognition that we had to play some role (even if only the tiniest little part!) in the circumstances that we find ourselves involved in; And not only in our personal dramas, but also in the overall condition of the planet.
If we can't stand the hate and hostility that seem to prevail now around the world, why not examine our own petty resentments and unwillingness to bend in our beliefs. If we are bothered by growing world-wide pollution and environmental destruction, could it be a reflection of the contaminated thoughts and feelings that persist in our psyches? If terrorism is an issue, what about how we allow our own inner fears and judgments terrorize us? Do we expect things from our children that we are unwilling to change in ourselves? Who's the 100th monkey? Everyone is the 100th monkey.
In the 1950's biologists and anthropologists were studying the behavior of a species of monkeys that live on some of the outlying islands around Japan. In order to gain the confidence of the monkeys and get close enough to study their behavior, the scientists would place sweet potatoes on the beach. The monkeys adored these moist potatoes (called batatas), but disliked the sand clinging to them. One day an adolescent female monkey (about eighteen months old) on the island of Koshima, solved this problem by washing her batata in fresh spring water.
She taught the "trick" to her mother, and then to her playmates, and over a period of time most of the monkeys on the island learned to wash their batatas to get rid of the sand. At this point perhaps 99 monkeys had been trained in this behavior. One day the 100th monkey learned how to wash his batata. By the next day every single monkey on the island of Koshima was doing this - even the ones who lived a bit more isolated from the others and had never witnessed a demonstration.
But what was particularly astonishing was that this new behavior was suddenly observed in the populations of these same species of monkeys on the other islands. Every monkey in the remote outlying islands was washing away the sand on their sweet potatoes without ever having been taught how to do it!
The number 100 may not be exact, but the theory of critical mass evolved from this study: That once a certain number of a species learns a new behavior and that number reaches a critical mass, it can spontaneously be transmitted to all members of the species. This was very encouraging to metaphysicians and philosophers, who envisioned a time that a significant percentage of the human species, having learned to live with one another peacefully and harmoniously, would reach a critical mass and transmit this behavior to all of humanity.
I first learned about this study about the time I opened my private practice in LA in the mid-80's. I so enthusiastically embodied the ideal of the 100th monkey, that whenever I treated a new patient I would think "maybe this is the 100th monkey. Maybe if he or she can learn to take responsibility for the state of the world and make the appropriate inner changes, the world will become a better place."
One day I made an important discovery: I AM THE 100TH MONKEY! Taking responsibility isn't about being at fault or blamed. It's a conscious recognition that we had to play some role (even if only the tiniest little part!) in the circumstances that we find ourselves involved in; And not only in our personal dramas, but also in the overall condition of the planet.
If we can't stand the hate and hostility that seem to prevail now around the world, why not examine our own petty resentments and unwillingness to bend in our beliefs. If we are bothered by growing world-wide pollution and environmental destruction, could it be a reflection of the contaminated thoughts and feelings that persist in our psyches? If terrorism is an issue, what about how we allow our own inner fears and judgments terrorize us? Do we expect things from our children that we are unwilling to change in ourselves? Who's the 100th monkey? Everyone is the 100th monkey.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Judge Yourself
...When you judge others, you should know that you are judged by God. If you are judging others, God has judged you also. So in His judgment, whatever marks you give to yourself and to others are not going to be consulted at all. It is His judgment which is going to decide how far you are...
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Bordi, India, 21/1/80
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Bordi, India, 21/1/80
Understand the Agnya Chakra
"And thus we understand that Agnya Chakra – which is the most important door, through which everybody has to pass, has to be kept properly worshipped and kept clean. If your attention is soiled, then your Agnya Chakra will not be alright. Then you will have hallucinations, you will have wrong ideas and you will think wrong things. So, if you really want to find the meaning of your being, if you really want awakening of the Kundalini, then know, that whatever you have known so far about God, about everything, has to be revised, has to be seen for yourself what it is like. Unless and until you pass through this, you cannot be baptised. The people who talk of Baptism, like John the Baptist, he was really a realised soul; and when he raised the Kundalini and put the water on the head, he really gave them realisation. That is Baptism. Christian means a baptised person, but not any Tom, Dick or Harry can put his hand on your head and say you are realised. On the contrary, William Blake says, ‘The Priest cursed on my head’. It is true."
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 1983-11
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 1983-11
The Beauty Of Sahasrasa
Now to say you must meditate, people think it is a kind of ritual, or maybe a kind of a style of Sahaja Yoga. No. Meditation is for you to go deep down into yourself, to achieve all that your Sahasrara wants to give. To achieve that height of detachment, of understanding is only through meditation. So what happens in meditation is that your awareness crosses over Agnya, goes above and is now stationed in the Sahasrara, in thoughtless awareness. Then the reality of Sahasrara, the beauty of Sahasrara starts pouring in your own character, in your own temperament.
Unless and until you meditate, not meditate just to get well or just to feel that I was meditating. But meditation is very important for all of you that you develop your Sahasrara in such a manner that you imbibe the beauty of your Sahasrara. If you don’t use your Sahasrara in this way, after some time you will find Sahasrara will close down. You will have no vibrations and you will have no understanding of yourself. So a very very important thing is to meditate. I can immediately make out a person who has been meditating and the one who has not been meditating. Because a person who does not meditate still thinks that “Oh, it’s all right. I am doing this. I am doing that.”
Meditation is the only way you can enrich yourself with the beauty of reality. There is no other way. I cannot find any other way by which you rise into the realm of divinity.
For example, I would say that myself, whatever I have done is this, that I have been able to find out a method – how to give you Self-realisation – to masses. But that doesn’t mean that if I give to masses, they are all Sahaja Yogis. No. You must have seen whenever you have your programs, people get realisation when I am there and they come to programs for a while and then they drop off. The reason is that they have not meditated. If they had meditated, they would have known what is their quality, what are they.
So today is a day when you have to promise me that you will meditate every night, every evening, maybe in the morning also. Whenever it is possible, if you can go into a meditative mood, you are in contact with this divine power. Then whatever is good for you, whatever is good for your society, for your country, all is done by this divine power. You don’t have to overpower this divine power, you don’t have to order, you don’t have to ask. Just if you meditate you are one with this All-pervading Power, which is another great blessing to us.
Unless and until your Sahasrara is open, all the blessings of the divine power cannot come to you, cannot. Maybe you might get some money. You might get some job. You might get this and that. But your own development is only possible when you meditate and your Sahasrara is completely open and open to truth.
Shri Mataji, 1998
Unless and until you meditate, not meditate just to get well or just to feel that I was meditating. But meditation is very important for all of you that you develop your Sahasrara in such a manner that you imbibe the beauty of your Sahasrara. If you don’t use your Sahasrara in this way, after some time you will find Sahasrara will close down. You will have no vibrations and you will have no understanding of yourself. So a very very important thing is to meditate. I can immediately make out a person who has been meditating and the one who has not been meditating. Because a person who does not meditate still thinks that “Oh, it’s all right. I am doing this. I am doing that.”
Meditation is the only way you can enrich yourself with the beauty of reality. There is no other way. I cannot find any other way by which you rise into the realm of divinity.
For example, I would say that myself, whatever I have done is this, that I have been able to find out a method – how to give you Self-realisation – to masses. But that doesn’t mean that if I give to masses, they are all Sahaja Yogis. No. You must have seen whenever you have your programs, people get realisation when I am there and they come to programs for a while and then they drop off. The reason is that they have not meditated. If they had meditated, they would have known what is their quality, what are they.
So today is a day when you have to promise me that you will meditate every night, every evening, maybe in the morning also. Whenever it is possible, if you can go into a meditative mood, you are in contact with this divine power. Then whatever is good for you, whatever is good for your society, for your country, all is done by this divine power. You don’t have to overpower this divine power, you don’t have to order, you don’t have to ask. Just if you meditate you are one with this All-pervading Power, which is another great blessing to us.
Unless and until your Sahasrara is open, all the blessings of the divine power cannot come to you, cannot. Maybe you might get some money. You might get some job. You might get this and that. But your own development is only possible when you meditate and your Sahasrara is completely open and open to truth.
Shri Mataji, 1998
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Real Becoming
When you start surrendering and the faith comes in, then your awareness rises higher than this, and these small, small, little, little things which have become subtler, they start departing from you. This is the third state where your three gunas you can see, but they do not affect you.
So in the first state you have desire. In the second state, which is a very big thing, you see the desire being fulfilled, but all these subtle things are mixed up with you. In the third state you see them, third stage, but they do not affect you. This is the third stage when one has to see that they do not affect you. You do see catching, but then you do not call catching, you say recording. You think you are an instrument, you are just recording. The effect of that becomes very small, very small. You become so powerful within that the effect of this catching is very little, you just record this effect. This is the third state of your ascent. Now this, at this third state. To rise up to this third state, the only way is complete faith. Faith is - first of all you have to learn certain things about faith. One of them is the protocol, but with faith, if you learn protocol then you will not feel bad about it. But if you're forced onto it, you'll feel bad. You see, the mixture state is still on. ...
So the third awareness comes in where you start seeing all these, recording it. This is the third state. Then the fourth state comes in. In the fourth state - is called as the Turya Dasha, is the fourth state. Turya is the fourth state. In the fourth state you dominate these three gunas, you control all the elements. At this stage, you just say and it works. You have seen yesterday what happened with me. It just works, you become master of these three gunas. Like I used to describe that first you are sitting in the car and somebody's driving you. He uses your left and right side, or you can say, the brake and accelerator, and the car is driven. Then he starts teaching you how to drive. Then you start learning by using your left and right, accelerator and your brake. Then the third stage comes in where you become a driver, but still you are worried about the master who is sitting behind, that still you are doing a mistake, you are doing wrong. But then the fourth stage comes, you become the master. You make others drive. Order here, anyone, order the Sun, order the Moon, order. Order means just tell them, I mean not question of any domination is there. Just desire. Just say it, it works out.
Now this fourth stage is called as Turya Dasha. Then comes the fifth stage in which - I don't want to give you names because you’ll stick on to those. They are not so clear cut. They mingle from each other you see, and they are mixtures. But in Turya state when you mature properly, then you jump into the fifth state, in which you do not even, you do Sankalpa. You do not even determine or say anything. You just, anything slips out of your mouth, may not even slip out - it works. Is a state. There you handle the whole situation, sitting down here. ...
Sitting down here, you know each and every thing. Then not only you have mastered it, but in that you can enter into it. Now, for example, I’ll tell you what. I can enter into your subconscious, into your collective subconscious, into your supraconscious, into all the areas you see, I can if I want to. This is when you have mastered it completely, then you enter into it. When you are the master, then you enter into it. When you're master of this house, you can enter into any place.
Then comes the seventh state and that is the state where you, just you are. Your being there is sufficient. Just being there. Nothing exists, but you - for yourself. Now all these seven states you can reach, because I stand beyond them and I have come down to the first state. I'm trying to pull you out. If you do not drag me down, I can pull you up very fast. So only request is don't drag me down.
That's how the becoming is going to be. Now this is the basics, the scaffold … you can call the basic structure. Now you are filling all the beautiful things in between - how to do it. And all the things can nicely, again, arranged and re-decorated and can be done properly. But this is the basic structure of becoming.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmal Devi, extracts from the Talk, 'The Real Becoming', Old Arlesford Seminar, UK, 1980 (1980-0518)
So in the first state you have desire. In the second state, which is a very big thing, you see the desire being fulfilled, but all these subtle things are mixed up with you. In the third state you see them, third stage, but they do not affect you. This is the third stage when one has to see that they do not affect you. You do see catching, but then you do not call catching, you say recording. You think you are an instrument, you are just recording. The effect of that becomes very small, very small. You become so powerful within that the effect of this catching is very little, you just record this effect. This is the third state of your ascent. Now this, at this third state. To rise up to this third state, the only way is complete faith. Faith is - first of all you have to learn certain things about faith. One of them is the protocol, but with faith, if you learn protocol then you will not feel bad about it. But if you're forced onto it, you'll feel bad. You see, the mixture state is still on. ...
So the third awareness comes in where you start seeing all these, recording it. This is the third state. Then the fourth state comes in. In the fourth state - is called as the Turya Dasha, is the fourth state. Turya is the fourth state. In the fourth state you dominate these three gunas, you control all the elements. At this stage, you just say and it works. You have seen yesterday what happened with me. It just works, you become master of these three gunas. Like I used to describe that first you are sitting in the car and somebody's driving you. He uses your left and right side, or you can say, the brake and accelerator, and the car is driven. Then he starts teaching you how to drive. Then you start learning by using your left and right, accelerator and your brake. Then the third stage comes in where you become a driver, but still you are worried about the master who is sitting behind, that still you are doing a mistake, you are doing wrong. But then the fourth stage comes, you become the master. You make others drive. Order here, anyone, order the Sun, order the Moon, order. Order means just tell them, I mean not question of any domination is there. Just desire. Just say it, it works out.
Now this fourth stage is called as Turya Dasha. Then comes the fifth stage in which - I don't want to give you names because you’ll stick on to those. They are not so clear cut. They mingle from each other you see, and they are mixtures. But in Turya state when you mature properly, then you jump into the fifth state, in which you do not even, you do Sankalpa. You do not even determine or say anything. You just, anything slips out of your mouth, may not even slip out - it works. Is a state. There you handle the whole situation, sitting down here. ...
Sitting down here, you know each and every thing. Then not only you have mastered it, but in that you can enter into it. Now, for example, I’ll tell you what. I can enter into your subconscious, into your collective subconscious, into your supraconscious, into all the areas you see, I can if I want to. This is when you have mastered it completely, then you enter into it. When you are the master, then you enter into it. When you're master of this house, you can enter into any place.
Then comes the seventh state and that is the state where you, just you are. Your being there is sufficient. Just being there. Nothing exists, but you - for yourself. Now all these seven states you can reach, because I stand beyond them and I have come down to the first state. I'm trying to pull you out. If you do not drag me down, I can pull you up very fast. So only request is don't drag me down.
That's how the becoming is going to be. Now this is the basics, the scaffold … you can call the basic structure. Now you are filling all the beautiful things in between - how to do it. And all the things can nicely, again, arranged and re-decorated and can be done properly. But this is the basic structure of becoming.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmal Devi, extracts from the Talk, 'The Real Becoming', Old Arlesford Seminar, UK, 1980 (1980-0518)
Friday, September 25, 2009
Friday, August 21, 2009
You have to Mother your child
"But this dedication can only be developed if you realise that you have to Mother your child. That, if the mother is ugly the child will be ugly too. Because it is the mother who is expressed in the child. She does not dominate, alright, but she definitely can corrupt the image of the child. And that’s exactly what happens when we, the Sahaja Yogis, are not bothered as to look after our Spirit and our spiritual growth. Even now, you will be surprised, fifty per cent people write letters to Me, ‘Mother, I am still possessed, I have worked with lemons and chillies, I am coming to You for this and that.’ It is a very low-grade business I think, even after so many years you are possessed, then I think you should beat yourself every day 108 times. It’s a very low grade behaviour I personally think, that after your Mother has worked so hard on you, you are still just the same, coming back with the horrible idea of bringing all kinds of problems to your Mother, that means that You have not looked after your child."
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Jan 19, 1984
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Jan 19, 1984
Peter-Anger
"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret"
- Laurence J. Peter
- Laurence J. Peter
There has to be no fear
"People get nervous, plan too much, think too much, analyse too much, and their ego settles down into their brains and ultimately covers their heart, they get a fright. It is very common in the East. In India anybody, even a chaprasi (peon) can shout at you for nothing at all. It is such a vicious circle. So the whole system works out into such a terrible insecurity that you do not understand what there is to bark at. What is there to shout at? And then a kind of identification with falsehood is built up so much that you are no longer a human being, you are either a secretary or under secretary, or a joint secretary, I do not know who is the higher or the lower, and you are nothing else but that, and you must have these horns otherwise nobody is going to believe that you are something, so it is such an identification that develops into human beings because your heart is not developed properly, you know your Mother has given you birth and you are a human being. There is no need to have any fear from another human being who is also a child of your Mother. So there has to be no fear about it."
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
July 1980
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
July 1980
Greatest Love
The greatest guru that we have is love, sahaj love. It is the guru
within us which teaches us, which somehow or other leads us.
We are led into that great line of understanding, for which we don't
have to go to any college, to any school for education. It is
something so much within that it works and expresses itself, expresses
like a light.
Such people we can make out because they are fully enlightened. They
have light and through that light they see the whole world, which is
very innocent and simple for them.
This love, which cannot be described in words, has to be felt
within.That is what is being Sahaj the Sahaj way.
If you have this love, you enjoy. You enjoy yourself and enjoy
everybody else because it is Sahaj. You don't have to make any
efforts, don't have to try anything. Just it is there and it works.
The feeling of love has no way of expressing itself. It is just there.
It cannot express because it is without expression. It is just to be
felt within yourself. Then you want to do so many things. You want to
help everyone. You want to help yourself. You want to do good to
others.
This is what we have to know: we are that love. That love is within us.
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
within us which teaches us, which somehow or other leads us.
We are led into that great line of understanding, for which we don't
have to go to any college, to any school for education. It is
something so much within that it works and expresses itself, expresses
like a light.
Such people we can make out because they are fully enlightened. They
have light and through that light they see the whole world, which is
very innocent and simple for them.
This love, which cannot be described in words, has to be felt
within.That is what is being Sahaj the Sahaj way.
If you have this love, you enjoy. You enjoy yourself and enjoy
everybody else because it is Sahaj. You don't have to make any
efforts, don't have to try anything. Just it is there and it works.
The feeling of love has no way of expressing itself. It is just there.
It cannot express because it is without expression. It is just to be
felt within yourself. Then you want to do so many things. You want to
help everyone. You want to help yourself. You want to do good to
others.
This is what we have to know: we are that love. That love is within us.
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Einstein Illusion
"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
She is your individual mother
..."She is your individual mother and she gives you the second birth. That's how you get connected to the divine paradise.
All this, if it is told without Realization, has no meaning.
But people were given great ideas about it and also were promised "One day your resurrection will come." It is the greatest happening for you. It is the greatest event of your life and one must consider it is very fortunate that you have been able to achieve it. All this is because you desired it.
In many of your lives you have been desiring the heavenly paradise. People have been going around in the hills and dales seeking, doing all kinds of things. That is already done by you. You do not have to give up anything.
Life is not that difficult for you. Your job is the easiest thing.
It is just to raise your hand. In your hand you have the power just to raise your hand and give them Realization instead of feeling diffident. That is why I would say you are all resurrected. You are all realized souls and you have to create the divine paradise on this Earth.
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
All this, if it is told without Realization, has no meaning.
But people were given great ideas about it and also were promised "One day your resurrection will come." It is the greatest happening for you. It is the greatest event of your life and one must consider it is very fortunate that you have been able to achieve it. All this is because you desired it.
In many of your lives you have been desiring the heavenly paradise. People have been going around in the hills and dales seeking, doing all kinds of things. That is already done by you. You do not have to give up anything.
Life is not that difficult for you. Your job is the easiest thing.
It is just to raise your hand. In your hand you have the power just to raise your hand and give them Realization instead of feeling diffident. That is why I would say you are all resurrected. You are all realized souls and you have to create the divine paradise on this Earth.
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Shiva Tattwa
"So the Spirit is like the ocean which has the light in it. And when this ocean pours into the little cup of your brain, the cup loses its identity and everything becomes spiritual. Everything! You can make everything Spiritual. Everything You touch, anything, it is Spiritual. The sand becomes Spiritual, the land becomes Spiritual, atmosphere becomes Spiritual, celestial bodies become Spiritual. Everything becomes Spiritual. So the detachment from your limited brain has to be brought in. All limitations of this brain should be broken so that when this ocean fills that brain, it should break that little cup and every bit of that cup should become colourful. Colour of the Spirit is the light of the Spirit, and this light of the Spirit acts, works, thinks, co-ordinates, does everything. This is the reason today I decided to bring Shiva Tattwa to the brain."
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
1984-05-21
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
1984-05-21
The Essence of Love is Concern
The essence of love is concern. Even if, supposing, somebody does wrong, the concern of the Divine would be to correct that person…. The concern for the benevolence will be all the time there - whether it may appear to be sometimes cruel, might appear to be affectionate, might appear to be over-indulgent - whatever. It may take a form like a wave. Whichever way it may look … it is for your benevolence. It works not only for your benevolence, but the collective benevolence. And it knows very well what is to be done, how it is to be worked out. It does not have to go and learn from anywhere because the complete knowledge of all this know-how also is within itself. It’s such a storage of wisdom, knowledge and love, so it does not deviate.
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 1989
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 1989
Guru Puja
Now we have to understand the importance of guru. Why should we have a guru when we have God? We’ve got Shakti, then why should we have a guru? What is the need to have a guru? Guru means the weight, the weight. We get our weight from the magnetic forces of the gravity of the Mother Earth. So guru means gravity, a gravity in a person. Why do we need a guru? Because to know God is easy, specially in Sahaja Yoga, to be one with Him. As soon as you get your Self-realization in Sahaja Yoga, the modern Sahaja Yoga, immediately you become entitled to give realizations to other. It was said that guru is the person who makes you meet the Divine. That’s not true, because any self-realized person in the Sahaja Yoga can raise the Kundalini and can give Self-realization to others, immediately after they have touched the Sahasrara or opened the Sahasrara. But normally a realized soul cannot do it. Any born realized soul cannot do it on its own, it has to have authority of Me as I am today
That’s why it was said that guru is a person who makes you meet God; he raises the Kundalini and makes you one with God. Because in those days when the gurus were self realized, when the gurus were realized, they had the authority and power of raising the Kundalini only after they had reached a very great state of evolution – complete purification, complete detachment.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Guru Puja, London, 1979
That’s why it was said that guru is a person who makes you meet God; he raises the Kundalini and makes you one with God. Because in those days when the gurus were self realized, when the gurus were realized, they had the authority and power of raising the Kundalini only after they had reached a very great state of evolution – complete purification, complete detachment.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Guru Puja, London, 1979
Friday, August 7, 2009
Before you speak
Before you speak, ask yourself:
Is it kind?
Is it necessary?
Is it true?
Does it improve upon the silence?
Sai Nath of Shirdi, (c1838 - 1918)
Is it kind?
Is it necessary?
Is it true?
Does it improve upon the silence?
Sai Nath of Shirdi, (c1838 - 1918)
New Year
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards. Unless a man be born again, he shall by no means enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton
This universe is make one
We have to believe in the totality, in the universality. This universe is one. God has not made them separate. All religions are one; coming from the same Source. So we believe in every religion, we follow every religion; and the whole concept of nations is also mythical. The whole world was made one, with lots of rivers, mountains, and sea.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi (1991)
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi (1991)
It is in you
Jesus said:
I say to you, as for what you seek after and you enquire about, look, it is in you!
Dialogue of the Savior 16
Posted by John Noyce at 8:38 AM
I say to you, as for what you seek after and you enquire about, look, it is in you!
Dialogue of the Savior 16
Posted by John Noyce at 8:38 AM
When the heart is purified
When the heart is purified with sincerity
Then even enemies become friends..
Tigers may come near but will never attack one.
Poison offered to such a one will turn into nectar,
Any harm directed towards him will result into good,
Harsh words will sound polite.
Any pain afflicted will become the source of happiness.
The flames of fire will turn cool.
For God All Merciful is pleased.
If one's heart is full of compassion,
If one loves others more than oneself,
God will look upon such a one with an eye of mercy
And bless his heart with His presence.
Saint Tukaram (1608-1660)
Posted by John Noyce at 6:52 PM
Then even enemies become friends..
Tigers may come near but will never attack one.
Poison offered to such a one will turn into nectar,
Any harm directed towards him will result into good,
Harsh words will sound polite.
Any pain afflicted will become the source of happiness.
The flames of fire will turn cool.
For God All Merciful is pleased.
If one's heart is full of compassion,
If one loves others more than oneself,
God will look upon such a one with an eye of mercy
And bless his heart with His presence.
Saint Tukaram (1608-1660)
Posted by John Noyce at 6:52 PM
Nostradasmus
"With a name so timid will she be brought forth
That the three sisters will have the name of destiny;
Then she will lead a great people by tongue and deed,
More than any other will she have fame and renown.
Nostradamus, Century 1:76
Notes:
Three sisters: Mahakali, Mahalakshmi, Mahasaraswati
(alternatively the three nadis of the subtle system)
a great people: the Sahaja yogis
Posted by John Noyce at 8:54 AM
Labels: European
That the three sisters will have the name of destiny;
Then she will lead a great people by tongue and deed,
More than any other will she have fame and renown.
Nostradamus, Century 1:76
Notes:
Three sisters: Mahakali, Mahalakshmi, Mahasaraswati
(alternatively the three nadis of the subtle system)
a great people: the Sahaja yogis
Posted by John Noyce at 8:54 AM
Labels: European
Iqbal's vision of the new world
Sheikh Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938), Urdu poet and Muslim activist who lived in British India, is regarded as one of the great poet-philosophers of Pakistan.
There is a world still lost in our breasts,
A world still awaiting the call of “Arise!”
A world without distinctions of blood and colour,
And whose evening is brighter than the morning of the West;
A world that is purged of sultan and slave,
And is boundless like the believer’s heart;
A lovely world, whose seed was cast
Into ‘Urnar’s soul by just one blessed look
A world eternal, but with ever new adventure
Ever new the products of its Master Principles;
Its interior unafflicted with change,
Its exterior undergoing change every moment.
Such a world is inside you, look!
I will tell you about its Master Principles ...
Source: www.allamaiqbal.com
Posted by John Noyce at 9:39 AM
Labels: Indian
There is a world still lost in our breasts,
A world still awaiting the call of “Arise!”
A world without distinctions of blood and colour,
And whose evening is brighter than the morning of the West;
A world that is purged of sultan and slave,
And is boundless like the believer’s heart;
A lovely world, whose seed was cast
Into ‘Urnar’s soul by just one blessed look
A world eternal, but with ever new adventure
Ever new the products of its Master Principles;
Its interior unafflicted with change,
Its exterior undergoing change every moment.
Such a world is inside you, look!
I will tell you about its Master Principles ...
Source: www.allamaiqbal.com
Posted by John Noyce at 9:39 AM
Labels: Indian
When the two will be one
For the Lord Himself, being asked by a certain person when his
kingdom would come, said, When the two shall be one, and the
outside as the inside, and the male with the female, neither male
or female.
2Clement 12:2 (mid-second century CE)
Posted by John Noyce at 12:00 AM
Labels: early Christian
kingdom would come, said, When the two shall be one, and the
outside as the inside, and the male with the female, neither male
or female.
2Clement 12:2 (mid-second century CE)
Posted by John Noyce at 12:00 AM
Labels: early Christian
Thursday, July 30, 2009
The Principle of Vibration
Your vibration can be at many levels. To say the least, you can enhance your mental vibration through various actions. Higher levels of mental and spiritual vibrations include: Love, Gratitude, Praise, Faith, Feel good emotions and more. Therefore, many practitioners work on a daily basis to enhance and bring their mental and spiritual vibration to a higher level. Practitioners do this so that they may lead a more harmonious life, but also to attract people, events and things of the same or higher vibration. The end result of healthy vibrations is the attraction of more constructive events, outcomes, and possibilities
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Vibration
.....In this process of correction and improvement, when you indulge you should see: “Are you getting subtler or grosser?” That is the best way to judge. Now, I’ve seen people who go on judging on small things like vibrations - whether this vibration are all right or not in this tree or on this flowers or on this land, all kinds of material things they want to see the vibrations. But for what are you seeing the vibration? You are seeing vibration because some sort of material gain. You think that if you check the vibrations and the vibrations are all right, then you are quite safe, you will not lose this, will not lose that. It’s not true. Because vibrations are not meant to judge all these worldly things and worldly matters. It’s absolutely cheapening the vibrations. You should not cheapen them, because vibrations can suggest things which may be detrimental to your growth very much........
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Guru Puja 1997
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Guru Puja 1997
Explaining maya
1975 letter from Shri Mataji to sahaja yogis, written on May 5th, 5 years after the opening of Sahasrara Chakra at the universal level
Attention, Maya and Walking on the Path…
In 1975, Shri Mataji (the founder of Sahaja Yoga Meditation) celebrated Sahasrara Day in London with about twenty to twenty-five invited people. On that same day, she sent a letter in Marathi to the Sahaja Yogis in India. Excerpts are provided below.
“I am explaining, in this letter,” She wrote, “what is Unreal. It should be read out to all and assimilated by all.”
Your name, village, country, horoscope, forecasts, many such things get attached to you or others attach them to you.
Once the Brahmarandhra (the top of the head -fontanel bone area, the core of Sahasrara chakra) is closed, many types of illusory ideas become part of your mind….
Only that attention which progresses, renouncing all that is unreal, breaks all known and unknown bindings becomes verily the Self.
Atma (the Spirit) is never disturbed or destroyed. Only human attention, in pursuit of desires, leaves its inner path.
This is Maya (the Illusion). She has been intentionally created. Without her, the Attention would not have developed.
You should not be afraid of Maya and should recognize her so that She will illuminate your path.
A Cloud hides the Sun and also makes it seen.
In the same way, once the Maya is identified, she moves aside and the Sun is seen. The Sun is always there, but what is the purpose of the Cloud? Because of the Cloud, you have an urge to see the Sun, which shines for a moment and again hides somewhere. It gives strength and courage to your sight to see the sun.
Man has been created with such great efforts. Only one step on his feet and all is successful. But still, it is not becoming possible. Hence, I have come as your Mother….
Attention should always be kept going deeper and deeper within. Forget the outside as much as possible. Have confidence that everything about it is taken care of. There are many instances to prove it. Then, in whatever you do, your attention remains in oneness with the Self. All bindings of sin and merit are snapped. Distinctions like
worldly and nonwordly vanish because that wicked darkness, which has created all the discriminations, ends. Everything becomes auspicious in the light of true knowledge, whether it is the destruction done by Shri Krishna or the cross of Shri Jesus.
All this will not be understood by explaining. Just showing the path will not help.
The path will be known only after walking on it….
Many Blessings and Infinite Love to you all.
Ever Yours,
Your Mother, Nirmala
fr http://free-meditation.ca/archives/801
Attention, Maya and Walking on the Path…
In 1975, Shri Mataji (the founder of Sahaja Yoga Meditation) celebrated Sahasrara Day in London with about twenty to twenty-five invited people. On that same day, she sent a letter in Marathi to the Sahaja Yogis in India. Excerpts are provided below.
“I am explaining, in this letter,” She wrote, “what is Unreal. It should be read out to all and assimilated by all.”
Your name, village, country, horoscope, forecasts, many such things get attached to you or others attach them to you.
Once the Brahmarandhra (the top of the head -fontanel bone area, the core of Sahasrara chakra) is closed, many types of illusory ideas become part of your mind….
Only that attention which progresses, renouncing all that is unreal, breaks all known and unknown bindings becomes verily the Self.
Atma (the Spirit) is never disturbed or destroyed. Only human attention, in pursuit of desires, leaves its inner path.
This is Maya (the Illusion). She has been intentionally created. Without her, the Attention would not have developed.
You should not be afraid of Maya and should recognize her so that She will illuminate your path.
A Cloud hides the Sun and also makes it seen.
In the same way, once the Maya is identified, she moves aside and the Sun is seen. The Sun is always there, but what is the purpose of the Cloud? Because of the Cloud, you have an urge to see the Sun, which shines for a moment and again hides somewhere. It gives strength and courage to your sight to see the sun.
Man has been created with such great efforts. Only one step on his feet and all is successful. But still, it is not becoming possible. Hence, I have come as your Mother….
Attention should always be kept going deeper and deeper within. Forget the outside as much as possible. Have confidence that everything about it is taken care of. There are many instances to prove it. Then, in whatever you do, your attention remains in oneness with the Self. All bindings of sin and merit are snapped. Distinctions like
worldly and nonwordly vanish because that wicked darkness, which has created all the discriminations, ends. Everything becomes auspicious in the light of true knowledge, whether it is the destruction done by Shri Krishna or the cross of Shri Jesus.
All this will not be understood by explaining. Just showing the path will not help.
The path will be known only after walking on it….
Many Blessings and Infinite Love to you all.
Ever Yours,
Your Mother, Nirmala
fr http://free-meditation.ca/archives/801
Just Another Illusion
To know God you should know yourself first. Without knowing that you cannot know God. That’s essential, that you should know yourself but when you know yourself, you know partly. The experience is not sufficient. The knowledge has to come. And the guru gives the knowledge about yourself. Now you have to tally it. You should find out whatever your guru has told you. Is it true or not? Is it correct or not? Or is it just another illusion?
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Guru Puja 2000
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Guru Puja 2000
The Meaning of Puja
Now for Puja, one has to understand that without Realisation, Puja has no meaning, because you are not "Ananya", is you have to become aware of your whole.
Krishna's description of Bhakti is "Ananya". He says "I will give you Ananya Bhakti", He wants Ananya Bhakti, means when there is not the other, means when we are realised. But when it comes to giving, He says, you have to come to Me with Ananya Bhakti, means when you have become one with Me." Then you should have the devotion, not before that, before that, you are not connected."
Now Puja is a left hand side projection. Is the neutralisation of the right side, very much, specially for people who are very right handed, atmosphere which is very right handed, Puja is ideal for them. Is the Bhakti, is the Devotion that you project. Now what happens actually when you project with Puja? It has been found out, and now as I am telling you, that first you have to awaken within you the Deities that are still asleep, by worshipping Them. But as these Deities, Primordial Deities, are with Me, you warship Me, and every Deity in Me is awakened, by which your deities are awakened.
So first, your vibrations must improve, to receive. If the reception is not good, what's the use of any Puja or projection? So first of all, we sort or prepare our instrument, or prepare our projecting instrument. That preparation done by praying to different Deities, as we call that, a Kundalini Puja.
By praying to My Kundalini, you improve your reflection. Because then the vibrations from Me start flowing into yours, and they awaken it. This is the projection as far as you are concerned.
Once the instrument is alright, then you project outside. And now, how do you project? By worshipping the Goddess as the Protector of the whole universe, praising Her different attributes, even Her Face, Her Hands, everything has a meaning. Praising Her Powers. By saying that, by repeating that, you echoe in your projection Her Powers, and then your projection becomes that powerful. It's a very subtle happening that takes place. It's miraculous. These things look so simple, just like washing my Feet. Simple thing is washing my Feet. Now see these Feet, I don't know if you see, the whole universe I see there, and I really get stunned by them.
When you wash My Feet, what do you do? Actually , My Feet have been working very hard. And then, you put a little water, to soothe them, to suggest that you can feel the effort put in by these Feet... and a kind of a very sweet, melodious love flows out of these Feet then. Like today I was coming, and I suddenly saw Paul standing: "Same thing happened to me." See, what a care it is, what an understanding! Mother is coming, She should not get lost!
It's that, and this thing all started melting. Because this love who understands everything, doesn't want anything, but is only excited if there is somebody to receive the love. Then how do you say you are going to receive? By expressing these small small things. So when you soothe My Feet, wash Them, clean Them, you know what They mean: you recognise. That recognition, how are you to show? You see, these ceremonies, little ceremonies are important, because they express your recognition. It could be absolutely dull, dead and finished. And it could be absolutely living, if you know why you are doing it. Then you apply some oil and things, again soothe My Feet. Just say "Mother, You have worked very hard, Your Feet have worked very hard".
Just saying that itself, I mean makes no difference otherwise, if you say in a very rational manner, but to that Love that are these Feet, it makes a very big difference. This sweetness, the little thing a little baby just put her hand on her mother's cheek, just to express the gratitude, and the mother's heart starts jumping with love...
It is a very reciprocal behaviour, it's very subtle, and that kind of a subtle working is fixed already: it works that way only. The more you more you love from your heart, the more the joy will be there. The more you are rational and more mental, there won't be so much. It should be first of all your cleansing is important, but the projection should be towards your Mother, that is the height. Once you achieve that height, then you become all powerful, and then you can give to others. But that giving is nothing but is a very mutual and absolutely reciprocal, because the Devi knows about you, everything: if you are trying anything else, She knows and She will also tell you frankly that this should not be done, that should not be done, it should not be done, clearly, so that you do not be under any misunderstandings.
But still, to work it out, you must know it has to be reciprocal, it cannot be one-sided, it has to be both sides. Then it works out better, and a kind of a homogeneous feeling with that Love comes in, sort of a lubricant, a beautiful feeling of movement within yourself comes in.
Puja really is the triggering thing, triggers you, it triggers you into another realm, it's really miraculous. Once you have done the Puja, then you can project out, much more, in your silence only. Your silence itself becomes so powerful. Now in this special case of our Western lives, we have to establish our Innocence, very important.
It is the first thing that is attacked, Innocence is attacked by so many things. So we have to establish our Innocence. And Innocence is the most powerful thing: it doesn't see anything bad, it doesn't see...
...how people are: they don't love! So Ganesha is very important for the Western countries, very important, because that's the Essence of everything, I think, that's the most essential thing, that's why we worship Ganesha first. And Ganesha was created first of all, because He is the eldest son, He is the first son, He is the eldest brother you have, and though Kumara is treated as an elder brother always, while Ganesha calls Himself as a younger brother, but He was the first created, because He remains young always, never grows, so in a way, He is always younger to you also.
It's a very, very subtle understanding: a very young little thing is so much wiser, He is wisdom. Can you imagine a little baby is so intelligent, a little baby so wise? Much more, He is like a grown-up little baby, a very matured, wise, little baby. So by age, you are always older than Him, but by wisdom, He is the eldest.
Then like this you should understand how we evoke all the Deities within us, by doing these small things, by saying Their mantras, because now you are awakened, every word you say is awakened now, is "siddha mantra".
On this Guru Puja I'm really going to give you the way of how to do the "siddha" is the establishment of the siddha, to master to master every chakra and every Deity bestowed upon it, to master it, how to do it, I will tell you this Guru Puja no doubt, I'm going to work it out. But this Puja is to be done with full understanding, and with full recognition:
It's a great fortune. Even the Devas are jealous of you, all the rishis are jealous of you, so many are jealous of you. The greatest advantage for you, greatest fortune. Make full use of it.
And they are very simple things that can please, very simple. You know your Mother can be pleased with very very simple things. It's like that only: it's how much heart you have put into it, is the point.
I think tomorrow we should have the puja, today we have understood about it: it is more to be felt and understood and realised, than to be thought about. Because you'll go into thoughtless awareness. It is more source of triggering.
For example, I think I'll ask Harry to give the miracle we had yesterday on our way. He was loosing his way throughout, and Regis was navigating him, so we were all lost...
But then we had a miracle while coming back: there was on the M-1 a complete jam, and miles together we could see there is no movement, and suddenly, within two minutes, what happened? What I told him, and how he worked it out. It's a problem, you see, to get after everything, to do it... Now he thought that I have told that you put your attention inside. Now he has a slope in his left side, and when you do it too much inside, you go on the slope... and he understands that something's going wrong.
I never said that you get after anything. Now, "put your attention inside "means: if you get Realisation by that. If you don't get Realisation, there's something wrong somewhere. You have lost your way, that's the main point. So I told Harry that you don't put your attention inside, because you go on the slope...
Just they were there... This is what is Maya that upsets you. Project yourself outside...
There was another experience I told these people was this: that there where two journalists, one Mister Marathi and a friend who are Sahaja Yogis. And I went to the journalist's association, they had a meeting. And there is another one who told Me: "No, no Mother I have complete faith in You because there was a miracle that happened to a friend of mine Marathi who is a Sahaja Yogi".
I said :"What happened?". He said they were coming from Poona down to Bombay, and the breaks failed, and the slopes, you see, on the gaps, it moves very fast. And suddenly they saw a huge big truck coming up, with all the lights on top, and they didn't know how to control, and they were about to dash out. And just they closed their eyes and they said: "Now, Mother, save us!" And suddenly they found that the car had crossed the thing, and the thing was moving upwards, the truck was moving.
They didn't know, as if somebody had picked up that car and put it on the other side. So these miracles can work out, in case you project yourself out. But for projecting outside, first you should be cleansed inside. But for that also, all the time if your attention "where am I catching?" then you go onto rationality: "I must be catching because of this, I must be catching because of that".
I have told you hundred times not to say "WHY?". Give up this word "why?". "Why am I catching?" It will settle down. This maddening must go away! You cannot answer "why" of anything in Sahaja Yoga, can you? Why did I meet you? Why did you get Realisation? Ask hundred questions, two hundred, three hundred, five hundred, you will not have any answer.
So, give up that: it's not your rationality, it's the Grace, it's the whim of the Grace. That's working it out! What are you trying at? Just ask for the Grace. Finished. It's silent. It works out.
This is maddening! You will become mad people. This is the greatest madness that people want to know why of everything. How can you understand? You don't have that "chitti" to understand anything.
Can you explain? How can you? If you make a little ant understand human civilisation and this dirty politics you play, it may understand. But you cannot understand why of God. This is the relationship. So now, you give it up asking questions like that. It's too tremendous for this rationality. Why God is doing? How He does? What are His powers? Only thing, as scientist, you note down: "yes, it is so, yes, it is so, yes it is so". Verify it and note down. Only your awareness is changed from the scientist's, that you can see subtler working.
But why it works? That's His whim! He'll do what He likes! Who are you to question God? How can you question God? Just give up asking this question "why?" and you will feel very much better. It is god you see! He does it! This is what is faith. Not the blind, but real with understanding. I have told you this story of My grandmother many a times, as she used to tell Me about faith, and which I have repeated so many times, but again I'll repeat it today: There were three people at different places, and one man was going to see God. So they came to know about it. So one of them was in the forest, standing on his head, doing all kinds of yogas and things like that, and praying to God - must be with both hands towards Him, and soaking the feet, may be - like mad, you see, and asking: "Why don't You meet me? Why don't You meet me? I want to meet You! why don't you meet me?"
And the man who was going to see God was going through that side. He said "Now please go and ask Him why don't You come and see me, You better come and see me, Why don't You do it?" So he said "alright, I'll come". He had become thin, you see, absolutely thinned down, condition very miserable. He said "alright, I'll go and tell God about you". Go. Then he went up to God. No, no, before that. Then he met another type who was sitting on the street. And will be at the street side, and he said: "Oh! I heard you are going to meet God?" He said yes, he is going to meet God. So he said: "Then communicate one small little thing." He said:" "What?" He said that "Just tell Him I have had no food, please send me my food now, I'm hungry."
He said "What?" - "Yes, you just tell Him that much." So he went up. He saw God. So God asked: "Did you meet some people on your way?" He said "Yes, I met a horrible one who is all time saying "why not, why this, should I do it and should I not, and this and that, it's going on. So, will You go and meet him? He's asking."
He said "No, better tell him to do it little more, you see... still he has to do. He requires more effort: he won't be satisfied: Till he gives up his efforts, let him go on!" I mean he would have become mad like that. But now God says: "Alright, let him go ahead! What to do? If you tell them, they don't want to listen, so let them go ahead!"
Then he said: "Then I met another mad fellow, who was on the street, he said that: "I'm hungry, ask God to send some food foe me, please ask. - He said: "Really?" Then called His managers He says: "Please! Send his food! Have you not yet arranged his food and order? Please arrange it!"
He was quite surprised. He said: "What is this? This man is just telling "I'm hungry", and God is so much worried about this fellow and not worried about the fellow who is standing on his head and asking such a lot of questions to God!"
So God knows everything, so He told him: "Alright you are going down, you just tell them one story to both of them, and see their reaction, and then you will know. So He told him a story. "You tell them that "I went to God and saw there, God passing a camel through the eye of a needle."
He said: "Really?" He said: "Yes, you go and tell them." So he came down. This fellow was still on his head. He came back: "What did God say?" - He said you have to go on still. - Oh! Really? Well all glory to God! - He said "Yes, he said so." - He said: "Really?" Then, "Did you see something special there?" - He said: "Yes, I saw that He passed a camel through the eye of a needle!" - He said: "No, no, don't tell me stories! How can such a big camel!..How can it pass through the eye? After all it's impossible! It is impossible! This is impossible! You are just now trying to befool me. No, no, I cannot take it. I cannot take it!"
So he went to another fellow. He was nicely eating his food. He said: "Yes! I knew, you see, I just told you because you asked me if you have to tell you anything, I knew God will send my food and everything. I'm quite alright." He said: "Did you see anything wondrous there?" - He said: " I saw the wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles, that God passed a camel through the eye of a needle!" - He said: "What is so miraculous? He is GOD! He's GOD ALMIGHTY! What? He can pass even universes after universes through that hole!
What is it for God? He is God Almighty don't you understand? God Almighty! Because you have met Him, you think He is nothing! Because you did it so easily, you think He is nothing! Because He behaves like you, you think He is nothing! He is GOD ALMIGHTY! So what? to Him, what is it?"
Then he realised. This is Faith. That is what is enlightened within you with Puja. Not your rationality which is brought down actually quite a lot. So with this idea, tomorrow we'll have the Puja, alright?
May God Bless You.
Krishna's description of Bhakti is "Ananya". He says "I will give you Ananya Bhakti", He wants Ananya Bhakti, means when there is not the other, means when we are realised. But when it comes to giving, He says, you have to come to Me with Ananya Bhakti, means when you have become one with Me." Then you should have the devotion, not before that, before that, you are not connected."
Now Puja is a left hand side projection. Is the neutralisation of the right side, very much, specially for people who are very right handed, atmosphere which is very right handed, Puja is ideal for them. Is the Bhakti, is the Devotion that you project. Now what happens actually when you project with Puja? It has been found out, and now as I am telling you, that first you have to awaken within you the Deities that are still asleep, by worshipping Them. But as these Deities, Primordial Deities, are with Me, you warship Me, and every Deity in Me is awakened, by which your deities are awakened.
So first, your vibrations must improve, to receive. If the reception is not good, what's the use of any Puja or projection? So first of all, we sort or prepare our instrument, or prepare our projecting instrument. That preparation done by praying to different Deities, as we call that, a Kundalini Puja.
By praying to My Kundalini, you improve your reflection. Because then the vibrations from Me start flowing into yours, and they awaken it. This is the projection as far as you are concerned.
Once the instrument is alright, then you project outside. And now, how do you project? By worshipping the Goddess as the Protector of the whole universe, praising Her different attributes, even Her Face, Her Hands, everything has a meaning. Praising Her Powers. By saying that, by repeating that, you echoe in your projection Her Powers, and then your projection becomes that powerful. It's a very subtle happening that takes place. It's miraculous. These things look so simple, just like washing my Feet. Simple thing is washing my Feet. Now see these Feet, I don't know if you see, the whole universe I see there, and I really get stunned by them.
When you wash My Feet, what do you do? Actually , My Feet have been working very hard. And then, you put a little water, to soothe them, to suggest that you can feel the effort put in by these Feet... and a kind of a very sweet, melodious love flows out of these Feet then. Like today I was coming, and I suddenly saw Paul standing: "Same thing happened to me." See, what a care it is, what an understanding! Mother is coming, She should not get lost!
It's that, and this thing all started melting. Because this love who understands everything, doesn't want anything, but is only excited if there is somebody to receive the love. Then how do you say you are going to receive? By expressing these small small things. So when you soothe My Feet, wash Them, clean Them, you know what They mean: you recognise. That recognition, how are you to show? You see, these ceremonies, little ceremonies are important, because they express your recognition. It could be absolutely dull, dead and finished. And it could be absolutely living, if you know why you are doing it. Then you apply some oil and things, again soothe My Feet. Just say "Mother, You have worked very hard, Your Feet have worked very hard".
Just saying that itself, I mean makes no difference otherwise, if you say in a very rational manner, but to that Love that are these Feet, it makes a very big difference. This sweetness, the little thing a little baby just put her hand on her mother's cheek, just to express the gratitude, and the mother's heart starts jumping with love...
It is a very reciprocal behaviour, it's very subtle, and that kind of a subtle working is fixed already: it works that way only. The more you more you love from your heart, the more the joy will be there. The more you are rational and more mental, there won't be so much. It should be first of all your cleansing is important, but the projection should be towards your Mother, that is the height. Once you achieve that height, then you become all powerful, and then you can give to others. But that giving is nothing but is a very mutual and absolutely reciprocal, because the Devi knows about you, everything: if you are trying anything else, She knows and She will also tell you frankly that this should not be done, that should not be done, it should not be done, clearly, so that you do not be under any misunderstandings.
But still, to work it out, you must know it has to be reciprocal, it cannot be one-sided, it has to be both sides. Then it works out better, and a kind of a homogeneous feeling with that Love comes in, sort of a lubricant, a beautiful feeling of movement within yourself comes in.
Puja really is the triggering thing, triggers you, it triggers you into another realm, it's really miraculous. Once you have done the Puja, then you can project out, much more, in your silence only. Your silence itself becomes so powerful. Now in this special case of our Western lives, we have to establish our Innocence, very important.
It is the first thing that is attacked, Innocence is attacked by so many things. So we have to establish our Innocence. And Innocence is the most powerful thing: it doesn't see anything bad, it doesn't see...
...how people are: they don't love! So Ganesha is very important for the Western countries, very important, because that's the Essence of everything, I think, that's the most essential thing, that's why we worship Ganesha first. And Ganesha was created first of all, because He is the eldest son, He is the first son, He is the eldest brother you have, and though Kumara is treated as an elder brother always, while Ganesha calls Himself as a younger brother, but He was the first created, because He remains young always, never grows, so in a way, He is always younger to you also.
It's a very, very subtle understanding: a very young little thing is so much wiser, He is wisdom. Can you imagine a little baby is so intelligent, a little baby so wise? Much more, He is like a grown-up little baby, a very matured, wise, little baby. So by age, you are always older than Him, but by wisdom, He is the eldest.
Then like this you should understand how we evoke all the Deities within us, by doing these small things, by saying Their mantras, because now you are awakened, every word you say is awakened now, is "siddha mantra".
On this Guru Puja I'm really going to give you the way of how to do the "siddha" is the establishment of the siddha, to master to master every chakra and every Deity bestowed upon it, to master it, how to do it, I will tell you this Guru Puja no doubt, I'm going to work it out. But this Puja is to be done with full understanding, and with full recognition:
It's a great fortune. Even the Devas are jealous of you, all the rishis are jealous of you, so many are jealous of you. The greatest advantage for you, greatest fortune. Make full use of it.
And they are very simple things that can please, very simple. You know your Mother can be pleased with very very simple things. It's like that only: it's how much heart you have put into it, is the point.
I think tomorrow we should have the puja, today we have understood about it: it is more to be felt and understood and realised, than to be thought about. Because you'll go into thoughtless awareness. It is more source of triggering.
For example, I think I'll ask Harry to give the miracle we had yesterday on our way. He was loosing his way throughout, and Regis was navigating him, so we were all lost...
But then we had a miracle while coming back: there was on the M-1 a complete jam, and miles together we could see there is no movement, and suddenly, within two minutes, what happened? What I told him, and how he worked it out. It's a problem, you see, to get after everything, to do it... Now he thought that I have told that you put your attention inside. Now he has a slope in his left side, and when you do it too much inside, you go on the slope... and he understands that something's going wrong.
I never said that you get after anything. Now, "put your attention inside "means: if you get Realisation by that. If you don't get Realisation, there's something wrong somewhere. You have lost your way, that's the main point. So I told Harry that you don't put your attention inside, because you go on the slope...
Just they were there... This is what is Maya that upsets you. Project yourself outside...
There was another experience I told these people was this: that there where two journalists, one Mister Marathi and a friend who are Sahaja Yogis. And I went to the journalist's association, they had a meeting. And there is another one who told Me: "No, no Mother I have complete faith in You because there was a miracle that happened to a friend of mine Marathi who is a Sahaja Yogi".
I said :"What happened?". He said they were coming from Poona down to Bombay, and the breaks failed, and the slopes, you see, on the gaps, it moves very fast. And suddenly they saw a huge big truck coming up, with all the lights on top, and they didn't know how to control, and they were about to dash out. And just they closed their eyes and they said: "Now, Mother, save us!" And suddenly they found that the car had crossed the thing, and the thing was moving upwards, the truck was moving.
They didn't know, as if somebody had picked up that car and put it on the other side. So these miracles can work out, in case you project yourself out. But for projecting outside, first you should be cleansed inside. But for that also, all the time if your attention "where am I catching?" then you go onto rationality: "I must be catching because of this, I must be catching because of that".
I have told you hundred times not to say "WHY?". Give up this word "why?". "Why am I catching?" It will settle down. This maddening must go away! You cannot answer "why" of anything in Sahaja Yoga, can you? Why did I meet you? Why did you get Realisation? Ask hundred questions, two hundred, three hundred, five hundred, you will not have any answer.
So, give up that: it's not your rationality, it's the Grace, it's the whim of the Grace. That's working it out! What are you trying at? Just ask for the Grace. Finished. It's silent. It works out.
This is maddening! You will become mad people. This is the greatest madness that people want to know why of everything. How can you understand? You don't have that "chitti" to understand anything.
Can you explain? How can you? If you make a little ant understand human civilisation and this dirty politics you play, it may understand. But you cannot understand why of God. This is the relationship. So now, you give it up asking questions like that. It's too tremendous for this rationality. Why God is doing? How He does? What are His powers? Only thing, as scientist, you note down: "yes, it is so, yes, it is so, yes it is so". Verify it and note down. Only your awareness is changed from the scientist's, that you can see subtler working.
But why it works? That's His whim! He'll do what He likes! Who are you to question God? How can you question God? Just give up asking this question "why?" and you will feel very much better. It is god you see! He does it! This is what is faith. Not the blind, but real with understanding. I have told you this story of My grandmother many a times, as she used to tell Me about faith, and which I have repeated so many times, but again I'll repeat it today: There were three people at different places, and one man was going to see God. So they came to know about it. So one of them was in the forest, standing on his head, doing all kinds of yogas and things like that, and praying to God - must be with both hands towards Him, and soaking the feet, may be - like mad, you see, and asking: "Why don't You meet me? Why don't You meet me? I want to meet You! why don't you meet me?"
And the man who was going to see God was going through that side. He said "Now please go and ask Him why don't You come and see me, You better come and see me, Why don't You do it?" So he said "alright, I'll come". He had become thin, you see, absolutely thinned down, condition very miserable. He said "alright, I'll go and tell God about you". Go. Then he went up to God. No, no, before that. Then he met another type who was sitting on the street. And will be at the street side, and he said: "Oh! I heard you are going to meet God?" He said yes, he is going to meet God. So he said: "Then communicate one small little thing." He said:" "What?" He said that "Just tell Him I have had no food, please send me my food now, I'm hungry."
He said "What?" - "Yes, you just tell Him that much." So he went up. He saw God. So God asked: "Did you meet some people on your way?" He said "Yes, I met a horrible one who is all time saying "why not, why this, should I do it and should I not, and this and that, it's going on. So, will You go and meet him? He's asking."
He said "No, better tell him to do it little more, you see... still he has to do. He requires more effort: he won't be satisfied: Till he gives up his efforts, let him go on!" I mean he would have become mad like that. But now God says: "Alright, let him go ahead! What to do? If you tell them, they don't want to listen, so let them go ahead!"
Then he said: "Then I met another mad fellow, who was on the street, he said that: "I'm hungry, ask God to send some food foe me, please ask. - He said: "Really?" Then called His managers He says: "Please! Send his food! Have you not yet arranged his food and order? Please arrange it!"
He was quite surprised. He said: "What is this? This man is just telling "I'm hungry", and God is so much worried about this fellow and not worried about the fellow who is standing on his head and asking such a lot of questions to God!"
So God knows everything, so He told him: "Alright you are going down, you just tell them one story to both of them, and see their reaction, and then you will know. So He told him a story. "You tell them that "I went to God and saw there, God passing a camel through the eye of a needle."
He said: "Really?" He said: "Yes, you go and tell them." So he came down. This fellow was still on his head. He came back: "What did God say?" - He said you have to go on still. - Oh! Really? Well all glory to God! - He said "Yes, he said so." - He said: "Really?" Then, "Did you see something special there?" - He said: "Yes, I saw that He passed a camel through the eye of a needle!" - He said: "No, no, don't tell me stories! How can such a big camel!..How can it pass through the eye? After all it's impossible! It is impossible! This is impossible! You are just now trying to befool me. No, no, I cannot take it. I cannot take it!"
So he went to another fellow. He was nicely eating his food. He said: "Yes! I knew, you see, I just told you because you asked me if you have to tell you anything, I knew God will send my food and everything. I'm quite alright." He said: "Did you see anything wondrous there?" - He said: " I saw the wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles, that God passed a camel through the eye of a needle!" - He said: "What is so miraculous? He is GOD! He's GOD ALMIGHTY! What? He can pass even universes after universes through that hole!
What is it for God? He is God Almighty don't you understand? God Almighty! Because you have met Him, you think He is nothing! Because you did it so easily, you think He is nothing! Because He behaves like you, you think He is nothing! He is GOD ALMIGHTY! So what? to Him, what is it?"
Then he realised. This is Faith. That is what is enlightened within you with Puja. Not your rationality which is brought down actually quite a lot. So with this idea, tomorrow we'll have the Puja, alright?
May God Bless You.
Satchiananda
Shri Mataji (circa 1983)
reprinted from Nirmala Yoga volume 3 number 16
The spirit is the most precious thing that we have within ourselves. The preciousness of your spirit is immeasurable and that is why it is called the thing of eternal value. Because it is infinite, we cannot measure.
Now, God the Almighty we say is sat-chit-anand. Sat means the truth. The truth we understand in human terminology is relative. But the truth I am telling you is the absolute, from where all the relations start. An example I will tell you, how to understand. This Earth has got oceans and rivers and all kinds of waters you can say, but the Earth is enveloping all of them. If the Mother Earth was not there, there could not have been any of this existing. So we can say that the Mother Earth is the support of all the things that exist on earth. She is enveloping us. In the atoms She exists, in the big mountains She exists because the elements are part of that Earth. In the same way is God Almighty. The sat part of Him, the truth is the support of all the things that are created or not created.
Another example you try to understand, how the sat is the purush, is the God who does not take actual part in the creation itself, but is a catalyst. The example can be like this: I am doing all the work, I am creating every thing, but I have a light in my hand. Without the light, I cannot do anything. The light is the support of My work, but the light does not in any way do anything about what I do. In the same way, God Almighty is just the witness like a light.
But His other quality is the chit. It is attention. When it is excited … or when it is pulsated … then through His attention He starts creating.
And He has a third quality which we call anand. Anand is the feeling of joy that He gets by His perception, by His creation, the joy that He gets. All these three things – sat chit anand – when they are at a zero point where they meet, then they become the principle of Brahma. When these three things are one, where there is complete silence, nothing is created and nothing is manifested, but the joy is one with the attention because the attention has reached to merge into joy and joy has become one with the truth.
This combination of three qualities separate and create three types of phenomena. Anand, the joy, inwards merged with His creation and with the truth. When joy starts moving with the creation, the creation starts, moving down from, first, the sat or truth stage to asat, that is untruth, to maya, that is illusion. And at that time, the creation starts working out and when it starts working out, the joy, which is on the left-hand side, the emotional side of God, also starts becoming grosser and grosser, until they reach a stage where there is, we can say, a complete darkness of tamoguna, the complete cessation of the creativity and the complete sleeping of the joy.
Is it clearer? You will understand now Mahalakshmi, Mahakali and Mahasaraswati. That is why Christ said, “I am the light” – because He represents the sat, the light of God. And when the light of God becomes absolutely gross, dormant or dead, then it reaches the second stage of creation. All these things go deeper and deeper and become grosser. That is one part of the parabola.
Now the another part of the parabola starts when you are attaining back to God Almighty. That process now gradually starts becoming higher and higher, subtler and subtler and finer and finer. In that refinement, ultimately the light works for the evolutionary process. Gradually the grosser parts start becoming enlightened. You find the lower animal is not much enlightened as the higher animal. Gradually even the joy starts becoming subtler and subtler. We can call it beautiful. Human joys are much more beautiful than that of animals.
So the joy also start changing their manifestation in the sense you start more and more and a wider range of joy comes into your hands. For example, to a dog, beauty has no meaning, decency has no meaning. So at a stage when you reach, when you are a human being, to that extent you develop your sat, which is awareness. To that extent, you also develop your joy and, to that extent, you also develop creative action. Now you see how the creativity of God passes into the hands of man, when he turns out, how the joy of God passes into the hands of Man and how His light comes into the heart of man as spirit.
It is beautiful. I have just touched when you have become a human being. People say human beings have a soul – not that others do not have – but light starts burning in a human being only. Because of that light, we talk of religion, we talk of God and we talk of eternal things. But it is really a precarious stage, that is to be human being, because, at this stage, you have to jump only a little bit that side, while you start jumping this side and that side. Because this jumping is not possible unless and until the awareness reaches that stage where you become independent and, in that independence, you find your own course. This is the position. Because your Self cannot be yours until and unless you are independent. As long as you are slave or under bondage or something that is gross, how can you enjoy that eternal joy that is within you?
So it is for you to expose yourself more to that joy by opening out your Self more and more and getting subtler and cleaner, so that you feel that Divine.
Once you know this point, that after getting Self Realization, unless and until these three things start merging together, you cannot feel that you have established yourself. The joy within you must be felt through your awareness, otherwise you cannot see it. Suppose you have no eyes, then how can you see? If you were not aware to see Me, how will you see Me? If you are not aware to hear Me, how will you understand Me? And once that awareness comes to You, then only the joy awakens within you because only through these subtle feeling of the awareness, you are going to absorb the joy.
Just now you felt, you said “What a beautiful thing it is!” You felt very happy. You are feeling the joy of creation at this stage and man is the summit of creation. But only the crown part is such a little thing. Very little it is. Very little distance it crosses in no time, but the only thing is that three things have to be combined. And that is why you find even if you get Self Realization, you do not feel the silence because you have not become the light. You do not feel the joy because you have not become the anand. That is the left side of you.
In everything there is joy as a human being. You start seeing joy in patterns. You see a key box. You open it out. You see the patterns. You call it the veneer. You call the roughness and things, the smoothness and the harmony of it. You start feeling the matter, the joy of His creation. But after Realization, you start feeling the joy of creation. The summit of creation is the human being and that is why, for a Sahaja Yogi, he must realize if he tries to be friendly or interested or involved in a person who is at a lower level, he can never get the joy from that person. The only thing that he can do is to raise that person higher to his own level and make him also feel the same joy as you are getting.
Supposing a man who is an artist marries a blind girl. What is the use? She cannot enjoy the arts created by this man. In the same way, if you are interested in your family people, in your relations, in your friends, the first thing and the finest and greatest thing you can do is to give them Self Realization, which means the joy of your spirit. Expose them to the joy of their spirit, which is the most precious thing. And this is the reason why people flicker and they fiddle and they feel uneasy and they lose their joy very easily at small things that has parts of it and finished.
It is like the ocean before you, where I am there and I want you all to come into it and enjoy. It is all for you. The whole thing was created for your enjoyment. You have to become subtler and subtler. You are wasting lot of time here on very gross things you have noticed.
reprinted from Nirmala Yoga volume 3 number 16
The spirit is the most precious thing that we have within ourselves. The preciousness of your spirit is immeasurable and that is why it is called the thing of eternal value. Because it is infinite, we cannot measure.
Now, God the Almighty we say is sat-chit-anand. Sat means the truth. The truth we understand in human terminology is relative. But the truth I am telling you is the absolute, from where all the relations start. An example I will tell you, how to understand. This Earth has got oceans and rivers and all kinds of waters you can say, but the Earth is enveloping all of them. If the Mother Earth was not there, there could not have been any of this existing. So we can say that the Mother Earth is the support of all the things that exist on earth. She is enveloping us. In the atoms She exists, in the big mountains She exists because the elements are part of that Earth. In the same way is God Almighty. The sat part of Him, the truth is the support of all the things that are created or not created.
Another example you try to understand, how the sat is the purush, is the God who does not take actual part in the creation itself, but is a catalyst. The example can be like this: I am doing all the work, I am creating every thing, but I have a light in my hand. Without the light, I cannot do anything. The light is the support of My work, but the light does not in any way do anything about what I do. In the same way, God Almighty is just the witness like a light.
But His other quality is the chit. It is attention. When it is excited … or when it is pulsated … then through His attention He starts creating.
And He has a third quality which we call anand. Anand is the feeling of joy that He gets by His perception, by His creation, the joy that He gets. All these three things – sat chit anand – when they are at a zero point where they meet, then they become the principle of Brahma. When these three things are one, where there is complete silence, nothing is created and nothing is manifested, but the joy is one with the attention because the attention has reached to merge into joy and joy has become one with the truth.
This combination of three qualities separate and create three types of phenomena. Anand, the joy, inwards merged with His creation and with the truth. When joy starts moving with the creation, the creation starts, moving down from, first, the sat or truth stage to asat, that is untruth, to maya, that is illusion. And at that time, the creation starts working out and when it starts working out, the joy, which is on the left-hand side, the emotional side of God, also starts becoming grosser and grosser, until they reach a stage where there is, we can say, a complete darkness of tamoguna, the complete cessation of the creativity and the complete sleeping of the joy.
Is it clearer? You will understand now Mahalakshmi, Mahakali and Mahasaraswati. That is why Christ said, “I am the light” – because He represents the sat, the light of God. And when the light of God becomes absolutely gross, dormant or dead, then it reaches the second stage of creation. All these things go deeper and deeper and become grosser. That is one part of the parabola.
Now the another part of the parabola starts when you are attaining back to God Almighty. That process now gradually starts becoming higher and higher, subtler and subtler and finer and finer. In that refinement, ultimately the light works for the evolutionary process. Gradually the grosser parts start becoming enlightened. You find the lower animal is not much enlightened as the higher animal. Gradually even the joy starts becoming subtler and subtler. We can call it beautiful. Human joys are much more beautiful than that of animals.
So the joy also start changing their manifestation in the sense you start more and more and a wider range of joy comes into your hands. For example, to a dog, beauty has no meaning, decency has no meaning. So at a stage when you reach, when you are a human being, to that extent you develop your sat, which is awareness. To that extent, you also develop your joy and, to that extent, you also develop creative action. Now you see how the creativity of God passes into the hands of man, when he turns out, how the joy of God passes into the hands of Man and how His light comes into the heart of man as spirit.
It is beautiful. I have just touched when you have become a human being. People say human beings have a soul – not that others do not have – but light starts burning in a human being only. Because of that light, we talk of religion, we talk of God and we talk of eternal things. But it is really a precarious stage, that is to be human being, because, at this stage, you have to jump only a little bit that side, while you start jumping this side and that side. Because this jumping is not possible unless and until the awareness reaches that stage where you become independent and, in that independence, you find your own course. This is the position. Because your Self cannot be yours until and unless you are independent. As long as you are slave or under bondage or something that is gross, how can you enjoy that eternal joy that is within you?
So it is for you to expose yourself more to that joy by opening out your Self more and more and getting subtler and cleaner, so that you feel that Divine.
Once you know this point, that after getting Self Realization, unless and until these three things start merging together, you cannot feel that you have established yourself. The joy within you must be felt through your awareness, otherwise you cannot see it. Suppose you have no eyes, then how can you see? If you were not aware to see Me, how will you see Me? If you are not aware to hear Me, how will you understand Me? And once that awareness comes to You, then only the joy awakens within you because only through these subtle feeling of the awareness, you are going to absorb the joy.
Just now you felt, you said “What a beautiful thing it is!” You felt very happy. You are feeling the joy of creation at this stage and man is the summit of creation. But only the crown part is such a little thing. Very little it is. Very little distance it crosses in no time, but the only thing is that three things have to be combined. And that is why you find even if you get Self Realization, you do not feel the silence because you have not become the light. You do not feel the joy because you have not become the anand. That is the left side of you.
In everything there is joy as a human being. You start seeing joy in patterns. You see a key box. You open it out. You see the patterns. You call it the veneer. You call the roughness and things, the smoothness and the harmony of it. You start feeling the matter, the joy of His creation. But after Realization, you start feeling the joy of creation. The summit of creation is the human being and that is why, for a Sahaja Yogi, he must realize if he tries to be friendly or interested or involved in a person who is at a lower level, he can never get the joy from that person. The only thing that he can do is to raise that person higher to his own level and make him also feel the same joy as you are getting.
Supposing a man who is an artist marries a blind girl. What is the use? She cannot enjoy the arts created by this man. In the same way, if you are interested in your family people, in your relations, in your friends, the first thing and the finest and greatest thing you can do is to give them Self Realization, which means the joy of your spirit. Expose them to the joy of their spirit, which is the most precious thing. And this is the reason why people flicker and they fiddle and they feel uneasy and they lose their joy very easily at small things that has parts of it and finished.
It is like the ocean before you, where I am there and I want you all to come into it and enjoy. It is all for you. The whole thing was created for your enjoyment. You have to become subtler and subtler. You are wasting lot of time here on very gross things you have noticed.
You are integrated
By integration, you get the power to do what you understand and you have the power to feel happy with what you understand. It is complete. It hasn't got a happiness and a sorrow aspect, but is just joy.
The joy is not that you laugh loud. The joy is not that you are always smiling. It is the stillness, the quietude within yourself, the peace of your being, of your spirit that asserts itself into vibrations which you feel.
When you feel that peace, you feel like the light of the sun, the whole rays of that beauty spreading.
But first of all, we are curbed down by our own personal, selfish, stupid ideas. Throw them away.
We have them because we are insecure, because we have wrong ideas. Throw them away. Just stand alone, one with God and you will find all these fears were useless. Our cleansing is very important and that cleansing comes only when you really practise the cleansing as told in Sahaja Yoga.
The Sahasrara is the blessing of the heavens.
The joy is not that you laugh loud. The joy is not that you are always smiling. It is the stillness, the quietude within yourself, the peace of your being, of your spirit that asserts itself into vibrations which you feel.
When you feel that peace, you feel like the light of the sun, the whole rays of that beauty spreading.
But first of all, we are curbed down by our own personal, selfish, stupid ideas. Throw them away.
We have them because we are insecure, because we have wrong ideas. Throw them away. Just stand alone, one with God and you will find all these fears were useless. Our cleansing is very important and that cleansing comes only when you really practise the cleansing as told in Sahaja Yoga.
The Sahasrara is the blessing of the heavens.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Humble
"A humble person is a free person, free to be humble, to be kindly, to be gentle, to be compassionate - that sort of Sahaja Yogis you have to be. When people meet you they will be impressed. Humility doesn't have any subservience, and is very different to compassion. Humility is a very human quality, is a special quality only the bhaktas have."
HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Are u progressing well
With a complete surrendered mind, you have to go through the pilgrimage of this castle. This is one of the glimpses of the tapas that you have to do because I am told, some of you had to get into little difficulties and you people suffered a little bit on your way for the pilgrimage. But it is fun to be venturesome and to get into places where the devils dare not to go.
And if you know how to get fun out of the so-called discomforts, then you should know you are on the right line.
And as you start becoming discreet automatically, you should know you are progressing well.
As you become more peaceful and your temper vanishes in the thin air as soon as you see somebody attacking you, then know that you are progressing well.
As soon as you see an ordeal or a calamity falling on the personality and you don’t get worried about it, then know that you are progressing.
When no amount of artificiality can impress you, then know that you are progressing, no amount of material well-being in others makes you unhappy, then know that you are progressing well.
No amounts of labour or troubles are sufficient to become a Sahaja Yogi. Whatever you may try, one cannot become a Sahaja Yogi, while you have got it without any effort, so you are something special.
So this one should understand that you are special. You will become humble about it. Then, when it happens to you that you humble down when you see you have achieved something, that you have some powers, that you are emitting innocence, that you are discreet and as a result of that you become a more compassionate, humbler personality, a sweeter personality...............
H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
And if you know how to get fun out of the so-called discomforts, then you should know you are on the right line.
And as you start becoming discreet automatically, you should know you are progressing well.
As you become more peaceful and your temper vanishes in the thin air as soon as you see somebody attacking you, then know that you are progressing well.
As soon as you see an ordeal or a calamity falling on the personality and you don’t get worried about it, then know that you are progressing.
When no amount of artificiality can impress you, then know that you are progressing, no amount of material well-being in others makes you unhappy, then know that you are progressing well.
No amounts of labour or troubles are sufficient to become a Sahaja Yogi. Whatever you may try, one cannot become a Sahaja Yogi, while you have got it without any effort, so you are something special.
So this one should understand that you are special. You will become humble about it. Then, when it happens to you that you humble down when you see you have achieved something, that you have some powers, that you are emitting innocence, that you are discreet and as a result of that you become a more compassionate, humbler personality, a sweeter personality...............
H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Peace has to be felt within yourself
"Peace has to be felt within yourself, and if you are not feeling that, you should not come and ask me, ‘Mother, why am I not feeling it?’ Because I am not going to tell you that something is wrong with you. You have to work it out that you should feel peaceful within yourself. It is not that if you have too much of silence outside, you feel peaceful. That peace has to be within yourself. You have it. Your Spirit is absolutely peaceful. ‘Avyagra’ – without restlessness. There is no restlessness in your Spirit. Absolutely peaceful and steady. It is for you to feel it. It is not for anybody else to certify you. This is one thing. Otherwise, whatever I say is a mantra. It should have direct effect on you, and you should feel that effect, that penetration within you. But – as if it is for somebody else, as if it is not for you - it is for you to feel it."
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
1985-05-27
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
1985-05-27
Nirvikalpa
NIRVIKALPA
It is gratifying to see so many Sahaja Yogis come to celebrate the Sahasrara Day. Without breaking the Sahasrara, we could not have achieved the ascent en masse. But the Sahasrara which is the brain has gone into too much complications in the west. And the thoughts are very much twisted, one upon the other.
To keep Sahasrara open should be very easy if the Western brains could understand and be aware about your Mother. When your Mother is the Deity of Sahasrara, the only way to keep the Sahasrara open has to be complete surrendering.
For that many ask me, How do we do it? It's a very funny question. It is irrelevant. If your Sahasrara has been opened out by someone, and luckily that is the Deity before you, it should be the easiest thing to surrender. But it is not. It is difficult because the attention that has come up through the cells of the brain is polluted. It is impure. It is destructive. It's poisonous and when the nerves are spoiled, the light of the Spirit does not shines on the nerves. And you feel the inability to surrender. Normally it should be the easiest thing to do.
So we have to mentally approach ourselves. We have to talk to ourselves and say to ourselves "What are you doing? What is surrendering? It is enjoyment, it is just enjoyment. Then why I cannot surrender? What is lacking in me? Am I a very low level person? Am I the one who was just saying I'm seeker but I'm not. Am I dishonest person that I cannot surrender? If so, what am I proud of? Myself? If that is the situation, then why am I so much enamoured by my ego? ...
But I have heard that people are arriving at different times for Sahasrara Day . I was amazed. It's typical western mind. By the way, Sahaja Yoga is to be done, mostly by-the-way. It should be convenient. It should be a weekend. When just by-the-way for a holiday, we can go to Vienna. There of course, by-the-way, we'll have puja and by-the-way Mother will raise the Kundalini. She will awaken our Deities and then by-the-way we'll be enjoying the blessings. No sacrifice can be done for God. No time, they have no time. Everything is by-the-way. It's rather amazing, for war people give up their lives, for destruction they work so hard, day and night. But for construction of humanity for the ultimate goal of Divinity, in the West, how many there are who really surrender? If it suits, then we'll be there. Sahaja, this is Sahaja style. We should reach Sahaja. I heard about this many a times. There are still many who are that kind of an attitude towards Sahaja Yoga. It is something surprising me. ...
It's so precious that no words can describe the greatness of these moments which we are spending together. You have to feel it within yourself, the assignment that is given to you through your own Spirit, through your own state. You can fulfill the assignments.But lack of faith in yourself cannot give you surrendering powers. Surrendering is the opening of Sahasrara, keeping it completely open so that Nirvikalpa state is established within us. There should be a regular progress of improvement, regular progress of the opening. Have you ever seen any lotus or any flower that blooms, blooms, and in between again does not bloom and then blooms then collapses then blooms. Have you ever seen such a nonsensical phenomenon in the nature? You come up, again you go down, again you come up, you go down. Have you ever seen a tree that comes up, again goes inside the mud, again it comes up, again it goes back into the mud, blaming other people. Have you seen any animal which started growing, then it becomes a dwarf, again it grows, again it becomes a dwarf. ...
But the area of Sahasrara is the realm of God. When the Brahmarandra opens fully, then the heavens open within yourself. The Kundalini which has risen up and given you realisation creates that subtle opening, by which the Divine starts pouring all its subtleties inside your brain. But if you're pressing it from both sides with these balloons, sometimes opening, sometimes closing, sometimes opening, the Divine recedes Its attention. You must know that. The attention is receded back and if it is done many a times, the Divine doesn't bother. So it is you who have to achieve that state and all of us can achieve that state of Nirvikalpa. In that there is just progression. After Nirvikalpa you cannot come down. If somebody is still going up and down, up and down, he should know he is still not up to the point and he should face up to himself or herself that "No, I have to be into Nirvikalpa where I do not come down".
The people who are not in the Nirvikalpa state are not going to be saved. I am very sorry to say that. They are not going to be saved. They will be punished. May not be the same way (as) those who are not realised souls, but they will not occupy the seats in the realm of God Almighty. At least you must reach the state of Nirvikalpa. Do not blame any circumstance. Do not blame your father, mother, brother, atmosphere, this, that. ...
... You can say this Sahasrara day is a very big day because I never threw such an ultimatum before. Because now we are established as Vishwa Dharma, as the Universal Religion. We are not like other religions where, after the deaths of the incarnation, people started the religion and did whatever they wanted with that. In our living time we are going to make ourselves that instrument which will represent Vishwa Dharma. We have to have strong Deities within ourselves. We have weakened them by all our mistakes. Doesn't matter. They are weak because traditionally we haven't got the strength. Doesn't matter. But now this Religion has been established. We cannot have black spots any more. We have done all the choosing, the training, everything. And you all have to jump into the boat now. There's no more time left for us for dilly-dally. Those who will be left behind will be left behind. It is a very intense period now, you must understand. The intensity of the period is not by-the-way. It's not any more Sahaja Yoga. It is Maha Yoga now. And you have to become Maha, you have to become great, otherwise you cannot be there. You have to jump out of all these things.
... I have short time, because the instrument has to be all right. If you have to expedite your growth of the instrument in a proper way so that the God of Love, God's Love flows and the God of that Love feels happy about it. We have to create such a beautiful flowers that He appreciates, that He does not destroy. The Spectator of this play has to be satisfied so that He postpones His destruction. That's why I said the time is short, time is very short.
If we want our children to grow into the realm of God, they are great saints who are born, if you want to give them a full chance of enjoyment, then let us first of all become proper parents and not people who just live with illusions. Everything in Sahaja Yoga cannot be explained. I cannot explain. I cannot because you don't have those powers to understand.
... take a vow within your heart. It's not the words that are important. It has to be living action of your being. That should prove it, that should convince you that we are fully surrendered. And the effects of that you will feel in your own personality, in your own being, in your own manifestation.
I'm working 24 hours. Not a single minute I waste. And in the same way I hope you will dedicate your 24 hours for your emancipation and the emancipation of the whole Universe.
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Vienna, May 4, 1985
It is gratifying to see so many Sahaja Yogis come to celebrate the Sahasrara Day. Without breaking the Sahasrara, we could not have achieved the ascent en masse. But the Sahasrara which is the brain has gone into too much complications in the west. And the thoughts are very much twisted, one upon the other.
To keep Sahasrara open should be very easy if the Western brains could understand and be aware about your Mother. When your Mother is the Deity of Sahasrara, the only way to keep the Sahasrara open has to be complete surrendering.
For that many ask me, How do we do it? It's a very funny question. It is irrelevant. If your Sahasrara has been opened out by someone, and luckily that is the Deity before you, it should be the easiest thing to surrender. But it is not. It is difficult because the attention that has come up through the cells of the brain is polluted. It is impure. It is destructive. It's poisonous and when the nerves are spoiled, the light of the Spirit does not shines on the nerves. And you feel the inability to surrender. Normally it should be the easiest thing to do.
So we have to mentally approach ourselves. We have to talk to ourselves and say to ourselves "What are you doing? What is surrendering? It is enjoyment, it is just enjoyment. Then why I cannot surrender? What is lacking in me? Am I a very low level person? Am I the one who was just saying I'm seeker but I'm not. Am I dishonest person that I cannot surrender? If so, what am I proud of? Myself? If that is the situation, then why am I so much enamoured by my ego? ...
But I have heard that people are arriving at different times for Sahasrara Day . I was amazed. It's typical western mind. By the way, Sahaja Yoga is to be done, mostly by-the-way. It should be convenient. It should be a weekend. When just by-the-way for a holiday, we can go to Vienna. There of course, by-the-way, we'll have puja and by-the-way Mother will raise the Kundalini. She will awaken our Deities and then by-the-way we'll be enjoying the blessings. No sacrifice can be done for God. No time, they have no time. Everything is by-the-way. It's rather amazing, for war people give up their lives, for destruction they work so hard, day and night. But for construction of humanity for the ultimate goal of Divinity, in the West, how many there are who really surrender? If it suits, then we'll be there. Sahaja, this is Sahaja style. We should reach Sahaja. I heard about this many a times. There are still many who are that kind of an attitude towards Sahaja Yoga. It is something surprising me. ...
It's so precious that no words can describe the greatness of these moments which we are spending together. You have to feel it within yourself, the assignment that is given to you through your own Spirit, through your own state. You can fulfill the assignments.But lack of faith in yourself cannot give you surrendering powers. Surrendering is the opening of Sahasrara, keeping it completely open so that Nirvikalpa state is established within us. There should be a regular progress of improvement, regular progress of the opening. Have you ever seen any lotus or any flower that blooms, blooms, and in between again does not bloom and then blooms then collapses then blooms. Have you ever seen such a nonsensical phenomenon in the nature? You come up, again you go down, again you come up, you go down. Have you ever seen a tree that comes up, again goes inside the mud, again it comes up, again it goes back into the mud, blaming other people. Have you seen any animal which started growing, then it becomes a dwarf, again it grows, again it becomes a dwarf. ...
But the area of Sahasrara is the realm of God. When the Brahmarandra opens fully, then the heavens open within yourself. The Kundalini which has risen up and given you realisation creates that subtle opening, by which the Divine starts pouring all its subtleties inside your brain. But if you're pressing it from both sides with these balloons, sometimes opening, sometimes closing, sometimes opening, the Divine recedes Its attention. You must know that. The attention is receded back and if it is done many a times, the Divine doesn't bother. So it is you who have to achieve that state and all of us can achieve that state of Nirvikalpa. In that there is just progression. After Nirvikalpa you cannot come down. If somebody is still going up and down, up and down, he should know he is still not up to the point and he should face up to himself or herself that "No, I have to be into Nirvikalpa where I do not come down".
The people who are not in the Nirvikalpa state are not going to be saved. I am very sorry to say that. They are not going to be saved. They will be punished. May not be the same way (as) those who are not realised souls, but they will not occupy the seats in the realm of God Almighty. At least you must reach the state of Nirvikalpa. Do not blame any circumstance. Do not blame your father, mother, brother, atmosphere, this, that. ...
... You can say this Sahasrara day is a very big day because I never threw such an ultimatum before. Because now we are established as Vishwa Dharma, as the Universal Religion. We are not like other religions where, after the deaths of the incarnation, people started the religion and did whatever they wanted with that. In our living time we are going to make ourselves that instrument which will represent Vishwa Dharma. We have to have strong Deities within ourselves. We have weakened them by all our mistakes. Doesn't matter. They are weak because traditionally we haven't got the strength. Doesn't matter. But now this Religion has been established. We cannot have black spots any more. We have done all the choosing, the training, everything. And you all have to jump into the boat now. There's no more time left for us for dilly-dally. Those who will be left behind will be left behind. It is a very intense period now, you must understand. The intensity of the period is not by-the-way. It's not any more Sahaja Yoga. It is Maha Yoga now. And you have to become Maha, you have to become great, otherwise you cannot be there. You have to jump out of all these things.
... I have short time, because the instrument has to be all right. If you have to expedite your growth of the instrument in a proper way so that the God of Love, God's Love flows and the God of that Love feels happy about it. We have to create such a beautiful flowers that He appreciates, that He does not destroy. The Spectator of this play has to be satisfied so that He postpones His destruction. That's why I said the time is short, time is very short.
If we want our children to grow into the realm of God, they are great saints who are born, if you want to give them a full chance of enjoyment, then let us first of all become proper parents and not people who just live with illusions. Everything in Sahaja Yoga cannot be explained. I cannot explain. I cannot because you don't have those powers to understand.
... take a vow within your heart. It's not the words that are important. It has to be living action of your being. That should prove it, that should convince you that we are fully surrendered. And the effects of that you will feel in your own personality, in your own being, in your own manifestation.
I'm working 24 hours. Not a single minute I waste. And in the same way I hope you will dedicate your 24 hours for your emancipation and the emancipation of the whole Universe.
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Vienna, May 4, 1985
Shanti cannot sit still
It must have been the fifth time during the morning meditation that Mum told Shanti to just sit still! But no use. She is fidgeting around, playing with the song book, and if there is nothing to grab near by, she plays with her toes, her trousers, her fingers…
“Shanti!” Mum scolds again. “Please! I told you! Sit properly! Hands on your lap”. Shanti follows Mummy’s instructions for just about a second, until she finds the pattern of the carpet really interesting again and follows the lines with her fingers.
“Ok” says Mummy now. “Listen. Why do you meditate? Hm? Tell me.” Almost six years old, Shanti has heard a lot about vibrations and knows a lot of mantras, but she has not yet really thought about WHY she should be meditating…
“To make Shri Mataji happy!” she replies. “That is also true.” Says Mummy. “Of course. But you really meditate for yourself and nobody else, not even Mummy”. “But why?” Shanti asks. “Why do I need to meditate?” “Mummy takes a deep breath and looks at Shri Mataji’s picture. After about a minute she turns to Shanti and says “Look. When we meditate, all the bad things in and around us run away. We can feel happy and light again. But meditation is so much more than just sitting here. If you imagine meditation being a huge beautiful mountain, we have properly not even reached the first step. But you know what the first step is?”
“No. What is it Mummy?”
“The first step is the “Getting ready part”. Imagine a cup, and you would like to fill it with water.” “Yes, Mum, I can imagine. A cup. Mine is pink!”
“Good. In your mind, turn this cup on its side. Now try to pour water in it”. “I don’t think I can, Mummy” Shanti replies. “Exactly. Now imagine holding it and moving it right and left, and again right, move it all along the table. Now pour the water!” Shanti laughs. “But Mummy, the water will spill all over the place! Maybe just a few drops will be in my pink cup!”. “Exactly” says Mummy. You cannot turn the cup on its head either, nor can you hide it under the table, if you want to fill it with water. It is exactly the same with your meditation. If you don’t sit still, if you are not ready, like the cup, to receive the vibrations, why should they even try to fill you with love and joy?”
“I see what you mean, Mummy” Shanti replies. “Your ‘getting ready’ ” continues Mum “is so important to show all the deities that you are now ready and willing to meditate. But remember, it is only the first step! What counts is what happens after. This is where your journey really begins. “
Shanti’s eyes shimmered with joy. She closed her eyes and thought of this empty pink cup again. She wanted to be still and ready to be filled like the cup. And before she could even wonder what would happen next, she felt a soothing cool breeze on her hands. Just like that.
“I felt it, it is cool Mummy!” she shouted with excitement. “That is good! Now stay still like the animals in the forest, when they are trying to listen to the sounds of nature, like the stars that are looking down on us and don’t rush around across the firmament, like a lake that lets all the ducks and fish frolic in its water whilst he himself is still and patient. Then, when you are still, you will be joyful. Full-filled!”
Shanti still sat with her eyes closed, only this time she felt no urge to play with her fingers, nor did her eyes open by themselves again all the time, as they usually want to! She just sat there, and it was so easy. The lake….the stars…..the universe, it all made sense. At least for a few minutes. “Can I get the drum and sing Ganesha Ganesha, Mummy?” Mum smiled and replied. “Go on then”.
may you be drenched by bliss always, toni
Jai Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
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“Shanti!” Mum scolds again. “Please! I told you! Sit properly! Hands on your lap”. Shanti follows Mummy’s instructions for just about a second, until she finds the pattern of the carpet really interesting again and follows the lines with her fingers.
“Ok” says Mummy now. “Listen. Why do you meditate? Hm? Tell me.” Almost six years old, Shanti has heard a lot about vibrations and knows a lot of mantras, but she has not yet really thought about WHY she should be meditating…
“To make Shri Mataji happy!” she replies. “That is also true.” Says Mummy. “Of course. But you really meditate for yourself and nobody else, not even Mummy”. “But why?” Shanti asks. “Why do I need to meditate?” “Mummy takes a deep breath and looks at Shri Mataji’s picture. After about a minute she turns to Shanti and says “Look. When we meditate, all the bad things in and around us run away. We can feel happy and light again. But meditation is so much more than just sitting here. If you imagine meditation being a huge beautiful mountain, we have properly not even reached the first step. But you know what the first step is?”
“No. What is it Mummy?”
“The first step is the “Getting ready part”. Imagine a cup, and you would like to fill it with water.” “Yes, Mum, I can imagine. A cup. Mine is pink!”
“Good. In your mind, turn this cup on its side. Now try to pour water in it”. “I don’t think I can, Mummy” Shanti replies. “Exactly. Now imagine holding it and moving it right and left, and again right, move it all along the table. Now pour the water!” Shanti laughs. “But Mummy, the water will spill all over the place! Maybe just a few drops will be in my pink cup!”. “Exactly” says Mummy. You cannot turn the cup on its head either, nor can you hide it under the table, if you want to fill it with water. It is exactly the same with your meditation. If you don’t sit still, if you are not ready, like the cup, to receive the vibrations, why should they even try to fill you with love and joy?”
“I see what you mean, Mummy” Shanti replies. “Your ‘getting ready’ ” continues Mum “is so important to show all the deities that you are now ready and willing to meditate. But remember, it is only the first step! What counts is what happens after. This is where your journey really begins. “
Shanti’s eyes shimmered with joy. She closed her eyes and thought of this empty pink cup again. She wanted to be still and ready to be filled like the cup. And before she could even wonder what would happen next, she felt a soothing cool breeze on her hands. Just like that.
“I felt it, it is cool Mummy!” she shouted with excitement. “That is good! Now stay still like the animals in the forest, when they are trying to listen to the sounds of nature, like the stars that are looking down on us and don’t rush around across the firmament, like a lake that lets all the ducks and fish frolic in its water whilst he himself is still and patient. Then, when you are still, you will be joyful. Full-filled!”
Shanti still sat with her eyes closed, only this time she felt no urge to play with her fingers, nor did her eyes open by themselves again all the time, as they usually want to! She just sat there, and it was so easy. The lake….the stars…..the universe, it all made sense. At least for a few minutes. “Can I get the drum and sing Ganesha Ganesha, Mummy?” Mum smiled and replied. “Go on then”.
may you be drenched by bliss always, toni
Jai Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
.
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The deeper you become
"And the more you find something in your meditation, the more you want to go and distribute it to others. That has to be. If that does not come into you then it has not worked out, there’s no purity. Whatever you find, you want to enjoy it with others, you want to give it to others. This is the sign of a person what has been really meditative. The one who is meditative and has not been able to distribute what he has found is cheating himself and cheating others as well. Because the joy that you receive in your meditation has to be distributed. Has to be given. Has to be shown. It should flow in your being as the light radiates from every illumined lamp. You don’t have to take a vow to say that this is an enlightened light. In the same way a Saint should not have to be certified that he is a Saint. The depth you achieve within yourself spreads all over. It is such an action and reaction. The deeper you become, the radiation is much more."
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
1982-07-28
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
1982-07-28
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Balance in Foods
We are Sahaja Yogis and we understand the balance. Of course I always say that Westerners for example, maybe Australians also, should take more to carbohydrates because they eat lot of meat, so they can take to carbohydrates, but that doesn’t mean vegetarianism by any chance. I mean, to compensate. And in India I always say they must take to more meats, it will do them good. But then by no means I say that you just eat meat and nothing else. But a balance has to be found out, and once you strike it then you’ll be surprised that you’ll feel so relaxed, so much better, so much enlightened and the vibrations will flow much better than normally.
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Shri Mahavira Puja, Western Australia, 28/3/91
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Shri Mahavira Puja, Western Australia, 28/3/91
Bhavasagara
This place is called as Bhavasagara. It is the ocean of illusion in which we live. And we are seekers….
If we are in the ocean, our ship should be seaworthy. Then any kind of illusion is not going to deter us if we are seaworthy. But seaworthy means we must know if there is a fog, how to move in right direction.
We should know how to overcome all the hazards of all kinds of storms and all the knowledge should be built-in within us. And that built-in knowledge is this dharma. It is a religion within you - not without, but within you.
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 1983
If we are in the ocean, our ship should be seaworthy. Then any kind of illusion is not going to deter us if we are seaworthy. But seaworthy means we must know if there is a fog, how to move in right direction.
We should know how to overcome all the hazards of all kinds of storms and all the knowledge should be built-in within us. And that built-in knowledge is this dharma. It is a religion within you - not without, but within you.
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 1983
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