Voices of Love

"Surrender …
For it is through your surrender that you join ever deeperwith the infinite mind of God that you are part of.It is through your surrender that you open upto the infinite possibilities of your being.Surrender …"

The Arrivals Series Part 1 to 4

We live in the world of illusion .

To gain a better understanding , go through part 1 to 4 of the " The Arrivals Series " and make your own choice , to awaken or to continue to sleep in the dream .

Manifestation of pure desires and yr experiences

"What you experience is an outcome of your desire.What you want will come to passfirst in your heart, then through your mind, and finally in your experience.Feel your desire to hear God's voice,believe it is possible,ask to receive it,and it will be yours."

Balance

"Now, we have to understand that we are carrying the light in our hands. And the light should not shake; we have to hold the light tight. And we should have a concentrated attention towards the maintenance of the light. And then to tell yourself that we have to see not just to understand mentally is to be actually aware. Because you are complete otherwise – you are part and parcel of the whole – you are! But the only thing is that you have not yet seen that. You have mentally accepted, but you have not become that, because mental projection comes from thought. That means you are at the level of the thought. You have to become thoughtless. But if you live on the basis of thought, you are still below the Agnya chakra. So all the thought waves must be stopped to begin with and you should say that alright let us see now. "

-- Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
1985-05-27

Balance

"In the right side, mostly you catch on Swadisthan. This is because you think. This is another kind of thinking that gives you catch at right Swadisthan. Thinking – whether it comes from right or left will first give problem to your liver. The worst comes when both sides are involved. So, one must understand that, in Sahaja Yoga, you are developing that sharp edge, that central point from which you do not deviate to the right or the left, and to balance it you have to watch yourself carefully. If going to the right, come to the left. If going to the left, come to the right. Now, come to the centre, you just separate yourself, you detach yourself all the time. Use this point just to see and guide yourself. Guidance is very different from getting lost. Living force knows how to guide itself. In the same way you will learn to guide yourself, if you have learnt, if you have mastered Sahaja Yoga."

-- Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 1983-05-15

Faith

"Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking"

Kahlil Gibran

Ocean of illusion

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, 1983

Like the ship is built, is brought to the sea, tried and found to be seaworthy to sail out now into the sea. So you have to sail out when you know everything about the ship, everything about the sea. With complete freedom and wisdom, you have to sail now, not afraid of any storms or any hails or any typhoons because now you know your job is to cross through.

Shri Mataji, 1982

Infinite

"Music fills the Infinite between two souls"

Rabindranath Tagore

The Divine Will

People ask questions to God ... "Why did He do it? Why didn't He make us wise to begin with?" There are many like that.
"He should have made us wise people living in the Kingdom of God.
"Why didn't He do it in our evolution? Why did He make us so stupid?"
One can say to God, you see, why did He create these problems ...?But who are we to ask Him questions?You see, He does what He likes.

H.H.SHRI MATAJI NIRMALA DEVI--Founder of Sahaja Yoga—Caxton Hall, London, 11 March,1983

Sankranti

Advice given by H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi:

"Today we are celebrating here a special day called Makar Sankrant. For the information of the foreign Sahaja Yogis, I will explain to you what it means. It means today is the day the sun crosses over from the Tropic of Capricorn to the Tropic of Cancer. It is a very big day for us because, now during the summer time we have the harvest, and we look forward to the rain and so many things that happen in every country. The sun falls at right angles in this country during the summer season and so we welcome the sun. We eat something that we must have eaten already what we call as til and Jagrut. It is to prepare your body and your mind to give it sufficiency to receive the sun. Because if you are living in the cool season, then all your body mind becomes lethargic and you become also sometimes very lazy about things in the sense that the day is so small that you cannot achieve many results. So the body has become cold as we call it. We take these things, which give us heat so body is prepared to receive the heat of the sun to welcome."(Makar Sankranti Puja, Mumbai, 14/1/85)"Today is the day where we celebrate the change of the axis of the Sun and that he moves towards the tropic of cancer. Tropic of cancer is the one which represents the motherhood, the motherhood of the earth.This tropic of Cancer has passed through quite a big area of land while the tropic of Capricorn has not. And the area through which it has passed it has created different beautiful manifestation of the mother qualities on this earth. We celebrate this change because the sun has now moved into the new dimension so that all over the world there will be the warmth of the sun.Warmth of the sun represents the warmth of God's love. This is the reason why we celebrate this festival by giving you some sort of a sweet made out of sesame seeds. Sesame seeds are given because they are also heat giving and now as we are coming from the cold we come to the hot season in a way hotter season so to prepare you with that warmth of the Sun.These special things are made out of the seed of sesame to represent the oncoming warmth and the warmth of the sun. Though in India the heat is too much still people are waiting for this time to come in and they celebrate it with such a warm heart. At this time it is said that they give you this sesame seed and the sugar to eat but now you must speak in a sweet manner (gudd gudd gunaaa) means you must speak in the sweet manner."(Sankranti Puja, 14/1/87) "... a special type of a Puja that we are having today. This is the Puja done to the Sun and is called as Makar Sankranti. Makar is the tropic of Capricorn, Capricorn is Makar. So now, the Sun is moving from the tropic of Capricorn towards tropic of Cancer and is always a fixed date because it has something to do with the Sun. This is the only date it is fixed in Indian Calendar because they have to deal with the Sun. But this time, I don't know why, what has happened, that they have put it on the 15th of this month. It's always the 14th. ... (Surya Puja, Mumbai, 10/1/88)In Maharashtra, Karnataka as well as parts of Andhra Pradesh, Makar Sankranti is a day of goodwill and friendship, and marks the commencement of the sun's journey to the Northern Hemisphere (Makara raasi), signifying the onset of Uttarayana Punyakalam, and is a day of celebration all over the country. The day begins with people taking holy dips in the waters and worshipping the Sun. Besides since the day marks the harbinger of good harvest it is also celebrated in various harvest festivals in India. Also celebrated with great fervor across India as a festival called Pongal (in south of India), Bihu (in the North eastern part of India) and Lohri (in Northern India) while rest of India enjoys the 'Til -Gur' day. Til- is Sesame seed in English while 'Gur' is termed as Jaggery in English. Jaggery is supposed to be a coarse, unrefined sugar made from the sap of certain palm trees. It is also available in form of a coarse, unrefined sugar that has been made from sugar cane juice (in which case the palm sugar will be called gur) and is popular throughout southern and Southeast Asia. Jaggery is most often available in cake form, and ranges from fairly crumbly to nearly rock-hard. (Rabi Ghosh)According to the Indian calendar, Sankranti is celebrated on the 15th once every ten years: 1988, 1998, 2008...

Stairway to Heaven

Be at peace with your own soul then heaven & earth will be at peace with you.Enter eagerly into the treasure house that is within you,And you will see the things that are in heaven,for there is but one single entry to them both.The ladder that leads to the Kingdom is hidden within your soul...Dive into yourself and in your souland you will discover the stairs by which to ascend.

Isaac the Syrian

Christian monk from Beth Abhe on the western shore of the Persian Gulf. A renowned teacher who briefly became Bishop of Nineveh, abdicated and then lived for many years as a desert ascetic. Seventh century CE.

The Eternal Life

"What are you searching? Why are you aimlessly and listlessly running about? The joy that you have searched in material gains, the joy that you are looking for in power, the joy that disappeared in the words of books-the so-called knowledge - is all lost in yourself, and you are still searching and seeking! You can pay attention to everything outside, yourself! You are lost in your thoughts, like babes in the wood! But there is great hope that you can rise into the Heaven of "thoughtless" awareness, which we call Self-realization.I invite you to this feast of Divine Bliss, which is pouring around you, even in this Kaliyuga, in these God-forsaken modern times. I hope you will come and enjoy the spiritual experience of the Life Eternal."
(H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 1972)

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Love

"'Love is the main thing. When there is love, there is energy, there is patience and there is wisdom. Love has to be there first"

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi - Italy - 2008

Detachment

First when you become realized, collectively conscious, and start raising the Kundalini, you are in, you cross the fourth dimension. But when your Spirit comes into your brain, then you become the fifth dimension - means, you become the doer. Our brain, now, for example says, "All right, lift this thing up." So you touch it with your hand, you lift it up. You are the doer. But when the brain becomes the Spirit, the Spirit is the doer, and when Spirit is the doer, then you become a complete Shiva - self-realized.In that state, if you get angry, you are not attached. You are not an attached person to anything whatsoever. If you possess anything, you are not attached. You cannot attach, because Spirit is detachment, complete detachment. You don't bother about any attachments whatsoever. Even for a second, you are not attached. Now I would say, to understand the detachment of Spirit, we should study ourselves very well, clearly. How are we attached? We are attached, firstly, by our brain, mostly by our brain, because all our conditionings are in our brain and all our ego is also in our brain. So all emotional attachments are through our brain and all our egoistical attachments also are through our brain. That's why it is said that after Realization one must try to practice the Shiva Tattwa by practicing detachment. Now how do you practice this detachment?Because we get attached to something, of course through our brain, but through our attention. So we try to do what we call chitta nirodh, is to control your attention. Where is it going? In the practice of Sahaja Yoga, if you have to rise higher you have to improve your own instrument and not the instrument of others. This is one thing one should know, for definite. Now, you just watch your attention. Where is it going. Watch yourself. As soon as you'll start watching yourself, your attention, you'll become more identified with your Spirit. Because if you have to watch your attention, you will have to be your Spirit, otherwise how will you watch it? ...The detachment is to be watched and seen through your own attachments. Now, because you are realized souls, not yet the Spirit, has not come into your brain of course, but still you are realized souls. So what you can do is at least to watch your attention, you can do that. You can watch your attention very clearly by seeing where your attention is going. And then, controlling your attention, also, you can do. Very simple. To control your attention you have to just remove your attention from this to that. Try to change your priorities, all this has to be done now, after Realization - a complete detachment.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Shivaratri Puja 1984, Pandharpur, India

Mahalaksmi

"So now today is a great day for us because Mahalakshmi has helped us so much, Her blessings are so much. She looks after our well being, She is the one who looks after all our problems of redemption, She is the one who give us all the possible help in our chakras and correction of them. And She is the one who gives us all that is material or physical well being, so we have to be very thankful to Her today. You have to be grateful. Because Mahakali is also Annapurna. She supplies food to people. You can say Mahalakshmi is the grandest Graha Lakshmi. So may God Bless you all."

-- Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,
1985-05-27