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
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