Friday, April 24, 2009
Tragedy by Chance
I've forgotten where I'd gotten this from. When I find the link, I'll pass it on to you all.
[QUOTING]
On the higher Spiritual Planes the process of Evolution takes place as an unbroken continuity of conscious awareness. At the Earth level however, the difficulties of Third-dimensional Earth life, and the physical aging of the dense Earthly body, place limitations on the length of time during which we can tolerate the dense Physical Plane. This requires that we eventually must physically "die", and then spend a relatively long period on a Higher Spiritual Plane reviewing our Earth life and receiving much needed spiritual refreshment before returning to another physical Incarnation. We often find that we need to repeatedly learn from the many faults within our makeup at the challenging physical Third-Dimensional level until we have finally overcome them. This cycle is known as Reincarnation.
The Spirit Guide Tendor: "Earth is a school, and you learn even when making mistakes. If you face a test and fail, you push yourself to take it again. So if you have lessons to learn in one life which you fail to learn, then in another life you will present yourself with those lessons again; for you cannot progress - and all life is an upward progression, an upward spiral - until you have learned those lessons.
"You have a test to pass, one which you have set yourself to accomplish. When you pass depends upon the effort you make. If you do not pass the test in one experience you will have other chances of doing so. You will always find fresh opportunities opening out before you. In time you will accomplish what you set out to do, however many distractions may deter you from your object. The power of the Spirit can and will win in the end. It is like a powerful magnet drawing you on. It is the effort that counts; the responsibility is yours, no other can accomplish your mission for you. The scales of Divine Justice are accurately balanced, there must be nothing owing if you are to progress."
During our "Life's review" on the Spiritual Plane following physical death, the next Incarnation is planned in advance with the help of one's Spiritual Guides and Masters. With their close consultation, we make a thorough review of our past faults and weaknesses from which we can then make plans to return to physical life in order to correct those various weaknesses. When back in an Earthly life, those pre-planned events can come upon us quite unexpectedly, some as even quite traumatic experiences, which usually causes the Earthly personality to roundly blame the "Fates"or even God for its "misfortune". And yet all of these events have been previously planned to manifest at a particular opportune time by the Soul itself.
When about to undertake an incarnation on Earth, the Soul makes a "Life Contract" between itself, its Higher Self and the Spiritual Hierarchy to live an Earth life of an agreed duration in order to correct and learn from those inherent character weaknesses. If the incarnated soul subsequently finds the Earth lessons too difficult and decides to terminate life prematurely by such as suicide, the lessons are thus not only temporarily avoided, but are deemed to be postponed until another reincarnation can be arranged. The Soul's Higher Spiritual Self will require going through the lengthy process of death and rebirth once again, in order to live out those remaining years left within the former "Life Contract". This explains why many of us instinctively have a deep-rooted feeling that suicide is not a good road to go down. Not only is it considered on higher levels as a betrayal of one's Higher-Self's "Evolutionary Plan", but as a gross misuse of all the Heavenly support and Earthly facilities made available to us by Mother Earth and the Heavenly Realms as well as our Prime Creator .
The Master Zen-Tao: "The Drama of Life has a purpose: It is to Teach, to Evolve our Consciousness. Everything that happens on the Plane of Earth happens not by chance, but because we have attracted it to ourselves through our behavior in this or in past lives, and have consciously accepted the challenge it represents. It is widely understood that the concept of "Free Will" allows us to choose how we will react to given circumstances; it is important to realize however, that we also exercise Free Will in our choice of the challenges we agree to undertake during each incarnation. Through "Free Will" we choose our challenges and lessons; through Free Will we choose how we react to them.
"It is difficult for those who do not accept the concept of Reincarnation, of life after life after life, to see how suffering can be regarded as an evolutionary process. But when Reincarnation is accepted as an integral part of one’s view of Evolution, it is easy to understand that we bring into being with each new physical body all that we have created in other Earth lives, and on other levels of existence beyond the Physical Plane of Earth. We bring with us not only our spiritual wisdom, but also the sins of the past, the Lessons we have not learnt, the Karma we owe both to ourselves and to others. So as we advance through the Life which we now lead, we will automatically attract to ourselves the Lessons we have chosen to learn, the Karma we have chosen to transmute.
"Thus, there is no such thing as a tragedy by chance. Everything that happens on the Plane of Earth has reason, has purpose. We live in a world in which many people apparently experience great tragedies. Tragedy comes to people either because they chose it for their Destiny path or because it will present them with a Lesson in life they have yet to learn. Tragedy is the working-out of Cause and Effect; as we experience the Effects, so we learn to change the Cause. The experience of Tragedy also teaches Sympathy and Compassion, the ability to accept and absorb the minor imperfections in others, that they may in turn do the same for us.
"If there is one point which I would like to emphasize now, it is this: that Suffering is chosen by Yourself. It is not given to you by your Creator as a punishment. It is chosen by You, willingly, as a Lesson to learn, as a Lesson which your Soul needs at this particular point in its Evolution."
Those who find themselves confronted by a Challenge so great as to appear unbearable should always keep in mind that nothing, absolutely nothing, no challenge, no wound, no obstacle or impediment however difficult and trying it may appear, has been undertaken without our own prior Consent and Acceptance, and that no challenge we may meet on Earth is greater than our power to Overcome it. A super-Human effort may indeed be required by those who have chosen life's most difficult challenges, but Nothing is ever undertaken, or allowed to be undertaken, which is beyond our Reach.
[END QUOTING]
[BG:] This should help us all to begin the practice of interpreting our Lives of from a Higher and Wiser Perspective. Proper understanding of the foregoing can lead to a Serenity of Mind and Clarity of Thought that should give one the Ability to overcome any Earthly "obstacle". It's all part of doing what it takes to become Sovereign MASTERS of our Destiny.
Instead of asking "Why is this happening to me?"... ask instead, "What is the Lesson that is being Presented to Me? What is it that I am Trying to Learn?".
Then Resolve to Learn It.
Love to All,
~~ G
[QUOTING]
On the higher Spiritual Planes the process of Evolution takes place as an unbroken continuity of conscious awareness. At the Earth level however, the difficulties of Third-dimensional Earth life, and the physical aging of the dense Earthly body, place limitations on the length of time during which we can tolerate the dense Physical Plane. This requires that we eventually must physically "die", and then spend a relatively long period on a Higher Spiritual Plane reviewing our Earth life and receiving much needed spiritual refreshment before returning to another physical Incarnation. We often find that we need to repeatedly learn from the many faults within our makeup at the challenging physical Third-Dimensional level until we have finally overcome them. This cycle is known as Reincarnation.
The Spirit Guide Tendor: "Earth is a school, and you learn even when making mistakes. If you face a test and fail, you push yourself to take it again. So if you have lessons to learn in one life which you fail to learn, then in another life you will present yourself with those lessons again; for you cannot progress - and all life is an upward progression, an upward spiral - until you have learned those lessons.
"You have a test to pass, one which you have set yourself to accomplish. When you pass depends upon the effort you make. If you do not pass the test in one experience you will have other chances of doing so. You will always find fresh opportunities opening out before you. In time you will accomplish what you set out to do, however many distractions may deter you from your object. The power of the Spirit can and will win in the end. It is like a powerful magnet drawing you on. It is the effort that counts; the responsibility is yours, no other can accomplish your mission for you. The scales of Divine Justice are accurately balanced, there must be nothing owing if you are to progress."
During our "Life's review" on the Spiritual Plane following physical death, the next Incarnation is planned in advance with the help of one's Spiritual Guides and Masters. With their close consultation, we make a thorough review of our past faults and weaknesses from which we can then make plans to return to physical life in order to correct those various weaknesses. When back in an Earthly life, those pre-planned events can come upon us quite unexpectedly, some as even quite traumatic experiences, which usually causes the Earthly personality to roundly blame the "Fates"or even God for its "misfortune". And yet all of these events have been previously planned to manifest at a particular opportune time by the Soul itself.
When about to undertake an incarnation on Earth, the Soul makes a "Life Contract" between itself, its Higher Self and the Spiritual Hierarchy to live an Earth life of an agreed duration in order to correct and learn from those inherent character weaknesses. If the incarnated soul subsequently finds the Earth lessons too difficult and decides to terminate life prematurely by such as suicide, the lessons are thus not only temporarily avoided, but are deemed to be postponed until another reincarnation can be arranged. The Soul's Higher Spiritual Self will require going through the lengthy process of death and rebirth once again, in order to live out those remaining years left within the former "Life Contract". This explains why many of us instinctively have a deep-rooted feeling that suicide is not a good road to go down. Not only is it considered on higher levels as a betrayal of one's Higher-Self's "Evolutionary Plan", but as a gross misuse of all the Heavenly support and Earthly facilities made available to us by Mother Earth and the Heavenly Realms as well as our Prime Creator .
The Master Zen-Tao: "The Drama of Life has a purpose: It is to Teach, to Evolve our Consciousness. Everything that happens on the Plane of Earth happens not by chance, but because we have attracted it to ourselves through our behavior in this or in past lives, and have consciously accepted the challenge it represents. It is widely understood that the concept of "Free Will" allows us to choose how we will react to given circumstances; it is important to realize however, that we also exercise Free Will in our choice of the challenges we agree to undertake during each incarnation. Through "Free Will" we choose our challenges and lessons; through Free Will we choose how we react to them.
"It is difficult for those who do not accept the concept of Reincarnation, of life after life after life, to see how suffering can be regarded as an evolutionary process. But when Reincarnation is accepted as an integral part of one’s view of Evolution, it is easy to understand that we bring into being with each new physical body all that we have created in other Earth lives, and on other levels of existence beyond the Physical Plane of Earth. We bring with us not only our spiritual wisdom, but also the sins of the past, the Lessons we have not learnt, the Karma we owe both to ourselves and to others. So as we advance through the Life which we now lead, we will automatically attract to ourselves the Lessons we have chosen to learn, the Karma we have chosen to transmute.
"Thus, there is no such thing as a tragedy by chance. Everything that happens on the Plane of Earth has reason, has purpose. We live in a world in which many people apparently experience great tragedies. Tragedy comes to people either because they chose it for their Destiny path or because it will present them with a Lesson in life they have yet to learn. Tragedy is the working-out of Cause and Effect; as we experience the Effects, so we learn to change the Cause. The experience of Tragedy also teaches Sympathy and Compassion, the ability to accept and absorb the minor imperfections in others, that they may in turn do the same for us.
"If there is one point which I would like to emphasize now, it is this: that Suffering is chosen by Yourself. It is not given to you by your Creator as a punishment. It is chosen by You, willingly, as a Lesson to learn, as a Lesson which your Soul needs at this particular point in its Evolution."
Those who find themselves confronted by a Challenge so great as to appear unbearable should always keep in mind that nothing, absolutely nothing, no challenge, no wound, no obstacle or impediment however difficult and trying it may appear, has been undertaken without our own prior Consent and Acceptance, and that no challenge we may meet on Earth is greater than our power to Overcome it. A super-Human effort may indeed be required by those who have chosen life's most difficult challenges, but Nothing is ever undertaken, or allowed to be undertaken, which is beyond our Reach.
[END QUOTING]
[BG:] This should help us all to begin the practice of interpreting our Lives of from a Higher and Wiser Perspective. Proper understanding of the foregoing can lead to a Serenity of Mind and Clarity of Thought that should give one the Ability to overcome any Earthly "obstacle". It's all part of doing what it takes to become Sovereign MASTERS of our Destiny.
Instead of asking "Why is this happening to me?"... ask instead, "What is the Lesson that is being Presented to Me? What is it that I am Trying to Learn?".
Then Resolve to Learn It.
Love to All,
~~ G
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Meditative mood
"...but in meditative mood you are alone. No one exists there. You alone. And once you enter into that ocean then the whole world becomes your whole family. The whole world is your own manifestation. All the children become your children. And you treat all people with equal understanding. The whole expansion takes place when you enter inside 'your' spirit and start seeing through eyes of the spirit. There's such calm, such peace, such bliss within you. You have to be ready for that journey. That journey is alone in your meditativeness."
HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 14.03.1983, Australia
HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 14.03.1983, Australia
Walking
So it's nice to walk a little bit in the evening time, it's a good idea. It’s a very good idea, leisurely you can walk, that will digest your food. The food is rather heavy sometimes. It makes you feel better and just know that you are walking that's all. To feel that I have to walk, I have to go there, once you start thinking you get exhausted sitting here, even if you have not walked. ... So I think we should make a practice now the Moon is out, beautiful moonlit nights, try to walk down, especially the Delhi people must walk. They don't just walk. In Delhi is all right because you can not walk about, there is danger and all that but here is better. You better walk. Your health will improve. Sahaja Yoga will improve. Kundalini will improve. You'll feel much better.
That's the good part of this remote place that nobody sees you. Nobody is bothered about you. You can live whatever way you like you can walk the way you like. There is nobody to bother. There is no need to have a competition or run about but just leisurely if you walk it is a good idea. I am not saying just to save some money out of the buses. But it is just to make you feel more healthy, just sitting all the time one feels very funny sit here, sit there, sit there, going in a taxi, going in a bus, going in a lift, you just don't move your legs. There is no exercise also in Sahaja Yoga. Walking is the best exercise for all the Sahaja Yogis as I told you. And that's why it is important that you all should try to walk a little bit, if possible. For there are ladies who have children, that is all right, old ladies, old men but even them it's a good idea to walk half a way and then you can go by buses. Something like that try to adjust yourself for these three, four days. You'll feel much better. I promise you will feel much better when you walk now.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, talking to western yogis on India Tour, Ganapatipule, 3/1/88
That's the good part of this remote place that nobody sees you. Nobody is bothered about you. You can live whatever way you like you can walk the way you like. There is nobody to bother. There is no need to have a competition or run about but just leisurely if you walk it is a good idea. I am not saying just to save some money out of the buses. But it is just to make you feel more healthy, just sitting all the time one feels very funny sit here, sit there, sit there, going in a taxi, going in a bus, going in a lift, you just don't move your legs. There is no exercise also in Sahaja Yoga. Walking is the best exercise for all the Sahaja Yogis as I told you. And that's why it is important that you all should try to walk a little bit, if possible. For there are ladies who have children, that is all right, old ladies, old men but even them it's a good idea to walk half a way and then you can go by buses. Something like that try to adjust yourself for these three, four days. You'll feel much better. I promise you will feel much better when you walk now.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, talking to western yogis on India Tour, Ganapatipule, 3/1/88
Beyond the Mind
Today, I'm going to talk about the mind. People don't know what this mind is. It is very easy to understand for Sahaja Yogis, that we are the ones who react, react to everything that is outside. The reason is, we have two horrible tendencies, one which is an ego, and another tendency is that we are being trained that way, or we can call it the superego or the conditionings. So, both the things, our ego and conditionings, are all the time acting outside. This reaction, which is built in within us, is just like bubbles in the ocean, and these bubbles keep us away from reality. These bubbles are of thoughts, and they just blast you all the time in your head, and you don't know why they have come. When you depend on this artificial mind of yours, then you have no discretion as to understand what is good and what is bad. This mind is the one where all kinds of evil things start, all kinds of quarrels, fights and possessiveness, lastly, the war also comes there. It is in this mind only, which is nothing but a myth, all these concrete, destructive ideas, somehow or other, come up, and then they start growing and growing.
Then you find people whom you can impress, also, put ideas into their heads - by reading, they learn, or by their lectures, or by mesmerism, whatever kinds of things they can do. They put your mind into such a frame that you accept these destructive ideas, for yourself individually, or maybe for the collective.
So this mind is just a myth, and we are working through this mind. We are all the time satisfying ourselves by saying 'Oh, that's my mind', 'My mind wants it'. ...
Because this mind, which is just a bubble, as I told you, and is so limited, that it cannot comprehend the beauty, the glory, the expanse of reality- this mind is just a collection of all the garbage, we should say, which we have to, somehow or other, deny, and tell ourselves that 'I have to go beyond my mind. So-called mind of mine has done no good for me. And this mind of mine, which has been all the time controlling me, is just like the watch we have made and is controlling us, or like the computer that controls us'.
So we have to be careful that we are the ones that have created this mind, and this mind has no business to control us. Many people try to control the mind. There's a way of doing it, that 'I'll control my mind now'. Now, try to understand, how will you control the mind only though mind? Either by ego or by your conditioning. You have no means of controlling your mind, because it is the mind which you have created, and that is just existing there, which you cannot control, though you might think 'I can control'.
You have to go beyond this mind. And to go beyond this mind, the most helpful thing is Kundalini awakening, because She passes through your limbic area, pierces through your fontanel bone area, and just takes you away, out, into the realm of reality, and the Yoga takes place between your brain, I should say, your heart, with this All-pervading Power. She's the One which connects, She's the One who does it. Many people are doing Sahaja Yoga, I know that, but it's difficult for them, sometimes, to get to meditation, to establish this thoughtless awareness, which is an extremely important state which you all should achieve. So many Sahaja Yogis are there, and I'm happy to know that they are getting deeper and deeper, but as long as they are in the turmoil of their mind they cannot progress.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extracts from Birthday Puja 1996
From http://sahaj-az.blogspot.com/
Then you find people whom you can impress, also, put ideas into their heads - by reading, they learn, or by their lectures, or by mesmerism, whatever kinds of things they can do. They put your mind into such a frame that you accept these destructive ideas, for yourself individually, or maybe for the collective.
So this mind is just a myth, and we are working through this mind. We are all the time satisfying ourselves by saying 'Oh, that's my mind', 'My mind wants it'. ...
Because this mind, which is just a bubble, as I told you, and is so limited, that it cannot comprehend the beauty, the glory, the expanse of reality- this mind is just a collection of all the garbage, we should say, which we have to, somehow or other, deny, and tell ourselves that 'I have to go beyond my mind. So-called mind of mine has done no good for me. And this mind of mine, which has been all the time controlling me, is just like the watch we have made and is controlling us, or like the computer that controls us'.
So we have to be careful that we are the ones that have created this mind, and this mind has no business to control us. Many people try to control the mind. There's a way of doing it, that 'I'll control my mind now'. Now, try to understand, how will you control the mind only though mind? Either by ego or by your conditioning. You have no means of controlling your mind, because it is the mind which you have created, and that is just existing there, which you cannot control, though you might think 'I can control'.
You have to go beyond this mind. And to go beyond this mind, the most helpful thing is Kundalini awakening, because She passes through your limbic area, pierces through your fontanel bone area, and just takes you away, out, into the realm of reality, and the Yoga takes place between your brain, I should say, your heart, with this All-pervading Power. She's the One which connects, She's the One who does it. Many people are doing Sahaja Yoga, I know that, but it's difficult for them, sometimes, to get to meditation, to establish this thoughtless awareness, which is an extremely important state which you all should achieve. So many Sahaja Yogis are there, and I'm happy to know that they are getting deeper and deeper, but as long as they are in the turmoil of their mind they cannot progress.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extracts from Birthday Puja 1996
From http://sahaj-az.blogspot.com/
Atma
Only human attention (Chitta), in pursuit of desires, leaves its inner path.. This is Maya (the illusion).She has been intentionally created. Without her the attention (Chitta) would not have developed. You should not be afraid of Maya and should recognise her so that She will illuminate your path. Cloud hides the sun as 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 cloud ? Because of 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.
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Forgive
Today is the day of forgiving. Forgiving people who you think have done wrong to you or they haven’t been very kind to you. Please try to remember at how many people you are still angry. Just forgive. Then you have punished them. If you forgive them from your heart, then you have punished them. You have given back whatever they wanted or deserved. So, this is not a very difficult thing, to forgive, but people think it is very difficult to forgive, because they have certain great understandings about themselves.
Then they think, how can they forgive? I don’t know what things upset you, anything can upset you, after all, you are all realized souls. You have got your Second Birth and you are special people. So you should have a special quality and the special quality is to forgive. To forgive, not to go on remembering why you should be angry and why you should be upset, but just remember what things you have to forgive.
Just forgive. For what? It is a practical thing. Most practical. Supposing somebody slaps you. Alright, if someone slaps me, what should I do? Should I slap him back? No. Then should I ask him, why did you slap me? No. Then I should think he must be a stupid fool to do like that? That won’t help. On the contrary, if you can just forgive, forgive that person who has done something wrong… For you it is important that you must forgive, because it has no effect on you… But if you forgive, it will have more effect. Your goodness, your righteousness, but I think human beings find it difficult to forgive… normally, normally…
But you are all realized souls, you are not only human beings, that is why I am requesting you to remember that you have the power to forgive. To forgive everyone who hurts you, who tortures you, who troubles you. How far can we go? Just think of forgiving him and you will be amazed, he will change. He will change and you will also enjoy it yourself.
This is a difficult thing for people to understand, but just try. Just try what I’m saying. If somebody does any harm to you, just forgive that person and see the reaction, reaction in that person and in yourself. See what happens. But if you want into the burden of anger or stupidity or whatever it is, then you have unnecessarily loaded yourself with useless things.
We should not waste our energy on deciding what is wrong, what did he do and what you should do to him. That we should not. Just leave him alone and you just forgive. Say “I forgive”.
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Then they think, how can they forgive? I don’t know what things upset you, anything can upset you, after all, you are all realized souls. You have got your Second Birth and you are special people. So you should have a special quality and the special quality is to forgive. To forgive, not to go on remembering why you should be angry and why you should be upset, but just remember what things you have to forgive.
Just forgive. For what? It is a practical thing. Most practical. Supposing somebody slaps you. Alright, if someone slaps me, what should I do? Should I slap him back? No. Then should I ask him, why did you slap me? No. Then I should think he must be a stupid fool to do like that? That won’t help. On the contrary, if you can just forgive, forgive that person who has done something wrong… For you it is important that you must forgive, because it has no effect on you… But if you forgive, it will have more effect. Your goodness, your righteousness, but I think human beings find it difficult to forgive… normally, normally…
But you are all realized souls, you are not only human beings, that is why I am requesting you to remember that you have the power to forgive. To forgive everyone who hurts you, who tortures you, who troubles you. How far can we go? Just think of forgiving him and you will be amazed, he will change. He will change and you will also enjoy it yourself.
This is a difficult thing for people to understand, but just try. Just try what I’m saying. If somebody does any harm to you, just forgive that person and see the reaction, reaction in that person and in yourself. See what happens. But if you want into the burden of anger or stupidity or whatever it is, then you have unnecessarily loaded yourself with useless things.
We should not waste our energy on deciding what is wrong, what did he do and what you should do to him. That we should not. Just leave him alone and you just forgive. Say “I forgive”.
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Niranand
"I hope so many of you will become the Shiva tattwas in my lifetime. But don't think I'm asking you to suffer. There is no suffering in this kind of an ascent. If you understand that this is the complete joyous state, that is the time when you become Niranand. That's the joy named in the Sahasrara, the name of the joy is Niranand, and you know your Mother's name is Nira. So you become Niranand."
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Shivaratri Puja 1984, Pandharpur, India
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Shivaratri Puja 1984, Pandharpur, India
Humble down
The attention can be concentrated now, after Realization only. But even realized souls have to work it out. This is the biggest problem that I think I see, that our attention is so distributed we cannot do anything in a concentrated manner. That’s why there is guru shopping also going on…
So to clear the attention, clear this garbage into that clear-cut, beautiful lake, you have to go within. You have to allow it to sediment. You have to take pride. By its own nature it will come, the beauty. And then you will see a ripple in that lake within you, a peaceful space in which you will see the bliss of God flowing into you, through you, you observing it and seeing it manifesting into the other. That is what needs to be asked for. No mental activity can do that. It is only the desire to be that works it. Mental activity, rationality, saps it. Through rationality, you cannot reach God…
It is said, “Those who will be blessed have to humble down in their heart.” It is very true. It is very, very true that we have to humble down in our hearts, so that it will work. And keep your attention steady…
So just try to humble down in your heart and it will work out. Every time you get your touching of the kundalini or, you can say, the breakthrough, every time you get that experience, keep it in your memory and desire for it and it will work out. Do not keep in memory the faults that you have had, where you have been.
When you climb up on top of a hill or a mountain, you don’t remember all the ditches you have fallen into in your childhood. You enjoy the atmosphere on the hilltop. Make it a strong memory within you and try to keep it there.
Shri Mataji, 1978
http://www.ydig.us/page/5/
So to clear the attention, clear this garbage into that clear-cut, beautiful lake, you have to go within. You have to allow it to sediment. You have to take pride. By its own nature it will come, the beauty. And then you will see a ripple in that lake within you, a peaceful space in which you will see the bliss of God flowing into you, through you, you observing it and seeing it manifesting into the other. That is what needs to be asked for. No mental activity can do that. It is only the desire to be that works it. Mental activity, rationality, saps it. Through rationality, you cannot reach God…
It is said, “Those who will be blessed have to humble down in their heart.” It is very true. It is very, very true that we have to humble down in our hearts, so that it will work. And keep your attention steady…
So just try to humble down in your heart and it will work out. Every time you get your touching of the kundalini or, you can say, the breakthrough, every time you get that experience, keep it in your memory and desire for it and it will work out. Do not keep in memory the faults that you have had, where you have been.
When you climb up on top of a hill or a mountain, you don’t remember all the ditches you have fallen into in your childhood. You enjoy the atmosphere on the hilltop. Make it a strong memory within you and try to keep it there.
Shri Mataji, 1978
http://www.ydig.us/page/5/
Individual Journery
"It is an individual journey towards God. When you meditate and when you reach there, then you become collective. Before that its an "absolute individual journey within". It's absolutely individual journey! You should be able to see this; that in this journey nobody is your relation. Nobody is your friend. You are absolutely alone. 'Absolutely alone'. You have to move alone within yourself."
HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 14.03.1983, Australia
HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 14.03.1983, Australia
Judge Yourself
"Change everything. Become a fresh, new person. You are blooming out as a flower, and then as a tree and assume your position. Assume your position as the Sahaja Yogi. So this attention must be brought round. You just yourself where is your attention, and what is the point of understanding, what is the measure of understanding. It’s very simple. I have to be pleased because I am the attention. If I am pleased then you have done the job. But I cannot be pleased by mundane things, by any arguments with that, but only with your ascent. So you judge yourself on that."
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
1984-05-21
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
1984-05-21
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