"Peace has to be felt within yourself, and if you are not feeling that, you should not come and ask me, ‘Mother, why am I not feeling it?’ Because I am not going to tell you that something is wrong with you. You have to work it out that you should feel peaceful within yourself. It is not that if you have too much of silence outside, you feel peaceful. That peace has to be within yourself. You have it. Your Spirit is absolutely peaceful. ‘Avyagra’ – without restlessness. There is no restlessness in your Spirit. Absolutely peaceful and steady. It is for you to feel it. It is not for anybody else to certify you. This is one thing. Otherwise, whatever I say is a mantra. It should have direct effect on you, and you should feel that effect, that penetration within you. But – as if it is for somebody else, as if it is not for you - it is for you to feel it."
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
1985-05-27
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Nirvikalpa
NIRVIKALPA
It is gratifying to see so many Sahaja Yogis come to celebrate the Sahasrara Day. Without breaking the Sahasrara, we could not have achieved the ascent en masse. But the Sahasrara which is the brain has gone into too much complications in the west. And the thoughts are very much twisted, one upon the other.
To keep Sahasrara open should be very easy if the Western brains could understand and be aware about your Mother. When your Mother is the Deity of Sahasrara, the only way to keep the Sahasrara open has to be complete surrendering.
For that many ask me, How do we do it? It's a very funny question. It is irrelevant. If your Sahasrara has been opened out by someone, and luckily that is the Deity before you, it should be the easiest thing to surrender. But it is not. It is difficult because the attention that has come up through the cells of the brain is polluted. It is impure. It is destructive. It's poisonous and when the nerves are spoiled, the light of the Spirit does not shines on the nerves. And you feel the inability to surrender. Normally it should be the easiest thing to do.
So we have to mentally approach ourselves. We have to talk to ourselves and say to ourselves "What are you doing? What is surrendering? It is enjoyment, it is just enjoyment. Then why I cannot surrender? What is lacking in me? Am I a very low level person? Am I the one who was just saying I'm seeker but I'm not. Am I dishonest person that I cannot surrender? If so, what am I proud of? Myself? If that is the situation, then why am I so much enamoured by my ego? ...
But I have heard that people are arriving at different times for Sahasrara Day . I was amazed. It's typical western mind. By the way, Sahaja Yoga is to be done, mostly by-the-way. It should be convenient. It should be a weekend. When just by-the-way for a holiday, we can go to Vienna. There of course, by-the-way, we'll have puja and by-the-way Mother will raise the Kundalini. She will awaken our Deities and then by-the-way we'll be enjoying the blessings. No sacrifice can be done for God. No time, they have no time. Everything is by-the-way. It's rather amazing, for war people give up their lives, for destruction they work so hard, day and night. But for construction of humanity for the ultimate goal of Divinity, in the West, how many there are who really surrender? If it suits, then we'll be there. Sahaja, this is Sahaja style. We should reach Sahaja. I heard about this many a times. There are still many who are that kind of an attitude towards Sahaja Yoga. It is something surprising me. ...
It's so precious that no words can describe the greatness of these moments which we are spending together. You have to feel it within yourself, the assignment that is given to you through your own Spirit, through your own state. You can fulfill the assignments.But lack of faith in yourself cannot give you surrendering powers. Surrendering is the opening of Sahasrara, keeping it completely open so that Nirvikalpa state is established within us. There should be a regular progress of improvement, regular progress of the opening. Have you ever seen any lotus or any flower that blooms, blooms, and in between again does not bloom and then blooms then collapses then blooms. Have you ever seen such a nonsensical phenomenon in the nature? You come up, again you go down, again you come up, you go down. Have you ever seen a tree that comes up, again goes inside the mud, again it comes up, again it goes back into the mud, blaming other people. Have you seen any animal which started growing, then it becomes a dwarf, again it grows, again it becomes a dwarf. ...
But the area of Sahasrara is the realm of God. When the Brahmarandra opens fully, then the heavens open within yourself. The Kundalini which has risen up and given you realisation creates that subtle opening, by which the Divine starts pouring all its subtleties inside your brain. But if you're pressing it from both sides with these balloons, sometimes opening, sometimes closing, sometimes opening, the Divine recedes Its attention. You must know that. The attention is receded back and if it is done many a times, the Divine doesn't bother. So it is you who have to achieve that state and all of us can achieve that state of Nirvikalpa. In that there is just progression. After Nirvikalpa you cannot come down. If somebody is still going up and down, up and down, he should know he is still not up to the point and he should face up to himself or herself that "No, I have to be into Nirvikalpa where I do not come down".
The people who are not in the Nirvikalpa state are not going to be saved. I am very sorry to say that. They are not going to be saved. They will be punished. May not be the same way (as) those who are not realised souls, but they will not occupy the seats in the realm of God Almighty. At least you must reach the state of Nirvikalpa. Do not blame any circumstance. Do not blame your father, mother, brother, atmosphere, this, that. ...
... You can say this Sahasrara day is a very big day because I never threw such an ultimatum before. Because now we are established as Vishwa Dharma, as the Universal Religion. We are not like other religions where, after the deaths of the incarnation, people started the religion and did whatever they wanted with that. In our living time we are going to make ourselves that instrument which will represent Vishwa Dharma. We have to have strong Deities within ourselves. We have weakened them by all our mistakes. Doesn't matter. They are weak because traditionally we haven't got the strength. Doesn't matter. But now this Religion has been established. We cannot have black spots any more. We have done all the choosing, the training, everything. And you all have to jump into the boat now. There's no more time left for us for dilly-dally. Those who will be left behind will be left behind. It is a very intense period now, you must understand. The intensity of the period is not by-the-way. It's not any more Sahaja Yoga. It is Maha Yoga now. And you have to become Maha, you have to become great, otherwise you cannot be there. You have to jump out of all these things.
... I have short time, because the instrument has to be all right. If you have to expedite your growth of the instrument in a proper way so that the God of Love, God's Love flows and the God of that Love feels happy about it. We have to create such a beautiful flowers that He appreciates, that He does not destroy. The Spectator of this play has to be satisfied so that He postpones His destruction. That's why I said the time is short, time is very short.
If we want our children to grow into the realm of God, they are great saints who are born, if you want to give them a full chance of enjoyment, then let us first of all become proper parents and not people who just live with illusions. Everything in Sahaja Yoga cannot be explained. I cannot explain. I cannot because you don't have those powers to understand.
... take a vow within your heart. It's not the words that are important. It has to be living action of your being. That should prove it, that should convince you that we are fully surrendered. And the effects of that you will feel in your own personality, in your own being, in your own manifestation.
I'm working 24 hours. Not a single minute I waste. And in the same way I hope you will dedicate your 24 hours for your emancipation and the emancipation of the whole Universe.
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Vienna, May 4, 1985
It is gratifying to see so many Sahaja Yogis come to celebrate the Sahasrara Day. Without breaking the Sahasrara, we could not have achieved the ascent en masse. But the Sahasrara which is the brain has gone into too much complications in the west. And the thoughts are very much twisted, one upon the other.
To keep Sahasrara open should be very easy if the Western brains could understand and be aware about your Mother. When your Mother is the Deity of Sahasrara, the only way to keep the Sahasrara open has to be complete surrendering.
For that many ask me, How do we do it? It's a very funny question. It is irrelevant. If your Sahasrara has been opened out by someone, and luckily that is the Deity before you, it should be the easiest thing to surrender. But it is not. It is difficult because the attention that has come up through the cells of the brain is polluted. It is impure. It is destructive. It's poisonous and when the nerves are spoiled, the light of the Spirit does not shines on the nerves. And you feel the inability to surrender. Normally it should be the easiest thing to do.
So we have to mentally approach ourselves. We have to talk to ourselves and say to ourselves "What are you doing? What is surrendering? It is enjoyment, it is just enjoyment. Then why I cannot surrender? What is lacking in me? Am I a very low level person? Am I the one who was just saying I'm seeker but I'm not. Am I dishonest person that I cannot surrender? If so, what am I proud of? Myself? If that is the situation, then why am I so much enamoured by my ego? ...
But I have heard that people are arriving at different times for Sahasrara Day . I was amazed. It's typical western mind. By the way, Sahaja Yoga is to be done, mostly by-the-way. It should be convenient. It should be a weekend. When just by-the-way for a holiday, we can go to Vienna. There of course, by-the-way, we'll have puja and by-the-way Mother will raise the Kundalini. She will awaken our Deities and then by-the-way we'll be enjoying the blessings. No sacrifice can be done for God. No time, they have no time. Everything is by-the-way. It's rather amazing, for war people give up their lives, for destruction they work so hard, day and night. But for construction of humanity for the ultimate goal of Divinity, in the West, how many there are who really surrender? If it suits, then we'll be there. Sahaja, this is Sahaja style. We should reach Sahaja. I heard about this many a times. There are still many who are that kind of an attitude towards Sahaja Yoga. It is something surprising me. ...
It's so precious that no words can describe the greatness of these moments which we are spending together. You have to feel it within yourself, the assignment that is given to you through your own Spirit, through your own state. You can fulfill the assignments.But lack of faith in yourself cannot give you surrendering powers. Surrendering is the opening of Sahasrara, keeping it completely open so that Nirvikalpa state is established within us. There should be a regular progress of improvement, regular progress of the opening. Have you ever seen any lotus or any flower that blooms, blooms, and in between again does not bloom and then blooms then collapses then blooms. Have you ever seen such a nonsensical phenomenon in the nature? You come up, again you go down, again you come up, you go down. Have you ever seen a tree that comes up, again goes inside the mud, again it comes up, again it goes back into the mud, blaming other people. Have you seen any animal which started growing, then it becomes a dwarf, again it grows, again it becomes a dwarf. ...
But the area of Sahasrara is the realm of God. When the Brahmarandra opens fully, then the heavens open within yourself. The Kundalini which has risen up and given you realisation creates that subtle opening, by which the Divine starts pouring all its subtleties inside your brain. But if you're pressing it from both sides with these balloons, sometimes opening, sometimes closing, sometimes opening, the Divine recedes Its attention. You must know that. The attention is receded back and if it is done many a times, the Divine doesn't bother. So it is you who have to achieve that state and all of us can achieve that state of Nirvikalpa. In that there is just progression. After Nirvikalpa you cannot come down. If somebody is still going up and down, up and down, he should know he is still not up to the point and he should face up to himself or herself that "No, I have to be into Nirvikalpa where I do not come down".
The people who are not in the Nirvikalpa state are not going to be saved. I am very sorry to say that. They are not going to be saved. They will be punished. May not be the same way (as) those who are not realised souls, but they will not occupy the seats in the realm of God Almighty. At least you must reach the state of Nirvikalpa. Do not blame any circumstance. Do not blame your father, mother, brother, atmosphere, this, that. ...
... You can say this Sahasrara day is a very big day because I never threw such an ultimatum before. Because now we are established as Vishwa Dharma, as the Universal Religion. We are not like other religions where, after the deaths of the incarnation, people started the religion and did whatever they wanted with that. In our living time we are going to make ourselves that instrument which will represent Vishwa Dharma. We have to have strong Deities within ourselves. We have weakened them by all our mistakes. Doesn't matter. They are weak because traditionally we haven't got the strength. Doesn't matter. But now this Religion has been established. We cannot have black spots any more. We have done all the choosing, the training, everything. And you all have to jump into the boat now. There's no more time left for us for dilly-dally. Those who will be left behind will be left behind. It is a very intense period now, you must understand. The intensity of the period is not by-the-way. It's not any more Sahaja Yoga. It is Maha Yoga now. And you have to become Maha, you have to become great, otherwise you cannot be there. You have to jump out of all these things.
... I have short time, because the instrument has to be all right. If you have to expedite your growth of the instrument in a proper way so that the God of Love, God's Love flows and the God of that Love feels happy about it. We have to create such a beautiful flowers that He appreciates, that He does not destroy. The Spectator of this play has to be satisfied so that He postpones His destruction. That's why I said the time is short, time is very short.
If we want our children to grow into the realm of God, they are great saints who are born, if you want to give them a full chance of enjoyment, then let us first of all become proper parents and not people who just live with illusions. Everything in Sahaja Yoga cannot be explained. I cannot explain. I cannot because you don't have those powers to understand.
... take a vow within your heart. It's not the words that are important. It has to be living action of your being. That should prove it, that should convince you that we are fully surrendered. And the effects of that you will feel in your own personality, in your own being, in your own manifestation.
I'm working 24 hours. Not a single minute I waste. And in the same way I hope you will dedicate your 24 hours for your emancipation and the emancipation of the whole Universe.
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Vienna, May 4, 1985
Shanti cannot sit still
It must have been the fifth time during the morning meditation that Mum told Shanti to just sit still! But no use. She is fidgeting around, playing with the song book, and if there is nothing to grab near by, she plays with her toes, her trousers, her fingers…
“Shanti!” Mum scolds again. “Please! I told you! Sit properly! Hands on your lap”. Shanti follows Mummy’s instructions for just about a second, until she finds the pattern of the carpet really interesting again and follows the lines with her fingers.
“Ok” says Mummy now. “Listen. Why do you meditate? Hm? Tell me.” Almost six years old, Shanti has heard a lot about vibrations and knows a lot of mantras, but she has not yet really thought about WHY she should be meditating…
“To make Shri Mataji happy!” she replies. “That is also true.” Says Mummy. “Of course. But you really meditate for yourself and nobody else, not even Mummy”. “But why?” Shanti asks. “Why do I need to meditate?” “Mummy takes a deep breath and looks at Shri Mataji’s picture. After about a minute she turns to Shanti and says “Look. When we meditate, all the bad things in and around us run away. We can feel happy and light again. But meditation is so much more than just sitting here. If you imagine meditation being a huge beautiful mountain, we have properly not even reached the first step. But you know what the first step is?”
“No. What is it Mummy?”
“The first step is the “Getting ready part”. Imagine a cup, and you would like to fill it with water.” “Yes, Mum, I can imagine. A cup. Mine is pink!”
“Good. In your mind, turn this cup on its side. Now try to pour water in it”. “I don’t think I can, Mummy” Shanti replies. “Exactly. Now imagine holding it and moving it right and left, and again right, move it all along the table. Now pour the water!” Shanti laughs. “But Mummy, the water will spill all over the place! Maybe just a few drops will be in my pink cup!”. “Exactly” says Mummy. You cannot turn the cup on its head either, nor can you hide it under the table, if you want to fill it with water. It is exactly the same with your meditation. If you don’t sit still, if you are not ready, like the cup, to receive the vibrations, why should they even try to fill you with love and joy?”
“I see what you mean, Mummy” Shanti replies. “Your ‘getting ready’ ” continues Mum “is so important to show all the deities that you are now ready and willing to meditate. But remember, it is only the first step! What counts is what happens after. This is where your journey really begins. “
Shanti’s eyes shimmered with joy. She closed her eyes and thought of this empty pink cup again. She wanted to be still and ready to be filled like the cup. And before she could even wonder what would happen next, she felt a soothing cool breeze on her hands. Just like that.
“I felt it, it is cool Mummy!” she shouted with excitement. “That is good! Now stay still like the animals in the forest, when they are trying to listen to the sounds of nature, like the stars that are looking down on us and don’t rush around across the firmament, like a lake that lets all the ducks and fish frolic in its water whilst he himself is still and patient. Then, when you are still, you will be joyful. Full-filled!”
Shanti still sat with her eyes closed, only this time she felt no urge to play with her fingers, nor did her eyes open by themselves again all the time, as they usually want to! She just sat there, and it was so easy. The lake….the stars…..the universe, it all made sense. At least for a few minutes. “Can I get the drum and sing Ganesha Ganesha, Mummy?” Mum smiled and replied. “Go on then”.
may you be drenched by bliss always, toni
Jai Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
.
__,_._,___
“Shanti!” Mum scolds again. “Please! I told you! Sit properly! Hands on your lap”. Shanti follows Mummy’s instructions for just about a second, until she finds the pattern of the carpet really interesting again and follows the lines with her fingers.
“Ok” says Mummy now. “Listen. Why do you meditate? Hm? Tell me.” Almost six years old, Shanti has heard a lot about vibrations and knows a lot of mantras, but she has not yet really thought about WHY she should be meditating…
“To make Shri Mataji happy!” she replies. “That is also true.” Says Mummy. “Of course. But you really meditate for yourself and nobody else, not even Mummy”. “But why?” Shanti asks. “Why do I need to meditate?” “Mummy takes a deep breath and looks at Shri Mataji’s picture. After about a minute she turns to Shanti and says “Look. When we meditate, all the bad things in and around us run away. We can feel happy and light again. But meditation is so much more than just sitting here. If you imagine meditation being a huge beautiful mountain, we have properly not even reached the first step. But you know what the first step is?”
“No. What is it Mummy?”
“The first step is the “Getting ready part”. Imagine a cup, and you would like to fill it with water.” “Yes, Mum, I can imagine. A cup. Mine is pink!”
“Good. In your mind, turn this cup on its side. Now try to pour water in it”. “I don’t think I can, Mummy” Shanti replies. “Exactly. Now imagine holding it and moving it right and left, and again right, move it all along the table. Now pour the water!” Shanti laughs. “But Mummy, the water will spill all over the place! Maybe just a few drops will be in my pink cup!”. “Exactly” says Mummy. You cannot turn the cup on its head either, nor can you hide it under the table, if you want to fill it with water. It is exactly the same with your meditation. If you don’t sit still, if you are not ready, like the cup, to receive the vibrations, why should they even try to fill you with love and joy?”
“I see what you mean, Mummy” Shanti replies. “Your ‘getting ready’ ” continues Mum “is so important to show all the deities that you are now ready and willing to meditate. But remember, it is only the first step! What counts is what happens after. This is where your journey really begins. “
Shanti’s eyes shimmered with joy. She closed her eyes and thought of this empty pink cup again. She wanted to be still and ready to be filled like the cup. And before she could even wonder what would happen next, she felt a soothing cool breeze on her hands. Just like that.
“I felt it, it is cool Mummy!” she shouted with excitement. “That is good! Now stay still like the animals in the forest, when they are trying to listen to the sounds of nature, like the stars that are looking down on us and don’t rush around across the firmament, like a lake that lets all the ducks and fish frolic in its water whilst he himself is still and patient. Then, when you are still, you will be joyful. Full-filled!”
Shanti still sat with her eyes closed, only this time she felt no urge to play with her fingers, nor did her eyes open by themselves again all the time, as they usually want to! She just sat there, and it was so easy. The lake….the stars…..the universe, it all made sense. At least for a few minutes. “Can I get the drum and sing Ganesha Ganesha, Mummy?” Mum smiled and replied. “Go on then”.
may you be drenched by bliss always, toni
Jai Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
.
__,_._,___
The deeper you become
"And the more you find something in your meditation, the more you want to go and distribute it to others. That has to be. If that does not come into you then it has not worked out, there’s no purity. Whatever you find, you want to enjoy it with others, you want to give it to others. This is the sign of a person what has been really meditative. The one who is meditative and has not been able to distribute what he has found is cheating himself and cheating others as well. Because the joy that you receive in your meditation has to be distributed. Has to be given. Has to be shown. It should flow in your being as the light radiates from every illumined lamp. You don’t have to take a vow to say that this is an enlightened light. In the same way a Saint should not have to be certified that he is a Saint. The depth you achieve within yourself spreads all over. It is such an action and reaction. The deeper you become, the radiation is much more."
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
1982-07-28
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
1982-07-28
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