Understanding "I am the last Prophet"

...it comes quite often that we do not understand: like Prophet Mohammad said that “I am the last prophet.” All right, He did say that He was the last prophet. Supposing I say, I am the last person to come here. All right I would say just to frighten you that you better take to it otherwise this is the last time I am telling you. But it is never that because when He died He found out that, you see, these people are mad cap. “I didn’t tell them this, what are they doing out of me?” So he said, “I better go back again,” and He came as Nanaka and He told them that “Hindu and Muslims are same people, following the same religion, why are you fighting among yourselves?” He came for that unity. Then as Nanaka He came; so in Nanaka’s system also the Sikhism came in and they started a warrior class and this and that. I mean imagine, the Sikhism ended up by having wars within Muslims and Hindus. So then He came as Shirdi Sai Nath to teach them. Now this is not a very important thing that, say Mohammad Sahib said, “I am the last.” Say He is the last, all right, even take that position. Who are you to him? How are you related? Through what? What is your authority? How do you appropriate Him to yourself? Because you say you are Muslims. So what? How did you become Muslims? Did you get your certificate from God?

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from 'World of Bliss and Joy', talk at Caxton Hall, London, 30/5/79

Luv and Kush

There’s one more point I would like to tell you, that here there are two more small chakras [Shri Lalita chakra and Shri chakra], one that belongs to, which we call as the Surya. Surya is the, means the Sun, the Sun center and the another as the Moon center on the left-hand side. And these two are governed or, we can say, is bestowed upon by two great people who are the disciple elements. And disciple elements were first, were born to Shri Rama and Shri Sita as the Luv and Kush. And then they incarnated many a times on this Earth as disciple. One of them is, we can say, was Shankaracharya, another was Kabira, like that. Then we can say, before Shankaracharya, they came as Buddha and Mahavira. Then Shankaracharya and then I told you, after Shankaracharya came the advent of Hassan and Hussain, who were the grandsons of Prophet. So these have been incarnating and they have been moving from one side to another and telling people that “This is extreme, leave it, this is extreme, leave it. Come in the center and be in the center.” That has been their job and they are the ones who are sort of imparting you that awareness by you become a perfect disciple.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from 'World of Bliss and Joy', talk at Caxton Hall, London, 30/5/79

So that’s the great part of Markandeya. He took his birth later on as Buddha, then he took his birth as Adi Shankaracharya, it’s the same personality. But he was actually the son of Rama, to begin with. He was Luv and he went to Russia and that is why they are called as Slavs. He ruled in Russia, that’s why they are called as Slavs. Another son was Kush, who went to China, that is why they are called as Kushan. Then they incarnated again and again, also as Hassan and Hussain, as Mahavira and Buddha, as Adi Shankaracharya and Jnaneshwara, like that."
(Talk, Vienna, 9/6/88)

After Shri Krishna these two persons, Buddha and Mahavira, both of them incarnated in India. As you know, their history is very far out because they were the children of Rama and they were two twins called as Luv and Kush.
(Shri Mahavira Puja, Spain, 17/6/90)

The 'God's Realisation' is the stage which, Gautam Buddha and Mahavira only had achieved and settled down in our brain. Christ is also here. These two are not incarnations. They are born as human beings. They were born to Sita, as Luva and Kusha. Then they were born as Buddha and Mahavira, and Adishakti was their Mother once again. Later on they were born to Fatimabi as Hasan and Husain. They are the two milestones you have got, by which you can know to what height a human being can rise. Now today they are like incarnations.
(Talk on Sat-Chit-Anand, New Delhi, 15/2/77)

Sahajvidya: The Disciple Principle

The Brahma Beeja

The First Stage of Creation: The Primordial Seed (Brahma Beeja) gets divided into two parts: one is the seed, the other is its germinating power. In the play of creation, the seed is the spectator, and its germinating power creates the spectacle. If we divide a crystal into its nucleus and its facets, this would be the concept. Such a thing unfortunately cannot be done in the material world. Thus the two identities of God (Parameshwara) and His Power (Maha Shakti) are formed. They exist as Supreme Being (Purusha) and as the Mother Power of Creation (Prakriti or Holy Ghost). They are the Primordial Father and the Primordial Mother, our Divine parents.
In His seed form Parabrahma is dormant, lying in this condition for millions of years (Kalpas). The separation of the one from the other only takes place after the awakening of Parabrahma from His state of cosmic sleep.
With the waking of Parabrahma, His power pulses into activity, awakening a wave of Divine Love in the seed. This pulsation creates the Primordial Vibrating Sound (Adi Brahma Nada). It is as if the crystal dissolves into the Divine energy which emits circular waves around its nucleus. On all sides of the nucleus these waves deposit and create the Primordial Circle (Adi Valaya). Ultimately the Primordial Divine Power oozes out of the Divine Seed and into the Circle created. Thus in its first stage the sprouting Seed breaks into two components: 1) the nucleus remains as the omnipotent and omnipresent (Purusha) witness or spectator; 2) the other part, God's Power (Mahashakti), represented as the Primordial Circle (Adi Valaya), is the One who manifests the spectacle.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi (1982)

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H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi has made many references to Shivaji Maharaj. Here are a few extracts:

"A great soul who had such principles, and such beautifying life in his language, in his attitude and everything. With all that, he was a very brave person."
(Birthday Puja 2001)

"So, first of all we should know that Shivaji himself was a divine person in the sense that He had no defects in him. He was a detached personality. I do not want to tell you the whole history about him, but his character if you study you will be amazed how detached he was. He was not found of women. He never hankered after them and on the contrary respected women very much. ... He did not have weaknesses, he had no habits, extremely honest, Spartan in temperament, and absolute ideal king he was, an absolute ideal king. He talked to everyone on the same level, treated everybody with respect, never showed off that he was a king, but he kept his dignity all the time and when it was needed to be corrected with all courage he corrected people, he did not care for cheap popularity either. Such a man was a blessing to Maharashtra because he is such an ideal for us and for people to follow and his mother was a great lady who brought him out of the clutches of the Mughal people who tried to convert forcibly Hindus to Islam."
(Talk on Shivaji, 6/2/84)

"Shivaji was a great Atma Shakshatkari, a realized soul. For the future he’s given the message. He said, Svadharma zagewawa, means enlighten your dharma or Spirit. Svadharma, the Spirit has to be enlightened. Everybody has said that. I'm specially quoting him because he comes from Maharashtra; apart from that he was a political head. Although he was a political head, because he was a realized soul he said that your Spirit should be awakened. He didn't talk of all other nonsensical things. And he knew that unless and until the Spirit is awakened people will be doing all kinds of wrong things and that is why today we find all over the world the mess in which all political parties, all economic endeavours, all military endeavours have fallen into."
(Christmas Puja 1988)

"The guru of Shivaji was Ramadasa. They asked Ramadasa how much time it will take for the Kundalini to rise. So he said, Tat kshana, that moment. But the person who has to have it has to have that earnest desire and the one who has to do it has to have the authority.”
(Public program, New York, 16/10/93)

"This Mahakali power is expressed in Tuljapur as Bhavani, and Shivaji Maharaj used to come on a horse all the way for miles together, to get the darshan of this Bhavani at Tuljapur: he knew this; and he had a sword which was called as Bhavani talwar, and people said that the Goddess Herself has given this sword to him.
(Shri Mahalakshmi Puja, Kolapur, 21/12/90)

"He was once presented with a lady, was very beautiful. And people had plundered her things and all her ornaments, because she was a daughter of a Muslim courtesan, as you call the courtier. And they tried to plunder him and they brought this beautiful woman before Shivaji. So Shivaji looked at her and said, “Please remove your veil”, because Muslims have a veil. And when she removed her veil, he said that, “If my mother was as beautiful as you are, I would have been equally beautiful.” What a thing to say - what a poetic thing to say! That is that, “If you were my mother, I would have been as beautiful as you are”, means you are my sister. And then he got very angry with all these people and he asked them that, “You’d better take her away and never do such a thing to any woman.” And not only, but he gave lots of ornaments and lots of things to her to say that she’s a sister going to the husband with all respect and regard. And this gentleman, her husband, was a very deadly enemy of Shivaji. How he solved the problem with such purity and then this gentleman became sort of a milder person with this gesture of his."
(Shri Vishnumaya Puja, New York, August 1987)

Creation - the Eternal Play

Creation is the eternal play of God in His form as Parabrahma, the absolute and all-containing Godhead. Parabrahma has two cosmic states: to be awake or asleep. When Parabrahma is in the awakened state His manifestation into creation takes place; when in the state of sleep, all His activities are dissolved into absolute zero (Shoonya) and the creation ceases to exist. This is a state of no motion and complete entropy. In this state all that is created - matter and non-matter - gets dissolved into one abstract energy which is Parabrahma. It is a state of existence, of just being, but it is like an object devoid of any light to reflect it. All human, inhuman, superhuman and non-human elements dissolve into Parabrahma when He stops the drama of creation being played uniquely for His enjoyment and amusement. In this way the cycle turns from the state of non-being of Parabrahma to His full manifestation as the creation itself.
Controversy has long raged about the starting point of creation. If one can grasp that eternity is the very nature of Parabrahma then this controversy can be simply resolved. When a person is in a state of consciousness, he is active, his personality manifests in his work and his talents are expressed. But when he is asleep, he is totally inactive, and the expression of his personality is withdrawn into his being.
The process of creation is comparable to the process of a seed sprouting to become a tree, and having attained full maturity, becoming a seed again. The Divine (Parabrahma) becomes the Primordial Seed (Brahma Beeja) before He starts His activity. Creation is the manifestation of this seed which is akin to a perfect crystal with all its facets complete.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi (1982)

The Mahat Ahamkara

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

"... you have to go higher and understand that there is, within us, a thing called ego. And this ego is false, absolutely false. You do not do anything. Actually when you turn your eyes here and there, when your attention is here and there it is nothing but your ego that is trying to overpower you. But actually ego is an absolute falsehood because there is only one ego and that is of God Almighty, Mahat Ahamkara."
(Shri Saraswati Puja, Dhulia, India, 14/1/83)

"But now understand that, I am just playing tricks with you, just to make you understand that put your mind absolutely at rest and let the big Ahamkara, the Mahat Ahamkara take over, the Mahat ego, the great ego of God take over and you’ll get it, all right? It’s better now, I think the brain activity has stopped quite a lot."
(closing comments to Puja Talk, Adelaide, Australia, 4/3/83)

"If you say the mantra “You are the Mahat Ahamkara.” Mahat means the primordial, the big and Ahamkara is the Ego. It goes out. Just say that."

Yogis: Om twameva sakshat, Shri Mahat Ahamkara Sakshat, Shri Adi Shakti Sakshat, Shri Bagavati Sakshat, Shri Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi Namoh Namaha.

Shri Mataji: Receding back, hm? Just settle down. Hm! Now receding, that’s much better."
(beginning of Guru Puja 1979, London)

Shri Saraswati and Love

So the basis of all creativity, of Saraswati, is love. If there is no love there’s no creativity. It’s even in the deeper sense, you see. People who have created all the scientific things are also out of love for the masses, not for themselves. Nobody has produced anything for themselves. If they make something for themselves it has to become for universal use, otherwise it has no meaning. ...

So, all the activity on the right hand side, of Saraswati, basically has to end up in love. Starts with love and ends up in love. Whichever does not end up in love coils up and finishes off. It just disappears. So you can see that even matter, which is not used for love, just finishes off. The basis has to be love.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extracts from Shri Saraswati Puja, Dulia, India, 14/1/83

Shri Saraswati and Music

Because Saraswati has a Veena in her hand and that Veena is the primordial instrument, which she plays like music, and the music penetrates into the heart. You don't know how it goes into you and how it works out. And that's how a person who is a Sahaja Yogi should permeate - like music into other people.

She has so many qualities, as I told you, which cannot be described in one lecture. But one of the greatest qualities of hers is that she ends up into subtler things. Like the Mother Earth will end up into fragrance. Music will end up into melodies, like that whatever she creates ends up into something greater. Matter, whatever she produces, ends up into aesthetics. If matter does not have aesthetics then it is gross. Like that everything.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Shri Saraswati Puja, Dhulia, India, 14/1/83

Mana and Prana

We have got Prana and Mana. Now Prana represents the right side and the Mana Shakti is the left side. These two have to be dissolved. Laya means to disolve. How do we do it? To dissolve these two things, they are connected with each other, after realization and not before.

So before meditation we give ourselves a balance, alright! Which side is more, which side is less, at that time. Supposing you are emotionally that time disturbed then you put your right to the left. If you are that time disturbed on the left side, I mean, disturbed in the sense that your left side is frozen then you raise your left side and give yourself a balance before meditation. So once you have given yourself a balance then the best thing is to pay attention to your emotions, to Mana Shakti, watch them. You can enlighten your emotions, by thinking of your Mother, alright? Just enlighten them. See, which solve the problem. Whatever are the problems in the Mana, alright? So once you get connected, with those emotions, and you start looking at them in your meditation, you will see these emotions are rising, within you, and if you try to put these emotions on your Mother, as they said at the lotus feet of your Mother, they will start also dissolving, those emotions and they will become, sort of eh..expanded, expanse, you see. You will extend that in such a way that you will feel you are in control of these emotions, you are in control of them. And by controlling those emotions which are expanded, enlightened are powerful. And these emotions when you feel that way, mean, the cause of those emotions can be solved. ...

Mmm, see, you settle down. Valaya take place between your Prana and your Mana. Both the Shaktis become one. Now at this stage when you are silent, now you think of your intellect. It's lost. Just think of it, it's lost, it's no more there. So what's happening, actually that this Laya the attention goes into the intellect, and enlightens the intellect. Ah, see the thought is not there, try to find your intellect within yourself. Now see, see where is my intellect, try to find it. It's not there. It's not working. Again try it. It is working. But it has become the Samashti, it's become the collective now. Ah! See now, did you follow that. There is no thought. This exercise will give you this thoughtless awareness, establishment of thoughtless awareness, there is no thought.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Practical Session at Bramham Court ashram, London, 29/10/81

Guru as Mother

Within us as you know, in all of us there lies the principle of Guru. It’s very interesting to notice the Guru Principle being drawn beautifully round the Nabhi chakra. We never see any chakras connected with the Guru Principle. You see Nabhi, and around is the Bhavasagara. So this Bhavasagara which is the Ocean of Illusion cannot be the Guru. So there are hidden chakras within this Bhavasagara within us, which are to be awakened and to be brought to light, to be manifested. As you can see that the limits of this principle are done by the movement of the Swadisthana chakra. ...

As you start growing into more creativity, the more people you create. And the central point of this one [Guru Principle] is the Nabhi in the center, which is like a big pivotal point on which the whole of this movement takes place. Nabhi chakra as you know, you get it from your mother to begin with. So a guru has to be the mother, he must have the qualities of the mother – not the modern mothers, but in the real sense of the word: that a guru has to love her children and has to have strength and courage to correct her children. And the earnest desire should be to put the children onto proper lines to guide them and to help them to rise. So the first nourishment comes to us even when we are in the womb of the mother, through the mother; and so you are the mother though you may be a man or a woman, but in quality you are the mother. And whatever you think or whatever you do has an effect on the child. The way you behave, the way you talk, the way you live, everything has a bearing on the development of the child.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extracts from Guru Puja 1989

Lane Cove, Sydney

What a beautiful place to come to! ... You have such nice places on the outskirts. On the outskirts you have really very nice places in Sydney and this picnicking has helped you to make your collectivity better. That’s how they started having picnics and in the picnics they develop the collectivity, which is very beautiful to be one with the nature, see the bounty of the nature and the variety that they have.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, May 1994

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The role of Mahamaya in resolving global problems

Sahasrara is the most powerful chakra because it is the seven chakras combination and many others. With the Sahasrara you can do anything. You can manage the sun, you can manage the moon, you can manage the earth, you can manage the temperatures, everything. But, through Mahamaya things work out very normally, very normally and they should work out normally. For example somebody can say, “Mother, there is atmosphere full of all these horrible ecological problems, why don’t you clear them?” If it is cleared people will go on producing. It is the problem of the human beings and if it is corrected by me they’ll take it for granted. They have to face those problems, they have to change their habits, they have to understand that they are the one who are destruct, destroying themselves. Otherwise, if somebody’s there just to cleanse it out they will never change. Also, miraculously, one can do lots of things. One can say, “Mother, as you solve the problems of Sahaja Yogis, why don’t you solve the problem of others?” No. To solve their problem is not the end of my work, nor is the purpose. But to make them equipped so that they can solve their own problem, that’s what I have to do.

As I’ve said that you have to be your own doctor, you have to be your own guru. Without Mahamaya you cannot do it because She knows how far to go in correcting, how far to go in controlling because human beings, at large, have their own freedom. Sahaja Yogis have not that kind of a stupid freedom, but they have the freedom of the spirit. So to solve their problems is perfectly all right because they must have more freedom and more freedom. But what’s the use of giving freedom to other people who are going on and on and on without realizing what wrong they are doing to the whole world? So, for them it is necessary to come to Sahaja Yoga and that’s why it’s a Mahamaya Swarupa.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Sahasrara Puja 1994

Sahaja yogis and the problems of the world

1988-0618 Introspection from Sahaja Library

Now as Sahaja Yogis, you are powerful entities. You are very powerful people. We have got problems in the whole world. You know that very well. It’s not necessary (that) you have to be great intellectuals, or you have to be people who are some sort of politicians, or something. But you must be on the lookout for the problems, which are troubling this world. You have to. You cannot live in your own world, that you are a saint, “Now I am in Niranand,” that’s not possible. You can’t just be in Nirananda. You have to know that you have to live in this world. And you have to know all the problems of this world. And you have to think about them, not only your problems that, “Mother how will I be able to do this and how will I be able to do that?” But you have to worry about the whole world. You have to think, what’s happening in the world. What are the problems of the world? You are responsible for that.

Not only that, but you have to pray. In your prayers you have to say, “Mother solve this problem.” Collectively, individually, you have to take your attention from yourself, from your smaller life, to a much wider thing. Then you are a saint. And you have to think that it is your duty to ask for Divine help, that all these problems should be solved. This is your job for which you are selected. Your asking is your going to work out because as you know, I am desireless. You have to desire for it. Whatever you desire will work out. The protection, the affection, the compassion of Mother is with you. But you have to look after this world and show the concern that you have, not to live with very limited areas, and with very limited ways. ... Your problems extend to all the places wherever there is Sahaja Yoga. And you have to worry about all of them. ...

You have to stretch your attention outside, not inside, just worried about yourself, about your family, about your house, about your children. As soon as you spread your attention outside, your problems are solved in the house, in the smallest circumstance. You have to pay attention outside. ...

There are important things that are happening which you can see for yourself. You can scan it out, what are the world problems, and you can see for yourself where you have to put your attention. You should become aware of your personality, it’s not a personality that can be completely involved into a very small area. Your personality such should get involved into all the problems of the universe, all the problems there are. And you’ll be amazed that everything can work out in a very collective way. ...

So stretch out your vibrations. Stretch out your attentions. And you’ll be amazed that all other stupid problems that you have will be finished.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Introspection and Meditation, Shudy Camps, UK, 18/6/88

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