The complete authority of the Father God now descends into the Mother God who, in Her turn, expresses complete reverence to Her Lord. So in the third stage of creation, as Bindu, She moves around the centre in a parabolic path (Pinda Pradakshina). This movement reflects the obedience of the Mother to the Father in complete reverence and, by it, She expresses the loving surrender of Her entire identity. It is as if the Mother becomes the adorning garland of Her Master and Lord. The relationship between the two Divine Identities is of a loving Primordial Father who bestows all His powers on His dearest wife, the Primordial Mother. She in return expresses complete surrender to Her Lord. Their mutual adoration is the source of Divine Joy expressed by the parabola. The parabola also expresses Her Power of Divine Love and represents the Mother's Love for Her creation. Interestingly, the shape of a burning flame and also of the human aura is also that of a parabola, and an egg is also parabolic in shape.
The egg-like parabolic formation of the creation is called Pinda. In an ordinary egg there are two components: the yolk which is the nucleus, and the white which is its energy; protoplasm deposits calcium as shell on all sides of the egg. In exactly the same way Adi Shakti forms the shell of creation in a parabolic wave.
The parabolic movement of the Primordial Mother is the first movement of the Primordial Forces, and is Adi Shakti's symbol. Being the first expression of the living force of the Primordial Mother's Love, this parabolic Primordial Movement is known as Adi Gati. Hence all that is created fundamentally moves on a parabolic path. Sometimes the parabola takes different shapes, and this will be examined later.
The shortest distance a point has to go to move around another point and come back to the same position it started from, has to be a parabolic path. The Divine Power moves in the same way, even in its abstract manifestation in our beings:
* when we love someone the waves of love go around that person and return to us in a parabola bringing the bliss of love back to us
* when we hate someone also, however, the waves of hatred similarly go around that person and return to us as pangs of hatred.
The state of the Primordial Zygote (Adi Pinda) is of a nucleus surrounded by the parabola. In biology, a zygote is a state where the sperm from the male has entered the ovum of the female and fertilized it. The fertilized ovum now becomes capable of sustaining life. The Primordial Zygote (Adi Pinda) is formed by the male and the female identification of our Divine Father and Divine Mother and this fertilized state (Linga) represents the Primordial Living Cell of creation. We can now understand the real importance of the worship of the Shiva Linga by Hindus which represents our Primordial Parents.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi (1982)
30.3.09
23.3.09
Second stage of Creation
In the second stage the Creation now moves from the state of the Primordial Circle (Adi Valaya) into the state of the Primordial Point (Adi Bindu), by pinpointedly concentrating all its energy into a dot. At this stage the Primordial Divine Power assumes existence as Her Ego (Ahamkara). Now She generates the second circle (Valaya) which represents the Divine Power of Adi Shakti. So
* Adi Valaya represents the Primordial Circle;
* Adi Bindu represents the Primordial Point;
* Bindu represents Adi Shakti;
* Valaya represents Her Divine Power Adi Valaya, represented by Maha Shakti, now breaks into Bindu and Valaya.
Thus the identities of the Divine Couple, Father God (Sadashiva) and Mother God (Adi Shakti), come into existence. She is His wife, His beloved, His consort, the Divine Power of Love, and as such is represented by Her identity (Bindu) surrounded by the halo of Her Power (Valaya). The Divine Couple exist in perfect unison. As the Lord of His Power (Adi Shakti, the Primordial Mother, the Holy Ghost) and One with Her, Sadashiva does not tolerate any insults offered to Her. His identification with His beloved wife is complete and bounded with perfect mutual love. They exist in complete oneness, in one subtle understanding. The perfect harmony exists in an equal balance and level of love one for the other. Love does not flow in any one direction but is a continuous current as with an electrical current, when one point which is positive (active) and another which is negative (inactive) are connected.
He uses His authority as the Spectator or potential energy, cajoling Her to play Her game (Leela) of creation. She is the transformer or kinetic energy. Despite being the greatest of the greatest and the kindest of the kindest, He is nevertheless a jealous God. Through Her male or female children (Avataras) He destroys devils, satanic incarnations (Rakshasas), and depraved human beings who manifest the evil forces by trying to disrupt and subvert the Her creation. The formation of evil in creation will be examined later. His identification with His Power is absolute. His wrath falls naturally on all those who try to cross or spoil the game of His beloved spouse, just like a wise father who punishes his children when they disobey their mother. His anger may explode so violently that the havoc of total destruction through His Dance as Lord Shiva (Tandava) will occur.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi (1982)
* Adi Valaya represents the Primordial Circle;
* Adi Bindu represents the Primordial Point;
* Bindu represents Adi Shakti;
* Valaya represents Her Divine Power Adi Valaya, represented by Maha Shakti, now breaks into Bindu and Valaya.
Thus the identities of the Divine Couple, Father God (Sadashiva) and Mother God (Adi Shakti), come into existence. She is His wife, His beloved, His consort, the Divine Power of Love, and as such is represented by Her identity (Bindu) surrounded by the halo of Her Power (Valaya). The Divine Couple exist in perfect unison. As the Lord of His Power (Adi Shakti, the Primordial Mother, the Holy Ghost) and One with Her, Sadashiva does not tolerate any insults offered to Her. His identification with His beloved wife is complete and bounded with perfect mutual love. They exist in complete oneness, in one subtle understanding. The perfect harmony exists in an equal balance and level of love one for the other. Love does not flow in any one direction but is a continuous current as with an electrical current, when one point which is positive (active) and another which is negative (inactive) are connected.
He uses His authority as the Spectator or potential energy, cajoling Her to play Her game (Leela) of creation. She is the transformer or kinetic energy. Despite being the greatest of the greatest and the kindest of the kindest, He is nevertheless a jealous God. Through Her male or female children (Avataras) He destroys devils, satanic incarnations (Rakshasas), and depraved human beings who manifest the evil forces by trying to disrupt and subvert the Her creation. The formation of evil in creation will be examined later. His identification with His Power is absolute. His wrath falls naturally on all those who try to cross or spoil the game of His beloved spouse, just like a wise father who punishes his children when they disobey their mother. His anger may explode so violently that the havoc of total destruction through His Dance as Lord Shiva (Tandava) will occur.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi (1982)
18.3.09
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
Patience
Now as you have seen here people are from abroad, people are from Delhi, people are from Calcutta, people from Bombay, people from villages, people from various places. The idea of all of you coming here is to, is to create the understanding of the collective. As people start becoming collective and collective they do not bother others, they do not trouble others, but they give joy to others. They are not bothered about their going and coming, their eating and everything, they just don't behave like mundane, usual type of people. But they are very patient, Saburi as they call it. They are in the patience. Now this patience is most joy giving. Patience gives you the greatest joy. When you are patient you develop all your qualities. I think in patience you blossom the best. But patience is not be patient, be patient. Patience is also a kind of a state within us with just this patience, Saburi as they call it. You just watch and see. Wherever you are you are.
Now some people are worried that they must get into the bus. Some people are worried they must reach back home. Some people are worried they must get their food in time. According to them this is discipline. This is not. This is conditioning. But what is the discipline is of patience in Sahaja Yoga. Where you watch everything and you are patient. If you are in the bus you are there. If you are standing on the road you are there. If you are walking on the road you are there. On the contrary it is a good idea to walk. I wish I could but I can't because once I start walking everybody will fall at my feet. Nobody will spare me. So I am just imprisoned inside the house, inside the room all day long because I just can't come out. As soon as I come out I find there hosts of people standing outside. But your case is not such. You are free people. You are not bound like me. 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, it is important that patience should be made the discipline of life.
How much patient we are for anything, for anything. Now as you can see, I have to sit here before I don't come you can not start, till I have to sit here till you finish. You are all free you can get up, walk about, come whenever you feel like I am not. And how do I manage all this, is through my patience. But patience is my quality. It's my nature which I enjoy the most of all. Now I am sitting here, is nobody is there I am enjoying it. If I am lost somewhere I enjoy it. If I lost my way I enjoy it because I am there to enjoy myself. 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.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, talking to western yogis on India Tour, Ganapatipule, 3/1/88
Now some people are worried that they must get into the bus. Some people are worried they must reach back home. Some people are worried they must get their food in time. According to them this is discipline. This is not. This is conditioning. But what is the discipline is of patience in Sahaja Yoga. Where you watch everything and you are patient. If you are in the bus you are there. If you are standing on the road you are there. If you are walking on the road you are there. On the contrary it is a good idea to walk. I wish I could but I can't because once I start walking everybody will fall at my feet. Nobody will spare me. So I am just imprisoned inside the house, inside the room all day long because I just can't come out. As soon as I come out I find there hosts of people standing outside. But your case is not such. You are free people. You are not bound like me. 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, it is important that patience should be made the discipline of life.
How much patient we are for anything, for anything. Now as you can see, I have to sit here before I don't come you can not start, till I have to sit here till you finish. You are all free you can get up, walk about, come whenever you feel like I am not. And how do I manage all this, is through my patience. But patience is my quality. It's my nature which I enjoy the most of all. Now I am sitting here, is nobody is there I am enjoying it. If I am lost somewhere I enjoy it. If I lost my way I enjoy it because I am there to enjoy myself. 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.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, talking to western yogis on India Tour, Ganapatipule, 3/1/88
17.3.09
Birthday Celebrations 1977
All the Sahaja yogis who have come here, all the other people who have joined us here, who are celebrating this earthly birthday of mine. I am very thankful, very grateful and I am filled with great joy and happiness. And my vibrations are flowing from my eyes as tears to see that, in this Kali yuga also, there are people who are grateful to a Mother who just gives an abstract thing known as vibration. Actually I do not give you, I cannot give or take, you’ll be surprised. It is just emitted through me. It is my Swabhava [innate nature] - it has to be that way, I can’t help it. It is a ‘being’ that is being. You cannot make it something else. It acts on its own; it goes on working. It is beyond me to control myself from loving all of you. I do not know how people learn to hate. I haven’t got sufficient time even to love people. I find 24 hours much less! I do not know how people sit down and manipulate and think in a ice-cold manner how to be hateful. Hatred has no power but of destruction - of yourself and others.
On this day I would request you to think of love all the time. Love is all knowledge. Knowledge is all love. There is nothing beyond. If you have knowledge, it has to pass the test of love. If you know a person, it makes no record on you because you know him from outside. But if you love a person then you know the person out and out. You know him so well, you know him… everything, the way it is. It is this knowledge that is what we call is the para [beyond] knowledge. That is the knowledge we have to seek. All these books are only signaling towards that. They are the milestones, which are telling us, 'Go ahead, go ahead.' They do not solve the problem of entering into the kingdom of God. I request you that you all should come to the stage of understanding the Divine within you, the love of God that is within you, which is trying to overflow from you, and enjoy the sense of emitting and giving. Giving has the greatest joy and pleasure. There is no pleasure in taking. And when you receive it, you start giving. You have heard… [a yogi] talking about how he has done work in Rahuri [a town in Maharashtra]. In Rahuri, when I was going to Rahuri University, the people in the nearby village knew that our car will be going there. They are ordinary villagers. They have never read any yoga; they don’t understand anything more about vibrations than these feelings that you get. It is a subjective knowledge. It has no work. It is a subjective experience, which you feel on your fingers, in your being - the bliss of God. And as I was going, I just felt a jerk in the car, because so many people were just lying on the road and some were standing on the road stopping the car, and they started shouting my jai. I was wonderstruck! I said, “How did you know that I was in this car?” They said, “Mataji, you have given us vibrations. We knew this was the car, which was bringing us vibrations. So, now you have to get down here.” I just got down; I embraced all of them, and our Sahaja yogis were waiting at the other end. I said, “Doesn’t matter.” This is what is Sahaja - such loving people! And at that time, I just thought of how once with Rama, how you felt those things with people, with very simple people, of very simple heart and shraddha [faith], how they had those feelings of receiving your love and feeling it. Everyone needs love in this world; you cannot exist without love. Your whole being is based on love. And I wish all of you in this country to understand that unless and until there is love in your heart, don’t try to do anything outside because, if you do it you will be found out in no time. Every human being understands what is love. There are lots of things that are happening within you. There are cosmic changes that are taking place today within you. I know that it is happening. The Shri Chakra itself has descended on this Earth and already the Satya Yuga has started. This is the reason, why you are feeling these vibrations on your fingers and none of these gurus and rishis and all those people have mentioned these things. Because this is only possible when the Shri Chakra is brought down. It is here. You have to feel it and understand. It is for all of you to accept, each with an open heart. I do not want anything from you. What can you give me? I do not want anything, but I want my children to be happy. I pray for their happiness. I live for them and all the time, whether I am asleep or awakened or in the middle state, when they call the sabhranta, I am just with you. Every moment you are in my thoughts.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Birthday Celebrations 1977, Mumbai
On this day I would request you to think of love all the time. Love is all knowledge. Knowledge is all love. There is nothing beyond. If you have knowledge, it has to pass the test of love. If you know a person, it makes no record on you because you know him from outside. But if you love a person then you know the person out and out. You know him so well, you know him… everything, the way it is. It is this knowledge that is what we call is the para [beyond] knowledge. That is the knowledge we have to seek. All these books are only signaling towards that. They are the milestones, which are telling us, 'Go ahead, go ahead.' They do not solve the problem of entering into the kingdom of God. I request you that you all should come to the stage of understanding the Divine within you, the love of God that is within you, which is trying to overflow from you, and enjoy the sense of emitting and giving. Giving has the greatest joy and pleasure. There is no pleasure in taking. And when you receive it, you start giving. You have heard… [a yogi] talking about how he has done work in Rahuri [a town in Maharashtra]. In Rahuri, when I was going to Rahuri University, the people in the nearby village knew that our car will be going there. They are ordinary villagers. They have never read any yoga; they don’t understand anything more about vibrations than these feelings that you get. It is a subjective knowledge. It has no work. It is a subjective experience, which you feel on your fingers, in your being - the bliss of God. And as I was going, I just felt a jerk in the car, because so many people were just lying on the road and some were standing on the road stopping the car, and they started shouting my jai. I was wonderstruck! I said, “How did you know that I was in this car?” They said, “Mataji, you have given us vibrations. We knew this was the car, which was bringing us vibrations. So, now you have to get down here.” I just got down; I embraced all of them, and our Sahaja yogis were waiting at the other end. I said, “Doesn’t matter.” This is what is Sahaja - such loving people! And at that time, I just thought of how once with Rama, how you felt those things with people, with very simple people, of very simple heart and shraddha [faith], how they had those feelings of receiving your love and feeling it. Everyone needs love in this world; you cannot exist without love. Your whole being is based on love. And I wish all of you in this country to understand that unless and until there is love in your heart, don’t try to do anything outside because, if you do it you will be found out in no time. Every human being understands what is love. There are lots of things that are happening within you. There are cosmic changes that are taking place today within you. I know that it is happening. The Shri Chakra itself has descended on this Earth and already the Satya Yuga has started. This is the reason, why you are feeling these vibrations on your fingers and none of these gurus and rishis and all those people have mentioned these things. Because this is only possible when the Shri Chakra is brought down. It is here. You have to feel it and understand. It is for all of you to accept, each with an open heart. I do not want anything from you. What can you give me? I do not want anything, but I want my children to be happy. I pray for their happiness. I live for them and all the time, whether I am asleep or awakened or in the middle state, when they call the sabhranta, I am just with you. Every moment you are in my thoughts.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Birthday Celebrations 1977, Mumbai
13.3.09
Virata
Today we have decided to have a puja of Virata in the land of Shri Krishna. As you know, in the growth of Shri Vishnu's manifestation, He comes into ten incarnations and ultimately He manifests Himself as Virat. Virat is the brain of the being which can call as God Almighty, so the whole central nervous system is worked through by Shri Krishna as Vishnu, then all this incarnations, then Shri Krishna and ultimately as Virat. This is the development of our brain and when we are worshipping Virat, we have to know that within us also we have got the manifestation of this power of Virat. That manifestation which we have we can call it as Virat if Shri Krishna is Mahavirata.
You all know about Virat much more than I can tell you today because It’s the whole, It’s the totality. And the totality of everything, if that is Virat, then that is in your brain, but reality is in your heart. So the totality you may see, you may witness, the reality is the subtlety behind it. So the brain which is not ruled by the heart, which is not nourished by the heart, is a very dangerous thing, because it creates extroversion, and such a person who is without any heart tries to do things, becomes very ruthless and can be very dangerous. It could the other way also within us; that if we allow our heart to rule us, only live with our emotions and not to use our rationality, then we can become really very dangerous people to ourselves. In the sense, we become lethargic, we become indulgent into wrong sort of things. And today what one feels that in America there's more dominance of the left side than of the right. Right side is our attention and the right side of attention is we can say is the liver of God Almighty. So now when we have to talk of the totality, when we are part and parcel of the totality and now we are awakened to that existence of ours as the part and parcel of the whole, then we have to realize to become the whole we have to do something about it. Specially in the land of Shri Krishna we have to work out this tremendous task of creating Viratas out of Sahaja Yogis.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Shri Virata Puja, USA, 6/11/89
So thus today we have to worship Virata, he is nothing but Akbar who is Shri Krishna himself becoming Virata.
(Virata Puja, Melbourne, Australia, 10/4/91)
So this is what it is today, as it is, the situation, that: you have become part and parcel of Virata already. You have not seen the Virata (as Arjuna did), but you are part and parcel of it. You are not watching it, you are inside it. So that anymore of not watching yourself, only thing will be that, you’ll be thrown out of Sahaja Yoga. Or else you better watch yourself and correct yourself and be one with the body of the Virata.
(Shri Krishna Puja, Cabella, 1991)
You all know about Virat much more than I can tell you today because It’s the whole, It’s the totality. And the totality of everything, if that is Virat, then that is in your brain, but reality is in your heart. So the totality you may see, you may witness, the reality is the subtlety behind it. So the brain which is not ruled by the heart, which is not nourished by the heart, is a very dangerous thing, because it creates extroversion, and such a person who is without any heart tries to do things, becomes very ruthless and can be very dangerous. It could the other way also within us; that if we allow our heart to rule us, only live with our emotions and not to use our rationality, then we can become really very dangerous people to ourselves. In the sense, we become lethargic, we become indulgent into wrong sort of things. And today what one feels that in America there's more dominance of the left side than of the right. Right side is our attention and the right side of attention is we can say is the liver of God Almighty. So now when we have to talk of the totality, when we are part and parcel of the totality and now we are awakened to that existence of ours as the part and parcel of the whole, then we have to realize to become the whole we have to do something about it. Specially in the land of Shri Krishna we have to work out this tremendous task of creating Viratas out of Sahaja Yogis.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Shri Virata Puja, USA, 6/11/89
So thus today we have to worship Virata, he is nothing but Akbar who is Shri Krishna himself becoming Virata.
(Virata Puja, Melbourne, Australia, 10/4/91)
So this is what it is today, as it is, the situation, that: you have become part and parcel of Virata already. You have not seen the Virata (as Arjuna did), but you are part and parcel of it. You are not watching it, you are inside it. So that anymore of not watching yourself, only thing will be that, you’ll be thrown out of Sahaja Yoga. Or else you better watch yourself and correct yourself and be one with the body of the Virata.
(Shri Krishna Puja, Cabella, 1991)
12.3.09
You are the channels
You are the channels. Without the channels this all pervading power cannot work out. That's the system. If you see the Sun, its light spreads through its rays - from your heart the blood flows through arteries, they become smaller and smaller. You are the arteries which are going to flow this blood of my love to all the people. If arteries are broken the blood will not reach the people. That is why you are so important. The bigger you become, the bigger the arteries become. Then you encompass more people, by that you are more responsible.
H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Guru Purnima Day, London, 29/7/80
Source: Nirmala Yoga no.5
H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Guru Purnima Day, London, 29/7/80
Source: Nirmala Yoga no.5
11.3.09
It's just fun
If you have to really bring them round through discussion and argument, you must first of all be well equipped with the knowledge of Sahaja Yoga. You should be of such a mood and such a state and such a personality, that they should see there's something special about this person. And then they will accept you much better. Do not get frustrated. It's just fun, that's all. If we don't get this one, we will get another one – it doesn't matter....
So, all events are important in Sahaja Yoga, because that gives a variety and an interesting theme. Everything has to be taken as fun. I wish you people could understand this and relax completely on this point. Never get frustrated. If somebody is not alright or does not get vibrations, you should smile a little and say, alright, next time.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from 'How to deal with newcomers', Helsinki, Finland, 17/8/89
So, all events are important in Sahaja Yoga, because that gives a variety and an interesting theme. Everything has to be taken as fun. I wish you people could understand this and relax completely on this point. Never get frustrated. If somebody is not alright or does not get vibrations, you should smile a little and say, alright, next time.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from 'How to deal with newcomers', Helsinki, Finland, 17/8/89
10.3.09
The Garden of Eden
You will be amazed that the freedom was given to Adam and Eve, but how it was achieved you should understand. In the Gnostics Bible it has come out, what I've been saying, that Adam and Eve, both of them, were like pashus, animals, under the complete control of God, no free will. They would have lived in the nude in the garden of Eden, would not have even thought of knowing anything than that but to eat, live like animals....
Then it is the Shakti Herself took the form of a snake and went and told them that 'you must have fruit of knowledge.' She wanted to evolve them. That was not the idea of God Almighty ... It's quite a headache, you know, to do such a thing... But Shakti knew Her own style, Shakti knew that She is capable of lots of miracles and She can make these human beings understand the knowledge...
So She said, 'you must eat this fruit and you must try to know the knowledge.' So a new type of human race started which wanted to know what is the knowledge.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Navaratri Puja 1992
Source: Divine Cool Breeze 6(11)
Then it is the Shakti Herself took the form of a snake and went and told them that 'you must have fruit of knowledge.' She wanted to evolve them. That was not the idea of God Almighty ... It's quite a headache, you know, to do such a thing... But Shakti knew Her own style, Shakti knew that She is capable of lots of miracles and She can make these human beings understand the knowledge...
So She said, 'you must eat this fruit and you must try to know the knowledge.' So a new type of human race started which wanted to know what is the knowledge.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Navaratri Puja 1992
Source: Divine Cool Breeze 6(11)
9.3.09
Purusha
Almighty God as Supreme Being (Purusha), who is also known by man as Parameshwara, Allah, Jehovah, or the Spectator, is completely separated from His Power (Prakriti or Maha Shakti) in order to enjoy the play created for Him by Her.
He is the sustainer of the play because He is the only spectator. Actually the whole spectacle is played out just to please Him and to express Him. It is for His amusement only, so the moment He ceases to enjoy it, the play will be stopped by Him. He has the power to switch off His own projection. Although His role is as a witness, God the Father (Parameshwara) is the source of all strength and majesty. He creates blissful security and protection for all His creatures. Everything exists because of Him and He is therefore existence (Sthiti) itself. Being the sustainer of the play, He becomes sustenance (Dharma or Religion). He is also the light of total awareness, and the deciding factor in all things as His wisdom cannot be challenged. He is the source of all wisdom and human beings are just one expression of His awareness. The wisdom of sustenance emits from His being. He floods the universe with benevolence that just flows from His personality, and fills creation with joy. He is the creator of everything, and everything has been created for Him and for His enjoyment (Sampoorna Bhokta). He is the greatest of the greatest, the glory of all glories. Being ominpresent and omnipotent, He is the glory of everything, and because of His All-pervading Power He is finite in the infinite. He is also the subtlest of the subtle, never incarnating in human form. Only His Power (Shakti) takes human birth. He is manifested through Her Incarnations or those of Her Children, whose male Incarnations reflect Him. He remains above all as the fountain-head of their manifestation.
It is through His Power that He creates to reflect Himself. The creation is just like a reflector or mirror. The best reflector He has formed is the human being, who was created and later evolved by Him with great compassion through His Power, Prakriti.
How He evolved the creation using different reflectors can be better understood from this analogy: God (the object containing the dormant light) sits in a dark room surrounded by darkness. In these circumstances He is unable to reflect Himself, so He switches on His light. This light is His Power (Prakriti) which is separate from Him. But with no reflectors or mirrors the light is still not able to reflect. So reflectors like glass windows are created by the Power, who places them one after another before Him, reducing the distance between them and Him until their reflections match exactly the object. God is the object and human beings are the reflectors.
If God does not enjoy the spectacle or accept the continuance of the drama, He may at any time switch off His light bringing the whole thing to an abrupt end. When that happens, He is engulfed in total darkness again and nothing remains of the creation. In reality He still exists as Parabrahma, the supreme abstract force. It can therefore be understood why some of the ancient philosophers said that creation came out of nothingness, as, in relation to creation, Parabrahma can be considered as something that virtually amounts to nothing.
When you look at the Sun's rays in a clear sky they become diffused, and it is impossible to see the presence of the unseen rays. Suddenly, if a jet plane crosses the field of your vision, you can see a streak of light illumined through reflection along the line of smoke that trails behind the jet. This shows that the existence of the Sun's rays are only discernible when there is smoke to reflect it. In the same way, Almighty God uses the creation to reflect or manifest Him. Without the creation which is His reflection, God has no meaning or identity. The human mind is the only instrument created by the Divine Power capable of reflecting Him. Through His creation of human beings His identity is reflected and expressed in human awareness, and in that way God becomes aware of Himself.
Do not forget that it is not Him but His Power who manifests the creation. As His Power She expresses Him as omnipresent existence, omnicreative Power and omnipotent sustenance, and is responsible for introducing man to Her Lord, Almighty God. He is the perfection and also is the fount of all Being. No words or analogies can fully explain Him. The perfect cannot be compared with the imperfect. You cannot adequately describe the majesty of a tree by talking about a flower, a branch or the bark. The source cannot be fully explained by describing its manifestations. The limitations of human expression can only describe Him in part and in His different aspects.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi (1982)
He is the sustainer of the play because He is the only spectator. Actually the whole spectacle is played out just to please Him and to express Him. It is for His amusement only, so the moment He ceases to enjoy it, the play will be stopped by Him. He has the power to switch off His own projection. Although His role is as a witness, God the Father (Parameshwara) is the source of all strength and majesty. He creates blissful security and protection for all His creatures. Everything exists because of Him and He is therefore existence (Sthiti) itself. Being the sustainer of the play, He becomes sustenance (Dharma or Religion). He is also the light of total awareness, and the deciding factor in all things as His wisdom cannot be challenged. He is the source of all wisdom and human beings are just one expression of His awareness. The wisdom of sustenance emits from His being. He floods the universe with benevolence that just flows from His personality, and fills creation with joy. He is the creator of everything, and everything has been created for Him and for His enjoyment (Sampoorna Bhokta). He is the greatest of the greatest, the glory of all glories. Being ominpresent and omnipotent, He is the glory of everything, and because of His All-pervading Power He is finite in the infinite. He is also the subtlest of the subtle, never incarnating in human form. Only His Power (Shakti) takes human birth. He is manifested through Her Incarnations or those of Her Children, whose male Incarnations reflect Him. He remains above all as the fountain-head of their manifestation.
It is through His Power that He creates to reflect Himself. The creation is just like a reflector or mirror. The best reflector He has formed is the human being, who was created and later evolved by Him with great compassion through His Power, Prakriti.
How He evolved the creation using different reflectors can be better understood from this analogy: God (the object containing the dormant light) sits in a dark room surrounded by darkness. In these circumstances He is unable to reflect Himself, so He switches on His light. This light is His Power (Prakriti) which is separate from Him. But with no reflectors or mirrors the light is still not able to reflect. So reflectors like glass windows are created by the Power, who places them one after another before Him, reducing the distance between them and Him until their reflections match exactly the object. God is the object and human beings are the reflectors.
If God does not enjoy the spectacle or accept the continuance of the drama, He may at any time switch off His light bringing the whole thing to an abrupt end. When that happens, He is engulfed in total darkness again and nothing remains of the creation. In reality He still exists as Parabrahma, the supreme abstract force. It can therefore be understood why some of the ancient philosophers said that creation came out of nothingness, as, in relation to creation, Parabrahma can be considered as something that virtually amounts to nothing.
When you look at the Sun's rays in a clear sky they become diffused, and it is impossible to see the presence of the unseen rays. Suddenly, if a jet plane crosses the field of your vision, you can see a streak of light illumined through reflection along the line of smoke that trails behind the jet. This shows that the existence of the Sun's rays are only discernible when there is smoke to reflect it. In the same way, Almighty God uses the creation to reflect or manifest Him. Without the creation which is His reflection, God has no meaning or identity. The human mind is the only instrument created by the Divine Power capable of reflecting Him. Through His creation of human beings His identity is reflected and expressed in human awareness, and in that way God becomes aware of Himself.
Do not forget that it is not Him but His Power who manifests the creation. As His Power She expresses Him as omnipresent existence, omnicreative Power and omnipotent sustenance, and is responsible for introducing man to Her Lord, Almighty God. He is the perfection and also is the fount of all Being. No words or analogies can fully explain Him. The perfect cannot be compared with the imperfect. You cannot adequately describe the majesty of a tree by talking about a flower, a branch or the bark. The source cannot be fully explained by describing its manifestations. The limitations of human expression can only describe Him in part and in His different aspects.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi (1982)
8.3.09
Origins of Holi
So, even in this Kali Yuga these [ascetic] ideas are prevalent. Even in India, people have very severe types, especially in south I have seen, they do all kinds of nonsense for the atonement or maybe for something they are asking. All this nonsense was too much for Shri Krishna. He couldn't understand that they are going to destroy their lives with this kind of ritualistic gruelling, then what will remain out of them for Sahaja Yoga. So He's the one who started Sahaj culture. He said "let us enjoy, we must have enjoyment, Nirmala Anand - pure joy". How do we have pure joy by? - He had this rakhi bandhan by which, apart from your wife, everybody is your sister or mother. I must say it is quite true about Indians. Not in the north so much because of Islamic influence, but in the south it is so. In Maharastra it is so. And then He started also this Holi, in which you should play with colors, maybe to get rid of the color barriers we have, maybe. In America it is a very good idea to play with colors and put some black on the whites and some whites on the black and they can see for themselves how stupid it is to fight in the name of color.H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Shri Krishna Puja 1996
This festival of Holi was made by Shri Krishna so that human beings would see the whole world as leela (play). By coming into Sahaja Yoga you have become leelamay (playful). You get completely absorbed in music and enjoy it. You have love and pure feelings for one another. You do each work with great beauty and morality. But to be leelamay is to stop at Vishudhi Chakra. After that, one has to move on Agnya. On the Agnya Chakra is tapas or penance. Then you should think about the burning of Holika which was due to Prahlad’s penance. We also have to ascend on that tapa because you have reached the Vishudhi level; that you live together with love for each other. At Vishudhi you have become collective, got love and universal brotherhood. When you become universal then your caste, creed, countries all drop away. ...
On Holi we should burn all those things which spoil our attention and damage the Agnya. Then this attention will clear out and we will celebrate Holi with joy and understanding. ...
When your attention goes to Vishudhi then you see the Shakti of Shri Krishna, Shri Radha, who is Allahad Dayini, the giver of joy. Just by seeing Her people feel joyous. She is the Allahad Dayini Shakti which is in flowers, in children; and it can awaken in you. Till the depth comes this Allahad Dayini Shakti will remain verbal. Think about the combination of these two. It is very important for us to get depth within and to give joy from that depth is equally important.
(extracts from talk given in Hindi during Holi Celebrations, Delhi, 1991)
Legend of Holika and Prahlad
History of Holi
Celebrate an eco-friendly Holi
6.3.09
Native People's Grandmothers
We just returned from a public meeting with one of the Native People's Grandmothers, Agnes Baker Pilgrim from the Takelma nation, who is touring the world with their message of peace and hope. She spoke about the Mother Earth and the need to respect her, and about water how we all come from it and that it is sacred and has a spirit. She stressed the importance of not only respecting our elders but also that we should grow into respectable elders. Afterwards I went to speak to her and asked her if she ever heard of self realization. She said no and I told her that my Mother taught me about this very energy she had been speaking to us about and that my Mother taught me to feel the earth's heartbeat and to recognize the spirit in the water, the air and the fire. I thanked her for going all over the world with her beautiful message and asked her if I could share with her this gift of self realization. She said yes, and upon touching her Sahasrara I told her that from now on we would be one and she embraced me.
Here is an idea: we should try to give realization to all 13 Grandmothers that are touring the world now. Look at their website www.grandmotherscouncil.com and see if they are coming to your town and try to give realization to them. If they are able to recognize the Grandmother of all the grandmothers what an impact this will have on the seekers of the world! (Angela Reininger)
Wikipedia: Takelma
Frangipani flowers
Shri Mataji once stated that frangipani flowers were not meant for offering at puja. She explained that this auspicious tree's existance is a constant Bhoomi Devi puja, offering its perfect fragrant flowers to Mother Earth.If we pick these flowers the tree bleeds, and we deprive it of its divine purpose. (Peter B)
Source: Australian SY Newsletter 2009:2
3.3.09
Jnaneshwari online
In this book (also known as the Bhavarthadpika), Jnaneshwara (aka Dynaneshwara, Jnanadev)(1275-1297CE), a realized Maratha saint of the lineage of Nath Panthis, rendered the Bhagavad Gita into Marathi with his own commentary. In the sixth chapter, he revealed the nature of the Kundalini. Gyaneshwari is the Hindi rendering (as used by Shri Mataji) of the Marathi word found transcribed in English as Jnaneshwari and Dynaneshwari.
original Marathi
English translation by M.R.Yardi (1995)
Yardi's translation in chapter pdf
English translation by Manu Subedar (1932) (pdf)
Deutsch Übersetzung
Other works by Jnaneshwara:
Amritanubhava (Marathi)
Amritanubhava (English extracts)
Changadeva Pasashti (Marathi)
Haripath (Marathi)
Haripath (English)
entry updated August 2011
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