The Janakas were a lineage of sage-kings of Mithila or Videha in ancient northern India. The best known was Seeradhwaja Janaka, more popularly known as Raja Janaka or King Janaka. He is mentioned in the Ramayana as the father of Sita. The Ashtavakra Gita is a dialogue between the sage-guru, Ashtavakra and his disciple, King Janaka.
H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi has stated that Raja Janaka was the first of the ten incarnations of the Primordial Master:
I will tell you a story of Raja Janaka who was a great king in India. He was called as Bidehi - means an ascetic. And he was a king and whenever he went to any ashram the saints used to get up and touch his feet. So one disciple of a guru got very angry ─ his name was Nachiketa ─ and he said, “How can you all touch his feet when he is a king and enjoying the life like a king, living like a king, wearing a crown? How can you touch his feet?” So the guru said that. “He is the Primordial Master.” To him it does not matter whether he lives in a palace or on the street. (1983-0910)
For background information on Mithila and its wisdom-kings, see chapter 4, esp pp69-71, of Geoffrey Samuel, Origins of yoga and tantra: Indic religions to the thirteenth century (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
31.7.09
29.7.09
Moses
Moses had (a) problem with people who were very indulgent people, so he had to pass laws of Shariat. ... Moses had to pass these laws … to make the people follow religion precisely. So he did not argue, he did not say why you should do it, didn’t give any explanation. “You do it!” Like that. … So the people who were at the time of Moses, when he had gone to get the Ten Commandments, started indulging into very, very immoral character, extremely immoral character. They were very immoral and were doing such horrible things that nobody can believe that anybody who tried to escape from the Egyptians were worse than the Egyptians themselves. So he gave this Shariat to them, to change.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Puja in Greece, 1989
(1989-0524)
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Puja in Greece, 1989
(1989-0524)
23.7.09
Shri Krishna Puja 1973
Shri Krishna Puja 1973 by Sahaja Library
...What sweetness, what beauty that knowledge has given them, and what security of understanding that everywhere in the whole world we have brothers and sisters who are on their inner being, on their divine, and how we are bound together with that love. When I talk of love, people think that I am trying to make you weak people - because people think those who love are weak. But the most dynamic power in this world is that of love. Is the most aggressive power - is that of love. Even when we suffer, in love, it is out of our strength that we suffer and not out of our weakness. ...
The love that I am talking about - the divine love - makes you not only strong but dynamic. It is the greatest luminous power that we can think of. Only when love is surrounded by gross, and is lost in the gross, it looks as if it is weak and under chains. The time it is released, the dynamic power of love can transcend all the evil powers of the world.
When people get their realization, automatically the ego drops out - to a great extent I should say. Because, you say that the vibrations are passing; you don’t say that you are giving them. Because the dropping of the ego sometimes it happens that you feel that whatever you wanted to have you have got it, and you better not talk about it. When there is any opposition from anywhere, you shun it and sit away from it. You don’t want to face the opposition of any negative opposition - whether it is by speech or by… even by evil methods. We run away from that thinking, “Oh God! How are we going to face it?” On the contrary a person who is negative, who has got hatred ... starts talking big. He thinks he is above everybody else, he can befool all the world; He takes a responsibility on himself. He starts a big ashram or some big place where he sits down with all his ignorance and starts spreading his knowledge - the so called - to people. By his methods people get impressed and they all go and fall at his feet.
While the realized sits at home quietly wondering, “What are these fools doing?” But, it is not now for the realized to sit down and to wonder and laugh at the foolishness of the people who are not yet realized. Not even to take pity on them, but to come out, come out with the sword of love to win the whole world. It is very very essential. If the creation has to be saved, then you are not to keep mum about it. All the wrong ideas about love, all the falsehood about love, has to be given up. One must know that it is the dynamic power. And it won’t allow you to sit comfortably with yourself, enjoying the peace and the bliss, when the rest of the world is not enjoying that and is playing into the hands of the evil geniuses who have come in this world to destroy and to bring the satanic realm on this earth. ...
Now the days are gone when the people had to suffer. Christ suffered for us. Of course, Christ never suffered, because He never suffered. He never wept. He was like those cocks, a very powerful personality. But today is the day to brighten up your understanding about your own strength that is within you. Those who are gross should worry about their insecurities and their problems and their organizations - but not for the people who are realized. I have told you many a times and today he also remarked that you should know you are never alone when you are realized. There have been many people who have been realized, before even you were born, who exist, who are anxious to help you at every moment. In our shastras (scriptures) we call them Chiranjivas (eternal beings), you know them. They are people who are Niranjanas, as he said about Bhairava and Hanumana. All these people exist and they are waiting just for a call from you. ...
Oh! We tried and tried and tried, in different lives. Nothing worked. And now it is going to click like a spark. The chain reaction will start. But we have to have strong machines to carry that. Otherwise the fuse will be off. Only the strength that is in you is to be felt by your attention. That’s the only thing you have to do - is to feel your attention and give up all that is falsehood. All that is falsehood - you see within yourself and you will know what is falsehood and you just drop it. Accept only the truth, and the truth will give you that power to be the real instrument, to carry this channel, that force of love. ...
The complete power ... will flow through your Sahasrara, inside your being, and completely revolve around your whole being and transform the inside into a complete Chaitanya Shakti, a complete divine power. Allow it to come in, accept it. Accept it without any fear. Let it get in. Every moment, every moment keep awake. It’s a very precarious time that we are up to. I have only two hands you can see that very clearly. ... I can do everything but not to make you do something. Your will, will be respected throughout. Every other thing can be looked after except for one - that you should be a perfect machine, a perfect channel, a perfect flute for my lord to play that tune of love. It is for you to clear out all your seven holes. It is for you to clear out your hollowness and to be complete within yourself and He knows his job. He is the artist. But you are the instruments. And the harmonious music from so many souls can fill the ears of these evil people and can penetrate into their heart and put love into them and may be that they themselves will give up their evil ways and fall at the feet of love.
Krishna is to be born within you today. A five-year-old boy went to kill Kalia. That Krishna is to born within you. Went and sat on the Kalia’s Sahasrara and was pressing with His feet and all the people were seeing this great drama of Krishna’s dancing on the Kalia’s Sahasrara. Krishna is to be born within your being. When you are Krishna, you are not going to see me. Let us now go to the state, which is beyond words, beyond thoughts, into the realm of thoughtless awareness where the Divine is pouring its blessings. These people have decided today to have a puja, and you know what happens to me when you do my puja. So with all those problems that will be facing later, I would like all of you to be attentive about the puja and to take full advantage of that. With this puja you get the Mother’s protection, to begin with. And my chakras, when they start moving, they give you special powers of love and bless all your chakras and fill them up completely. So I would like you, though some two people are coming to do this, all of you to feel that you all are doing it - and you can feel it that way with oneness. And the blessings of my being will flow to you automatically.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extracts from Shri Krishna Puja, Mumbai, 1973 (1973-0828)
transcript
...What sweetness, what beauty that knowledge has given them, and what security of understanding that everywhere in the whole world we have brothers and sisters who are on their inner being, on their divine, and how we are bound together with that love. When I talk of love, people think that I am trying to make you weak people - because people think those who love are weak. But the most dynamic power in this world is that of love. Is the most aggressive power - is that of love. Even when we suffer, in love, it is out of our strength that we suffer and not out of our weakness. ...
The love that I am talking about - the divine love - makes you not only strong but dynamic. It is the greatest luminous power that we can think of. Only when love is surrounded by gross, and is lost in the gross, it looks as if it is weak and under chains. The time it is released, the dynamic power of love can transcend all the evil powers of the world.
When people get their realization, automatically the ego drops out - to a great extent I should say. Because, you say that the vibrations are passing; you don’t say that you are giving them. Because the dropping of the ego sometimes it happens that you feel that whatever you wanted to have you have got it, and you better not talk about it. When there is any opposition from anywhere, you shun it and sit away from it. You don’t want to face the opposition of any negative opposition - whether it is by speech or by… even by evil methods. We run away from that thinking, “Oh God! How are we going to face it?” On the contrary a person who is negative, who has got hatred ... starts talking big. He thinks he is above everybody else, he can befool all the world; He takes a responsibility on himself. He starts a big ashram or some big place where he sits down with all his ignorance and starts spreading his knowledge - the so called - to people. By his methods people get impressed and they all go and fall at his feet.
While the realized sits at home quietly wondering, “What are these fools doing?” But, it is not now for the realized to sit down and to wonder and laugh at the foolishness of the people who are not yet realized. Not even to take pity on them, but to come out, come out with the sword of love to win the whole world. It is very very essential. If the creation has to be saved, then you are not to keep mum about it. All the wrong ideas about love, all the falsehood about love, has to be given up. One must know that it is the dynamic power. And it won’t allow you to sit comfortably with yourself, enjoying the peace and the bliss, when the rest of the world is not enjoying that and is playing into the hands of the evil geniuses who have come in this world to destroy and to bring the satanic realm on this earth. ...
Now the days are gone when the people had to suffer. Christ suffered for us. Of course, Christ never suffered, because He never suffered. He never wept. He was like those cocks, a very powerful personality. But today is the day to brighten up your understanding about your own strength that is within you. Those who are gross should worry about their insecurities and their problems and their organizations - but not for the people who are realized. I have told you many a times and today he also remarked that you should know you are never alone when you are realized. There have been many people who have been realized, before even you were born, who exist, who are anxious to help you at every moment. In our shastras (scriptures) we call them Chiranjivas (eternal beings), you know them. They are people who are Niranjanas, as he said about Bhairava and Hanumana. All these people exist and they are waiting just for a call from you. ...
Oh! We tried and tried and tried, in different lives. Nothing worked. And now it is going to click like a spark. The chain reaction will start. But we have to have strong machines to carry that. Otherwise the fuse will be off. Only the strength that is in you is to be felt by your attention. That’s the only thing you have to do - is to feel your attention and give up all that is falsehood. All that is falsehood - you see within yourself and you will know what is falsehood and you just drop it. Accept only the truth, and the truth will give you that power to be the real instrument, to carry this channel, that force of love. ...
The complete power ... will flow through your Sahasrara, inside your being, and completely revolve around your whole being and transform the inside into a complete Chaitanya Shakti, a complete divine power. Allow it to come in, accept it. Accept it without any fear. Let it get in. Every moment, every moment keep awake. It’s a very precarious time that we are up to. I have only two hands you can see that very clearly. ... I can do everything but not to make you do something. Your will, will be respected throughout. Every other thing can be looked after except for one - that you should be a perfect machine, a perfect channel, a perfect flute for my lord to play that tune of love. It is for you to clear out all your seven holes. It is for you to clear out your hollowness and to be complete within yourself and He knows his job. He is the artist. But you are the instruments. And the harmonious music from so many souls can fill the ears of these evil people and can penetrate into their heart and put love into them and may be that they themselves will give up their evil ways and fall at the feet of love.
Krishna is to be born within you today. A five-year-old boy went to kill Kalia. That Krishna is to born within you. Went and sat on the Kalia’s Sahasrara and was pressing with His feet and all the people were seeing this great drama of Krishna’s dancing on the Kalia’s Sahasrara. Krishna is to be born within your being. When you are Krishna, you are not going to see me. Let us now go to the state, which is beyond words, beyond thoughts, into the realm of thoughtless awareness where the Divine is pouring its blessings. These people have decided today to have a puja, and you know what happens to me when you do my puja. So with all those problems that will be facing later, I would like all of you to be attentive about the puja and to take full advantage of that. With this puja you get the Mother’s protection, to begin with. And my chakras, when they start moving, they give you special powers of love and bless all your chakras and fill them up completely. So I would like you, though some two people are coming to do this, all of you to feel that you all are doing it - and you can feel it that way with oneness. And the blessings of my being will flow to you automatically.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extracts from Shri Krishna Puja, Mumbai, 1973 (1973-0828)
transcript
10.7.09
You are transmitters
You are transmitters. Everywhere you are sitting in meditation you are transmitting vibrations, do you know that? At that time if you are thinking, say of your jobs and your other things which you have been thinking before, the transmission is poorer. Think of love. Think of the whole country, think of the whole world at that time. You are transmitters of these waves of love, and love will flow from you.
I told you once that you are made in the form of Ganesha, and that’s what you have to do. You know there are vibrations from you coming out. You are sending vibrations out, you know that. That means you are like any deity which is thrown out of the Mother’s, I mean Earth’s, womb, and a big temple is raised, and thousands of people go to worship that. And they say it is a temple, of a Jagrut Devta, means a person…jagrut means enlightened, awakened. And that’s just a stone, a stone that comes out and people build a temple on top of that and go there and worship that, while there are so many already sitting here, so many jagrut, realized souls. These are living, these are moving, these are understanding. They maneuvere. The stones only emit vibrations, to clear the atmosphere, but you, you can raise the Kundalini. They cannot raise the Kundalini, you can.
And what are you doing about it? Such a precious thing you have got. What are you doing about it? Is it because there is no business with it, that we are taking it so slowly? Supposing it’s an enterprise, then everybody would be up and doing. Is it? We have to change our ways and methods of understanding. The reward of God is thousand-fold than any enterprise can bestow upon you. When He blesses you, you wouldn’t even have words to thank Him, to that extent He goes.
Are we depending on Him or on our own old ways? We have to change very much, we have to transform ourself into new style of thinking. It is very, very important. I hope you’ll think about it, what I have talked to you today. Don’t take to life which has not brought any happiness to you. You have your friends, who are Sahaja Yogis. Change your friends. Change your methods of life. You’ll enjoy much more.
This is for you to understand, about yourself and about the importance of Sahaja Yoga. Unless and until it is an enterprise, nobody takes it up seriously. This is the style of Western thinking. It has to be whether it is hocus-pocus or real enterprise, doesn’t matter. As long as there is money exchanges, everybody is up, and doing. But when it comes to Sahaja Yoga, they have no time, even to meditate. Because we have not yet loved, we have not felt that love within ourselves. I wish you could all feel that depth of love. Then you would go all out, to work it out for yourself and for others.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Talk at Caxton Hall, 15/10/79
I told you once that you are made in the form of Ganesha, and that’s what you have to do. You know there are vibrations from you coming out. You are sending vibrations out, you know that. That means you are like any deity which is thrown out of the Mother’s, I mean Earth’s, womb, and a big temple is raised, and thousands of people go to worship that. And they say it is a temple, of a Jagrut Devta, means a person…jagrut means enlightened, awakened. And that’s just a stone, a stone that comes out and people build a temple on top of that and go there and worship that, while there are so many already sitting here, so many jagrut, realized souls. These are living, these are moving, these are understanding. They maneuvere. The stones only emit vibrations, to clear the atmosphere, but you, you can raise the Kundalini. They cannot raise the Kundalini, you can.
And what are you doing about it? Such a precious thing you have got. What are you doing about it? Is it because there is no business with it, that we are taking it so slowly? Supposing it’s an enterprise, then everybody would be up and doing. Is it? We have to change our ways and methods of understanding. The reward of God is thousand-fold than any enterprise can bestow upon you. When He blesses you, you wouldn’t even have words to thank Him, to that extent He goes.
Are we depending on Him or on our own old ways? We have to change very much, we have to transform ourself into new style of thinking. It is very, very important. I hope you’ll think about it, what I have talked to you today. Don’t take to life which has not brought any happiness to you. You have your friends, who are Sahaja Yogis. Change your friends. Change your methods of life. You’ll enjoy much more.
This is for you to understand, about yourself and about the importance of Sahaja Yoga. Unless and until it is an enterprise, nobody takes it up seriously. This is the style of Western thinking. It has to be whether it is hocus-pocus or real enterprise, doesn’t matter. As long as there is money exchanges, everybody is up, and doing. But when it comes to Sahaja Yoga, they have no time, even to meditate. Because we have not yet loved, we have not felt that love within ourselves. I wish you could all feel that depth of love. Then you would go all out, to work it out for yourself and for others.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Talk at Caxton Hall, 15/10/79
New dimensions
In our own life we see that our surroundings change very slowly. Sometimes it is shocking; sometimes you are surprised how the surroundings are not changing. But, in a subtle way, there is a tremendous change that is happening within us and without. The whole atmosphere today is governed by human beings. I don't know how far Paramachaitanya works it out, but it is for us to open ourselves to new dimensions in our lives. ... Through our introspection we locate that we have these old, subtle, nonsensical things still hanging around us, we don't have to vow for it. You have to just witness it, and the destructive path it is taking you to. Immediately you will give up. You don't have to worry as to put a vow upon yourself, because now you are samarth, meaning now you are absolutely empowered. Whatever you think is wrong, your attention itself on it will slowly, gradually remove the doubts about having those problems, those connections, conditions and ego that are lingering still. Definitely you will drop them. With your attention, it will run away. Then you will realize that every day your attention is getting purified, getting powerful, getting compassionate. Normally, whatever reaction you have in your attention just disappears, and you start witnessing the whole thing, and your power of attention, through that witnessing force, acts and it works. It works not only on you, but on everything that surrounds you. Firstly, through your meditation, in that state of meditation, you expand within yourself. You stay in the present. ...
This reality of the vision is something beyond even My thinking and imagination. I cannot, even now sometimes, believe that there are so many Sahaja Yogis who have got this subtle knowledge. I never knew that there are so many seekers, to begin with. I never knew that there are such subtle people on this Earth. All over the world, wherever I went, whether I went to Nepal or to Brazil, suddenly I find facing so many beautiful seekers. ...
We have to understand that time is our slave. We are not slaves of the time. ...
Today ... it is an emergency, a very subtle emergency. That nothing is more important than spreading Sahaja Yoga. If some people will miss it, will not know about it, we will be responsible for that. At the time of Christ, Buddha, Mahavira or any one of them, there were no aero planes to travel. There were not these loudspeakers, also other communications and televisions and all those things. All these things have come now. That has been manifested now. It is the work of Paramachaitanya. Through scientists, through other knowledge, all this manifestation has taken place. Also, these people didn't have to face people, so many, nor did they… were supposed to give realization to people in such a big number. So all these inventions, all that you see today as modern ventures which we have got, they are all for Sahaja Yoga. Without Sahaj Yog, you cannot imagine what would happen to this world.
The first and foremost thing is we have no peace within our hearts. We talk of peace. I know of people who have got awards in peace, have no peace within their heart, no peace at all. Unless and until we human beings have peace, there cannot be peace in the whole world. It is we who create wars. It is we who do all kinds of violence. It is we… we ruin the possibility of people getting into the Kingdom of God. So, peace can be only achieved by establishing peace in the hearts of the people. And that is only possible, that you achieve the state of thoughtless awareness. You remain in the present. And there, where you'll be amazed, you will be standing like a rock, because you will have reality in your hand. You can work out the way you like. Actually, I don't work out anything whatsoever, really. You may say, "You do this and You do that." I don't. It's the Paramchaitanya, which works it. In the same way, it will work for you also. But you must have faith in yourself and absolute faith in Sahaja Yoga. Absolute. That's the only way we can achieve this, that many, many, many people, most of the people of the world - I wouldn't say all of them rather difficult to say that, but may be possible - should enter into the Kingdom of God with us. That's the most important thing, more than all these worldly things and more than all these nonsensical things.
So the attention should be, "How many people we are going to bring to Sahaj Yoga, how many we are going to save, what are we going to do about it?" ...
If we really want peace on this Earth, if we want really progress for ourselves, if we want all kinds of physical, mental and emotional problems being solved, all for our good, why not we come to Sahaj Yoga, where we don't have to do anything except for raising our Kundalini, except for meditating for it for very little time and to achieve that state of joy.
Today my feelings are really full of joy, full of joy, because now I can see how things are happening, how one person can produce thousands and thousands of Sahaja Yogis. I saw one miracle, I told once that one seed has all the thousand trees it is going to produce and when I saw a new technique of tissue culture, I was amazed that on one little seed there were so many little, little primules who had come out. In the same way, you are all capable, and you all can do it, but what is needed is faith in yourself and also complete sincerity about Sahaja Yoga. If that happens today, you have really celebrated my birthday. ... For me (what is) very important is that everybody gets their spiritual birthday.
May God bless you.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extracts from Birthday Puja 1994
This reality of the vision is something beyond even My thinking and imagination. I cannot, even now sometimes, believe that there are so many Sahaja Yogis who have got this subtle knowledge. I never knew that there are so many seekers, to begin with. I never knew that there are such subtle people on this Earth. All over the world, wherever I went, whether I went to Nepal or to Brazil, suddenly I find facing so many beautiful seekers. ...
We have to understand that time is our slave. We are not slaves of the time. ...
Today ... it is an emergency, a very subtle emergency. That nothing is more important than spreading Sahaja Yoga. If some people will miss it, will not know about it, we will be responsible for that. At the time of Christ, Buddha, Mahavira or any one of them, there were no aero planes to travel. There were not these loudspeakers, also other communications and televisions and all those things. All these things have come now. That has been manifested now. It is the work of Paramachaitanya. Through scientists, through other knowledge, all this manifestation has taken place. Also, these people didn't have to face people, so many, nor did they… were supposed to give realization to people in such a big number. So all these inventions, all that you see today as modern ventures which we have got, they are all for Sahaja Yoga. Without Sahaj Yog, you cannot imagine what would happen to this world.
The first and foremost thing is we have no peace within our hearts. We talk of peace. I know of people who have got awards in peace, have no peace within their heart, no peace at all. Unless and until we human beings have peace, there cannot be peace in the whole world. It is we who create wars. It is we who do all kinds of violence. It is we… we ruin the possibility of people getting into the Kingdom of God. So, peace can be only achieved by establishing peace in the hearts of the people. And that is only possible, that you achieve the state of thoughtless awareness. You remain in the present. And there, where you'll be amazed, you will be standing like a rock, because you will have reality in your hand. You can work out the way you like. Actually, I don't work out anything whatsoever, really. You may say, "You do this and You do that." I don't. It's the Paramchaitanya, which works it. In the same way, it will work for you also. But you must have faith in yourself and absolute faith in Sahaja Yoga. Absolute. That's the only way we can achieve this, that many, many, many people, most of the people of the world - I wouldn't say all of them rather difficult to say that, but may be possible - should enter into the Kingdom of God with us. That's the most important thing, more than all these worldly things and more than all these nonsensical things.
So the attention should be, "How many people we are going to bring to Sahaj Yoga, how many we are going to save, what are we going to do about it?" ...
If we really want peace on this Earth, if we want really progress for ourselves, if we want all kinds of physical, mental and emotional problems being solved, all for our good, why not we come to Sahaj Yoga, where we don't have to do anything except for raising our Kundalini, except for meditating for it for very little time and to achieve that state of joy.
Today my feelings are really full of joy, full of joy, because now I can see how things are happening, how one person can produce thousands and thousands of Sahaja Yogis. I saw one miracle, I told once that one seed has all the thousand trees it is going to produce and when I saw a new technique of tissue culture, I was amazed that on one little seed there were so many little, little primules who had come out. In the same way, you are all capable, and you all can do it, but what is needed is faith in yourself and also complete sincerity about Sahaja Yoga. If that happens today, you have really celebrated my birthday. ... For me (what is) very important is that everybody gets their spiritual birthday.
May God bless you.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extracts from Birthday Puja 1994
7.7.09
Sahaj Rap
I live in da depth of da ghetto
An' dat's why I'm so hard to get to.
I be takin' my business seriously
An' I be prayin' continuously.
I got bullet-proof- vest resilience
Every chakra be shining in brilliance.
Any street-corna preacha an' pranksta
Knows I'm da gangsta!
But I be only half effective
Without my homeboys collective.
I'm already half-yogi though
Cuz I go 'round-n-round saying "Yo"!
Omroot
An' dat's why I'm so hard to get to.
I be takin' my business seriously
An' I be prayin' continuously.
I got bullet-proof- vest resilience
Every chakra be shining in brilliance.
Any street-corna preacha an' pranksta
Knows I'm da gangsta!
But I be only half effective
Without my homeboys collective.
I'm already half-yogi though
Cuz I go 'round-n-round saying "Yo"!
Omroot
5.7.09
Fatima
Advice given by H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Nirmala Devi:
Now, the principle of Gruha Lakshmi has been evolved and developed by the Divine: it is not a human being’s creation, and as you know, it resides in the left nabhi. The Gruha Lakshmi is the one that is represented in the life of Fatima who was the daughter of Mohammed Sahib. Now She is always born in a relationship to a guru which is of virginity, of purity. So She comes as a sister, or She comes as a daughter. ...
So we have Ali and his wife, Fatima, who incarnated on the principle of the left nabhi. She stayed in her house, in her household, and she observed what you call a kind of a purdah or nakaab as they call it, to cover her face – is a symbol that a woman who is a housewife has to save her chastity by covering her face, because she was a beautiful woman and they were born in a country which was very, very violent, and she would have been definitely attacked in case she had not lived in that kind of fashion. As you know, in the time of Christ, though Mary was Mahalakshmi’s incarnation, had to be a very, very potential personality and Christ did not want anybody to know what she was. But though she was in the house, she was Shakti so she allowed her sons, or actually ordered them, to fight those fanatics who were trying to deny the authority of her husband, and you know they - Hassan and Hussein - they were killed there. It’s a very beautiful thing how the Mahalakshmi tattwa of Sita took a form of Vishnumaya just to establish the beautiful principle of a housewife. Now She was very powerful, no doubt, and she knew that her children would be killed but these people are never killed, they never die, nor do they suffer – it’s a drama they have to play to show people how stupid they are.
(Shri Fatima Puja, Switzerland, 1988)
Fatima lost her two children and she was the embodiment of Gruha Lakshmi. She resides in our left Nabhi. So for all the diseases that are connected with the spleen, all the problems that are connected with your left Nabhi, can be only corrected by Fatima. So you have to keep Fatima awakened within yourself. That we are here in the Islamic culture, we can say this is place of Islamic culture and in the Islamic culture a housewife was given a very, very important place. ... So from Fatima’s life you have to know that She did not go out of Her house and She remained the housewife and She made Her two children grow up in such a manner that they had to fight the war against fanaticism. Her husband also was there. This is how a woman of a housewife is shown to be so powerful and though she’s in the house, though she is, looks to be just a mother, but how powerful she is!
(Shri Fatima Puja, Istanbul, Turkey, 1993)
Shri Mataji at the Ladies public program in Tunis, 1994 (1994-1113)
1988-0814 Shri Fatima Puja from Sahaja Library on Vimeo.
Now, the principle of Gruha Lakshmi has been evolved and developed by the Divine: it is not a human being’s creation, and as you know, it resides in the left nabhi. The Gruha Lakshmi is the one that is represented in the life of Fatima who was the daughter of Mohammed Sahib. Now She is always born in a relationship to a guru which is of virginity, of purity. So She comes as a sister, or She comes as a daughter. ...
So we have Ali and his wife, Fatima, who incarnated on the principle of the left nabhi. She stayed in her house, in her household, and she observed what you call a kind of a purdah or nakaab as they call it, to cover her face – is a symbol that a woman who is a housewife has to save her chastity by covering her face, because she was a beautiful woman and they were born in a country which was very, very violent, and she would have been definitely attacked in case she had not lived in that kind of fashion. As you know, in the time of Christ, though Mary was Mahalakshmi’s incarnation, had to be a very, very potential personality and Christ did not want anybody to know what she was. But though she was in the house, she was Shakti so she allowed her sons, or actually ordered them, to fight those fanatics who were trying to deny the authority of her husband, and you know they - Hassan and Hussein - they were killed there. It’s a very beautiful thing how the Mahalakshmi tattwa of Sita took a form of Vishnumaya just to establish the beautiful principle of a housewife. Now She was very powerful, no doubt, and she knew that her children would be killed but these people are never killed, they never die, nor do they suffer – it’s a drama they have to play to show people how stupid they are.
(Shri Fatima Puja, Switzerland, 1988)
Fatima lost her two children and she was the embodiment of Gruha Lakshmi. She resides in our left Nabhi. So for all the diseases that are connected with the spleen, all the problems that are connected with your left Nabhi, can be only corrected by Fatima. So you have to keep Fatima awakened within yourself. That we are here in the Islamic culture, we can say this is place of Islamic culture and in the Islamic culture a housewife was given a very, very important place. ... So from Fatima’s life you have to know that She did not go out of Her house and She remained the housewife and She made Her two children grow up in such a manner that they had to fight the war against fanaticism. Her husband also was there. This is how a woman of a housewife is shown to be so powerful and though she’s in the house, though she is, looks to be just a mother, but how powerful she is!
(Shri Fatima Puja, Istanbul, Turkey, 1993)
Shri Mataji at the Ladies public program in Tunis, 1994 (1994-1113)
2.7.09
Bhavasagara
Advice given by H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi:
Bhavasagara is the ocean of illusion in which we live.
(2nd Public program, Melbourne, 9/3/83)
Now, there is the existence, there is the creation, creative force, and there is the evolutionary force - all inside the Virata state. Now, this is at the Vaikuntha state, we say, because this state is on the first reflection. It is not in us – or we cannot feel it, the Vaikuntha state, because it is in the first. Then another state was created, then third was created, then the fourth one is the Bhavasagara, is the state at which all of us were born.
First, in the fourth state, - now, can you think of a four strata personality which is facing a mirror? Now, which is the first one shows? - is the topmost. And that’s why the topmost shows is the Bhavasagara. But if you can go deep down into your state, you can feel all the other three. But first of all, the one which you can see and feel it, is the Bhavasagara. So, you are born in the Bhavasagara. At this state you are at the Bhavasagara state. At this Bhavasagara state, now, you are created and you have to evolve.
(Talk on Creation, New Delhi, 22/2/77)
So first He [God Almighty] desired and He wanted to create. So He had to have his aspect of creator being put in and the second aspect of creator (can you show?) is the, this yellow line that shows here is the Pingala Nadi, called as Adi Pingala, the primordial Pingala channel by which He has created this universe. Now the center of this figure you can find this green round circle and this one is the one, is the space in which He created. He created in this space and that’s why this space is called as Bhavasagara. Is the Ocean of Creation. Bhava is the one that is created. Bhu, Bhava means the one… exactly it is the one that is done. Bhava is done, means created. So the Creator then produces all the stars and all the galaxies, solar plexus, lunar plexuses, all the so-called mandalas. He does all that work.
(Talk at Caxton Hall, London, 11/6/79)
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. Swadisthan is the chakra which gives you first and foremost thing is the creativity. A person who is a Guru has to be creative by nature, if you are not a creative person you cannot become a Guru. For example, you are faced with disciples with whom you have to converse, you have to create a word of Divine magic to impress on the disciples or the people who are attracted towards you as Gurus to show that you have much more Divine magic than them.
(Guru Puja 1989)
Bhavasagara is the ocean of illusion in which we live.
(2nd Public program, Melbourne, 9/3/83)
Now, there is the existence, there is the creation, creative force, and there is the evolutionary force - all inside the Virata state. Now, this is at the Vaikuntha state, we say, because this state is on the first reflection. It is not in us – or we cannot feel it, the Vaikuntha state, because it is in the first. Then another state was created, then third was created, then the fourth one is the Bhavasagara, is the state at which all of us were born.
First, in the fourth state, - now, can you think of a four strata personality which is facing a mirror? Now, which is the first one shows? - is the topmost. And that’s why the topmost shows is the Bhavasagara. But if you can go deep down into your state, you can feel all the other three. But first of all, the one which you can see and feel it, is the Bhavasagara. So, you are born in the Bhavasagara. At this state you are at the Bhavasagara state. At this Bhavasagara state, now, you are created and you have to evolve.
(Talk on Creation, New Delhi, 22/2/77)
So first He [God Almighty] desired and He wanted to create. So He had to have his aspect of creator being put in and the second aspect of creator (can you show?) is the, this yellow line that shows here is the Pingala Nadi, called as Adi Pingala, the primordial Pingala channel by which He has created this universe. Now the center of this figure you can find this green round circle and this one is the one, is the space in which He created. He created in this space and that’s why this space is called as Bhavasagara. Is the Ocean of Creation. Bhava is the one that is created. Bhu, Bhava means the one… exactly it is the one that is done. Bhava is done, means created. So the Creator then produces all the stars and all the galaxies, solar plexus, lunar plexuses, all the so-called mandalas. He does all that work.
(Talk at Caxton Hall, London, 11/6/79)
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. Swadisthan is the chakra which gives you first and foremost thing is the creativity. A person who is a Guru has to be creative by nature, if you are not a creative person you cannot become a Guru. For example, you are faced with disciples with whom you have to converse, you have to create a word of Divine magic to impress on the disciples or the people who are attracted towards you as Gurus to show that you have much more Divine magic than them.
(Guru Puja 1989)
1.7.09
Guru Puja 1979
Sahaja Library
Today is the full Moon day, that’s why it is called as purnima. The guru has to be like a full moon, means completely growing, completely matured. There are sixteen kalas or the phases of the Moon, and when the complete purnima comes in, the full Moon day, all the sixteen kalas are completed. You also know that in the Vishuddhi chakra there are sixteen sub plexuses. When Krishna is described as Virata, He’s called as the Sampurna, the complete incarnation of Vishnu’s aspect, because He’s got the sixteen phases completely done. So today’s number is sixteen. Six plus one, seven.
Now we have to understand the importance of guru. Why should we have a guru when we have God? We’ve got Shakti, then why should we have a guru? What is the need to have a guru? Guru means the weight, the weight. We get our weight from the magnetic forces of the gravity of the Mother Earth. So guru means gravity, a gravity in a person. Why do we need a guru? Because to know God is easy, specially in Sahaja Yoga, to be one with Him. As soon as you get your Self-realization in Sahaja Yoga, the modern Sahaja Yoga, immediately you become entitled to give realizations to other. It was said that guru is the person who makes you meet the Divine. That’s not true, because any self-realized person in the Sahaja Yoga can raise the Kundalini and can give Self-realization to others, immediately after they have touched the Sahasrara or opened the Sahasrara. But normally a realized soul cannot do it. Any born realized soul cannot do it on its own, it has to have authority of Me as I am today
That’s why it was said that guru is a person who makes you meet God; he raises the Kundalini and makes you one with God. Because in those days when the gurus were self realized, when the gurus were realized, they had the authority and power of raising the Kundalini only after they had reached a very great state of evolution – complete purification, complete detachment.
So it was not possible for people to give realization when they just touched realized state. Most of the gurus in the olden days started by first cleansing the people. First cleanse them, one by one, raise the Kundalini, brought it to every chakra and then gave them realization. It was a different technique altogether. You can say it was a bullock cart technique.
That’s why one mantra was given for particular chakra where was the problem, where the Kundalini was stopping. For about, some people used to get it for even for 10 years they would work out on one chakra. I’ve known people who have been working on Agyna for 10 years, 20 years. But you know in Sahaja Yoga we clear it out just like that. That has something to do with your particular guna.
So the first conception that a person who makes you meet God is the guru. Has to be little bit advanced because for you now it’s a child's play to raise the Kundalini and make them one with the divine. But still you don’t become guru in the Sahaja Yoga terminology. Even if you have vikalpas, you have doubts about Sahaja Yoga still you can raise the Kundalini. Even when your chitta, attention, is not clear cut still you can.. the pure truth, how? How it has worked out that way, so beautifully?
It has worked out I would say at this juncture, maybe later on I will tell you. But its pure divine, which is not contaminated by whatever state you may be, its flowing, absolutely pure divine. With others it was different, they had to cleanse it, clear it out. As an instrument you are perfect, but as a guru you are not.
Whatever maybe your defects or whatever you maybe lacking, you raise your hands the Kundalini will vibrate at your beck and call. On your fingers it is going to vibrate tremendous power. You can ask anyone they’ll tell you they are surprised and jealous of you. They can’t understand that how by raising your fingers that you are perfect instruments because you are created by somebody very perfect. But you are not perfect gurus, that one has to understand.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Guru Puja, Dollis Hill, London, July 1979. (1979-0708)
Today is the full Moon day, that’s why it is called as purnima. The guru has to be like a full moon, means completely growing, completely matured. There are sixteen kalas or the phases of the Moon, and when the complete purnima comes in, the full Moon day, all the sixteen kalas are completed. You also know that in the Vishuddhi chakra there are sixteen sub plexuses. When Krishna is described as Virata, He’s called as the Sampurna, the complete incarnation of Vishnu’s aspect, because He’s got the sixteen phases completely done. So today’s number is sixteen. Six plus one, seven.
Now we have to understand the importance of guru. Why should we have a guru when we have God? We’ve got Shakti, then why should we have a guru? What is the need to have a guru? Guru means the weight, the weight. We get our weight from the magnetic forces of the gravity of the Mother Earth. So guru means gravity, a gravity in a person. Why do we need a guru? Because to know God is easy, specially in Sahaja Yoga, to be one with Him. As soon as you get your Self-realization in Sahaja Yoga, the modern Sahaja Yoga, immediately you become entitled to give realizations to other. It was said that guru is the person who makes you meet the Divine. That’s not true, because any self-realized person in the Sahaja Yoga can raise the Kundalini and can give Self-realization to others, immediately after they have touched the Sahasrara or opened the Sahasrara. But normally a realized soul cannot do it. Any born realized soul cannot do it on its own, it has to have authority of Me as I am today
That’s why it was said that guru is a person who makes you meet God; he raises the Kundalini and makes you one with God. Because in those days when the gurus were self realized, when the gurus were realized, they had the authority and power of raising the Kundalini only after they had reached a very great state of evolution – complete purification, complete detachment.
So it was not possible for people to give realization when they just touched realized state. Most of the gurus in the olden days started by first cleansing the people. First cleanse them, one by one, raise the Kundalini, brought it to every chakra and then gave them realization. It was a different technique altogether. You can say it was a bullock cart technique.
That’s why one mantra was given for particular chakra where was the problem, where the Kundalini was stopping. For about, some people used to get it for even for 10 years they would work out on one chakra. I’ve known people who have been working on Agyna for 10 years, 20 years. But you know in Sahaja Yoga we clear it out just like that. That has something to do with your particular guna.
So the first conception that a person who makes you meet God is the guru. Has to be little bit advanced because for you now it’s a child's play to raise the Kundalini and make them one with the divine. But still you don’t become guru in the Sahaja Yoga terminology. Even if you have vikalpas, you have doubts about Sahaja Yoga still you can raise the Kundalini. Even when your chitta, attention, is not clear cut still you can.. the pure truth, how? How it has worked out that way, so beautifully?
It has worked out I would say at this juncture, maybe later on I will tell you. But its pure divine, which is not contaminated by whatever state you may be, its flowing, absolutely pure divine. With others it was different, they had to cleanse it, clear it out. As an instrument you are perfect, but as a guru you are not.
Whatever maybe your defects or whatever you maybe lacking, you raise your hands the Kundalini will vibrate at your beck and call. On your fingers it is going to vibrate tremendous power. You can ask anyone they’ll tell you they are surprised and jealous of you. They can’t understand that how by raising your fingers that you are perfect instruments because you are created by somebody very perfect. But you are not perfect gurus, that one has to understand.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Guru Puja, Dollis Hill, London, July 1979. (1979-0708)
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