The Content Within

Navaratri 1989 from Sahaja Library

Now it was very spontaneously decided that we should have the Devi Puja in England. And this is the place where really Devi Puja should be, because it's the place of Sadashiva and where Adi Shakti should be worshipped. We have to today understand that why do we do Devi Puja? What is the reason for this Devi Puja? What do we get out of it? What are we supposed to achieve in our contents within ourselves? The first thing is that Kundalini is the Devi. She's the reflection of the Adi Shakti. So when you worship Devi, first you worship also your own Kundalini, by giving Her credit because She has given you this realization. It's much deeper understanding than normally people have about the Devi Puja, because they are not realized souls. Their Kundalini not is awakened. So normally when they do Devi Puja it's for the purpose of getting realization, so that the Devi should be pleased - prasanna - and should give them realization, or must give them a chance to get to somebody who will give them realization.

But you are at a different level now. So it's more of a thanksgiving to your own Kundalini and to Adi Shakti, glorifying that whatever has happened so miraculously is because of the kundalini which was within you, which was reflected by the Adi Shakti. But one has to know that only we are realized souls is not the point, only that we can feel the vibrations is not the point, that we can give realizations to other is also not the point. Then what is it? Very important - it's the content within us. What do we have within us is the point. These are all the expressions of what we have within. Supposing somebody is generous, then know that he's a rich man, otherwise he cannot be. So the content within us we have to see. And when we start seeing the content, where do we find in the nature there is real content? We say the sea; sea is there you see, full of water. So much of water it sucks in from everywhere, and then it allows itself to be boiled by the sun and gives rain. But sea is the lowest level, stands at the lowest level and sucks in all the water from everywhere.

In the same way a Sahaja yogi must know that to be really achieving more content, we have to be not at a higher level outside. It's said in the Bible, "You have to be meek," but I think it was not explained to people. Only the strong people can be meek, secured people can be meek, only the rich in essence can be meek; not the people who are insecured, because they are insecured, how can they be meek? And not the people whom we think are rich, so-called, because if they are rich they are not generous, they are not satisfied, they are not philanthropic, so they are not rich. They are still greedy beggars.

So the content within us is to be seen. What is our content? You love me, I love you - it's very good. But when you love me, you have to know that there are certain qualities which are very loveable in a Sahaja yogi. Actually people get lost even after Sahaja Yoga. They think they can get over everything, they're perfectly all right, and they are thrown overboard. So when we say that we have to be meek, this is a content, the humility is a content. So try to do that, try to be humble with someone. You'll like yourself. You'll enjoy that quality within this that "You see, I'm humbler than another person. ...

You have to care for your own quality, for your own inner capacity to suck in...

So you have Adi Shakti with you, whose power is all this Divine. So you are at such an advantageous position. But first you must realize. So when we say we should have content, then the vessel has to be strong. Otherwise everything will break. And this strength is the one you should know, that you are completely protected. No one can harm you. They'll try - this has to be, otherwise how will you test whether you are absolutely safe or not? So somebody has to try some tricks just to see, and for you to watch how you are successful. Without doing anything you'll be amazed, everything will be cleared out. And you'll not know how things have cleared out, how things have worked out. So the strength comes. ...

The negativity that is around you is not so dangerous as whatever is in you. Today it has become subtler. The negativity has become subtler. It's entered into your being, and be careful - it may anytime topple you. Even one step you do not put right when you are climbing up, you can go down. So one has to be alert, without tension. You have to be alert without tension. And the alertness grows. When the light goes within you start seeing it. Immediately you see, "Oh, that's it! So I, the so and so - that's it." And you know how to correct it and you know how to put it right. And immediately you take to it. Like a good sari now has something fallen on it, immediately you clean it. In the same way we have to be very, very alert - daksha is the word for that. ...

So you have to kill your negativity, you've become as powerful as your Mother. No negativity can touch you. So you can give realization, you've got that power very well; and you can watch your defects more than that of others. And you try to put them out because they're not good, they're not for your benevolence, they're not for your ascent. By that nobody is going to gain. At the collective level it just works automatically. ...

Now another quality that you have: to believe that the Goddess is working through you. In you She resides, you have got the powers, it's penetrated into you - is that you can comfort people, you can cure them, you can give them peace, you can give them bliss. But then what Goddess has done in you is that She has given you the bliss, you have become bliss. Like there's say a cool air-conditioner, you get the cool from there. In the same way if you are emitting bliss, you give bliss to others. But there is no bliss within yourself, but what bliss you can give to others? So a Sahaja yogi has to be a blissful like the Goddess. ...

So to leave certain things into the hands of the Divine is what we call as surrender. And that much of is, if done, then most of your things will work out so miraculously. I mean, you'll be amazed, "How, Mother, how it is worked out? We never expected, how things we got it done?" There's a very, very big force working: the Force, the Energy which is the Source of all the energies, which has created this great universe, which has created this Mother Earth, created this sun, which has created you very delicately. This Force is working. And that Force is looking after you, so proud of you that you have come on the stage now.

So as it is we are today praying to the Goddess that "Help us to fight our negativity within us. Give us Your tiger so that we fight, give us Your lion so we fight." Let us fight all these horrible animals that are within us, these horrible haunting things that are within us, these horrible conditionings we have - you have to get rid of it. Still, still if you watch yourself, lots of conditionings are there, lots things, you see. If you see, there are covered with very thin curtains and you don't see it, but they are there. But let the tiger enter into all these dens and find out. And you enjoy that, riding over the horse, riding over the lion, and riding over the tiger - like a Goddess, why not? After all, children get all the heritage of the mother, don't they? So you have all the heritage available to you. But you have to be worthy, in the sense that you have to know that you are worthy, that's all. You have to just know that you are worthy and that you can do it.

So again today we are here to do this puja, which would have been in Perth but somehow or other it was not so, and is luck for you to have this puja. And it is something of a very deeper nature, very subtler nature. Like your blood it is, because on these seven days they say the Goddess has to wear the red all the time, because it's blood. And the first color you see in the womb of your mother is red - it's the security. One side is the red rag, another side it is the security. So for you it is the security around you. Every place you go, it is there - just feel it. You have entered I must say, entered the Kingdom of God, no doubt about it. You all have entered, so beautifully you are settled down.

May God bless you.


H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala, extracts from Navaratri Puja 1989

(1989-1008)