English tv interview with H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
, Cambridge, 1985
29.1.10
28.1.10
Spirit
Spirit is the most precious thing that we have within ourselves. The preciousness of your spirit is immeasurable, and that is why it is called the thing of eternal value. Because it is infinite, we cannot measure.
Now, God the Almighty we say is Sat-Chit-Anand. Sat means the truth. The truth we understand in human terminology is relative. But the truth I am telling you is the absolute, from where all the relations start. An example I will tell you, how to understand. This Earth has got oceans and rivers and all kinds of waters you can say, but the Earth is enveloping all of them. If the Mother Earth was not there, there could not have been any of this existing. So we can say that the Mother Earth is the support of all the things that exist on earth. She is enveloping us. In the atoms she exists, in the big mountains she exists because the elements are part of that Earth. In the same way is God Almighty. The Sat part of Him, the truth, is the support of all the things that are created or not created.
Another example you try to understand, how the Sat is the Purush, is the God who does not take actual part in the creation itself, but is a catalyst. The example can be like this: I am doing all the work, I am creating everything, but I have a light in my hand. Without the light, I cannot do anything. The light is the support of My work, but the light does not in any way do anything about what I do. In the same way, God Almighty is just the witness, like a light.
Another of His qualities is the Chit. It is attention. When it is excited, or when it is pulsated, then through His attention He starts creating. And He has a third quality which we call Anand. Anand is the feeling of joy that He gets by His perception, by His creation, the joy that He gets. All these three things - Sat-Chit-Anand - when they are at a zero point where they meet, then they become the Principle of Brahma. When these three things are one, where there is complete silence, nothing is created and nothing is manifested, but the joy is one with the attention because the attention has reached to merge into joy, and joy has become one with the truth.
This combination of three qualities separate and create three types of phenomena. Anand, the joy, inwards merged with His creation and with the truth. When joy starts moving with the creation, the creation starts, moving down from, first, the sat or truth stage to asat, that is untruth, to Maya, that is illusion. And at that time, the creation starts working out and when it starts working out, the joy, which is on the left-hand side, the emotional side of God, also starts becoming grosser and grosser, until they reach a stage where there is, we can say, a complete darkness of tamo guna, the complete cessation of the creativity and the complete sleeping of the joy.
Is it clearer? You will understand now Mahalakshmi, Mahakali and Mahasaraswati. That is why Christ said, "I am the light" - because He represents the Sat, the light of God. And when the light of God becomes absolutely gross, dormant or dead, then it reaches the second stage of creation. All these things go deeper and deeper and become grosser. That is one part of the parabola.
Now another part of the parabola starts when you are attaining back to God Almighty. That process now gradually starts becoming higher and higher, subtler and subtler, and finer and finer. In that refinement, ultimately the light works for the evolutionary process. Gradually the grosser parts start becoming enlightened. You find the lower animal is not much enlightened as the higher animal. Gradually even the joy starts becoming subtler and subtler. We can call it beautiful; human joys are much more beautiful than that of animals. So the joy also start changing their manifestation, in the sense you start more and more and wider range of joy comes into your hands. For example, to a dog beauty has no meaning, decency has no meaning. So at a stage when you reach when you are a human being, to that extent you develop your sat, which is awareness. To that extent you also develop your joy, and to that extent you also develop creative action. Now you see how the creativity of God passes into the hands of man, when he turns out, how the joy of God passes into the hands of man, and how His light comes into the heart of man as spirit.
It is beautiful. I have just touched when you have become a human being. People say human beings have a soul - not that others do not have - but light starts burning in a human being only. Because of that light we talk of religion, we talk of God and we talk of eternal things. But it is really a precarious stage that is to be human being, because at this stage you have to jump only a little bit that side, while you start jumping this side and that side. Because this jumping is not possible unless and until the awareness reaches that stage where you become independent, and in that independence you find your own course. This is the position. Because your Self cannot be yours until and unless you are independent. As long as you are slave or under bondage or something that is gross, how can you enjoy that eternal joy that is within you?
So it is for you to expose yourself more to that joy by opening out your Self more and more and getting subtler and cleaner, so that you feel that Divine. Once you know this point, that after getting Self-realization, unless and until these three things start merging together, you cannot feel that you have established yourself. The joy within you must be felt through your awareness, otherwise you cannot see it. Suppose you have no eyes, then how can you see? If you were not aware to see Me, how will you see Me? If you are not aware to hear Me, how will you understand Me? And once that awareness comes to you, then only the joy awakens within you; because only through these subtle feeling of the awareness you are going to absorb the joy.
Just now you felt, you said, "What a beautiful thing it is!" You felt very happy. You are feeling the joy of creation at this stage, and man is the summit of creation. But only the crown part is such a little thing, very little it is; very little distance it crosses in no time. But the only thing is that three things have to be combined. And that is why you find even if you get Self-realization you do not feel the silence, because you have not become the light. You do not feel the joy because you have not become the anand. That is the left side of you.
In everything there is joy as a human being. You start seeing joy in patterns. You see a key box, you open it out, you see the patterns, you call it the veneer. You call the roughness and things, the smoothness and the harmony of it. You start feeling the matter, the joy of His creation. But after realization you start feeling the joy of creation. The summit of creation is the human being, and that is why, for a Sahaja yogi, he must realize if he tries to be friendly or interested or involved in a person who is at a lower level, he can never get the joy from that person. The only thing that he can do is to raise that person higher to his own level, and make him also feel the same joy as you are getting. Supposing a man who is an artist marries a blind girl, what is the use? She cannot enjoy the arts created by this man. In the same way if you are interested in your family people, in your relations, in your friends, the first thing and the finest and greatest thing you can do is to give them Self-realization, which means the joy of your spirit.
Expose them to the joy of their spirit, which is the most precious thing. And this is the reason why people flicker and they fiddle and they feel uneasy, and they lose their joy very easily at small things that has parts of it, and finished.
It is like the ocean before you, where I am there and I want you all to come into it and enjoy. It is all for you. The whole thing was created for your enjoyment. You have to become subtler and subtler. You are wasting lot of time here on very gross things, you have noticed.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Nirmala Yoga, no.16, July-August 1983:10-12
Now, God the Almighty we say is Sat-Chit-Anand. Sat means the truth. The truth we understand in human terminology is relative. But the truth I am telling you is the absolute, from where all the relations start. An example I will tell you, how to understand. This Earth has got oceans and rivers and all kinds of waters you can say, but the Earth is enveloping all of them. If the Mother Earth was not there, there could not have been any of this existing. So we can say that the Mother Earth is the support of all the things that exist on earth. She is enveloping us. In the atoms she exists, in the big mountains she exists because the elements are part of that Earth. In the same way is God Almighty. The Sat part of Him, the truth, is the support of all the things that are created or not created.
Another example you try to understand, how the Sat is the Purush, is the God who does not take actual part in the creation itself, but is a catalyst. The example can be like this: I am doing all the work, I am creating everything, but I have a light in my hand. Without the light, I cannot do anything. The light is the support of My work, but the light does not in any way do anything about what I do. In the same way, God Almighty is just the witness, like a light.
Another of His qualities is the Chit. It is attention. When it is excited, or when it is pulsated, then through His attention He starts creating. And He has a third quality which we call Anand. Anand is the feeling of joy that He gets by His perception, by His creation, the joy that He gets. All these three things - Sat-Chit-Anand - when they are at a zero point where they meet, then they become the Principle of Brahma. When these three things are one, where there is complete silence, nothing is created and nothing is manifested, but the joy is one with the attention because the attention has reached to merge into joy, and joy has become one with the truth.
This combination of three qualities separate and create three types of phenomena. Anand, the joy, inwards merged with His creation and with the truth. When joy starts moving with the creation, the creation starts, moving down from, first, the sat or truth stage to asat, that is untruth, to Maya, that is illusion. And at that time, the creation starts working out and when it starts working out, the joy, which is on the left-hand side, the emotional side of God, also starts becoming grosser and grosser, until they reach a stage where there is, we can say, a complete darkness of tamo guna, the complete cessation of the creativity and the complete sleeping of the joy.
Is it clearer? You will understand now Mahalakshmi, Mahakali and Mahasaraswati. That is why Christ said, "I am the light" - because He represents the Sat, the light of God. And when the light of God becomes absolutely gross, dormant or dead, then it reaches the second stage of creation. All these things go deeper and deeper and become grosser. That is one part of the parabola.
Now another part of the parabola starts when you are attaining back to God Almighty. That process now gradually starts becoming higher and higher, subtler and subtler, and finer and finer. In that refinement, ultimately the light works for the evolutionary process. Gradually the grosser parts start becoming enlightened. You find the lower animal is not much enlightened as the higher animal. Gradually even the joy starts becoming subtler and subtler. We can call it beautiful; human joys are much more beautiful than that of animals. So the joy also start changing their manifestation, in the sense you start more and more and wider range of joy comes into your hands. For example, to a dog beauty has no meaning, decency has no meaning. So at a stage when you reach when you are a human being, to that extent you develop your sat, which is awareness. To that extent you also develop your joy, and to that extent you also develop creative action. Now you see how the creativity of God passes into the hands of man, when he turns out, how the joy of God passes into the hands of man, and how His light comes into the heart of man as spirit.
It is beautiful. I have just touched when you have become a human being. People say human beings have a soul - not that others do not have - but light starts burning in a human being only. Because of that light we talk of religion, we talk of God and we talk of eternal things. But it is really a precarious stage that is to be human being, because at this stage you have to jump only a little bit that side, while you start jumping this side and that side. Because this jumping is not possible unless and until the awareness reaches that stage where you become independent, and in that independence you find your own course. This is the position. Because your Self cannot be yours until and unless you are independent. As long as you are slave or under bondage or something that is gross, how can you enjoy that eternal joy that is within you?
So it is for you to expose yourself more to that joy by opening out your Self more and more and getting subtler and cleaner, so that you feel that Divine. Once you know this point, that after getting Self-realization, unless and until these three things start merging together, you cannot feel that you have established yourself. The joy within you must be felt through your awareness, otherwise you cannot see it. Suppose you have no eyes, then how can you see? If you were not aware to see Me, how will you see Me? If you are not aware to hear Me, how will you understand Me? And once that awareness comes to you, then only the joy awakens within you; because only through these subtle feeling of the awareness you are going to absorb the joy.
Just now you felt, you said, "What a beautiful thing it is!" You felt very happy. You are feeling the joy of creation at this stage, and man is the summit of creation. But only the crown part is such a little thing, very little it is; very little distance it crosses in no time. But the only thing is that three things have to be combined. And that is why you find even if you get Self-realization you do not feel the silence, because you have not become the light. You do not feel the joy because you have not become the anand. That is the left side of you.
In everything there is joy as a human being. You start seeing joy in patterns. You see a key box, you open it out, you see the patterns, you call it the veneer. You call the roughness and things, the smoothness and the harmony of it. You start feeling the matter, the joy of His creation. But after realization you start feeling the joy of creation. The summit of creation is the human being, and that is why, for a Sahaja yogi, he must realize if he tries to be friendly or interested or involved in a person who is at a lower level, he can never get the joy from that person. The only thing that he can do is to raise that person higher to his own level, and make him also feel the same joy as you are getting. Supposing a man who is an artist marries a blind girl, what is the use? She cannot enjoy the arts created by this man. In the same way if you are interested in your family people, in your relations, in your friends, the first thing and the finest and greatest thing you can do is to give them Self-realization, which means the joy of your spirit.
Expose them to the joy of their spirit, which is the most precious thing. And this is the reason why people flicker and they fiddle and they feel uneasy, and they lose their joy very easily at small things that has parts of it, and finished.
It is like the ocean before you, where I am there and I want you all to come into it and enjoy. It is all for you. The whole thing was created for your enjoyment. You have to become subtler and subtler. You are wasting lot of time here on very gross things, you have noticed.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Nirmala Yoga, no.16, July-August 1983:10-12
27.1.10
Jesus Christ among the Doctors
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi comments on the painting Christ among the doctors (1506) by Albrecht Dürer
.
23.1.10
22.1.10
"Suddenly I felt so happy"
Giving realisation in a shopping centre in Toronto, Canada.
thanks to Sahaja Yoga Blog
21.1.10
The Eternal Family
At a Sahaja yoga seminar a Sahaja yogi asked about his situation where his wife or family were not Sahaja Yogis. Shri Mataji answered:
I’m just the same… (applause) Now fourteen years have past it’s just the same and only thing you can do is to prove it. Prove it by your own behavior, by your own example. If they are honest they’ll accept it. If they are dishonest forget them. This so called family is temporary. This is the eternal family you have.
(1984-0506)
Jesus Christ as reported in Matthew. 12.46-50
"But He answered and said to the one who told Him, “Who is My mother and who are My brothers?” And He stretched out His hand toward His disciples and said, “Here are My mother and My brothers! For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”
also in the Gospel of Thomas. 99
His disciples told him: Your brothers and your mother are standing outside.
Jesus responded:
These here who do the will of my Father are my brothers and my mother. These are the ones who will enter the Kingdom of my Father.
and in the Gospel of the Ebionites, Jesus is told that his mother and brothers are standing outside, to which he responded:
"Who is my mother and who are my brothers?"
And he stretched forward his hand towards his disciples and said:
"These are my brothers and my mother and my sisters who do the will of my Father."
I’m just the same… (applause) Now fourteen years have past it’s just the same and only thing you can do is to prove it. Prove it by your own behavior, by your own example. If they are honest they’ll accept it. If they are dishonest forget them. This so called family is temporary. This is the eternal family you have.
(1984-0506)
Jesus Christ as reported in Matthew. 12.46-50
"But He answered and said to the one who told Him, “Who is My mother and who are My brothers?” And He stretched out His hand toward His disciples and said, “Here are My mother and My brothers! For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”
also in the Gospel of Thomas. 99
His disciples told him: Your brothers and your mother are standing outside.
Jesus responded:
These here who do the will of my Father are my brothers and my mother. These are the ones who will enter the Kingdom of my Father.
and in the Gospel of the Ebionites, Jesus is told that his mother and brothers are standing outside, to which he responded:
"Who is my mother and who are my brothers?"
And he stretched forward his hand towards his disciples and said:
"These are my brothers and my mother and my sisters who do the will of my Father."
18.1.10
Remember always
.. remember always that Gauri created Ganesha from Her own Vibrations.
Ganesha has no father.
And I have created you as Sahaja Yogis only by myself.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Jaisinghpur, India, April 9, 1990
(from a conversation with Rajiv Kumar)
Most religions and spiritual movements historically have had a period of debate on governance issues during and after the founding teacher's withdrawal from the world. Entwined with those governance issues is the related issue of the involvement in the movement, the sangha, of members of the teacher's family, both of the teacher's generation, and subsequent generations. Should those family members have an exalted status, over and above that of the devotees? Should they be regarded in the same way as the teacher, as Divine? If so, what should be the criteria for bestowing that Divine status. Have they given Realisation?
(JN)
Ganesha has no father.
And I have created you as Sahaja Yogis only by myself.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Jaisinghpur, India, April 9, 1990
(from a conversation with Rajiv Kumar)
Most religions and spiritual movements historically have had a period of debate on governance issues during and after the founding teacher's withdrawal from the world. Entwined with those governance issues is the related issue of the involvement in the movement, the sangha, of members of the teacher's family, both of the teacher's generation, and subsequent generations. Should those family members have an exalted status, over and above that of the devotees? Should they be regarded in the same way as the teacher, as Divine? If so, what should be the criteria for bestowing that Divine status. Have they given Realisation?
(JN)
16.1.10
The negativity within
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.
Now this was the work of the Goddess before. Goddess used to give enlightenment, and Goddess used to be alert for you. She would sit like a tigress for Her children. They are praying, they are doing puja, they are doing some sort of a homa, havana, so the Goddess would sit down, protect them from all negativity coming, all rakshasas coming, kill them, this, do that. But that stage is gone now. Now She’s entered into you.
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. You don't have to worry. It comes to culmination and a person goes out; as if somebody runs up like a blind fellow on a cliff and jumps, jumps down. You don't have to worry too much about this. It just works. You have seen it has worked that way.
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 (if) there is no bliss within yourself, what bliss can you give to others? So a Sahaja yogi has to be blissful like the Goddess.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Navaratri Puja, Margate, England, 1989
(1989-1008)
Now this was the work of the Goddess before. Goddess used to give enlightenment, and Goddess used to be alert for you. She would sit like a tigress for Her children. They are praying, they are doing puja, they are doing some sort of a homa, havana, so the Goddess would sit down, protect them from all negativity coming, all rakshasas coming, kill them, this, do that. But that stage is gone now. Now She’s entered into you.
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. You don't have to worry. It comes to culmination and a person goes out; as if somebody runs up like a blind fellow on a cliff and jumps, jumps down. You don't have to worry too much about this. It just works. You have seen it has worked that way.
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 (if) there is no bliss within yourself, what bliss can you give to others? So a Sahaja yogi has to be blissful like the Goddess.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
, extract from Navaratri Puja, Margate, England, 1989 (1989-1008)
12.1.10
Lions and tigers
So I have to make you understand that today, please have full introspection, soul searching. Find out what’s wrong with us. Do not pamper your ego, because ego makes you idiotic – that you must have seen. We have some people in Sahaja Yoga who are like that, idiots, but they think no end of themselves. We all know that. We have to have some buffoons also in the circus. But we have to have lions and tigers. What impresses the people are the lions and the tigers, and not the buffoons. So it is important, let us have the introspection and see for ourselves how much we have done for Sahaja Yoga.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Navaratri Puja 1990 (1990-0923)
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Navaratri Puja 1990 (1990-0923)
Absolute truth in Nirvikalpa
So, the relationship with God if it has to establish, we have to become first of all the spirit; then only this relation can be established. One may certify oneself, “I am this, I am that” but it’s no good, it is of no use; because this human body is given to you. Imagine what this divine Power must have done to make you a human being – how gently, carefully, beautifully you are made a human being. And now, why this human body you have got it? What are we using it for? We must evaluate our human life, what is it for? Is it for just insurance or I don’t know what else they do; but is it for something, that we become the light of the world?
So this light of the spirit spreads in the attention, and the attention becomes dynamic, active, works out, it’s very alert and extremely punctual. Then this attention doesn’t get bored at all. People don’t know what is boredom is, because this boredom comes when your attention becomes tired. But here the attention is full of light, so they don’t know what is boredom is.
The second thing that is the nature of spirit is that it tells you the truth, the absolute truth, nothing but the truth. Anything that these chaitanya lahiris tell you, when you are matured enough, not before that; when your connection is complete – otherwise halfway you are connected and halfway you’re not, then no – but when you are mature: that is the state of nirvikalpa. When you become that, then your attention is absolutely correct, your vibrations are correct and the report is absolutely correct, and what information you get is hundred percent truth; so the truth about anyone.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from 2nd Public Program, Madras (Chennai
), 7/12/91
So this light of the spirit spreads in the attention, and the attention becomes dynamic, active, works out, it’s very alert and extremely punctual. Then this attention doesn’t get bored at all. People don’t know what is boredom is, because this boredom comes when your attention becomes tired. But here the attention is full of light, so they don’t know what is boredom is.
The second thing that is the nature of spirit is that it tells you the truth, the absolute truth, nothing but the truth. Anything that these chaitanya lahiris tell you, when you are matured enough, not before that; when your connection is complete – otherwise halfway you are connected and halfway you’re not, then no – but when you are mature: that is the state of nirvikalpa. When you become that, then your attention is absolutely correct, your vibrations are correct and the report is absolutely correct, and what information you get is hundred percent truth; so the truth about anyone.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from 2nd Public Program, Madras (Chennai
), 7/12/91
10.1.10
At Laxmi's
In the frame of the year of India in Russia (2009), inspired by the experience of Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod collective of Sahaja Yogis decided to organize a Public Program, not in the form of a 2-hours concert with giving Self-Realization (as we had done before), but in the form of a parlour in an Indian style presenting different kinds of Indian art. On Sunday, December 13, 2009, a 4-hours program entitled “At Laxmi’s. An evening in an Indian style” was conducted in a cozy café in the centre of our city. “At Laxmi’s” – a Public Program in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
1.1.10
A subtler understanding
... we have to now jump into another realm of a subtler understanding of Sahaja Yoga.
First we are worried about our families, our children, our households; then, our marriages. One after another all these questions came up, and we were concerned about all these things; little, little things. Then we also got concerned about the ashrams which we were running: the problems of the ashram, what we have been doing, how we have been facing the problems, how people are creating problems. That’s how our humanity started acquiring a subtler understanding. And then we also realized that we are blessed by God, that there’s something great that is always looking after us, some higher Force, some special Attention is there about us. This is what we realized.
Today I was explaining how it happens, that how we realize that God is helping us too. Any problem is an effect of some sort of a cause – every problem. Like Mona wrote a letter that she was driving in a motorway and the car went out of control, and the brake would not act. And there was a car coming from the right, car coming from the left, cars going through in front and behind. And she felt that they’ll be finished – two of them were traveling, two Sahaja yoginis. So the cause was the car or the brake or whatever it was, the mechanism, and the effect was all the problem. So now, how to overcome that problem? Supposing you try to neutralize the effect, you cannot, because cause is still there. You try to improve the cause, it doesn’t work out. Then what to do? So the easiest thing is to cross the cause, to ascend over, to go beyond the cause; so the cause does not exist for you, so the effect does not exist for you. As long as the cause exists in your attention, the effect will be there. So what did she do? She just prayed to me, just thought of me that “Mother, now it’s my last chance” – that’s all. So the cause disappeared, because you go beyond it. And the effect also disappeared, and she was surprised.
So you must ascend away from the cause.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Christmas Puja, England, 1984 (1984-1123)
First we are worried about our families, our children, our households; then, our marriages. One after another all these questions came up, and we were concerned about all these things; little, little things. Then we also got concerned about the ashrams which we were running: the problems of the ashram, what we have been doing, how we have been facing the problems, how people are creating problems. That’s how our humanity started acquiring a subtler understanding. And then we also realized that we are blessed by God, that there’s something great that is always looking after us, some higher Force, some special Attention is there about us. This is what we realized.
Today I was explaining how it happens, that how we realize that God is helping us too. Any problem is an effect of some sort of a cause – every problem. Like Mona wrote a letter that she was driving in a motorway and the car went out of control, and the brake would not act. And there was a car coming from the right, car coming from the left, cars going through in front and behind. And she felt that they’ll be finished – two of them were traveling, two Sahaja yoginis. So the cause was the car or the brake or whatever it was, the mechanism, and the effect was all the problem. So now, how to overcome that problem? Supposing you try to neutralize the effect, you cannot, because cause is still there. You try to improve the cause, it doesn’t work out. Then what to do? So the easiest thing is to cross the cause, to ascend over, to go beyond the cause; so the cause does not exist for you, so the effect does not exist for you. As long as the cause exists in your attention, the effect will be there. So what did she do? She just prayed to me, just thought of me that “Mother, now it’s my last chance” – that’s all. So the cause disappeared, because you go beyond it. And the effect also disappeared, and she was surprised.
So you must ascend away from the cause.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Christmas Puja, England, 1984 (1984-1123)
Do you talk big?
I have to really make a very, very straightforward appeal to you that: Now, grow within yourself. Are you magnanimous, are you generous, are you systematic? Are you impressive, are you kind, are you collective? Are you attached to all these nonsensical things still? Do you talk big, do you give big lectures? Humble down yourself, and then you’ll see your greatness. Unless and until you put your head down to your heart, how will you see your Mother?
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Christmas Puja, England, 1984 (1984-1123)
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Christmas Puja, England, 1984 (1984-1123)
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