Guru Puja with Shri Mataji

Guru Puja 1979 in Sahaja Library

Guru Puja 1980 in Sahaja Library

Shri Mahalakshmi Puja with Shri Mataji

Maria Montessori style of education

"All right. So for education I've already given instructions and I've already talked about it that we are not to make a big ado out of this Maria Montessori and this and that. We are going to have Sahaja Yoga schools. All nonsense. Because I have seen those who are teaching in Maria Montessori style, the women have become horrible. Was amazed the amount of ego they have developed in themselves. So you become Sahaja Yoga teachers and it's going to be a Sahaja Yoga school. In - Sydney or in Melbourne, we started the school in Melbourne very nicely and now they are going to have it in Sydney the same way. And openly it is a Sahaja Yoga school, there's no fear about it. Openly it's a Sahaja Yoga school, and then people have achieved so much out of it. We - why should we take any garb like that? We should go all out to say, "It's a Sahaja Yoga school." So you, the teachers also become experts in Sahaja Yoga, so they have to be good Sahaja Yogis, Yoginis or Sahaja Yogis. They should not be egoistical, there should be no ego in them, they should not be catching, anybody who's catching is not a good teacher for Sahaja Yoga. It's not like - in a Maria Montessori school that in the night the teacher drinks, smokes and morning time she's a Maria Montessori teacher. Here you have to be a Sahaja Yogini first and then only you can teach in a Sahaja Yoga school. You have to have that quality, that is very important, as it is important that we should get students who are Realized Souls or who can get Realization."

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Shri Kartikeya Puja, Germany, 1986 (1986-0713)

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Shri Devi Puja with Shri Mataji

Bija Mantras

Bija Mantras 1978 by Sahaja Library

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi speaking in London in 1978 on Bija Mantras, Shri Lalita Chakra, Shri Chakra and the Shaktis on Kundalini. (1978-1014)

Shri Mataji visits the Ocean: Cairns, Australia, 1990

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi visits the Ocean in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. March 1990.

Crown of Thorns starfish
When Shri Mataji came up to Cairns to stay with us for a public programme, She was supposed to leave on the second day in the morning. However, She decided to stay and get a later flight and go out to the Great Barrier Reef. We got a jet-boat out to Green Island, a little island just off the coast, then She went on one of these semi-submersibles and put Her attention on the reef. I had been explaining to Her how the crown of thorns starfish was destroying the reef. It was in disproportionate numbers and it was eating the reef away. She said at that point She would put Her attention on it and they would just disappear.

During Shri Mataji’s visit, She met the mayor of the city, who told Her about an alarming problem that had the whole country concerned and which had worsened over the previous ten years. Due to the delicate nature of the ecosystem, the authorities had no biological or chemical solution to control the starfish, short of physically removing them. So the enormous reef was gradually being destroyed. Within our lifetime, little would be left. These starfish are very large and have a body about the size of a dinner plate. They have ten ‘arms’ that come out from the body and are all covered in thorns, which is why they are called the crown of thorns starfish. They live on live coral and what had happened over about twenty years was their numbers became plague proportions and they moved like a swarm over coral and they ate all the living coral polyps in their path and left the dead bones of the coral there. The scientists were worried that the Great Barrier Reef would die.

Shri Mataji told the mayor that once your powers are awakened through Self Realization you can have an influence on your environment. The mayor was a little sceptical. A day or two later news broke in Australia that something incredible was happening in Queensland. Without warning or explanation, tens of thousands of the crown of thorn starfish had been found dead, floating on the surface of the water above the reef. Shri Mataji just said we should tell the mayor to have more faith in his powers.
After Shri Mataji left, there was an article in the paper saying they just didn’t know where these starfish had gone to, but they had just disappeared.
Kay M.

Meditate and Distribute

And the more you find something in your meditation, the more you want to go and distribute it to others. That has to be. If that does not come into you then it has not worked out; there is no purity; there is some sort of a bias. In that individual pursuit, whatever you find, you want to enjoy it with others, you want to give it to others. This is the sign of the person who has been really meditative. The one, who has been meditative and has not been able to distribute what he has found is cheating himself and cheating others as well.

Because that joy that you receive in your meditation has to be distributed. Has to be given. Has to be shown. It should flow in your being as the light radiates from every illumined lamp. You don't have to take a vow to say that this is an enlightened light. In the same way a saint should not have to be certified that he is a saint. The depth you achieve within yourself spreads all over, it is such an action and reaction.

The deeper you become, the radiation is much more. You don't have to spend too much time on meditation. But whatever time you spend, whatever you gain, has to be visible outside --How you radiate and how you give it to others. That's the quality of the saints you have to be. Unless and until you become deeper, we cannot save other Sahaja Yogis. And we cannot save those who are not Sahaja yogis. You have to rise higher and higher to pull the whole curtain up. Those who try to rise higher pull the whole thing upward, and they give a pull to every one who ascend with them.

H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Shri Devi Puja, Australia, 14/3/83