Manas

Advice by H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi:

Through our conditionings, through our fears we have a mind of our own. Now mind is to be divided into two. The English mind is different from the Sanskrit manas. Manas is whatever is the superego in you. Whatever is condition within you, is manas, and the ego is different. So there is a superego and ego to a mind, out of which the superego, the mind, it starts forming habits. (1980-0714)

First we desire and then we act. Now this power, right side power, is expressed within us as right sympathetic nervous system. Science has come from the same, science is in the gross, these are all subtle things that are within us. Now this right side power which exists within us, gives us the power for our mental and physical capacity to act. Now this action takes place when we desire something, we want to implement that desire then we go into action. One has to understand what sort of a power is this. This power is called as prana shakti in Sanskrit. Prana, and the another one, the left one as mana shakti is the power of the emotions or can say of the mind, but you see English language is not so clear-cut about it. So I would say mana shakti and the prana shakti, these are the two powers that exist within us and we start using them as left and right, we can say like a brake and an accelerator and then we become the master of driving. But while becoming that we make mistakes. (1982-0514)

You must have a very kind and sensitive heart. It’s very important. That is the way the dharma of the mana works out, very kind, never to be harsh, never to be punishing, never to be judging others, but you have to be very kind and gentle with others. Unless and until it is very necessary to tell them sometimes you should do it; otherwise normally you should be extremely kind to people. (1988-1212)

Joy has no duality

To all the seekers of joy I bow.

I already told you that joy has no duality. It does not have happiness and unhappiness. It should never be confused with pleasures. Because the pleasure that looks today the pleasure tomorrow will turn into remorse.

The joy is absolute and eternal. It does not change. Only thing that how far we have been able to allow the Spirit to shine in our attention? And how far we have been able to get rid of our misidentification is the important point. Today I made an analogy of the sun to the Spirit. The sun is shining by itself, it doesn’t need enlightenment. By itself it is there. But to get the sunshine in the atmosphere we have to remove the clouds because the clouds are superimposing upon the sun.
The clouds that are superimposing cannot engulf the sun because sun is detached from them. Only the clouds can make the atmosphere dark. In the same way when we have superimpositions of our ignorance upon the Spirit then there is darkness in our life and we are in confusion.

As I told you the first day, whatever we achieve through our mental projections can create those clouds. Also our conditionings can create these clouds. For example say we are born in France. So we think we are French. Then anybody who is not French is not good. Same with Indian: if they are born in India they think the rest of the world doesn’t exist.

Then these identifications start becoming even smaller and smaller and smaller up to this point that we say that we belong to this road, then to this family, then myself. All these misidentifications with the names, with the so called powers, with the so called ideas about our history: all these things are nothing but conditionings.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Public Program, Paris, 18/6/1983

Diabetes and the imbalance of the subtle system

Advice by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi:

Another disease that people normally suffer from specially in Delhi is very common, is diabetes. Diabetes is caused because the same center, which is using its power to supply the cells the fat cells for your brain has to look after also the pancreas. Now the pancreas is the one which digests your sugars. Now if all the time you are thinking all the time you’re planning then what can the poor one center do? It cannot work out the pancreas and that’s how only the so-called educated and planners get diabetes. It’s a balancing. Because they use too much of their right side and the left side is completely frozen, what happens that all their left side problems start. The nature takes its respite. It tries to teach you through these methods. If you do not understand that you have to lead a balanced life the other problems can crop up like kidney troubles. (1981-0206)

Now, a man who thinks too much, you see, works through this center, who plans too much, thinks too much, works through this center, because this center converts the fat globules for the use of the brain when you are thinking. Now, such a man neglects other organs which are looked after by this center. The man who is a great planner will have diabetes as a disease because his left side is completely frozen, he never uses it. He becomes emotionally a dry person and he develops diabetes. (1979-0726)

Shri Raja Rajeshwari

1991-1206 Shri Raja Rajeshwari Puja from Sahaja Library on Vimeo.

So many names have been described of the Goddess, especially Adi Shankaracharya called Her Raja Rajeshwari, meaning “She’s the Queen of all the Queens”. Also, for Mother Mary they have used this title in the West. These ideas have come from the pagan religion, as I’ve told you before, and that they didn’t come by the description of Mother Mary in the Bible. That shows that there have been a lot of changes into the script of Holy Bible. Also there has been lot of changes in the script of Indian scriptures, even Gita. And that’s how the derailment in every religion started. ...

Today we are going to do the worship of Raja Rajeshwari. I’ve never said this to you before. I’ve never asked you to read Guru Gita for the same reason. I’ve never told you that She is Raja Rajeshwari because again that might little bit go into your ego, how can She be the Queen of all the Queens. Of course, Christ’s mother is alright but not Mataji, it’s too much. So I never told you this. ...

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extracts from Shri Raja Rajeshwari Puja, Madras (now Chennai), India Tour 1991 (1991-1206)

Eczema

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi: Now let me ask a question. Why a child will have an allergy? The doctors have to answer. Or, of course you are all doctors so you should say. Can I have the answer?

Yogi: It could be an imbalance of heat and cold in the body?

Shri Mataji: But why? Say on the chakras. You say on the chakras what will be catching. If somebody has allergies, what does it catch?

Yogi: The Left Nabhi.

Shri Mataji: Correct. Left Nabhi. Left Nabhi will catch. Now that means the mother. Because the child is not yet married so it’s the mother. That means mother must be having a left Nabhi herself and that’s why the child must catching with that allergy, so instead of punishing the child, why not cure the left Nabhi of the mother and left Nabhi of the child? Now what will you do if there’s a left Nabhi of the child? What we can do to help the child to get rid of it?

Ah, very simple. Anything that is left [side] can be taken out on the little flame. Put your right hand on the left Nabhi of the child and put your left hand to the flame and finished. ...

Yogi: Eczema?

Shri Mataji: For eczema same thing. [left side problem] Eczema is the same thing, is just like allergy, eczema same thing. But for eczema because it’s outward you can use certain things like neem ka pata and all that I’ve told you and so many things can be used on top. ...

Yogi: Why does cow’s milk make allergies and eczema worse?

Shri Mataji: Cow’s milk..

Yogi: Because it’s left side?

Shri Mataji: Left side. Cow’s milk always give you the left side because she’s the mother, and you should not have her milk, because it’s left sided. Whether it is cow’s milk or buffalo’s milk, all will give allergies but if you have animals which are smaller than you like if you can drink like Mahatma Gandhi the goat’s milk then you might not have the problem.

(1986-0131 Health advice to yogis, Rahuri, India)


Q: I have had eczema for quite a long time. I’ve had it for quite a long time, [unclear] itching, almost drives a person to distraction, and it’s really hard to control.

Shri Mataji: I was telling you there is a liver problem. Are you going in for a liver treatment? And you should go on a diet. No fats, nothing, just a regular diet for liver and do that for a month. You see? Go for a liver treatment completely. [unclear] Now, liver diet is the best.

(1983-0319 Advice to Mothers, Sydney, Australia)

Have patience with yourself

Now for the new people I have to tell, you have to have patience with yourself. You have to have patience. As I have patience for you, I have love for you, I am here only because of you. You also must have patience for yourself and full confidence in yourself that you’ll become the Spirit. If you have these two things, I’m sure it will work out. It is going to work out. Once you get your Realization you have to work out on other people, and gradually you will be amazed that it will grow, and it will convince you, and you will know that you have become the realized soul. But the realized souls are very simple people. If they say, “I am a realized soul,” nobody can believe them because there are no horns around them. No gurudom around them, nothing of the kind, they’re extremely simple people. So what is going to help you is a simple attitude toward yourself and toward these Sahaja Yogis, and towards Sahaja Yoga that you have come here to become the Spirit. We have to gain nothing from you. There’s no clientele as such, there’s no money proposition, nothing. It is you who have come to the Ganges, to take the holy water, it is you who has to take it. We are here to help you. If that attitude is developed I’m sure, with your co-operation, we can change the face of this world. And as William Blake has said in this Hampstead, “We have to build up Jerusalem here.” May God Bless you all.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, addressing the new people, Hampstead, London, May 1983 (1983-0512)

Attention

In this song, saint Namdev uses symbolism to emphasis the need for attention on the Divine during daily life. A variant of this poem has been refered to by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi in several talks (eg. 1990-0506, 1995-0716, and others):

The name Ram has entered my heart,
placing a golden scale within.

A man makes a paper kite and flies it in the sky.
And though he keeps talking to his friends,
his mind is on the string.

The perfect princess balances a pot full of water on her head.
Laughing and joking she claps her hands.
[But] her mind is on the pitcher.

There is a house with ten doors [the subtle body]
from which the cows [the five senses] go to pasture.
Wandering, a cow grazes for ten miles, [but] her mind is on the calf.

The child lies in the cradle and the mother works in her room.
[But] her mind is on the child.
Listen to me Trilochan*,
Says Namdev.


*Trilochan was a contemporary of Namdev, originally from the Sholapur district of what is now Maharashtra. Little is known of him.

Source: The Hindi Padavali of Namdev: a critical edition of Namdev's Hindi songs with translation and annotation [by] Winand M.Callewaert and Mukund Lath (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1989)

The unbounding Love

Even when you get your realisation you are sometimes in a growing stage up to a point. Like you're nourished by the Mother Earth all the time, but you're not aware of it. In the same way the womb of Sahaja Yoga nourishes you to grow into beautiful human beings. Still you have to come up to a point when it has to click in such a way that you start feeling the awareness of that unbounding love. In the small children it clicks very fast because they're so innocent and uncomplicated and in some people also I've seen it click very fast - as soon as they get their realisation. Feel the awareness of that unbounding love.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Talk in English to the Sahaja Yogis. Maharashtra, India Tour 1984. (1984-0119)