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24.12.11
3.1.11
Anahatha to Sahastrara
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H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi talks about the chakras from the Anahatha (Heart) to the Sahastrara. Derby. 1982. Part 1 (1982-0711)
part 2
19.11.10
Virata
Tonight we are going to worship Shri Krishna as Virat. First is important to understand the incarnation of Shri Krishna. Krishna word comes from the word Krishi. Krishi means agriculture. He's sown the seeds of spirituality. And for that, first of all, He had to think, "Where are we as far as spirituality is concerned, how is the land?" So what had happened at the time of Shri Rama that He created lots of maryadas and by these maryadas people started mentally thinking about it, "I am not supposed to do that, I am not supposed to do this." It was just a mental binding - it was not spontaneous, it was not sahaj. As a result people became extremely serious. They wouldn't talk much and they wouldn't laugh; they wouldn't enjoy anything.
So Shri Krishna decided that "First of all we must remove them from this conditioning. And this conditioning has to be removed in such a manner that they enjoy themselves. ...
... the divine Discretion of Shri Krishna, which is instilled within us. As you know that this is a part and parcel of the Vishuddhi Chakra, where Shri Krishna resides; but when He rises to your Sahastrara, when He rises to that level, then He becomes Virata. So Virata's chakra is placed in the head, here above the Agnya, and this Virat is the form of Shri Krishna who has risen above the Agnya. When you are risen above the Agnya, you become a part and parcel of Virata's land, we can say. Because, unless and until you are above your ego, you are still involved with yourself and with wrong ideas of maryadas. But when you rise above that and you become the Virat, the great, then you are in the land of Virata. And Virata's powers are tremendous. Has been seen by Arjuna - the form of Virat. The power of Virat becomes so tremendous that it acts globally. It acts in such a manner that you sit here and anywhere it can act. You have seen that now. Many a times people say, "Mother it's a miracle. My mother was sick and she was not here and I just prayed and she got all right." This is all the power of Virat.
The power of Virata is that it can penetrate into the subtle side of human beings in such a manner that everything we are connected with. We are not separate. And every drop is connected with the ocean. We are connected with the whole universe. And when you become a citizens, I should say, of Virat, then all the things with which you are connected also get your vibrations, your ideas, your ambitions. Everything passes through that and it works - it works.
You have seen how many miracles have taken place in your lives. It is the Virata Shakti that works. Now for that we have to know how to do worship of Virata. First of all you have to rise above your ego - very important. Otherwise how can you worship? There is your ego standing in between and how can you rise up to the point of Virat? You have to pass through that. Once you are above your ego, you enter into the kingdom of Virata. There the King is the Virat and you are the subject who are looked after completely by Virata Shakti, by the power of Virata.
But at that stage you become really a universal personality, in a way, because whatever are problems universally - now not necessarily that they should be attached to you or connected to you. Supposing a person is of that level. Now there may be a war in some other country - it can stop. Somebody who is being oppressed can win over. Anywhere your compassion moves it works out. Whenever your attention will go, it will work out. And sometimes you are surprised as to how it works, "Mother, how these things work out? How coincidences ... how these coincidences have taken place?" Only thing is you have crossed that state of your ego and have gone into the state of Virat, which is a very important thing to do - is to enter into the area of Virata. Then you don't think, "This is your country. This belongs to you, that belongs to you."
This belonging business finishes off. Then you belong to Virat. And He uses you for His own purpose in the sense that when your whole thinking is different - becomes global thinking, then He acts. And then His powers are many-fold. And Krishna's power is that He uses a conch to call people. I have given conches to all the leaders. So we have to now announce and call people. But at the level of Virat, you don't have to do all that. At the level of Virat it just - people see, they'll know. Just they will watch you and they will know. Just they will think you are human beings and you are so sweet, so good, just like gems shining all the time. So, they'll be impressed. This comes through the Virata's blessing.
When you become that, then you forget about other things like you have big positions or anything, you come from a very rich family or that - all these nonsensical things which are actually not true. And all these things on which you want to exist are no more. People like to show off their wealth, some people like to be very sort of demonstrative of what they think they are. But in the case of a person who rises above his ego, and he's a part and parcel of that Virata shakti, enters into the kingdom of Virata, he knows he is very small. He is very small compared to that and he just dissolves into that Shakti. And this should happen to us that we should humble down. We should humble down and know that our powers, whatever we have, if they give us ego, we should get rid of it. We should not have that ego. We should get rid of it and we should actually achieve that state where you can be called as citizens of the Virata's Power.
May God bless you all.
Now when you are entering into the kingdom of Virata, you have to be like children. You are children there. As children you enter. As Christ has said, "When you enter into the Kingdom of God you have to be like children." And that's what you have to be today, all of you to be innocent like children. You have to be innocent like children.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extracts from Shri Krishna as Virata Puja, 1999
(1999-0905)
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So Shri Krishna decided that "First of all we must remove them from this conditioning. And this conditioning has to be removed in such a manner that they enjoy themselves. ...
... the divine Discretion of Shri Krishna, which is instilled within us. As you know that this is a part and parcel of the Vishuddhi Chakra, where Shri Krishna resides; but when He rises to your Sahastrara, when He rises to that level, then He becomes Virata. So Virata's chakra is placed in the head, here above the Agnya, and this Virat is the form of Shri Krishna who has risen above the Agnya. When you are risen above the Agnya, you become a part and parcel of Virata's land, we can say. Because, unless and until you are above your ego, you are still involved with yourself and with wrong ideas of maryadas. But when you rise above that and you become the Virat, the great, then you are in the land of Virata. And Virata's powers are tremendous. Has been seen by Arjuna - the form of Virat. The power of Virat becomes so tremendous that it acts globally. It acts in such a manner that you sit here and anywhere it can act. You have seen that now. Many a times people say, "Mother it's a miracle. My mother was sick and she was not here and I just prayed and she got all right." This is all the power of Virat.
The power of Virata is that it can penetrate into the subtle side of human beings in such a manner that everything we are connected with. We are not separate. And every drop is connected with the ocean. We are connected with the whole universe. And when you become a citizens, I should say, of Virat, then all the things with which you are connected also get your vibrations, your ideas, your ambitions. Everything passes through that and it works - it works.
You have seen how many miracles have taken place in your lives. It is the Virata Shakti that works. Now for that we have to know how to do worship of Virata. First of all you have to rise above your ego - very important. Otherwise how can you worship? There is your ego standing in between and how can you rise up to the point of Virat? You have to pass through that. Once you are above your ego, you enter into the kingdom of Virata. There the King is the Virat and you are the subject who are looked after completely by Virata Shakti, by the power of Virata.
But at that stage you become really a universal personality, in a way, because whatever are problems universally - now not necessarily that they should be attached to you or connected to you. Supposing a person is of that level. Now there may be a war in some other country - it can stop. Somebody who is being oppressed can win over. Anywhere your compassion moves it works out. Whenever your attention will go, it will work out. And sometimes you are surprised as to how it works, "Mother, how these things work out? How coincidences ... how these coincidences have taken place?" Only thing is you have crossed that state of your ego and have gone into the state of Virat, which is a very important thing to do - is to enter into the area of Virata. Then you don't think, "This is your country. This belongs to you, that belongs to you."
This belonging business finishes off. Then you belong to Virat. And He uses you for His own purpose in the sense that when your whole thinking is different - becomes global thinking, then He acts. And then His powers are many-fold. And Krishna's power is that He uses a conch to call people. I have given conches to all the leaders. So we have to now announce and call people. But at the level of Virat, you don't have to do all that. At the level of Virat it just - people see, they'll know. Just they will watch you and they will know. Just they will think you are human beings and you are so sweet, so good, just like gems shining all the time. So, they'll be impressed. This comes through the Virata's blessing.
When you become that, then you forget about other things like you have big positions or anything, you come from a very rich family or that - all these nonsensical things which are actually not true. And all these things on which you want to exist are no more. People like to show off their wealth, some people like to be very sort of demonstrative of what they think they are. But in the case of a person who rises above his ego, and he's a part and parcel of that Virata shakti, enters into the kingdom of Virata, he knows he is very small. He is very small compared to that and he just dissolves into that Shakti. And this should happen to us that we should humble down. We should humble down and know that our powers, whatever we have, if they give us ego, we should get rid of it. We should not have that ego. We should get rid of it and we should actually achieve that state where you can be called as citizens of the Virata's Power.
May God bless you all.
Now when you are entering into the kingdom of Virata, you have to be like children. You are children there. As children you enter. As Christ has said, "When you enter into the Kingdom of God you have to be like children." And that's what you have to be today, all of you to be innocent like children. You have to be innocent like children.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extracts from Shri Krishna as Virata Puja, 1999
(1999-0905)
more on Virata
other mentions on Sahaj A-Z
26.7.10
When the Kundalini rises it makes sounds
When the Kundalini rises it makes sounds. And the sounds that are heard in the different chakras can be pronounced in the following way – these pronunciations are being used in the phonetic language of Devanagari, which means ‘the language spoken by the Devas’.
At the Mooladhara, where there are four petals, the sounds are: [vum, shum, sshum, sum]. Out of which the last, sshum and sum sounds are very close, but the difference is - when the snake hisses it makes this sshum – the third sound. So, vum, shum, sshum, sum.
At the Swadishthana, where there are six petals - it makes sounds, six sounds. [Bum, bhum, mum, yum, rum, lum.]
Manipur it has ten petals. It makes the sounds dum, dhum, num, tum, thum, dum, dhum, nnum, pum, phum.
At Anahata there are twelve petals. It makes the sounds km, kum, gum, ghum, chum, chum, jum, jhum, tum, thum.
At the Vishuddhi, where there are sixteen petals, it makes the sounds of all the vowels – a, aa, i, ii, u, uu, r, rr, lr, lrr, e, ai, o, ou, um, ahm.
At the Agnya chakra it makes ha, ksha.
At the Sahastrara one becomes thoughtless and no sound is made, but the pure Anahata, meaning the throbbing in the purest form as in the heart is all.
When all these sounds are sounded together and pass through the spiral of the body, if the body is like a conch, the sound that comes out of the synthesis is AUM. Like the seven colors of the sun ultimately become white rays, or you can say the golden colored rays.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Talk given in Hampstead, London, October 1978 (1978-1014)
Bija Mantras 1978 by Sahaja Library
At the Mooladhara, where there are four petals, the sounds are: [vum, shum, sshum, sum]. Out of which the last, sshum and sum sounds are very close, but the difference is - when the snake hisses it makes this sshum – the third sound. So, vum, shum, sshum, sum.
At the Swadishthana, where there are six petals - it makes sounds, six sounds. [Bum, bhum, mum, yum, rum, lum.]
Manipur it has ten petals. It makes the sounds dum, dhum, num, tum, thum, dum, dhum, nnum, pum, phum.
At Anahata there are twelve petals. It makes the sounds km, kum, gum, ghum, chum, chum, jum, jhum, tum, thum.
At the Vishuddhi, where there are sixteen petals, it makes the sounds of all the vowels – a, aa, i, ii, u, uu, r, rr, lr, lrr, e, ai, o, ou, um, ahm.
At the Agnya chakra it makes ha, ksha.
At the Sahastrara one becomes thoughtless and no sound is made, but the pure Anahata, meaning the throbbing in the purest form as in the heart is all.
When all these sounds are sounded together and pass through the spiral of the body, if the body is like a conch, the sound that comes out of the synthesis is AUM. Like the seven colors of the sun ultimately become white rays, or you can say the golden colored rays.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Talk given in Hampstead, London, October 1978 (1978-1014)
Bija Mantras 1978 by Sahaja Library
28.5.10
Buddha and Desire
Today, we have assembled here to do puja to Buddha. As you know Buddha was a son of a king. And one day he was shocked to see a very poor man, thin man, walking on the street, very unhappy person, and he felt very sad about it. Then he saw one person who was very sick and about to die; then he saw a man who was dead and people were carrying him to the cremation ground. This all upset him very much and he started thinking about it and seeking - what is the reason for all these happenings in human beings. Firstly, why do they become so miserable or sick? Or, why do they die so miserably? The reason he found out in his search. He went around the whole world, I should say, in the sense: he read Upanishadas, he read… went to many gurus, went to many places of spiritual education, Banares, everywhere he went. And ultimately, He was sitting under a banyan tree when suddenly his Kundalini was awakened, by Adi Shakti, and he got his realization; Then he realized that the reason for all this is the desire.
In Sahaja Yoga, we have now understood that all other desires are not pure desires. Firstly, whatever desires are fulfilled, we are not satisfied by it, first thing. And secondly, all these desires have a repercussion. So what is the pure desire? That, you all know, is the Kundalini. Kundalini is the power of pure desire, which fulfils your pure desire to be the Spirit, to be Buddha, to be enlightened. Buddha means a person who is enlightened. So Gautama become… became Buddha, as you people now have become Sahaja Yogis. But because he went through all these various penances, whatever he learned became part and parcel of him - but in Sahaja Yoga it is all sahaj. So we always conclude everything that, "This is, after all, sahaj." And when we try to work out anything, we always say, "Oh, it will work out spontaneously. It's alright, Mother will do for us and everything." This is a common failing in Sahaja Yoga.
So whether to put you all through that long process or to give you realization was a question before me. Because, in these days of confusion there cannot be much time to put you through all which Buddha had gone, and He was one individual, I had to put all of you. That would have been very difficult. I don't know how many would have sustained it. Most of them would have dropped out half way, or maybe quarter of the way. So it was done in a sahaj manner - you did not have to sit in a banyan tree - ultimately you got your realization. Your Kundalini was awakened and you got your enlightenment. But that enlightenment, which settled in Buddha, is not settled in us because our chakras were not cleansed as he had cleansed his chakras. We had the same body, the same mind and the same attitude when we got realization. As we were looking at the house of God, still we are looking at the house of God, but you have entered inside the house and you have to look out from the windows, this you forget. And though we are sitting now on a hilltop out of all the congestion and all the traffic, still you see a car, you get frightened. You don't know you are sitting on top of a hill where your Mother has put you nicely, and that is how you try to behave. ...
Buddha, as you know, is working on our right side, on our Agnya. Is very surprising, the deity like him, to work on the right side. First he said, for the right side, you should be detached, desireless. I mean, nobody would work if they have no desire and if they have no way of earning something out of it, I mean, in the normal sense. But desirelessly you have to work. Then only right side can be conquered - Very symbolic. Normally the right-sided people are extremely thin, but Buddha is very fat. Normally the right-sided people are extremely serious, very serious, even if you tickle them they won't laugh. But Buddha is laughing all the time with both his hands like this, enjoying himself. See the contrast. So when you are working without any desire, only then, this state can be achieved that you'll be all the time laughing ...(but) as you become subtler, the desires start becoming subtler and subtler and subtler. And if you are not careful, it just comes up. ...
When you're desireless you are happy because you are never disappointed, you are never nervous. So to be desireless doesn't mean that you become something absurd or ascetic or anything like that, but not to expect something.
H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Shri Buddha Puja, Belgium, 1991
(1991-0804)
In Sahaja Yoga, we have now understood that all other desires are not pure desires. Firstly, whatever desires are fulfilled, we are not satisfied by it, first thing. And secondly, all these desires have a repercussion. So what is the pure desire? That, you all know, is the Kundalini. Kundalini is the power of pure desire, which fulfils your pure desire to be the Spirit, to be Buddha, to be enlightened. Buddha means a person who is enlightened. So Gautama become… became Buddha, as you people now have become Sahaja Yogis. But because he went through all these various penances, whatever he learned became part and parcel of him - but in Sahaja Yoga it is all sahaj. So we always conclude everything that, "This is, after all, sahaj." And when we try to work out anything, we always say, "Oh, it will work out spontaneously. It's alright, Mother will do for us and everything." This is a common failing in Sahaja Yoga.
So whether to put you all through that long process or to give you realization was a question before me. Because, in these days of confusion there cannot be much time to put you through all which Buddha had gone, and He was one individual, I had to put all of you. That would have been very difficult. I don't know how many would have sustained it. Most of them would have dropped out half way, or maybe quarter of the way. So it was done in a sahaj manner - you did not have to sit in a banyan tree - ultimately you got your realization. Your Kundalini was awakened and you got your enlightenment. But that enlightenment, which settled in Buddha, is not settled in us because our chakras were not cleansed as he had cleansed his chakras. We had the same body, the same mind and the same attitude when we got realization. As we were looking at the house of God, still we are looking at the house of God, but you have entered inside the house and you have to look out from the windows, this you forget. And though we are sitting now on a hilltop out of all the congestion and all the traffic, still you see a car, you get frightened. You don't know you are sitting on top of a hill where your Mother has put you nicely, and that is how you try to behave. ...
Buddha, as you know, is working on our right side, on our Agnya. Is very surprising, the deity like him, to work on the right side. First he said, for the right side, you should be detached, desireless. I mean, nobody would work if they have no desire and if they have no way of earning something out of it, I mean, in the normal sense. But desirelessly you have to work. Then only right side can be conquered - Very symbolic. Normally the right-sided people are extremely thin, but Buddha is very fat. Normally the right-sided people are extremely serious, very serious, even if you tickle them they won't laugh. But Buddha is laughing all the time with both his hands like this, enjoying himself. See the contrast. So when you are working without any desire, only then, this state can be achieved that you'll be all the time laughing ...(but) as you become subtler, the desires start becoming subtler and subtler and subtler. And if you are not careful, it just comes up. ...
When you're desireless you are happy because you are never disappointed, you are never nervous. So to be desireless doesn't mean that you become something absurd or ascetic or anything like that, but not to expect something.
H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Shri Buddha Puja, Belgium, 1991
(1991-0804)
4.4.10
Easter Puja 1996
Today we are doing Easter Puja. Today is a very important day for Sahaja Yogis because Isa-Messiah (Jesus) has shown us that redemption of human beings is possible, and for that redemption we should always put in an effort. There is also a meaning why He was crucified. He was crucified on the cross and this cross is a symbol of the Swastika on the Agnya chakra. He was crucified and He left His body there only. He told some important things at that time and one most important thing out of this was 'Wait for the Mother' - Think of the Mother'. (Behold the Mother?)
Everybody can interpret it in a different way, but it seems He said that He will send for us such a shakti (power) who has three channels - Trigunatmika, and that is described very beautifully. One of these Shaktis/powers will give us comfort. This comfort-giving power in us is Mahakali's power which gives us comfort, which cures our diseases, which corrects/solves many questions of our past. The second power, which He gave us, which He sent to us, was Mahasaraswati and to this Mahasaraswati Power, He called Counsellor, the one who will counsel you - that means, who helps us for Yognirupan (to see the form of Yoga). With the help of this second power, we will get Gyan (Knowledge), we will know the subtle knowledge. And the third power, (Mahalakshmi) with the help of which we will get our redemption.
Thus, He had talked about these three powers. Buddha also said that I will send you Matreya, that means three types of mothers - Matain-Ekritya-Matreya.
People did not understand what this Matreya is, and they made it Maitrya. This Matreya can be only in Adishakti - simultaneously - Adishakti, He must have told as Primordial Mother. But the one who corrected Bible, he made it as Holy Ghost - and made a dove instead of it. Because the one who corrected the Bible hated women and he did not believe that a woman could also do such a great work. Because of this hatred, he made a strange form of it (the Holy Ghost) and the second thing is that it is a dove and a dove means that she will be the messenger of peace. But He did not talk of a woman or that she will be a woman. But in our Shatras it is written „Sahasrare Mahamaya“, that means She will be in the form of Mahamaya. People will not recognize Her and you have to get your self realization to recognize Her. If you don't get your realization, you cannot recognize Her.
In His lifetime He (Jesus) explained everything in a very open manner, He could do. Many things He told and many things He didn't, but still some truth came out which they could not change. It was very necessary for Sahaja Yoga that Isa Messiah (Jesus) came. He was a Chir Balak (boy from olden times), and now it is proved that He was an incarnation of Shri Ganesha. Shri Ganesha incarnated only once in the world and that is in the form of Shri Jesus/Isa Messiah.
The work of these three(Buddha, Mahavira, Jesus(Isa)) was done at the level of Tapasya and therefore they worked in the Murdha of Virata (Brain), and there is a place of Tapasya in the work of all the three, that means human beings should do the Tapasya and they can cross through Agnya only with Tapasya. It was very necessary to pierce through Agnya chakra, without that, Kundalini cannot rise. Resurrection of Jesus facilitated the piercing of the Agnya chakra. First He died and then His resurrection took place. Therefore there is a great message from Easter that because of Resurrection of Isa-Messiah (Jesus), we could get our resurrection. The most difficult chakra in a human being is the Agnya chakra because a human being is always thinking. This continuous thinking results in a condition of vaporization of mind in the head and he cannot go beyond these thoughts. He cannot go beyond these thoughts.You can go beyond thinking only when the Agnya Chakra is opened. Therefore it can be said that Sahaja Yoga would have been very difficult if Isa (Jesus) would not have resurrected after leaving his body. However the work was done by all the Incarnations at their respective places and at respective times. But the work which was done by the resurrection of Isa(Jesus) was marvelous. That is the reason why it is not difficult to open Agnya. It is not difficult to go beyond Agnya. There have been many Gurus, many great Gurus. They did a great work. They did so many things so that people could get their Jagruti (awareness) to God and they could attract their attention to self-realization.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Hindi Talk, Easter Puja 1996, Kolkata
(1996-0414)
full translation
Everybody can interpret it in a different way, but it seems He said that He will send for us such a shakti (power) who has three channels - Trigunatmika, and that is described very beautifully. One of these Shaktis/powers will give us comfort. This comfort-giving power in us is Mahakali's power which gives us comfort, which cures our diseases, which corrects/solves many questions of our past. The second power, which He gave us, which He sent to us, was Mahasaraswati and to this Mahasaraswati Power, He called Counsellor, the one who will counsel you - that means, who helps us for Yognirupan (to see the form of Yoga). With the help of this second power, we will get Gyan (Knowledge), we will know the subtle knowledge. And the third power, (Mahalakshmi) with the help of which we will get our redemption.
Thus, He had talked about these three powers. Buddha also said that I will send you Matreya, that means three types of mothers - Matain-Ekritya-Matreya.
People did not understand what this Matreya is, and they made it Maitrya. This Matreya can be only in Adishakti - simultaneously - Adishakti, He must have told as Primordial Mother. But the one who corrected Bible, he made it as Holy Ghost - and made a dove instead of it. Because the one who corrected the Bible hated women and he did not believe that a woman could also do such a great work. Because of this hatred, he made a strange form of it (the Holy Ghost) and the second thing is that it is a dove and a dove means that she will be the messenger of peace. But He did not talk of a woman or that she will be a woman. But in our Shatras it is written „Sahasrare Mahamaya“, that means She will be in the form of Mahamaya. People will not recognize Her and you have to get your self realization to recognize Her. If you don't get your realization, you cannot recognize Her.
In His lifetime He (Jesus) explained everything in a very open manner, He could do. Many things He told and many things He didn't, but still some truth came out which they could not change. It was very necessary for Sahaja Yoga that Isa Messiah (Jesus) came. He was a Chir Balak (boy from olden times), and now it is proved that He was an incarnation of Shri Ganesha. Shri Ganesha incarnated only once in the world and that is in the form of Shri Jesus/Isa Messiah.
The work of these three(Buddha, Mahavira, Jesus(Isa)) was done at the level of Tapasya and therefore they worked in the Murdha of Virata (Brain), and there is a place of Tapasya in the work of all the three, that means human beings should do the Tapasya and they can cross through Agnya only with Tapasya. It was very necessary to pierce through Agnya chakra, without that, Kundalini cannot rise. Resurrection of Jesus facilitated the piercing of the Agnya chakra. First He died and then His resurrection took place. Therefore there is a great message from Easter that because of Resurrection of Isa-Messiah (Jesus), we could get our resurrection. The most difficult chakra in a human being is the Agnya chakra because a human being is always thinking. This continuous thinking results in a condition of vaporization of mind in the head and he cannot go beyond these thoughts. He cannot go beyond these thoughts.You can go beyond thinking only when the Agnya Chakra is opened. Therefore it can be said that Sahaja Yoga would have been very difficult if Isa (Jesus) would not have resurrected after leaving his body. However the work was done by all the Incarnations at their respective places and at respective times. But the work which was done by the resurrection of Isa(Jesus) was marvelous. That is the reason why it is not difficult to open Agnya. It is not difficult to go beyond Agnya. There have been many Gurus, many great Gurus. They did a great work. They did so many things so that people could get their Jagruti (awareness) to God and they could attract their attention to self-realization.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Hindi Talk, Easter Puja 1996, Kolkata
(1996-0414)
full translation
27.11.09
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)
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
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
14.4.09
Sahastrara Puja 1979
So today is a very, very important day, you know that. Because in the history of creation you know till the time of Christ, in the human awareness, only the sense of resurrection was created - that you can be resurrected or you can be reborn. That sense came down to them. I mean people recognized that it could happen to all of us sometime. But it did not happen. Actualization never took place. That was a problem and without you entering into the reality whatever one may talk about becomes imaginative. So one has to jump into the reality into the [truth]. This never had happened before and as I have told you that if it had happened to one or two people it makes no difference at all to the masses and nobody accepts it and like a small little river flowing in the dessert it disappears in the thin air, the truth also, whatever was found out, never had any roots. And all kinds of funny things started, with this reality, which these people preached.
So it was to be culmination of human consciousness where he becomes one with the Divine that he becomes one with himself - was to happen. And that too was to happen at the time, which was most importunate - best time. Because unless and until the human desire is very strong, human will is very strong and is asking for the reality, the reality does not going to [express it or be achieved?]. Other things of course, as far as the creation is concerned; creating the animals and all the trees and fruits and flowers - all these things are done. But the human evolution could not have matured earlier because there was not so much of seeking.
So when the time came when the necessity was so great that the necessity itself brought forth Sahaja Yoga. And it happened that I really saw the Sahastrara. Of course you know there’s a difference between your Sahastrara and mine. And I saw the Sahastrara, opened out beautifully and the petals were just like flames - rounded flames, rounded ones, rounded beautifully colored flames of different colors. That’s why I wore today blouse of many colors and sari of many colors. I saw so many permutations and combinations, so beautiful. And as if every petal was individually, absolutely complete and perfect, but so integrated. The way it opened out, and the movement was so rhythmic and so harmonious. There was no problem. Such a harmony was between them. No fluctuation anywhere as if they were dancing to the tunes, opened out. And the colors, all spread out their light around in the aura. In the center I saw the Agnya – you can say the Sun color and all the chakras were there, also emitting light but the chakras were darker in shades. They were so dark that they were all looking blackish you see, so dark. Such a condensed color they had. And they were also emitting light all over. But the light, as soon as the whole thing opened out, the light absolutely spread out then I saw the sky. It can be done. First I had to open out my Sahastrara. Then your Sahastraras could be opened out and then I felt that a tremendous flow of vibrations started flowing. So much rays falling upon me, a torrential rain you see falling on me. Absolutely I was so drenched in that joy, really I was lost, absolutely lost. Then I felt that the whole creation is now sounded with that universal consciousness, just felt. Everything was finished, only the joy is pervading. It was such a beautiful time and then I started my work.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Sahastrara Puja 1979.
7.4.09
When you judge others
Advice by H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi:
When you judge others, you should know that you are judged by God. If you are judging others, God has judged you also. So in His judgment, whatever marks you give to yourself and to others are not going to be consulted at all. It is His judgment which is going to decide how far you are.
(Bordi, India, 21/1/80)
This criticizing nature comes from a terrible misunderstanding about oneself. What are we? Why should we judge anyone else? Are we paid for it? So why waste your energy in judging others, because in the realm of reality, it is all good, everything fine, everything first class. But if you are trying to see what is wrong with others, then you are not in reality.
(Sahastrara Puja 1996)
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When you judge others, you should know that you are judged by God. If you are judging others, God has judged you also. So in His judgment, whatever marks you give to yourself and to others are not going to be consulted at all. It is His judgment which is going to decide how far you are.
(Bordi, India, 21/1/80)
This criticizing nature comes from a terrible misunderstanding about oneself. What are we? Why should we judge anyone else? Are we paid for it? So why waste your energy in judging others, because in the realm of reality, it is all good, everything fine, everything first class. But if you are trying to see what is wrong with others, then you are not in reality.
(Sahastrara Puja 1996)
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6.4.09
This mind is just a myth
Today, I'm going to talk about the mind. People don't know what is this mind is. It is very easy to understand for Sahaja Yogis that we are the ones who react, react to everything that is outside. The reason is we have two horrible tendencies, one which is an ego, and another tendency is that we are being trained that way, or we can call it the superego or the conditionings. So, both the things, our ego and conditionings, are all the time acting outside. This reaction, which is built-in within us, is just like bubbles in the ocean. And these bubbles keep us away from reality. These bubbles are of thoughts, and they just blast you all the time in your head, and you don't know why they are coming. When you depend on this artificial mind of yours then you have no discretion as to understand what is good and what is bad. This mind is the one where all kinds of evil things start, all kinds of quarrels, fights and - possessiveness, lastly the war also comes there. It is in this mind only, which is nothing but a myth, all these concrete, destructive ideas, somehow or other come up, and then they start growing and growing. Then you find people whom you can impress also, put ideas into their heads - by reading, they learn, or by their lectures, or by mesmerism, whatever kinds of things they can do. They put your mind into such a frame that you accept these destructive ideas, for yourself individually, or maybe for the collective. So this mind is just a myth and we are working through this mind. We are all the time satisfying ourselves by saying, “Oh, that's my mind, my mind wants it.”
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Birthday Puja 1996
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Birthday Puja 1996
8.3.09
Origins of Holi
So, even in this Kali Yuga these [ascetic] ideas are prevalent. Even in India, people have very severe types, especially in south I have seen, they do all kinds of nonsense for the atonement or maybe for something they are asking. All this nonsense was too much for Shri Krishna. He couldn't understand that they are going to destroy their lives with this kind of ritualistic gruelling, then what will remain out of them for Sahaja Yoga. So He's the one who started Sahaj culture. He said "let us enjoy, we must have enjoyment, Nirmala Anand - pure joy". How do we have pure joy by? - He had this rakhi bandhan by which, apart from your wife, everybody is your sister or mother. I must say it is quite true about Indians. Not in the north so much because of Islamic influence, but in the south it is so. In Maharastra it is so. And then He started also this Holi, in which you should play with colors, maybe to get rid of the color barriers we have, maybe. In America it is a very good idea to play with colors and put some black on the whites and some whites on the black and they can see for themselves how stupid it is to fight in the name of color.H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Shri Krishna Puja 1996
This festival of Holi was made by Shri Krishna so that human beings would see the whole world as leela (play). By coming into Sahaja Yoga you have become leelamay (playful). You get completely absorbed in music and enjoy it. You have love and pure feelings for one another. You do each work with great beauty and morality. But to be leelamay is to stop at Vishudhi Chakra. After that, one has to move on Agnya. On the Agnya Chakra is tapas or penance. Then you should think about the burning of Holika which was due to Prahlad’s penance. We also have to ascend on that tapa because you have reached the Vishudhi level; that you live together with love for each other. At Vishudhi you have become collective, got love and universal brotherhood. When you become universal then your caste, creed, countries all drop away. ...
On Holi we should burn all those things which spoil our attention and damage the Agnya. Then this attention will clear out and we will celebrate Holi with joy and understanding. ...
When your attention goes to Vishudhi then you see the Shakti of Shri Krishna, Shri Radha, who is Allahad Dayini, the giver of joy. Just by seeing Her people feel joyous. She is the Allahad Dayini Shakti which is in flowers, in children; and it can awaken in you. Till the depth comes this Allahad Dayini Shakti will remain verbal. Think about the combination of these two. It is very important for us to get depth within and to give joy from that depth is equally important.
(extracts from talk given in Hindi during Holi Celebrations, Delhi, 1991)
Legend of Holika and Prahlad
History of Holi
Celebrate an eco-friendly Holi
26.11.08
Chakras and the planets
Mooladhara Chakra: Mars
Swadisthana Chakra: Mercury
Nabhi Chakra: Jupiter
Anahat Chakra: Venus
Vishuddhi Chakra: Saturn
Agnya Chakra: Sun
Sahastrara Chakra: Moon
Source: Nirmal Fragrance (4th ed, 2006)
Swadisthana Chakra: Mercury
Nabhi Chakra: Jupiter
Anahat Chakra: Venus
Vishuddhi Chakra: Saturn
Agnya Chakra: Sun
Sahastrara Chakra: Moon
Source: Nirmal Fragrance (4th ed, 2006)
22.11.08
The Window and the Door
There’s another kind of a stupid thing, that people ask you to meditate here [Shri Mataji points to her Agnya Chakra]. Is absolutely wrong. ... Nobody should put attention here. Instead, put attention at the Door [Shri Mataji is putting her hand onto her Sahastrara Chakra]. What’s the use of looking at a window? You can’t get out of it, can you? If you have to look at anything be on a lookout for the Door. And the Door is here. The Door of Sahastrara is to be opened out.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Talk at Shri Krishna Puja, Switzerland, 23/8/86
Witness the Spark
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Talk at Shri Krishna Puja, Switzerland, 23/8/86
Witness the Spark
20.9.08
Hamsa: the power of Discretion
1988-0710 Hamsa Chakra Puja from Sahaja Library
Today we have decided to have a Hamsa Puja in Germany. We have never yet paid much attention to this center of Hamsa, which is, I think, very important for the Western world, rather than for the Indian or the Eastern. The reason is, at the Hamsa chakra, part of the Ida and Pingala come out and manifest - means the expression of Ida and Pingala is given through the Hamsa chakra.
So this Hamsa chakra is the one that, as if has not gone up to the Agnya, but is holding on certain threads or certain parts of the Ida and Pingala. And they start flowing through your nose, expressing through your eyes, from your mouth and from your forehead. So you know that Vishuddhi chakra has got sixteen petals which look after the eyes, nose, throat, tongue, teeth. But the expression part of it comes through the Hamsa chakra, of all these. So it’s a very, very important thing in a Western mind, to understand Hamsa chakra. There’s a beautiful couplet about this in Sanskrit, Hansa kshveta ha, baka ha kshveta ha. ko bhedo hansa bakayo ho. Neera ksheera vivek e tu. Hansa ha hansaksh, baka ha baka ha. Meaning ‘The crane and the swan, both are white. And what makes a difference between the two? If you mix the water and the milk together the hamsa (swan) will just suck in the milk. So it can discriminate between the water and the milk while the bakha, means the crane, cannot’. It’s a very significant thing for Sahaja Yogis to understand.
Discretion is to be understood very deeply within ourselves. And how we develop discretion is very important in Sahaja Yoga. But before we go to that let us see how this discretion plays a part, very much, in the manifestation of our expressions outside. We are the people, in the West, who always try to express ourselves outside. It’s very important how you look, it’s very important where you look, what you look at, what you see. It’s very important that your appearance should be good. [They are] very particular, they spend lots of time in improving their appearance. This is the minimum. Then they have a method by which we call the Medias. The country speaks or manifests through the Medias. And the Medias have to have a training. Every country has it’s specialty one better than the other. And when you see all of them you find they lack discretion completely. Also in our speech, in our expression of literature, expression of poetry, expression of our relationships with others, any kind of expression, requires discretion which is a deep-seated knowledge or wisdom. ...
So it comes to the discretion how to use your Ida Nadi and Pingala Nadi and discretion to understand what is good and what is bad. Now let us see the Ida Nadi. Ida Nadi is very important because the discretion in this can only come through traditional understanding. Ida Nadi starts from the Ganesha’s point – Mooladhara.
So first we miss the biggest support, the biggest help, the biggest nourishment of holiness and auspiciousness, at Mooladhara, if we have no discretion. We always take to a thing, which is detrimental to our growth, and also which may destroy us, not only us but the whole country. We like people who are destructive, when there is no discretion. Discretion means that you must choose the things which are good for you, which are benevolent to you, which are good for the collective, which are good for your ascent.
The discretion of the Ida Nadi is intuition. If you develop that discretion within you, through your meditative powers, you develop intuition. And intuition is nothing but the help of the Ganas, which are surrounding you. If you learn to take help from the Ganas you can become very intuitive and without much intelligence of yours you can say the right thing. The whole of Sahaja Yoga, I would say fifty percent at least out of that, is based on intuition. ...
For that you have to develop a proper sense of Shri Ganesh. Shri Ganesh in it’s right sense you have to understand. From there it starts because he’s Ganapati, he’s the one who is the master, is the chief of all the Ganas. So the Ganas give you the intuition.
If you are discrete you will not take to fashions, you’ll not take to stupid ideas. You have your own personality You are a Sahaja Yogi. You don’t listen to people who are non-Sahaja Yogis. That is the ‘hum’‘hum’ part – ‘I am’ - not the ego part. But the ‘hum’‘hum’ - to understand that “I’m a Yogi and I know so many things which normally people don’t know and so I have nothing to do with them. I’ve not to take any lessons from them. They are not to teach me anything. There’s nothing that they know, I know much more.” To be aware of your Self is ‘hum’’hum’.
So that comes from the right side I would say. The discretion of right side is ‘hum’, and the discretion of left side is ‘Sa’. ‘Sa’ means You. Means ‘You are The One’. In your case you know who is the ‘You’. But for every human being, ‘You’ is the Divine. ‘You are The One’. This comes from the left side, is ‘Sa’. So the word ‘Hamsa’ is made of two types of discretion where to see ‘I am’ and where to see ‘You are’. On these two balances, as they have shown here beautifully, the Moon and the Sun. In the center is the cross, which gives you the balance, which gives you the dharma. How all these things are connected, one after another, in layers after layers; you can see how dharma is connected with discretion. ...
So on one side we have the help of Shri Krishna to give us the discretion, and on the other side we have Christ. In between is placed this Hamsa. So we have two great incarnations within us who are the embodiment of discretion. So one side is Shri Krishna who is the one who looks after the conditioning side of it. And on the other side is Christ who starts looking after the ego side of it. The One who says on the cross, “Oh, God, forgive them because they do not know. Oh, Father, forgive them for they do not know what they are doing.” Is the same one who takes a hunter in his hand and hits people, starts beating them, because they are making money in the name of God. See the discretion. That’s Jesus. Same Shri Krishna, who with his Sudarshan chakra can kill thousands and thousands of rakshasas, becomes the driver of Arjuna. The contrast of their behavior is the beautiful saga of Their discretion. ...
It’s a very, very delicate line of discretion. But once you know as a state within yourself, you are discrete; you cannot be indiscrete even if you want to be. And that is what is the ascent part. So once you come out of this chakra and pass through your Agnya, you enter into Sahastrara where you have to be discrete. Whatever then comes out from there – blessed, whatever expression comes out – blessed, from the Sahastrara is all discrete and beautiful. ...
I have to request you that - come to your joyous condition. Be happy, that you are in that condition. ... In joy you do not have unhappiness or happiness; it’s just joy, absolute joy. I cannot keep Myself even serious for more than one minute, I try to be serious but it’s difficult because so much joy is bubbling all the time, that I find it difficult to show that I’m not very happy or I’m angry. So I would request you to be completely lost in the ocean of joy. Give up all your conditionings, all your nonsensical ideas but just be joyous and be happy with yourself and with all the rest of the Sahaja Yogis and with me.
So this is the greatest discretion, today, we have to learn is to be joyous and happy.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extracts from Talk at Shri Hamsa Puja, Germany, 10/7/88
6.9.08
Shanti
Advice given by H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi:
There’s a mantra for the Goddess. Yah Devi sarva bhuteshu, shanti rupena samstitah. Oh Goddess who resides, who (is) all this creation, created, all that is created as peace. So you have to seek peace that is your Mother.
(Christmas Puja 1981)
If you have an anger, say for example which makes you uncontrollable, then there is a mantra for that: Shanti. Ya Devi sarva bhuteshu, Shanti rupena samsthita. You must ask for that bliss, for that peace. This is a mantra for you. For controlling your temper, you have to tell yourself, Ya Devi sarva bhuteshu, Shanti rupena samsthita. So Shanti is the point, the axis point is that from where you witness everything. You are in Shanti, you are in complete peace. You are not in a turmoil, even if you are angry. You are not in a turmoil. Whatever is angry is the power, and the power is taking charge. But unless and until that is achieved, what you have to do is to put yourself in a position that you are peaceful. So I think that's a very good mantra is to say, Ya Devi sarva bhuteshu, Shanti rupena samsthita.
(Q+A session, London, 6/8/82)
Still your mind! Whatever mantra we say, if it is mechanical it will have no effect. We say: Ya Devi sarva bhuteshu shanti rupena samsthita. Still it. But you must do it with complete understanding, full deliberation.
(Talk, Duhlia, India, 13/1/83)
Today is the sixth day of Navaratri. There have been many incarnations of the Goddess for different, different purposes. But when the great saints introspect themselves, who were worshipping the Mother, they found out that what She has done for us. The other day I told you the dharma is the innate valency of human beings. And they are ten. This is already established within us, but we deviate, deviate from dharma and all the problems come in, because to leave the dharma is not a human quality. But Goddess Herself has done so many things for us already, within us, though we are not aware of it. Said that ya Devi sarva bhuteshu – all those whom You have created, means mostly the human beings. What do You do? As what do You exist inside the human beings?
Now, just introspect if you have these qualities within you or not, because they are given to you by the Goddess, by the Shakti within you. Like ya Devi sarva bhuteshu shanti rupena samstithan – is very important, that You exist within the human beings as peace. Do you find thus human beings who are peaceful within and without? Very difficult. But She has given you that, She has given you that peace which you have to achieve. Now it comes, because you have fallen off your human dharmas. So this peace that She has given you, you have to achieve through your ascent, through the Kundalini awakening. You are excited, all right. Or, you want to take revenge, you want to hurt others, you want to trouble others, you enjoy sometimes, even as Sahaja Yogis people enjoy hurting others, troubling others.
(Navaratri 1997)
There’s a mantra for the Goddess. Yah Devi sarva bhuteshu, shanti rupena samstitah. Oh Goddess who resides, who (is) all this creation, created, all that is created as peace. So you have to seek peace that is your Mother.
(Christmas Puja 1981)
If you have an anger, say for example which makes you uncontrollable, then there is a mantra for that: Shanti. Ya Devi sarva bhuteshu, Shanti rupena samsthita. You must ask for that bliss, for that peace. This is a mantra for you. For controlling your temper, you have to tell yourself, Ya Devi sarva bhuteshu, Shanti rupena samsthita. So Shanti is the point, the axis point is that from where you witness everything. You are in Shanti, you are in complete peace. You are not in a turmoil, even if you are angry. You are not in a turmoil. Whatever is angry is the power, and the power is taking charge. But unless and until that is achieved, what you have to do is to put yourself in a position that you are peaceful. So I think that's a very good mantra is to say, Ya Devi sarva bhuteshu, Shanti rupena samsthita.
(Q+A session, London, 6/8/82)
Still your mind! Whatever mantra we say, if it is mechanical it will have no effect. We say: Ya Devi sarva bhuteshu shanti rupena samsthita. Still it. But you must do it with complete understanding, full deliberation.
(Talk, Duhlia, India, 13/1/83)
Today is the sixth day of Navaratri. There have been many incarnations of the Goddess for different, different purposes. But when the great saints introspect themselves, who were worshipping the Mother, they found out that what She has done for us. The other day I told you the dharma is the innate valency of human beings. And they are ten. This is already established within us, but we deviate, deviate from dharma and all the problems come in, because to leave the dharma is not a human quality. But Goddess Herself has done so many things for us already, within us, though we are not aware of it. Said that ya Devi sarva bhuteshu – all those whom You have created, means mostly the human beings. What do You do? As what do You exist inside the human beings?
Now, just introspect if you have these qualities within you or not, because they are given to you by the Goddess, by the Shakti within you. Like ya Devi sarva bhuteshu shanti rupena samstithan – is very important, that You exist within the human beings as peace. Do you find thus human beings who are peaceful within and without? Very difficult. But She has given you that, She has given you that peace which you have to achieve. Now it comes, because you have fallen off your human dharmas. So this peace that She has given you, you have to achieve through your ascent, through the Kundalini awakening. You are excited, all right. Or, you want to take revenge, you want to hurt others, you want to trouble others, you enjoy sometimes, even as Sahaja Yogis people enjoy hurting others, troubling others.
(Navaratri 1997)
26.8.08
Beyond the Mind
Today, I'm going to talk about the mind. People don't know what this mind is. It is very easy to understand for Sahaja Yogis, that we are the ones who react, react to everything that is outside. The reason is, we have two horrible tendencies, one which is an ego, and another tendency is that we are being trained that way, or we can call it the superego or the conditionings. So, both the things, our ego and conditionings, are all the time acting outside. This reaction, which is built in within us, is just like bubbles in the ocean, and these bubbles keep us away from reality. These bubbles are of thoughts, and they just blast you all the time in your head, and you don't know why they have come. When you depend on this artificial mind of yours, then you have no discretion as to understand what is good and what is bad. This mind is the one where all kinds of evil things start, all kinds of quarrels, fights and possessiveness, lastly, the war also comes there. It is in this mind only, which is nothing but a myth, all these concrete, destructive ideas, somehow or other, come up, and then they start growing and growing.
Then you find people whom you can impress, also, put ideas into their heads - by reading, they learn, or by their lectures, or by mesmerism, whatever kinds of things they can do. They put your mind into such a frame that you accept these destructive ideas, for yourself individually, or maybe for the collective.
So this mind is just a myth, and we are working through this mind. We are all the time satisfying ourselves by saying 'Oh, that's my mind', 'My mind wants it'. ...
Because this mind, which is just a bubble, as I told you, and is so limited, that it cannot comprehend the beauty, the glory, the expanse of reality- this mind is just a collection of all the garbage, we should say, which we have to, somehow or other, deny, and tell ourselves that 'I have to go beyond my mind. So-called mind of mine has done no good for me. And this mind of mine, which has been all the time controlling me, is just like the watch we have made and is controlling us, or like the computer that controls us'.
So we have to be careful that we are the ones that have created this mind, and this mind has no business to control us. Many people try to control the mind. There's a way of doing it, that 'I'll control my mind now'. Now, try to understand, how will you control the mind only though mind? Either by ego or by your conditioning. You have no means of controlling your mind, because it is the mind which you have created, and that is just existing there, which you cannot control, though you might think 'I can control'.
You have to go beyond this mind. And to go beyond this mind, the most helpful thing is Kundalini awakening, because She passes through your limbic area, pierces through your fontanel bone area, and just takes you away, out, into the realm of reality, and the Yoga takes place between your brain, I should say, your heart, with this All-pervading Power. She's the One which connects, She's the One who does it. Many people are doing Sahaja Yoga, I know that, but it's difficult for them, sometimes, to get to meditation, to establish this thoughtless awareness, which is an extremely important state which you all should achieve. So many Sahaja Yogis are there, and I'm happy to know that they are getting deeper and deeper, but as long as they are in the turmoil of their mind they cannot progress.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extracts from Birthday Puja 1996
Then you find people whom you can impress, also, put ideas into their heads - by reading, they learn, or by their lectures, or by mesmerism, whatever kinds of things they can do. They put your mind into such a frame that you accept these destructive ideas, for yourself individually, or maybe for the collective.
So this mind is just a myth, and we are working through this mind. We are all the time satisfying ourselves by saying 'Oh, that's my mind', 'My mind wants it'. ...
Because this mind, which is just a bubble, as I told you, and is so limited, that it cannot comprehend the beauty, the glory, the expanse of reality- this mind is just a collection of all the garbage, we should say, which we have to, somehow or other, deny, and tell ourselves that 'I have to go beyond my mind. So-called mind of mine has done no good for me. And this mind of mine, which has been all the time controlling me, is just like the watch we have made and is controlling us, or like the computer that controls us'.
So we have to be careful that we are the ones that have created this mind, and this mind has no business to control us. Many people try to control the mind. There's a way of doing it, that 'I'll control my mind now'. Now, try to understand, how will you control the mind only though mind? Either by ego or by your conditioning. You have no means of controlling your mind, because it is the mind which you have created, and that is just existing there, which you cannot control, though you might think 'I can control'.
You have to go beyond this mind. And to go beyond this mind, the most helpful thing is Kundalini awakening, because She passes through your limbic area, pierces through your fontanel bone area, and just takes you away, out, into the realm of reality, and the Yoga takes place between your brain, I should say, your heart, with this All-pervading Power. She's the One which connects, She's the One who does it. Many people are doing Sahaja Yoga, I know that, but it's difficult for them, sometimes, to get to meditation, to establish this thoughtless awareness, which is an extremely important state which you all should achieve. So many Sahaja Yogis are there, and I'm happy to know that they are getting deeper and deeper, but as long as they are in the turmoil of their mind they cannot progress.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extracts from Birthday Puja 1996
14.5.08
Electricity
Advice given by H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi:
"We are so much dependent on electricity, is not a very good thing. So we should have always provision for something natural. We should keep some lanterns and things, and should try to live more with the Nature than with this electricity. I tell you, this electricity is responsible for spoiling our eyes very much. Supposing we had used those lights which older generation had used, we would never have strained so much our eyes as we are with this electricity, because, not that it gives us light, but also it takes away light from our eyes. So, too much use of electricity is made us like slaves to it. As you know that in America once the electricity failed and so many people died. So it’s more to depend on natural things, and this is a good trend that you have, that you try to have more natural surroundings, more natural places to live in."
(Shri Ganesha Puja, Gidgegannup, Perth, Australia, 9/2/92)
"Now, we have very sophisticated places in the West, very sophisticated. You know they have everything electrical, you push the button and everything is there. Specially in these modern planes when I travel, I don’t know which one to push because they are so slim and so delicate you see, need a special artist to do that. All this is for what for getting more money, and more money and impressing people. But at the same time people are fed up; when all these sophistications are on. They are fed up with computers, they are fed up with electricity, they are fed up with cement, they are fed up all kinds of artificial thing, is a fact. More, more, much more in the West than in the developing countries. They are just fed up. Now this is the force, this is the strength. Why are they fed up? They are fed up because they have realized it doesn’t give you joy. It doesn’t give you soothing feeling. It irritates them. So it is against human mind, human character or human civilization, something inhuman."
(Shri Adi Shakti Puja 1995)
"After some time you won't be using hands or head or anything, it will be that microchips will be going on. But with this kind of a thing, with this extreme behaviour, you'll become a machine yourself. A slave of the machine. Today the petrol is exhausted, tomorrow electricity is exhausted, then what are you going to do. You don't know even to count two plus two. So you are left without any counting, you'll become the same primitive man and I don't know what you will be doing, climbing on the trees and living like monkeys, I don't know what will happen."
(Talk, Caxton Hall, London, 18/5/81)
"We are so much dependent on electricity, is not a very good thing. So we should have always provision for something natural. We should keep some lanterns and things, and should try to live more with the Nature than with this electricity. I tell you, this electricity is responsible for spoiling our eyes very much. Supposing we had used those lights which older generation had used, we would never have strained so much our eyes as we are with this electricity, because, not that it gives us light, but also it takes away light from our eyes. So, too much use of electricity is made us like slaves to it. As you know that in America once the electricity failed and so many people died. So it’s more to depend on natural things, and this is a good trend that you have, that you try to have more natural surroundings, more natural places to live in."
(Shri Ganesha Puja, Gidgegannup, Perth, Australia, 9/2/92)
"Now, we have very sophisticated places in the West, very sophisticated. You know they have everything electrical, you push the button and everything is there. Specially in these modern planes when I travel, I don’t know which one to push because they are so slim and so delicate you see, need a special artist to do that. All this is for what for getting more money, and more money and impressing people. But at the same time people are fed up; when all these sophistications are on. They are fed up with computers, they are fed up with electricity, they are fed up with cement, they are fed up all kinds of artificial thing, is a fact. More, more, much more in the West than in the developing countries. They are just fed up. Now this is the force, this is the strength. Why are they fed up? They are fed up because they have realized it doesn’t give you joy. It doesn’t give you soothing feeling. It irritates them. So it is against human mind, human character or human civilization, something inhuman."
(Shri Adi Shakti Puja 1995)
"After some time you won't be using hands or head or anything, it will be that microchips will be going on. But with this kind of a thing, with this extreme behaviour, you'll become a machine yourself. A slave of the machine. Today the petrol is exhausted, tomorrow electricity is exhausted, then what are you going to do. You don't know even to count two plus two. So you are left without any counting, you'll become the same primitive man and I don't know what you will be doing, climbing on the trees and living like monkeys, I don't know what will happen."
(Talk, Caxton Hall, London, 18/5/81)
5.5.08
Third eye
"Today we are going to understand the center of Agnya - Agnya Chakra which is placed on the crossing of the optic chiasma. The nerves that supply the eyes go backwards in the opposite direction and wherever they cross, this subtle center is situated. It has a continuous connection with the other center through the medulla oblongata. This center has got two petals. And this subtle center on one side acts through the eyes and at the back of the head where you have some protrusion. This is the physical side of this center is. Now the people who talk of the third eye, this is the third eye. So that we have two eyes with which we see and there’s a third eye, which is a subtler eye through which we can see.
If you see this eye, that means you are away from it. For example, if you can see your eyes, that means you are seeing your reflection, not the reality. If you see anything, that means you are looking at it. So those people who say they see an eye, for example people who take LSD and all such things, they start seeing another eye. They just see this eye and they think their third eye has opened. Actually you are very much away from the eye, that’s why you can see it. You go to a supraconcious level on the right side, and on the left side to the subconscious level you can see the eye. But in Sahaja Yoga you have to see through that eye, like a window, you can look at the window but if you see through the window, you can’t look at the window. So this illusion that people have that “we can see third eye and that’s why our Kundalini is awakened”, they are sadly mistaken.
This is a very narrow passage through which attention cannot pass normally. Is an impossible thing. Is a very narrow passage where the ego and superego fit onto each other and cross each other just like this. And there is no gap in between for the Kundalini to pass through. This superego and ego go back, go downward, and come to the Vishuddhi Chakra and circle round it and go in the same direction. So, you find that they come up to this place, they start from this place, go up to the Agnya Chakra and then they cross over. But here, they are in the same direction as they were. Here they cross over. So when you have a problem on the left hand side, you get the effects of that on the right hand side. ... So this third eye is to be penetrated through."
(H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Talk on Agnya Chakra, Delhi, 1983)
If you see this eye, that means you are away from it. For example, if you can see your eyes, that means you are seeing your reflection, not the reality. If you see anything, that means you are looking at it. So those people who say they see an eye, for example people who take LSD and all such things, they start seeing another eye. They just see this eye and they think their third eye has opened. Actually you are very much away from the eye, that’s why you can see it. You go to a supraconcious level on the right side, and on the left side to the subconscious level you can see the eye. But in Sahaja Yoga you have to see through that eye, like a window, you can look at the window but if you see through the window, you can’t look at the window. So this illusion that people have that “we can see third eye and that’s why our Kundalini is awakened”, they are sadly mistaken.
This is a very narrow passage through which attention cannot pass normally. Is an impossible thing. Is a very narrow passage where the ego and superego fit onto each other and cross each other just like this. And there is no gap in between for the Kundalini to pass through. This superego and ego go back, go downward, and come to the Vishuddhi Chakra and circle round it and go in the same direction. So, you find that they come up to this place, they start from this place, go up to the Agnya Chakra and then they cross over. But here, they are in the same direction as they were. Here they cross over. So when you have a problem on the left hand side, you get the effects of that on the right hand side. ... So this third eye is to be penetrated through."
(H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Talk on Agnya Chakra, Delhi, 1983)
29.3.08
Gayatri Mantra
"Today it's a different day, altogether, for all of you, because this is the Puja of Adi Shakti. And Adi Shakti is the Complete Personality. It's not only the left side that you know. You all know only the left side, from Shri Ganesha, through the ascent of different different Chakras on the left side. I didn't want to tell you about the right side, to begin with, because those who have gone through the right side just got lost. They got Gayatri Mantra from the writings. But they didn't know what it was about. They just used to learn it by heart. They didn't also know the real meaning of it, and that is how they moved on the right side, and, I don’t know, they landed up at the Agnya. And then they were trying for the Self Realisation. They were promised that if you do this right side properly, you will reach to the ultimate goal of Self Realisation. But none of them reached there. Most of them got into a terrible temper. Terrible temper, of cursing others, of destroying others, all these things they learnt, through their right side movement. There was no Kundalini awakening. And they were made to go up to, at the most, Agnya Chakra. And then they collapsed into different places of complete ignorance. All these books were written without understanding that it's not easy to go via right side. But best was, to awaken your Kundalini."
(H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Shri Adi Shakti Puja 2002)
The Gayatri Mantra is found, in Sanskrit, in the earliest part of the Rig Veda (iii,62,10):
Aum Bhur Bhuva Svah
Tat Savitur Varenyam
Bhargo Devasya Dhimahi
Dhiyo Yo Naha Prachodayat
and each syllable has a precise meaning.
There is also a longer form:
Aum Bhur, Aum Bhuva, Aum Svah,Aum Maha, Aum Janaha, Aum Tapaha, Aum Satyam, Aum Tat Savitur, Varenyam, Bhargo Devasya Dhimahi Dhiyo Yo Naha Prachodayat
and many variant forms.
(H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Shri Adi Shakti Puja 2002)
The Gayatri Mantra is found, in Sanskrit, in the earliest part of the Rig Veda (iii,62,10):
Aum Bhur Bhuva Svah
Tat Savitur Varenyam
Bhargo Devasya Dhimahi
Dhiyo Yo Naha Prachodayat
and each syllable has a precise meaning.
There is also a longer form:
Aum Bhur, Aum Bhuva, Aum Svah,Aum Maha, Aum Janaha, Aum Tapaha, Aum Satyam, Aum Tat Savitur, Varenyam, Bhargo Devasya Dhimahi Dhiyo Yo Naha Prachodayat
and many variant forms.
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