Soldier of Love

I am a soldier of love
Not the stupid kind of love
but intelligent love, the love that understands
The love that cares, the love that wants to help evolving

The Mother has given me weapons for my war of love

She has given me forgiveness
Not the tolerant and accepting kind of forgiveness
But forgiveness, which is sincere, forgiveness that does correct
Forgiveness which frees the heart to love, frees the heart to speak

She has given me the gift of knowledge
Not the knowledge gained from books or universities
but knowledge from experiences, knowledge grown from observation
Knowledge, which gives benevolence, knowledge that opens up the mind

But most of all
She has given me a heart with courage
Courage to love without the need for recognition
Courage to forgive without the fear of tolerating wrong
Courage to understand the needs of others, courage to speak the truth

At this time, I’m still in training for my war of love
My weapons still need honing, my marksmanship improvement
My heart has still to grow; my mind needs still expanding

But the battle plan is laid, the purpose of the war is clear

Humanity needs to be conquered
with love, forgiveness and with knowledge

Humanity needs to be conquered
to gain freedom for the hearts and minds and souls

Walter Lerchner


Poet's comment
A meditation on a kind of soldier who fights a war with weapons which build instead of destroy. Weapons, which bring benevolence instead of harm.
The poem will be part of a collection: Realizations - A book of poetic essays about life and human nature

Love

The other day I was talking about love. Now the love, as it is understood, is in your heart as this; but do you know the ocean of love is your Sahastrara? When your Sahastrara is filled with love, then the life is changed. You don't become a very intelligent man, a very dynamic personality, but you are nothing but love, and this love is so self-satisfying. You are not bothered if others don't love you or they love you. You don't see to that part. What you see is the enjoyment from that love. It's a tremendous ocean of love. You all have got it. And once you have entered into Sahaja Yoga, you know that you have entered into Sahastrara. And Sahastrara is the - I tell you - the source of all the truth. Truth is there - the complete truth. Truth is the knowledge and also the truth is love.

If you love somebody, you know the truths about that person. You find out whether the person is good or bad or anything. It's very difficult. But if you love that person, then immediately you know what's wrong with that person, what's right from that person. But because of your love, you encompass the whole atmosphere between you and him or between you and others. You don't see the bad points easily - very difficult. ...

So residing in the Sahastrara, if you see the waves of love flowing, maybe some people might take advantage of it, doesn't matter, makes no difference. Some people can also mislead you, it's all right, all kinds of things they do, but, when there is love, you see, you are satisfied, you are not bothered, because you love everyone. ...

Anybody who has innocence would know the technique of love. If you are very clever, intelligent, you can answer back, you can correct people, do that. No. That's not the way. If you have love, you can correct people without saying anything to them, because love is a supreme intelligence. It gives you all the correct method. It works out that. The whole thing works out that, and then people say, 'Mother, it's a miracle how it has happened.' No, no, it's no miracle, is simple thing, that love has acted in its own way. Love is not a dead thing. It's not a dead sea. It not only thinks, but it acts and acts so beautifully. Sometimes I'm amazed at its working. We call it a miracle, this, that. Nothing - it's love. ...

Love should be just open. Then you will see where do you stand as far as your country's concerned, as far as your relationships are concerned. You will know everything. You need not harm, you need not say anything, you need not quarrel, fight, but you will know - because love gives you knowledge, complete knowledge about the person. You know the person, what he's up to, what he's doing, but you don't mind because you love that person. So you don't mind. 'All right, go ahead.' It's like a little child. It's going on the wrong way. Let it go.

Now with all these things, whatever you wear, you are very lucky people who have reached Sahastrara and that you all know everything about Sahaja Yoga. But without practicing Sahaja Yoga, you cannot work it out because then, by practicing it, you'll know about your Self. When you meditate you'll know your Self, and then you get just filled with love. But now, while sitting, you just start thinking, 'He's a very bad man. I hate him,' this thing. All such stupid ideas come into your head - or 'I must buy this ornament' or 'I must buy this particular car' and all that, then you are not loving. But if you love, then what happens is that whatever you need, you get. Whatever you want, you get.

You have to first love yourself, but that love should be pure love. As a result of that, you'll cleanse yourself. Sometimes you are so much identified with your temperaments, with your nature, with you personality, whatever it is, but then you realize, in that love, that 'This is not love. This is blind.'

Love gives you a complete idea about yourself. 'What am I? What problems I have? Why do I create problems? Why do I get into problems?' You'll be amazed that love has such a powerful light in it, that it is the truth and it is the knowledge. ...

And this love is universal. It has nothing to do with any particular type or particular style. It's universal. That is why Sahaja Yoga is universal. It is spreading everywhere. I want you to enjoy that love. ...

So I would request you to find out that ocean in your head at the Sahastrara, which is being filled by your heart. Do you know Heart and Sahastrara are very much in relationship with each other? Their style is such that if somebody's head is not all right, the heart won't be all right. If the heart is not all right, his head won't be all right. But is more reflection from the head to the heart.

They say that there's genes are bad or this - nothing of the kind. After Sahaja Yoga, your genes are changed, you are changed; everything is changed now. So your brain is filled with nothing but light. Your heart is filled with light and you are just bouncing with love, all the time with humor, with loving care. Every day, I mean, it's so different. But that you have achieved now, now you have got it. So just enjoy that. ...

I don't know what else to say. I mean, it is something I would like you to do, for you to get it, this kind of life where you just flow with your love.

May God bless you very well.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Birthday Felicitations, Delhi, 23/3/2002

(2002-0323)

The Power of Love

Of course, as I told you this morning that there is a mechanism, there is a method, there is an engineering behind all these lines charged by switching off and on of one switch. There is a light which works automatically when you push a button. But that does not mean there is no engineering, there is no mechanism. There is a mechanism, a complicated mechanism of God which works on the Power of Love. Can you think of Power of Love that thinks, which is wisdom? You cannot imagine such a power that thinks, which is wisdom itself. Can you think of electricity that can think, which can control its light automatically according to the need I want to have, which can think. This is the power which is within ourselves which thinks, regulates our being, growth, evolution. That is the power we are going to harvest. That is the power we are going to be one with. That is the power which is going to get us that integration of the vibration which has created all this universe which exists even in the molecules and atoms, with our awareness. This is the power which I call as Kundalini which is kept in your being absolutely waiting for the day when you can receive the blessings of the personality who knows the job, who is love Herself. That is the day it is going to rise automatically, it is going to work out.

This is written in our books. Even if you read Bible you find it is said: "I will appear before you like tongues of flames." That is nothing but the centers, the chakras. They really look like tongues of flames. Specially the Sahastrara looks like tongues of flames.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Talk in New Delhi, March 1975

Easter 2002

Today we have come here to worship Jesus Christ and His Mother. It’s such a coincidence that the Mother of Christ came and stayed in Turkey. Isn’t it surprising that She should come here after the crucifixion of Christ and stayed here. I wonder if He also came with Her later on? But they say then He went to Kashmir and She was also there. Quite possible, on their way, they might have gone there. So, we are here to worship them.

According to Sahaja Yoga, She was the Incarnation of Mahalakshmi and She’s the One who sacrificed Her Son for the sake of religion. But unfortunately, nobody understood Her value. Nobody saw that She was such a great spiritual personality. Only through Sahaja Yoga you can understand that She was a very great personality who gave birth to Christ.

It is very unfortunate that She was not respected, specially in the Islamic world. Because of that, the women in the Islamic culture have no place. My experience is very sad, about them. We have started an organization for the rehabilitation of women who are destitutes and all of them who have applied are Muslim ladies – very sad. While Mohammad Sahib has said that you must look after your mother, despite that all these women – some of them have eight children, ten children – have come to this destitute home. Of course, we have to give them place. We have to look after them because we don’t believe in all these small type of ideas about religion. Most important is human religion.

We have to combine all these religions together. It’s a terrible task because Muslim won’t respect Muslim. Christians won’t respect Hindus. I mean it’s a funny thing that’s going on. They all are for God and for God’s work and His love. Despite that, there’s no respect. There’s no love. On the contrary they’re all quarrelling, fighting, killing, everywhere. It’s very sad that in the name of religion and God, people should become so cruel and so absurd.

This is the only solution – is to give them Self-realization, which is the Realization was called as Miraj in the Koran. It’s called as Miraj. But they have said that nobody can get Miraj. Mohammad Sahib got it, but nobody else – like they have banned people from getting Self-realization, which is not true. All human beings can get Self-realization, whether they are from Africa, England, America, India, anywhere. They all can get their Miraj. One should understand that no human being is created in this world to fight, to fight each other. Even the animals don’t fight. Why should human beings fight – that too in the name of religion, in the name of God. Christ came on this Earth just to create oneness of religion, but even the Christians, they only started fighting, dominating others. It’s a big world of turmoil, where everybody is fighting in the name of God and in the name of religion.

So our religion is global, is one religion. We respect all the Deities, all the Gods and Goddesses – respect them and worship them. We are not so stupid not to understand that they are all One. Also after getting Realization, you realize that all these exist on our central nervous system. They exist on our chakras. They are not there just because people have told us in history and all that, but actually in - that’s a fact, that all of them are there together, working out the resurrection of the whole world. So the greatest thing that Christ has done is the resurrection part and, in this resurrection, He suffered a lot. He had to go through lots of ordeals and then His body itself was resurrected. On the same light, Sahaja Yoga is working out – that you get your Realization - means your resurrection. All your wrong ideas disappear. All your nonsense disappears and nothing but love, understanding, comes in.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Easter Puja 2002, Istanbul, Turkey (2002-0421)

Shri Krishna Puja 1973

Shri Krishna Puja 1973 by Sahaja Library

...What sweetness, what beauty that knowledge has given them, and what security of understanding that everywhere in the whole world we have brothers and sisters who are on their inner being, on their divine, and how we are bound together with that love. When I talk of love, people think that I am trying to make you weak people - because people think those who love are weak. But the most dynamic power in this world is that of love. Is the most aggressive power - is that of love. Even when we suffer, in love, it is out of our strength that we suffer and not out of our weakness. ...

The love that I am talking about - the divine love - makes you not only strong but dynamic. It is the greatest luminous power that we can think of. Only when love is surrounded by gross, and is lost in the gross, it looks as if it is weak and under chains. The time it is released, the dynamic power of love can transcend all the evil powers of the world.

When people get their realization, automatically the ego drops out - to a great extent I should say. Because, you say that the vibrations are passing; you don’t say that you are giving them. Because the dropping of the ego sometimes it happens that you feel that whatever you wanted to have you have got it, and you better not talk about it. When there is any opposition from anywhere, you shun it and sit away from it. You don’t want to face the opposition of any negative opposition - whether it is by speech or by… even by evil methods. We run away from that thinking, “Oh God! How are we going to face it?” On the contrary a person who is negative, who has got hatred ... starts talking big. He thinks he is above everybody else, he can befool all the world; He takes a responsibility on himself. He starts a big ashram or some big place where he sits down with all his ignorance and starts spreading his knowledge - the so called - to people. By his methods people get impressed and they all go and fall at his feet.

While the realized sits at home quietly wondering, “What are these fools doing?” But, it is not now for the realized to sit down and to wonder and laugh at the foolishness of the people who are not yet realized. Not even to take pity on them, but to come out, come out with the sword of love to win the whole world. It is very very essential. If the creation has to be saved, then you are not to keep mum about it. All the wrong ideas about love, all the falsehood about love, has to be given up. One must know that it is the dynamic power. And it won’t allow you to sit comfortably with yourself, enjoying the peace and the bliss, when the rest of the world is not enjoying that and is playing into the hands of the evil geniuses who have come in this world to destroy and to bring the satanic realm on this earth. ...

Now the days are gone when the people had to suffer. Christ suffered for us. Of course, Christ never suffered, because He never suffered. He never wept. He was like those cocks, a very powerful personality. But today is the day to brighten up your understanding about your own strength that is within you. Those who are gross should worry about their insecurities and their problems and their organizations - but not for the people who are realized. I have told you many a times and today he also remarked that you should know you are never alone when you are realized. There have been many people who have been realized, before even you were born, who exist, who are anxious to help you at every moment. In our shastras (scriptures) we call them Chiranjivas (eternal beings), you know them. They are people who are Niranjanas, as he said about Bhairava and Hanumana. All these people exist and they are waiting just for a call from you. ...

Oh! We tried and tried and tried, in different lives. Nothing worked. And now it is going to click like a spark. The chain reaction will start. But we have to have strong machines to carry that. Otherwise the fuse will be off. Only the strength that is in you is to be felt by your attention. That’s the only thing you have to do - is to feel your attention and give up all that is falsehood. All that is falsehood - you see within yourself and you will know what is falsehood and you just drop it. Accept only the truth, and the truth will give you that power to be the real instrument, to carry this channel, that force of love. ...

The complete power ... will flow through your Sahastrara, inside your being, and completely revolve around your whole being and transform the inside into a complete Chaitanya Shakti, a complete divine power. Allow it to come in, accept it. Accept it without any fear. Let it get in. Every moment, every moment keep awake. It’s a very precarious time that we are up to. I have only two hands you can see that very clearly. ... I can do everything but not to make you do something. Your will, will be respected throughout. Every other thing can be looked after except for one - that you should be a perfect machine, a perfect channel, a perfect flute for my lord to play that tune of love. It is for you to clear out all your seven holes. It is for you to clear out your hollowness and to be complete within yourself and He knows his job. He is the artist. But you are the instruments. And the harmonious music from so many souls can fill the ears of these evil people and can penetrate into their heart and put love into them and may be that they themselves will give up their evil ways and fall at the feet of love.

Krishna is to be born within you today. A five-year-old boy went to kill Kalia. That Krishna is to born within you. Went and sat on the Kalia’s Sahastrara and was pressing with His feet and all the people were seeing this great drama of Krishna’s dancing on the Kalia’s Sahastrara. Krishna is to be born within your being. When you are Krishna, you are not going to see me. Let us now go to the state, which is beyond words, beyond thoughts, into the realm of thoughtless awareness where the Divine is pouring its blessings. These people have decided today to have a puja, and you know what happens to me when you do my puja. So with all those problems that will be facing later, I would like all of you to be attentive about the puja and to take full advantage of that. With this puja you get the Mother’s protection, to begin with. And my chakras, when they start moving, they give you special powers of love and bless all your chakras and fill them up completely. So I would like you, though some two people are coming to do this, all of you to feel that you all are doing it - and you can feel it that way with oneness. And the blessings of my being will flow to you automatically.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extracts from Shri Krishna Puja, Mumbai, 1973 (1973-0828)


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You are transmitters

You are transmitters. Everywhere you are sitting in meditation you are transmitting vibrations, do you know that? At that time if you are thinking, say of your jobs and your other things which you have been thinking before, the transmission is poorer. Think of love. Think of the whole country, think of the whole world at that time. You are transmitters of these waves of love, and love will flow from you.

I told you once that you are made in the form of Ganesha, and that’s what you have to do. You know there are vibrations from you coming out. You are sending vibrations out, you know that. That means you are like any deity which is thrown out of the Mother’s, I mean Earth’s, womb, and a big temple is raised, and thousands of people go to worship that. And they say it is a temple, of a Jagrut Devta, means a person…jagrut means enlightened, awakened. And that’s just a stone, a stone that comes out and people build a temple on top of that and go there and worship that, while there are so many already sitting here, so many jagrut, realized souls. These are living, these are moving, these are understanding. They maneuvere. The stones only emit vibrations, to clear the atmosphere, but you, you can raise the Kundalini. They cannot raise the Kundalini, you can.

And what are you doing about it? Such a precious thing you have got. What are you doing about it? Is it because there is no business with it, that we are taking it so slowly? Supposing it’s an enterprise, then everybody would be up and doing. Is it? We have to change our ways and methods of understanding. The reward of God is thousand-fold than any enterprise can bestow upon you. When He blesses you, you wouldn’t even have words to thank Him, to that extent He goes.

Are we depending on Him or on our own old ways? We have to change very much, we have to transform ourself into new style of thinking. It is very, very important. I hope you’ll think about it, what I have talked to you today. Don’t take to life which has not brought any happiness to you. You have your friends, who are Sahaja Yogis. Change your friends. Change your methods of life. You’ll enjoy much more.

This is for you to understand, about yourself and about the importance of Sahaja Yoga. Unless and until it is an enterprise, nobody takes it up seriously. This is the style of Western thinking. It has to be whether it is hocus-pocus or real enterprise, doesn’t matter. As long as there is money exchanges, everybody is up, and doing. But when it comes to Sahaja Yoga, they have no time, even to meditate. Because we have not yet loved, we have not felt that love within ourselves. I wish you could all feel that depth of love. Then you would go all out, to work it out for yourself and for others.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Talk at Caxton Hall, 15/10/79

Shri Amba and the Left Side

Navaratri 2000 from Sahaja Library on Vimeo.

Today we are going to worship the Devi; we call Her Amba, and by many other names. She is the last, we should say the residual Power. When She has done everything, She becomes the Kundalini and settles in the triangular bone of yours. This is the Mooladhara Chakra. But actually She is expressed more on the left side, because that time She is purely the Amba.

This left side is a very, very important thing for all the human beings. If you have no left side you cannot balance yourself, to begin with. And it is said that She gives you a real personality of a Sahaja yogi. That is, your left side if it is weak, then you have to worship Her and request Her that 'Please enrich our left side.' By enriching your left side, what She does – She is a Comforter, so what does She give you? First of all She makes you rest. It’s said that She makes you rest; that is, She makes you sleep.

If you are too much thinking about future and you are so much indulging into the futuristic planning, you have some problems. But the best thing is if you can sleep then it’s a great comfort, it’s a very great comfort to you that you can sleep and that you can take some rest. Without Her you cannot sleep; absence of Her, you cannot sleep. So sleeping is a very important function of the body which is brought forth by the left side. That’s why we worship Her, because She should give us rest.

She’s the one who gives you peace. She’s the one who gives you also illusions, called as bhranti. She gives you all the artistic talents. She protects you. But this part that is She is creating illusions for you, that’s very, very important; because those people who are against Divine, who are trying to be away from the reality, She creates illusions for them. So She separates you from those people, while you know the reality; and all such people who are troubling or trying to destroy Her work, She is the one who creates illusions. She is the one who resides as the Kundalini. So we can say that part of Her is the Kundalini, but another part that She has is the one which resides in the left side.

Now there are seven levels which She resides. Once you start enjoying Her on the first level, then She has all these qualities described to you: that She’s peace, She’s the one who gives you love, She’s the one who creates all the beautiful things for you. She is the Mother. And what She expects you is to enjoy Her protection, enjoy Her love and be always under Her complete protection. So this is a very important part of Her work.

And the second one is that She is the Kundalini. So She also acts on seven levels. Seven levels She moves, we can say horizontally, and seven levels She moves upward. And all these seven levels on both the sides, She does tremendous work for us. How She protects us through these seven levels is like this, that when you start going towards the left side there are seven deities which try to throw you back into normalcy. They are Shankhini, Dakini – these are the names. And by that you try to come to normal conditions. ...

So at one time She’s the one who is peace-giving, She’s the one who looks after you, protects you, and She’s the one who saves you from psychosomatic diseases. It’s a very powerful entity. If She was not there I don’t know what would have happened. So we should worship Her within ourselves, we should respect Her and understand Her. She is your Mother. As Kundalini She is your particular Mother. She is the one, Amba, who gives you your second birth. And as the left-side Goddess She gives you a very good support in your ascent, very good support in your ascent. Without Her you could not balance yourself. ...

Now as Sahaja yogis you have to develop your discrimination of understanding what others are; also about yourself. Why do you hanker after things? Try to understand. What is so great about it, why do you want to do it? Question yourself. Is it some possession, is it some fashion, or is it your individual feeling?

So, I’m trying to tell you that this left side of yours is so protective. At the same time if you are very aggressive about your left side, you are thrown from one to another to another, down into hell. And then you suffer. So you must understand, your wisdom should be there, which you can develop very much with the help of the left side. Wisdom can be very well developed.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Navaratri Puja 2000

The Love Within

It is not easy to describe or explain Love in human words. This you can only feel within your Self. That is what, once you start feeling, you can feel who is your Guru, whom do you think you are being talked and persuaded and made to live in a particular manner. All that is possible. Everything is possible, humanly possible, but to love and to enjoy Love is not so easy unless and until you are immersed in it. It’s very gratifying, it is very lovable to see how people love each other and then this Love spreads. Love begets Love. If somebody has Love, it just spreads. You need not tell anyone, you need not confess it, but it will spread. And this is what one has to learn, how to see that Love in other person.

Somehow, we are here already in Love because of Sahaj happening. We all love and we enjoy love, shows on our faces that we are in Love, in our characters, in our lives, that we are in Love. What a thing, which is not very normal, becomes so normal and so easily available. It is a very big blessing that you are human beings and that this source of Love is there plus the feeling for Love is there. It’s a very intricate situation which cannot be explained in words, only one can be in it and enjoy it.

But today is the day when we are celebrating the Guru Puja. The greatest Guru that we have is Love. Sahaj Love is the Guru within us which teaches us, it somehow or other leads us. We are lead into that great line of understanding, for which we don’t have to go to any college, to any school for education. It is something so much within that it works and expresses itself, expresses like a light. Such people we can make out because they are fully enlightened. They have light and through that light they see the whole world which is very innocent and simple for them. We have love for our children naturally, we have love for our parents naturally. We have love for some people, but that love is different from God’s Love, I’m telling you, that has some connections, some meanings but this Love which is - cannot be described in words, has to be felt within.

Same, when you talk of your Guru, you should have that Love within you. Why do you feel it so much? The reason is Guru loves you and you love Guru. That’s the only reason why should you love your Guru. Now, there is no reason for that. Because Love is Love. That is how the Guru becomes very important in life. We have people who love their Guru and are very much in chaste understanding of their Love. Then this great opportunity of Love that we are, we are here to enjoy each other fully, from our heart, that there is this ocean within us, we have to just get submerged in that ocean. If we are lost in that ocean, then we’ll have no problems, no questions. Everything will be our own and we can manage everything without any argument, without any questioning. That is what is being Sahaj. The Sahaj way, if you have this Love you enjoy. You enjoy yourself and enjoy everybody else because it is Sahaj. You don’t have to make any efforts, don’t have to try anything. Just it is there and it works. The feeling of Love has no way of expressing itself. It is just there, it cannot express because it is without expression. It is just to be felt within yourself. Then you want to do so many things: you want to help everyone, you want to help yourself, you want to do good to others. So much has been done by great leaders of the world because they had that Love. They had nothing else but this Love which they could not contain them within themselves, so, they tried to spread it. And they are called now as our Guru, as our masters. With that Love within, which approached people in that unique manner. That’s the thing that we cannot possess, you cannot claim, it is there and it works. It works automatically. This is what we have to know that we are that Love. That Love is within us. We have to have knowledge, we have to have a complete knowledge that we are that Love. That will solve our problem, because you can explain everything, all your behaviour, all your failures, - everything you can explain when you know that you are endowed with that Love. This is what is the Guru, is the Love within you which wants to share Love with others, which wants to give Love to others. This is what is peace and joy. I can go on talking on Love, but to feel it within yourself is the biggest thing. Like water: if you are thirsty, we can give you water, but we cannot drink. You have to drink water and you have to feel the taste, feel the feeling, what it does, - and all that is together, that’s not separate.

I don’t think the subject was too subtle for you people. You all have reached a certain amount of understanding of that Love. I hope, it grows and you grow into it, all of you, and enjoy it. May God bless you!

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Guru Puja 2004

Love

It is said that God is love, you have heard that many a times and many people have explained in their own ways what is love, but to feel that love is the best way of understanding it. Even if you explain or describe in all details, though it is described in all detail, you cannot enjoy love without experiencing it. This experience comes to us because God himself has placed within us the mechanism to absorb this love and to manifest it. It is a very delicate mechanism within us, extremely delicate. This mechanism is placed in our heart and by our ignorance so many times we spoil this mechanism or disturb it, or sometimes even completely destroy it. The light of love is joy, anything else cannot give you joy. Its only the love that you feel in your heart (that) gives you joy.

This mechanism acts in seven layers within us. In the periphery of these seven layers we gave got ripples of this joy arising they come to the shores of our brain and create the bubble of joy, but again if the brain is a very rational rock then these bubbles dissolve giving no effect to the rock. So, a loving person is thousand times better than a rational person.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Advice on All the Chakras, Mumbai, India, 30/12/79

Shri Saraswati and Love

So the basis of all creativity, of Saraswati, is love. If there is no love there’s no creativity. It’s even in the deeper sense, you see. People who have created all the scientific things are also out of love for the masses, not for themselves. Nobody has produced anything for themselves. If they make something for themselves it has to become for universal use, otherwise it has no meaning. ...

So, all the activity on the right hand side, of Saraswati, basically has to end up in love. Starts with love and ends up in love. Whichever does not end up in love coils up and finishes off. It just disappears. So you can see that even matter, which is not used for love, just finishes off. The basis has to be love.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extracts from Shri Saraswati Puja, Dulia, India, 14/1/83

Truth and Reality

The Truth and Reality are like flowers surrounded by thorns. It’s not easy to accept the Truth- also very difficult to accept the Reality- before you smell the flower. And the flower is the Love, and the fragrance is the Joy. And that you could see the fragrance today. All the thorns have vanished, all the fear of Reality and Truth has vanished, and now the Reality, which is Truth, which is Love, which is Joy.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Talk at end of Music Night, India Tour, Alibag, 29/12/91

Love

Alice Walker, American writer:
This is what I want for our country, more than anything. I want a leader who can love us. This is not what we usually say, or think of, when we are trying to choose a leader. People like to talk about "experience" and war and the economy, and making Americans look good again. I care about all these things. But when the lights are out and I'm left with just the stars in a super-dark sky, and I feel the new intense chill that seems to be the underbreath of even the hottest day, when I know that global warming may send our planet into a deep freeze even before my remaining years run out, then I think about what it is that truly matters to me. Not just as a human, but as an American.
I want a leader who can love us. And, truthfully, by our collective behaviour, we have made it hard to demand this. We are as we are, imperfect to the max, racist and sexist and greedy above all; still, I feel we deserve leaders who love us. We will not survive more of what we have had: leaders who love nothing, not even themselves. We know they don't love themselves because if they did they would feel compassion for us, so often lost, floundering, reeling from one bad thought, one horrid act to another. Killing, under order, folks we don't know; abusing children of whose existence we hadn't heard; maiming and murdering animals that have done us no harm.
I would say that, in my lifetime, it was only the Kennedys, in national leadership, who seemed even to know what compassion meant; certainly John, and then Bobby, were unafraid to grow an informed and open heart. (After he left the White House, President Carter blossomed into a sheltering tree of peace, quite admirably.)
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H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi:
The power of the Goddess is of love. Whatever She does with the whole world is through Her compassion and love. The whole body, the whole being of the Goddess is made of compassion and love and nothing else. This power gives full understanding of the reality and also this enlightens inside and outside. For example, if you love somebody, you know everything about that person. It has nothing to do with money. It's the highest, most valuable, very important powers that you have. Even when you think about something noble, something benevolent, this power is filled into that thought and then this thought fills in, into the universe, into your country, into individuals. The aim of this compassion and love is only one, to see everyone joyous, that’s all, joyous in the real sense of the word. This power cares for the collective as well as for the individual. It cares for the whole world as well as particular nation. All the time this power works, specially in modern times, to better the lives of people of the whole world. But unfortunately, not there are many countries like you (Russians), who have heart to feel the love of their Mother Goddess. So it's like an ocean of love and compassion that wants to touch every shore. It wants to touch every heart but some are just like stones.
(Moscow, 17/9/95)
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The Harvest

Farming in the world requires the cooperation of four essential elements.
A harvest is gathered into the barn only as a result of the natural action of water, earth, wind and light.
God's farming likewise has four elements - faith, hope, love, and knowledge.
Faith is our earth, that in which we take root.
Hope is the water through which we are nourished.
Love is the wind through which we grow.
Knowledge is the light through which we ripen.

Gospel of Philip 79:18-30 (a Gnostic Christian text of the Valentinian tradition; late 2nd century CE)

Listen, O Soul

"It is said that God is love, you have heard that many a times and many people have explained in their own ways what is love, but to feel that love is the best way of understanding it. Even if you explain or describe in all details, though it is described in all detail, you cannot enjoy love without experiencing it. This experience comes to us because God himself has placed within us the mechanism to absorb this love and to manifest it. It is a very delicate mechanism within us, extremely delicate. This mechanism is placed in our heart and by our ignorance so many times we spoil this mechanism or disturb it, or sometimes even completely destroy it. The light of love is joy anything else cannot give you joy. Its only the love that you feel in your heart gives you joy.
This mechanism acts in seven layers within us. In the periphery of these seven layers we gave got ripples of this joy arising they come to the shores of our brain and create the bubble of joy, but again if the brain is a very rational rock then these bubbles dissolve giving no effect to the rock. So, a loving person is thousand times better than a rational person."
(H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Mumbai, 30/12/79)


"Listen, O soul, to my advice.
Do not become a den for foxes and snakes,
nor a hole for serpents and asps,
nor a lair for lions,
nor a shelter for vipers.
When these things happen to you,
O soul, what will you do?
For these are the Powers of the Adversary.
You were a temple.
You made yourself a tomb.
Stop being a tomb, and become a temple again,
so that uprightness and divinity may remain in you.
Light the light within you.
Do not put it out."

(from The Teachings of Silvanus, a Gnostic Christian text from the Greek city of Alexandria, 2-3rd century CE)

Gagangiri Maharaj

I’ll tell you once how I worked on a really great soul called Gagangarh Maharaj. It’s an interesting story. This Gagangarh Maharaj used to live on a hilltop and he would never see people. He was a very angry type of a man. He’s John the Baptist and all his legs and hands were broken and he travels on a tiger. Very hot-tempered. Went to see him and every Sahaja Yogi was saying, "Why are you going to a guru?" I said, "See his vibrations."

So I climbed all the way see him and it was raining heavily and he’s supposed to be in charge of rains, he can control the rains, you see. He’s a very big, powerful man and the rain would not stop. It was pouring and pouring and pouring. I got completely drenched by the time I reached there, he was very angry, you see, sitting on a block of stones. He was just going on like this, with anger. I was smiling at him and I went and sat in his little cave till he came back.

He said, "Mother, why did you not allow me to control the rain? Was that to kill my ego?"

I said, "No, not at all. I never did that."

He said, "But why didn’t you stop the rain? Why didn’t you allow me to stop the rain? You are all drenched."

So now see how I played the compassion on him. I said, "See you are a sanyasi, isn’t it? And you have bought a sari for me. I can’t take a sari from a sanyasi, so I had to get drenched otherwise I’ll have no excuse." And the whole temper went away, you see, just, he just fell at my feet and started crying and said what love!

And I said, "There’s another point, that the water was flowing on my body and was completely covering all these beautiful hills and dales and tomorrow we’ll have all the greenery lush there for you to enjoy, isn’t it? What does it matter for me? Rain or no rain, makes no difference to me, I’m quite all right."

And he brought out a beautiful sari for me there. He said, "You knew about the sari."

I said, "I knew."

He said, "How?"

I said, "Love knows everything, doesn’t it? Love gives you eyes, ears, everything."

(H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Q+A after Talk at Shri Krishna Puja, New York, 18/8/84)

Born in 1906 at Patan in south Maharashtra, this yogi visited Gagangad in 1935 and by 1940 had made it his abode. That is how he got the name Gagangiri. In the early 1970s he sent seekers to Shri Mataji with the comment, "the Adi Shakti is in Bombay, why have you come to me?" He passed from this life on Monday, February 4, 2008.
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Enlightenment

"Enlightened means a personality, enlightened personality, I can tell you, is a person who is beyond his mind. And he is in contact completely with this all-pervading power of divine love. As a result everything in that person is guided, helped by that divine love. That power is so great that it looks after you, it organizes everything, it thinks, it understands, it is wisdom of all the things. You become a person who is so collectively conscious.
Today we need people like that. Otherwise you always think about yourself. About others you can only think when you are collectively conscious. But these days there are so many people marketing their spirituality, you see. That’s also there. And just people jump to it, I don’t know why. Why don’t they find out what is the gain, what did you gain out of it? Nobody wants to know."
(H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Press Conference, London, 8/7/99)

Divine Love - II

"I have so much love that I have to channelize it. If I don’t I’ll suffocate; I can’t love myself. So this love has to spread. For that I have to have you people who can take this love to others and make them happy. This is a kind of a vision I have, and in this special time, it was promised by many people, by many saints, and it is so obvious that you are all specially chosen for this kind of thing. Now how far you understand your importance, is a different point. You do for your emancipation, all right, you meditate. But if you are not channelizing the love, the Divine love, what is the use? Now supposing I repair something very nicely: I repaired this machine nicely [microphone], put it right, everything, and I don’t speak - what is the use of having this? In the same way, if you work very hard - I know people who get up at four o’clock, have their baths, do meditation, sit down, in the night again they sit down for meditation. But they never go out, they never talk to others, they never spread Sahaja Yoga. They do not give Divine love to others, so how can this great problem of this world be solved, that it has no love? It has never known Divine love. It has to be given to them. They have to feel this Divine love, this power of Adi Shakti. They have to know it; otherwise you are being selfish, I would say, that you had a nice time having all this and you have not given it to others."
(H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Shri Adi Shakti Puja, 25/5/97)

Divine Love

"Love can conquer all these devils, if a person has this Divine Love within him, if it starts flowing through him, all these things will disappear. That's the only way you can save this world through Divine Love. Only through love you are going to win over all these horrible forces which are let loose and your confidence will be established in you. This Divine Love is all Pervading. The trouble is human beings are not aware of it. It's the most dynamic force and is the only force that exists. Darkness exists till the light is not there. It has otherwise no existence. It is a myth. In the same way when the Light of Divine Love starts flowing in you. When you become identified with that Divine Love, then all these negative forces drop off."
(H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Caxton Hall, London, 14/7/80)

Children

"For a child, enjoyment is complete. Whatever he sees, he makes a joyful thing out of it. Look at children. I've seen children, they find anything, they make a joy out of it. ... You see, they find anything, any space, they make a joyful thing from it, a play for them. For them life is also a play. Just a thing of enjoyment. And they make you also enjoy everything. If you are not in a good mood, they'll come and behave in such a manner that you'll have to come round and become a very simple, natural person. So to see a simple, natural person, we always say they are like children. It means they do not understand the cunning. They do not understand the stupidity of the people, they live in a world of innocence.
Children are the most interesting things, I think, in the world. For me roses are very beautiful, but children are the most interesting thing, and they teach you so many things that you are surprised at their innocence."
(H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Shri Ganesha Puja September 2000)

"Children are living beings, more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love."
(Rabindranath Tagore)

Equal Love

"We love the brothers and sisters in Sahaja Yoga,
and we love the working women and men in our office,
and we love those walking on the street,
and we love those living in the same apartment.

It's alright if they didn't come to Sahaja Yoga,
but just remember we are all the same - all are human beings.

Human need love, so that this evolution may continue and reach the ultimate goal - Equal Love for everybody on earth."

(http://tycordinal.blogspot.com - inspired by idea from Shri Mataji spoken at Adi Shakti Puja 2007)