So-called Self-realisation

Q. A question about Paramhamsa Yogananda, he’s quite famous here [London] because of his book.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi: He’s famous? What has he done? Writing a funny book like that, that’s all. I don’t want to discuss, but first when you ask about somebody, you’ll have to tell me what he has done.

Q. The gentleman set up a Self Realization Fellowship in America.

Shri Mataji: I know many in America who have done it, and they are more difficult to get self-realization. There’s a big organization there, and they all believe they are self-realized, but they don’t know any vibrations, they can’t feel anything, and when they have been to that organization, I find it difficult to give them realization. In the name of God, in the name of self-realization, if you spoil the Kundalini of people I don’t know what to say about you.

(2000-0927)


Yogananda’s guru was Lahiri. And Lahiri’s guru was this horrible fellow Babaji.

(1979-0527)

Guru Puja 1980: Statutes of the Lord

Guru Puja 1980 by Sahaja Library

Today you have arranged this worship of your Guru, that is your Mother. Perhaps you are very unique people that have a Guru who is a Mother. Why this Puja is arranged? One has to know that it is very important for every disciple to worship the Guru, but the Guru has to be a real Guru, not a one who is just exploiting the disciples and who is not authorized by God.

The Puja is arranged because you have been initiated into the Statutes of the Lord. You have been told what are the dharmas of a human being. For that actually you need not have a guru. You can read any book and you will know what are the Statutes of the Lord. But guru has to see that you practice them. These Statutes are to be practiced, to be brought into your own life, which is a difficult thing. And without a guru, a correcting force, it is very difficult to follow these Statutes of Lord, because there is a gap between human awareness and Divine awareness, a very big gap, and that gap can be only fulfilled by a guru who himself is complete.

Today is a purnima day, purnima means the complete moon. The guru has to be a complete personality to talk about these Statutes and to elevate his disciples to this level of understanding, by which they imbibe those Statutes. He is there to fulfill this gap, and for that it is essential that every guru has to be a realized soul of a very high quality and greatly evolved. He need not be a person who is an ascetic, or he need not be a person who is living in the forest. He could be a common householder, he could be a king. All these outward manifestations of one's life do not matter. Whatever may be your position, I would say the so-called position in this world makes no difference to your being a guru, as long as you have imbibed the Statutes of the Lord. Again, I say you have to imbibe the Statutes.

Lets see what are the Statutes. First is, you do not harm anyone. First principle is that we are not to harm anyone. Animals do harm without knowing that they are doing harm. If you go near a snake, he'll bite. If a scorpion is there he can put his poison into your being. [Human beings] are not to harm anyone; they can correct but not harm. So the principle of not harming was taken to a very, very.. to a point where reality disappeared. For example, when it was said 'Do not harm anyone', so people started saying: 'All right, we'll not harm mosquitoes, we'll not harm bugs. We'll not kill them.' And there are some people who are following religions in which they preserve mosquitoes and bugs. This is absurdity! Taking anything to absurdity cannot be reality.

First of all, we should not harm anyone who is walking in the path of God, the one who is a realized soul. He may be wrong, there may be some mistakes in him, still he needs correction; nobody's perfect as yet. So do not harm, always try to help. Secondly, anybody who is a real seeker, he may be wrong, he might have gone to wrong gurus, he might have done wrong things; but have feelings, because you have been going on the wrong path yourself sometimes; you have been misled before, so have more sympathies. That's why, if you have done mistakes, in a way is good because you have more sympathies for such people. Then you are not to harm human beings in any way. You are not to cause them any bodily harm, any emotional upsetting just for harm's sake; for correction its all right.

The second Statute is that you have to stand on your own legs and know that you are here, one with the truth, the testimony, the testimony of the truth: that you have seen the truth, you know what truth is, and you cannot compromise with falsehood, you cannot. For that you need not harm anyone, you have to just profess it. You have to stand up and say that you have seen the truth and this is the truth, and you have to be one with it, so that people see that light of truth in you and they accept you. Its not for telling others that: 'You have to be truthful, and this is the truth we have seen, that this is what God's laws are, how they work out. Through vibratory awareness we have been able to see this is the truth.' But be completely confident about it. But for that, first of all you must test yourself completely, otherwise you might be playing into the hands of ego. It happens with many people who start doing Sahaja Yoga, to begin with. So be cautious, be sure that you are telling the truth and nothing else, and that you have felt the truth in full ways.

Those who have not felt any vibrations, shouldnt talk of Sahaja Yoga at all; they have no authority. They have to receive vibrations, they have to fully imbibe within them, and then they can say: "Yes, we felt." This is a very important task Sahaja Yogis have to do in these modern times, is to tell aloud that they have found the truth. That part is very weak. In whatever way you like: you can write books, you can announce it, you can talk to your friends, to your relations and everywhere. Tell them that this is the truth now, that you have entered into the kingdom of God; that you are blessed by the Grace of God, that you are realized souls, that you have felt the Divine power which is pervading everywhere, and that you can give Realizations to others. This you have to tell others, and know that by your accepting truth you are not adding anything to the truth, but you are adorning yourself.

One requires courage to enjoy the truth. Sometimes people will laugh at you, will mock at you, may persecute also; but that should not be any worry to you, because your relationship is with the Statutes and with the Grace of God. When that is your connection, you should not worry about other people, what they have to say about it. You have to stand up, adorn yourself with that truth and talk to people, that people will know that you have found it. With that authenticity with which you speak, people will know that you have found it.

The difference between a realized soul and a non-realized soul is basically this: he doesnt talk of his woes and his separation with God, but he says: 'I have found it now, this is it.' Like Christ said: 'I am the Light, I am the Path'. Or anybody else can say that, but you can make out that it is not true. With the confidence, with that complete understanding coming out of your heart, people can make out this is absolute truth. And then all kinds of falsehood must be denounced. Doesnt matter if somebody feels bad, because by telling that you are saving them, and not harming them; but must be told in a correct way, not in a frivolous way. In a very persuasive way, you must tell them that: 'No, this is wrong'. You must wait for the time when you can tell people, more in confidence. Talk to them: 'This is wrong, this is wrong, you don't know. We've done the same thing.' This is how you are going to express your principle of mastery, or you can say Guru tattwa. You have to be truthful: first, foremost thing is that you should know the truth, you should stand this testimony, and that you should announce it.

second extract: Statutes III and IV

Conclusion

Birthday Puja 1980

Sahaja Library

The birthday of your Mother, and all such celebrations have a very deep significance, because on such occasions, special vibrations flow in the atmosphere. When all the celestial bodies, the Eternal Personalities, Gods and Goddesses, sing the praise, and that’s how the whole atmosphere is filled with mirth and happiness. Human beings also, express their gratitude. Expression of gratitude and love is done in different, different ways in different countries, but the substance remains the same and the forms change. The substance is like the ocean which flows continuously towards the shores and the ripples which touch the shores are again repelled back, and a nice pattern is formed. It is such a spontaneous thing and is so beautiful, creates such a beautiful pattern in the atmosphere. All these waves when they weave together the pattern of love they soothe human beings, they enchant human beings and the whole thing is very blissful.

On such occasions a special type of feelings develop, which we cannot express in words so the expression could be in any form. But the main thing is the expression. God has expressed Himself by Creation, by creating this Creation. While the Creation has to express it’s gratitude by glorifying Him, and this play must go on eternally. It’s the most beautiful play. Those who indulge into this play lead an eternal life. That life is unending, never breaks and binds the whole universe with it’s beautiful music.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Birthday Puja 1980, London

(1980-0323)

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

Vibrations

Guru Puja 1997 from Sahaja Library

"After all, we have to know why have we come to Sahaja Yoga. Begin at the root of it. We have come to Sahaja Yoga because we wanted to know the absolute truth, and this absolute truth has been now known to you through your vibrations. You know it through your vibrations, what is the absolute truth, and you should work everything on that line, that absolute truth, whatever you feel on your vibrations you have to follow.

Unfortunately, I have seen many people think that their vibrations are all right, they are all right and whatever they are receiving on their vibrations is first class. Now, how to correct that point is very difficult. It comes from ego. When you have ego, you can never find anything wrong with you. And even if the vibrations are telling you something, it might be somebody else who is telling you something, because you are not there, your ego is there and your ego is just spoiling you and teaching you things which normally you would see clearly that "I'm doing something wrong, I should not have done it."

In this process of correction and improvement, when you indulge you should see: "Are you getting subtler or grosser?" That is the best way to judge. Now, I've seen people who go on judging on small things like vibrations - whether this vibration are all right or not in this tree or on this flowers or on this land, all kinds of material things they want to see the vibrations. But for what are you seeing the vibration? You are seeing vibration because some sort of material gain. You think that if you check the vibrations and the vibrations are all right, then you are quite safe, you will not loose this, will not loose that. It's not true. Because vibrations are not meant to judge all these worldly things and worldly matters. It's absolutely cheapening the vibrations. You should not cheapen them, because vibrations can suggest things which may be detrimental to your growth very much.

Once, I wanted somebody to go somewhere, so he said, "I didn't go, Mother."

I said, "Why?"

"Because I saw the vibrations were very bad."

I said, "That's why I asked you to go. If the vibrations were good, what was your use going there? That's the reason I asked you to go there so that you could help but before that you judged yourself, judged your vibrations and then you didn't want to go."

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Guru Puja 1997

Vibrations

Vibrations

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Stonehenge

In this country, long time, much before, much before even Christ came in, people have worked with Kundalini. Your Stonehenge is nothing but the Kundalini. Vibrations have worked in this country for ages now.
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Caxton Hall, London, 20/3/1978

When I see your Stonehenge, I know there were people who were working on Kundalini. But the other day I met a lady who was telling me that now scientifically it has been proved that Stonehenge has no meaning. Now I said, how can they understand what is a Stonehenge, how will they understand because their awareness at this point is gross. By science you cannot understand Stonehenge, for that you have to have that new awareness by which you can feel the vibratory awareness within you, the radiation of the self.
(Public Program, Caxton Hall, London. 24/3/1980)

I went to see Stonehenge. Stonehenge is the creation of the Mother Earth. You can see the vibrations. You can feel it. (Public Talk, Kingston-upon-Thames, 11/6/1980)

Your Stonehenge in England, people have written so many books about it, they don’t know a word. When I went there I said these are stones which come out of the Mother Earth. They are all vibrating. You can feel it. (Brighton, 19/7/1980)

I went to Stonehenge. Now you all know that there’s something about Stonehenge – you know that there’s something is about them. But what about them? These are the stones which have come out of Mother Earth which are emitting vibrations and the covering of that has been done later on, some people must have … they did not understand how these stones have come out one after another so they must have used to cover it. But if they were saints they would have said that this is a stone which has got vibrations. (Caxton Hall, London, 21/7/1980)

Stonehenge is created by the Mother Earth, it has vibrations. (Public Program, Reading, 22/6/1982)

 
I went to Stonehenge the other day and I was amazed what stories people have created out of that. This is a thing which is vibrating, has come out of Mother Earth which is described in the Bible. If you see in the Commandments, that anything that is created by the Mother Earth or by the sky is not to be reproduced and worshipped. That means there is something created out of the Mother Earth, one of them is your Stonehenge. But the people who were not sensitive to it cut them out, made round circles and things like that. It’s such a symbolic thing – only a person who’s Realized – all those who were Realized could feel the vibrations. Could feel that this is a great thing that the Mother Earth bestowed upon this great country of England 5,000 years back. And then today you are born in this country and that kind of a thing is looking after you. (Public Program, Chiswick, London, 23/8/1980)

In England, there is a place called Stonehenge; and the people have different theories about it. Like blind finding something and they are quarrelling about it. Stonehenge is a miracle of the Mother Earth; it is Mother Earth who has created those stones. They have a particular pattern by which they emit vibrations. These vibrations are there to save London from getting drowned into materialism. The poor Mother Earth has to do all these things. (Public Program, Paris, 19/4/1980)

When I went to Stonehenge, I was amazed because it was all built in a way a Kundalini should be built. And it had tremendous vibrations, cool vibrations. (Public Program, Boston, USA, 20/9/1981)

Now, in England there is a place called Stonehenge. I went to see that place, Stonehenge: has tremendous vibrations. Tremendous vibrations – the whole working of it is nothing but the three and a half coils it is placed, and it has come out of the Mother Earth. But people did not understand, they started covering it up and all they made into some sort of a pattern. But actually the main thing must have just come out of the Mother Earth; and it has tremendous vibrations and people don’t understand what it was. That means people did practice this Kundalini business there. (Public Program, New York, 27/9/1981)

You’ll be amazed that this Mother Earth understands much more than we know. And this Mother Earth produces through her being such stones or such images which have a coefficient which emits vibrations. For example, in England, we have a place called Stonehenge. For a normal person, it is something mysterious but it is produced by the Mother Earth and it is placed in three and a half coils exactly. But some people who did not understand the meaning of it took up the stones and placed them on top of other stones and there is a cult which blindly goes and worships the place. But if a realised soul goes there he can feel the vibrations of that place. Now for you to understand where it is a real thing coming out or not the best way is to get Realisation. I just saw the photograph of Stonehenge and I said that is a place of worship. But those who are not realised also go and worship there, it has no meaning. Because if you are not a realised soul you are not connected and you do not understand what you are doing. And thousands of years have passed, these stones are standing as they are. (Public Program, Rome, 28/4/1982)

Stonehenge ... is the stone that has come out from the Mother Earth which is described in the Ten Commandments. The commandment is: “whatever is created by the Mother Earth or the sky should not be reproduced and worshiped.” Because that time, at the time of Moses, there were no artist who were Realized souls, apart from Moses, there was nobody who was Realized soul, so such a law had to be passed. (Public Program, Paris, 4/5/1982)

entry updated 29/5/2023

Birthday Celebrations 1977

1977-0321 Birthday Puja by Sahaja Library

 All the Sahaja yogis who have come here, all the other people who have joined us here, who are celebrating this earthly birthday of mine. I am very thankful, very grateful and I am filled with great joy and happiness. And my vibrations are flowing from my eyes as tears to see that, in this Kali yuga also, there are people who are grateful to a Mother who just gives an abstract thing known as vibration. Actually I do not give you, I cannot give or take, you’ll be surprised. It is just emitted through me. It is my Swabhava [innate nature] - it has to be that way, I can’t help it. It is a ‘being’ that is being. You cannot make it something else. It acts on its own; it goes on working. It is beyond me to control myself from loving all of you. I do not know how people learn to hate. I haven’t got sufficient time even to love people. I find 24 hours much less! I do not know how people sit down and manipulate and think in a ice-cold manner how to be hateful. Hatred has no power but of destruction - of yourself and others.

On this day I would request you to think of love all the time. Love is all knowledge. Knowledge is all love. There is nothing beyond. If you have knowledge, it has to pass the test of love. If you know a person, it makes no record on you because you know him from outside. But if you love a person then you know the person out and out. You know him so well, you know him… everything, the way it is. It is this knowledge that is what we call is the para [beyond] knowledge. That is the knowledge we have to seek. All these books are only signaling towards that. They are the milestones, which are telling us, 'Go ahead, go ahead.' They do not solve the problem of entering into the kingdom of God. I request you that you all should come to the stage of understanding the Divine within you, the love of God that is within you, which is trying to overflow from you, and enjoy the sense of emitting and giving. Giving has the greatest joy and pleasure. There is no pleasure in taking. And when you receive it, you start giving. You have heard… [a yogi] talking about how he has done work in Rahuri [a town in Maharashtra]. In Rahuri, when I was going to Rahuri University, the people in the nearby village knew that our car will be going there. They are ordinary villagers. They have never read any yoga; they don’t understand anything more about vibrations than these feelings that you get. It is a subjective knowledge. It has no work. It is a subjective experience, which you feel on your fingers, in your being - the bliss of God. And as I was going, I just felt a jerk in the car, because so many people were just lying on the road and some were standing on the road stopping the car, and they started shouting my jai. I was wonderstruck! I said, “How did you know that I was in this car?” They said, “Mataji, you have given us vibrations. We knew this was the car, which was bringing us vibrations. So, now you have to get down here.” I just got down; I embraced all of them, and our Sahaja yogis were waiting at the other end. I said, “Doesn’t matter.” This is what is Sahaja - such loving people! And at that time, I just thought of how once with Rama, how you felt those things with people, with very simple people, of very simple heart and shraddha [faith], how they had those feelings of receiving your love and feeling it. Everyone needs love in this world; you cannot exist without love. Your whole being is based on love. And I wish all of you in this country to understand that unless and until there is love in your heart, don’t try to do anything outside because, if you do it you will be found out in no time. Every human being understands what is love. There are lots of things that are happening within you. There are cosmic changes that are taking place today within you. I know that it is happening. The Shri Chakra itself has descended on this Earth and already the Satya Yuga has started. This is the reason, why you are feeling these vibrations on your fingers and none of these gurus and rishis and all those people have mentioned these things. Because this is only possible when the Shri Chakra is brought down. It is here. You have to feel it and understand. It is for all of you to accept, each with an open heart. I do not want anything from you. What can you give me? I do not want anything, but I want my children to be happy. I pray for their happiness. I live for them and all the time, whether I am asleep or awakened or in the middle state, when they call the sabhranta, I am just with you. Every moment you are in my thoughts.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Birthday Celebrations 1977, Mumbai

Vibrations

Vibrations are the pulsation of the all-pervading power within us, which we can feel in the central nervous system. The Spirit doesn't pulsate. It doesn't pulsate. The pulsation exists in the all-pervading power. But through Spirit when you get connected, then only the flow starts. And you then start feeling the pulsation on the central nervous system. And these pulsations of the Holy Ghost are the vibrations.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Delhi, 8/2/83

(Nirmala Yoga no.29, p35)

Hot, Ice-cold and Cool Vibrations

"Now the energy of God also some people say has to be hot. “You have to feel hot.” Some people feel that if you go to someone and you feel very hot energy coming from that person, is vibrations. Now any machine, which goes out of order, gives hot vibration. Any friction gives hot vibrations. But to judge it, best is for you to see what happens in Sahaj Yoga. Supposing there’s a cancer patient sitting and there’s a mad person sitting, and a one Sahaj Yogi sitting or a born realized is sitting. The person who has a cancer will give such heat that you’ll have to put off your heaters. The mad person also may give such heat that you will be amazed at the way the heat is coming or maybe sometimes such frozen hands it will have. He’ll have such weaknesses; his hands will be shaking; he’ll become absolutely frozen; he’ll go into a trance, his eyes will become transfixed. But a realized soul, if he’s a born realized, he’ll get a cool breeze in a Sahaj Yoga. And you should find out what sort of sources they have come? That’s how relatively you can find out the absolute. The one who is suffering from cancer has got hot. The one who, he has been to a spiritualist and is suffering from possession has got hot. So, the one who has got the cool breeze is the one who is really realized."

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Talk on "The Heart of the Universe", Caxton Hall, London, 14/9/81


One thing you must understand. Anybody who says, now I have got vibrations, some people go to someone and feel heated up. Then they want to get heated up more and more and more. This heat is coming from that man and is going to increase your heat all the time and it is going to increase and increase and increase and your chakras are going to be ruined completely by this man. It has to be reduced. It has to come to the cooling point and you must feel the cooling point. If you cannot feel the cooling point then you must know that this man is absolutely wrong. Heat is not the sign of cleansing. When you are feeling heat here now, for example, it is because the cleansing is taking place. Once the cleansing is over the cool breeze must flow in and you must feel the cool breeze. Now some people might feel absolutely cold, just like frozen, that's also not a good sign that means you are left sided .Some of you may feel that kind of a thing. It's not the feeling. It's the cold, is the point. It is the feeling of the cool breeze, is a breeze like feeling that you get. From my photograph also you will get. That's the way you have to judge yourself. You judge yourself, establish yourself, keep your chakras clean..

extract from Talk at Public program, Santa Cruz, California, USA, 18/10/81

more on ice-cold vibrations

Cool v. Ice-cold Vibrations

Some Sahaja yogis are being mislead into thinking that freezing vibrations indicate the truth. That is not so. Only cool vibrations show the truth. On the vibrational level, Ice-cold = Hot


extract from 1981-1029 Practical Session - London


"If it is freezingly cold that means left side - if you got very cold, you see? I mean, it can never be. Cool breeze is actually, is never very cool, it’s not freezing. ...
It is slightly less than your body temperature. It’s not so very cooling as to freeze you. If it is hot, then (also) something wrong with you."
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Q+A after Talk on Subconscious and Supraconscious, London, 1981-0524

" You might feel extremely cool if you are a low blood pressure patient. If you are (a) left sided persons . . . if you are possessed, you feel absolutely cool, very cool. That's not good. Feeling cool is different from a cool breeze; like you feel a breeze coming. But should not be hot in any case. Hot is a very dangerous thing. If it is too hot, that heat , it's not good."
(Public Program, Houston, USA, 1986-0501)

"Now some people might feel absolutely cold, just like frozen, that’s also not a good sign that means you are left sided .Some of you may feel that kind of a thing. It’s not the feeling. Its the cold, is the point. It is the feeling of the cool breeze, is a breeze like feeling that you get."
(Public Program, Santa Cruz, USA, 1981-1018)


An English Sahaja yogi adds: I remember back in the early 80’s I was working on someone at a public meeting and I felt very cold vibrations coming from him, I had never felt this before and was slightly puzzled, so I went to Shri Mataji and asked her what it meant. She said: “It means they are going to die.” This made it very clear to me that cold was not good.

An American Sahaja yogi adds: This is an important issue, for it keeps coming up, over and over. I remember in Italy, a young supporter of G***o, saying that when the Italian yuvas checked the vibrations as to whether they should support G***o, or the World Council, the vibrations in favor of G***o were icy cold. This young man simply would not believe or accept that icy cold was as bad as hot.

more on cool, cold, and hot vibrations

understanding vibrations


entry updated 22/11/2016. thanks to Johan DeCocker for additional research.

Honesty

You cannot artificially say you are a realized soul, you cannot, even if you say. There was a girl. I met her in Portugal, mischievous one, and she wanted to stick on with the Sahaja yogis because she was very negative and she wanted to disturb Sahaja yogis. She came to the program and she told me: ‘Oh I am feeling very well Mother. I am feeling vibrations.’ I just looked at her. I kept quiet because I knew she was not. I didn’t say anything. I didn’t want to create a trouble but second day when she turned up I said: ‘Why are you telling me lies?’ ‘No! No! No!’ I said: ‘Yes! You are telling me lies.'

You have to be sensible. What are you going to gain? Say you are mischievous you are playing into the hands of negative forces, what is your gain? You are the Spirit. The Spirit is within you. You have to become the Spirit. Is your own joy. Is your own property. Is your own Self, which is not known to you. Why not be honest about it and get to it instead of playing tricks with yourself and then playing tricks with other Sahaja yogis? What’s the use? What is the gain? Why are you playing in the hands of satanic force? Why don’t you play into the hands of the Divine Force?’ She said: ‘No! No! Mother I am feeling it.’ I said: ‘See don’t tell me lies. I know for definite you are not feeling it and if you are not going to be honest you are not going to come to My program at all. You have to be honest yourself. If you are not honest I am not going to have you here.’

But dishonesty sometimes reaches a very absurd limit because honesty is only up to which point you can see. Say, you can see the color is white. Alright, up to that you are honest. But if you start saying: ‘I know who has painted it.’ and: ‘I know who had done the job.’ and: ‘I know who’s the company and all that.’ that’s not true. So honesty is up to the point you know. Beyond that, if you start saying things because you have read somewhere something or you have heard something, that’s wrong, that’s not being honest. So we have to have honesty and open-mindedness. You have to be open-minded and honest so that you see for yourself, because as I told you it’s not like other places where you can just go and become members. Nothing. First you have to get your realization. Secondly you have to grow into it. Those who cannot do will be left out. You can’t help it. How far can you go with people? How far can you tell them? You see there’s no binding force. You are completely free to leave it or to take it. If you want to take it,well and good. If you don’t want to take it no one is going to force you at all in this because you cannot force. You can force a horse to eat. That is possible. But you cannot force any human being to be a realized soul. You cannot. Not only that he has to ask for it but he has to later on work for it. It’s a tremendous thing you are asking for and it’s the greatest thing that you are achieving. It is made easy I should say, the times are such. It looks easy but it’s not so easy. In Sahaja Yoga there are more dropouts than sticking people. Naturally, because you have to be honest.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extracts from talk at Hampstead, London, "When are we going to grow?", 10/06/82

Dolls & Feeling Vibrations

Like you see some children like to cuddle a little doll. They feel the doll but God knows how far they feel it. They might be feeling it physically or emotionally also they might be feeling some sort of a security with the doll maybe. Psychologically they might be deriving some joy out of that doll itself or maybe the image which has some sort of a attraction of some sort of a thing that is built within their unconscious that they feel so close to that.

But a person who is a realized soul does not feel a doll that way even if it's a child. It's surprising. You must watch a realized child getting to a doll it's very surprising. For example I brought two dolls from London for my grandchildren and they rejected completely. They said: 'What sort of dolls these are?' I said: 'Why?' 'They are unhappy.' I said: 'They are not unhappy.' 'No, see their lips.' You see the lips of the dolls here is all just like a duck's beak you see. They said: 'They have resentment. They are angry. They are not realized.' That's it! If you are a happy person the whole get up of your face changes and they could see, they could feel it, they rejected: 'We don't want these dolls.' And then next time when I had to go, I had to go round the whole places. First of all the plastics, the plastics they don't like. They don't like plastics. Somehow realized people don't like plastics, automatically. They wouldn't wear plastic clothes, they wouldn't wear nylon clothes, they wouldn't wear mixed clothes. Very difficult. They must have cotton clothes. Even if they have one they'll wear that the whole day, morning, evening, every time the same thing.

You see it's a different sensitivity which we do not have before realization. They have a different sensitivity and the coefficients of a doll which emits vibrations they like, but it's very difficult to get such dolls nowadays. Impossible, because where are these artists who were realized souls who used to make dolls? I have seen them make their own dolls out of something, sometimes my saris they will use or something and sleep with those.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extracts from talk at Hampstead, London, "When are we going to grow?", 10/06/82

The Sunflowers at Pratisthan

Comments by H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi:

In Sahaja Yoga, you take the ordinary seeds and you vibrate them. If you vibrate them, then what happens that you start getting seeds which are even better than hybrid. I tried an experiment with a sunflower; so I developed a sunflower about 2 kilo weight, about one foot diameter and such big, big seeds, that you can’t make them out to be sunflower seeds, so the collective was so amazed at it and they felt that this kind of seed will solve all of our oil problem.
(Shri Ganesha Puja, Madrid, Spain, 6/11/87)

Material development is much faster and in balance when you get Self Realization. These vibrations help agriculture very much. We have a scientist, Dr. Hamid, in Austria, who has experimented with vibrations and has found out that even non-hybrid seeds give you greater than hybrid seeds. In my own field I sowed about 60 kilos of rice in one acre of land. And they told me: “It’s a special rice. It won’t grow here.” But it turned out to be 1700 kilos. One of the best rices. And even the sunflower was so big, two feet diameter. You could not lift; one person could not lift. Giving oil six to ten times more!
(Press Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria, 25/7/90)

If people are saintly they will be always protected by Mother Earth. She will always try to give them whatever they want. You can see in the minute way, that supposing now, in our Cabella here, the roses are of such a big size, such a big size roses, you won’t find such big size in the whole world but we have here, such big ones. In Pratisthan we had flowers of sunflower so big as that. One man could not lift it. Now, how is it all this is happening in particular places? It is the Mother Earth who knows who is living here, who is walking on Her back we should say, or on Her soil, because Mother Earth understands vibrations.
(Shri Adi Shakti Puja, Cabella, Italy, 25/5/97)

Effect of Vibrated Water on Plants

"The first study was made to test the effect of vibrated water on different sorts of plants and it started on May 27, 1986. The experiment was conducted on a 300sqm piece of land with the foundations of a building nearby. This small farm is situated about 15km east of Vienna, Austria. We were able to use the electricity supply from this building to construct an automatic watering system.

The weather data were provided by the weather observation station in Enzesfeld, the local town nearby. It was a rainy summer with an average rainfall of 54mm during the test period. The average temperature during the test period was 24.5 Centigrade and there was a quite strong north-west wind blowing in this area which dries the soil very rapidly.

The soil type was brown earth, ie. sandy, with clay and loam. Because the test area was set up late in the year, it was heavily overgrown with annual and perennial weeds. Thedrefore the field was sprayed with Gesparim on May 25, 1986. As we began late it was not possible to apply any sort of fertilization.

The test area was divided into four strips, each 4m x 20m = 80sqm in size. Each strip was subdivided into four plots, each 4 x 5m = 20sqm. We selected sunflowers and corn, next to other typical plants of this area to be used for this experiment.

The drip-irrigation system of the Salen company in Vienna was chosen. Normal drinking water was brought from the building to the field through an one-inch hose to which 3 half-inch hoses were connected. In order to cut out the possibility of human error, the irrigation equipment was fully automatic with the help of one seven-day timer, two 24 hour timers and three magnetic valves.

Seven days after setting up the test area, on June 4, 1986, the irrigation was put to operation. The test area (vibrated and unvibrated strips) was irrigated for one and a half hours from 1am to 2.30am every night. After 30 days the irrigation was reduced to once a week, again for one and a half hours. On October 26, 1986, the irrigation was suspended.

Results: The vibrated plants were greener, more vital and showed significant lead in their growth over the non-vibrated plants. The vibrated water not only activates the growth of the plants, it also enlarges and improves the sprouting-potential of the seeds. For example, the sprouting ratio of sunflowers rates normally between 75% and 80% Through the use of vibrated water the ratio was increased to 95-100%.
Because of the high germination ration and the strong growth of the plants in the vibrated part of the test area you can well imagine that this caused a severe competition for space, water and light. Such strong competition normally inhibits the growth of plants, but despite the mentioned density of the vibrated area, its harvest was 20-25% better than the control plots."

Dr.Hamid Mylany, 'The Effect of Vibrated Water on the Growth of Plants' (Vienna, Austria, 1986)

Effect of Vibrated Water on Animals

"After having had great success with the experiment on vibrated water and its effect on different sorts of plants, we felt encouraged to start a new experiment with vibrated water, this time to research its effect on animals. After all, the plant, animal and human kingdoms are made up from the same elements to begin with, originating all from the Mother Earth.

To implement this idea we made a test with a group of pigs to study the effect of vibrated water on the animals' weight-increase. For this experiment we chose a farm in Austria for pig-breeding and pig-fattening. ... The automated drinking-system supplied to one of the stalls vibrated water, the other two stalls were supplied with normal drinking water.

Result: The test group of pigs being supplied with vibrated water shows about 15% weight gain to the other two control groups. From this result it was clear, that vibrated water has a very positive influence on the weight gain of animals."

extracts from Dr.Hamid Mylany, 'The Effect of Vibrated Water on Animals' (Vienna, Austria, 1988)

editor's note: we have recently received a number of requests for information on Sahaj research in agriculture. We would be pleased to receive abstracts of more recent research.

Vibrations

more photos from the Togliatti festival

Vibrated water

The more you use your vibrations, much more you'll get it. It's a very nice cycle that is acting as it has acted in the case of the Sea, as I told you, that the water goes to the Himalayas, comes back at rivers. In the same way manifold, manifold your vibrations will be growing, and I would say that we should always use our vibrations for helping others, for giving to many things, to the plant, to the anything. I mean there were some people who brought a plant: "Mother, give vibrations to that." I said: "Why don't you give the vibrations?"

There's no need even to take vibrated water. You can vibrate yourself. That state has to come, that you can vibrate your own water, you can vibrate the whole waters everywhere, there's no need to take vibrated water from Me. Maybe Mine is a little more, but doesn't matter! (Laughter & applause) You are so many, so what - compared to Me, I'm only one. So all of you can work it out and do such a lot; but have faith in yourself. As the Sea has faith in itself, you should have complete faith in yourself. You must respect your Self Realization. Tell every day to yourself: "I am a Sahaja Yogi. I am a Yogi, I am a saint, I am a realized soul. I have to do this. How can I do these other nonsensical things? I have to do these good things. I have to talk to people in a sweet manner, I have to try to work it out this way." It is actually your faith in yourself is going to help you. Your faith in yourself - that you are a great Sahaja Yogi, that you are absolutely surrendered to your Mother, works very fast. That faith you should have, that you are a Sahaja Yogi. Nothing else is needed.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Shri Lakshmi Puja, Alibag, India, 29/12/91

The Himalayas

"The Himalayas are the Sahastrara that Mother Earth has created for you. This Sahastrara is to be worshipped. This Sahastrara is very great. I don't know if you can see vibrations emitting from it. I am completely engulfed by their vibrations that I cannot see anything else. There are only vibrations and vibrations. Nothing else. Those who are residing here are swimming in vibrations and seem like fish swimming in the ocean of vibrations. You cannot distinguish one from the other. I cannot describe in words the splendour of the beautiful vibrations that are spread here. This is indeed the blessings of the Himalayas .
The Himalayas are the Sahastrara of the whole Universe. They have given the whole Universe so much comfort and joy after which there is nothing more to be attained. With the help of this Sahastrara, I have opened your Sahastrara."
(H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Talk at Talnoo, India, March 1985)