WISDOM

Sign of the Sahaja Yogi

You might find somebody extremely wise, maybe your servant, maybe your driver, maybe anyone and you’re amazed how such a person can be so wise because maybe from his last life he has got it within him or he has gone into it and he found it. It’s not the state of one person. It’s not the property of one person, but it can belong to many of them. So the Sahaj Yogi is the one who has to have that wisdom. Why are you doing this? What is the need to do it? They don’t have to ask any questions. They just don’t do wrong. They just don’t do wrong things. They’re always on the right path. That is the sign of the Sahaj Yogi, I believe, and which is the blessing of the Goddess. If there is the power of the Goddess working in you, you’ll have the wisdom to work it out.
Navaratri Puja 2002

Complete peace

Wisdom is a thing that gives you, fi rst of all, complete peace. If your wisdom is developed, then you become very peaceful because whatever people may say, whatever they may do, whatever aggression they may do, whatever it is, you are peaceful and you see the stupidity of the other person, of the other nations and you understand why they are doing it.
Navaratri Puja 1998

How you take to the good side

Wisdom doesn’t mean that you know how to argue things or you fi ght with people. No, it doesn’t mean that. Wisdom means how you take to the good side of everything to enjoy it. This is wisdom and that you avoid all destructive things and take to something constructive.
Hamsa Puja 1992

You do not change

Wisdom plays such a part in life that whatever may happen outside, whatever may be the trend, whatever may be the fashion, whatever may be the people are all changing into, you do not change. You change within.
Shri Ganesha Puja 1991, Pune

Meditation is the only way

Meditation is the only way. You give up your left and you give up your right and you are just standing in the centre, enjoying the wisdom, enjoying the joy of your being.
Shri Ganesha Puja 1991, Pune

Wisdom is not apparent outside

Wisdom is not apparent outside. You can’t say somebody is wise by looking at that person. But in vibrations you will know that that person is extremely wise. He may speak. He may not speak. If he speaks, he’ll speak about something so deep, so wise and so nice without hurting.
Navaratri Puja 1998

Not just an assumption

The wisdom is the thing which really is not just an assumption that I am very wise and all that, but it asserts, it works out and it shows what is good and what is bad.
Navaratri Puja 2002

Wisdom is the sign

Wisdom is the sign of a person who is really a realized soul of a very high level. If you don’t have wisdom, whatever you may do, you might feel satisfi ed about it, but the wisdom part is very, very important.
Navaratri Puja 2002

Am I being a wise person?

“Am I being a wise person?” That is the fi rst sign of the blessings of God. The one who has blessings of the Divine is a wise person, is very wise and his wisdom is shown by his silence. And his whole power, his divine power uses that person as a medium and works tremendously. That man himself is surprised how it has happened. A woman can have that. A man can have it. Anybody can have that wisdom, that profoundness, that temperament, which is so beautiful and so empowering.
Navaratri Puja 2002

This is the right path

Wisdom comes to you automatically. But through experience, then you know this is the right path. Through experience you start understanding.
Hamsa Puja 1992

Round and round

Human beings ... will not understand something straightforward. So it has to go round and round till they reach a point to understand that it was the play of the Mother that brought them to this shore of wisdom.
Navaratri Puja 1998

If there is no wisdom

If there is no wisdom, we can never understand what we are doing.
Navaratri Puja 1998

The first quality

The first quality of Shri Ganesha is that He gives us wisdom and that wisdom gives us the sense how to behave, gives us the balance and gives us the sense how to behave towards ourselves, how to preserve yourself, how to respect yourself.
Shri Ganesha Puja 1991, Australia

The giver of wisdom

Shri Ganesha is the giver of wisdom, how to behave at what time, how to say at what time, how far to go with everything. It just should become innate, sahaj. You don’t have to work it out, but should know. “Now I’m a Sahaja Yogini.” Every morning you should tell yourself, “I’m a Sahaja Yogini. So how far should I go? How should I behave? What should be my attitude?” All this can be very easily understood if you develop this lotus of wisdom. How does a lotus come out? There is a seed which sprouts.... There is already the seed within you. All of you have got it and now it has started opening because you are realized souls. Allow your wisdom to take over.... There’s a very simple way of doing it – surrender to My wisdom and the wisdom itself that is in you is active. It will work.
Divali Puja 1991

Those who do not meditate

Those who do not meditate will be lost to Sahaja Yoga because wisdom can only grow through your inner inspiration. You can have this inner inspiration only if the power of Shri Ganesha manifests. He is the giver of your wisdom.
Shri Ganesha Puja 1998

Without this wisdom

It’s very difficult to say how to become wise. It is just that it happens that you become wise. So, though He’s a child, He’s so matured. He’s so wise. And He’s not only that, but He emits wisdom and this wisdom is an innate quality of anyone who is a Sahaja Yogi because in him, also, Shri Ganesha has been awakened. So he becomes a wise person, very wise, and with wisdom what does he achieve? He achieves a balance, a proper ascent and also he understands that this ascent is for his benevolence, for the benevolence of his country, benevolence of the whole world. He understands the importance of Sahaja Yoga. Without this wisdom, one cannot understand. And this wisdom is within us, just absolutely, innately built in. Only thing is we have to use the storehouse of this wisdom that is within us.
Shri Ganesha Puja 1991, Pune

The clouds of ignorance

One may say, “Mother, what is the source again of this wisdom?” The source is Shri Ganesha.... Once Shri Ganesha is insulted and He disappears behind the clouds of ignorance, then people start doing things which are unwise.
Shri Ganesha Puja 1993, Germany

Divine personality

The greatest boon of the Devi is to give you wisdom. You can call it awareness. You can call it anything. It’s a kind of a wisdom by which you become absolutely a divine personality. That wisdom you must reach through your bhakti.
Navaratri Puja 2002

The Divine needs you

The Divine needs you. Divine doesn’t want you to die or to fi nish off. It needs you very much. It has to do its work and you are the instrument of that Divine. If you have wisdom, you are the best instrument for the Divine to work it out.
Navaratri Puja 2002

A very innate quality

Wisdom is ... a very innate quality, very innate. It’s not superficial. You cannot just say that this person is wise or not. It shows that, just like a power, it’s a power of understanding and is supported by the power of the Goddess. So She’s the giver of wisdom. This is the biggest quality of the Goddess, that She’s the giver of wisdom. And wisdom comes as a part of the evolutionary process. Now She’s brought about all the evolutions so far and, to go further, She is going to make you a very wise person.
Navaratri Puja 2002

Very lucky people

Those people who have got wisdom are very lucky people, but wisdom comes from no source but your own understanding of life. When a person starts thinking, “Why am I doing such and such thing? What is the effect of my doing? What is the result of my behaviour? Is it good for me or bad for me?” then wisdom comes.
Shri Ganesha Puja 1993, Germany

Complete power

A person is wise who does not only know what is right and wrong, but also he knows very well his own power not to do something wrong. He just does not do it. Wisdom is a complete power within ourselves by which we try nothing. It just spontaneously works through us and we do things which are proper and right.
Shri Ganesha Puja 1993, Germany

Your innocence itself

Your innocence itself is a power and our innocence will defi nitely give you that wisdom by which you can solve all the problems without any difficulty.
Shri Ganesha Puja 1990

Can you imagine?

Wisdom means that it gives you detachment, detachment from all that is selfishness, self-centredness, self-obsession, ego – all connected with self. Can you imagine?
Divali Puja 1991

I’m always in joy?

Why not develop a personality that, “I’m always in joy? Anything I see, I feel joyous. Anything I hear, I feel joy.” Then this lotus of your fragrance will improve and then activity of your wisdom will be that you will take all that is very beautiful easily. You’ll get all that is very satisfying, very joyous. It’s kind of an activity of this wisdom within you which just leads you to people who are extremely nice, to situations which are very beautiful where you discover nice things or to such beautiful creations that you would never expect to see. It’s very, very important to understand that you tell Me, “Mother, this miracle happened, that miracle happened.” It is nothing. It is your own wisdom. Your own spirit is working it out. You don’t have to do anything.
Divali Puja 1991

Through our maturity

We have to understand that our wisdom is not something that could be inculcated. It cannot be something that can be manoeuvred. It is something very innate and it comes through our maturity.
Shri Ganesha Puja 1991, Kalwe

Self-realized person

This is the point one has to reach, where you understand you have to have wisdom. If you are lacking in wisdom, then you are not a self-realized person.
Shri Krishna Puja 2000

It has no fear

Your spirit cannot have a problem. It has no fear. But above all, it has wisdom, tremendous wisdom. And that wisdom is the one sign of you being a very higher personality. As I told you, this is evolution. And when you are ransformed, you are evolved. Of a very different nature you become. And you are to stand out.
Shri Krishna Puja 2000

It’s not a violent nature

If you really know yourself, you’ll have such powers of courage. You’ll not be a daredevil, but with wisdom. Courage with wisdom, you will have. And that is what is your self, which will give you lots of wisdom and lots of courage. It’s not a fi ghting spirit. It’s not a violent nature. It’s not a crude nature, but it’s a very silent, beautiful, courageous attitude.
Birthday Puja 2001

Wisdom - Magnetism

Wisdom is the balance between your understanding of what is good and what is bad. Where you really understand what is good for you, for your spirit, is wisdom, and when this centre is alive and is not destroyed then you really know is wisdom is. For example, the person who has got this centre very well doubled up can tell you whether it is the north or the south, because the magnetism that is in the Mother Earth this centre is made by the element of Mother Earth. So the magnetism that is in the Mother Earth is there present in this centre. When the birds fly all the way from Siberia to Australia they do it with the help of this centre, because they know whether they are moving northward or southward. They have an innate wisdom to know which way to move and that's why one should know that this centre is also within us but have lost our sense of judgement because we have lost that magnetism within us.An innocent person is really like a magnet and it attracts, he attracts the people towards himself, just like a flower attracts a bee towards itself. There are some fishes in which they have found actual magnetic field and in some of them they have even found a regular magnet placed in certain fishes by which they know, whether they are going north, south, east or west.
2nd Talk Sydney Series, Australia, 1981