Devi Mahatmayam - Translation

DEVI MAHATMAYAM

To our Great Mother
Her Holiness
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Who is manifest again on this Earth

In Her complete form,

to fulfill our desire for moksha,

and Who has granted

even now this collective desire

for a plain English version of this great epic,

which is written

in all our hearts.

We, the Sahaja Yogis of the world

humbly bow in gratitude.

OM tvameva sakshat, Shri Durga Mata sakshat,Shri Adi Shakti Mataji, Shri Nirmala Devi, namo namah.




(Translated from the original Sanskrit

by Sahaja Yoga Perth, Australia2006)

ARGALA STOTRAM (THE HYMNS OF ARGALA)

Asya Shri Argala stotrum mantrasya Vishnu rishih, anushtupa chandah, Shri Mahakalaxmidevata, Shri Jagadamba preetaye jape Vineeyogah.

(Meaning - Of these Argala Hymns, Shri Vishnu is the rishi (Saga), Anushtup is meter Mahalaxmi is the deity and it is recited for the love of Shri Jagadamba as a part of Sapta shati. Amen, salutations of Shri Chandika! Shri Markandeya spoke thus: )

1. Om Jayanti Mangala kali Bhadrakali Kapalini Durga Kshama Shiva dhatri swaha swadha namostute.

(Meaning : O Goddess Jayanti (who wins everyone), Mangala (who gives salvation), Kali, Bhadrakali (who is benevolent to devotees), kapalini. Durga, Kshama (who tolerates everyone) Shiva, Dhatri, Swaha and swad, salutations to you. )

2. Jai twam Devi Chamunde jai bhutartiharini, jai sarvagate Devi Kalratri namostute.
(Meaning - Victory be to you O Devi chamunda (the killer of chanda and munda) victory be to you O remover of miseries of all living beings. Victory be to you O Devi who is present every where. Salutations to you O Kalaratri (the last night). )

3. Madhu kaitabh vidravee vidravee vidyatra varde namah. Roopam dehi, jayam dehi yasho dehi, dvisho jahi.

( Meaning - Salutations to you O Devi, the killer of the demon Madhu and Kaitabha and the bestower of boons on Shri Brahmadeva. Please give us the spiritual personality, the victory, the glory and destroy our enemies. )

4. Mahishashura nirnashi bhaktanam sukhade namah. Roopam dehi, jayam dehi yasho dehi, dvisho jahi.

(Meaning - Salutations to you O Devi, the killer of Mahishasura and giver of happiness to your devotees. Please give us the spiritual personality, the victory, the glory and destroy our enemies. )

5. Raktabeej vadhe Devi chandamunda vinashini. Roopam dehi, jayam dehi yasho dehi, dvisho jahi.

(Meaning - O Devi, the killer of Raktabeeja and destroyer of demons Chanda and Munda. Please give us the spiritual personality, the victory, the glory and destroy our enemies. )

6. Shumbhasya-aiva nishumbhasya dhoomra-akshasya cha mardini. Roopam dehi, jayam dehi yasho dehi, dvisho jahi.

(Meaning : O Devi, the killer of demons Shumbha, Nishumba and Dhumraksha. Please give us the spiritual personality, the victory, the glory and destroy our enemies. )

7. Vanditanghri-yuge Devi sarva saubhagya dayini. Roopam dehi, jayam dehi yasho dehi, dvisho jahi.

(Meaning - O Devi, whose lotus feet are worshipped by gods and who gives good fortune. Please give us the spiritual personality, the victory, the glory and destroy our enemies. )

8. Achintya-roopa-charite sarva shatru vinashini. Roopam dehi, jayam dehi yasho dehi, dvisho jahi.

(Meaning - O Devi, whose form and character are beyond mind and who destroys all the enemies. Please give us the spiritual personality, the victory, the glory and destroy our enemies. )

9. Natebhyam sarvada bhaktaya chandike duritapahe. Roopam dehi, jayam dehi yasho dehi, dvisho jahi.

(Meaning - O Devi, Chandika, the destroyer of sufferings, please give those who always humble before you in devotion, the spiritual personality, the victory, the glory and destroy the enemies. )

10. Stuvadabhyo bhakti-poorva-twam chandike Yyadhi-nashini. Roopam dehi, jayam dehi yasho dehi, dvisho jahi.

(Meaning - O Devi chandika the destroyer of all diseases, please give to the devotees, who praise you with devotion, the spiritual personality, the victory, the glory and destroy their enemies. )

11. Chandike satatam ye twam archyanteeh bhaktitah. Roopam dehi, jayam dehi yasho dehi, dvisho jahi.

(Meaning - O Devi Chandika, please, give those, who always worship you with devotion in this world, the spiritual personality, the victory, the glory and destroy their enemies. )

12. Dehi saubhagyam-arogyam dehi, me param. Roopam dehi, jayam dehi yasho dehi, dvisho jahi.

(Meaning - O Devi, please give us good fortune, health, complete happiness, spiritual personality, the victory, the glory and destroy our enemies. )

13. Vidhehi dvishtam nasham vidhehi bala-muchchakeh. Roopam dehi, jayam dehi yasho dehi, dvisho jahi.

(Meaning - O Devi, please destroy those who hate your devotees, give me strength, the spiritual personality, the victory, the glory and destroy our enemies. )

14. Vidhehi Devi kalyanam vidhehi paramam shriyama. Roopam dehi, jayam dehi yasho dehi, dvisho jahi.

(Meaning - O Devi, please confer upon us the benevolence, great wealth, the spiritual personality, the victory, the glory and destroy our enemies. )

15. Surasur-Shiroratna nighrashti-charane ambike. Roopam dehi, jayam dehi yasho dehi, dvisho jahi.

(Meaning - O Devi Ambika, your lotus feet are rubbed by the gems of the crowns worn by Gods and demons. Please bestow upon us the spiritual personality, the victory, the glory and destroy our enemies. )

16. Vidyavantam yashasvantam laxmivantam janam kuru. Roopam dehi, jayam dehi yasho dehi, dvisho jahi.

(Meaning - O Devi, please make your devotees knowledgeable, glorified and wealthy and give us the spiritual personality, the victory, the glory and destroy their enemies. )

17. Prachanda-daitya-darpaghne chandike pranataya me. Roopam dehi, jayam dehi yasho dehi, dvisho jahi.

(Meaning - O Devi, the destroyer of the ego of ferocious demons. O Chandike! Please give us the spiritual personality, the victory, the glory and destroy our enemies. )

18. Chaturbhuje chaturvaktra samstute parameshwari. Roopam dehi, jayam dehi yasho dehi, dvisho jahi.

(Meaning - O Parameshwari (The supreme Goddess) having four arms and who is praised by four-faced one (Brahmadeva) please give us the spiritual personality, the victory, the glory and destroy our enemies. )

19. Krishnen samstute Devi shashvad-bhaktya sada ambike. Roopam dehi, jayam dehi yasho dehi, dvisho jahi.

(Meaning - O Devi Ambika, who is ever praised with all devotion by Shri Krishna, please give us the spiritual personality, the victory, the glory and destroy our enemies.)

20. Himachal-sutanath-samstute parmeshwari. Roopam dehi, jayam dehi yasho dehi, dvisho jahi.

(Meaning - O Parameshwari, (The supreme Goddess) who is praised by the husband of the daughter of Himalayas (Shri Shiva) please give us the spiritual personality, the victory, the glory and destroy our enemies. )

21. Indranipati-sadbhava-poojite parmeshwari. Roopam dehi, jayam dehi yasho dehi, dvisho jahi.

(Menaing - O Parameshwari, who is worshipped with true feelings by the husband of Indrani (Indra) please give us the spiritual personality, the victory, the glory and destroy our enemies. )

22. Devi prachanda-dornanda-daitya darpa-vinashini. Roopam dehi, jayam dehi yasho dehi, dvisho jahi.

(Meaning - O Devi, the destroyer of pride of demons by your strong arms please give us the spiritual personality, the victory, the glory and destroy our enemies. )

23. Devi bhakta-jana-uddam-datta-anand-udai-ambike. Roopam dehi, jayam dehi yasho dehi, dvisho jahi.

(Meaning - O Devi Ambika, you enlighten the supreme joy (moksha) of your devotees, please give us the spiritual personality, the victory, the glory and destroy our enemies. )

24. Patnim manoramam dehi manovritta-anusarineema. Tarineem durga-samsar-sagarasya kula udbhawama.

(Meaning - O Devi! please give me the wife, who is pleasing to mind, who goes according to the mind (obedient) and who can cross the most difficult of worldly ocean and who comes from a good family. )

PRAYER TO THE DEVI
O Devi, please give us the spiritual personality, the victory, the glory and destroy our enemies.

Grow Deeper Inside – being effective on a horizontal plane

So we have to meditate, and by meditation we develop that strength within us, so automatically we start solving the problem. Like our antennae grow up to that point, the way we are strong inside, they grow outside, to help so many things which are to be helped. Now you see that people are realizing that the world is in a great mess, and there are lots of problems that have come through materialism, through wrong thinking, through emotional thinking, through stupidity we can say. We have no time for all this. What we have to do is to develop ourselves deeper and deeper and deeper, so that on a horizontal plane also we are effective.




H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,

extract from 'The need to go deeper', Sydney, 6/5/87

Inner Improvement – becoming an instrument

Sahaja Yoga first of all is for personal improvement, is for the inner improvement as far as the personal side is concerned; means your intelligence must improve, your temperament must improve, your heart must clear out, your feelings must be all right; then you should, your health should be all right, then your relationship with others should be all right, your ego should go away, your superego should go away. All these things are there. But this only helps a personality, just a personality that is very limited, that is yourself. But now, this personality can become an instrument, if you can develop that depth within yourself. But normally what happens, people are very much still worried about themselves, say about their wives, about their children, about their husbands or their household or this and that. These are not important things, because we have to be those instruments which are what you call them, like pilotless bombs, we have to develop that depth within us. That depth is possible, and you can really cure many problems of your country if you could just meditate on them.



H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,

extract from 'The need to go deeper', Sydney, 6/5/87

Improve the Special Quality in you

And second point is that we think that if we love each other, if we love Mother, that is the end of everything. It's not true, also because you see, your love for Me is there no doubt, and it should be intense, it should be deeper, but the deeper you go into that love, then you will be surprised how you receive a special quality of correcting the things that are wrong around you. Gradually that quality improves. For example, a Sahaja Yogi goes to anybody's house, that house must become auspicious. But such a Sahaja Yogi must have a good heart. If the heart is not good, in the heart there is still anger, passion, lust, greed, then such a heart won't affect. But a person who has purified himself, if he goes into any family, any household, any society, the whole change will take place. The circumstances will change. Things that do not work out will start working out immediately. Like they said: "Mother, as soon as You sent from this Sunday, everything started working out, as far as the television is concerned and radio is concerned." I didn't do anything - in a way! But that should happen with you also.



H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,

extract from 'The need to go deeper', Sydney, 6/5/87

Develop a Deeper Understanding for each other

Wherever a saint goes, things are changing. But you have to be a saint, and a saintly person has a very deep understanding of another person, and this is what it is lacking: we don't have that deep understanding for each other. Then even if you have, it is for some of your own friends or maybe in the same ashram that you are staying, and all that. But it should deepen much more. You should go further and further.



H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,

extract from 'The need to go deeper', Sydney, 6/5/87

Increase the Meditative Process – for the Constructive Forces

Now even if you think of Me, it works out. It's the other way around also. But first of all, the meditative process should be increased. We all must meditate. That is very important. Meditate sincerely; not just because we have to meditate, but because we have to be deep, we have to grow within, to express our great powers of divine love, to correct so many things, which you can do very easily, I know you all can do it. There's no need to have big degrees for that, big education for that, nothing is needed. What is needed is a deep feeling of love for the whole universe and that changes. All the destructive forces change their course, and it is then for the constructive forces. But on the whole that works out much faster if you all do that meditation with sincerity, with intensity, with understanding. All right?


H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,

extract from 'The need to go deeper', Sydney, 6/5/87

The Himalayas are the Sahasrara that Mother Earth has created for you

"The Himalayas are the Sahasrara that Mother Earth has created for you. This Sahasrara is to be worshipped. This Sahasrara 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 Sahasrara 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 Sahasrara, I have opened your Sahasrara."




(H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Talk at Talnoo, India, March 1985)

For a child, enjoyment is complete

"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)

Shri Mataji about Forgiveness + facing wrongs

"At Agnya, I have told that you must forgive. But that doesn't mean that you allow people to do wrong things. Because you want to forgive it's very easy, not to fight not to say anything, just keep out just forgive, no! You go and talk to that person and tell him it is wrong. You have to face it."




(H.H. Mataji Nirmala Devi -- Adi Shakti Puja 2002, Cabella, Italy)

Establish the Universal Religion of Ascent

"… So, now you meditate upon this point, that here we are to establish the Universal Religion of Ascent. It's a tremendous task. If I could do it alone, I would have done it. But I cannot, it is only through you I have to do it. And you have a heritage. You come from a very great birth, where you have this heritage. With that heritage if I cannot manage you I think I better give up your leadership. I cannot do it."




H.H.Shri Mataji , 1985

Where is your attention?

Where is your attention? You can see in every day-to-day life how we behave. I have seen people very much interested, even now, in food. Now, where is the time? Where is the attention? How can you be so worried about your food? Worried about your sleep. Worried about your health. Worried about this, that. I mean, here you are to worry about your child which you have got not within, and that's why the child is neglected and sometimes you find the child becomes sick or goes into a coma, or may die away also. So the situation is different now for Sahaja Yogis: how to treat themselves. Those who are still running after food and all these nonsensical things, how dedication can come in a person who is so much dedicated to food habits? Like we have seen, you might also have seen some of you, Ajanta caves were built in ten generations, and they built in a place where there was not even water available, to begin with. And day in and day out, thousands of people, without getting any payment, without getting anything, built it. No food – no question! They used to eat some fruits somewhere here, there, but their dedication gave them the power to do it"



H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 1984-01-19

Lead a moral life

"Lead a moral life. The purity of the relationship between husband and wife must be understood. Then only can you have a very, very happy married life which is the basis. 'Thou shalt not commit adultery' Christ has said – perhaps he knew the modern people as they would be, using their brains for this. He said, Thou shalt not have adulterous eyes'. What a vision, in those days to think. Even I could not understand it when I was in India. Only after coming here I could see what it could mean. It is a possession on the eyes, possession. It's joyless, useless behaviour. Attention is frittered away completely. There's no dignity. Eyes should be steady."





H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 1981-09

Humpty Dumpty rhyme

Mother once correlated Humpty Dumpty rhyme with the ego we have

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.All the king's horses and all the king's menCouldn't put Humpty together again.

so with ego we grow, we reach the top, we feel that we have achieved but then we fall down all together. we see that we do not have a base and as all the king's men could not put Humpty together again it is very difficult for the person who falls from the ego wall to get together again.

PS: These are not the exact words by Mother but convey the meaning.

VALAYA

WHAT IS VALAYA?


"After crossing the sixth centre of Agnya Chakra, the attention of the pupils (Sahaja Yogis) enters the limbic area known as Sahasrara. When this area is pierced through the top of the head (Brahamarandra) the post graduation degree is also bestowed upon the student by Shri Ganesha. This is self realisation. The entrance into the unconscious mind the higher degrees also have to be certified by Shri Ganesha. Though the post graduation is granted by the Adi Shakti the Primordial Mother herself, Shri Ganesha has to bless the pupil. On top of the human personality is the seat of Sadashiva, on his lap sits the great adorable child Shri Ganesha as He is always surrendered at the most coveted place of His parents feet. Above the seat of Sadashiva on the head of Shiva he forms the crescent moon as Ardha Bindu, from its cup the Pranava falls down on all sides. At the stage of Bindu (Point) He become absolutely subtle, that He enters inside the point which has no length or breadth as the total density of the concentrated awareness itself. Lastly he is the circular line that limits the Adi Shakti's power as Valaya or complete state (Poorna Stithi)".

Taken from : http://www.valaya.co.uk/HOME.htm

After your Sahasrara has opened

"God has created fourteen levels within us. If you simply count them, then you know that there are seven chakras within us. Beside these , there are two more Chakras, about which you do not talk much. They are the Chakra of Moon (Lalita) and Chakra of Sun ( Shri) . Then there is 'Hamsa' Chakra. Thus, there are three more. Seven plus three makes ten. Then there are four Chakras above Sahasrara. And about these chakras also I have told you ; Ardhabindu , Bindu, Valay , and Pradakshina. These are the four.After coming to Sahaja Yoga and after your Sahasrara has opened ,youhave to pass through these four chakras: Ardha-Bindu, Bindu, Valayaand Pradakshina. After passing through these four chakras only, canyou say that you have become a Sahaja Yogi."





H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Bombay, India,

05-05-1983 Sahasrara Day

Shree Mataji on introspection

" We should do a lot of introspection, to find out 'what is wrong with me'...can I sleep on the grass...can I sit on the stone...can I sleep any time, keep awake anytime...am I seeking the comfort of the body...is my attention on my body or on my spirit...we have to be strict with ourselves, we have to be our own gurus; It is important that Sahaja Yogis have to do introspection...inward..introspection is inward looking...why am I thinking...what am I thinking...what is the need to think...you will become...Nirvichara; It is very important to do so as to overcome to two hurdles of Agnya; What is wrong with my personality...it comes from the surroundings...and the ideas that others have been putting into our heads-what, matters, is what 'I' think, not what others think.

Now don't condemn yourself if you have some defects...there have to be...you are human beings...but all these defects with your power of spirituality, you can overcome. For that what have you to do...first is introspection...trying to find out. You separate yourself with your spirit...and say...'hello Mr. ..how are you'...start with that...'hello...what are you up to'...and you start seeing yourself outside...and eradicating, removing all that is not yourself.

The fear comes, that I will be putting up my ego- that if we assert something or the other as right, then we will be putting up our ego; Know that you are a realised soul, start respecting yourself, and you will not fall into the trap of ego...'how can I behave like this'. Then a kind of dignity develops, and we feel shy of doing something stupid; we must develop a complete attention towards our weakness, and not towards our achievements.

If you are hot tempered, alright go ahead and beat yourself with shoes ... but if you are not, then you need not... you must know what you are... first of all introspect... then accordingly you should work it out; Without introspection you will not know... you will never remember what you have done wrong, nor will you think of what you have to do right... but that is only possible... if you go on improving yourself.

For your ascent, it is necessary that you should introspect... try to find out what you have been doing. Are you an absolutely humble person... do you do whatever is told to you...are you a fussy person...do you worry about time... are you a detached person... are you bound by one of the ganas, left or right... or are you all the time like a pendulum moving from left to right. Right to left... do you worry about what food you should eat, when you should eat, or whom you should please?

In the light of spirit you can see how you are doing wrong. The spirit is like a mirror, where you can see yourself clearly and stare changing yourself... and then... there's no introspection needed. When you have your spirit awakened, you can watch yourself... you can see for yourself, clearly, as soon as you become a developed or evolved Sahaja Yogi... and that's one point one should see... if it has happened to you. If you can see something wrong with you.. If you can find out what sort of defects you have... of you can detach yourself from those defects. And if you can understand that all these attachments and defects, and if you can understand and defects and habits are pulling you down - then you can leave them... but that only happens when you have this mirror of yourself shining through.

Your own development, your own connection, your own position in Sahaja Yoga will say what you are... whatever others may say doesn't matter... what you say about yourself, truly, truthfully is the reality, and you must face yourself all the time."


H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Taken from Sahaja Vidya

The Brain becomes aware of the Truth

So you become the truth and the strength of truth comes in you and then you’re not afraid of anything. You say it out loudly. You say, “This is the truth, I know this is the truth.” People may not accept it, they may crucify you, do what they like, but truth is truth and that truth remains forever and ever, it is eternal. But this brain that we do not think much of becomes aware of the truth. This is the blessing of the truth upon us, which comes to us through our Self-Realization, or we say through our Spirit. There can be complete seven lectures on truth if I go on, but I think I have to see to the other side of it, what else it does.


H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,
(1984 ,Public Program, England).

First the connection must be established

Another thing that happens to you is with your attention. Now our attention is outside, the reason is our brain has become like a prism, and the rays that come into us of awareness also are thrown out and as a reaction our attention goes outside. If I tell you take your attention inside you cannot take it, just cannot. Something has to happen inside and that's why when this Kundalini rises within you then your attention is attracted inside and this happening takes place. And then you find that you can enter inside as well as outside. But otherwise you cannot. Many people say that we are praying, now you are praying outside there is no connection, first the connection must be established. So when your attention is outside you react to everything. For example, I come and see these flowers, then I react to it and then I say something, or another thing I see all the time I am reacting outside. As a result of all the kind of sensations we get out of our reactions our attention becomes absolutely disturbed and we get into a lot of troubles.



H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,
(1984 ,Public Program, England).

If there’s a thought you cannot enjoy

First of all our eyes are not steady, they go on hovering from here to there, God knows what we are looking for. The eyes become impure because we start thinking about things, as soon as we see something we start thinking and a barrier is created. For example there is a beautiful piece something very beautiful you see, and looking at it if there’s a thought you cannot enjoy. But if there is no thought, there’s pure rapport, pure connection, between that beautiful art and yourself, then you just see it and enjoy that joy of the artist which he has poured into it, without thinking about it. Otherwise normally people will think, “How many pounds can I save?” or “What should I do? Should I purchase it or not?” All sorts of nonsensical flippant, cheap ideas can come into your head. Or could be something higher also “This color is not matched with that and this.” But a person who is a realized soul will just see, just like children, they just look, in the same way, without thinking. So the first thing that happens to your attention is that the thoughts subside. Thought is the first problem that has started with ego and now when the thoughts subside then you become peaceful



H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,
(1984 ,Public Program, England).

“We should have peace” – how can you have peace?

People talk of peace, “We should have peace” – how can you have peace? It’s not possible, is an impossible situation. You see we think by thinking, by organizing, by manipulating, we'll have peace. You cannot. You cannot have peace that way. How will you have peace, when the peace is established on your attention? When your attention is peaceful, when we are absolutely without any thoughts, then the peace resides. After all, the peace is disturbed by the human beings only, isn’t it? It is not disturbed by something else, is disturbed by human beings and now if the human beings are not peaceful, how can you have peace by talks? On the contrary when there are talks be sure that there will be some violent action after that. Always it happens because thought is incapable of keeping your attention in balance.



H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,
(1984 ,Public Program, England).

"How are we attached?"

Detachment"Now I would say, to understand the detachment of Spirit we should study ourselves very well, clearly -"How are we attached?" We are attached, firstly, by our brain. Mostly by our brain. Because all our conditionings are in our brain and all of our ego is also in our brain. So emotional attachments are through our brain and all our conditionings are in our brain and all of our ego is also in our brain. So emotional attachments are through our brain and all our egoistical attachments also are through our brain.That's why it is said that after Realization one must try to practice the Shiva –Tattwa by practising detachment."



H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Pandharpur, India. February 29, 1984.

Reality is the Paramchaitanya

Reality is the Paramchaitanya
We are aware that the Paramchaitanya [All-pervading Power] does everything. At least mentally we know that everything is worked out by the grace of the Paramchaitanya, which is the power of the Adi Shakti [Primordial Power]. But still, it is not so much in our heart, so much in our attention.

We can consider the Paramchaitanya lika an ocean, like an ocean which contains everything within itself … Everything is within its own limits, so it cannot be compared with a limit. You cannot compare it.

Now if you see the sun, then from the sun, the rays have to come out to work it. If you see somebody - say, a person who has an authority - he has to assert that power outside. So within himself, he doesn’t work it out.

For example, if there’s a seed and, inside the seed, only the tree grows and the fruits come out and then they are sold and people eat them and everything is inside that seed, then that is the Paramchaitanya.

So we are all enveloped in it … We are on the waves, so we see it as dislocated, separated - like we feel, “This is Germany” or “This is England” or “This is India”. These are just folds of the sari of Paramchaitanya, which look separated, but they are not separated. They are continuous. So the connection is absolutely complete. if I pull a thread from here, the thread will throughout be pulled.

In the same manner, this Paramchaitanya is working within itself and there is nothing without.

So when you are Sahaja Yogis, it pays special attention to you … It becomes absolutely one with you. Whatever you desire, whatever you want also will be coming from the same Paramchaitanya, if you are one with it.

Like in a turbulent ocean, some drops of water may fly into the air and start thinking, “We are above. We are away from the world, away from the ocean.” But again, they have to fall into the same.

So this formless energy has all the intelligence, all the coordination, all the organisations, all the computers, all the televisions, all that you can think of as communication and of governing, of administration. And, above all, it is the love. It is the love of God and love of your Mother. So to be one with this Paramchaitanya, you have to know that you have to become reality …

So all of you Sahaja Yogis have to know that, in reality, you do not do anything and everything is done by the Paramchaitanya. This is the difference between a non-Sahaja Yogi and a Sahaja Yogi. A non-Sahaja Yogi does not know. And even if he knows, this is not the truth in his heart. It’s not a part and parcel of his being. But a Sahaja Yogi knows that reality is the Paramchaitanya and it is reality that works out everything - and this reality is Divine Love.


H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Shri Mataji, 1989

It's the Paramchaitanya that acts

"When you give bandhans, what you do is to put the chaitanya into action. In every action in everything you do, you should know, it's the Paramchaitanya that acts. Only thing is, you have to be aware of yourself, and aware that it acts. And you just jump into that awareness, and it acts. So many people, though they know it in their brains, do not know it in their hearts. And so many people who know in their hearts, do not act in their attention. So only these three things you have to improve. One is your head, the other is your heart, and the third is your liver. If you can improve these three organs, this Paramchaitanya will act."



H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
(Shri Ganesha Puja, Switzerland, 8/8/89)

Paramchaitanya

"The all pervading divine power is looking after you, and is giving you all this help, all the time protecting you, advising you, guiding you. And of all the things it loves you. We see all these beautiful flowers. We never even think how such beautiful flowers, different flowers of different fragrance and colour are produced by this Mother Earth. For us, we take it for granted. All living processes we take for granted. Our heart which is running we take it for granted. But actually there is a very big organization of love and compassion which we call as Paramchaitanya which does all these living things. And you have to just be connected with that - that’s all that has to happen."



H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi:
(Royal Albert Hall, London, 10/7/99)

"This is mine, this is mine, this is yours." ......

Today Is the 6th day of Navaratri.



How can you, when the Goddess has given you the quality to love? Very, very common nonsense about it is that human beings are very jealous. But as Sahaja Yogis, you should not! Because that quality that the Goddess has given you is of loving. That quality should be shown; on the contrary you are very jealous. That means you are not a Sahaja Yogi, blessed by Shri Mataji. No! If you are blessed, then youíll have no jealousy whatsoever. And this jealousy sometimes it goes to this extent that: "Now we are, say, from Cabella. So you are from Alvera. Finished!" These, so close to each other, just like the two nostrils together. But there will be jealousy, there will be jealousy about: "Why not, Mother, come to my country, if You can go to that country."


So this comes also from the ignorance that: "This is mine, this is mine, this is yours." This jealousy starts in such a funny manner that we do not realise also that She has given us the power to love, tremendous power to love. Inauspicious powers are..., cannot be, but auspicious, dharmic powers to love somebody, means without any lust and greed. Without any jealousy. But the human mind has developed itself, so cunning that it is proud that it can be jealous of someone. Out of this jealousy, only greed comes in, as I told you. Itís a fact.

Because you feel jealous, so you want to buy the same thing, then you must compete with others. If somebody has got a job better than yours, then you must compete.

These things are all destructive and the powers of Goddess are constructive. She gives you all the powers that are absolutely constructive.




H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
05/10/97 -- Navaratri Puja -- Cabella

They are innocent

Now if you see the stones, they are innocent. If you hit the stone you'll get the hit otherwise it doesn't come up and hit you. They are innocent. If you see the rivers, they are innocent. Everything that has been created as matter is innocent. It is not cunning, it is not manipulative, it is not aggressive, nothing of the kind. They are innocent means they are under the complete order of God Almighty. They do not have their own free will to do what they like. Whatever is done is with the absolutely under complete command of God Almighty. And so they are, we can say they are innocent because they have no free will to do what they like.


So then if you see to animals also, they also are innocent, except for very few most of them are innocent. Innocent in the sense that they are called as pashu means they are completely under the control of Pasha of God Almighty. A tiger will behave like a tiger and a snake will behave like a snake but in human beings somebody will behave like a tiger, tomorrow like a snake and third day like a worm. There's no steadiness. Or this you cannot say that this gentleman is today tiger so tomorrow he will not be a snake, they have no free will to change their individuality. They are left alone.


So that is not the job of the Shakti to bother. That's already been created, they are there and they are existing, they have a purpose that's why they are there. And the purpose is only one, is to support human beings because you are at the epitome of evolution.


So she has created all this things just for you to be created and ultimately to get your Self Realisation, to have meaning to your life, to get connected to this all pervading power, to enter into the Kingdom of God. All is her work.



H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Navaratri Puja, Cabella Di Ligure,

27th September 1992

Nine forms of the Goddess

Now you are worshipping today the Durga or all the nine forms of the Goddess. She came nine times on this earth according to this that she fought all the people who were destroying the seekers, who were trying to make a mess of their lives, and these tortured saints when they prayed to the Goddess because none of the Gods could do anything and Sadashiva is never interfering with what the Goddess is doing. So they worshipped the Bhagavati and then the incarnation of hers came nine times according to the need of the time.


So every time you find her confronting people who are extremely arrogant, self opinionated, thinking no end of themselves and the Bhaktas are tortured by these self opinionated horrible rakshasas



H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Navaratri Puja, Cabella Di Ligure, 27th September 1992

Swastika becoming Omkara and Omkara then becoming Alpha and Omega

Mathematical things have come to us from inside, from the Divine, this is not we have created. This was found out by some mathematicians who were realised souls and they used this Alpha and Omega. It's surprising how it shows so clearly that swastika becoming Omkara and Omkara then becoming Alpha and Omega
So everything in Sahaja Yoga is tangible and can be verified



H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,
Navaratri Puja, Cabella Di Ligure, 27th September 1992.

"Why these Sahaja Yogis should be granted this great boon?"

And all your powers after Realization of giving Kundalini awakening, or of curing people, or of talking about Sahaja Yoga, or spreading it. Any, any kind of thing that you want is all granted - is all thrown into you. And as you know there are many saints, who have said, "Why these Sahaja Yogis should be granted this great boon?" So one can say it's a whim. All right. There is one more thing. I was happy to learn that the great poet of this country, Blake, had prophesied about me. And it is so beautifully done, that He said that England is going to be the Jerusalem. This is going to be the pilgrimage. The venue has shifted. And then he has very beautifully; have you got the thing to read? Oh, haven't brought it.


But what reading, that He has said that first the furnace will be burning in Surrey Hills, where I came first, and then He has mentioned Lambeth Vale, where we have got our Ashram. Where the foundations will be laid, we have laid the foundations. And that Jerusalem is going to be in England, not in India. And you are the people responsible for this Jerusalem.


Today is the day for which in India everybody is doing Puja. And all the Sahaja Yogis today, in every center there is a Puja today. And they are all thinking of you people. So you have to receive the supreme bliss today, the supreme bliss. Only by surrender. Today the vibrations are tremendous. Keep all your doubts and all your nonsensical things outside. Just receive it and get it. These things are going to help you, nothing else. Because you don't have to give me anything, but receive it yourself. Receive it as much as you can.


H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,
Navaratri Puja, Hampstead, London, October 1980

Without the help of the Devi at different stages

... So the ascent starts evolving in that the play of the Devi is the Navaratri. In your ascent from ages, Navaratri that’s why is the most important Puja. In Sahaja Yoga, Navaratri is the most important puja. Though we can say in modern Sahaja Yoga Sahasrara Day is, because that’s how you started getting your Realization. But if you go to the whole historical events of evolution you’ll find Navaratri is the one which has brought you to Sahasrara. Without the help of the Devi at different stages of your ascent, you could not have been in a position to receive your Realization. So all the steps that you took in the past are today worshipped and are used for thanking the Devi for what She did to bring you down. So it’s like a thanksgiving. Without Her work nothing could have happened.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Navaratri 1985, Switzerland

Just say, "I surrender".

... you have already heard about the importance of today in the life of the Goddess. And that today Ravana was killed and that's how there were celebrations. As you know very well that all the satanic forces which one had to face one at the time are all back on the stage and they are to be defeated. The greatest problem of modern times is that these satanic forces have taken a very subtle form and they enter into your psyches and into your egos. And you are the Saints, you are the Bhaktas, you are the devotees of the Goddess. It's a very delicate situation. When the confusion is there, when the saints are attacked, the aggressor can be removed, but the saint becomes mixed up or confused with negative forces, which is very difficult to make him see the light. And you have seen this situation very well. And the subtler you grow, the subtler they became. And they start giving you ideas which are so negative, but you cannot see them. So the problem today is very delicate. There are no absolute saints and there are no absolute bad people.

Such a mixture, a confusion. That is what Kali Yuga is. Is modern times. Only way to get rid of them is to surrender. That is the only way. There is no other way around. Because when you surrender, the spirits, the negativities, the satanic forces just disappear. Because they are defective. They have no business to be there. They have no interest in a person who is surrendered to God. They cannot surrender. If they surrender they'll also become saints. All the time to think, "What are my catches? What are my negativities?" Is not going to help you. Just surrender all these ideas that are coming to you and you'll find that all absurd ideas will run away. This is the easiest way to get rid of your problems. Is just to surrender. After all, all these horrible people, all the horrible deities, enemies, who came forward to fight the Goddess, are there as long as you nurture them. As soon as you surrender yourself, they will find you of no use for themselves and they go to other half-baked people. The growth will only come, when the surrender is complete. One has to know that the powers are tremendous. You cannot conceive it as it is said by Markandeya. You cannot conceive it; it is beyond your conception. Outwardly you cannot understand, you just cannot understand. Under such circumstances the best thing is to surrender yourself. Now surrendering, what do you surrender? What do you surrender is your ego and your super-ego and it is completely cleansed and drenched in the blessing. Because you cannot give anything. You have to receive the blessings. And to receive the blessings you have to just surrender. It is so simple. The easiest way. To solve all your problems is to surrender.

Just say, "I surrender". For realized souls it should be their mantra. And you will be amazed how all your problems will vanish. Because not only that the powers are tremendous, but as you are realized souls all the Divine Forces, all the Divine Deities, all the Eternal Beings; Chiranjivas, all the angels and the ganas, all of them are looking after you. But they know one thing, those who are surrendered and those who are not surrendered. You just surrender the problem, and you will be surprised that the answer will come in such a miraculous way. Just surrender. Do not take any responsibility upon yourself. Just surrender. Because how far you can go into the solution? Up to your rationality. Beyond that you have your Spirit, and the Spirit is connected to the Divine. So best is to surrender and the whole thing will show such light and such beauty and such meaning. In the modern times now the work is not the same way as it was when it is described. In the Raudrarupa or that the Chandrarupa you see there, was there at the back. It's a mind work, it's a Mother, it's a simple thing. Loving, compassionate, for your protection. This rupa is there, but you do not see it. You are completely protected. Be sure of it.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,
Navaratri Puja, Hampstead, London, October 1980

If people become loving and affectionate..

"If people become loving and affectionate, this soil itself will become fragrant. First thing we must learn to love each other, and not to hate anyone. ... How are we to bring the fragrance to this soil? This is only if the people living here have affection and love for each other. This is the most important thing. When creation took place it was only through affection, otherwise what was the need for nature to create all these things? All this is for what? It is to make you feel beautiful. All these trees are beautiful to make you feel good, to feel one with the nature. ...Many people dont understand that Sahaja Yoga is not for them only; it is for the whole world. You have to give it to others and you have to bring forth what you call unity of love. In love you dont see wrong things. You just enjoy love. ...Love is the biggest thing God has given to human beings. ...We are all human being and we have a right to love and if you manage some how to love people some how, Sahaja Yoga will settle down. Sahaja yoga is like a tree which requires love as the water. Try this, try around your life and you will find how love pays itself. Not to be seen how much you spend, what you do. Its not you count all those things it is just like an ocean. You become like that typical personality of sahaja yoga. So all the sahaja yogis should decide today that we are going to forgive all the people we hate and we are going to love all of them."

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
(Shri Adi Shakti Puja, Cabella, Italy 24/7/2007)

Sign of the Sahaja Yogi

“Am I being a wise person?” That is the first 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."

"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."

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Navaratri Puja 2002

Second chakra is important..

So, second chakra is important, because, in modern times, it is very, very cosmic, as well as active.We become very active, overactive. And we start thinking about everyone, with whom we are not concerned. And bothering our heads. So, today’s chakra is important, because it bothers your head. It troubles you a lot and you start thinking about them. You start thinking: “What have you said?” “What has happened?” “Who is angry?”All sorts of nonsense. You are all Sahaja Yogis. So you shouldn’t worry as to all these people what they say, what they are doing. You should just enjoy yourself.Second chakra you must enjoy. That’s the best way to enjoy Sahaja Yoga.Then your Swadhishthana is satisfied. Nothing can disturb you. As Swadhishthana is really looked after.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi:

2-nd night of Navaratri talk, 13-10-2007

You should have no worry at all of any kind

Navaratri Puja is a very, powerful puja in a way, because it manifests, opens out the channels of your power, that's why it's very important. All the forces of the Jagadamba act towards hitting the negativity of all kinds. That is Her first and foremost nature, is to destroy all the negativity that is in this world and is against Sahaj, against you. Her destruction takes place in so many ways. First of all, we have to know that if you sin against the Goddess, then all kinds of physical problems start .

If you believe in the Goddess, then know that She is extremely powerful, She is very intelligent, and if She has to protect you She will protect you out and out. But this faith has to be developed. Faith has to be developed by experience also, how you have been protected always; how you have been helped always; how you came out of so many crises. But despite that if you get upset, worried, if some clouds appear in the sky of your life, then if you get upset, that means you are still weak. So first thing, if you are really worshipping the Goddess, then you should have no worry at all of any kind, and you should have no fear at all. Go ahead, fearlessly. Whatever you are doing, do it fearlessly. But at the same time I have to tell you the other side, that one should not go about like a zombie, it doesn't mean that; saying all kinds of nonsensical things of the right side. But if you have to do something, do it with clear-cut ideas, and also without any fear

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Navaratri Puja 1994

How much your Mother loves

Think of... how your Mother loves you, who is your Mother... if you really believe in Her, in Sahaja yoga. these two things should solve your problems - no more thinking. Just think how much your Mother loves - when you think how much your Mother loves you, you are jumping onto Her Kundalini, and at that time when you jump onto Mother's Kundalini, then there is no thought. Complete silence will exist once you come onto Mother's Kundalini - but not through your mental projection, but through your meditative spontaneous experience - just feel the joy of that. Just think how much your Mother loves you, and then you are jumping onto Her Kundalini.

H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Ganesha Puja, Rahuri,

By coming into Sahaja Yoga you have become leelamay (playful)

This festival of Holi was made by Shri Krishna so that human beings would see the whole world as leela (play). By coming into Sahaja Yoga you have become leelamay (playful). You get completely absorbed in music and enjoy it. You have love and pure feelings for one another.





You do each work with great beauty and morality. But to be leelamay is to stop at Visshuddhi Chakra. After that, one has to move on Agnya. On the Agnya Chakra is tapas or penance. Then you should think about the burning of Holika which was due to Prahlads penance. We also have to ascend on that tapa because you have reached the Visshuddhi level; that you live together with love for each other. At Visshuddhi you have become collective, got love and universal brotherhood.






When you become universal then your caste, creed, countries all drop away. On Holi we should burn all those things which spoil our attention and damage the Agnya. Then this attention will clear out and we will celebrate Holi with joy and understanding. When your attention goes to Visshuddhi then you see the Shakti of Shri Krishna, Shri Radha, who is Allahad Dayini, the giver of joy. Just by seeing Her people feel joyous.






She is the Allahad Dayini Shakti which is in flowers, in children; and it can awaken in you. Till the depth comes this Allahad Dayini Shakti will remain verbal. Think about the combination of these two. It is very important for us to get depth within and to give joy from that depth is equally important.


H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,
Holi Celebrations, Delhi 1991

Shri Mataji on Holi

"And not to become a person who is just outwardly something like Christian, Hindu, Muslim. No! Inside. Inside you have to become. Now as a result of that you have seen what Shri Krishna has said, that once you become from inside then I don't have to tell you, "Don't drink, don't do this, don't do that." Nothing. You just don't do it, you just don't do it, and you understand it so well that this should not be done, that should not be done. To overcome all kinds of nonsense of religion Shri Krishna's advent was there. It was a very important advent but I don't know how many people understand that. He came to show that it's all Leela, is all the play of God. What is there to be serious? What is there to be ritualistic? You cannot bind God in any rituals. That's why he came on this Earth, to tell you that you should not try to bind yourself by rituals which are nonsensical. This was his teaching so many years back, he taught this 6 thousand years back. But still, if you see in every religion, there are so many rituals going on. So when the incarnations died, people started rituals; funny stuff, even when Shri Krishna died, they didn't know what to do now. Because he said, "No more rituals ... just play Holi, be happy, joyous, dance and sing," that's what he said. Now what to do? Now if he has said so. So they started a new thing, let's make it a romantic stuff. Human beings know how to make everything perverse. Nobody can beat them in this. So they made him look like a very romantic personality, romancing with Radha.
Ra-dha, Ra is energy, dha is the one who has sustained energy. So, show romances with Her.... when She was Mahalakshmi Herself! To show his relationship with Mahalakshmi as if they were husband and wife. So there were also some poets who started describing them as husband and wife, and all kinds of nonsense. In divine relationship there is nothing like husband and wife. (There) is the power which is potential and the power that is kinetic. There is no such relationship that exists as human beings try to make it. Because human beings have a habit to bring all the Divine incarnations to their own levels. "

- H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Spread Sahaja Yoga

... as I requested you, we have to work it out now. Individually, we have to go all out to see that we spread Sahaja Yoga and talk about it. On this day I give you complete freedom to do what you like to spread Sahaja Yoga. You need not ask me any permissions, and you can try everything that you want to. But should be something decent, should not be something indecent and something which is not behoving a Sahaja Yogi. Even if you have to write letters or answers or anything, even if you have to show the anger, it should be done in a very decent and a beautiful manner. And it should show that it's a yogi who is talking.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, New Year Puja, Kalwe, India, 1991

Eight Ganeshas

"India is the microscopic form of the whole earth, Mother Earth. So, in the triangle of Maharashtra we have got eight Ganeshas, which are manifesting vibrations, and were recognized by great Saints of Maharashtra. But, as you have seen, as a grace of these great Saints, especially Maharashtra has created human beings who have shraddha as the highest expression of their emotion and mind. Because of that lofty vision in the mind, whenever they see something on this sublime nature, their thoughts go to God. Thanks to the Saints of that State that people have that sensitivity and that kind of a movement".

(H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Shri Ganesha Puja, Riffelberg, Switzerland, 2/9/84)

Ashta Vinayakas

"... one has to understand how it is so important in Maharashtra that people worship Ganesha. As you know there are Ashta Vinayakas, eight Ganeshas are there, around this area, and this triangle of Maharashtra, which has got on one side one big mountain. On the other side we have another mountain, which, of course, is not in Maharashtra. And also on top we have another mountain. So like a triangle, which is made like a Mooladhara, means the Kundalini itself. So the Kundalini of the whole world resides in this area. That's why it is called, we should say, as Maharashtra, is the country which is very great, the nation which is very great.

(H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Shri Ganesha Puja, Sheri, near Pune, Maharashtra, India, 15/12/91)

Birthday of Shri Rama - Ram Navami

So as a child Rama was studying with a very great saint, Vishwamitra, and he had an ashram where Rama and His brothers studied, and they used to come for holidays to their father’s place. Then He had the capacity to kill a demon with only one arrow. One arrow of Shri Rama’s was sufficient. And He was a small little child, say about seven, eight years of age and people were surprised how He could do it.

Now these Yagnyas [ceremonies] were created to evoke the deities within the spinal column, actually. And for these Yagnyas they used to sit down and do all these Havanas the way we do it. But at that time the rakshasas [demons] would come and try to spoil the Yagnya. Because Yagnyas are to be done with a pure heart, and with cleanliness and with purity. It should not be insulted. There is a protocol about it. While they thought that, “If we insult the deities there, then the deities will disappear and their Yagnyas will be spoiled.”

At the time of Rama also there were some rakshasas who took a special pleasure in spoiling these Yagnyas, and Rama as a child would go and protect the rishis [saints] from the demons. And the demons would take on some sort of a funny form, and come like miserable creatures and put some bones of animals and things like that in the Yagnya, and that would spoil the effects of the Yagnya. And Rama would protect that, as a child. Imagine, as a child He used to do that. They would be doing the Yagnya and He would be sitting outside with all His small brothers around Him, and they would kill the demons who would try to destroy the Yagnya.

This is the early life of Rama in which you see how as a child also He showed an amount of expertise in arrow and bow. So any time you see a statue, how to make out if it’s a Rama statue is to see if there’s an arrow and a bow – then it’s Rama’s statue.

Now His coming on this earth gave us the development of the right side, and so the Yagnyas were also on the right side. Because first of all when human beings came on this earth, they were frightened of all the animals who would invade them and all kinds of horrible rakshasas and all those people, and negative forces would trouble them. In that state they needed to create a king, a ruler who was an ideal king and who would rule according to the laws of dharma [right conduct]. So He was the one in charge of that.

He was here in Treta Yuga, and Krishna came at the time of Dwapar Yuga. When I came it was Kali Yuga, but now today the time is of Krita Yuga. The Yuga where work will be done – Krita Yuga. This is the time where work will be done. So far things have moved from one to another.

Now in the Treta Yuga when Shri Rama came, the idea of kingship and rulership started, so the greatest emphasis was on the goodwill of the people. The people had to have goodwill, for the people and for the king, and for the betterment of humanity. The will: that is the right side. So how to create the goodwill? First the leader has to sacrifice, and show how far he can go on sacrificing to keep the moral and the goodwill of the people. So the right side was created by the advent of Shri Rama, because He showed a path of creating among people the awareness that they should be ruled, that they should not be anarchists. There should be one head who should be able to organise, coordinate and work out a collective thing.

H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 1982

Feel your own security and then the joy of that security .......

In small, small things we destroy our security…. The complete security within yourself is that you are the Self and these things are not important. If you are a secured man, your children will also find that out, that their security lies in finding their own security. They themselves will say, “Now don’t try to help us, to spoil us. Do not give us things by which we feel more insecure.” And such children will be really brave children like Shivaji was. His mother gave him all the protection, no doubt, but she made a Shivaji out of him….

Feel your own security and then the joy of that security will take you to your depth. Why are you insecure in life? Money? The person who has got, who has got now the blessings of the Divine, what more does he want? Because your God is almighty, nobody’s might is greater than that of your Father. Nobody can touch you on any point. But your faith is lacking and that’s why you should start with your faith in yourself. Make the faith sit in your Heart chakra and that faith is going to give you the joy of security. Faith is the answer for all the insecurities of the world…. The essence of the Heart chakra is to feel your own security, your own Self. Feel your own security within yourself. Only the realised can feel their security because they know they have their atma, their spirit.

H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi ,1979

Recognition of Sahaja Yoga

Time has come that you have to recognize Sahaja Yoga. So, those people who just go headlong into wrong path suffer from funny type of heart troubles, palpitations, insomnia, vomiting, giddiness, all sorts of, we can say, irrelevant talking.

It is a very serious thing to go to a wrong guru and bow to him. Sahasrara becomes a closed area for such a person.

The person who are against Sahaja Yoga have a very strong Sahasrara, like a nut, in the sense that it is such a strong shell that you just can not break it - the strong shell, like a thick nut - even if you want to use a hammer, you can not break it.

Today the time has come that you have to recognize Sahaja Yoga; you have to.

You did not recognize any saint, any prophets, anyone, any incarnation, but today, the condition is that you have to recognize one. If you do not recognize it, your Sahasrara cannot be opened and you have to have realisation. It is very important thing that, you have to recognize Sahaja Yoga.

There are so many people who say, 'Mother why to believe in Sahaja Yoga this way? We can just call you Mother, you could be my Mother' Alright, doesn't matter, but you can't get your realiasation and, even if you get it, you cannot retain it.

You have to recognize, RECOGNITION is the only worship of Sahaja Yoga. Recognition is the only worship when you want to know God in Sahaja Yoga. All other Ganas, Devatas, Deities, Shaktis are one, in unison in Sahaja Yoga.

And anyone who does not recognize Sahaja Yoga, they are just not bothered about you, what sort of a person you are. So, Sahasrara takes charge that it makes you recognize, it convinces you, it proves to you that if you are not recognizing Sahaja Yoga you cannot get your realisation.

- Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

(04/02/1983, Hanuman Road, New Delhi)

Have you forgotten your Mother's love and therefore you are so disturbed? ...

letter from Shri Mataji on Diwali 1976 occasion....with love... 21 October 1976

"My dear Sahaja Yogis, my dear children,Let this Diwali enlighten you with light of love.You yourself are the lamps which burn high and don't get pressed by the cover. They become much more powerful than the cover. It is their own asset. When they are hit upon, they are disturbed and extinguished.


Why are our lamps disturbed ? You should think over it. Is there no transparent sheath around them ? Have you forgotten your Mother's love and therefore you are so disturbed? As the glass protects the lamp, in the same way my love will protect you. But the glass should be kept clean. How can I explain? Have I to say like Shri Krishna “Leave all religions and surrender to me” or as Shri Jesus "I am the way, I am the door”.

I want to tell that I am that destination. But will you people accept it ? Will this fact go to your hearts? Although what I say is distorted, the truth will always stand.You cannot change what it is. Only you will remain ignorant and backward. I am unhappy because of that.

Diwali is the day of real aspirations. Invoke the whole universe. Many lamps have to be lit, and looked after. Add the oil of love, Kundalini is the wick and awaken the Kundalini of others with light of the spirit within you. This flame of Kundalini will be kindled and one within you will become the torch. Torch is not extinguished. Then there will be spotless sheath of my love. It will neither have any limits nor any end. I will be watching you.

My love for you is showering as many, many blessings.

Yours always loving Mother NlRMALA"

What are the Don'ts and Do's for Sahaja Yogis?

Question: What are the Don'ts and Do's for Sahaja Yogis?

Answer: First and foremost thing is that a Sahaja Yogi cannot smoke or drink. One absolutely hundred percent sure. Because if you drink or smoke, you will find after sometime, either you will lose your Vibrations, or you will start vomiting. You cannot smoke. If you smoke, your Visshuddhi will be caught. If you drink, your Manipur (Nabhi) will be caught, and whenever you put your hand towards my Photograph, your Nabhi Chakra will be burning. Many people have done it without any difficulty. They do not have any difficulty. They just give up. So this is one of the most important thing that you have to gradually give up. You just take my Name and it will work it out.Secondly. don't fast. When Mother is there you have not to fast. Only fast on Nrak Chaturdashi.

That's all. If you don't feel like eating, eat something else. But don't keep your stomach empty. You can drink fruit juice, or milk or whatever you like. These are certain things about the food and stomach Nabhi Chakra. Next the eyes, are the very important things, where you have to be very careful not to move your eyes very fast anywhere, try to keep your eyes steady, and mostly on the Mother Earth. You have heard about Laxmana, He never saw the face of Sitaji. Only saw Her feet. How can that be? He was always with them. So you can imagine what should be the position. For complete fourteen years, he has to lead a Bramhachari life. She was like his mother. He knew that She was Adi Shakti. But he just saw Her feet. That should be our case. We should lead a sanctified married life. Create a nest of family. A proper family house. Try to adopt, compromise, adjust. Make your wife realised, make your husband Realised, and bring peace in the family; because there are many great souls who want to take birth.

Those who got married like this, they all got realised children. So you must try to get a family life, a proper family, a proper relationship give service to your parents, don't find faults with your parents and try to be kind to them, and try to be good in the family. Don't spoil the children, also correct them. Make them loving. Make a nice society. Every one of you should be the carrier of Love of your Mother. If you are a Sahaja Yogi, and if you change and transform in your behaviour, naturally Sahaja Yoga will have its own reputation, and everybody will start taking to Sahaja Yoga. You cannot earn any money from Sahaja Yoga.Do not have Sahaja Yogis for business partnership.Do not use Sahaja Yoga for making money. You have to be generous people.

You have to be honest.There are Ten Commandments as they say, and be satisfied in your heart.You have to lead a chaste life, and see chaste things your priorities will change. Your friends will change, you will not like dirty jokes. You will just change, and run away from them. I have seen these foreigners now. They say t hat they just cannot tolerate those things now. Once upon a time whatever they used to tolerate and enjoy also; they cannot tolerate it now. Because you have become sensitive now. You have to be decent people.Don't be misers at all. All miserly people are against Sahaja Yoga, and if miserly people come I give them troubles. If you are miserly, you get lots of troubles. So don't get miserly. I am telling you, don't be too talkative also. If you become too talkative, and troublesome, I can stop your talking.If you don't talk at all; that is also not good. That means, don't go to extremes.

May God Bless you all.
Advice given by Her Holiness Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi on 22nd March 1977 (770322) at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

What are these Vibrations? ..........

Q.What are these Vibrations? (Physiologically, Scientifically, and Spiritually.)

Q. Where do these Vibrations come from? From You, Cosmos or Atmosphere?What way do the Vibrations benefit us?

Answer: Very good question.
First question is about what are these Vibrations?

I told you yesterday, that in our heart, there is a flicker of light, which is burning all the time; which is Atma; which is the reflection of Paramatma in our heart.

In short I will tell you. What happens when the Kundalini rises. She opens the Brahmarandhra. And there is the Seat of the Sadashiva, the Pitha. The Pitha is here at Sahasrara, but Sadashiva is in the Heart, reflected as Atma. Pitha is created because it receives the Subtle energy which is All Pervading. The Gross. Inside the All Pervading. e.g. this mike collects my voice. Voice is a subtle energy, which is collected through this, and if you have a radio it will catch them.

In the same way Pithas are in the brain, and Pitha of Sadashiva is higher up here, which is opened out, so that the Subtle, the Sukshama, the gross passes into our heart, through a very Subtle channel. Just like a gas-light,it has a flicker. And when the gas opens out the Prakash occurs. Now the Vibrations are that Prakash going through us. These Vibrations start flowing through us.

Now what do I do?

You will say 'Mataji what do you do?' I do nothing but I just try to give you that force, which is the, you can say, gas power. That is the gas power. Because the Kundalini knows when I am before you. She rises, She opens out, and It starts flowing. It is flowing through Me through out. But unless you are subtle, you cannot feel it. you can say, that I am the Finite in the infinite. Or you can say the Infinite in the finite. I am both. So the energy that is emitted into all the subtle energy is passing through Me. Is the Virat. From the Virata, the whole thing is passing. It is going into the All Pervading. It is all Pervading. Everybody, everywhere it is going. Even it is in a cell, in a Carbon atom it is there, in all atoms it is there. It is the Subtle Energy. That is emitted through Me. When you become subtle, you become like a radio, you start receiving it. Now how will you know what is correct and what is incorrect?You ask the subtle, and the subtle answers you, and you get the answers on your hand. It is like this. So these are the Vibrations, which you receive, from the All Pervading power. And the All Pervading Power is emitted out, and you receive it from Me of the All-Pervading. It is just the same, from everywhere. These are the Vibrations.

The Self-Realisation, which is the very subtle point, you try to understand now. That it is so far an unconscious for you. Your Atma is in the unconscious it is not in the Awareness. It is in the Achetan. It is in your unconscious. You are not yet aware about it. But once you are Realised, it starts flowing into your awareness, means that you start feeling into your Central Nervous System, because your nervous system is your Chetana. Is your awareness. Human awareness is nothing else but the Central Nervous System.But this Central Nervous System starts feeling now, the Vibrations, the Light of the Atma through it. So that it tells us why it is known as Samadhi. Samadhi means the Unconscious. When the Unconscious becomes the Conscious it is called the Samadhi.It is not Beshudhavstha! It means that you become aware of the unconscious.Not only that, but first you become Nirvichara, then Nirvikalpa, and then a complete Self-Realisation. So Samadhi, is a confusing word Samadhi. Just means an Universal Unconscious. Yesterday Justice Vaidya told you that there are three types of Sadhanas, Satvik, Rajasi, and Tamasi. Tamasi goes to the left hand side, leads it to the Subconscious, collective Subconscious, connected to the Libido on the left hand side. The Right side is the Supra Conscious, connected the Pingala Nadi, which is the Will Power as you call it, goes to the collective Supra Conscious. God, Goddesses and Ganas are on this side, and all those who fall into that go to the Hell.But the Center is the Super-Conscious. For the Sushumna, the human being rises above the Super Conscious. They gradually start becoming more and more aware. They have the same body.

For example, if you look at the cell of the brain, is the same as the cell of a fat. But there is a difference. So the difference starts taking and by the time you open out from here, then there is even a greater dimension, to that cell. Your Brain, that it starts receiving the Vibrations and can understand it. Then in your Nirvikalpa stage, you get another dimension, by which you have the Knowledge. (Words missing here.) Abouts of your knowledge. The last is the Self-Realisation, where you just enjoy. Complete enjoyment. No problems. You do not catch, nothing happens. I would say our Vaidya Saheb is very much near Self-Realisation. The way he got his self-realisation is very remarkable. The next question is about the vibrations being psychological?

Psychologically, you can feel on your hands, on your fingers.
Scientifically you can say that the Parasympathetic gets activated. You get the control of the Parasympathetic, you jump into the Unconscious, the Universal Unconscious. I have already told you the Spiritual aspects of these Vibrations.

Regarding the second part of the

Question: Where these Vibrations are coming from? You, Cosmos, or Atmosphere?

The Vibrations come from everywhere, I am the emitting Force. All right, Accepted. This the Vital force of Life. It gives you a complete balance. It corrects your physical being. It corrects your Mental being. It corrects your Emotional being, It gives you a complete Spiritual oneness with God. It integrates you completely. As far as I am concerned, I have no Paschatap. I don't understand what is Paschatap. I don't understand what is Temptation. I don't understand these things because I am completely One with Myself. Every finger I move, every hand I move, it has a meaning. It is done without thinking, but there is a big thought behind it. I say 'Han' Han means there is a formation of circle which works. It is difficult to explain, as my mechanism is different from yours, so I can't explain what I do.

You don't have those mechanics within you. But it is like that. When I say, Hin? Hun, Han, Hin, all these are tremendous words. They create a kind of a force; a Rakshasas, and all that, and you can pull them out also. Now I gave in a Mataka, my breath. It is a Pranava itself complete. That Pranava, in the night, when they will be sleeping will come out, and take out all the bad things in you gradually, and bind them, and put them inside. You have seen many mad people are cured like that.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mumbai India 22.03.1977

Baba black sheep have you any wool...

(Nursery rhyme : Ba ba black sheep have you any wool....)

Baba black sheep have you any wool? Yes sir, yes sir three bags full.............Here, the black sheep represents the "Kundalini Power", and when She is asked that "Have you any wool, means, do you have any powers? Then she replies "Yes sir, Yes sir 3 Bags full, i.e. 3 Channels, Left, Right and Centre Powers, which we call as Powers of Mahakaali, Mahalaxmi and Mahasaraswati.

Then She (Kundalini i.e. Black Sheep) further explains :One for my Master, One for my dame .............. Means one for Right Heart, means for the chakra of "Father" (Shree Rama / Shiva) and one for (left heart, i.e. "Mother" means Parvati ............ and

One for the Little Boy, i.e. little boy is "Shree Ganesha", who lives down the LANE, means Who resides below the Kundalini, or down the lane.

Turiya - The fourth state of consciousness

This is the state which we call, in Sanskrit language, as the fourth dimension awareness: Turiya

All the thoughts that come to us at this stage are divine thoughts like inspirations.

If we want to think, we can think, if we don’t want to think, we need not think.

This Turiya state sometimes starts establishing itself after awakening for hardly a few seconds, then it goes on increasing and a person can achieve complete peace within his own mind.

Adishankara’s Dashashloki

“… I am not Visva (aware)
nor Taijasa (dreaming)
nor Prajna (in deep sleep)
I am really the Turiya.

That One,
the Residue,
the Auspicious,
the Alone,
- am I.”

Sanskrit Dictionary:

Turiya : <<>> of consciousness.


In fact, some define it rather as the background against which the other states(waking, dreaming, deep sleep) take place.



(Extract from META MODERN ERA, chapter-11)

IT IS NOT BOTHERED THAT IT SHOULD REAMIN FOREVER

Did you see the sky, how beautiful it was? How orange, blue, all kinds of colours were there. The colour it takes, automatically, and is enjoying it. It is not bothered that it should remain forever, that this will go away when there is darkness. Just watching! The sky is just watching. Whatever comes its way, it takes it. So, it’s so beautiful and it’s so joy-giving.

So the another thing is that, when you are in that state of spirituality, then you are joy-giving, you are peace giving, you are compassionate and you love each other. All these problems of the ego just disappear. Ego is your greatest enemy I think, and it is the one that really hinders all the wealth and beauty of your life. So if you could just see this ego, how it works, just you’ll be enjoying it. It’s a drama it plays, alright? Let’s have it! You can see the drama and then suddenly you will be amazed that you are not in it, you are watching it. When you are detached from your ego you can see how it tries to entice you.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 25.12.2000

ARE YOU PROGRESSING WELL?

With a complete surrendered mind, you have to go through the pilgrimage of this castle. This is one of the glimpses of the tapas that you have to do because I am told, some of you had to get into little difficulties and you people suffered a little bit on your way for the pilgrimage. But it is fun to be venturesome and to get into places where the devils dare not to go.

1. And if you know how to get fun out of the so-called discomforts, then you should know you are on the right line.
2. And as you start becoming discreet automatically, you should know you are progressing well.
3. As you become more peaceful and your temper vanishes in the thin air as soon as you see somebody attacking you, then know that you are progressing well.
4. As soon as you see an ordeal or a calamity falling on the personality and you don’t get worried about it, then know that you are progressing.
5. When no amount of artificiality can impress you, then know that you are progressing, no amount of material well-being in others makes you unhappy, then know that you are progressing well.
6. No amounts of labour or troubles are sufficient to become a Sahaja Yogi. Whatever you may try, one cannot become a Sahaja Yogi, while you have got it without any effort, so you are something special.

So this one should understand that you are special. You will become humble about it. Then, when it happens to you that you humble down when you see you have achieved something, that you have some powers, that you are emitting innocence, that you are discreet and as a result of that you become a more compassionate, humbler personality, a sweeter personality...............

H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Overcoming the Six Enemies of the Soul

Six enemies of the soul, seen as blockages of the chakras

Lust, anger, greed, attachment, jealousy, vanity.

When these are cleared, we become innocent, imaginative, satisfied, secure, collective, confident and real. A realized individual enjoys pure inner freedom, without psychological bondage. Introspection is necessary. Each chakra is under attack. The awakening of the chakras' power by the Kundalini eliminates these defects.

The First Center: Moladhara Chakra

Lust is a malfunction of the first center.The restoring of the integrity of the moladhara chakra is possible through sahaja yoga meditation practices. Implies a return of innocence.

The Second Center: Swadhistan Chakra

Anger represents a malfunction of the second center.People with well operating swadhistan are imaginative, talented and competent.

The Third Center: Manipur Chakra.

Greed relates to a contraction in the third center.The energy of the being is diverted from inner growth into acquiring external possessions. To have and not to be is the realm of one's identity. If society does not control greed, greed will undermine its foundations because it destroys the collective values, which are indispensable for its long term survival. The manifestation of the qualities of the nabhi chakra include an innate feeling of well being and satisfaction, a condition that makes greed superfluous and irrelevant. The third center grants balance to the personality. The resulting equilibrium between the movements of the lateral channels provides the basis for the capacity to adapt and evolve.

The Fourth Center: Anahata Chakra

Attachment strangles the opening of the fourth center.It curtails the power of the heart to love in a generous and giving way. Attachment is a lower and selfish form of love - it takes instead of giving. It is a cause and consequence for a lack of inner security.


The Fifth Center: Vishuddhi Chakra

Jealously blocks the passage through the fifth center.Jealously prevents the establishment of common purpose and teamwork. It is destructive to the smooth functioning of any human collectivity. A person with an operative vishuddhi chakra is sensitive to the needs of the whole, the interest of the collectivity or the organization of which he is a part.

The Sixth Center: Agnya Chakra

Vanity obstructs the opening of the sixth center.It places appearance above substance. When the agnya clears the brain, the subject is no longer blinded or misled by the projections of his ego or the residue of his conditionings. He is capable of settling into a deeper self-identity, a source of personal strength, confidence and resilience.

These are the enemies of our self-mastery.

Patience gives you greatest joy

As people start becoming collective, they do not bother others, they do not trouble others, but they give joy to others. They are not bothered about their going and coming, their eating and everything. They just don’t behave like mundane, usual type of people, but they are very patient - saburi, as they call it. They are in the patience.

Now this patience is most joy-giving. Patience gives you the greatest joy. When you are patient, you develop all your qualities. I think in patience you blossom the best. But patience is not just to be patient. Patience is also a kind of a state within us. With just this patience … you just watch and see. Wherever you are, you are.

Now some people are worried that they must get into the bus. Some people are worried they must reach back home. Some people are worried they must get their food in time. According to them this is discipline. This is not. This is conditioning. But what is the discipline is of patience in Sahaja Yoga, where you watch everything and you are patient. If you are in the bus, you are there. If you are standing on the road, you are there. If you are walking on the road, you are there. On the contrary, it is a good idea to walk…. It’s a very good idea. Leisurely you can walk … to feel that, “I have to walk. I have to go there.” Once you start thinking you get exhausted sitting here, even if you have not walked. So it is important that patience should be made the discipline of life….

Patience is my quality. It’s my nature which I enjoy most of all…. If I lost my way, I enjoy it because I am there to enjoy myself.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,
Shri Mataji, 1988

when the Kundalini rises.....

“.. Take another example of a piece of cloth. It represents the attention. Before realization it is all spread out and in all directions. Now take a finger and poke the cloth in the center from the bottom and raise it upwards. What happens?

The cloth is pulled up to a point and in the process it just wraps or falls around the finger. In the same way, when the Kundalini rises, it pokes the attention, raises it to the Sahasrara, where it gets enlightened by the light of the Brahmha Chaitanya.

It then just wraps and falls in line with the Kundalini ’s path on the Shushumna Nadi in the center. What has actually happened is that on realization, our Chitta is pulled inside from wherever it is spread out in the outer mundane world.

The Chitta is thereby enlightened. This is the so-called state. But in reality we human are slaves of our habits. We out of sheer habit do not allow our Chitta to stay put in that state permanently. Actually the Chitta should not go out. .”

H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
(February 1987)

First sign of the manifestation of peace

You should find, yourself, what’s wrong with you. But it’s not what’s wrong with you that is the problem. What’s right with you is the attitude. Whatever is right with you, put your foot on that. Establish yourself on that point and then develop yourself further. Peace is the keynote…

Try to assimilate within yourself. First grow yourself. That growth itself will tell others how one should be. Your own character, your own temperament, your own nature, your own behaviour - all this will tell others that this is a great man and they will try to follow your example.

Example is the best teaching. When the tree is small, even if it says, “I am great,” nobody is going to come and sit under a dwarf tree. But when it is a big tree, you can see the shade and everybody knows it’s a big tree and they can come and sit under that. You don’t have to tell. In the same way, when you grow you don’t have to certify that “I am great.” It just works.

Now the peace within expresses, first, as peace with others. That is the first sign of the manifestation of peace. Such a person doesn’t use harsh words, doesn’t use cruel words, but he is also not a person who is ineffective. He is very effective, using very sweet and nice words. Maybe he begins by using harsh words, then he mellows down and comes down to a position where he is effective as well as he is very mild and sweet. Such a personality has to be developed outside.

H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi , 1985

Trust yourself

To love God is … difficult. Without seeing Him, without knowing Him, without knowing His bounties, without getting Realisation, it is very difficult. But today that is not the case, but still you have to have no fear in your mind. Trust - you trust yourself and trust others. First of all, try to trust yourself. If you have made mistakes, you have to say, “Yes, I have made mistakes…” Trust yourself that you can correct yourself also.

Trusting doesn’t mean a blind ego trip. It does not mean that. Trust means that “Yes, I can correct myself. I can improve. I can do better…. I have been faltering, but I can correct. I have that strength within me. I can rise above all these things. I have that thing within me that I can use to my advantage.”

Trust yourself. Trust that you are realised souls. Trust that God loves you, that He has chosen you to be His instrument.

Love yourself…. You have to perfect yourself and trust in yourself that you can perfect yourself through your kundalini awakening….

A clean heart, transparent open heart - trust others. Talk to everyone with an open heart. Trust others.

Why do you doubt? If you do not doubt yourself, you’ll not doubt others…. What is there to be afraid of anyone? What is there not to trust anyone? What is there to be angry with anyone? Talk to everyone. Shake hands with everyone. Be nice to everyone. On the way, if you find somebody’s difficult, give him a hand….

If somebody cannot sit properly or has a problem, you try to remove the problem. If the person cannot stand, give the place…. Allow your heart to be drenched in your Mother’s love. Just allow.

H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi ,1981

PRAYER TO THE ALMIGHTY

You must pray to God and ask what you want. Ask for "Complete satisfaction in my heart, Joy in my heart, Bliss in my heart; so that the whole world becomes blissful".

"Give me Love, Love, that I could love the whole world and that the whole world becomes one in Love".

"Give salvation to the entire humanity, which is suffering".

"Take me to Your Feet".

"Cleanse me with Thy Love".

Now see if there's God or not. You can feel it. Within yourself he hears you. He is the Glory of all the Glory. He loves you, He protects you, He guides you. He has created you to be really His Love. But accept it. Any time any thought is coming to you - pray; and you will be moving in the way of the Ocean which is Unconscious mind, which starts with thoughtless awareness.

If you cannot become thoughtless, you pray to Him: "Forgive me for what I've done, and forgive those who have done harm to me

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,

Bombay – 2/09/1975

Shri Mataji's Marriage

(Shri Mataji & Sir C.P. srivastava)

In 1947, subsequent to her studies at the Christian Medical College in Ludhiana and the Balakram Medical College in Lahore, Shri Mataji married Sir C.P. Srivastava who was to become one of India's living legends, knighted by the Queen of England, Joint Secretary to India's Prime Minister, and who served for 16 years as Secretary General of the United Nations International Maritime Organization.

Shri Mataji has two lovely daughters, Kalpana and Sadhana. Both are happily married with children.

Emancipation of Humanity

After raising two daughters, Shri Mataji began to devote Her time fully to the spiritual emancipation of humanity. She began contemplating how to give en mass realisation to seekers of modern time. Shri Mataji decided in to study what all these so-called God men gurus were doing. Completely disgusted, She was shocked to see them looting people under the guise of spirituality.

Feeling that the seekers all over the world were in danger from these False Gurus and corrupt Priests, and the demonic theories of Freud, on May 4th 1970, near Bombay in Nargol, She went to the seashore

Childhood & Family Home

Her family the Shalivahanas were Christian and of noble decent. They are direct descendants of the Shalivahana's royal dynasty, which reigned in the Indian province of Maharashtra from 230 B.C. to 230 years after Christ.Shri Mataji passed Her childhood years in the family house in Nagpur. Nirmala was very happy and was loved by everyone. Most of the time, She was bursting with childhood energy and inspired Her playmates of all different ages in drama, songs and dance. Other times, one might find Her alone in a remote corner of the house, with Her face beaming with inward joy, lost in meditation. She would even go to school barefoot in order to feel Mother Earth.

Sahaja Yoga is the culmination of Shri Mataji's work. She spent her childhood in Mahatma Gandhi's ashram and was one of the leaders in the youth movements during India's fights for independence from the British Empire. Shri Mataji was born with the consciousness that enlightenment is the natural right of every human being, and she developed the method of Sahaja Yoga (meaning, "spontaneous union") to share this experience with humanity. In recognition of her contribution, she was nominated twice for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Shri Mataji's Birth

On March 21st at 12 noon, year 1923, Shri Mataji was born in Chindwara (Central India), which is located on the longitude of the Tropic of Cancer. Coincidentally the Holy City of Mecca is also on the Topic of Cancer. Seeing the beauty of this child who was born with a spotless brilliance and very bright shining eyes, they called her Nirmala, which means 'Immaculate'. "When I was born, there was darkness around. I thought - how would I tell the people and how to give them realization?"

Opening Sahasrara

In the early morning on May 5th 1970, on a lonely beach of Nargol (about 150 km from Mumbai), Shri Mataji out of shear compassion opened the Sahasrara for Humanity.

"I saw the Kundalini, which is the primordial force within us, which is the Holy Ghost within us, rising, like a telescope opening out. And then I saw the whole thing open and a big torrential rain of beams started flowing through My head all over. I felt I am lost. I am no more. There is only grace. I saw it completely happening to me."

Recognizing Shri Mataji and Sahaja Yoga

On 12th November 1993, (Saint Petersburg, Russia) the Petrovskaya Academy of Art and Science conferred on Shri Mataji the Honorary Presidium Membership of the Academy. This academy also conferred a similar award on Albert Einstein. However the President of the Academy remarked that Einstein worked with dead matter whereas the work of Shri Mataji is far greater, as Her work brings peace to mankind. In the history of this institution, one of the oldest academies in the world, only 12 people have ever been granted this honor.

On 14th September 1994, the Academy held a Science Conference with Sahaja Yoga. This was a major breakthrough in the field of science. Eminent scientists accepted Sahaja Yoga as the 'Meta Science' and declared that science had not advanced to anywhere near the level of Sahaja Yoga.

In 1994, France granted official recognition to Sahaja Yoga as a religion. During Her visit to Brasilia in 1994, the Mayor received Her at the aircraft and presented Her the keys to the city. Ecoforum in Bulgaria awarded Her with a Gold Medal in August 1995 and the same year the Romanian University conferred upon Her a doctorate in Cognitive Science. In September 1995, Shri Mataji was an official guest of the Chinese government and addressed the World Women's Congress in Beijing.

The National Institutes of Health in Washington D.C. hosted on June 19th, 2000 a conference on Sahaja Yoga and Health which was attended by 550 medical professionals. Shri Mataji spoke to a rapt audience about the 'Secret of Medicine'. She said that modern medicine addresses only the left and right sympathetic nervous system that correspond to the left and right channels of energy, while Sahaja Yoga opens the way for 'Meta-Medicine' which for the first time is concerned with the parasympathetic nervous system (the central energy channel, through which the Kundalini energy is activated). This is an actualization that has been proved in Sahaja Yoga.

Everyday is your birthday

So instead of wasting all your energy for decorating all these things, you should decorate yourself, within yourself. With sincerity, with nice thoughts about yourself that you are capable, absolutely capable people and you can use your imagination, your intelligence, rationality, whatever these things you have to find the way - to find the way, again I say - to keep your heart large. And this the message for today's birthday all over the world because I felt that the whole world was today like a big heart pulsating. I received the last phone and came here. From all over the phones coming, flowers are showering, the beautiful nice things they are saying. Everything is there. When I am just drenched into it, just drenched - it was too much for Me. Such sweet things for the children, from the children, such things from the ladies, some very, very nice from the men and it was amazing how these people are bubbling with enjoyment that today is My birthday.

In the same way, please consider that everyday is your birthday, that you have to raise your Kundalini all the time and keep the standard of your Kundalini higher and higher. The more you open out, the more threads of Kundalini will come up and the more your heart will open out and it will be awakened, it'll become more powerful...."

H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
(21.03.1990, Australia, Birthday Puja)

Advice Given By H.H. Shri Mataji Gudi Padwa, 24 March 1993

This is the first day of the year of Sat Yuga. Nature will show you that Sat Yuga has started. Sahaja Yoga has brought Sat Yuga. You should have faith in yourself... you have to believe in yourself... you are realised souls. You should have faith in the working of Sahaja Yoga. What works is your enlightened faith. Complete trust should be there. Look at me, single handed I have spread Sahaja Yoga. Just have faith in Param Chaitanya. If you have any doubts... just ask me. God is not there (in the physical form) but at least I am there to talk to you. Hence Sahaja Yogis should now be free from doubts.


1. Leaders should be very careful. They should become free of all arrogance. They are only a communication link, like I have to put a letter in the envelope and post it. They should be careful of possessions.

2. Whenever we are planning something we should keep our attention on the most important thing. You should keep your priorities clear.

3. If there is negativity, you should tell me... I will work it out.

4. Often organisers get worried about money. In Sahaja Yoga you will always get money but if you worry about money then you will not get it. Money is not so important.

5. We should have wisdom about each other.

6. You should not have any fear. It is all a drama going on... there is nothing to worry. If you say that I am afraid then what am I to say? Even if you make a mistake, it does not matter. I can tell you it is mistake... you should not mind. If there is something to correct... I will correct it. If you are afraid... then your ego will come up... then I will simply pierce it. At least you should not be afraid of me. We learn from our mistakes. We should not be afraid to make mistakes.
(Australian Sahaja Newsletter - 10 February 1996)


Supposing there is no oil in this lamp... it will all go off. It has to have oil. It will go off. So the dedication part is the oil in you... is the attachment... complete attachment to your source. That's the dedication. But that dedication should not give you any other ideas but of a light which shines, which corrects others, guides the path of other people. If that is not so, then the source that you are tapping is not coming to you fully, and that your light is not burning properly. So into Dedication when you go, you must not think that it is any surrendering that you become like a cabbage. But you become dynamic. You become real power... not of destruction, but of construction. I mean, for destruction you do not need much power. And that power, sustained power, flowing power... has to be there. For that... Dedication is needed.

H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

(Gudi Padwa, 24 March 1993)

He saw Mahamud Ghazni sit under a tree and he turned into Shri Krishna!

"Mohammed Ghazni looted Somnath and the temple of Mahadeva. Shri Krishna came as Mahmud of Ghazni. Hanuman saw that Mahadeva got out of the temple and was running. Hanuman ran after him. At one point Mahadeva sat down and Hanumana said" you are the God of the Gods, then why are you running. What are you afraid of? He said ' you don't know this Mohammed Ghazni'. Then he saw Mahamud Ghazni sit under a tree and he turned into Shri Krishna.





Mahadeva said that under my nose the Brahmins were making money and looting people. I could not do anything so Shri Krishna came. You must have complete faith in the power of Shri Krishna, which is within you. If you have ascended fully out of this then he will not trouble you. Be careful because Shri Krishna will take your test and make you so miserable that you will not know what happened.






Shri Krishna cannot be controlled by any one. He does what He thinks proper. He usually punishes much more than your Mother. She is Ati Raudra and Ati Saumya. She is very hard and very soft. He is not .He will make you alright. You should be sure that you should have your Vishuddhi s alright and also Shri Krishna manifesting on others. You do not have to do anything. He will look after you and work it out. Left Vishuddhi is a disease of the West. Why should you feel guilty? You have not murdered anyone!".


H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

(Shri Krishna Puja , Cabella, Italy,19.07.1992)

You only know how to worship Your Mother

( worshiping mother)

“For Shri Ganesha no Gods exist except His Mother. And we know all the stories about Shri Ganesha, how He adored His Mother. Because He knows His Mother is the Power; and that He is the source of our wisdom, He is the embodiment of wisdom, and the greatest wisdom He has: that is better to worship the Mother than anybody else, because She is the Power. According to Him, even the Father, if we have to meet, we have to go through the Mother, and secondly Father is just the Witness. All His security, all His powers, all His beauty, Innocence, come from His Mother”

H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

(Shri Ganesha Puja - Riffelberg, Switzerland - 2nd Sept. 1984)

India is the microscopic form of the whole earth, Mother Earth

"India is the microscopic form of the whole earth, Mother Earth. So, in the triangle of Maharashtra we have got eight Ganeshas, which are manifesting vibrations, and were recognized by great Saints of Maharashtra. But, as you have seen, as a grace of these great Saints, especially Maharashtra has created human beings who have shraddha as the highest expression of their emotion and mind. Because of that lofty vision in the mind, whenever they see something on this sublime nature, their thoughts go to God. Thanks to the Saints of that State that people have that sensitivity and that kind of a movement".


H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

(Shri Ganesha Puja, Riffelberg, Switzerland - 2nd Sept. 1984)

'Nobody' who is a human being should make them touch your feet. Especially the Sahaja Yogis should not

" So for normal people, even you are a Guru, you should not allow them to touch your feet. Only an incarnation's feet must be touched. Of course in Samayachar like us we have in India the custom to touch the feet of father, - but because the father is a representative of the Father in you, that's why, or the Mother. But that's symbolic. But in reality you are not to surrender yourself to anybody else but to an incarnation. Also if there's a teacher in art or in any way your master, you must touch his feet. Even to take his name you have to pull your ears. But 'nobody' who is a human being should make them touch your feet. Especially the Sahaja Yogis should not. Nobody should ask anyone to touch your feet. As an elder you may. That's a different point. But not as a Guru. It is a very dangerous thing. Once you start it you know what it happens with so many, they are just gone out of Sahaja Yoga.

So to develop the Guru principle within you, first of all you must develop 'yourself' fully. Now how to develop yourself for Guru principle, one must see. We have got the ten principles within you, as I told you before, and we should develop these all ten principle in such a way that we stand out from others. Yesterday as I told you that when we do Dhyana, Dharana and Samadhi and achieve the blessings of the Ritambhara Pragnya then put that whole thing on to different areas, called as Desha or Bhoomi. How you spend them is the point- through mantras. Cleanse it through your attention 'everyday' you must know which Chakra to be cleared out. You must know about yourself where is the problem, how is it to be cleansed, how we have to clear it out. Do not take it for granted.

Many people who have got say left sided problems you will just bring them lemon and chillies, and think that Mother has done the job. I can only do the job temporarily. But if there is a vacuum, again you will suck in you see. These vacuums within you feel hungry again, to have some more. So, to take out that vacuum is your job. And for that you have to 'religiously ' get out of all your defects. That's the most important thing for all of you. And try to put full attention to all these different Deshas, the Nations. And once, you have cleared, it is enlightened. Once that is achieved, then you have reached a point you can become a Guru. But still you are not a Sat Guru; you must achieve the state of Ateeta.


H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
(Guru Puja, 24.07.1983, Lodge Hill Seminar, England)

When women start crying, men starts moving onto the left and get possessed.

"In this lifetime, the highest thing is your ascent and your position in the kingdom of God. Especially for ladies, I have to tell you because, you see, reading all these tragic things all over…. It just starts working in the nerves of the ladies. If somebody says the slightest things it becomes like a bombshell .we should first see what harm we do to ourselves. So many women in the west have ruined themselves, but they never cry for that. But there are sensible women I have seen in the East and the West who have a great sense of life, like an elephant is walking and the dogs are barking, so what does it matter?

That majesty comes when inside you have that joy. Nobody can make me unhappy this should be the principle; otherwise you start moving towards the left side. Crying is also another kind of ego expression. When women start crying, men starts moving onto the left and get possessed." So today I want a promise from you all that you're not going to cry at all. Instead of flowers you just give me this flower of promise. I never cry. Of course, sometimes 'Sandra Karuna', "one tear or two tears might come out. After all, I 'm a Mother. "But this doesn't mean sitting, crying and becoming hysterical. Don't read any book, which talks of crying, but book, which are deep, also makes you feel very much touched; if you feel like crying it's all right.

H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

(Diwali Puja Synopsis, Cabella, November, 1991,Divine cool Breeze, vol.-IV)

Even in the event of crisis, Sahaja Yoginis should not cry

"Even in the event of crisis, Sahaja Yoginis should not cry Shri Mataji related Her own experience: " Like when My father died, I was surprised that suddenly I became thoughtless absolutely thoughtless. For about three days I was thoughtless neither the thought of pain or unhappiness or anything came up, but just the thoughtless. And everybody was surprised because I looked after him, and he was very attached to Me, very fond of Me. So, if you are a Sahaja Yogi or Yogini, "then at the time of crisis you should become thoughtless. That is one of the signs… That means what? That God just takes you in, your problems. He puts His hand, He puts His protection and He takes you out of it and makers you absolutely thoughtless. And in that thoughtless awareness you discover what is right. What is wrong? So even in crisis, this thoughtless awareness is all the time extremely alert, it becomes much more alert than normal."


H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

(Diwali Puja Synopsis, Cabella, November, 1991,Divine cool Breeze, vol.-IV)

How Sahaja Yogis have to become themselves Ekadesh Rudra!

If you cannot enjoy Sahaja Yoga, then you should know that something is wrong with you. If you cannot feel happy in Sahaja Yoga then you must know there is something definitely wrong with you. If you cannot enjoy the company of Sahaja Yogis, then it is sure that something is wrong with you. If you cannot laugh and appreciate the greatness of God, then something is wrong with you. If you are still worried about negative people and their problems then know that there is something wrong with you. If you have sympathies with negative people, then also there something wrong with you. But if you have anger for negative and all that is negative that is against Sahaja Yoga, then you are there. When this thing gets matured then you become the power of "Ekadesh Rudra" your self.

Any body, who will try to insult you or to do any harm, will collapse. It has happened with many people who tried to be insulting to me or try to harm me or any way. Sometimes I am quite worried about them. So one has to be in such a way that they become the Ekadesh. Nobody can touch such people. But such a person is full of compassion and forgiveness. As a result Ekadesh acts much faster. The more compassionate you are the more powerful Ekadesh becomes. The more collective you become the more Ekadesh acts. Many people have a habit of receding back into their exclusion and saying that we better be at home and it is alright; but they don't know what they are missing. Whatever may be your experience with others you should stick on together, always attend programmes, take leadership go ahead with it, work it out and you will be blessed thousand folds.

Ekadesh Rudra have all the powers, I would say, of destruction, together. It is destructive power of Shri Ganesha. It is destructive power of Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesha. It is the destructive power of the Mother, It is the destructive power of Ganesha and four of these are Bhairava and Hanumana, Karttikeya and Ganesha. Also, the powers of Sadashiva and of the Adishakti. All the destructive powers of all the incarnations are Ekadesh. Now the last but not the least is the destructive power of Hiranyagarbha, which is collective Brahmadeva. And this power when it acts, every atom explodes the whole atomic energy goes into a destructive power. So thus the complete total destructive power is Ekadesh Rudra.

So, after the Ekadesh Rudra, ultimately the complete destruction comes through the anger of Sadashiva; when the final total destruction takes place. So thus we have seen how Ekadesh Rudra acts and how Sahaja Yogies have to become themselves Ekadesh Rudra


H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

(Ekadesh Rudra Puja…6.9.84)

Secretes of the sacrum bone

(Sacrum Bone, as published in Taber's encyclopedic
medical dictionary, edition 17. )

Enlightenment (Self Realisation) might be obtained through the awakening of the subtle spiritual energy called the Kundalini lying dormant (latent) in the sacrum bone (Mooladhara sacrum) placed close to the bottom of the spine.

The problem of the sacrum bone is worth, here, a short analysis. The anatomical name coming from hierónostoún (holy bone' Gr.) was used in the time of Hippocrates (about 400 BC) and was translated by the Romans through sacrum (sacred' Lat.). Halyah (chain link or vertebra' Hebr.) has the Name of God Yah (Short form of Yahweh) as its root. Why this bone had been called a "holy bone" had been a mystery for centuries. Some thought that the bone was used in the sacrificial rituals, others, that it played a role in the protection of the genitals (considered to be sacred in themselves), or that the Last Judgment would require this bone to be intact as a receptacle of resurrection.

The ancient world believed that the sacrum was the last bone subject to decay after death (conviction found in a Jewish folk story) [1]. This idea is also found with the Muslims, being mentioned in a Hadith: "Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said:" Everything of a human body will waste away' perish or decay except the last coccyx bone (Al-ajb, Arab.) and from that bone Allah will reconstruct the whole body" [2]. Thus, no one should be surprised at the Yogis considering the Kundalini awakening as tantamount of resurrection. Etzem (bone; essence' Hebr.; tz' vertebra' Egypt.) has etz (tree' Hebr.) for its root' a reason for which it was asserted that the sacrum (atz' Hebr.) is the tree (of life, we should add; ch. IV) in its seed form [3]. The double significance of the word etzem, in our opinion, makes possible the correct interpretation of Adam's sentence about the Feminine Principle (Eve):"This time it is bone of my bones... this shall be called Woman" (Genesis 2:23)' a sentence that becomes:" she who is essence of my bones" (the feminine energy Kundalini being the sacred essence of the respective bone).

The Mooladhara was shown to be controlled by Ganesha' the Divine Son depicted with an elephant head by the Indian iconography. Indeed, any anatomy book provides the image of an elephant head for the group made up of the sacrum bone (elephant's triangular face) having on both sides the iliac bones (as its ears) and the coccyx (as its curved trunk) at the bottom. Likewise, the graphic sign of the holy syllable AUM (that is also close related to Ganesha) depicts the elephant head seen from the profile: the ears on the left and the trunk on the right.

References: [1] Oscar Sugar, Journal of the American Medical Association 257, pp.2061-2063 (1982). [2] Sahih Al-Bukhari, vol.6, Hadith 338. [3] Annick de Souzenelle, Le symbolisme du corps humain, Albin Michel, Paris 1991, ch. XII.

What is Vishwa Nirmala Dharma

"One thing you must ask in your prayer in the evening " What have I done for Sahaja Yoga?" Just this one question. Person like me or Shri Krishna or anyone, don't even feel we are doing anything. So what can we ask?




If I want to analyze or think about myself, I get lost. It's beyond me. But you better know yourself. As far as I am concerned, I only think that as long as I live, I don't know, I may live forever, I am living forever may be but as long as I am on earth, I will see that Sahaja Yoga is fully established.





This is my promise to you. 'Sansthapanarthaya' He comes again and again to establish the religion; not only religion but Vishwa Nirmala Dharma, which is much higher religion than the ordinary religion of human beings. The Vishwa Nirmala Dharma will establish in a very short time on this earth."



H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
(Shri Krishna Puja, Ipewich, UK, 19-08-1990)

How was the first orchestra of the universe composed! And Rawan the great melodious singer of his times!

" As we all know Seeta's marriage was a 'Swayamwar' wherein there was a condition that the marriage aspirant had to tie the string of the bow. In his effort to do this Lord Ram broke the bow. This breaking created a big sound in the sky. That was music of a kind. Gods' angels, fairies and apsaras became thrilled and started singing and dancing and the entire event became the first spontaneous expression of joy and this eventually became the first orchestra of the universe. This can also be taken as a good example of music i.e. a trinity of vocal, Instrumental and Dance. Ironically Rawan was also present as one of the marriage aspirants. The big bow became heavy for him. He could not lift up the bow, let alone tying the string. The bow fell on his body and he fell flat on the ground and consequently this became a great shock to his heart, which manifested itself in the Agnya Chakra through out his life. The same Rawan in Ramayan was a great musician and a melodious singer. One is surprised to find music and evil combined into one character. Rawan was a great memorable character in the sense that he was the one who had completely surrendered to evil qualities like ego, arrogance, over-confidence, villainy and an ability to do any bad thing. The evil in him was limitless. How come that this devil was musician -singer? His absorbing singing could not reach that point in excellence, which links Heaven and earth. At one time, it is said that when Rawan was singing Mantra of Lord Shiva, it so happened that the strings of his Veena were cut and broken, it was as if the strings of his heart was broken, and then he did nothing but cut one of his ten heads and used the nerves as strings of Veena. He did not see his oozing blood. He saw nothing. He was only singing until at last Lord Shiva became pleased, forgot his Kailash and came down to earth to meet Rawan. This shows that music in the epic period of Ramayana had a strange quality of excellence."

Source: ( Music and Sahaja Yoga, by Pandit Arun Apte, ,English version by Prof. D. V. Athavale, Ritana books, 1997)

What is your Seniority in Sahaja yoga?

"There is a myth also in Sahaja Yoga, that he is a very senior Sahaja Yogi. I don't understand, what is this? How can there be seniority in Sahaja Yoga? It cannot be seniority, no question! Now let's say somebody enters into the sea, some are there for ages standing near the edge of the sea holding on to the earth because they are afraid to swim, and some people who have come only yesterday might be jumping and going ahead and enjoying the sea. So how is it., he's a senior. We do not have this seniority business in Sahaja Yoga."


H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

(Navratri Puja, 24.10.1993)

How our Swaraswati tattwa transforms into the Maha Swaraswati tattwa?

This feeling that you are Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Brahma samajis etc., has no base. You are nothing but a human being, you are born a human. You have branded yourself that you are something. You are neither Bengali nor Marathi. You are just a human being. By branding yourself you create more problems. This brand becomes so important that you cannot see anything beyond it. Till this catch does not release this blindness will not go because you see everything in such away that only your way is right. In the west it is even more so. If you put anything into their brains and tell them that are good, then they will follow it blindly. The critics there also criticize every art form so much. Another critic will refute what the first critic has refuted. Nothing comes to you from within yourself and your brain. Whatever others have filled in is accepted. Each is branded. By this the ego rises and a person thinks that he is very great personality and very unique from others. He becomes an individual. The essence of truth is that we are all one, are Whole, are a totality. When we go in the opposite to it then you become individualistic and go on becoming more and more separate. This is true that one leaf does not resemble another but all of them are on the same tree. They are all a part and parcel of the Virata. When we separate ourselves then the Swaraswati tattwa, which should become Maha Swaraswati tattwa does not.

When you live in the Maha Swaraswati tattwa you start seeing in your daily life that you are the Whole, and we are one. So when an artist creates he makes some such things that one accepts from the heart. All the works that we do of Swaraswati should be dedicated and surrendered to the Divine. If this happens then all such works will be immortal. All poems, music, songs, art forms which were offered in the name of God are still living today. Like today's film music comes and dies down. But the songs of Kabir, Gyaneshwara are still remembered. Through their self-realization they obtained the Maha Swaraswati Shakti and whatever they wrote or created that light was of a unique kind. These were creations that united the world into one. One should not only move on Swaraswati tattwa as this limits you. One should move on the Maha Swaraswati tattwa. If Swaraswati tattwa is the seed then the tree is Maha Swaraswati. Till you do not make this seed into the Maha Swaraswati till then you cannot merge with MahaLaxmi. The gift of MahaLaxmi within you is that you get your self-realization. All the three, i.e.,, Maha Laxmi , Maha Swaraswati and Maha Kali meet at Agnya".


H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

(Maha Swaraswati Puja , Calcutta, 03.02.1992)

When you fall sick Sahaja Yoga Cures you. Your Kundalini cures you.

"… Some people complain about price of tapes, etc. for poor people. If you are so much worried about the poor people then buy one tape for yourself and another for some poor person and help the poor. Because this money goes for Sahaja Yoga. I do not need your money. In any case God is free, vibrations are free, everything is free. But if you have to publish a book they have to spend some money. But this is the attitude. Especially the Maharashtrians. Even in Ganpatipule it is the same. We pay lakhs to get the musician for you people. Who is going to pay for them? To the Gods there will be no dearth, but you will have less of money by this attitude. Whatever you have is because you are Sahaja Yogis. So you have to serve Sahaja Yoga. If you are miserly then you will not get the Laxmi Tatwa. Everyone should daily ask themselves what have I done for Sahaja Yoga? When you fall sick Sahaja Yoga Cures you. Your Kundalini cures you. Whatever benefits you have got, have all been because of Sahaja Yoga ".



"…Only those who have the pure desire get Sahaja Yoga. Many people come to Sahaja Yoga to get their illness cured. Please do not treat anybody's illness. Why do you have to do/ my photo can do everything. You can make them do three candle treatment, or water treatment but do not touch. No matter how close that person is to you, do not touch them with your hands. If that person is unable to do himself and can not sit, then it is a different matter. Normally do not touch him with your hands, otherwise, you will get caught or you will get some fault in you. You can cure simple illness- learn the method of curing-Which are the Chakras, and their science. But there is no need to put your hands on them".



" One should eat less sweets and fried things should even be less than that. Do not eat ' postman' oil in Sahaja Yoga and one should not eat groundnut oil. One should cook in less oil. Men should see that their wives are making the right kind of food. One should reduce the intake of chillies. Maharashtrians eat too much chillies."

H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

(New dimensions in Sahaja yoga, Pratisthan, Pune 11/03/1993)

Who were the 16000 powers of Shri Krishna?

"Shri Krishna is so knowledgeable and cleaver, because he is the brain. He is the Virata. All His love, compassion and beauty were meant only for His gopis and gopas. So being a king His life is very mysterious to understand, but Sahaja yogis can understand.

When He became King He had to have wives: So He married five wives. Why five? Because they were five elements: they were the casuals of the five elements. He had 16000 powers. A man may be ninety years of age; if he wants to keep some woman around him they will say he is bad man. In India, a man may be about to jump into his grave, but if a lady tries to help him, they will say he had bad relations with her. In such a bad situation he did not want to have bad name. He thought, what to do about these powers because they would have to incarnate as women. So what He did, these women became 16000 princesses and one king captured all of them. When this man was about to abuse them, Shri Krishna invaded his kingdom and released all the16000 princesses. Shri Krishna brought them with Him and legally married them. But where is the question of marriage, because they were His powers.

Shri Krishna used their powers for creating so many things like had he not come, we would not have known the significance of Spiritual life."



H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

(Shri Krishna Puja, Ipewich, UK, 19-08-1990)

We are all getting younger by gravity of age as we grow in Sahaja.

" The worst thing for Sahaja Yogis is to think that he is sick, it tarnishes the name of Sahaja Yoga. If you still feel you are sick, you better get out of Sahaja Yoga. Either you get well or you are not a Sahaja yogi. If you are a Sahaja Yogi then you have to see that you get well. If there are certain problems also, doesn't matter. For example I as the Mother, the Adi Shakti have certain problems, certain physical things I have to face. But I go through it. You have to accept your body as it is. You have not to say that I am not well and go on complaining. Never think you are old. Never feel that you are no good. Look at your Mother. I never feel that way. So if you have a Guru, then that image should be within you 'Look at our Mother, how old She is, how much She travels, how much She does ' Alright, you might say She is the Adi Shakti, but little bit of Shakti you too have. That Shakti has to be shown through your dynamism. If you have no dynamism and still feel weak, that means that you are not a Sahajayogi. Just ask for any amount and it can come to you. You are all getting younger and younger but not with stupidity of youth, but the gravity of age."


H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

(Guru Puja, Avignon, France, 08-07-1990)

How Param Chaitanya rode the car!

" … There was one lady who was going in the car. She found her car's brakes were breaking. She did not know what to do about! Now brakes are no more. How to manage? It was in Germany. All the cars were moving very fast and she did not know what to do. So she put her head on the steering wheel and she said that ' I leave it to Param Chaitanya '. She said, ' She leaves it to me? Alright, it is the same. So by saying that what happened, she said, ' Mother I do not know, when I raised my head, I found my car was taken on one side of the road and nobody was there'. All the cars were passing by but somehow or other this car was taken there very nicely, by some force. So the wisdom lies in understanding the working of Param Chaitanya - how it guides you how it helps you, how it preserves you, how depending on Param Chaitanya you can continue to be living very happy."

H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

(Navaratri Puja , Cabella 27.09.1998)

You leave it to Param Chaitanya and it works well

I was building a house in Poona and we had to put a slab, very very big slab, needed about three hundred bags of cement for that. So I got the cement and I got the people but they said you start early in the morning and you can finish next morning, 24 hours. I said alright . So at about 5 0' clock I told let us go, the work is over. They said how do you know? I said I know, let us go. So imagine it was going to finish after 12 hours, was already finished and all the workers were walking about. Every body said, ' Mother it is a miracle.' 'How can such a big slab be laid in such a short time? To make them understand, I said you see, Hanumana must have done the job. All these people, all these Deities are part and parcel of that Param Chaitanya. Now you are worshipping the Mother. To worship the Mother is the biggest thing because all these Deities and everybody are Her Children, under Her Command, under Her Desire.There is a story as you know, about Ganesha that the Mother said that the one who goes round the Mother earth three times, I will give a present. So Shri Ganesha thought in his wisdom who is greater than my Mother? No one else because he knew that he cannot compete with his brother who had got a peacock for the conveyance. So he said how can I go round to win over this present. So best is to take to wisdom. My Mother is greater, is greater than everything else. So he went around his Mother three times and he got the prize, as the other brother was just still moving on. When he came back he found that the present is already lost. So again and again I am saying it is the wisdom that helps. The wisdom to leave everything to Param Chaitanya for a modern person, this is something very difficult to understand."

H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
(Navaratri Puja , Cabella 27.09.1998)

How the Heart goes mental? And how to attain Divinity and Spirituality

…"Another way is that you start seeing the blessings and you start seeing how you feel physically, emotionally and spiritually. Still on the mental level most of the people recognize but unless and until it is recognized in the heart it is no recognition. Already the heart is surrounded by seven auras of the seven Chakras and the Spirit (Atma) resides in the heart. As it is on top of your head resides God Almighty Sadashiva. When Kundalini touches that point your Spirit starts spreading and it starts acting on your central nervous system because automatically the vibrations, the Chaitanya flow into your brain, which enlightens your nerves. But still recognition of the heart is not there. Even without that you start feeling the cool breeze. You can raise Kundalini of others. You can cure people. You can do many things but still it is not recognition because recognition is mental activity of the heart. How can heart have a mental activity? This is another problem you face-i.e. The mental activity of the heart. Say you are a Christian born in a Christian family; as soon as you see the photograph of Christ you feel something in the heart. If you are a Hindu and you see a photograph of Shri Ram, immediately it's recognition in that heart.



But the recognition of somebody living with you is very very difficult and you live on the cusp of your mental activities only. But to go deep down into your heart, what should be done? How can the mental activity be performed through the heart you must remember that heart is absolutely connected with the brain? When heat fails the brain also fails. The whole body goes out of order. So this mental activity of the heart is to be understood this way that as soon as you see danger, without even thinking, in a reflex way your heart starts pumping more blood and you get palpitation. It is a reflex action. This activity takes place because it is built in within you. That as soon as you see emergency your sympathetic nervous system goes into activity and you start feeling the fear, the desire to do something about it, but you do not think, you just run. The fear is built in the central nervous system. Any reaction or response is built in. but the response to the Spirituality is yet not manifested. It will manifest. Through your past you have learnt that you have to be afraid of this or that. With the experience gradually you built in reaction of reflex within you so that you try to save yourself. What experience should you have to build that in your heart? This experience is of your own Divinity and Spirituality. Once you start developing that experience then you know that you are Divine person.

Unless and until you are fully aware that you are a Divine person, whatsoever faith you may have in the recognition is not complete because the one who is recognizing me is a blind person."

H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

(Sahasrara Puja , Ischai, Italy ,05-05-1991)

He was the Omkara. He was the Logos and He was the Spirit

(It the beginning was the AUM)

" Its very significant for Sahaja Yogis to understand the great event of His resurrection, by which he showed that the Spirit does not die। He was the Omkara. He was the Logos and He was the Spirit. That is why He could walk on water. We now made a film in which we have shown the Mooladhara, which shows the Carbon atom, and if you see from right to left you see a proper Swastika there and left to the right we see Omkara. From down below looking up you see Alpha and Omega that proves beyond doubt that what Christ says ' I am the Alpha and I am the Omega' show clearly that He was the incarnation of Shri Ganesh. We now have a scientific proof and we can tell people that it's a fact ".

H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

(Easter Puja, Magallano, Italy, 11.04.1993)

How Shri Hanuman worked on the egoistical Saddam Hussein

"It is the job of Hanuman to protect you from egoistical people and also protects the egoistical people by showing them down- like Saddam Hussein. In his case, I just asked Hanuman to do the job. How he has put this Saddam into difficult circumstances that he doesn't know what to do because supposing he says I 'll have war, so the whole of Iraq will be finished, he will be finished, Kuwait will be finished, all petrol will be finished so everybody will be in trouble. What about Saddam? He won't be there. Because if the Americans have to fight, they will go to his country and fight. They won't fight in America. So now Hanuman is working in Saddam's brain telling him' Now see, if you do like this, this will happen.' He works into the brains of all the politicians, all these egoistical people and then they sometimes change their policies, they come around and that's how they manage".


H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

(Shri Hanuman Puja, 31-08-1990, Franfurt)

How Brahma Chaitanya and Mahamaya works!

To stay in centre, become "Sharnagat" (surrendered). Say "you are every thing mother, so you do every thing". It is complete surrender.

The complete form of the "Brahma-Chaitanya", I have brought from the sea. So now, I do not allow you to get dissolve in it. I have put it in the form of a big "Ghata"(Matka). In that, you are smaller Matkas. In other words, I have taken you all in My Body as small cells, nourishing you, looking after you, cleansing you & working it out. But I am MAHA-MAYA. So I have to work out very slowly, gradually, and at the right time and right point.

The Bhrahma-Chaitanya is the Adi-Shakti and Sada-Shiva is also in my heart. But since I am so much humanized, it is not so easy to find it out. If you tell this to modern human beings, they will not understand. To bear this truth is so difficult. These days, it is difficult to bear money, leave alone that, even to bear ones own position. They become so shaky. So for them, to bear the fact that I encompass all the incarnations is too difficult to bear".


H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
(Shiv Puja, 26.2.1987. Bombay)

How do we really get Protection From Mother!

"Nobody can make me unhappy". This should be the principle," otherwise you start moving towards the Left-Side".

You may say that we don't understand Mother's style. She is full of tricks. Correct! I AM... but there is a very simple way of doing it. You can surrender to my wisdom, and the wisdom itself is active, it will work.... Wisdom within you is active. Because the deities are with you. ... and whatever happens to you , They are before you. Nobody can harm you, nobody can touch you. You are so protected that if anyone tries to harm you, immediately there is a protection. Also your own protection is there, as I said, "You jump into thoughtless awareness".


H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
(Diwali Puja, Cabella, 10.11.1991)

In Sahaja Yoga we recognize Lord Mahavira as the incarnation of Shri Bhairavnath

"In Sahaja Yoga we recognize Lord Mahavira as the incarnation of Shri Bhairavnath. He also incarnated as Imam Hussein. St. Michel is the same who is also called St. George

(the Guardian angel of London)"


H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
(Mahavir Jayanti, Delhi 04-04-1993)

Athena has the Kundalini in Her hand and she was the Adishakti

"As you know Athena has the Kundalini in Her hand and she was the Adishakti. In Sanskrit language 'Ath' means 'Primordial'. Because there was no connection left between the Greeks and Indians, this translation was not there and people did not know what Athena meant. Indians know that this is the place for the manifestation of the Adi Shakti, because in the Devi Mahatmayan they have described Greece as ' Manipur Dveepa' , means the 'Island in the Navi Chakra' where the Goddess resides. When I went to her temple I found there was a little temple, for the child God that was Shri Ganesh. in Delphi they said this is the 'navel' (Nabhi) of the whole Universe. When I turned around I saw Ganesha statue there. You are the Nabhi. You are sitting here in the Nabhi of thee whole Universe".


H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
(Pallas Athena Puja, Greece, 1993)

How the Maya worked on the Ego of Human being

"…On this Mother principles in India people are very sure that it is the Mother who does everything. And thus we have in India many, we should say ' Swayambhus' means the things that are created out of the Mother Earth. For example we know in Maharashtra we have got Mahakali's place, Mahasaraswati , Mahalaxmi and also we have got a place for the Adi Shakti . Some people who have been to Nasik , must have seen a Chaturshindi (How many people have been to Chaturshindi out of you? It is good). So, this Chaturshindi represents the Adi Shakti, which is the forth dimension of this power which gives you the ascent, and ultimately through Mahalaxmi Channel only you get your realization.

All this is a process - all was created by the power of Adi Shakti. It is a tremendous task. Though previous ones were not difficult because there, for nature to create was very easy. The Mother Earth is one with the Adi Shakti; the whole atmosphere is one with the Adi Shakti. So She could create all that without any difficulties. But when human being came - they got their freedom. That is the only species, which fell into the 'Maya' of thinking and of having ego in it. With this ego, ' Maya' worked on them, I should say, and they forgot about the principle that created this Universe. They took it for granted. They felt that this is their own achievement and they are the owner of everything. This started working in their mind so much that they invaded other countries, they destroyed so many people, and they never felt bad about it. All their lives they have been thinking about aggressing others, controlling others, and doing all kinds of harmful things.

But they never even thought or never did introspection to see that what we are doing is very very wrong and it should not be done. Because of this freedom they have, it is such turmoil in this world, and the people who were in charge of affairs, they were very very cruel and had no feelings for the people. And this happened so many times on this earth. Now Sahaja Yoga has started. Once Sahaja Yoga has started we have Sahaja Yogis who are now receiving the blessings of Adi Shakti directly."

H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala
(Shri Adi Shakti Puja, Cabella, 21.06.1998)

The essence of humbleness, humility and selflessness…

"… Criticism should go out of our minds but appreciation should be practiced, appreciation of other children, other people. That doesn't mean you appreciate all others but torture your wife or husband. That also is an imbalance. First responsibility is your family but you should appreciate others and this comes when you have no jealousy of others. If you have jealousy you have to use it for the right purpose. The right purpose is that you have to use it for the right purpose. The right purpose is that you have to be jealous of a person who is spiritually higher than you, and you practice so that you become better. If jealousy is for competition then you compete with a person who is more compassionate, more loving, more sacrificing, more patient. Then this competition becomes more nourished.

The worst enemy of collectivity is aggressiveness. Some people are basically aggressive, their style of talking is aggressive, or come from a very aggressive family, or having a kind of a superiority complex or an inferiority complex or a sense of insecurity. Or may be they are possessed. They try to dominate; they have very strong feeling towards people, of superiority. This has to be cured. What you have to practice is humility, try to be humble. There was a joke that one gentleman was going up from the staircase, and the other was coming down from it. The gentleman who was going up said to the other " Please move ". The other said, "I don't move for fools ". The person who was climbing up said "But I do" and he moved out.

That’s how the humility works. You have to be humble in your approach to others because you are so powerful you can bear it. That is humility which you have to practice, and all these qualities if you have you will really be surprised that you will lose your selfishness."….

H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
(Virata Puja, Melbourne, 10-04-91)

When you are too right sided then the Ganesh tattwa of the left side gets less

" Shri Ganesha's specialty is His humility and His wisdom. Both of these come from Ganesha tattwa. Another specialty is that He is a very calm and cool person. His gait is also calm, just like an elephant, who also has a very slow gait. Also a woman who walks beautifully is called Gajagamini or Elephant gait. Elephants only eat grass but are still so strong, that they can carry heavy loads. Elephants are mild tempered. They will never hurry for anything. They also have a terrific memory. When your left side gets weakened your power of memory fades. This is because Ganesha Tattwa has decreased within you. When you are too right sided then the Ganesh tattwa of the left side gets less. People who work too much their memory diminish in old age.

A special thing about Shri Ganesha is that along with His power of memory is very sharp he remembers everything. He has to remember everything because the imprint of all the karmas (action) on the Kundalini is done by Shri Ganesha. In His right hand is a pen which is His own tooth and He writes everything about you, what you did, what are your problems, where you went in your seeking, what wrong you did. When the Kundalini rises any obstruction on your Chakras is seen and felt and you know what's wrong with that Chakra. In this way it is absolutely scientific. There is not only this guna of the Ganesha Tattwa that a person should be innocent and pure. He has many gunas. Like you must have wisdom and intelligence. You must know what is right and wrong."


H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

(Christmas Puja, Ganapatipule, 24.12.91).

Mother replies to Sahaja queries:

1) Why my nails are thick?
Once a Sahaja Yogi was cutting nails of Shri Mataji, and he found the nails bit big and thick. Hesitantly he asked Mother, why the nails are like that!
Shri Mataji replied, "During my Narsimha incarnation (When Vishnu incarnation came to protect Prahlaad ) I had to grow my nails like a tiger to kill the Devil Hirnakashyapu , and that's why these are like this....

2) Why there are limited Sahaja Yogis in the world?
Some Sahaji asked Mother this question and mother replied " When She was fighting in Her Durga form with Mahishasura (the chief of devils), in that battle, Her huge necklace was broken and all the pearls in that necklace got scattered all over.
Now in this era, all those pearls, in fact, are here in the form of Sahaja Yogis, and She is picking those scattered pearls from all over the world to remake her broken necklace again.” See... How fortunate we Sahaja Yogis are, that Mother gave us the place near Her Heart...in Her Necklace!

How Shri Adi Shakti created the Universe that we live in!

“ The whole atmosphere that we know of is very artificial. But when you understand what She has done- the first thing She does is to (in my book also I have written down about it but I would like to tell you) that Her first, we should say, manifestation is on the left hand side. That is the Mahakali's manifestation. So She comes on the Mahakali's system, the left hand side and that is where She created Shri Ganesha. Shri Ganesha is created because of His purity, His innocence and auspiciousness. This had to be created before She created the Universe.

So the first thing She does is to create Shri Ganesha and She settles down. Then She goes up, of course in the body of the Virata, and there She goes round and goes up on the right hand side in the other way, and there She creates all the Universes, as you call them 'Bhuwanas' - one Universe. There are fourteen Bhuwanas means this many many universes makes one Bhuwana. And She creates all these things on the right hand side.

Then She goes up and then She descends down creating all these Chakras- Adi Chakras or the Pithas. She comes down, makes all these pithas and then She settles as the Kundalini we can say, Kundalini is a part of it. The rest of the work is much more than this. So all the residual energy means after going through all this journey, then She comes round and She goes up as Kundalini. Because of this Kundalini and the Chakras, She creates an area, which we call as Chakras in the body. Now first She creates these Chakras in the head we call them the pithas of the chakras, and then She comes down and creates these chakras, which are in the body of the Virata. Now once this has happened then She creates human being but not directly. ,

Through the evolutionary process - She goes through, and that is how the evolution starts, and then it starts developing from the minute small little microscopic organism in the water and then it starts evolving. So when She creates water and She creates all the universes, She chooses this Mother earth as the best place to play Her evolutionary process. And there She makes this little microscopic thing".

H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

(Shri Adi Shakti Puja, Cabella, 26.06.1998)

You Can Find Christ and Ganesh in Carbon Atom

( Symbol hidden in Carbon item )

"In the case of the carbon atom the electrons occupy four tear drop shaped clouds in a tetrahedron-like arrangement. These clouds represent the areas in which the electrons spend most of their time. They move so rapidly in this zone that they form a cloud rather than a specific flight path. Recently a number of researchers have suggested that within these clouds exist specific zones that the electrons favor. These zones form a spiral around the surface of each of the teardrop shaped clouds.

This new development came into the attention of a great Indian saint and mystic. Disciples were encouraged to develop the principle as it related to the carbon atom. In deep meditation one of those disciples, who was a chemist, spontaneously realized the true significance of this theory: The electron's high probability zone formed spiral standing waves around the carbon atom's nucleus. When this configuration was viewed from certain angles the physicist was surprised to find that the spirals formed recognizable symbols.

In the first view a 3–dimensional Aumkara could be seen. From a different angle that Aumkara became a flat, 2-dimensional Swastika. The Swastika, he concluded, was actually 2-D representation of the 3-D Aumkara. Rotating the model to another angle shows those symbols change into the Greek Alpha and Omega. At a cosmic level the symbols of Eastern spirituality (Aumkara and Swastika) are literally and only different aspects of the same spiritual truth that is also represented by the symbols of Western spirituality (Alpha and Omega). All people, objects and even energy itself are expressions of the same divinity that so many religions, cultures and philosophies have tried to claim exclusively as their own.

The Carbon atom, by containing within it these universal symbols, demonstrates that matter is a manifestation of the same Divine consciousness experienced by the saints and sages of all history. Matter is innately spiritual. The Universe does not exist separately from the Universal Consciousness; it is a direct expression of it. Living matter, which is carbon based, must have a unique role in this expression. A saint is one who lives in eternal experience of this all pervading divine purpose. All people, objects and even energy itself are expressions of the same divinity

The alpha and omega is traditionally ascribed to Christ. In India the Deity called Ganesha presides over the Swastika and Aumkara."

How it all had to happen in the beginning of our world!!

I remember the first incident when we went to Nargol where I had opened the Sahasrara. The first person who got realization was a Gujarati jeweler. There were hardly 35 people. They started saying that because he is a rich man, so Mother has given him realization. I think that is the first time and last time I really got angry. I started shouting at them: ' you good for nothing, useless people, you can never take to Divinity.' I had really thought that I would stop it, take another life and another time where people would understand what is Sahaja Yoga.

But after that suddenly the people started feeling the cool breeze in their hands., after my shouting. They said,' Mother it is working.' Thus we got 12 people then we had 14 Sahaja Yogis only for whom it was something out of the blue and they were all flabbergasted. They did not know what it was. Surprisingly in one of the programme, a lady who was possessed by some Brahmins came and started saying Jagdamba, Jagdamba. I had never told them who I was.

She recited a poem from Saundarya Lahiri in Sanskrit language and she was just a maidservant. Everybody was shocked that the Bhoot should say all these things. Then she went away. After that these people started probing into it and they wanted to have my Puja first time in my house itself. Still people were not very sure they were doing the right thing. Even the Brahmins they called said this Saptashati Puja is a very difficult Puja and something will happen to us. After the Puja they all felt the cool breeze. The entire atmosphere changed and they started understanding that Sahaja Yoga is the Yuga Dharma, is the one of this Kali Yuga. So the Sahaja Dharma became the Dharma of this Yuga.

This Yuga is difficult, no doubt. But in difficulties only we become intense seekers and that is what happened with all of you that you found out that whatever people were following they were not reaching any point. Like a cocoon. They were hitting their head here and there. They got their realization so quickly. When they told me how they were seeking what was happening to them. I was amazed, how the seeking was working within them. Also in the meanwhile so many got lost into the clutches of false Gurus. Despite that today we have so many Sahaja yogis." (Birthday Puja, 21.03,1993)

What Principle navigates the Birds, fishes and dogs?

" Can you imagine the Birds go all the way from Siberia to Australia. How do they manage? What gives them the direction? It is the innocence, and the innocence is a magnet. In human being you don't find it evolved so much. They know which is north, south, east and west. Even a little bee will return to the place from where it comes. Even the fish have direction. Human beings can get lost. If you leave your dogs 5 miles away he will come back. How does he find the way? Their qualities, which are built within them through innocence, are actually the qualities of electromagnetic force and also pranana, which means when this electromagnetic force is charged with Shri Ganesha 's principle. They are so systematic, clean and sensible, but they are not ritualistic. Whatever God has given them, that binds them and they live within that boundary. Even if you go up to the stage of the animals, which live with the human being, they too are very affectionate. They just want love. One day if you do not care for your dog he will just not eat his food. It is so remarkable. I have seen among children, how they just want to love. They don't accept anything else except love. But as soon as they start growing up, specially in a materialistic world, then the whole materialism comes up".

(Shri Ganesh Puja, 19. 09.1993)

Nepal was named after a Rishi called Ne-Pal

"Nepal was named after a Rishi called Ne-Pal. Christ also came to Nepal. It is a special country created by Mother Earth. It was only a sea, after the amrut -manthan, the Himalayas started pushing up till it reached a certain point called the Everest. It was created to shield India, the Kundalini of the Universe. It was necessary to protect the Kundalini. It is the brain of the Virata. They had to fence some country to preserve the ancient culture. Shri Ganesh had to be placed in India. That is why I had to take my birth in this country, at the Tropic of Cancer."
(Kathmandu Puja, At the Ashram, 30th March 1989

Cut off from your past completely

(Hamsa chakra shown by Maa)

"Hamsa chakra does the greatest thing about which I do not know if you are aware or not-that whatever are your karma phalas are finished. You are not responsible for your forefather's karma phalas, your own personal karma phalas. Whatever wrong we have done is finished, as if you are cut off from your past completely. Once this is established, then all mistakes, all wrongdoings, not only of you, of your country, of this world anything doesn’t touch you. You are aloof from it"

(Shri Hamsa Chakra Puja- Canada- 1992)

Swadisthana, which moves around the void

(Swadisthana chakra shown by Shri Moses )

" The right side looks after our intelligence, thinking etc. the left side looks after our emotional side. I will tell you about one Chakra, which is Swadisthana, which moves around the void. This is the one, which is responsible for producing or manufacturing the aortic plexus that's only in the physical side. When we think the energy we use in our thinking is used up. We are using our brain all the time. What is replacing it is this center. You know the brain is made of fat cells. This center converts the fat of the stomach for the use of the brain and that how those who think too much go into imbalances. Futuristic people are planning all the time. The poor center which has to do other jobs like looking after liver, pancreas, spleen, kidneys, intestines, so with a right-sided futuristic person the first problem can come is with the liver. In the medical science I don't think they have much knowledge about the liver. It is a very important organ in the body…."(to be continued through next issue of. ..Did you know.) (Doctor's Conference, Meridian Hotel, Delhi, 25.03.93)





".. The function of the liver is to absorb all the poison of the body and convert it into heat, which passes through the blood stream when you start thinking, too much you neglect your liver and then the poor thing does not know how to do this job. So the whole is saturated in the stomach. The person has heat here, then the heat starts passing upwards through the right heart. It creates problem and that problem is called Asthma. Then this heat passes into the throat, which creates a kind of a cold where you will sneeze twenty times in the morning. There are two types of liver. One is lethargic liver and the other is overactive liver. I am talking of the over active liver, where a person develops cold, sneezing, temper, anger, acidity and tension. Then this heat passes over and can go to the heart at a very young age. Supposing there are boys who are playing tennis or exercise of a vigorous nature and drinking this might affect and can cause a massive heart attack at a very young age. The same heat when it passes to the throat we develop throat trouble, hoarseness etc. when it moves down to your pancreas then the poor pancreas is also suffering because it has no energy from the center. Then a person develops diabetes. Too much of thinking gives diabetes. People think too much, sugar gives diabetes. In Maharashtra people drink tea where sugar is so much that the spoon stand up. Nobody gets diabetes because they are villagers, living simple lives, not thinking of tomorrow, how to do this or that. Only the people lives simple, not thinking of tomorrow, how to do this or that. Only the people who are sitting on their seats, planning thinking, worrying gets diabetes.





"The third thing which is even more dangerous is the speed. Nowadays life is so funny that it cannot be congenial to the working of the Spirit. What happens in the morning is that one reads the newspapers, horrible news, Bombay blast, etc., the spleen start wobbling. Then you don't eat your breakfast properly. You rush to work, cursing the people on the way because of the traffic jam. This craziness makes it vulnerable to blood cancer. The spleen does not know how to react to this craziness. Then a shock will happen on the left side because you are working on the right side and then it fails. The connection with the whole is lost. The brain cannot control anymore. Then this trouble of leukemia comes in. Then it goes to kidney. You cannot pass urine. Then he is put on dialysis and poor man dies bankrupt. Dialysis has not cured anyone so far. It just makes them live longer and longer. Sometimes you don't feel hungry because of the liver plus you feel constipated. Constipation can be of the worst kind where all their lives they have to take enemas. These are the common diseases faced by the over active people.

(Doctor's Conference, Meridian Hotel, Delhi, 25.03.93)

Mona Lisa is eternal 'cause of Ganesh principle in her smile!

"Ganesha establishes within you the higher self। The baser self, which enjoys all the baser things in life, is cut down or completely destroyed by Shri Ganesha. If you see Mona Lisa, she cannot be an actress, or win any beauty contest, but her face is very serene and motherly and pure. Why is it she is eternally so much appreciated? The reason is there is Ganesha principle in her. It's the mother. The story goes that this lady had lost her child and she would never smile again or cry. When one little child was brought to her, and she saw the child, the smile that came on her face of her love for the child is being depicted by this great artist. Even the eyes of a crocodile cracking her eggs to take out the babies are so gentle and loving. But when you become modern, your actions are funny. So love for your child has to be absolutely important, but as Sahaja Yogis you should not have attachment, only for your child."

H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi.

(Shri Ganesh Puja, Les Diablerets-Switzerland, 10th August 1989)

What Is Tension?

"In these modern times we have something called tensions. It was never there before. People never talked of any tensions. Now every body says, "I am in tension, you give me a tension". What is this tension? - This is because of my advent. The limbic area wants to know about me. As Sahaja Yoga is expanding the Kundalini is trying to rise in other people because you people have become the channels. Wherever you go you generate vibrations and these vibrations give a challenge to the kundalini or a message in various people and it rises. It may not rise up to the Sahasrara or may rise and fall back due to lack of recognition. So every time they do something the kundalini comes up and gives them a pressure because their Sahasrara is not open. It is a closed door. Because of the closed door it gives them a kind of pressure in the head, which they don't understand and they call it a tension. Actually the kundalini is trying to push out itself but it cannot. Those who get their realization but do not make the Sahasrara alright face the same tensions. "

(Sahasrara Day Puja- Sorrento 6th May 1989)

He protects realized souls at every point, in every way

Rudra is the destructive power of Shiva, of the spirit. Now one power which is His nature, is forgiveness. He forgives because we are human beings, we commit mistakes, we do wrong things, and we get tempted; our attention is disturbed; so he forgives us. He also forgives us when we spoil our chastity, we do immoral things, we do thieving, and we do things that are against God, talk against him. He also forgives our superficialities, jealousies, our lust, and our anger. Also he forgives our attachments, pretty jealousies, vanities and also possessiveness. He forgives our egoistical behavior and also our subordination to wrong things.

But every action has a reaction, and when He forgives, He thinks that he has given you a big grace mark, and that reaction builds up within Him, as a wrath against those who are forgiven and try to do greater mistakes. Especially after realization, because such a big blessing there, is of the realization; you have got the light and in the light if you are holding onto your plate then his wrath goes up because, he sees how stupid you have been. What I am saying is that after a realization specially, He much more sensitive that people who are forgiven and have been given such a big thing like self realization, still they do wrong things then he is much more wrathful. So, in the balance the forgiveness start reducing and the wrathfulness starts increasing.

He protects realized souls at every point, in every way. Negative forces try to attack Sahaja Yogi but they are all neutralized by His tremendous power of protection. Through his vibratory awareness we are guided into right path. All the beautiful blessings of His are described in the psalm 23 … " The lord is my shepherd" Is all described how he looks after you as a shepherd. .

(Ekadasha Rudra Puja…..6.9.84)

Shri Krishna, once said 'Oh God! I have terrible pain in My stomach'

"I will tell you a very sweet story of Shri Krishna and Radha. And then I will go away. Once it happened that the ladies who were married to Shri Krishna got very jealous of Radhaji. And they told Shri Krishna that you don't love us. On top of that Shri Narada came to put more oil on the fire. That he said,' He really, I believe, He never cares for you, He just likes Radhaji. He is not bothered'.

So Shri Krishna, as diplomatic as He was, He started saying. 'Oh God! I have terrible pain in My stomach, now what to do? So they said, now what to do? He said,' it is very simple. You know anyone who is my bhakta (devotee), if you can give the dust of your feet to Me to eat, then I will be alright.' So they got fright of their of life, you see.

As it is if I ell you anything, you just want to give your solution every time. Nobody listens to Me . if I say go here ,'No no it is better to go that way.' Come here 'no no, this way is better'. Everybody has a brain wave about it. Doesn't matter. So there they had brain waves. They said you see why don't you take some medicines? Then somebody said we would call the vaidya. He said, 'No, no I know for definite that I cannot be cured by anything else but one thing, that you have to get the dust of one of My bhaktas, and I will eat.'
So everybody started looking at each other. You see. As some of the Sahaja yogis do when it comes to paying! They never heard it. Some of them never heard. Better. You see, it is very tricky nature. So they said now what to do. If we do not cure Shri Krishna, He is just wailing and what to do/ Shri Krishna said,' Have some pity on Me, give Me some dust of your feet' so He said to Narada that you go ask Radha to send dust of Her Feet. So he went to Shri Radha, Shri Radhaji was in Vrindaban, and the soil of that place is yellowish in colour like Kesara, like Saffron. So he went and told that Shri Krishna is very sick, He has got terrible pain in His stomach.

She got fright. She said, "Really? How can that be, I cannot believe it. So what does He say? What treatment can He take? He says anyone of His disciples, anybody of His bhaktas , if they send a little of the dust of their feet, He will be alright. He has to take that as medicine. So She said alright, take the dust of My feet. He was amazed! He said, "What are you doing? You understand, if You give him the dust of your feet, then all your punyas (merits) will be lost. He is playing some trick you know. Just don't try this thing. She said,"Nothing doing, You better take it." But he said,"what about your punyas and papas" she said, " I know one thing. It is He, who looks after My papas and punyas. I have not to think about it."

So he took the dust of Her feet, which was absolutely yellow like saffron or like pollen of the flower. And he went and gave it to Shri Krishna. Shri Krishna said" I knew Shri Radha will send, now let me eat It.' He said, " You can eat, but you have to answer the question, that Shri Radha has said that you look after Her papas and punyas. How is it? How can it be? What does that mean? That You know what is punyas and what papas are and She is not bothered about it. She has not to worry about Her papas and punyas." He said, "Alright, now let me take the medicine." He took the medicine and said I better sleep. And Shri Narada saw the heart of Shri Krishna open and in the heart was the lotus of a very beautiful pink colour. On that lotus was lying Shri Radhaji. And Her feet were rubbing against the pollen of that lotus and the yellow of the Vrindaban clay was the same colour as that. And then he realized that when She is touching that lotus with Her feet, what does it matter if She gives the dust of Her feet to Shri Krishna to take. She is in His heart. When Her feet are in His heart, what does it matter? And that is how they realized that Shri Radha's love was so great that for Her She did not think of Dharma -Adharma, but just to be a t the command of Her Lord, She acted, and that is how She had a place in the heart of Shri Krishna."

(Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,) (Compiled from booklet " Marriages in Sahaja Yoga", 1987Ganapatipule)

The causal of the five elements and the Spirit put together make the soul

……“Jivatma is the soul. Means with these five elements. And these five elements give you your own identity, your own character, your own particularities etc. These five elements; the way they are placed in you. That's the causal element, the causal of the elements that are within you. Then these causals act on the chakras and through the chakras these causals act on the other ...on the grosser side. So from the subtle to the subtler to the ...you can say the subtlest. The subtlest we can say is the Spirit, supposing. Then the subtler is the soul. And the subtle you have the chakras. And the gross is the body.

………. The Spirit and the causal put together is the Soul. You see, like a mirror and its reflection on it. Both put together is the soul. The causal of the five elements and the Spirit put together make the soul. Now the vibrations that we feel are the reflection of the light of the Spirit. The Spirit does not vibrate. It does not v1brate. It is those elements, they v1brate. Like you can say that lf you put a sound on top of this (a glass of water) it will vibrate. You can put a stone in it, the stone won’t vibrate. But this will vibrate. The Spirit when it shines over it…”(talk at the restaurant in Volterra, Italy on July 25,1986)

We are made of five elements out of which the element of earth drops out; then you become the Soul

“They don't know what is Soul, what is Spirit. But these are all precise things. Soul is the thing which is not only Spirit but is the body, the personality. Except for the element of earth in it. We are made of five elements out of which the element of earth drops out; then you become the Soul, because you cannot be seen but you exist in another plane”…..
( Radio Interview with Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,Hong Kong 1992)

there is the Seat of the Sadashiva, the Pitha. The Pitha is here at Sahasrara, but Sadashiva is in the Heart, reflected as Atma

“First question is about what are these Vibrations? I told you yesterday, that in our heart, there is a flicker of light, which is burning all the time; which is Atma; which is the reflection of Paramatma in our heart. In short I will tell you. What happens when the Kundalini rises. She opens the Brahmarandhra. And there is the Seat of the Sadashiva, the Pitha. The Pitha is here at Sahasrara, but Sadashiva is in the Heart, reflected as Atma. Pitha is created because it receives the subtle energy which is All Pervading. The Gross. Inside the All Pervading. e.g. this mike collects my voice. Voice is a subtle energy, which is collected through this, and if you have a radio it will catch them.

In the same way Pithas are in the brain, and Pitha of Sadashiva is higher up here, which is opened out, so that the Subtle, the Sukshama, the gross passes into our heart, through a very Subtle channel. Just like a gas-light, it has a flicker. And when the gas opens out the Prakash occurs. Now the Vibrations are that Prakash going through us. These Vibrations start flowing through us. Now what do I do? You will say 'Mataji what do you do?' I do nothing but I just try to give you that force, which is the, you can say, gas power. That is the gas power. Because the Kundalini knows when I am before you. She rises, She opens out, and It starts flowing. It is flowing through Me through out. But unless you are subtle, you cannot feel it.you can say, that I am the Finite in the infinite. Or you can say the Infinite in the finite. I am both. So the energy that is emitted into all the subtle energy is passing through Me. Is the Virat. From the Virata, the whole thing is passing. It is going into the All Pervading. It is all Pervading. Everybody, everywhere it is going. Even it is in a cell, in a Carbon atom it is there, in all atoms it is there. It is the Subtle Energy. That is emitted through Me. When you become subtle, you become like a radio, you start receiving it. Now how will you know what is correct and what is incorrect? You ask the subtle, and the subtle answers you, and you get the answers on your hand. It is like this. So these are the Vibrations, which you receive, from the All Pervading power. And the All Pervading Power is emitted out, and you receive it from Me of the All-Pervading. It is just the same, from everywhere. These are the Vibrations.

The Self-Realisation, which is the very subtle point, you try to understand now. That it is so far an unconscious for you. Your Atma is in the unconscious it is not in the Awareness. It is in the Achetan. It is in your unconscious. You are not yet aware about it. But once you are Realised,it starts flowing into your awareness, means that you start feeling into Your Central Nervous System, because your nervous system is your Chetana. Is your awareness. Human awareness is nothing else but the Central Nervous System. But this Central Nervous System starts feeling now, the Vibrations, the Light of the Atma through it. So that it tells us why it is known as Samadhi. Samadhi means the Unconscious. When the Unconscious becomes the Conscious it is called the Samadhi.”…

( 22nd March 1977 At Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, India)

Who Controls the energy in the matters?

" Think that in the molecule of a substance there is an energy which is acting. One may say why is there energy in matter? If there was no energy in the matter how can you have all chemical compounds .Who pushes them? Say sodium chloride. Sodium and chloride are attached to each other. But if the chloride has to go to some other atom then who does that. There has to be some energy, which is in built into matter. We know water has energy, that's how we have hydrostatics even stones, gold all of them have got energy in themselves. It is all controlled by the principle of Shri Ganesha. Though such a tiny little child how great is his work and how much He has to work out. From matter one moves to living plants, then to animals, then to human beings and everywhere His energy works. At the level of matter we might call it electro- magnetic, potentially it is the energy of Shri Ganesha which is electro magnetic at that point. When it starts evolving growing, that's how we have different strata of energies that we see in different growth of evolution."

(Shri Ganesh Puja , Cabella , Italy, 19.09.1993)

………..whatever I speak, because I am That, it is Pranava flowing. It is actually Pranava. My every talk, everything is Mantra

“My Photo has the Vibrations. It is a fact. Also there are many things that have Vibrations. Even this statue has Vibrations. But not so much as they are for Me. First of all I am a living Being, and another thing is that their proportions may be wrong. They are created by the human beings, by their imaginations. But these Swayambhu Lingas, all of them have got it. For example, supposing you go to, say, this Ranjangaon, Ganesha, it has complete Vibrations. Because these are special statues come out of the Mother Earth, Mother Earth throws out. Mother Earth thinks. She creates these things. She throws these things. And they give Vibrations. So you take Vibrations from them also. But My photograph is the photograph of Reality. Another thing is that whatever I speak, because I am That, it is Pranava flowing. It is actually Pranava. My every talk, everything is Mantra going into. And when I put My finger into it, I have found that My Vibrations can turn round. Even when I blow out air from my mouth, those who are realized can feel it on their Sahasrara. It is a fact. So why should it look so funny to people?

H. H. Shri Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi

( 22nd March 1977 (770322) at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, India)

When ego surrounds the heart, the brain is cut off from the heart.

The balloon on top that you see yellow is ego. Swadisthana Chakra, which is for our creativity, is directly connected to ego. When it starts rotating round the void and going to various parts of the void it collects all the problem of the void. Void is that green circle within us. In the void, we have Uterus, Kidney, all the Intestine, Liver (mostly upper part of the liver) ascending Transverse, descending Coils, Pancreas and the Spleen. So all the problems of these organs are collected by this Chakra, which moves round, and round and collect and come out of the Nabhi Chakra. It nourishes, gives power, the vital power to these organs. It also generates the necessary power for our creative action, it also collect the Fat Cells of the void and convert into the proper cells for the brain for the gray matter. All this work has to be done by this one Chakra. It manifests the Optic Plexus, outside on the physical level. It has got six sub plexus, which look after these organs. This is meant for our action. When we go into action these Chakras start moving. By the first power, which is on the left side, we desire and by second, we go into action and when the action starts with us, it produces the bi-products or we can say all the problems of the organs and these are to be disposed some where and they are deposited in the brain. All the problems that we have of these organs out of this creativity or any action are to be counter balanced, the ego develops. Any activity is exertion, botheration, problems, we take up the challenges. Because we do action, we have to have satisfaction. As a result, ego develops. The more we rationalize our activity, the more ego develops. We get identified with our ego, supposing you have made a very good poetry then you like to be appreciated. When you create some art, art could not give you satisfaction. You develop ego and ego has to be satisfied others should say, you are very good, you are genius.

The more you indulge in planning the more you get ego. The more you pump, the balloon goes on.
It is very easy to fool a ego oriented man. A simple hearted man cannot be easily fooled. Ego means mis- appreciation, ego is never satisfied.

Actually what happens physically, that when the balloon spreads on your head all over, the aura of the brain surrounds the heart normally, but when there is ego problem, the ego surrounds the heart, the brain is cut off from the heart, so you are non-integrated person. Your heart runs other side your brain runs another side. Your body runs third side and your emotion runs fourth side.

Four people running four horses. It is impossible to stand on two stools but to stand on four stools. One should have very big legs. Ego is very dangerous for Kundalini awakening.

You are much higher than ego, much greater than ego, much more than ego. What people have received from ego ? - Nothing. With ego, at the most what you can get. Imagine the whole of the head is covered with yellow stuff and the blue thing becomes very small. Then, first your desire is diminished. You do not desire anything, your ego desires. No combination of thinking and your heart. You do not seek anything from your heart. Activity of heart has become practically nil.

Anything that doesn’t satisfy your ego you get upset about it. One must go on saying that you are unique personality. (One must praise you) You cannot get joy because joy comes from your heart, joy, you can get only from your heart. With ego orientation, you can get many diseases like Arthritis, Kidney failure, Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Attack. Because of over activity, Lever is neglected. Because of too much thinking, you may get Paralysis.

You get misidentified and condemn others, sometimes they feel very depressed. You are not seeking from your heart. You are seeking from your brain. You do not desire. Your ego desires, ego cuts you out from your heart and leaves you nowhere.

You are much higher than ego. What people have achieved through ego! If God has given you some knowledge of the unknown, one should not be pampered by it. He has graciously given you. Take that with humility.

You detest your ego, make a fan of yourself. See in front of the mirror and say "alright Mr Ego ! " and make a fun of yourself, your ego will go down.

Raise the left, and down the right, then there is a gap, then you raise the kundalini. This is Shri Vidya of the Holy Spirit.
Sahaja yoga is the only way through which we can face ego.
You have no time to judge others. Just see yourself. Face it that you do not do anything, every thing is done by God. He is the doer and he is the enjoyer.
You become one with god. The power of god is passing through you. If the doer is lost then who is going to do Karmas. (Then there is no Paap and Punya i.e. sin & good deeds).
When Mr. Ego has gone, all liabilities have gone with him. Your mouth does not say that I am eating and your hand does not say that I am working. When you become one, then you see the whole is working and we as part are working. Then all the responsibilities are finished. If you do not do anything and work, but you desire, then the blue stuff is more with super ego, you get physical problems, you get mental problems, you go on thinking and you go on arguing. So you should be in center. Watch your ego and super ego. You should not expect any thing from others. With Ego, you expect from others, with Super-Ego, you do for others… In center, you emit yourself Joy… love.
(Shri Mataji, Nirmala Devi)

Vishnu's incarnation as Narsimha came very near Greece and very near Egypt

"Vishnu's incarnation as Narsimha came very near Greece and very near Egypt that is in Peshawar. But they became very much against Vishnu because they thought their king was killed by Vishnu, so all these Rakshasas entered into the area in Afghanistan, then they came to Egypt and Greece and tried to bring all the Gods- Goddesses there. This was about 10,000 years ago when Prahlad brought in the incarnation of Shri Vishnu. These rakshasas also known, as Asuras or Assyrians and if you go to Egypt you will find the Sphinx, just the opposite of what Narsimha was. The man is in the upper part and the lion is in the lower part, while Narsimha is lion in the upper part and man in the lower part. They created this image, which was opposite to Vishnu just to show that we have another kind of incarnation, which is the opposite and can fight Vishnu very well. With these rakshasas entering into these people, they developed a very aggressive and fighting nature. They developed their muscles in Greece very much and the whole history of Greece is really maddening. One fighting another, and another. They were always killing each other. Till Alexander came to India and He saw a culture, which was Dharmic and he, was quite surprised how these people lived. In Egypt also they could not understand Dharma at all because they believed in the dead and all kinds of black magic, etc. when Islam came they accepted. First came Christianity and then came Islam"…

(Shri Vishnu Puja, St Denis, Paris, 13-07-1994)

Anti-sahaj culture & practices will give Ekadasha Catch.

Now the right sided one comes from the idea people have that " I am myself a big Guru" They start preaching about Sahaja Yoga also as if they have become great gurus. We have known some people who give big lectures in any programmes and NEVER ALLOW MY TAPE TO BE PLAYED or anything. They think they have now become experts. Then some of them say that now we have become so great that we need not to do any foot soaking or anything, there is no need to do meditation; there are some like that also. And then there are some, who say that sin can never touch us, now we are sahaja yogies, we are a very great evolved souls. But the worst of all are those who just take my name saying that "Mother has said so and I am telling you because Mother has said", When I have never said such a thing ; it is all falsehood. Now there are some people who use sahaja yoga money and exploit sahaja yoga in such a way, exploit them, Sahaja Yogies also sometimes. And such people become very inauspicious. Any one who tries such things will go out of Sahaja Yoga with disgrace. But one should never go near such a person, have nothing to do with such a person, have no sympathies. Because this inauspiciousness will hurt anyone to any extent; so better keep out of such persons……..

(EKADASHA RUDRA PUJA…..6.9.84)

Ekadasha Rudra and the Cleansing of Catches

Some notes from Mothers advise on how to correct problems with the Ekadasha Rudra (Delhi-1981)
1. Establish your innocence. Put your eyes to mother earth.

2. Cleanse your void. If you went to a false Guru beat him with shoes.

3. Put your attention more to Nature than to other people.

4. Be careful when organizing: stop organizing if you are catching on this center, and do not speak in public.

5. Obstinacy catches here.

6. A halfhearted commitment to Sahaja Yoga can cause a problem with the Ekadasha Rudra.

7. The Ekadasha Rudra collects from the left and the right sympathetic. Therefore, the combination of a left catch with the right catch will particularly affect it.

(Nirmal Yoga, vol.3, no. 16, Jul- Aug 1983)

When you wash My Feet you do the same thing and even when you evoke fire you do the same thing

"Now you cannot think about the Puja. These are things, which happen into a realm, which is beyond thinking. So you have to understand that you cannot rationalize the Puja. You should have the maximum advantage on your Chakras. For that you must fully just concentrate on the Puja, and how the wind is blowing. And the wind will see to it that it drives out all the clouds. So your only work is- your only method is - just to concentrate on the Puja and witness. You are a seer.

Seer has a double meaning. The one who sees only, just sees and he is only knowledge, he is a seer. Without any thought, without any reaction, just sees and absorbs automatically, spontaneously, he is the seer. For Me sometimes it is burdensome because there should be some parity between you and the deities, some balance must be there".

Here you are saying all the mantras and the deities are awakened and there you are who do not want to receive anything within your heart. So I am the One who has to stock up all the extra energy that is produced in My Body. So it would be better if you all keep your hearts opened and watch the Puja without thinking about it. Today we will reverse the method of the Puja. First we will do the Havana and then the Puja, it will be better. Because by that we will evoke the fire element which burns away all the evils. When you wash My Feet you do the same thing and even when you evoke the fire you do the same thing.

Today first we will have the Havana and then the Puja, both are just the same. You can worship Me with water or with fire. The essence of fire is the glow all that is wrong, all that is evil is burnt off and then the glow shows on the faces and on the bodies of the seekers. And also the atmosphere is charged with the beautiful vibrations when you have the Havana."(Importance of Puja and Havana, Paris, June 18, 1983)

"At the Nirvikalpa state, the collective consciousness becomes subtler and subtler. At that stage you can understand the very deep significance of things when the reality starts becoming clearer….

You give him a statue of a deity and ask him all about this statue- whether it is alright or not? He might say that it is not alright. You can feel the subtle vibrations, whether it is in Dharma or otherwise. Now can we say, say that Astavinayakas are living Gods? How do you know? Jyotirlingas are living? How will you know unless you know the integration of all the great souls together? And how are you going to judge them? That is why you must get Realization."

(New Delhi, India, February 15, 1977)

Photograph is much more powerful than any statue…

( Mother earth)

" There were no photographs before. Only in My lifetime the photographs have started, for your information. These photographs also you have developed yourself on your own, of course with the help of the Holy Ghost no doubt, that goes without saying, but you have developed it. I Myself did not know this photography would catch Me so much. I did not know Myself. You will be amazed that I started seeing that these photographs are more powerful than a statue, which is made according to what I was before. Because this is the present thing: this is how I exist. I was amazed Myself that it was emitting vibrations and life that My photograph came up so well….

And the photograph, if you think, is representing Me, I think you are not expressing it fully. I was amazed that My photographs are much more powerful than many statues put together, even produced by Mother Earth, because photography has so many elements in it. For example, you see it has light element, it has water element, it has earth element and also air element. If the air is not all right, you cannot take a photograph.

And also it has ether element. With all these five elements, you cannot produce a statue. Ether element it has because if you have a photograph here, you can transmit the photograph, but you cannot transmit a statue, as it is anywhere- only the photo of a statue you can. So it has also ether in it. So photograph is much more powerful than any statue…

So there's a very big difference between a statue and a photograph because My attention is there. Of course, even the statues, which are created by Mother Earth also, have vibrations and they also show they have vibrations, but they cannot give you the awakening of the Kundalini because My photograph has My desire also in it. They cannot. If they could Stonehenge would have."

Puja is one of the things by which you can excite the forms into formless

" The first and foremost thing is the assumption, the faith, that we are the Spirit and that the rest is superimposition. You have to assume that within yourself. After realization, it should become very easy. That you are something much more, something very different from what you have known so far.

So now the new situation arises: that you do not have a blind faith that has come out of an experience. So your intellect should not fight it. It should not try to challenge it. If it starts challenging it and if you hear to your intellect, you will again go down. Even if you get the glimpses of a star in the sky, then the scientist believe that there is a star. So in the same manner, even if you get glimpses of your realization, you have to at least believe that you are also the Spirit. You go on sticking to that experience and keeping your attention on the fact that you are the Spirit. Tell your intellect not to cheat you any more. You can turn the face of your intellect by this.

Now your intellect will start working for the pursuit of the Spirit. This is what faith means. Faith gives rise to pure intelligence. Now once you have seen clouds removed, still there are clouds. So you have to use the wind to remove the clouds, wind of the Holy Ghost. And- that you know -there are many ways of taking advantage of the wind. So the wind comes from some other source. That is the source of the Holy Ghost, your own Kundalini. And also you have in person the primordial Kundalini before you. Compared to many other seekers who came before you, you are very fortunate.

Because worshipping any Vigraha, any statue of self- created vibrations of Mother Earth people had big problems. They had to first of all do a meditation, which was called as Sarvikalpa Samadhi. That means in that state you had to concentrate on such a statue, Vigraha. Vigraha means the one, which is a vibrating statue, and try to raise your Kundalini. And Kundalini used to come up to your Agnya, but the jumping beyond the Sahasrara was an impossible task because one has to go from form to formless. And it was so difficult to get out of form to formless, and even to concentrate on abstract or formless was another impossible task. As the Muslims did or many others tried to do. Under these circumstances it was necessary that the formless had to take a form so that there were no more complications. As soon as you concentrated on the form you became formless. Like you have ice before you, as soon as you start touching the ice, it melts away and you start feeling the cool.

So the problem is very easily solved now. Puja is one of the things by which you can excite the forms into formless. Now your centres are the centers of energies, but they too have a guiding deity sitting on all these Chakras. They are also the formless made into forms. And when you do the Puja, the form melts into formless energies. And these formless energies start flowing, and then blows the wind. And that is how these misidentifications; these superimpositions on the Spirits are removed".."

(Importance of Puja and Havana, Paris, June 18, 1983)

What is a mantra?

It is that power of the word that expresses Spirit. A mantra is nothing but a thought, which is vibrated. Any thought that is vibrated is a mantra.

(Vienna, 4. September 1983)

Your mantras are to be seen. Mantras are to be such that they should not be mechanical, just saying something mechanically. You should say it from your heart. Again, if you do not say mantras through your heart, the mantra is not siddha. Means you may go on saying one hundred times, it will have no effect. Siddha mantra is that, that you say, that it has an effect, it works. If it does not work, then your mantra has no meaning.

(Diwali Puja, London, 6. November 1983)

There should be complete purity in the recitation of mantras to awaken the deities and your heart must be involved in it. (An undated Marathi letter) Now, the name of your Mother is very powerful. You know that is the most powerful name than all other names, the most powerful mantra. But you must know how to take it. With that complete dedication you have to take that name - not like any other name. You know that in India when they take the name of the Guru, they hold their ears to take the name of their guru. Means, "While taking the name, if I am making any mistake please forgive me." It means that. This mantra is a very powerful mantra. Only what you need is the dedication - the dynamite of dedication.

(Cowley Manor Seminar, England, 31 July 1982)

Mantras are the words of your Kundalini

"A Puja or a prayer grows from your heart. Mantras are the words of your Kundalini. But if Puja is not performed from the heart or if the Kundalini is not associated with the recitation of Mantras then that Puja becomes a ritual. Best is worshipping in the heart. You should say Mantras in Puja but with great faith (Sharddha). You should perform the Puja when Sharddha goes deep so that heart itself gets all the Puja performed. At that time, waves of bliss start flowing because it is the Spirit that is saying.

People pour their wine in the glass. Your Puja is like that. In that, wine is your faith and the glass is the recitation of the Mantras and the worshipping. When you are drinking that wine forgetting everything how can a thought come? Then only you are bathing in the ocean of bliss. However, the joy that you get after drinking the wine is eternal and ever-present".

(Sayings of Shri Mataji, Nirmala Yoga, vol.5 no.29, Sept- Oct 1985)

Ideal Relationships

That relationship with yourself should be tyrannical. You should lash it up. You should absolutely make it clear to yourself that 'I have to perfect myself, if I have to give this, my being, to God, it has to be perfect.' Secondly, if you have relationships with others, it has to be ideal relationship. Sahaja Yogi with Sahaja Yogi means something great! The greatest relationship is that. With your sister, with your brother, it should be ideal. And in collectivity we have to be progmatic. In collectivity we can change our course, we will take the way we like, the way it moves, we will manage it. But otherwise? You see, for example, take a plane when it is in the air, it can go where it likes, but the screws are ideally fixed. They cannot just start, like a pilot seat does not got to the back, and the back does not come to the front. Alright. And the screws or anything that is made are perfect. But aeroplane is fixed. It can go Southwards, Northwards, any way it wants to go. Only the things that are in it are corelated with each other in such proportions that they cannot budge from their ideal positions. If you understand this very simple thing about relationships and attitudes you will never have a problem.

Your relationship with Sahaja Yogis has to be absolutely ideal relationship. Otherwise some screw is loose. Try to make it ideal. Say there is one person, you find one person to egoistical or something, try to see what's wrong with you first of all. "Am I perfect? Am I alright? If I am not, then I'd better correct myself. But if I am a good person, that way I am not dominating, then I should try to bring down his ego, by making sweet things come to him". Try to be kind to him so that his ego comes down. Manage somehow, to establish ideal relatioship. It is absolutely simple. Now see the relationship between that flame and me has to be proper,so that it does not burn me, isn't it? It is absolutely simple. In lifetime also, we have to do the same thing. That relationship with each has to be perfect because you are the unit.

Celebration of Diwali

Today we are going to celebrate the Diwali, which means the rows of lights or, you can say, group of lights. This Diwali has been a festival of very ancient times in India. I already told in My previous lectures what these five days are. After killing Narakasura (the demon), Diwali was celebrated when it was the darkest night of the year. So now, it is very symbolic of these modern times because the worst time, as far as morality is concerned has been in these modern times. We call it the Ghor Kali Yuga, the worst modern times. That means a complete darkness and, as you see around, you'll find out that there is complete darkness as far as morality is concerned, but that's why there are all kinds of crises. Because of that, also, there are many who are seeking the light, the truth.

(05.11.1994, Turkey)

Morality – in Modern Times

Now the description of modern times is there to show you in what times we are living. And I realized it's not an easy thing to talk to them about anything that is good without giving them realization. Unless and until you give them realization, nothing can penetrate into their minds on just mental level. And also giving only lectures and sermons, the whole thing will be at a mental level only. And also the religions, which are so-called, are really very harmful for the spiritual growth of human beings. I felt that enlightenment is the only way one can save this world. In this darkness of ignorance, the darkest night of the whole history of this world, we needed light and lights, many lights.

(05.11.1994, Turkey)

Purity of Relationships

( Shri Vishnu & Maya )

Now, the second day of Diwali, last day, is where a brother and sisters celebrate together for relationship, which is so pure and protective. That is to show that, after putting the lights, morality must be the first priority for the society. I need not tell you today immoral side of modern times. It's horrible. Immorality is the greatest darkness of modern times where people do not know how they relate to each other for which, as I told you before, Christ has suggested that you take out the eyes of a man who looks at a woman twice because He found, at that time, people were horrid. Who can follow Christ in these modern times? Both the eyes, both the hands will be cut off. On the whole, if you see, I haven't seen any Christian like that, so far.

(05.11.1994, Turkey)

The Destruction of Injustice

The last one is the best, where they have the meeting of Shri Rama and his brother Bharat. Shri Rama went to jail, obeying his father; for 14 years he was not in jail, but he went in the forest. It was a kind of a jail only because he was living in the palaces and then he was sent to the forest by his father: with his daughter-in-law, means his own wife, and also the brother - they went together into great sufferings - and you know the whole story of Ramayana. The child that lived in the palaces had to go in the forest and live in terrible conditions, when he was to be the king - it was too much. But Sita (Shri Rama’s wife) went with him and she supported him and ultimately it so happened that Ravana (the demon) came and took away Sita. Shri Rama fought Ravana, killed him, and brought back his wife. But when they came back to their own capital, in Ayodyha, there was a big jubilation and Bharat, his brother, he was very much attached to his brother (Shri Rama) and he ruled that country with the paduka, they say, (a kind of sandalwood slippers they use) of his brother: he put them on the throne, and ruled. So that is how the Bharatmilan, the meeting of Bharat with Shri Rama is celebrated and that was the time he was crowned also as the king. So it was a long time back, 1000’s of years back, this thing has happened. That jubilation is very significant, that the right king gets his own thrown and he rules and all injustice and all kinds of atrocities he has gone through has to be completely finished from his life and that’s why Diwali is important.

(25.10.1998, Italy)

Killing of Demons – with the power of Shakti

Killing of Demons – with the power of ShaktiThen the second day is the one where this horrible rakshasha called as Narakasura was killed. Always all killing is done with the power of the shakti. This Narakasura was the fellow who had tortured so many people and had done lots of cunning stuff, he was a very treacherous, cunning man and it was impossible to kill him; but then somehow or another with the advent of a special power, this Naraksura was killed. That was another day, the fourth day, when Naraksura was killed. They say that when he was killed, the door of hell was closed. So people should take their baths early in the morning. But I am of the opinion, that day the door is open, better not take baths, better be in your beds till this fellow is put fully into Naraka - you should not bother about him. Naraka means hell, and from the hell they extracted him and killed him.

(25.10.1998, Italy)

Significance of Diwali

Dhanteras – respect of wife – Gruhalakshmi

Firstly, in Diwali, the first day they buy something for the family, it could be some cooking utensil, could be an ornament for the wife, or something like that; because that is the day of the housewife and that day is to be celebrated as the housewives’, I should say, homage to her. As a result, you know in India, even now, housewives are very much respected. Actually they are respected all over, you will be amazed, that even in the protocol of the government receptions, anywhere, the wife is very important and where she is sitting, what her position is, it’s very important. Even today, in the most modern and advanced countries also, they have a special respect for the housewife. The housewife may not be educated, she may be a very simple woman, and she may not be very modern.

(25.10.1998, Italy)

So it is very important, that on this day, we call it Dhanteras, the thirteenth day, you have to buy something for your wife, and you have to give her something as a present. At least you should buy a little pot or something that can be used in the kitchen to show your respect to her. In the families where the mother is not respected, children become extremely troublesome and the whole of their family also suffers, whenever they are married, whatever happens to them. Men have to realize that it is their mistake that they have never respected their wives as they should have. In the presence of the children, if they shout, in the presence of the children if they don’t show any respect, the children can never respect the mother. It is a criminal thing to do to women who are in the household, doing all the work for you, looking after you, your family, not demanding anything. Only if you want to understand how they can be troublesome is to see them in the politics. When they go into politics they put all the men upside down. One woman can put all of them in their proper senses; because their field is their house, their family. If they are not respected in the family, they get out of the family and behave in such a manner that you can’t imagine. Though she has to bear a lot, she has to suffer a lot: but in the family she must be respected, that’s a very very important message of Gruha Lakshmi (wife).

(25.10.1998, Italy)

Third eye

"Today we are going to understand the center of Agnya - Agnya Chakra which is placed on the crossing of the optic chiasma. The nerves that supply the eyes go backwards in the opposite direction and wherever they cross, this subtle center is situated. It has a continuous connection with the other center through the medulla oblongata. This center has got two petals. And this subtle center on one side acts through the eyes and at the back of the head where you have some protrusion. This is the physical side of this center is. Now the people who talk of the third eye, this is the third eye. So that we have two eyes with which we see and there’s a third eye, which is a subtler eye through which we can see.If you see this eye, that means you are away from it. For example, if you can see your eyes, that means you are seeing your reflection, not the reality. If you see anything, that means you are looking at it. So those people who say they see an eye, for example people who take LSD and all such things, they start seeing another eye. They just see this eye and they think their third eye has opened. Actually you are very much away from the eye, that’s why you can see it. You go to a supraconcious level on the right side, and on the left side to the subconscious level you can see the eye. But in Sahaja Yoga you have to see through that eye, like a window, you can look at the window but if you see through the window, you can’t look at the window. So this illusion that people have that “we can see third eye and that’s why our Kundalini is awakened”, they are sadly mistaken.This is a very narrow passage through which attention cannot pass normally. Is an impossible thing. Is a very narrow passage where the ego and superego fit onto each other and cross each other just like this. And there is no gap in between for the Kundalini to pass through. This superego and ego go back, go downward, and come to the Vishuddhi Chakra and circle round it and go in the same direction. So, you find that they come up to this place, they start from this place, go up to the Agnya Chakra and then they cross over. But here, they are in the same direction as they were. Here they cross over. So when you have a problem on the left hand side, you get the effects of that on the right hand side. ... So this third eye is to be penetrated through."

(H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Talk on Agnya Chakra, Delhi, 1983)

Oneness must be established in you

But don’t worry about things which are of no value to us. You must know you are a special race. You are special soldiers who have been trained for doing Sahaj work only. So wasting energy on your relations and brothers and sisters is no good for you. It is to be understood now that you have your own energy reserved. For what? For Sahaja Yogis. You should help everyone who is a Sahaja Yogi or who wants to become a Sahaja Yogi. Who are established Sahaja Yogis, you must help them; because we are one personality and these are all the different hands of one personality, one God. So this oneness must be established within yourself and also others should see that oneness in you.

(Diwali Puja 2001)

A kind of a complete integrated organism as you become; you become an organization I should say, which is a living organization. In that you do not feel you are something separate - any Sahaja Yogi, whether he is highly placed or he’s not doing much in life. This integration, this oneness, this feeling of identification with others makes you so large, so big, so great, so powerful. You are not alone, and you say, “I’m not doing anything."

(Sahasrara Puja 1996)

Sahaj yogi are Lamp

"Like the meaning of Diwali – that is, as the lamps are lit outside – similarly, it should be lit within you. And you must also realize that you are like the lights in this world of darkness. You are the lamps and you have to emit the light. But if it has not been able to be enlightened fully from within, then how can you emit light?I am telling you all this because no one spoke about it like this before. I am telling you on the day of Diwali that we are going to celebrate the joy and light the lamps within our hearts. In it, with that light, we can see who is what and who is cheating.What is Sahaja Yoga? Sahaja Yoga is love. It is love. Awaken that power of love that is within us. Today is a very auspicious day and we have to light the lamps in our hearts and take up the resolution that, even if we have to die, we won’t tell lies. We already have such people with us.Now your lamps are lit. You are all lamps. You should see all this in this darkness. You are the lamps and the lamps are to sustain the light. We have to wipe out this darkness."

(Diwali Puja 2007, Noida, India)

"So now this Power is within you and is absolutely in perfect condition. You will be amazed, the innocence that we have is never lost. It is sometimes clouded but these clouds also get absolutely cleared out. And really we become a very innocent personality radiant with Divinity. It’s like a lamp or you can say a candle. You can enlighten a candle with another candle which is enlightened and this can go on. This is how it is because the time has come, and I call it the blossom time."

(Public Program, Sydney, 22/02/95)

"Give the light! Finished! Keep your lamp clean, and give the light. That’s all. Nothing else is needed."

(Guru Puja, London, 2/12/79)

"You are a lamp that is burning a light, which enlightens others in their mind. It’s a very great thing."

(Powers bestowed upon Sahaja Yogis, Bordi, India, 21/1/80)

Witness and laugh

A person who can witness himself laughing, that is perfect. One who laughs at others, his attention is in another direction. Again, one who can witness and laugh at himself, and his own environment and aspect, he is perfect. Endless blessings.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, concluding comment to Shri Krishna Puja 2003,

Pratisthan, Pune, India

QUOTES OF SHRI MATAJI

"Only thing is that one should remember that the Krita Yuga has started. Now Kali Yuga is over, Krita has started and in this Yuga, that the Paramchaitanya is absolutely effective and very efficient... You have been telling Me so many stories, how Sahaj it worked out, how Sahaj it has happened. all of you have been telling me very nice stories, but it is part of your play in Sahaja Yoga and that your place in the Kingdom of God. So in the Kingdom of God, you are there. Try to enjoy it. That's the only thing you have to do is to enjoy in the Kingdom of God.

" Shri Rajarajarchita Devi Kalwe, India — January 1, 1991

Rajarajarchita (305th): Worshipped by Kubera, the richest; therefore, giver of things beyond the reach of the richest, i.e., Moksa.

Responsibility of a Guru

Many of you have felt the cool breeze on your hands and out of your brain. Some have grown in Sahaja Yoga, some have not. Some are still carrying on with old catches.





But now I have to say that quite a lot of you can become gurus. Means teachers. And should you act as teachers. To act as teacher you know Sahaja Yoga, the theory and the practice of it, thoroughly well. And then you can become great guru.





It is a very big responsibility, lot of understanding for a guru. You should not have any ego first. You should not have any of your chakras catching. You should be absolutely clear all the time. And then the vibrations should be flowing in both hands. If they are moving in one hand and not in another, you cannot become guru. So you have to be a perfect Sahaja Yogi, then you can be a guru.


H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Guru Puja 2008

The Kundalini as tape recorder

The dreams come to you from the Kundalini itself, in a way. So what happens, the Kundalini is not connected on the central path, but it is the record, is all our past, all our record is in there, like a tape recorder has a tape, it is there. And what happens, that when you go very deep into Sushupti, that's the stage they call it, very deep into you, then the symbolism comes through that down below and passes through that blue line [Ida nadi] into your brain and that’s how you start seeing the dreams. But when you are passing through that you see, you pass through all your subconscious area, so the dreams get distorted, they get a funny symbolism. Sometimes you don't understand what's happening, it becomes a sort of a mixed up expression and on that to depend may not be so much good. Instead of that we must get the reality. The reality is that you become collectively conscious and you develop this vibratory awareness by which you can feel the All Pervading Power.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Talk to the C.J.Jung Society, New York, September 1983

Protection from false gurus

Sahaja Yogi: How do we protect ourselves from the clutches of the false gurus?

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi: Why did you have to go to a false guru? (Shri Mataji laughs) You tell me first, why did you go to a false guru? What attracted you to go to the false guru? How did you go there? You must ask yourself this first. Then you will realise that you ignored the evils of that false guru. That is what you didn’t protect yourself from. Now, in the past I have already given lectures on false gurus where I have clearly talked about their evildoings and how they take one for a ride. It is their business to entrap you all. There are different types of business which they adopt. Out of that, gurus also have a business to entrap you and you are trapped. From this, one must realise which trap we have fallen into. We have filled our brains with the badhas (negativities) of the false gurus. Now if you can tell me any of those badhas, then I can tell you…..

SahajaYogis: inaudible, two or three voices speaking together.

Shri Mataji: Now if you know one or two of these badhas, you let me know. The false gurus’ badhas. Now what do these badhas actually do? First they focus their attention on your pocket. (laughter)Isn’t it? As they start doing this, then you must understand that their intentions are different. But it is all on the gross level. On the subtler level, in fact, there are many who wouldn’t want to entrap you, but they would try to project their own importance. And for this reason they become gurus. It is like this, that one projects his importance. So you must watch all this and be critical about it. Then it will forsake you. But most of the people absorb their badhas, their ego, their anger, their physical health and many more aspects that you absorb from the guru. Like these gurus, when they fall sick, their shadow starts reflecting within you.

For this reason, you must analyse yourself and look at yourself, that, what have I received from this guru? This is very important. Then when there is a cleansing of yourself, you will see that it benefits you to a great extent. Why did you go to a guru when you were seeking for your own spiritual ascent? You went to a guru to know him but you were in turn entrapped. This guru is such a guru,and you yourself should know how to protect yourself from him. You should stay away from them. I had been to many such gurus just to see them and what they do, and how they tempt and attract people. And with what they entrap people.

So the first thing I saw was that these people find your own weaknesses, that what weakness you have. If this doesn’t work then they put badhas into you. The badhas are of various types. Out of these badhas you must first learn to detect what type of badhas he has put into you that you are unable to get rid of. The greatest badha that they put into you is FEAR. It keeps on frightening you, that ‘if you leave me, such and such thing will happen to you.’ This type of fear creeps within you. It doesn’t have much strength in it. But it keeps on frightening you. When this fear comes,you must say to it, ‘yes, I know it’. With this fear the human beings keep on going round and round the guru. For that Shri Krishna is there, who drives out this fear from everyone.

(Q+A after Shri Krishna Puja 2003, Pratisthan, Pune, India)

Humility is one of the criteria of a Sahaja Yogi

Humility is one of the criteria of a Sahaja Yogi. a person who does not have humility cannot be called a Sahaja Yogi, so this humility will give you a more permanent state by which you will not react...you just watch... and that's how the new state, a witness state comes into you. When you become the witness...you are in the present...and you just watch and enjoy..the enjoyment of all the creation is not within your mind when you are thinking...so one should learn that we should not react. But today's problem is that all human beings are very good at reacting...reaction is a basic principle of today's life. You are all sahaja yogis....and what you have to do is to understand why this ego is coming in my head...what have I done...who am I....once you go on asking such questions, this ego will disappear.

In sahaj culture, we have a proper training for getting rid of ego...you can yourself introspect.. .see why you behave like this..try to see...what is this Mr Ego doing within your head. Of course the mantra of Christ is the best...but when you are doing this mantra, you should be in a very humble state...what am I after all...who am I...what have I done..why should I be so egoistical?

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Christmas Puja, 2000 (fr sahajvidya)

To deal with Anger

"If you have an anger, say, for example, which makes you uncontrollable, then there is a mantra for that : Shanti. "Ya Devi Sarva-bhooteshu, Shanti Roopena Samsthita", you must ask for that Bliss, for that Peace. This is the mantra for you, for controlling your temper, you have to tell yourself, "Ya Devi Sarva-bhooteshu, Shanti Roopena Samsthita". So Shanti is the point, the axis point is that, from where you witness everything. You are in Shanti; you are in complete peace. You are not in turmoil even if you are angry. You are not in turmoil. Whatever is angry is the power, and the power is taking charge. But peacefulness never mean cowardice, nothing can transgress it, nothing can overpower it. It is never, never possible that cowardice and peace can go together. But first eastablish that position within you, where you do not allow anger to sit on your head. That is the growth. That's the growth, that you are at peace. Both ways you should know, that one is the anger that is detached, is perfectly alright. Anger which involves you, work it out. So judge yourself as to what it is."

HOW TO AWAKEN SHRI GANESHA’S POWER WITHIN YOU

With right hand to the photo and left hand on the ground:


Prayer:


Shri Ganesha, I am going to be worthy of Your attention,

Please make me innocent, so that I am in Your attention.

Shri Mother, You who are Shri Ganesha,

Please give me wisdom and discrimination.






H.H. SHRI MATAJI NIRMALA DEVI

How to go Deeper (Australian Newsletter)

• Surrender the day to Mother, Who does everything and ask Her to come in your heart.
• Give Self-Realisation.. Give Self-Realisation daily....
• Ask Mother to take away the negativity that stops you from giving self realisation as you go throught your day. Ask Mother to give you opportunities to give self realisation. When you do this people will just fall on your path, ready.
• Meditate, Meditate, Meditate.
• As spiritual growth only happens when there are no thoughts. So after clearing out process, ie affirmations, treatments and mantras give equal if not double the amount of time to sitting quietly, absolutely still and thoughtless to allow the kundalini to continue her work and deepen you.
• Listen to Mother's talks. Study ancient scriptures and the lives and works of great realised souls and aspirants of the spiritual quest.
• If you feel anything un-confortable, stick with it and try to observe what is happening to your subtle system and chakras. Then clear it out.
• Get involve in your local meeting (SY center), help set up, give your opinion, work on people.
• Lead a meditation. Take under your wing two new people, keep in touch with them, develop and encourage them and help them settle into the collective.
• Invite new people and yogis to your home for 'go deeper' meetings or for socials that include a meditation session.
• Always try to leave someone feel better than you first encountered them.
• Love someone when they are at there worst because that is when they need it most.
• Follow through on any project ideas you might have, share with others and make it happen.
• Don't talk unless you can improve on the silence. Talk when the spirit moves you and then with sweet vibrations in your voice.
• Live collectively, meditate collectively.
• Be together even when you are apart. Talk on phone or sending and receiving encouraging and uplifting emails to each other during the