Starting a New Year

Now we are starting a New Year and I wish you all a very happy and prosperous New Year. In this Desh of mine, I also wish you a very deep growth in Sahaja Yoga. Now you all are Sahaja Yogis and you all have to become masters in Sahaja Yoga.



For becoming masters in Sahaja Yoga I am sure, you are doing meditation, introspection, and all kinds of Sahaja Yoga rituals, I should say. In this New Year I think there is greater chance for you to do much better because all those years of ordeals are over. We are now entering into the new era or say now the ‘Satyayuga’ has established.



In the beginning you may not feel the atmosphere of Kaliyuga has been cleared out completely. Of course gradually you will find that all is clearing out and all the people who are dangerous for your spiritual life or your national life, for your family life will have to take back their wheel. They cannot be successful.



Now the Sahaja Yogis have to decide, how far they has spread Sahaja Yoga all over, how many people they can get into Sahaja Yoga? There should be many more waiting for you this year, and may be this year if you all decide to work it out, I am sure, you can get lots of people who will be saved from the curses of Kaliyuga. This is going to be your vow on the New Year day that now we are going to start Sahaja Yoga in a new way, in a bigger way, in a more dynamic way.



For that first thing is needed is your ‘Sangh Shakti’, that is your collectivity. This collectivity has to be extremely well built well knit, well understood and absolutely loveable. This is not difficult in Sahaja Yoga because practically all your jealousies, all your baser ideas have been completely washed out by your Kundalini. She has transformed you. You are different people.



You are very very different. Not only that, but you have now understood your self. You are knowing yourself and all those who know themselves, can’t fight with each other. Because this Self is the reflection of one person, of one deity, of one God. And so how can you fight, when he is within your heart, how can you fight with each other? Otherwise you will be fighting with yourself. It would be very-very stupid to do that.



So all the fights and all the funny things that you have been thinking about will of course disappear, no doubt. But you will become very dynamic. You will be amazed at your dynamism. Just you have to rise, just you have to express yourself to manifest. You can become very-very collective, progressive and you can create many Sahaja Yogis.


H.H.Shri Mataji

New Year Puja 31.12.2000 Kalwe, India

(DCB November-December 2001)

Relationship with each other

Now the second thing is that Maryadas of relationships between you, is relationship of 'Pure' Love. Of Purity. Unless and until you develop 'pure' relationship, you are going to be ruined.



See, this finger has to have pure relationship with the hand. Supposing if this finger has some dirty feelings about this hand, it may dirty it. It may spoil it.


In the same way we must have 'extremely pure' relationship with each other. Means we should try to give our heart to another person without any lust or greed in it, - that, we should try to do. Try to help each other.


I find when they feel in a lusty way, or a greedy way attached to others - this is not for the Sahaja Yogis, but non Sahaja Yogis - they get so much interested in that person. It's a very 'baser' way of attachment..


But in Sahaja Yoga, your attachment is with your Spirit, your Atma. And Atma is the 'purest' form of our being. We have to keep it absolutely pure. And then the enjoyment is higher than any romance, any marriage, any worldly thing. It's the highest and the top-most. First achieve that. First of all you should 'arise' and 'achieve' that. 'Achieve' that purity. That is very important.

H.H.Shri Mataji,

London,11th August 1984

Raksha-Bandhan and Maryada

(DCB November-December 2007)

A story explaining the essence of collectivity

"Once as a child I had read a story about some birds. A net was cast, and so many birds, you see, doves, they were caught in the net. And they discovered that, ‘We are misled, misguided.’ They saw some grains and they were misguided. So how to get out of the net was impossible for them. Is an impossibility. One person cannot get out. One person tries to get out, others get more entangled and he gets even worse. So what to do? They all said, ‘Why not we all, fly out with the net itself. And then with our beaks we’ll cut out this net, and we’ll be freed, but first get out from here. Put our energy together, all of us and let’s fly out.’ And that’s what they did. They spread their wings, all of them put together, and took off, and off they went and they were freed.



Today’s Sahaja Yoga is that kind of a trick. One person cannot work it out. Is impossible. If one person has to do it, it’s an impossibility. He has to go and live in a cave permanently. Any one person even endowed with powers like Christ, comes on this earth is crucified, finished. Three years, He’s crucified. Nobody understood Him. So we have to have many more, to get out of this net, which is created through the efforts of these pseudo people, through our stupidity we can say, our wrong doings, misguidances, all kinds of problems which are against evolution. One has to become a whole group to lift up the society higher so that you can really get rid of the shackles of this bondage".


H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
1982,Public Program, Hampstead , UK

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)

Collectivity doesn't mean that we should all stick together

"The joy we feel during music recital is because Kundalini is dancing. She gets happy, because you ask for nothing but enjoyment of collectivity. Collectivity doesn't mean that we should all stick together. Collectivity means wherever you are, you are connected. When you are connected you love that person and are concerned about that person. The connecting line is of love and not of hatred. But people will live together and break each other's head. That is because they are nowhere near the real growth of Sahaja Yogis. You may be in any part of the world but you are connected and are concerned. As soon as there is a problem in any part of the world, you are connected and effective and you can manage. People don't really understand the meaning of collectivity. Where there is not the other- Ananya. There is no other personality. These personalities are separated from you because of left and right or both. You are yourself fully connected when you are absolutely detached and your Kundalini is dancing. You are alone and never alone. This oneness with the other gives you all the security and the joy you want. That's why the Kundalini awakening means collectivity. Unless and until you want pure collectivity in your being Kundalini won't rise".

H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

(Kundalini Puja, Germany, 1991)