Detachment is purity, is innocence

The third thing for a guru in Sahaja Yoga has to do, is to develop detachment. Gradually you do develop it, because you find that unless and until you develop that detachment, you are not receiving vibrations in full way. All kinds of detachments have to be developed, means your priorities change.



Once your attention gets fixed up with your Spirit, the catch or the hold on things which are of no importance starts reducing by itself. For example, you have a father, you have a mother, you have a sister, this is a bigger problem in India.




Here you are over-detached, but in India people are very much involved in their own children, in their own: 'This is my son', and others are all orphans. Only your sons are the real children: your daughter, your sons. 'My daughter', 'I must do this for my son, for my father, mother' here also.




Two types of attachments are there, one through mohah, through involvement into them; that you want to do this for them and that for them, and give all the property to them, insurance for them, every sort of thing.




And another could be, the way we have here, that you hate your mother, you hate your father, you hate everyone. Both things are just the same.So a detachment must be developed. The detachment is that you are your father, you are your mother, you are everything, your Spirit is everything to you.




You have to enjoy only your Spirit, as everything. Then the detachment comes from there, and then you really do good to them by detaching, because you see the complete vision about them and about what is to be done. For example, people have also attachments to certain crazes. Human beings always become crazy after something, I mean it can be anything.




One has to understand there should be only one craze: is to be settled absolutely into your Spirit. All other crazes will disappear, because thats the greatest joy-giving thing, that's the most nourishing thing, that's the most beautiful thing. So the, all the other things fall off, you enjoy only that which is the source of all enjoyments.




So you get yourself attached to your Spirit: detachment starts working. Sometimes detachment is taken as a license for becoming dry to others, which is absurd. This is only human quality also: make everything ugly, whatever is beautiful. Actually, a person who is detached is the most beautiful person, is the extremely loving person, he's love.




Look at the flowers, they are detached. They are dying, tomorrow they are not going to live, but every minute they live, they are emitting fragrance to you. The trees are not attached to anything, they will die tomorrow, doesnt matter; but anybody who comes to them, they give shadow, they give fruits.



Attachment means death of love, complete death of love is attachment. For example, in a tree, say, the sap rises, goes to all the leaves, goes to all the necessary parts, all the flowers, all the fruits, and goes back to the Mother Earth. He is not attached to anyone. Supposing the sap goes and gets attached into one fruit. What will happen? The tree will die, and the fruit will die.




Detachment gives you the movement of your love, circulation of it.For things now, things have no value unless and until there are emotions behind it. Now for example, a sari, this one I am wearing today, was bought for Guru day, Guru Purnima, but they had no sari. The other day they wanted to have a sari for Puja, so I said: 'All right, use this.'




But I wore it again today, just to say that this was bought with that emotion that on a Guru day, Mother would like to wear something of a lighter shade: white, the pure color of silk, its complete detachment. But in white all the colors are mixed, then only it becomes white. In such a balance and unity it is, should be, that you become white, and whiter than snow.




Detachment is purity, is innocence. Innocence is such a light, I tell you, light that really blinds you to all that is filthy. You wouldnt even know that a person has come with bad intentions. You look at the person, you see, say somebody comes to you, you'll say: 'Oh, come along, what do you want?' You'll offer him tea and all that, and he'll say: 'I have come to rob you.'




'All right, rob me if you want to, its all right.' He may not at all rob you! That is what is innocence, which one can develop only through detachment. Detachment is of the attention. Do not allow your attention to get involved into something too much, even rituals of anything. ... If some mistakes are committed, what does it matter?




If you see on the abstract plane, it's love. This is just a step forward. Like somebody ran very fast and fell down before reaching me, and he said: 'Mother, sorry I fell down before reaching You, I should have not done that. But see how I prostrated before You!' Its complete poetry, detachment.




So one has to develop that detachment to be a guru, and that detachment doesn't mean sanyas or anything like that. Yes, sometimes one has to wear those dresses to announce, because if you have to do lot of work in a short time, then you have to take such intensive behavior, like Christ, we can say, Adi Shankaracharya.




All these people had a very, very short life, and in that short life they had to achieve such a tremendous task that they had to actually take a military uniform, just to avoid problems, not to impress others. Now-a-days people wear that dress just to impress others that they are detached, and do just the thing opposite of it.




H.H.Shri Mataji
Guru Puja, 1980

Hampstead Temple, United Kingdom
(DCB July-August 2001)

Attached love is not truth

Attached love is not truth. If you are attached to somebody then you never see the bad points of that person. If you are angry with somebody then you can never see the good points of that person.



But its a complete detached love and that love is extremely powerful. Because whenever you project that love to anyone, you will be surprised, the problems of that person will be solved, his personality will improve, everything will work out in a very big way and his life will be changed.



But if you are attached to anything what so ever, that attachment itself causes problems and doesn't allow Sahaja to grow. This attachment could be any kind. For example you can be attached to your country, attached to your society, attached to your family; it can be of any kind.



But when Sahasrara is open you learn one thing - is detachment. It just happens that you get detached. Though I mean; you are not running away. As it is in Sahaja Yoga we don't believe in people, who run away from society and go to Himalayas.



For that I call it escapism. That is not the point, what happens is that you are there you see everyone, watch everyone, you know everyone, you are close to everyone but you are a detached person.



Its a state of mind that you achieve when Sahasrara is open. Then that state, you are dealing with people, you are dealing with problems, you are dealing with situations but you are not involved in it.



There is no involvement and that involvement which you had before can never give a complete insight, what is happening, what is the truth is, about any situation. So this detachment helps, the greatest thing of the detachment is that you are not affected.



No use saying that oh you are not affected Mother, so how can you feel for another person, how can you have compassion for another person. Because if you feel for another person then only you can solve the problem. But this feeling that you have is again a kind of an attachment. It is not a real feeling. Because it doesn't help.



The person is crying, you are also crying. The person is in trouble you are also in trouble. And this does not help that person; nor will it help you. So to have detached in no way means you do not feel the another person. You do feel, you feel the agony of that person, the trouble of that person, of the whole society sometimes and of the whole country. But, that your feeling is so detached that the all-pervading power takes over.



First we must have full faith in the capability of this all-pervading power. As soon as you are detached you say you do it. Finished, once you say that you are going to do it, it is you who is going to do it - whole thing changes completely. Because you transfer all your responsibilities, all your problems to this Divine Power which is so powerful, which is so capable, which can work out anything.



So whenever you think that this problem you are going to solve. You are the one who is going to do it then alright, the Divine Power says alright - try your luck. But if you can really put this problem to the Divine Power it will work out.



H.H.Shri Mataji
Sahasrara Puja
Cabella, 10th May 1998
(DCB Issue 11& 12, 1998)

Become like lotuses

If the sprit has to evolve, we have to be extremely witnessing in a full way, very alert, extremely alert and witnessing ourselves, what are we doing. Then only will we reach the completion of our Realization. Unless and until you reach the completion of your Realization, you can never be masters of your attention and you can never be the enjoyer of your joy and you can never know the truth fully.




To achieve this Sat-Chit-Ananda swarupa, you have to be extremely careful about the instrument that God has given you- this body, mind and emotions. You have to keep them in check because, wherever your habits are, they can never be joy-giving. It’s a joyless pursuit. And wherever your ego is, it’s a destructive effort.




So what things are detrimental to your growth? Apart from that, they are extremely dangerous thing for yogis.



So as you are, in whatever conditions you are, in whatever situations you are, whatever may be the surroundings, like a dirty mire full of creatures and filth, you can become like lotuses. When you become like lotuses, all that is filth, all that is horrible can become fragrant. And this is what we have to achieve.




When people will see the lotuses, they’ll come to you, not to see the worms and to see the filth, but to see the lotuses. So please, this time, correct yourself. You don’t need anybody to correct you. You just correct yourself, watch out for yourself and see for yourself. If something doesn’t work out, just give up. Don’t go to extremes for anything. You must learn to give up at a point and be happy about it.



If you are contained within yourself, if your hand is attached to your body, then you reach up to a point and then leave it. But if it is not attached, if it is disintegrated, then it goes all round and round and comes back without anything. That understanding has to be there in you people because you’re standing in the central path and you’re attached to the central path not only, but you are identified with it. So you cannot go too far to the left, cannot go too far to the right. If you do that, you get lost. Then you are no more a Sahaja Yogi and then no use having here artificially or superficially because it will be hypocrisy.


H.H.Shri Mataji
17th December 1987, Aurangabad
(DCB July-August 2008)

Solution to a problem

The word problem, specially in the European community problem is a very common word. But in the English language we never heard this word, problem. You see the problem was used when we were studying geometry; geometrical problem.





But, we never knew there is a problem in life. Later on, when I came in contact with European community, they will say there is no problem, this is the problem. At least, in one day, 100 times they say problem word.




So, for a problem the solution is not to have that thing which gives you problem. You can give up anything. Anything that you want you can give up, if you know how to detach yourself from that. Many people come and tell me Mother, we have an ego, that is the problem. I said, then give up. I mean it’s simple. Why do you have it? As if you see they want to say that we have a trouble with this thing but still we are clinging on to it.




Like we are afraid of a crocodile but we want to put our foot into the mouth of the crocodile and we have a problem that our foot will be eaten up by the crocodile. Now give up. But they will search out the crocodile. Open the mouth and put the foot in it and then come to me and say Mother, we have a problem. My foot is in the mouth of the crocodile.



To get to problems you have to get to it. But without getting to it how will you get a problem.





Say for example people have very silly stupid problems. Now the first problem somebody may have oh, I have to get my clothes pressed. What’s the need? No problem, Wear them as they are. Who looks at you? You see there are all the people who have pressed clothes, does not matter, what’s there if it is not pressed. It’s a problem for them, is silly things like that. You see very silly things. But the greatest problem I think you have is your watch. In Switzerland, I shouldn’t say so.



H.H.Shri Mataji
Shri Ram Puja
Switzerland 4th October 1987
(DCB Jan-Feb2000)

The Significance of Detachment

Now there are people who go get attached to someone, to one person, or to the family, to their children, to relations..... That's also not the way you can get to God. That's also so limited; keeps you hanging around them and wasting your energy completely.


But if you enter into your being, fully, then all these things have such meaning. Every thing has a meaning then. In the sense, if you possess anything, and if you are that kind of a person who is supposed to be possessive-he's never possessive-he is so detached about it. But he can play around, because he's so detached. He can create a drama out of it.


He can play with the possessions, and teach lots of lessons to people. He's so detached, so generous, he enjoys his generosity. The whole thing becomes so different too, so dynamic. All the beauty that is created by human beings as possession is exposed before you. And you start enjoying all those things, without possessing them. You understand the myth of possession.




H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Shri Devi Puja, Sydney, Australia,
(14.03.1983, Australia)

Shri Krishna as Yogeshwara

So today we are going to see to the two aspects of Shri Krishna, which were the manifestation of his Divine birth.





In Rama’s life they showed a man, a purushottama, the best of the Father in worldly affairs. And in Shri Krishna’s life they showed him, the highest Fatherhood as in Yogeshwara, or in Divine world. So the first aspect of Krishna we have to understand is the Yogeshwara, and the second aspect of him as the Virata.






Yogeshwara means the Lord of the Yoga, or the power of Yoga. He is called because he reached the optimum that one has to reach as a yogi. As if he is the ideal that you have to reach. Now as a yogi, he was born of a royal family but he lived in the jungles, in the forest, with the cows, with ordinary people. He used to sleep on the ordinary places, like sometimes on the stone or on the grass when he would go with His cows for their feeding. Secondly, he was very, very aware, absolutely aware of his powers, without any ego. He had a special power called samharashakti by which He could destroy all those people who tried to harm the Divine manifestation.






The samharashakti is, expressed as the chakra in his hand. And another is the gada in his hand. These powers were within him, and He acted according to the power of Radha because She was the one who sustained the power of Shri Krishna. The proof of that is this, that when he was in Gokul with Radha he did all his samhara, work samharakarya and afterwards he just became a sarti - is a chariot driver for Arjuna. So for his disciple Arjuna he became even a chariot driver.



Another great quality of Yogeshwara was the complete discretion power, built in. So he knew who was a devil and who was not, who is good, who is bad; who is possessed, who is not possessed; who is innocent who is not. This was built in within him, this power, of complete discrimination.






And he had a capacity, more expressing his witness hood, as a sakshi. He had a capacity, I mean he was a sakshi himself. I should say this way is easier to understand. He was a sakshi, means he had the capacity of witnessing the whole world as a play. ...





Now this capacity in him to witness, has to be seen in every yogi. The element he controls is ether. We call it as akasha in Sanskrit. This ether as you know we are using now for our television, for our radio, for every sort of a collective work. So we have to be, in charge of the ether element, as yogis. And that is the subtlest of all, in the sense that, you permeate into everything with that. ...



The greatest quality of Yogeshwara is that he is not at all involved into it, detached absolutely.


If he eats his food he does not eat it,
If he speaks he does not speak,
If he sees he does not see,
If he hears he does not hear.




It has no effect on him; no retention on it; no action on it. Whatever he is, he is complete: sixteen petals is complete moon, sixteenth day of the moon is the Purnima. That is how one has to be, complete in oneself, complete confidence in one self. But confidence should not be confused with ego. Confidence is complete wisdom, it’s complete dharma. It is complete love, complete beauty, and is complete God. That’s what it should be.



Now when He said that “you give up all your dharmas and surrender to Me.” In Gita, what he was meaning is that all other things about which you are worried “you give up and become one with me, so I look after you.” Give up the responsibility to Shri Krishna, so the complete integrated Divinity will start expressing through you. Means if you say that you have to be responsible, then He says alright, go ahead, try. But if you say that “you are responsible, I’m just an institution or an instrument in Your hand”, then you start manifesting it well. And that is how your Vishuddhi chakra gets opened up.


H.H.Shri Mataji
Shri Krishna Puja

28th August 1983, Geneva

If Shri Krishna is Yogeshwara and if He had no wife, then you go down

Shri Krishna was Yogeshwara. He was Yogeshwara. He was so detached that once His wives, who were His powers, said that “We want to go across and worship a particular saint.” He said, “Alright, why didn’t you go?” They said, “No, the river is in spate and we don’t know how to cross the river.” He said, “Alright, you go and tell the river we want to go and see such and such a saint and Shri Krishna has said you calm down. If Shri Krishna is Yogeshwara and if He had no wife, then you go down.”


So they went to the river and said that, “If Shri Krishna has had no wives and He is a Yogeshwara, then please go down.” And the river went down. So they were very surprised, that “He is supposed to be our husband and still He is Yogeshwara. He is so detached.” They crossed over and they went and worshipped the saint. So the saint said, “Now you can go back.”


When they were coming back, they found again the river was in spate. So they went back to the saint and said, “Now how do we go back?” He said, “How did you come?” They said, “Shri Krishna said that, ‘you go and ask the river if I was a Yogeshwara, then go down.” “Alright, so you go and tell the river that the saint did not eat anything whatsoever and he was absolutely detached about it, so the river will go down.” So they were surprised because they has fed him, he had eaten everything, he had done everything.


So they went to the river and said, “Oh river, the saint never ate anything, he was absolutely detached about food, he didn’t touch the food.” And the river went down. So they were surprised, “How is it the saint ate everything and didn’t eat anything?” It means he was in ‘Aswadha”, he was not involved into the food, he was detached and they were surprised. It looks like a lie from a human point of view, it is not. That is the fact. He is a Yogeshwara and he is so detached.



H.H.Shri Mataji

Shri Krishna Puja,

6th August 1988

Essence of detachment

So when this detachment comes, really enjoy everything and in that detachment only you enjoy other person also because you are really so detached about it, don’t want anything with anyone. Only person to person you enjoy. That means you enjoy the spirit of another person through your spirit, “[???].” It is through the spirit only you enjoy another’s spirit. And then the spirit itself is, as you know, is the source of knowledge. The light of the spirit is the light of love, compassion, forgiveness, everything. All that starts shining in through your faces. I mean, from faces you can make out a Sahaja Yogi. There’s no need to put hands and see. You know this is a Sahaja Yogi, can’t be anything else.




H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Shri Adi Kundalini Puja Weilburg,

Germany, August 11, 1991

"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.

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

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)

We miss the biggest nourishment of Holiness if we have no discretion

So it comes to the discretion how to use your Ida Nadi and Pingala Nadi and discretion to understand what is good and what is bad. Now let us see the Ida Nadi. Ida Nadi is very important because the discretion in this can only come through traditional understanding. Ida Nadi starts from the Ganesha’s point – Mooladhara. So first we miss the biggest support, the biggest help, the biggest nourishment of holiness and auspiciousness, at Mooladhara, if we have no discretion. We always take to a thing, which is detrimental to our growth, and also which may destroy us, not only us but the whole country. We like people who are destructive, when there is no discretion. Discretion means that you must choose the things which are good for you, which are benevolent to you, which are good for the collective, which are good for your ascent. On the contrary, the people who have no discretion fall into the traps of wrong type of people.

Detachment is Surrender

... Detachment 'must start expressing' itself in your Realization. Detachment. What is surrendering ? - is nothing, because when you are detached, you are surrendered, automatically. When you are holding on to other things you are not surrendered, that's all. What is there to surrender to me? I am such a detached person I don't understand all that. What am I to get out of you? - I am so detached. - Nothing.

H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
(29.02.1984, India)