Ego has no discretion

Another thing I’ve seen that ego has no discretion, ego has no discretion of any kind. If you are egoistical first thing you lose is discretion, then what’s the use of having this nonsense of a ego which doesn’t give you discretion?


And people who have greater ego always then assert and you have to agree to that. You are more impressed by the people who have greater ego than yours and you like the people who are without any ego so you can oppress on them, but the discretion part is very poor.


That you can see, the other day one guru had, or the one gentleman, had come and he was given some mantra by his guru, but he can’t hear anything against his guru. Why? Because his ego has chosen that guru; because the ego has chosen how can the ego be wrong? And ego is always wrong, invariably wrong.


Everything is upside down with the ego-orientation. Gradually you will learn that in the west people lack common sense completely, they lack common sense in everything.


I mean if they had common sense there would have been much less problems, but common sense is lacking and also I find the same thing in Sahaja Yogis. They lack common sense. You have to become so wise that common sense should be your nature but common sense we lack.


H.H.Shri Mataji
Shri Trigunatmika Puja,
5th July 1985, Holland

Power of love is the highest and the greatest

So the main thing is to understand the power of love. Power of love is the highest and the greatest, and if you can manage somehow or other to give up your anger, give up your greed and also your ego- if you can do that, you can be in Sahasrara.



Now just see the sport of ego. It stops your ascent further. At ego only people get lost, because at ego only they move to the left or to the right and they can go to the too much of right side, or can go up to the left side. They can go to any extreme of these two.



So first of all we have to correct our ego. For this ego, what should we do? For this ego we should watch ourselves and laugh at ourselves! What ego do we have? Of what?



We are human beings- now we have become Divine! And with Divine within us, with this light within us, we have to understand that we are a part and parcel of the Divine, just a drop in the ocean of love.



If you can reduce your ego, if you can bring it to the actual ‘sense’ of your being, then it will work out better.


H.H.Shri Mataji
5th May 2002, Cabella
Sahasrara Puja
(DCB November- December 2002)

Watch and witness your ego

This ego business has come from various sources, you know that. But it has to be cleansed out. Like when the river flows, all kinds of dirt, filth, flows into it. But when it meets the sea, it becomes the sea. In the same way you have to become that.



To become the sea, what you have to do is to forget all these tributaries which were coming into you and all these wrong ideas which came to you. It can be from any source. I do not know how to name them, because there’s a big list of these sources. People are mad sometimes with this ego.




So, main thing is how to watch and witness your ego, how it works, how it spoils your temperament, how it spoils your relationships, how it makes you stupid. Ego is, first thing it does, is to make you very stupid, and you start behaving in such a manner that people start thinking that “Oh, you are the great, stupidest person ever living.” But it is of no help, because if they believe that you are a stupid person, what will happen?




On the contrary, if you have the wisdom, if you have that peace, if you have that special temperament of enjoying everything in life, and also the collective temperament, it will work out. They will be impressed.




Because in that light they can see their own stupidity, own falsehood, everything, and they will realize that what they think is not true. “This gentleman is much deeper than me. What he has got, I haven’t got it.” This is the main thing for all of us.




H.H.Shri Mataji
5th May 2002, Cabella
Sahasrara Puja
(DCB November-December 2002)

Why are you bothered about problems

I find most of you have problems of very low level sometimes. And then I am surprised why are you bothered about these problems. You see, you are so powerful. So in Sahasrara you must know what powers are there.



There are one thousand powers, one thousand powers within you which are being enlightened, if you can understand that, then you will understand that ‘what’s the use of having ego’ because you have such a lot of powers within you which you have not utilized, which should use. But because of ego you cannot. With love you can. With love you can manage and you can do a lot.



So I would request all of you today to take a bow that ‘we’ll have no more chances for our egos. We’ll give it up. We’ll give up our ego.’ Because there is no sense, that’s an obstruction between us. When the Sahasrara wants to work, it cannot because of ego obstruction.



So better not have ego of anything. You may be good singer, you may be anything in life, may be some big man or anything, what is so-called- has no meaning. What we need today are people who are ego-less and who have powers completely flowing in them.



With the opening of Sahasrara, all these powers should flow. If the Sahasrara is fully opened all these powers of love should flow.



H.H.Shri Mataji
5th May 2002, Cabella
Sahasrara Puja
(DCB November-December 2002)

Ego-less nature will help everyone

So our ego has to be seen, is to be watched in witness state, how it works and how it tries to dissuade us from the right path of movement.



One has to be only careful on that point because that’s the last centre which has to be opened out.



Once it is completely open, you are one with the Divine and your all problems will be solved. Because these problems are so frivolous and has no meaning; they’ll go away in no time as long as you work it out, your Sahasrara.



It’s very nice that today is very special day with all these three stars are coming together, and its special blessing.



If your powers increase, all these people who are very bad, who are trying to capture the society with their political nonsense and all that, they all will disappear. They have no powers, they all disappear.




So, first of all your ego-less nature will help-will help everyone.


May God bless you all.




H.H.Shri Mataji
5th May 2002, Cabella
Sahasrara Puja
(DCB November-December 2002)

Independence Day of India

Yesterday, was the Independence Day of India and I have seen the flag going up, our national flag and the British flag going down. All that has happened after so much of struggle, so much of sufferings of the people because they came to India, landed nicely there and became the masters.





So, this is also a kind of a conditioning that comes in a collective way, that you go into anybody’s country, throw away the people from there or sort of occupy that place and become the masters.





It’s like going into somebody’s house, that belongs to somebody, and throw away the people who are inside and nicely settle there as the owners and the masters because they have better intelligence, perhaps the cunningness is more in them. With that cunningness if the white people think they can rule black people then it is not where you can develop a witness state.





So, this kind of conditioning is like a plague and moves from one country to another country where some people think they are superior and make people look inferior and the people also are there who accept these kind of situations, accept this kind of a position, where they are supposed to be equal.




H.H.Shri Mataji

Shri Krishna Puja,
16th August 1998, Cabella

DCB March - April 1999

Witness state is not a mental state, it is a state of a spiritual ascent

There is no fear at all, once you learn how to have the state of witnessing. Because when you are not witnessing you get disturbed, you get upset, you get excited, you may join also these wrong type of people. But if you are in a state of witnessing, that itself is a power. And that witnessing state helps you to win over so many difficulties of other people.





There is a Chinese story about a saint. So one king bought his cock to him and said: “You train my cock in such a way that he should win.” He said: “Alright.” So he kept the cock of the king for one month and when the show started, different cocks came from different places and the all started fighting. This cock just stood up and was watching, just watching. And other cocks got such a fright. They couldn’t understand how this fellow is not disturbed, he’s just watching, he’s standing, he’s doing nothing. So they all disappear from the arena and he was declared as the successful one.






So this is the best way to bring non-violence. In violent places you go and stand steadily there, facing all the things that are happening and that witness state acts and stop that kind of violence that is going on.






But witness state is not a mental state, it is a state of a spiritual ascent where you become a witness. The best way to practice witness state is not to criticise anyone, not to criticise. I’ve seen people who are all the time criticising others. They cannot criticise themselves, so they start criticising others, so much so that they don’t even see what’s wrong with them. They don’t even see what wrong they have done to others, because they think they have a right to criticise others and they enjoy this criticism very much.





Actually there’s nothing to be criticised. You just watch and see for yourself, that’s all, is your right. You have no right to criticise anyone or anything. But some people think that if you do not criticise, then it will go on like this and it will never stop. It’s not that. Once you watch the thing yourself, only just watch. Your attention itself is enlightened now. With that enlightened attention, you can just watch and stop the nonsense that is there. But we are always conscious that we are something great and we have to do this and we have to do that. Under these circumstances what happen is that you become another problem. Because what can you do? You can’t do anything. But what you can do is to watch.




By watching and by just seeing things as they are, you really develop a very different state.


H.H.Shri Mataji
Krishna Puja, 16th August 1998, Cabella

Only one thing God cannot do

God has His own powers. He has His own machinery. He has His own government, He has everything. It’s dynamic.




You can’t imagine how many dimensions He can work it out. Just you have to put it in the mouth of that machinery. If you can do it you get the results easily. Only one thing God can not do that is to make you sensible, to make you wise, that’s one thing that’s your look out, that’s in your own choice because you are guided by your ego.


You are identified with your ego and anything I say may upset you, or may appeal to you. God knows how you are going to react. But only way you can grow is to be in the center to see, not to go to extremes of anything, to be in the center, even listening to Me try to be in the center.



But human beings are funny as I told you, you see, they must go to extremes. You give them any job they must go to the extremes. Anything you give them they cannot keep to the centre, they can never keep the balance now, see this one if it couldn’t be balanced how can I speak on that, I mean in day to day life we never sit without a balance, on a chair, do we?


Do we sit on one side all the time? Or do we drive our car one side decline like that, do we do anything that is under imbalance, say for example, this lights see how they are well balanced. It has to be in balance everything but in our behaviour towards God we are very much imbalanced”:

(H.H.Shri Mataji, Caxton Hall, London , UK , 08. 03.1980)

There are only two problems

People who are mediocre think that gradually they’ll be all right and that they’ll come up. But I would suggest that you should make an all-out effort to become strong Sahaja Yogis. To become strong Sahaja Yogis is not difficult because you have all the powers within yourselves. You have the kundalini within yourselves and you know the way- how to become a realized soul.






The problems are of you being dragged into your ego or into conditioning- only two problems, not more. Like somebody asked,"How many turns are there in London?”. Only two: left or right. So either you go to the left or to the right. All the permutations and combinations of this left and right starts working and then you get into trouble. And then you get into problems. But actually it is a very simple thing. To get out of your ego should be the simplest and that is where you try to understand yourself. You see yourself. How you are reacting? Where is your attention? What are you doing? What is your attitude towards Sahaja Yoga?





So many people think that”this is my house, this is my family, this is my car, this my horse, this my dog.” I don’t know how far it goes- “my, my, my, my, my.” But nothing is yours…. As Kabira has said it, that “some cheat” –that is the death – “will come and take away everything that is not yours.” Then “my family,” then “my children”- all this is a nonsense. And so, when you start getting attached to this word “my,” there is where you fail completely into your own understanding of your ego, you’re completely blinded by this ego.





First of all, you should say that “nothing is mine.” Kabira has said that when the goat is living she goes on saying “Maie, maie, maie.” It means “I, I, I, I” in the Hindi language. He made a pun on the word “maie.” And when she dies and her intestines are taken out and are made into something that spins the cotton, they go on the street, these people, telling people they are around. They go on playing on that string which is made from the intestines of these goats which says, “Toohee, toohee, toohee,” meaning “you are, you are, you are.”


So one neeed not be like a goat, that until you leave you go on saying “I, I, maie, maie, maie,” when you die, then your intestines have to be taken out and put on that thing just to make the sound “toohee, toohee toohee.”





So this sound of “I, I, I” is made only by egoistical human beings, but this ego is so much identified with you that you think that “I am this ego and this ego is me.”And in that ego, you start doing all kinds of nonsensical things. This ego takes you nowhere. It takes you nowhere but into a complete mire of ignorance about yourself. Ultimately, you become stupid. Others can tell you that you are stupid or you become idiotic or get a bad name and everybody knows that you are doing all wrong things, but nobody dare tell you because you are to be reached with a barge pole. Such a hot – tempered personality you become that nobody dare come to you and say that is wrong, it should not be done, it’s all stupid, idiotic. And you, yourself, in that idiocy and stupidity think no end of yourself. This is the extreme of your ego.





H.H. Shri Mataji
19th December 1987 Aurangabad

Imagine if you have big balloon attached to you, how can you go deep down into the sea?

Thank you very much for all this celebration, for all these beautiful balloons. But looking at these balloons, we have to see, some of them who have lost their air completely. This is another problem we face in the West Because, to have ego, according to the western culture, is a very great achievement When we start living with our ego, I know, how one looks like. He really looks like a stupid fellow. When he talks, when he describes himself, you don't know where to look because we just feel like laughing at his stupidity. Ego is the outcome of stupidity. I don't know what to say, how to give a simile to ego because it is just bloated and makes you float in the air. When it bursts, you are down on the earth. But you are not down on the earth, the way a Sahaja Yogi should be - down to earth, but completely finished.


All your arrogance goes to waste. You can never understand Sahaja Yoga, if you have this ego in your head. I have known people who have this ego. They have come to Sahaja Yoga and still they think they know more than anybody else. To know about yourself, you have to go deep down and to go deep down you have to give up all this idea which makes you float in the air. Imagine if you have big balloon attached to you, how can you go deep down into the sea? You cannot. That kind of air which makes you float in the air, absolutely in an area of stupidity. Then you may think whatever you like about yourself, you can behave the way you like but what do you achieve? You achieve nothing out of it. Whatever you achieve, people are jealous of you, they want to harm you, you have no friends. Nobody cares for you and in Sahaja Yoga, people know who has got this problem.


H.H. Shri Mataji Niramala Devi
Janam Diwas Puja
Delhi, 21.03.1997

Stress

“The common problem is the stress. Now why this stress is there, that also you should know. Ida and Pingla are two channels and they cross each other at optic chiasma. Pingla Nadi (Right sympathetic) creates ego balloon, Ida Nadi (Left sympathetic) creates super ego balloon (due to conditionings). When you are too right sided then ego moves and covers the left side, so there is a block, whatever problem you have it cannot pass out of your body. Then you become weaker and weaker. That is how you have stress.”

(New Delhi talk to doctors 6/4/97.)



H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

What you want Joy or happiness.........

What I want, that my children should be beautiful people, when they enter into the 'Kingdom of God'. They should be respected as great saints, sages. More than anybody else, they are special people.



That's how they are to be educated. May be, I am very ambitious, you might say. But my ambitions are based on reality. I am sure I can achieve these. But you must develop that humility and understanding within yourself that we all have to improve, we have to be in the attention of the Mother. If she has to say something to us, we are not ,to feel hurt. If you feel hurt, then know that it is your ego. Beat yourself with shoes. Take it out, because it is not good. I cannot go on pampering your ego all the time till you are completely blasted off and then you come and tell me "Mother why didn't you tell me?"


For example, somebody asked me, he is in love with somebody and wants to marry her. I knew that the person was horrible and he should not marry that person and I said that, in a way, it's alright. I mean, I first was in a shock and I kept quite. I said, now how to say that, not to pamper his ego either, but to say. How to say that, no or yes. It was very difficult.



So, I said, all right as long as she makes you. happy, it's alright. Now the word happy, has double meaning. Happy means only your ego can be happy, not the spirit. It's joy. I did not use the word joy, I said happy. See I have to be clever about it. Now, if you had thought of it, why would Mother say happy, she should have said if it gives you joy. If I say joy then it's correct. But I said happy. I said it three or four times to him that, does it make you happy.


He said, "Yes". If it makes you happy then you can marry. Now see, if he is very intelligent, and he should have thought of it. But he never thought of it that I was meaning that it is not going to give you joy, if it gives you happiness, you marry. Happiness means your ego pampering, it's simple. Also you have to educate yourself to understand your Mother. This is the third thing, that you ought to know, is to understand your Mother. See I have to be clever. Because if I am not, if I am very blunt, you get blasted. If I am not, you are lost. So I have to be clever. And when I am clever, they call me Mahamaya. So at least, let me keep to one style, let me be a "Mahamaya".



Alright, accepted. But then you try to understand that if I tell you something, you just get absolutely annoyed and angry. And the people get lost. You see, they get lost. If you tell them don't do it, they get lost. If you say, do it, then they get lost, in any case, because they are doing a wrong thing.

H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Birthday puja 21. 03. 1982 –
Chelsham Road, London, UK

Kundalini is a Mother

So the power of Kundalini is absolute purity, auspiciousness, holiness, chastity, self-respect, pure love, detachment, concern, enlightened attention to give you joy, as every mother wants that her child should get the joy. Whichever way is possible, she’ll try to give joy to her children. In the same way, this Kundalini has only one power — how to give joy to Her own children and she does that. Supposing — I mean, I don’t know about modern mothers, but normally if I would go and say to My mother, “Teach Me how to be angry,” she will say, “You go and cut your nose.” If I tell her that, “Tell Me how to tell lies,” she’ll say, “Go and cut your tongue.” If I say, “Tell Me how to say bad things to others,” she’ll say take out your eyes is better.” All these ideas that we harbour within ourselves make a very big problem for Kundalini to enter into your attention.

Now, people always ask, “Mother, how are we to grow? What should we do?” That’s why I say introspection. There should be introspection. “What do I want in this life? I should be able to love many more people without any lust or greed or expectations.” All right. Then the floods of abstract love will flow. She gives you witness state. She gives you peace. How many things She has to give you by which you become so powerful, so very powerful. No one can trouble you.



She gives you security. She gives you peace. She gives you wisdom. But if you want to ask for stupidity, She cannot do it. It is impossible. She hasn’t got it with Her. So every Sahaja Yogi who has to grow, must know what is in store with you own Kundalini.



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

Weilburg, Germany, August 11, 1991

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.

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).

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).

"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.

"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

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