Ganpati means the one who is the Lord of the Ganas

“Shri Ganesha's blessings are very important for all the people who are specially prone to some sort of a hurdle or “sankata” as they call it. He is called as Sankata Vimochan, the One who takes you out of all the hurdles of life. So many of you have experienced how He has helped you in different troubles and hurdles, and also different type of very, very difficult times. It is His style that He manages things so well, because He’s the Ganapati.


“Ganapati” means the One who is the Lord of the Ganas. As I have told you, ganas exist within us, very nicely settled down as these bodies, small, small bodies who report; if there’s any problem, they report to the brain that there’s a problem. And on the sternum bone is the, is the residence or we can say, is the throne of the Goddess Durga.


So whenever there is any problem we are found into some trouble, sternum bone start vibrating, and these bodies which are ganas get the information. “Antibodies” they are called in the medical terminology. Then these ganas attack. They can target also. They know how to target the trouble and attack it. One may think that only the people who are suffering medically are helped by ganas - is not true.



Also the people who are mentally upset, who are mentally suffering are also helped by the ganas. These ganas are so good at targeting their problems that sometimes one is surprised how things are worked out. For example, say something happens to someone, some child somewhere. Now his parents start crying for Mother, and the Mother is the Durga, say, then what happens that they immediately rush to that place and miraculously they cure the boy, miraculously it is saved.



So many miraculous things that have happened in your lives you cannot explain, but they are all due to this Ganapati's ganas. They are also small like Him, and they are very active and very alert. They never sleep. Any time there is any trouble, these ganas will go and attack the problem and find out solution for it. It is something unbelievable how they act and how they inform”.



Shri Ganesha Puja,

Cabella, Italy,25th September 1999

(DCB March-April 2000)

Kartikeya is the one who commands innocence, gives you a power of that commandment

Kartikeya represents the great, we can say the captain or the leader of all the Ganas, of all the, like a commander (in chief). Ganesha is the King, but he's the commander (in chief) and because German character is to be in command of everything.

We are going to have this pooja where the men will be in command of their spirits and their manly qualities and women will be in command of their womanly qualities. To be in command is different from to be a master. Master owns it, a commander does not own it, he does not own it.

That is also lost, possession is also lost. You just command it and that is the state we have to come to now. From Ganesha state to the state of Kartikeya. The other way round.

Ganesha is nice, he's the king, very nicely sitting down with all the powers, allright, innocence is there. But Kartikeya is the one who commands innocence, gives you a power of that commandment.He commands. After the Guru Pooja it is better that we should have the power to command others, and that commanding spirit comes in the men through their talking, through their dynamism, through their personal achievements.

For the women, through their loving power, through their forbearance, through their gracious behaviour, forgiveness, compassion. So let us develop that today, that we can command it, means, it is not that what we have, but in the position we are to command. I hope you understand, what is Kartikeya.

May God bless you! So let us start the Pooja

H.H. Shri Mataji
Shri Kartikeya Puja
Holzkirchen, Germany, 13.7.1986

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)

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)

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)

Let's not compromise & get impressed with negativity.

Now the trouble with Sahaja Yogies is that anybody who comes to sahaja Yoga programme thinks he is a Sahaja Yogi. It is not so. Either you should have very strong sensitivity, or you should feel it in your body, or with your intelligence you should understand what is Sahaja Yoga. A person who is still negative always gets attracted towards other one who is very powerfully negative and does not understand that the other person is so powerfully negative; but gets impressed. Under such circumstances, such a person is hit by that negative person and Shiva cannot protect.

One should not have sympathy with anyone who is negative, whether he is mad, whether there is something wrong with him, whether he is your relation or anything. No sympathy of any kind, on the contrary a kind of anger should be there for that person, a kind of detachment. And this angry detachment is the only time, when you have to be angry. But I have seen people who have anger for very good Sahaja Yogis but not for their own husbands or wives who are extremely negative.

So when the Ekadasha Rudra starts acting on these five sides on the right we should say, it moves to the right side, because it comes from the left and moves to the right side. Then a person starts becoming negative but acting with his ego. Such a person may take up a situation into hands and say that " I am such and such Sahaja Yogi and I am so, we should do like this and we should behave like this" and start dictating; people can do anything. And some mediocre, and some half baked Sahaja Yogies may try to understand, but most will know that " this fellow is going out, now he is on his way out."


So all these thing lead to this left side development or we can call it on the head, on the right hand side of your 'Medha', this plate, brain - plate is called 'Medha' in sanskrit language

H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
(EKADASHA RUDRA PUJA…..6.9.84)

Shiva forgives us always…BUT there is a reaction.

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.

H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala devi
(EKADASHA RUDRA PUJA…..6.9.84)