Guru tattwa beautified by Mother principle

So today is the best opportunity for me to say that after the guru puja we have to understand that to be Holy means you must allow the guru tattwa to circulate in the Mother principle or the guru tattwa is to be controlled and guided and beautified by the Mother principle.


It’s only the Mother Earth that is beautiful because it can create so many varieties, so many dramas, so many things. Any other element, if you see, has nothing in it so it is She who can create.


So we should take to the Motherly quality more and try to bind our guru principle through that Motherly, beautiful, creative power so that we make our presence very agreeable, very congenial, very beautiful, full of interest and varieties; every time new flowers, every time new fruits, every time a new, new design.


As Kundalini is made of Mother Earth, we are quite capable of doing that. There are gurus and gurus and gurus but no one so far is such a master as you are of the Kundalini. If they were they would have given realization to thousands.


Why, because your Mother has penetrated into your guru principle and has risen your Kundalini, has given you powers to raise Kundalini, breaking your 7th chakra, so clearly. That never happened with anyone, even incarnations could not do that to the masses as you are doing.


Kundalini is flowing from your hands; the Ganesha is active in you, but it should never give you the ego or the sternness or the heaviness of the sea but it should give you the beauty of the Mother Earth.


Mother Earth is always bigger than the sea because She has to contain the sea. Sea can never be bigger than the Mother Earth. Sometimes it looks, sea, bigger but sea is contained in the Mother Earth. It cannot go beyond. So Mother Earth is always greater, bigger, wider than the sea.


So one has to understand that when Kundalini has risen, you have become all the seven chakras and not only the guru chakra and when you have become the guru chakra it is also bounded on all sides by the Mother Earth.


Under these circumstances, when we are so capable, we are giving realization to so many people when we are achieving so many things. If we could just become humble, congenial, beautiful, we can master the whole world.

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

Statutes of The Lord

You cannot do harm to anyone



The testimony of truth




Detachment is purity, is innocence




Lead a moral life




Guru should not have much possessions




Use things which are more natural




No discriminations and identifications

The testimony of truth

The second Statute is that you have to stand on your own legs and know that you are here, one with the truth, the testimony, the testimony of the truth: that you have seen the truth, you know what truth is, and you cannot compromise with falsehood, you cannot.




For that you need not harm anyone, you have to just profess it. You have to stand up and say that you have seen the truth and this is the truth, and you have to be one with it, so that people see that light of truth in you and they accept you.




Its not for telling others that: 'You have to be truthful, and this is the truth we have seen, that this is what God's laws are, how they work out. Through vibratory awareness we have been able to see this is the truth.' But be completely confident about it. But for that, first of all you must test yourself completely, otherwise you might be playing into the hands of ego. It happens with many people who start doing Sahaja Yoga, to begin with.




So be cautious, be sure that you are telling the truth and nothing else, and that you have felt the truth in full ways.Those who have not felt any vibrations, shouldn’t talk of Sahaja Yoga at all; they have no authority.




They have to receive vibrations, they have to fully imbibe within them, and then they can say: "Yes, we felt." This is a very important task Sahaja Yogis have to do in these modern times, is to tell aloud that they have found the truth. That part is very weak.




In whatever way you like: you can write books, you can announce it, you can talk to your friends, to your relations and everywhere. Tell them that this is the truth now, that you have entered into the kingdom of God; that you are blessed by the Grace of God, that you are realized souls, that you have felt the Divine power which is pervading everywhere, and that you can give Realizations to others. This you have to tell others, and know that by your accepting truth you are not adding anything to the truth, but you are adorning yourself.




One requires courage to enjoy the truth. Sometimes people will laugh at you, will mock at you, may persecute also; but that should not be any worry to you, because your relationship is with the Statutes and with the Grace of God.




When that is your connection, you should not worry about other people, what they have to say about it. You have to stand up, adorn yourself with that truth and talk to people, that people will know that you have found it. With that authenticity with which you speak, people will know that you have found it.




The difference between a realized soul and a non-realized soul is basically this: he doesn’t talk of his woes and his separation with God, but he says: 'I have found it now, this is it.' Like Christ said: 'I am the Light, I am the Path'. Or anybody else can say that, but you can make out that it is not true.




With the confidence, with that complete understanding coming out of your heart, people can make out this is absolute truth. And then all kinds of falsehood must be denounced. Doesn't matter if somebody feels bad, because by telling that you are saving them, and not harming them; but must be told in a correct way, not in a frivolous way.




In a very persuasive way, you must tell them that: 'No, this is wrong'. You must wait for the time when you can tell people, more in confidence. Talk to them: 'This is wrong, this is wrong, you don't know. We've done the same thing.'




This is how you are going to express your principle of mastery, or you can say Guru tattwa. You have to be truthful: first, foremost thing is that you should know the truth, you should stand this testimony, and that you should announce it.



H.H.Shri Mataji
Guru Puja, 1980

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

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)

Lead a moral life

Now the fourth thing, the fourth Statute of the Lord is to lead a moral life. These Statutes were given by all the Gurus, take them from Socrates onward, Moses, Abraham, Dattatreya, Janaka, up to, say, Nanak, Mohammad Sahib, and take up to the point where it was only about a hundred years back you can say, at the most, was Sai Nath.




All of them have said that you have to lead a moral life. None of them have said that you do not get married, that you do not talk to your wife, that you have no relationship with your wife; all this is nonsensical.




Lead a moral life. When you are young, not married, keep your eyes on the ground; Mother Earth gives you that innocence by which you develop that principle within you, is very important principle. Its such a pure principle, it really helps the society to develop its dignity.




Now think, in a society where you do not know who is your sister, who is your brother, who is your mother, what complications it can create; what confusion, what unhappiness. It is one of the most essential things for human beings, to be moral. For animals it is not necessary.




Most of the confusions and problems, specially in the Western life, have come because they have thrown morality in the sea, and to accept morality as the very basis of society, its very difficult for them, its a complete reversion.




But you have to do it, you have to turn the whole wheel back. So, many things were done in the beginning of the society to establish this pure relationship.




There are laws which act, as if there are laws of, chemical laws are there, there are physical laws are there, in physics and chemistry. Indeed, there are human laws which one should understand.




The relationships between each other, the sublimity of their relationship, the purity of their relationship must be understood, and then only you can have a very, very happy married life, which is the basis.




'Thou shall not commit adultery.' But 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; I mean, even I could not understand it when I was in India. After only coming here I could see that, what did it mean. Its a possession on the eyes, possession.




It's a joyless, useless behavior, its tiring. Attention is frittered away completely; there's no dignity. Eyes should be steady. When you look at somebody steadily you should know that you have got Sahaja Yoga in you; with love, with respect, with dignity. Not staring at people and just playing into the hands of these possessions. The whole society is possessed.




All the satanic forces have been let loose, I think, and the way people are possessed, they cannot see through these things. And they are supposed to be Christians! Attention is to be looked after.




Thats the most important thing, because attention is the one which is going to be enlightened.So we have to know what morality is. Let people laugh at us, let them say that: 'These are goodie-goodies', or this sort of thing. We are!




We are proud of it. We are not ashamed of being righteous people. This is a very important part of righteousness. Those who do not follow this will lose their vibrations very fast.




H.H.Shri Mataji
Guru Puja, 1980

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

Guru should not have much possessions

Then, for a guru, he should not accumulate things, he should not have possessions, much possessions with him. If he has possessions, they should be just for giving away. A guru must give away his possessions. He should not have stamp collection, and all kinds of collections that people go on.




Whatever things are useful, beautiful, which give happiness and joy to others, to their eyes: such things must be collected, such things which give the symbol to his life.




Very symbolic things he should have, which suggest that he is a dharmic person. He should not have things which are symbolic of adharmikta, of irreligious life. Everything that he has or he wears, or he shows, should be representative of his dharmikta.




I dont know what was the situation here [London], but in India, when we were young, we were not allowed to listen to all kinds of music, not allowed, just not allowed. Not to see all kinds of filthy things and filthy documentaries and things, not allowed.




Anything that is impure, giving bad vibrations should not be possessed, and even a, whatever you have, you should think whom you can give this. So it means you should have possessions to express your generosity.




Sahaja Yogi has to be generous like the sea. A miserly Sahaja Yogi, I cannot think of that, it is like mixing of darkness with light. Miserliness is not allowed in Sahaja Yoga. Anybody whose mind goes: 'How much I can save money, or save my labour'; how?




There are many labor-saving devices also, and money-saving devices. Or cheating others, or making money out of certain few things here and there: all such things are against Sahaja Yoga, they will pull you down. Enjoy your generosity! How many times I must have told you about generosity.




I remember once I wanted to give a sari that I had from abroad, you see, because in India people like that kind of a sari very much; though I mean, I dont understand why they like it, nylon sort of thing.




And a lady said that: 'I havent got any sari from outside and I would like to have one imported sari.' And I had only one left with me, because I am quite good at giving away. So I told one of my niece-in-laws, I said: 'I want to give away this sari to her. On a holy day we can give it to elders, so I'll give it.'




She said: 'You have only one left now, why do you want to give away? You have given away all you had." I said: 'Now, I feel like giving. I'll give away. And we were discussing this in the kitchen, you see, and I said: '' Why do you tell me? I am not going to take your advice on this point.' And at that time the bell rang and a gentleman came. He had brought three saris for me from Africa, and one of them was exactly the same as the one I had.




Because I had given some silk saris to this lady when she was going to Africa, she thought she should send Me some saris, so she sent. You are just standing in the center, from one door it comes and at the other door it goes. Its nice to see all that movement, its very interesting.Apart from that, the way you give it, you see, the emotional side of it is so beautiful, you cant imagine.




I met a lady after, say, twenty years of her married life, in London suddenly, and she said: 'Oh, what a coincidence!' I said: 'Why? 'You see, I'm wearing the same pearl necklace you had given me on my wedding day, today, and I should meet you! I mean, the whole thing, the whole drama changed, you know, that meeting. I mean it was something, nothing so great.




It is how you give even a small thing, its the greatest art of giving, one has to learn in Sahaja Yoga. Give up the mundane type of things, you see, like if you go to somebody's birthday, you send a card: 'Thank you very much.' Make it a more deeper, significant thing.




Let us see how you develop your symbols of love.And when you'll have these things of vibrations and then you'll give it to a Sahaja Yogi, he will know what it is. Never lack in generosity, specially amongst Sahaja Yogis. Gradually you'll be amazed how through small things you win over, as if the vibrations flow through those things and work out on those people.




H.H.Shri Mataji
Guru Puja, 1980

Hampstead Temple, United Kingdom

(DCB July-August 2001)

No discriminations and identifications

Then we have to know that Sahaja Yogis have to get over all kinds of discrimination and identifications according to races, color or different religions into you are born.




Because you are born as a Christian, you do not belong to a church. You were not born in a church, thank God, otherwise all the spirits there would capture you immediately. But these identifications will linger on.




To accept anything new, you are to be reborn, and you are reborn now. Now you are dharmatita - means you need not follow any particular type of religion. You are open to all the religions, and all the essence of religions you have to take.




You are not to denounce any religion any time, to insult any religion any time, or to insult any religious Incarnation at any time: its sin, it is a great sin in Sahaja Yoga; any one of them, and you know who they are. There should be no racial understanding of oneself.




You could have been a Chinese or you could have been a Negro, you could have been anything. As long as we are all human beings, we should know that we laugh the same way, we smile the same way, we hold the same way.




This is all conditioned in our mind of this society that you, some are untouchables, some are touchables: this is in our Indian community - horrible people.




Brahminism of India has ruined India completely, and you learn from them. For example, who was Vyasa, the one who wrote Gita? Who was he? He was illegitimate son of a fisherwoman. That's why deliberately he was born like that.




All these Brahmins who read Gita, tell them who was Vyasa? Brahmins are those who are realized souls, and for realized souls there's nothing like all these nonsensical things, like where are you born, in what caste and community you are born.




With all education and everything in the West, you find this nonsense of racialism; I just can't understand. If somebody is fair or dark, after all God has to make variety, in color, in every way.




Who told you that you are the most handsome people going round? Maybe for some of the markets here, or maybe in the Hollywood it may fit in; but in the kingdom of God all these so-called handsome people will be denied entry; marrying seven husbands and all sorts of things. They will be all put in hell.The beauty is of the heart, not of the face, and that shows and shines.




I mean, people are a little bit aware of it, that's why they go and tan their faces. I dont know. They are quite aware that it is too much showing off we are doing.




But to have vanity, to have such absurd ideas! Some people like red hair, some like black hair, some like this; I mean, there have to be different types of hair. And why do you like a particular type of hair? This I cant understand.




There's nothing like 'like' and 'dislike', whatever God has created is all beautiful. Who are you to judge whether 'I like this' and 'I like that?', who is this 'I'? Who likes is Mr. Ego, which is being pampered by this society, which teaches you how to smoke cigars and how to have your lager, morning till evening.




All this training and all this conditioning has to be thrown away, just like filth, and see that God has created all of you as His own children. Its such a beautiful thing! Why do you want to make it ugly with these ugly ideas? All this ugliness of 'I like' and 'I dislike' are nonsensical. Only there should be one word: 'I love'.




Forget everything. There's no need to remember what British did to Indians and what Germans did to Jews: forget it. Those people who did anything are dead and finished; we are different people, we are different people. We are saints. This is for your Statutes, I have told you, which you have to imbibe.




H.H.Shri Mataji
Guru Puja, 1980

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

Void - Affirmations

Mantra: “Shri Adi Guru Dattatreya”






Affirmation:


“Shri Mataji, please show me the way of pure Dharma and take me under your protection”.

“O, Divine Primordial Mother, You are my Saviour and Goddess in the aspect of guru ”.

“Shri Mataji, You are my Guru”.




Guru Mantra ( 3 times )


Guru Brahma Guru Vishnu
Guru Devom Maheshwara
Guru Sakshat Parabrahma
Shri Mataji Nirmala Maa
Tasmai Shri Guruveh Namaha

Divine is looking after you so, why to bother?

To become a Guru you have to develop that personality, not to be bound by anything. I will tell you my own example. I never hurry, I am never bothered about time, because if you are sure that Divine has plans for you, you are not bothered. The Divine is looking after you so, why to bother?






I was going to America and one child fell down and broke her arm and when I saw the child I said alright I will put the child right. They said, you are going to America. I said, I will go in any case. So I cured the child, it took about half an hour and then I came out. Alright, let’s go to the airport. They said, Mother you are very late. I said, I am never late, let’s go. We went to the airport and the plane by which I was going was out of order. So there was another plane going to Washington not to New York and I wanted to go to Washington only.




So, just imagine how things work out and we call them Sahaja. It has worked out Sahaja, that means it’s effortless, but first of all your personality should be such that your devotion is so great that Divine is compelled to look after you, compelled to look after you.





You have to understand that Divine force is around and this Divine force is absolute guarantee for your safety, for everything that you want to do. You can say that Mother, you are very powerful. You can become, also, very important if you get completely dedicated to the Divine work. You will also have all the powers and the Divine will provide all the necessary work that you want to do, necessary time that you want to have.




Everything is provided by the Divine. But the compassion when it extends from other people to God or to Divine person or to your Guru then it becomes very easy to live, very simple to live, no complications, everything is sorted out and you are not bothered about anything.. just close your eyes and things work out. Everything works out as if that’s your will, but you don’t have to will it, don’t have to think about it, it just works out.



The Divine looks after everything, looks after your comfort, looks after your health, everything. And this Divine help you do not seek, you do not ask for, but you are a personality for which the Divine is responsible. You are a special responsibility of the Divine and it knows what is good for you and what is not.




H.H.Shri Mataji
Guru Puja, Cabella
23rd July 2000
(DCB Nov-Dec 2000)

What does a Guru do?

Today we are here to know about Guru principle. What does a Guru do?






Whatever you have, all the precious things within you, he discovers them for your knowledge. Actually it is all there, everything, all the knowledge, all the spirituality, all the joy is there. It’s all contained within you. Only thing the Guru does, makes you knowledgeable about your knowledge, about your own spirit.






Everyone has the spirit within himself, everyone has the spirituality within himself. There is nothing that you get from outside. But before getting this knowledge you are delinked or you are living in ignorance. In the ignorance you do not know what treasure you have got within yourself.






So the Guru’s job is to make you know what you are. That is the first step that it starts that awakening within you by which you know that you have not this outside world, this is all an illusion and you start getting enlightened within yourself.



H.H.Shri Mataji
Guru Puja
Cabella 23rd July 2000

DCB Nov- Dec 2000

If you’re deceiving yourself, then how can you become a guru"?

"Now your job is to give them Self-realization and change the people. That’s the real thing you have to do as gurus. But what are we doing? We come to Sahaja Yoga with what idea?




We are working only on the periphery. Firstly we are worried about ourselves, how we can prosper, how can we become better off. Also there is greed. We do not see ourselves if we are aggressive, if we are trying to trouble others, if we have wrong ideas about ourself, how we torture others.



So first of all you have to cleanse yourself and accept your own problems, your own misgivings – these are to be faced. And challenge yourself: what are you doing? You are a Sahaja yogi, how can you hate someone, how can you trouble someone, how can you torture someone?



This is the beginning of introspection, it’s very important. I can make out a person who meditates in the real sense of the word, and the one who just meditates. You should not deceive yourself. If you’re deceiving yourself, then how can you become a guru"?


(H.H.Shri Mataji, Guru Puja, Cabella-08.07. 2001).

Trust of a mother

Supposing you show your love… It’s so subtle. It’s so innate within you, built-in. It’s there. We have to just open out. Every human being is a bundle of love….




In pure love, there is a kind of a beautiful light which protects you, which guides you and which enlightens your life completely. This light is just nourished and also, we can say, like the lamp has to have the oil, this is the one that is for our spirituality – the love of a person.



You are the embodiment of love, take it from Me, because you are a human being… If you try to love anybody who is very cruel and very bad, gradually he will calm down. He will harm you a little bit, he will do this, he will see things and he might be mean with you, do all kinds of things, but then gradually you find your love works and works and works. And ultimately it is your love which is important to that person. Now your love is really firstly appreciated more by innocent people like children. Children know what love is….




With all this telling… you are not confident. You get upset. You feel, “How can this be?” You have no trust in yourself. You have no faith in yourself…. At the end of the whole thing, I must tell you that when you are a guru, you are also a mother. You have to express yourself like a mother. She is kind. She is gentle. She forgives. She also corrects whenever it’s necessary, but in her own sweet way she corrects so the correction takes place. It is not that a rebellion starts.





So all that wisdom of a mother is within you. It is already there, so please try to use it. I am sure it will all work out and, as it is, we are a very beautiful group of people who are something out of the blue, who are so much in peace and in joy together.

(H.H. Shri Mataji, Guru Puja -1995)

So a guru has to be the mother, he must have the qualities of the mother

Within us as you know, in all of us there lies the principle of Guru. It’s very interesting to notice the Guru Principle being drawn beautifully round the Nabhi chakra. We never see any chakras connected with the Guru Principle.




You see Nabhi, and around is the Bhavasagara. So this Bhavasagara which is the Ocean of Illusion cannot be the Guru.



So there are hidden chakras within this Bhavasagara within us, which are to be awakened and to be brought to light, to be manifested. As you can see that the limits of this principle are done by the movement of the Swadisthana chakra. ...


As you start growing into more creativity, the more people you create. And the central point of this one [Guru Principle] is the Nabhi in the center, which is like a big pivotal point on which the whole of this movement takes place.




Nabhi chakra as you know, you get it from your mother to begin with. So a guru has to be the mother, he must have the qualities of the mother – not the modern mothers, but in the real sense of the word: that a guru has to love her children and has to have strength and courage to correct her children. And the earnest desire should be to put the children onto proper lines to guide them and to help them to rise.




So the first nourishment comes to us even when we are in the womb of the mother, through the mother; and so you are the mother though you may be a man or a woman, but in quality you are the mother. And whatever you think or whatever you do has an effect on the child. The way you behave, the way you talk, the way you live, everything has a bearing on the development of the child.


H.H.Shri Mataji , Guru Puja 1989

Guru has to be very steady

The word Guru comes from the one that is magnetic, the person who is magnetic, the one who attracts the attention of the seekers, is the Guru.


Also it means the heaviness, or you can say a person who is very steady, who is very deep, who has the knowledge, and who can act like the mother earth. For the power of magnetism in the mother earth also is called as magnetic, but in sanskrit is 'Gurutwakareshwari' – which means the attraction of the heaviness of the mother earth.



But actually it is a power of the mother earth that makes us stand properly on our legs when it is rotating with such a tremendous speed, otherwise we would be all thrown away. With that velocity that she is moving, we are still attached, or we are one in our balance, this is only because she has gravity.




This gravity has to be in a Guru. Gravity means a kind of a serious understanding of oneself and ones own responsibilities. So a Guru has to be very steady.'

H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,

Guru Puja, July 12, 1998 Cabella, Italy

Buddha and the villager - a story about fogiveness

TO BE A MOTHER AND TO BE A GURU IS THE MOST DIFFICULT THING.

“….I do not know what comes first, but, of course, every mother wants her child to be good and the Holy Mother wants Her child to be a holy person. The first thing is the holiness.



Now for that, how can you compel someone? Only thing that makes you understand is this — that if you don’t become holy, how will you get your ascent? We have to be holy. What discipline one can put for making a person holy? What can you force? What can you get angry for? Only method I use normally is to forgive. Maybe the forgiveness is the highest quality, I think, for teaching people. When they know that they have done wrong and they confess it, then you have to forgive.



Like in the life of Buddha, there was a man who was abusing Him without understanding and when he finished with his abuses and Buddha had left, people told him, “Do you know whom you were abusing? It was Lord Buddha.” Got a fright of his life.


He said, “Where is He gone?”


“He has gone to the another village.”

So went to another village and he said, “Sir, I am sorry what I said. Please forgive me. It’s all wrong and I should not have done it. You can punish me the way you like.”


Lord Buddha said, “When did you do that?”

He said, “Yesterday.”


He said, “I don’t know yesterday. I know only today.”


You see, when you tell these things, how great one feels, isn’t it? So your greatness, your nobility will definitely influence people. It's not by fighting, by quarrelling, by saying harsh things it is going to work out.


( H.H.Shri Mataji, Shri Guru Puja, Italy, 04.07.1993)

sign of a good guru

"So the difference between the ancient-times guru and modern-times guru is that the ancient-time gurus didn’t care if they gave realizations to people. It was not their style, most of them. Only they cared for themselves, nicely sitting down somewhere in the Himalayas away from all the madding crowd, and enjoying themselves. But you must share this enjoyment. I think that is the sign of a good guru.



The one who cannot share only looks after his own pleasures or looks after his own ashram, you can call it, or looks after his own family, looks after maybe some disciples he has. Attention has to be for the whole world.



In Sahaja Yoga now it has reached such a stage that you have to worry about the complete humanity. It’s not only you or few Sahaja yogis or many more Sahaja yogis, but all over the world, whatever is the problem, you people have to solve it. But first get out of your own little, little problems"


(H.H.Shri Mataji, Guru Puja, Cabella-08.07. 2001).

Why Sahaja Yogis are few ?

"Why Sahaja Yogis are few is because there are very few subtle people in this world of that caliber. That is why I am always requesting you do not divert your attention here and there. Settle down, become good Sahaja Yogis.



Unless and until you do I cannot move to the second strata, because the first strata has not settled down, worrying about nonsensical things, fighting amongst yourselves, sometimes I feel very unhappy. This is so painful, that you say harsh words to each other.




I mean, you are the cream for Me, go and ask any one of the Gurus if they can move Kundalini on their fingers as you do? These powers cannot be given by an ordinary person.




I look ordinary, no doubt, I have to, but also you have seen Me in other forms, that's not important. The important thing is that you should see your own transformation, and how many Powers you are manifesting.




You see, you have got it so easily. Why? Because I recognise that subtleties in you. These Gurus recognise Me. They know about Me. They know who I am. They are telling others. There are many of them like that."H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 1982-09

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 1982-09

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 7 steps to become a Guru

1. We have to be our own master. We have to rise above the temptations of lust, greed, and our channels have to be perfectly clean so that the Divine Power can work through us.

2. We have to be able to stay in Thoughtless Awareness. When we see without thought, we become the witness, the Sakshi. When we watch without thought, there is no obstruction for absorbing the knowledge about that thing. Complete absorption takes place, it becomes our knowledge and it manifests joy.

3. Our Gravity must manifest. In this state we become silent and our gravity acts like a magnet. We have to touch that depth inside us which can carry the Divine Power and manifest it. Without saying or doing anything outwardly, our powers manifest. This is how the Divine Power works within us.

4. We have to achieve Self-Esteem through introspection. We have:

• - powers of love
• - powers of compassion
• - powers of grasping things
• - powers of creativity
• - powers of giving realisation
• - powers of salvaging mankind

We have to know that we are Gurus and we have to assume our powers.

5. Reach the state of Silence. In any crisis we have to try and reach that axes of silence which makes us really powerful because we are not only in our own silence but in the silence of the cosmos. In this silence we are in connection with the Divine power which is working out the whole cosmos and this power works through us. This silence is a sign that we are definitely in the Kingdom of god and that God is looking after us.

6. The Guru Principle gives us Balance. A Guru is not ascetic by nature, but he is so detached that he becomes ascetic. Nothing can tempt, nothing can disturb or trouble him, neither food nor money nor power. Nothing can dominate a Guru. Once this balance settles in, we become absolutely fearless because we know that nothing can bring us down because we are above all these things.

7. A Sahaja Guru is a motherly Guru, a sweet Guru. A Sahaja Guru is different from classical Gurus. He has to use his power of love, Compassion and understanding. As we ourselves grew from the normal human level to a higher state in Sahaj Style, in the same way we have to give it to others. No harshness is required; we should have kindness, sweetness and concern towards others and be kind, understanding, patient and sweet.

In Sahaja Yoga we have a collective Gurudom and we have to assume our powers and correct our self-esteem. With all this knowledge we have to become humble, to bow down like a tree laden with fruits. And this humility will give us that special edge which can penetrate into any heart. Thus we become apostles of truth, and the real faith that God Almighty becomes one with us.

Once the faith in God Almighty becomes absolute and once we know we are his messengers - then we are in the Gurupada.

The Void (Bhavsagar Chakra)

INTRODUCTION

During the period of man's evolution to date, there has been a constant battle against ignorance and illusion. This state of ignorance is something that has to be overcome before man can actually experience the beauty if the reality of the Spirit. The area which represents this struggle to cross over from illusion to reality is known as

the Void, or the Bhavsagara (ocean of illusions)

The 10 Primordial Masters




Raja Janaka
10,000-16,000 B.C.

India







Abraham

2,000 B.C.
Mesopotamia

Moses
1300 B.C.
Egypt

Zaratustra
1,000 B.C.
Persia

Lao Tse
604 B.C.

China

Confucius
551 B.C.
China

Socrates

469 B.C.

Greece










Muhammed

570 A.D.
Mecca

Nanaka
1469 A.D.
India

Sai Nath
1856 A.D.
India

Deity : Shri Adi Guru

He is portrayed as three heads tha

t symbolise :

• Shri Bramha (Creation)
  
• Shri Vishnu (Preservation or Evolution)
• Shri Shiva (Destruction)
  

He holds a trident to destroy the Ego and a drum to awaken those in the sleep of ignorance.

With the shell he produces the primordial sound OM, and with the discus he destroys the bonds that come from the karma of his disciples.

The pitcher contains the nectar of wisdom and the four dogs that accompany him represent the four vedic books.

The Divine cow Kamdhenu grants all the desires, both material and spiritual, of all those who seek divine guidance and who are devoted to him.
Manifestation (controls): Digestion
Qualities : Dharma, Balance, Stability, Personality
Associated Day : Thursday
Associated Color: Green
Associated Element: Fire, water
Place on hand: Base of fingers and outer ring of palm

Causes of Catch / Obstruction

Fanaticism, fantasy, spiritualism, black magic & ESP, false gurus and false knowledge.



Position in Human body :

QUALITY

The Void is the center of our own mastery. As the Kundalini energy enlightens this area we become our own Guru. The word Guru means weight or gravity, and this grounded state is

one of the primary ways that we remain in balance in the midst of our turbulent existence. When the Kundalini rises and fills the Void, our Attention is led out of the confusion and illusion, and into the awareness of the higher Reality. In this way we can take control of our own evolution without relying on external forces, eventually our own introspection will provide the answers and keys during our meditation. In a lot of cases the key will be to recognize a solution to our problem resented to us externally, but as we become our own master we are able to discern the right from wrong, the Truth from fiction.

The other side of this coin is, of course, the principle of the disciple. It is as important for us to recognize Truth in a humble and open minded way as it is to give advice with a gravity of a Master. The greatest Masters throughout the ages have been the most humble disciples of God. In this way they surrender their ego to the Divine and are able to teach with absolute authority, even when directly challenging the established wisdom of the time. Since the Void is directly connected with the Nabhi Chakra, it is no coincidence that the principle of Dharma is a fundamental

aspect of this area. All of the great Masters and Prophets who have taken their birth on the earth to guide us, have made Dharma (or righteous conduct) a key tenet of their teachings. We can only become better beings by not abusing ourselves or debasing others; in other words, by living properly and in accordance with the laws of nature.

TRADITION

All of the great Prophets who have come to act as role models for the human race and to give knowledge of the higher Reality are associated with the Void. The primordial Deity is Shri Adi

Guru, and the great Prophets such as Abraham, Moses, Lao-Tse, Janaka, Guru Nanak, Mohammed Sahib, Sai Nath of Shirdi, Zaratustra, Confusius and Socrates are simply embodiments

of this Primordial Master. It is they who have taught us the ways of righteous living that maintain codes of conduct by which anarchy is avoided. The disciple principle also resides within us in this area, and this principle has been represented on the earth as Luv and Kush (the children of Shri Rama and Shri Sita), as Markendaya, as Adi Shankaracharya, David, John the Baptist, Buddham, Mahavira, Kabir, Michaelangelo, Kalil Gibran, William Shakespeare, William Blake and others.

The role models or “beacons to the path” have taken birth all over the world. In a lot of cases they have had to reincarnate specifically to undo the wrong done by their earlier followers who have begun to stray from the teachings. For example Mohammed Sahib came onto the earth to teach Dharma to a barbaric peoples of the time, who in turn tortured his life. As a result, out of disgust, he vowed that “this is the last time a Prophet will come.” But when he saw how his compassion

was thrown to the dogs he incarnated as Guru Nanak to teach Hindu-Muslim unity. Nowadays of course his own followers are haters of Muslims and vice versa. In a similar way Shri Adi Shankaracharya returned as Kabir to try and lead his followers away from ritualism and idol worship which they started practicing so indiscriminately.

GROSS PHYSICAL ASPECT

The Void is the gap between the Kundalini and the vagus nerve of the parasympathetic system. It represents all space and time from the beginning of creation to the peak of our evolution in human awareness. It is the vacuum which separates our awareness from the Absolute while we are still in the unen-lightened state. The Void is actually created by the outermost circular movement of the Swadisthana around the Nabhi Charka, and it contains the two centers relating to the Sun (Surya) and Moon (Chandra).



CONDITION OF THE VOID

We can tell when we are disturbing the Guru principle within us by the upset to our digestive system. This can manifest as nausea or any other symptoms emanating from the stomach area. If for instance we are witness to any Adharmic activity or indulge in abuse of our physical or subtle system we can easily determine the effect on our system by the feeling that we experience in this area. Nervous tension in our stomach or butterflies before an exam or test are simply expressions of our Mastery Principle being challenged.
Similarly we are able to discern false teachings from Truth by responding to the condition of the Void. The combination of vibratorial awareness and signals from our Void area can be a powerful pointer to the legitimacy of any practice whether it be spiritual or material. We learn to become atuned to our subtle system in this way and eventually can respond rapidly to avoid that which will do us harm and to open up towards that which will be of benefit to our being. The Guru principle within us is a very powerful force for our benevolence, but we must learn to recognize the signals.

CLEARING THE VOID

Using the Elements:

• Footsoak in a bowl of hot water with salt in it.



• Using a candle around the Void area.

Affirmations:

• Mother, I am my own Master.



• Mother, You are my Guru.

General Advice from Shri Mataji:

• Left hand towards the photo, right hand on Void.



• Shoe-beating.



• Drinking salt water.



• Self-discipline (e.g. getting up early to meditate)