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

You cannot do harm to anyone

Again, I say you have to imbibe the Statutes. Lets see what are the Statutes.




First is, you do not harm anyone. First principle is that we are not to harm anyone. Animals do harm without knowing that they are doing harm. If you go near a snake, he'll bite. If a scorpion is there he can put his poison into your being.




[Human beings] are not to harm anyone; they can correct but not harm. So the principle of not harming was taken to a very, very.. to a point where reality disappeared. For example, when it was said 'Do not harm anyone', so people started saying: 'All right, we'll not harm mosquitoes, we'll not harm bugs. We'll not kill them.' And there are some people who are following religions in which they preserve mosquitoes and bugs. This is absurdity! Taking anything to absurdity cannot be reality.




First of all, we should not harm anyone who is walking in the path of God, the one who is a realized soul. He may be wrong, there may be some mistakes in him, still he needs correction; nobody's perfect as yet. So do not harm, always try to help.




Secondly, anybody who is a real seeker, he may be wrong, he might have gone to wrong gurus, he might have done wrong things; but have feelings, because you have been going on the wrong path yourself sometimes; you have been misled before, so have more sympathies.




That's why, if you have done mistakes, in a way is good because you have more sympathies for such people. Then you are not to harm human beings in any way. You are not to cause them any bodily harm, any emotional upsetting just for harm's sake; for correction its all right.



H.H.Shri Mataji
Guru Puja, 1980

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

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)

Use things which are more natural

Then for a Sahaja Yogi it is important to use things which are more natural in their character; to give up artificialities, to be more natural.




I don't say that you go and take out the roots and eat them, or you can eat the fish raw, I dont mean that. When going too far with things, always you must avoid.




But try to lead a life which is more natural; natural, in the sense that people know that there is no vanity about you. Or some people can be the other way round, you see, they will dress up like a tramp just to attract more attention.




I mean they can be both ways, you see. When I find some of the people, you see, coloring their hair and all that.So you have to be natural person, very natural in your behavior. It can mean anything absurd also to some people who do not use their wisdom.




Wisdom is very important in Sahaja Yoga, that one has to keep intact all the time. 'Natural' means you must wear natural dresses which are suitable to you. For example, in this climate there is no need for you to wear dress like Rama used to wear. He would not wear anything on top, you see. There is no need.




You have to wear the dress to whatever country you belong, whatever suits you for the occasion. Whatever you think is dignified and good, which speaks for your more elegance and your personality.




Whatever suits you, you should wear, not like all the people wearing that Moss Brothers dress, in the grey suit, horrible-looking, and absolutely making clowns out of them. No clownish things are necessary, no dandy stuff is necessary: simple, beautiful dresses should be worn, which give you dignity.



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)

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)

To know God you should know yourself

To know God you should know yourself first. Without knowing that you cannot know God. That’s essential, that you should know yourself but when you know yourself, you know partly.




The experience is not sufficient. The knowledge has to come. And the guru gives the knowledge about yourself. Now you have to tally it. You should find out whatever your guru has told you. Is it true or not? Is it correct or not? Or is it just another illusion?


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

Devotion is very important in Seeking

In the seeking, one thing is very important, that the person should have a great devotion about it. And also untold miseries you have to go through.





Seeking is when within yourself also you are struggling and outside also you find nothing satisfactory. This is how the seeking has a double edge.





In that seeking, when you are trying to get the Truth, it seems it’s a very difficult thing. But you can’t help it, because you are not satisfied with what exists around you. See the world today, it’s full of strife. All kinds of strife’s are there.




People are fighting for nothing at all - for land; killing human beings. Land, can it create human beings? They are fighting in a very collective manner thinking they are doing a very great service to humanity!





The thinking today of human beings is not deep at all deep, it is very superficial and that’s how you find this world full of turmoil; every day, every minute you can find… they are killing so many human beings.




They are torturing, in a very large scale. Formerly, of course, the saints were all tortured – tortured by all kinds of different stupid ideas, I should say, of something being higher and something being lower; something being good , something being bad.





H.H.Shri Mataji
Guru Puja 2001 , Cabella
(DCB Nov-Dec 2001)

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)

The guru has to be like a full moon, means completely growing, completely matured.

“…..Today is the full Moon day, that’s why it is called as purnima. The guru has to be like a full moon, means completely growing, completely matured.



There are sixteen kalas or the phases of the Moon, and when the complete purnima comes in, the full Moon day, all the sixteen kalas are completed. You also know that in the Vishuddhi chakra there are sixteen sub plexuses. When Krishna is described as Virata, He’s called as the Sampurna, the complete incarnation of Vishnu’s aspect, because He’s got the sixteen phases completely done.


So today’s number is sixteen. Six plus one, seven.


Now we have to understand the importance of guru. Why should we have a guru when we have God? We’ve got Shakti, then why should we have a guru? What is the need to have a guru?




Guru means “the weight,” the weight. We get our weight from the magnetic forces of the gravity of the Mother Earth. So guru means gravity, a gravity in a person. Why do we need a guru? Because to know God is easy, specially in Sahaja Yoga, to be one with Him. As soon as you get your Self-realization in Sahaja Yoga, the modern Sahaja Yoga, immediately you become entitled to give realizations to other.






It was said that guru is the person who makes you meet the Divine. That’s not true, because any self-realized person in the Sahaja Yoga can raise the kundalini and can give Self-realization to others, immediately after they have touched the Sahastrara or opened the Sahastrara. But normally a realized soul cannot do it. Any born realized soul cannot do it on its own, it has to have authority of Me as I am today




That’s why it was said that guru is a person who makes you meet god; he raises the kundalini and makes you one with god. Because in those days when the gurus were self realized, when the gurus were realized, they had the authority and power of raising the Kundalini only after they had reached a very great state of evolution – complete purification, complete detachment.




So it was not possible for people to give realization when they just touched realized state. Most of the gurus in the olden days started by first cleansing the people. First cleanse them, one by one, raise the Kundalini, brought it to every chakra and then gave them realization. It was a different technique altogether. You can say it was a bullock cart technique.






That’s why one mantra was given for particular chakra where was the problem, where the Kundalini was stopping. For about, some people used to get it for even for 10 years they would work out on one chakra. I’ve known people who have been working on Agyna for 10 years, 20 years. But you know in Sahaja Yoga we clear it out just like that. That has something to do with your particular guna .




So the first conception that a person who makes you meet god is the guru. Has to be little bit advanced because for you now it’s a childs play to raise the Kundalini and make them one with the divine. But still you don’t become guru in the Sahaja Yoga terminology. Even if you have vikalpas, you have doubts about Sahaja Yoga still you can raise the Kundalini. Even when your chitta – attention is not clear cut still you can.. the pure truth, how? How it has worked out that way, so beautifully?




It has worked out I would say at this juncture, maybe later on I will tell you. But its pure divine, which is not contaminated by whatever state you may be, its flowing, absolutely pure divine. With others it was different, they had to cleanse it, clear it out. As an instrument you are perfect, but as a guru you are not.




Whatever maybe your defects or whatever you maybe lacking, you raise your hands the Kundalini will vibrate at your beck and call. On your fingers it is going to vibrate tremendous power. You can ask anyone they’l tell you they are surprised and jealous of you. They can’t understand that how by raising your fingers that you are perfect instruments because you are created by somebody very perfect.



But you are not perfect gurus, that one has to understand. And that is why you need a guru to tell you that what is percept”



(H.H. Shri Mataji, Guru Puja - Nabhi, Spirit, Dollis Hill, London,UK,08.07.1979)

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

This is how one has to understand the difference between a Sahaja yogi guru and other gurus

"So the technique of Sahaja Yoga is like this. It’s not anger, it’s not repulsion, it’s not hatred, but the technique is such by which you suggest your love.






This is how one has to understand the difference between a Sahaja yogi guru and other gurus.


No question of beating your disciple, no question of scolding him, no question of shouting at him. Love is the most powerful thing. Of course it doesn’t work on some people, I agree – forget them; but works in most of the people because God has made us out of His love, and we have a capacity to yield to that love and to enjoy that love"


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

Love is love

It is not easy to describe or explain Love in human words. This you can only feel within your Self. That is what, once you start feeling, you can feel who is your Guru, whom do you think you are being talked and persuaded and made to live in a particular manner. All that is possible. Everything is possible, humanly possible, but to love and to enjoy Love is not so easy unless and until you are immersed in it.




It’s very gratifying, it is very lovable to see how people love each other and then this Love spreads. Love begets Love. If somebody has Love, it just spreads. You need not tell anyone, you need not confess it, but it will spread. And this is what one has to learn, how to see that Love in other person.




Somehow, we are here already in Love because of Sahaj happening. We all love and we enjoy love, shows on our faces that we are in Love, in our characters, in our lives, that we are in Love. What a thing, which is not very normal, becomes so normal and so easily available. It is a very big blessing that you are human beings and that this source of Love is there plus the feeling for Love is there. It’s a very intricate situation which cannot be explained in words, only one can be in it and enjoy it.



But today is the day when we are celebrating the Guru Puja. The greatest Guru that we have is Love. Sahaj Love is the Guru within us which teaches us, it somehow or other leads us. We are lead into that great line of understanding, for which we don’t have to go to any college, to any school for education. It is something so much within that it works and expresses itself, expresses like a light. Such people we can make out because they are fully enlightened. They have light and through that light they see the whole world which is very innocent and simple for them. We have love for our children naturally, we have love for our parents naturally. We have love for some people, but that love is different from God’s Love, I’m telling you, that has some connections, some meanings but this Love which is - cannot be described in words, has to be felt within.




Same, when you talk of your Guru, you should have that Love within you. Why do you feel it so much? The reason is Guru loves you and you love Guru. That’s the only reason why should you love your Guru. Now, there is no reason for that. Because Love is Love. That is how the Guru becomes very important in life. We have people who love their Guru and are very much in chaste understanding of their Love.




Then this great opportunity of Love that we are, we are here to enjoy each other fully, from our heart, that there is this ocean within us, we have to just get submerged in that ocean. If we are lost in that ocean, then we’ll have no problems, no questions. Everything will be our own and we can manage everything without any argument, without any questioning. That is what is being Sahaj.





The Sahaj way, if you have this Love you enjoy. You enjoy yourself and enjoy everybody else because it is Sahaj. You don’t have to make any efforts, don’t have to try anything. Just it is there and it works. The feeling of Love has no way of expressing itself. It is just there, it cannot express because it is without expression. It is just to be felt within yourself. Then you want to do so many things: you want to help everyone, you want to help yourself, you want to do good to others. So much has been done by great leaders of the world because they had that Love. They had nothing else but this Love which they could not contain them within themselves, so, they tried to spread it. And they are called now as our Guru, as our masters.



With that Love within, which approached people in that unique manner. That’s the thing that we cannot possess, you cannot claim, it is there and it works. It works automatically. This is what we have to know that we are that Love. That Love is within us. We have to have knowledge, we have to have a complete knowledge that we are that Love. That will solve our problem, because you can explain everything, all your behaviour, all your failures, - everything you can explain when you know that you are endowed with that Love. This is what is the Guru, is the Love within you which wants to share Love with others, which wants to give Love to others. This is what is peace and joy. I can go on talking on Love, but to feel it within yourself is the biggest thing. Like water: if you are thirsty, we can give you water, but we cannot drink. You have to drink water and you have to feel the taste, feel the feeling, what it does, - and all that is together, that’s not separate.




I don’t think the subject was too subtle for you people. You all have reached a certain amount of understanding of that Love. I hope, it grows and you grow into it, all of you, and enjoy it. May God bless you!



H.H. Shri Mataji, Guru Puja, Guru Puja 2004

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

Manifest our gravity to reach the depth within - through witness state

So now when you start witnessing something without thought, there is no obstruction for absorbing the knowledge about that thing, because there is no thought. It's complete absorption takes place. And then it manifests.



This is how the divine power works within us. So with our gravity what we do is to touch that depth within us, which can carry the divine power and manifest. Unless and until we touch that depth within us Sahaja yoga is like Hare Rama Hare Krishna; nothing better than that, and that's why I find so many Sahaja yogis sometimes really go off their rails suddenly because they have no gravity to go down into their own being and to feel the beauty and the glory of their own being and to use that gravity for manifesting divine power.



We could say that supposing there is a vehicle, which is very weak, which is not yet properly fixed, cannot be used for something substantial. And the most substantial thing in your lives is this divine power, which looks very light; you never feel the weight of this divine power. You'll never feel the pressure of this divine power but if you are not clean, if your channel is not clean then this divine power cannot flow properly, it cannot manifest.



So when we say that we are the instruments of God Almighty then like this instrument we are, now we are connected to the mains. If this instrument is not all right than it cannot manifest whatever it is supposed to do.



(H.H. Shri Mataji, 1992, Guru Puja)