Shri Ganesha Puja 2002

Shri Ganesha is Deity of Innocence

Shri Ganesha is Joy

Chastity is very Joy giving

Learn from Children

Children must be Guard

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Shri Ganesha Puja 2003

Duty of elder Sahaja Yogis

Statue of Shri Ganesha in your house

Find out Shri Ganesha within yourself

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Navaratri Puja

9 Days and Nights of Navaratri

Goddess protection over left and right side

Wisdom gives complete peace

Vibrations can be misleading

To hate is worst quality

It is we who forget to leave all the problems to Her

To cross this Bhavasagara

"This is mine, this is mine, this is yours."

They are innocent

Nine forms of the Goddess

Shri Ram Puja Talk

Swastika becoming Omkara and Omkara

"Why these Sahaja Yogis should be granted this great boon?"

Without the help of the Devi at different stages

Just say, "I surrender"

Sign of the Sahaja Yogi

Second chakra is important

You should have no worry at all of any kind

Become like lotuses

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




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




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



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




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



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


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

Solution to a problem

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





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




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




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



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





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



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

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).

The Significance of Detachment

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


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


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




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

Forgiveness doesn’t mean suffering

Then we come to the Agnya. In Agnya what has happened is Sahaja Yogis have become such that, they can bear anything. They can suffer anything.





That’s not what we want. What we want is to remove the suffering of others, remove the aggression of others. So we don’t have that kind of organization, we don’t have. That kind of understanding, we don’t have. And if that works out you will be different people.




So we have become like saints, you see, sitting in their hermit halls, something like that, not more than that.




So better try to do something positive, without aggression. I know some of you are still very aggressive, are show-offs I know that. But if you get into the mood of working collectively, then you will realize what mistakes you have. Still, what is lacking in your personality? That is very important.




At Agnya chakra many Sahaja Yogis flatter. I don’t know what happens to them. At Agnya, I have told that you must forgive. But that doesn’t mean that you allow people to do wrong things. Because you want to forgive, its very easy not to fight, not to say anything, just keep out, just forgive, no.





You go and talk to that person and tell him it is wrong. You have to face it. If you cannot face it, then you are useless, just like any other people. What’s the use of you people getting your Realization?




H.H. Shri Mataji
Shri Adi Shakti Puja
Cabella Ligure, Italy
23rd June 2002
(DCB November – December 2002)

when we meditate we go into Thoughtless Awareness

First to get Self-Realisation and then to be aware of your position. Then you’ll be surprised how you develop proper attention and proper understanding.



Absolutely, it is an easy thing to do as soon as you find that you have achieved that witness- state. So please try to make yourself a witness. When you see something, go into thoughtless awareness. That is your fort. Don’t think. See the beauty that is there, just pouring in, just watch how these tree are standing still just watching you all. See, absolutely still, nothing is moving. They don’t even allow one leaf to move……let it be. Till the breeze, till then we just keep quiet and watch. Like these mountains how they are steadily watching everything and emitting joy and beauty. In the same way, we have to become witness. We need not talk too much, we need not keep quiet but in the center we should witness the whole thing as ‘Leela’. That’s why He is called ‘Leeladhara’, means the one who sustains the Leela of persons.



It doesn’t make you mad, it doesn’t make you funny, but it makes you joyous. Anything that makes you joyous is the Vishnu principle of Shri Krishna. I hope all of us are going to enjoy our Vishnu principle hereafter as we have enjoyed before by meditating. Because when we meditate we go into Thoughtless Awareness. When we are in Thoughtless Awareness, then only we grow, otherwise we cannot grow. Whatever we may try we cannot grow. Unless and until we meditate we cannot become Thoughtlessly Aware.



All those who also want to gain in any walk of life, in any dimension, those who want to become, say, great artists, great scientists, great anything have to meditate. In Sahaja Yoga it is important you must meditate, otherwise the kundalini will come down and you will lose all your talents. That is a fact which has to be told and you saw how people have got transformed.


H.H.Shri Mataji

Shri Krishna Puja,

6th August 1988

Gruha and Rajya Lakshmi

Gruha Lakshmi: you know that, Gruha Lakshmi.



H.H.Shri Mataji, Diwali Puja, Hampstead London, 9th November 1980




Gruha Lakshmi- Gruha Lakshmi is the deity of the family- The one who is the deity of the family. Any housewife need not be Gruha Lakshmi. She can be a shrew; she can be a horrid woman. The deity of the household, if she resides in you then you are a Gruha Lakshmi, otherwise you are not.





Then there is Rajya Lakshmi- She is the one who gives grace to the kings. If the Kings behave like a servant then they are not to be called kings. They have to behave in a dignified manner. The Dignity, the Majesty of a king comes from the Rajya Lakshmi.




But a Sahaja Yogi is not a king. He walks in a very stately manner, goes very stately, he is very majestic in handling people, he is very gracious in doing everything in such a manner that people think that here comes the king.



H.H.Shri Mataji, Diwali Puja, Italy, 25th October 1987

Amruta Lakshmi

Amruta Lakshmi: Am-ru-ta- Amruta means the thing that does not die. In this world the Lakshmi exists as your wealth. Now the wealth that does not die, which is that wealth? Is the Sprit. So the grace of the Sprit is the Amruta Lakshmi.




Grace of the Sprit is the Amruta Lakshmi. The rest of things always die out. And whatever is done through the Sprit, to please the Sprit, is the Amruta Lakshmi. For example: loving others. Loving others has a different meaning in the symbolic way and you people understand this.



Loving means giving- doing without any expectation- just doing and enjoying. The greatest is giving vibrations. That is Amruta; vibrations do not die. That’s the Lakshmi of the Amruta.


H.H.Shri Mataji, Diwali Puja, Hampstead London, 9th November 1980




Now Amruta Lakshmi- Amruta means the one that is the nectar, if you take that you will not die, means eternity. She is the one who gives you the life of eternity.



H.H.Shri Mataji, Diwali Puja, Italy, 25th October 1987

Aadya Lakshmi

Aadya Lakshmi means Mahalakshmi. Adya Lakshmi, Adi, Adya….. that’s the first one.


H.H.Shri Mataji , Diwali Puja , Hampstead London, 9th November 1980








Now first is the Adya Lakshmi. Adya is the one who is Primordial, Primordial Lakshmi. As I told you that She came out of the sea. So that’s what because Christ’s mother was called as Mary, Mariam, because She came from Maree. People do not know why She was called Mary. My name was Neera – meaning come from water.


H.H.Shri Mataji , Diwali Puja , Italy,25th October 1987

Saubhagya Lakshmi

Saubhagya Lakshmi- Sau- bhaagya, “Saubhagya” means good fortune, the Lakshmi that gives you good fortune in every way. Like she gives you good fortune in money; in your living; in your food; in every way. Any good fortune is given through God.




It’s only the God who gives good fortune. If you get money say in the racecourse, that’s bad fortune because that will be lost next day or you will go to a pub to be free. But if you get your real one, then you celebrate something out of it which is blissful and great, is Saubhagya Lakshmi… say it. “Saubhagya Lakshmi”.


H.H.Shri Mataji, Diwali Puja, Hampstead London, 9th November 1980




Now Saubhagya Lakshmi- She is the one who gives you good fortune. Good fortune doesn’t mean money but it means the grace of it. Many people have money. But that is like money on a donkey. You do not find any grace in that person.




Saubhagya does not mean only money; it means good luck, all the good luck in everything. In a very gracious manner, the use of blessings so that you also are blessed as well as those people who meet you will be blessed with Saubhagya.




H.H.Shri Mataji, Diwali Puja, Italy, 25th October 1987

Satya Lakshmi

Satya Lakshmi. I told awareness, She is the one who has given you awareness. Awareness is Lakshmi’s character. “Satya” means “the truth.” As you rise in your awareness, you know the truth. Now what is the truth? What is the truth? What are we aware of?




You are aware that you are the instrument of God and that He is working through you. You are aware of that because it’s flowing on your central nervous system. This is the truth of which you have to be aware. What is the other truth? Is who are you?



That you are the Sprit. And the third truth is who am I? And the fourth is who is God? What is your deity? If they become your awareness, then you have got Satya Lakshmi.


H.H.Shri Mataji, Diwali Puja, Hampstead London, 9th November 1980



Satya Lakshmi- That is that you get the Awareness of Truth. But apart from that the awareness of truth is there, but you put this truth forward in a gracious manner.



This is the truth, you have it, not like this. You don’t have to hit people with the truth. You have to put it in a flower and give it to them. That is Satya Lakshmi.




Of course all the Lakshmi Tatvas are the heart settled powers within us but they are to be actually expressed in our brain. Brain is the Virata, is the Vishnu who becomes the Virata. So all these powers, specially this power, are in the brain. So the brain itself spontaneously behaves in such a manner that people think that this is a special type of personality.


A Sahaja Yogi always knows how to enjoy. Sahaja Yogi is never worried, anything he could enjoy.




………………. Supposing you see something absurd, ridiculous, then you should laugh and enjoy. This is very difficult thing, you see, the absurd. You should not get angry with someone because somebody is absurd or funny, but you should make it enjoyable.



So that is the greatest, I think one of greatest blessing that She gives you the power to enjoy. Otherwise whatever you may try, people do not enjoy anything, because they have become so ego-oriented that nothing goes into their heads. They have to be tickled here with an electrode.


H.H.Shri Mataji, Diwali Puja, Italy, 25th October 1987

Vidya Lakshmi

Vidya-Lakshmi -Vidya is the art of Sahaja Yoga, which you know, that is Vidya. The rest is all Avidya.




How to raise the Kundalini; how to awaken all the deities; how to cleanse yourself; how to cleanse others; all the knowledge; all the science about that is called as Vidya, the Lakshmi of that. Lakshmi is the grace, is the grace. Awareness.. that is gracious.




Awareness that is gracious. So that Lakshmi should be with you, is that not only to know the Vidya, you know that, but to have grace about it. The way people do things, for example, some people may just go on.. all that kind of nonsense you do. Sometimes the way we go on working, when I’m giving lecture and people are just working out. All that is most disgraceful and depressing. So not to do these methods of making the thing look so depressed… I mean you need not be serious people at all because Sahaja Yoga is not a serious thing, it is a play. It is a play of grace. You have to be but gracious; you are not to be disgraceful, that’s very important.





If you are disgraceful, then your Vidya is useless. I have seen many people all the time doing like this, doing like that; they think that if their left hand…jaw.. see? They have become now masters of this. There’s no grace about it. One has to see how to do it graciously. You see your Mother, how She moves Her hands and fingers. Not one day, one time, even in one action you will find Me doing something unrespectable, except when I copy you. So this is what it is, is the Vidya Lakshmi. Lakshmi is the grace within the Vidya.


H.H.Shri Mataji , Diwali Puja , Hampstead London, 9th November 1980




Then the second one is Vidya Lakshmi. She is the one who teaches you the technique of handling the Divine power. Now that is to be understood very well, what is the Lakshmi? Lakshmi is graciousness. So she teaches you how to use this power with graciousness. Now, this is what is the blessing going to you so that you get the power of the Adya Lakshmi by which you become like water.





What is the water? It has got the cleansing power, and which I am, without water we cannot exist in this life. So that is the first blessing for you is that your face shines, with Adya Lakshmi as you become cleansed and that you can see all that is serious, all that is light and forgotten.





Vidya Lakshmi is the one, I told you, who gives you knowledge. Knowledge of how to handle the Divine Power graciously. I will give an example, I have seen many people, when they give the Bandhan, it is such a crude way. No, it is not to be done. It is a Lakshmi. So now you do it very carefully. You see Me, how I give all that. I never do that way. I cannot, with respect. With grace.




She represents the respect part. And that you get, that knowledge, how to do it gracefully. Everything is to be done gracefully, in a manner that looks gracious. Some people who talk have no grace, nothing! Some people who give knowledge of Sahaja Yoga also have no grace and they talk in a disgraceful manner. With all the grace, how to use the knowledge of the Divine is given by Vidya Lakshmi.



H.H.Shri Mataji, Diwali Puja, Italy, 25th October 1987

Bhogya Lakshmi

Bhogya Lakshmi: Bhogya- “Bhogya” means “the one by which you enjoy, by which you enjoy.” I mean it’s like the whole ocean of joy is around you and you are like a boat who cannot drink. Only through the grace of Bhogya Lakshmi you can enjoy that ocean. So the Sprit, though it is manifesting, you are not enjoying the Sprit, even that.




Anything that you see… Say, see a flower, you should be able to enjoy it. You cannot enjoy because there is thought. Anything you do, there is thought, you cannot enjoy. When there is no thought, when the Sprit is flowing, you get complete enjoyment. Actually I should say, I am the Enjoyer.



H.H.Shri Mataji, Diwali Puja, Hampstead London, 9th November 1980

Yoga Lakshmi

Yoga Lakshmi: the Lakshmi’s power which gives you yoga. Lakshmi supports your power of yoga by giving you awareness. The power by which you take to yoga is all combined as Yoga Lakshmi. Like your affluence, you are not satisfied and you want to have yoga. The dissatisfaction you get till you have got yoga is coming from the Yoga Lakshmi.




So yoga Lakshmi means the power which gives you or takes you to your grace, by which you go to yoga, that’s yoga Lakshmi. Means the kind of a satisfaction that you seek is manifested in you though this power of Yoga Lakshmi. And then once you have achieved your yoga, you get the grace. Lakshmi is the grace.




So you get the grace of a saint. You should have the grace of a saint. You should look like a saint; you are a saint. I think better write it on your mirrors. “We are saints. We are ‘Men of God’. We have to behave like saints. We are saints.” You are. No doubt. You are ‘Men of God,’ no doubt, but you have turned your faces this way. So, this is the Yoga Lakshmi.



For example a person who has got Yoga Lakshmi doesn’t quarrel like a madcap. If he quarrels or dominates someone in a foolish way then he’s still lacking that Lakshmi point. There’s grace about it; whole way of talking and- how you talk to a saint?



So these are the eight-fold paths by which one has to grace oneself. This is the attire of this… and today you have asked for it. May God give you that power.



H.H.Shri Mataji, Diwali Puja, Hampstead London, 9th November 1980


Yoga Lakshmi- The one who gives you Yoga. That power is within you, that is the power of Lakshmi within you, means you give others the Yoga. When you give the power of Yoga to others, I mean when you use your power of yoga, then you don’t behave like a monkey or a donkey or a horse but you do it with grace, do it such a manner that it is very gracious, i.e. What you call, in a gentle, dignified, majestic way. So this is what it is.




Now when you have sung it in this manner, this power has been bestowed upon you. Now even, if you want you cannot behave indignified way. You are fixed. Thank you very much.


H.H.Shri Mataji, Diwali Puja, Italy, 25th October 1987

The Promise of honesty

Today– the day is considered auspicious because several great events happened. For example Sitaji returned home, during the period Ramachandraji, during Krishna’s times and several other great events that took place. They were all worked out by these great realized souls.





That is why, in the first place, you must take an oath today “We will not commit dishonesty any more for sure and if anyone does, then we shall ensure that he is caught.” But I find the blacks are at war with the whites in this country- any one fighting with the other. What they want is India to be divided into fragments. It is not going to make any difference. How is it going to benefit? It is only when you remain honest and you possess a good moral character.





Whatever you have learnt from the British, there is nothing worth learning from them. They are all in a bad state these days. But we have to save our own country and also to save the entire world. It is a great responsibility. You have been realized and the light has come within you. Yet if you want to jump into the ditch, then what can anyone do? Everyone should come up together to make an effort.




I want the Sahaja Yogis to constitute a committee. In case you come across any cheating, you should report to the committee. Then let us see what the committee does. In this way, you will be recognized. In this way, you will be elevated to higher positions.




So first of all, you should not become dishonest and also prevents other from becoming. This is very important. It is a great blemish on your country. There is adulteration in the edible oil, adulteration in the ghee. At every nook and corner you will find people laughing at us in mockery. No one has faith in us. In fact, the best people are in India. Nowhere, so many people have not been realized. They have not earned any punyas. Therefore, it is nobler to earn punyas than to earn money. There are innumerable poor people. Look at them.




So today is a very auspicious day and also a day of anand. Why joy? Because on this day we are blessed with heaven and we desire to be in heaven only. But cowards can never ascend to heaven. There is no need to be scared of anything.




Well, what on Earth is going to happen if you earn few paise less or more? All of you have become rich. I can see that. I have been coming here for the past seventeen or eighteen years now. All of you have become richer than before. The standard of living now has become better than before. But from morning until evening there is dishonesty, dishonesty and dishonesty. Thus the path is laid before you. All right, just take a resolution today that we shall not do any dishonesty and, if there is anyone, then we shall collectively oppose him.




Why were you blessed with Sahaja Yoga? Why were you given Realization? It was because you will emit light. If you do not possess light within, then how can you enlighten the outside? And focus that light to realize whether you are helping the dishonest? Nothing happens if you earn a little less or more. If you are honest, then God helps you. Why do so many people die in our country and nowhere else? The reason it is that they are to go to hell.




So you should know that if you commit dishonesty, then you have already established your first step to hell and you don’t need to utter lies in the second place at all. You must speak the truth. The man who speaks the truth becomes unique. If he practices Sahaja Yoga, then it can be remarkable. Like today, as you are remembering the Sufis, similarly people will remember you. You don’t need to do anything- only expose those who are dishonest. That is important.




People are protesting here over the issue of the dumping of garbage into the Yamunaji. Don’t throw this or that. Now, is this also to be taught? I have been to so many countries. Nowhere is waste disposed into any river. Then why are you so lazy? There are so many facilities available over here, like you can hand it over to the municipality or dispose of it elsewhere. But if you are accumulating the waste yourself, then what can you do?



H.H.Shri Mataji
Diwali Puja, Delhi
10th November 2007
DCB July-August 2008

Thoughtless awareness

Many people meditate but, their thought process is going on. They’re not thoughtlessly silent. Now this is the one point which is very important. If you have to grow, you should be absolutely in connection with Divine through thoughtless awareness. You don’t have to pray. You don’t have to call anyone – nothing. It just works because it is within you.





All these thoughts are bombarding you from both the sides in your mind. These thoughts that are coming to you, have no meaning with you. They do not substantiate you. Yourself, you are an ocean and you have to get into that state of thoughtless awareness.





It is always described in all the great books, but not so clearly as I am telling you. I don’t say that some of you do not get thoughtless awareness, so they’re good for nothing- no. But please try. You can all get into that state of thoughtless awareness. Even for a second, if you get it, it’s a very good idea. Then you go on increasing that second.





I think it’s a reflecting mind. When you look at something, you can become thoughtlessly aware and then your mind reflects to the depth of what you see. That’s how you all will become really very creative Sahaja Yogis.


What I find that this state of thoughtless awareness is not established by you. It is not good.





Today on this day of Diwali, I would say that you enlighten yourself with thoughtless awareness. It is not difficult. It’s within you because thoughts are coming from this side and that side and they are not the waves of your brain - no, just your own reactions.




But in case you meditate in the real sense of the word, then you’ll get into that thoughtless awareness, which is a very important point and all these nonsensical thoughts, which are of no use to you, will disappear. They won’t be there and then your growth is possible and you’ll grow very well.




Many people are here who will say, “Mother, we don’t get that state” - try. Try that. I don’t believe you cannot get it. All of you can get that thought that, “I can get it!” and you will get it. In that, you don’t have to discard anything, you don’t have to see anything, just go into meditation and you will be amazed how it will work.


Of course, you are very much there, most of you, but still, I would say, increase that thoughtless awareness, that area.




Today is very important because of this day of Diwali. Diwali is supposed to be enlightenment day, but enlightenment within is how much you are in thoughtless awareness and everything works out because you are the ocean of it.



You have it within yourself. Only you have to tap it. If you don’t tap it, then it doesn’t work out. You have to just tap it and you will be amazed that you are a source of such joy, source of such happiness. I should say a source of real enlightenment.



So today’s message is that, while meditating, go into thoughtless awareness. No thought is important because it’s your own creation. But if you have to become with the Divine creation, you have to get to that state of thoughtless awareness, minimum of minimum.



Once that comes to you gradually it will grow and you will be amazed how you’ll be able to grow into Sahaja Yoga in a very big way.

Thank you very much.



H.H.Shri Mataji
Diwali Puja
3rd November 2002, Los Angeles
(DCB March-April 2003)

Best thing is to introspect

It is a drama, as I told you, but you better study it properly and apply it to yourself and see if you are also a part-and-parcel of that drama. For that you have to rise higher, you have to rise higher, higher above your ego and your super ego, your conditioning and from there to watch yourself, to see yourself.





What is this?


Why am I doing such and such thing?


Why my attention is like that?


What is the main reason for my own possession, I should say, or for my own misunderstanding?


Why do I accept wrong things?




Once you start seeing that, and if you find even a wee bit of such nonsensical understanding within you then you can forgive also people who have been absolutely brainwashed, absolutely brainwashed and they did everything under that influence. As it is now you have risen much higher than all these people and much more aware than all of them.





So you have to just understand this point and then you can forgive all the mistakes they have committed. And for the people who are actually bad you don’t have to worry, that’s the work of the Divine Power to destroy them. Watch yourself and see for yourself if you have any of such ideas, any lingering either.




Try to cleanse the mirror so that you see your complete image and try, look at, then try to cleanse it. It’s very important that you should cleanse yourself.





There are people who have done lots of wrong things. I simply pity them. They have done wrong things; it is their responsibility to see what they have been doing. Why they have been doing it? What is the need do that? All this introspection will work out so well, then your real power will come, your powers of giving realization, your powers to understand the problems of your country, of the world.




And once you feel that you are the soldier to fight it out, you have the responsibility to fight it out, then things will work out. You cannot leave everything to Divine Power. You have to use the Divine Power and you have to work it out because you are the soldier of Divine. Off-course, with that beautiful idea you start cleansing yourself.





You need not know everything as to what things are happening and how they are happening, how they are working. That’s not your work. You are a soldier, so you have to just fight, fight the ignorance, your own and of others because soldiers fail when they have their ego.





When they fail they have other obstacles in their minds. There should be no obstacle but you should just push forward and know that there is no obstacle at all. It’s just a myth that there are some obstacles and that you can overcome.





It’s not easy to raise the awareness of people because it looks there’s a very little distance of crossing over but it’s not so. It is a very difficult task sometimes for some people to get out of the bandhans of Agnya. At that point, I find, some of you fail and for that the best thing is to introspect. When you think you are always correct and you are alright, the best is to introspect.



Am I doing everything right or not?


How am I working for my betterment?





The illusion is such that sometimes you think you are doing well. Say, in Sahaja Yoga some people are very forward type; they will come forward, they will do this, do that, but inside what is the purpose? The purpose is that people should see that you are doing this work, that work. The purpose should be that you should be able to see yourself within. You must see what is the problem inside and you will very well understand that you have been of great help to yourself and to others.





H.H. Shri Mataji

Diwali Puja
Los Angles, November 18, 2001,
(DCB May-June 2002)