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

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

Powerful has to be humble and nonviolent

Anybody who is powerful has to be humble and nonviolent.





Mahatma Gandhi used to say, that what is the nonviolence of the weak. A weak has to be nonviolence. What is so great! That’s a policy or a kind of a protection that he has. So a weak person has to be nonviolent because he cannot face, he cannot protest.




But nonviolence of the powerful is the sign of the real nonviolence. Those who are powerful, if they are nonviolent, that means they are quite confident of their powers. Those people who are confident of their powers, why should do they agrees others? They just stand. Alright, come along, what do you want? Even saying that people ran away.





So, those who are violent, angry, hot tempered, jump at everyone, torture everyone trouble everyone are the people who are very weak-charactered. Their character is weak. If their character was alright then they would not have done all these things.




That’s the sign of a person who is either possessed and under the influence of possession is doing that he is too weak and he is possessed by his anger because he doesn’t have that much power to bear anything.





The most powerful thing is the mother earth because she has the power to bear. The one who has the power to bear is the powerful. The one who does not have any power to bear. I can’t bear, I don’t like this. Such a person is useless thing for this earth and sometimes I feel why God created them. It’s a headache to have a person around. I can’t eat this, I don’t like this. Then why are you here? Nobody likes you either. No one likes such a person and that’s why that person is always I don’t like this, I don’t like that.





So, the power of a person lies in bearing things. How much you can bear! How much you can undergo? Without feeling it like you are, say, in a jungle you are happy, if you are in a palace you are happy. If you are with this color or that color, if you are with this race or that race, if you are with this kind of life or that kind of life, you can bear it, and that bearing power gives you the caliber, the Caliber to have Sahaja Yoga. It’s not that this is shown, its not that this is being suffered, don’t have to say I suffer being like this. No, you don’t suffer. Its just by the way.






H.H.Shri Mataji

Shri Ram Puja

Switzerland 4th October 1987

(DCB Jan-Feb2000)

Virata Shakti

Now the other things that we have to understand Shri Krishna at this stage of Sahaja Yoga, that it is the Virata Shakti that is manifesting at this time and not the Shri Krishna Shakti which was at His time. And the power that is working here is no more that of Radha or of Mary, but the Viratangana.





That’s why the knowledge of Sahaja yogis is much wider than the knowledge of all the saints of ages. But it is not deeper than them. If you can deepen you knowledge, this wider knowledge will have proper roots with in you. So the brains are the roots, here are the roots of the whole tree of life. Actually Kundalini comes up and waters the brain first, so that the whole tree of life is drenched in the Divine Bliss and Divine knowledge.







So this Virata Shakti that we have to work out, gives us the sense of collective consciousness first. First we understand it through our brain power. But the whole brain power is to be guided by the Heart, is to be watered, but in Sanskrit is a very beautiful word “Sinchan” like dewdrops, spray, with the love of God.





So the integration of this brain has to take with Heart and with your liver. Then only the Virata Shakti takes another form. The weapons of killing become the weapons of forgiveness. Every sort of destructive power is used for the construction. As if it is tricked…..





Because the Virata Shakti has now taken that form, like the tree when it grows, it grows upward. But when it is laden with fruit, it comes down. First it is attractive by its flowers, by its timber, by the other parts of its body. And people try to destroy it for it. But when fruit appear, they want to preserve it, and the tree bends down, with humility, is very valuable.





So you are the fruits. That Viratangana Shakti, you are the fruits. Because you are so valuable that those people who wanted to ruin or to destroy the Divine power from this Earth will start thinking that they have to gain something out of these fruits. So today the Virata Shakti has given you a great value, because the people see that by having one Sahaja-Yogi with them it is precious. Say one ordinary man gets his Realization, then he develops his value. In that his own values he can be respected, loved and he can be given the highest if he’s a proper Sahaja-yogi






So you should understand today that Virata- Shakti is “we are going to worship that Virata Shakti which has given fruits.” As a result of that, all these different churches and fanaticism and atheism and communism and all that-ism, all these will neutralize because they will see their benefit in it. But you have to become that. That is the biggest thing one has to know is to bend down towards the Mother Earth. To be humble. Absolutely the humility inside is really going to give you the complete value of Sahaja- yoga fruits.





Those Sahaja- Yogis who boast about themselves are like the fruit which are getting ruined only on the tree. The only fruits that bend down are accepted as good and matured fruits, and not those who assert that they are the highest. But some of the negative people should not by any chance take advantage of this and say that they are good because they are bending down. It’s not the logic. Some of them pose they are humble; even a rotten fruits bend down. But the mature fruit shows its humility by its weight. That is the guru tatwa weight.





So from the Viratangana power you get the power of maturity up to the fruit and then we become blessed by Guru Principle. Those who are still involved in getting to better sunshine or getting to better water supply or all these things, are not yet matured, because the fruit doesn’t need anything anymore. It doesn’t need anything from the Mother Earth, nor from the elements. But is surrenders, bends, it bows to the Mother Earth.





H.H.Shri Mataji

Shri Krishna Puja

28th August 1983, Geneva

When ego surrounds the heart, the brain is cut off from the heart.

The balloon on top that you see yellow is ego. Swadisthana Chakra, which is for our creativity, is directly connected to ego. When it starts rotating round the void and going to various parts of the void it collects all the problem of the void. Void is that green circle within us. In the void, we have Uterus, Kidney, all the Intestine, Liver (mostly upper part of the liver) ascending Transverse, descending Coils, Pancreas and the Spleen. So all the problems of these organs are collected by this Chakra, which moves round, and round and collect and come out of the Nabhi Chakra. It nourishes, gives power, the vital power to these organs. It also generates the necessary power for our creative action, it also collect the Fat Cells of the void and convert into the proper cells for the brain for the gray matter. All this work has to be done by this one Chakra. It manifests the Optic Plexus, outside on the physical level. It has got six sub plexus, which look after these organs. This is meant for our action. When we go into action these Chakras start moving. By the first power, which is on the left side, we desire and by second, we go into action and when the action starts with us, it produces the bi-products or we can say all the problems of the organs and these are to be disposed some where and they are deposited in the brain. All the problems that we have of these organs out of this creativity or any action are to be counter balanced, the ego develops. Any activity is exertion, botheration, problems, we take up the challenges. Because we do action, we have to have satisfaction. As a result, ego develops. The more we rationalize our activity, the more ego develops. We get identified with our ego, supposing you have made a very good poetry then you like to be appreciated. When you create some art, art could not give you satisfaction. You develop ego and ego has to be satisfied others should say, you are very good, you are genius.

The more you indulge in planning the more you get ego. The more you pump, the balloon goes on.
It is very easy to fool a ego oriented man. A simple hearted man cannot be easily fooled. Ego means mis- appreciation, ego is never satisfied.

Actually what happens physically, that when the balloon spreads on your head all over, the aura of the brain surrounds the heart normally, but when there is ego problem, the ego surrounds the heart, the brain is cut off from the heart, so you are non-integrated person. Your heart runs other side your brain runs another side. Your body runs third side and your emotion runs fourth side.

Four people running four horses. It is impossible to stand on two stools but to stand on four stools. One should have very big legs. Ego is very dangerous for Kundalini awakening.

You are much higher than ego, much greater than ego, much more than ego. What people have received from ego ? - Nothing. With ego, at the most what you can get. Imagine the whole of the head is covered with yellow stuff and the blue thing becomes very small. Then, first your desire is diminished. You do not desire anything, your ego desires. No combination of thinking and your heart. You do not seek anything from your heart. Activity of heart has become practically nil.

Anything that doesn’t satisfy your ego you get upset about it. One must go on saying that you are unique personality. (One must praise you) You cannot get joy because joy comes from your heart, joy, you can get only from your heart. With ego orientation, you can get many diseases like Arthritis, Kidney failure, Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Attack. Because of over activity, Lever is neglected. Because of too much thinking, you may get Paralysis.

You get misidentified and condemn others, sometimes they feel very depressed. You are not seeking from your heart. You are seeking from your brain. You do not desire. Your ego desires, ego cuts you out from your heart and leaves you nowhere.

You are much higher than ego. What people have achieved through ego! If God has given you some knowledge of the unknown, one should not be pampered by it. He has graciously given you. Take that with humility.

You detest your ego, make a fan of yourself. See in front of the mirror and say "alright Mr Ego ! " and make a fun of yourself, your ego will go down.

Raise the left, and down the right, then there is a gap, then you raise the kundalini. This is Shri Vidya of the Holy Spirit.
Sahaja yoga is the only way through which we can face ego.
You have no time to judge others. Just see yourself. Face it that you do not do anything, every thing is done by God. He is the doer and he is the enjoyer.
You become one with god. The power of god is passing through you. If the doer is lost then who is going to do Karmas. (Then there is no Paap and Punya i.e. sin & good deeds).
When Mr. Ego has gone, all liabilities have gone with him. Your mouth does not say that I am eating and your hand does not say that I am working. When you become one, then you see the whole is working and we as part are working. Then all the responsibilities are finished. If you do not do anything and work, but you desire, then the blue stuff is more with super ego, you get physical problems, you get mental problems, you go on thinking and you go on arguing. So you should be in center. Watch your ego and super ego. You should not expect any thing from others. With Ego, you expect from others, with Super-Ego, you do for others… In center, you emit yourself Joy… love.
(Shri Mataji, Nirmala Devi)

Humility is one of the criteria of a Sahaja Yogi

Humility is one of the criteria of a Sahaja Yogi. a person who does not have humility cannot be called a Sahaja Yogi, so this humility will give you a more permanent state by which you will not react...you just watch... and that's how the new state, a witness state comes into you. When you become the witness...you are in the present...and you just watch and enjoy..the enjoyment of all the creation is not within your mind when you are thinking...so one should learn that we should not react. But today's problem is that all human beings are very good at reacting...reaction is a basic principle of today's life. You are all sahaja yogis....and what you have to do is to understand why this ego is coming in my head...what have I done...who am I....once you go on asking such questions, this ego will disappear.

In sahaj culture, we have a proper training for getting rid of ego...you can yourself introspect.. .see why you behave like this..try to see...what is this Mr Ego doing within your head. Of course the mantra of Christ is the best...but when you are doing this mantra, you should be in a very humble state...what am I after all...who am I...what have I done..why should I be so egoistical?

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Christmas Puja, 2000 (fr sahajvidya)