Shri Ganesha is joy

The greatest quality of Shri Ganesha is Joy. It gives you joy, as small children, they may not speak even, but they give us so much joy. Joy giving quality comes from Shri Ganesha.


Even after coming to Sahaja Yoga, I have seen people are not full of joy. Are very serious, they don’t know how to laugh, how to enjoy anything. That’s the sign that they are still lacking in innocence.


So it’s important to understand that if you are Sahaja yogis, you should be joyous and give joy to others. Just like children, how sweet they are. They may be newly born, but how much joy they give you.


But supposing you do not have that capacity to enjoy the innocence of children, then nobody can help you. Ganesha cannot help you. Because that’s the innate quality human beings have and if you don’t have that quality, no use having any other sense. Like some people like food, they like colours, they like all other things. But if you don’t have Shri Ganesh, you cannot purely enjoy anything.


So it is only Shri Ganesha’s blessings that will really enjoy everything in its full measure. Otherwise, we start judging it, we start criticizing it, people raise so many things, questions. If you see something and it gives you joy, then you are supposed to give the explanation for that.


As we have many critics in this world, and they are all the time criticizing one another. Now the critics are criticizing critics, that’s the biggest problem. That’s their job. Because Ganesha is not there. And they go on criticizing others, never criticizing themselves, and thinking no end of themselves.


And with that, they create a very bad kind of a community, which is actually very harmful, it’s very dangerous. It’s like having some sort of a boil, or some sort of a septic thing in your body, in your being. So, if you cannot appreciate it, and if you cannot enjoy it, then Shri Ganesha is missing from you.


You should be able to enjoy everything, and to enjoy your children, enjoy children of others people. That’s the sign of your being completely blessed by Shri Ganesha.


Now the beauty of Shri Ganesha is this, that it looks after your Kundalini. It guards your Kundalini, it guides your Kundalini, and throughout and all the chakras he had to bless you.


If you don’t have the blessings of Shri Ganesh, you’ll be completely useless fellow as a sahaja yogi, because all the time you are seeing the bad points of others, all the time you are dividing, I should say, you are getting into a problem, by which you cannot enjoy anything.


By temperament you think you are very serious, you are very mature, you are very developed, but you are not innocent. Such a person gives such a headache to everyone, and if there’s one like that in the family, people want to get rid of him. So you should have the quality of Shri Ganesha, which is of giving joy to others.


Depends on how much joy you can give it to others. It doesn’t want anything. Such a person won’t say that “I must get this, I must have this position, I should be leader, I should be this and that”, no.


He just enjoys giving joy, joy to others and being humorous, and kind, and never, never tries to insult anyone and hurt anyone. If such a person hurts, by mistake also, he goes on repenting about it. And a hundred times he’ll beg your pardon if he has hurt you. Such a happy person is a real Sahaja yogi.


That’s the one we want to have all around. Those who have no hatred for anyone, no malice for anyone, and not finding faults with another, but trying to find what is the good point of that person, what is so special about that person.


He’s not bothered as to what colour you are, whether you are black or white, whether you are tall or short, it makes no difference. Because it is absolute, absolute joy. And for this absolute joy, you don’t criticize, and you don’t try to find faults with others.


Now, the problem is that people are getting very much advanced in this modern era, very advanced, and they are very much more advanced in criticizing others, I think. That’s the maximum they have: is to criticize others.


And, also, they have another very bad quality: to identify themselves with the country in which they live or with the family which they are. I have seen it creates such a problem.


Also they identify themselves with the different religions they follow. Or, imagine, from this how many problems have come out – that you start differentiating between one and another.


For example, now supposing who is born say, in one place, so he says he’s the best, his country is the best, his people are the best, and there’s nothing wrong with them.


On the contrary, if a person is a real Sahaja yogi, who has Ganesha within him, enlightened, then he sees it and enjoys the humor behind it, the humor of all these people, what they are mad after, how they behave, I mean the way he understands the jokes behind it, jokes which is avoiding reality.


And reality is only possible if you are in the realm of joy. Otherwise, all the time you find something wrong, something upsetting, so something disturb you. But if you see the humour behind everything, then you are perfectly alright.


H.H. Shri Mataji
Shri Ganesha Puja
Cabella 14th September 2002
(DCB May- June 2003)

Holi was started with this Purpose

Shri Rama incarnated before Shri Krishna. He was Maryada Purshottoma and as such lived a very austere life. As a result of the austerities practiced by the King himself, the whole society turned sober and serious.




The element of joy and gaiety was completely missing. In Dwapar Yuga, when Shri Krishna incarnated, He wanted to put an end to this extreme seriousness prevalent in the society. He thought of having a festival in which everyone could laugh heartily and have fun and joy.



So the festival of colour – Holi, was started with this purpose. People, however, took undue liberties and misused the festival to the extent of defaming it. I had also to tell “I do not play Holi at all.”





The myth behind it is that there was a demoness named Holika. She was the sister of Hiranya Kashyapa- the father of Prahlada. Since Prahlada was the devotee of Lord Vishnu, his father- the demon King – used to harass and trouble him. Hiranya Kashyapa wanted to kill Prahlada.




Holika had the boon that fire won’t burn her. Hiranya Kashyapa asked Holika to take the boy Prahlada in her lap and sit on the burning pyre, thinking that she could not be burnt. But to his surprise Holika was burnt to ashes and no harm done to the child devotee of Shri Vishnu!



It was a significant incident which proved that it is sin to be cruel, arrogant and aggressive. Despite her boon, Holika was burnt down and no harm done to the innocent child – devotee!



H.H.Shri Mataji
Holi Puja 2002
Gurgaon, India
DCB September – October 2002

Truth, Attention, and Joy – all become one

I don’t know how many speeches I’ve given now, I lost count. This is only just to make your attention little steady, then the Kundalini rises. Without that happening your attention cannot go inside. Once the happening takes place your attention is pulled in. The whole attention goes inside and it is carried and is brought to this point where it breaks.



This is the seat of your Spirit, while the seed resides in the heart and you are blessed with your Self-Realization. Now, the growth has to come, that you have to move your awareness towards the Spirit and when that happens, that your Spirit dominates your awareness, that your awareness becomes the Spirit, then Sat, Chit, Anand.



Sat is the essence of your awareness, is the truth; through your awareness you know the truth. Chit is the attention and Anand is the Spirit. The essence of the Spirit is joy. All these things become one. That has to happen. Then the growth is much faster. When it is half way round, the growth is less. And the growth is to be felt in your collectivity. Not in how you organize some things and all that, no, in collectivity, how you feel about the whole world, how you are connected about the whole world. What you are doing about it, can you work it out for them? Where is your attention, again?



H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
( 1980-1110 The Eternal Spirit, Caxton Hall, UK).

The Importance of Meditation

Now you all have realized by this time that within us lays the peace, the beauty, the glory of our being. There's an ocean of all that. We cannot seek it outside. We have to go within - what they call "in the meditative state" you seek it, you enjoy it.



Like when you are thirsty, you go to a river, or you go to an ocean, and try to quench your thirst. But even the ocean cannot give you sweet water. So, how can anything that is spread outside give you that deep thing that is within you. You are trying to find it outside, where it does not lie. It is within us, absolutely within us. It is so simple because it is your own. It is within your reach, just there. Whatever you have been doing-going out to find the joy, is so-called joy, and is so-called happiness, so-called glory of worldly powers and worldly possessions.


You have to reverse it back - the whole thing. You have to project 'within yourself'. It was not wrong that you went out. You should not feel sorry for what you have done so far. It was not a correct way to get to the real joy of life, the "real glory" of your being. It has worked in so many people, that you have entered into that subtler understanding. Some people are only at a mental level, maybe, doesn't matter. Maybe some are only at a physical level that they can feel it. It doesn't matter. But you are on the correct lines. You are moving correctly.



Try to meditate. Meditate more, so that you reach that inner being. And this inner being is the vast ocean of bliss, which exists in every one of us. In the vast flood of light, that floods everybody's inner beauty. So to approach it, you have to go "within" yourself, by denying things which are against it, against your movement.


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

Meditate and Distribute

And the more you find something in your meditation, the more you want to go and distribute it to others. That has to be. If that does not come into you then it has not worked out; there is no purity; there is some sort of a bias. In that individual pursuit, whatever you find, you want to enjoy it with others, you want to give it to others. This is the sign of the person who has been really meditative. The one, who has been meditative and has not been able to distribute what he has found is cheating himself and cheating others as well.


Because that joy that you receive in your meditation has to be distributed. Has to be given. Has to be shown. It should flow in your being as the light radiates from every illumined lamp. You don't have to take a vow to say that this is an enlightened light. In the same way a saint should not have to be certified that he is a saint. The depth you achieve within yourself spreads all over, it is such an action and reaction.


The deeper you become, the radiation is much more. You don't have to spend too much time on meditation. But whatever time you spend, whatever you gain, has to be visible outside --How you radiate and how you give it to others. That's the quality of the saints you have to be. Unless and until you become deeper, we cannot save other Sahaja Yogis. And we cannot save those who are not Sahaja yogis. You have to rise higher and higher to pull the whole curtain up. Those who try to rise higher pull the whole thing upward, and they give a pull to every one who ascend with them.



H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Shri Devi Puja
(14.03.1983, Australia)

YOU ARE MY SOLDIERS OF LOVE

I am sure -it's really heartfelt- desire of mine that you should become really soldiers of love and peace. Because that is why you are here, you are born here for that. So enjoy yourself.


So you are like very gentle soldiers of Love, and that's what you have to spread and talk to others, give them that joy that you have. Not to be satisfied if you have got it only, or few of you have it. You have to spread it very fast, and you can do it. Because it doesn't require money, it doesn't require and show, it is just inside (that) it works, it is already there, it is present there, everybody has it. I knew all that. Of course I knew it. But now you also know it, so you should work it out, and work it out in a manner taht am sure one day this world will be a changed place.

(H.H. SHRI MATAJI NIRMALA DEVI)
(Source : taken from 'The Joy Spreading Sahaja Yoga' )