Plastic affects the health

Plastic is much in vogue now-a-days. Even the glasses are made of plastics! That is too much. I cannot use plastic. Sarees are being made of plastics, everything of plastic!


Plastic is so much in use that there is every possibility that it affects the health of human beings. Children die because of this plastic. So we should try to avoid plastics as far as possible. But plastic is dominating the whole scene today.


In Mumbai people get their sofa sets made of plastics. Plastic to sit upon, plastic to wear, plastic to walk upon and now in a short time they will make cars of plastic! You are Sahaja yogis. You have nothing to do with plastic. I do not mean that you should move in a cloak. Sahaja Yogis should not do that.


They should dress up properly and live nicely. There is absolutely no need of hypocritically looking like Sanyasin or Sadhu Babas. But do not use anything which is not beneficial to you. You should avoid such things and protect your children also.


H.H.Shri Mataji
New Year Puja,

India, 2001-12-31
DCB July- August 2002

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)

As human beings we should have love

So all the Sahaja Yogis should not support any kind of fight. They are not. They are here to bring fragrance to people, to bring happiness, to joy and not to fight. That is one of the first duties of Sahaja Yogis not to join anything which hates, which fights, which creates problem.




These fighting spirits have destroyed the fragrance of the soil. If people become loving and affectionate, this soil itself will become fragrant. First thing we must learn is to love each other, and not to hate any one. There’s so many ways of hating. This also human quality. Animals do hate, because they are animals. Human beings can't be animals.




We are human beings and as human beings what we should have is love, affection and no hatred of any kind. Now as you are Sahaja Yogis, I would say that you should try to develop your loving capacity instead of fighting capacity or criticizing others.




Very easy to criticize but try to understand that our soil itself has no fragrance. How are we to bring fragrance to this soil. This is only if people live here have affection and love for each other. This is the most important thing.




When creation took place it was only through affection, otherwise what was the need for nature to create all these things? All this is for what? To make you feel beautiful. All these trees are beautiful to make you feel good, to feel one with the nature. In that way we human beings have not contributed.




Now I'm not saying Sahaja Yogis. They are rare and they are wonderful and they have done a good job because they consider love is the highest. But you have to show to others also, that you want to love them because they should also love each other.




The whole world is created because there was love. Otherwise what was the need to waste energy on these continents and all these different countries? Was not to fight, was not to hate each other or to think no end of yourself, but to love each other, to have more brothers and sisters as in Sahaja Yoga you feel that way, you have brothers and sisters all over.




Today when I was coming, I was so happy to see there were people from all over Europe and also from India. How is it possible? Because you have developed that love. Because you have that love that innate love.




So where ever you go, where ever you meet people they should say that we have seen Sahaja Yogis who are nothing but love. They are not bothered as to what you are, what your position is or anything they only know that you are a Sahaja Yogi and a Sahaja Yogi loves other Sahaja Yogi.




This is a very big achievement it was never there as there is no fragrance in the soil, no fragrance in the human beings. Now that has come, now you have got the capacity to love each other and to help each other and to understand each other, not to criticize and not to insult or in any way defame them. This I'm saying because you are all rare people who are Sahaja Yogis.




H.H.Shri Mataji
Shri Adi Shakti Puja
Cabella 24th June 2007
(DCB September–October 2007)

Reality is the Paramchaitanya

Reality is the Paramchaitanya
We are aware that the Paramchaitanya [All-pervading Power] does everything. At least mentally we know that everything is worked out by the grace of the Paramchaitanya, which is the power of the Adi Shakti [Primordial Power]. But still, it is not so much in our heart, so much in our attention.

We can consider the Paramchaitanya lika an ocean, like an ocean which contains everything within itself … Everything is within its own limits, so it cannot be compared with a limit. You cannot compare it.

Now if you see the sun, then from the sun, the rays have to come out to work it. If you see somebody - say, a person who has an authority - he has to assert that power outside. So within himself, he doesn’t work it out.

For example, if there’s a seed and, inside the seed, only the tree grows and the fruits come out and then they are sold and people eat them and everything is inside that seed, then that is the Paramchaitanya.

So we are all enveloped in it … We are on the waves, so we see it as dislocated, separated - like we feel, “This is Germany” or “This is England” or “This is India”. These are just folds of the sari of Paramchaitanya, which look separated, but they are not separated. They are continuous. So the connection is absolutely complete. if I pull a thread from here, the thread will throughout be pulled.

In the same manner, this Paramchaitanya is working within itself and there is nothing without.

So when you are Sahaja Yogis, it pays special attention to you … It becomes absolutely one with you. Whatever you desire, whatever you want also will be coming from the same Paramchaitanya, if you are one with it.

Like in a turbulent ocean, some drops of water may fly into the air and start thinking, “We are above. We are away from the world, away from the ocean.” But again, they have to fall into the same.

So this formless energy has all the intelligence, all the coordination, all the organisations, all the computers, all the televisions, all that you can think of as communication and of governing, of administration. And, above all, it is the love. It is the love of God and love of your Mother. So to be one with this Paramchaitanya, you have to know that you have to become reality …

So all of you Sahaja Yogis have to know that, in reality, you do not do anything and everything is done by the Paramchaitanya. This is the difference between a non-Sahaja Yogi and a Sahaja Yogi. A non-Sahaja Yogi does not know. And even if he knows, this is not the truth in his heart. It’s not a part and parcel of his being. But a Sahaja Yogi knows that reality is the Paramchaitanya and it is reality that works out everything - and this reality is Divine Love.


H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Shri Mataji, 1989