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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Duty of elder Sahaja Yogis

Now we are facing little children. They are the ones who are incarnations. They are the ones who are going to lead humanity into some great advancement – the humanity has to be looked after. They are tomorrow’s humanity. And we are today’s.




And what are we giving to them for them to follow? What is their aim in life? Very, very difficult to say. But with the Sahaja Yoga they will all go in the proper way, they’ll behave in a proper way and the whole thing will be a different mass of Sahaja Yogis coming up.




But it is the duty of bigger Sahaja Yogis to look after them; to have better moral standards, to have better lives so that they follow your life and become genuinely good Sahaja Yogis.




It’s a very big responsibility, perhaps we don’t recognize it, we don’t understand, but all these are little creatures which are after the image of great souls and they should be brought up in that way, respected in that manner and loved with great care. This is to be understood.




The problem with our elderly people is this that we do not consider them to be considered, to be bothered about, to be understood about. We think we are too intelligent, too good and we need not waste our energy with them. This is the trouble of the elderly people.




But today when we are sitting here to worship Shri Ganesha, we should know they are all incarnations of Shri Ganesha and they should be given proper attention, proper understanding about themselves. I find certain amount of children who are very well-behaved, which are very sensible, and there are some who have no idea as to what they are doing.




So it is the duty of the elders to put ideas into their heads, to proper understanding about themselves and the self-respect. Same thing I would say for the elder Sahaja Yogis who have to look after their younger brothers and sisters.




In this family of ours which we call as Sahaja Yogis, there are all kinds of people, all types, all behaviors. Of course they should not be regimented, there should not be uniformity, but in that variety there should be this beauty, there should be beautiful trend of being one with each other.




For that, what should we do, is the problem. What should the elders do to achieve that? What is our solid ‘contribution’ to their lives? The first will be to tell them who is Shri Ganesha, and that what are the qualities of Ganesha, what does he represent.




What does he represent, what qualities he has – and once they start understanding, that though being a little boy, he’s so generous, he’s so kind, he’s so forgiving – they’ll be amazed because they are also small and they’ll also take to that kind of life.




I find some children very sensible, very good here. Some are naughty and some don’t understand what we are doing here. Whatever it is, they are after all children. And what we have to do is to look after them, respect them, and give them the full idea about Shri Ganesha.



H.H.Shri Mataji
Shri Ganesha Puja
Cabella Italy, 13th September 2003

Statue of Shri Ganesha in your house

I think everybody must have a statue of Shri Ganesha in your house, so the children will see it and ask “Who is he? What is he doing?” And you will be amazed how they will understand you, how they will understand his qualities and how they will work it out.


It is important for all of you to have at least one Shri Ganesha in your house, so that you can tell your children that ‘You all have to become like him’.

Now what are the qualities of Shri Ganesha. They won’t understand chastity, they are too small, they won’t understand all those qualities. But one quality they will understand is to be honest. Is to be honest.



H.H.Shri Mataji
Shri Ganesha Puja
Cabella Italy, 13th September 2003

Find out Shri Ganesha within yourself

What I have to say that nobody should think that you are very grown-up because you can keep quiet, sit quietly and all that. You are grown-up only if you can imbibe the qualities of Shri Ganesha.




I have seen people who are very grown-up still do not have simple qualities of chastity, of honesty – they don’t have, and they can’t have it because they don’t think it is important. So, I leave it to you to find out Shri Ganesha within yourself.




I enjoy their company because they’re so innocent and so simple hearted and I like them very, very much. So, you should not get afraid or frightened of their mischievousness. On the contrary, you should know they deserve much more love, much more understanding and much more scope to grow.




I hope by the time they will be of your age, they’ll be great Sahaja Yogis. They’ll understand what we are doing here. I had to face mountains of nonsense with the older people, but these won’t have that. They’ll be very simple, very sweet and they’ll understand love.



H.H.Shri Mataji
Shri Ganesha Puja
Cabella Italy, 13th September 2003

Pure-hearted Shri Ganesha born today

Today is a very important day for all of us Sahaja Yogis, because today Shri Ganesha was born. Shri Ganesha is whom we worship and because of whom we got our realization. However much you may remember Him, until you do not know His special qualities, you cannot attain Him. His special quality is that He is the embodiment of purity (shuddha swaroop) and complete Master of the Universe. He is the incarnation of the Supreme, of Brahman.

By coming into this world He has created music (sangeet), rhythm (taal) and notes (sur). By His Grace only people become one with music (talleen). A small boy who came into the world and did such great work! He has given so many things to everyone and even today He is active. Shri Ganesha’s Puja, no matter how much you do it, it is not enough. A lot of people say we don’t see Shri Ganesha, even after worshiping Him so much, we do not attain Him.




He is omnipotent, omnipresent and in everything, but you cannot recognize Him until you are realized. After your realization you can recognize what Shri Ganesha is. Shri Ganesha is Purity, the Pure Spirit. When He is awakened within us, then we have no questions left. Then we are successful, in whichever task we undertake.




We find joy in everything we do. He is the embodiment of joy and gives joy to everyone. To serve Him is the ultimate dharma (paramdharma). To serve Him means to look after small children, to serve them, to make sure there is no cruelty towards them. This pleases Him very much. Such an embodiment of love, such a pure-hearted Shri Ganesha was born today.




This is the importance of this day. Today if you ask for any wish, then Shri Ganesha will fulfill it. It is His right to fulfill all your desires, because you are all realized. Ask Him with all your heart and He will help you in every way, every moment, every instant.




Today is a very big day, because the actual pure spirit has taken birth today. And He already had such an eternal state, that many people could not comprehend it or write about it. They wrote only what they understood, but now that you are realized you can understand that by the power of Shri Ganesha’s name you can get your realization.




By taking His name alone any disease or any pain will disappear. He is eternal. He is always present within us, when you get your realization, you can feel Him. And if you are not realized, you cannot understand Him. That is why people get misled and do wrong things.




But with Shri Ganesha’s blessings you can do so many things and neither you will feel greedy, nor will you have any problems because He does all the work for you. He takes care of you. Though He is a little boy, He looks after you. Shri Ganesha is a very great power by which so much work is getting done.



H.H.Shri Mataji,
Shri Ganesha's Birthday Puja,
2008, India
DCB March April 2008
(translated from Hindi)

Shri Ganesha Puja

(please click on the titles give below to read further..)

Shri Ganesh Atharvashirsh



Shri Ganesha Mantra



INTRODUCTION - Mooladhar Chakra



Wisdom



Why Gauri produced Shri Ganesha


Mother what do we do to be innocent?


For a child, enjoyment is complete



Mona Lisa is eternal 'cause of Ganesh principle in her smile!



Ganpati means the one who is the Lord of the Ganas




It is the wisdom and the innocence in you that matters…



Important is what you have reached & not what you know



It's the Paramchaitanya that acts



Eight Ganeshas



Ashta Vinayakas



For Shri Ganesha no Gods exist except His Mother



The Qualities of Shri Ganesha – to please his Mother



India is the microscopic form of the whole earth, Mother Earth



When you are too right sided then the Ganesh tattwa of the left side gets less




What Principle navigates the Birds, fishes and dogs?





Who Controls the energy in the matters?




Blessings of Shri Ganesha - Wisdom


Innocence



The Ganesha Principle

Mother what do we do to be innocent?

So to be innocent, what will you do? People will say, Mother what do we do to be innocent? Firstly, you can see for yourself how your mind works, what does it do, how it reacts? This is what one has to watch, which I call as introspection.



What sort of plans your mind take to? What does it think is the best? In that thinking, the thought process, what is the most important way to look at yourself. The first and foremost is that you should know how you react. Is it an innocent reaction or it is a vindictive reaction?



It’s very easy to see yourself because now you are all Sahaja Yogis. You can see for yourself how is your reaction to any aggression on you or any kind of a trouble coming on you. How do you react to that? What is your behavior?



If you are a very powerful person then your behavior is that you are not bothered. You see it for yourself that is just a stupid thing people are doing to you, absolutely stupid and when they are doing stupid things, why should we bother about it, why should we our energy about it?


It comes to a point where their stupidity is found out in such a manner that all their lives and afterwards they are treated with contempt. People don’t even want to take their names, they don’t want to have their photographs, they don’t have to have anything to do with them.



At this time, at such a juncture what happens is the people who are crooks who are not innocent, who are against innocence, they start following them because it suits them better, it suits them to be aggressive, to be cunning and that’s how a new group is formed which we can call as satanic group and this satanic group also cannot do anything, anything what so ever to an innocent personality.



There’s a Sanskrit shloka like that “ Nainam Chhidyanti Shastrani”,for sprit- it cannot be killed by anyone “Nainam Dahayati Pavka”- no fire can burn it, “Na Chainam Kleid Yantapo, Na Shoshatey Maruta Maruta” is the air or what you can call, a wind, wind cannot also suck it. It is above all the nature which is trying to destroy.



But you will be amazed that nature understands, I told you nature is innocent. It understands and it acts at the right moment. Again the person who is aggressive, who is trying to malign or trouble innocent person. In this way we should know that we have to worship our innocence.




H.H.Shri Mataji
Shri Ganesha Puja ,

Cabella, Italy, 22nd September 2001

(DCB March-April 2002)

Wisdom

“So what you have to do is to - not to practice, I say, asceticism but to become an ascetic. Practicing means trouble. But if you just become an ascetic from within, then you don’t bother about these little, little things here and there.




But our style is still molded by outside world. If we haven’t got our own world then we are going as the fashion is. And once you start going with the fashion the wisdom disappears. I never tell anybody that you don’t have this fashion or that fashion or anything.




It’s your wisdom, which will teach you. Wisdom will teach you how to regulate yourself, because you have come here to ascend, to achieve a very special place in the realm of spirituality.




I must stress again on the power of wisdom. Before doing anything you should just appeal to your wisdom and find out if it is wise to be like that. With this practice you will reduce your temper. Absolutely. You will reduce your lust; you will reduce your guilt very much. Because once you start understanding that there is no wisdom in feeling guilty, your guilt will disappear.



Also the worst thing is that we have a great desire to have this, have that, and to indulge into all kinds of greed. This greed becomes zero as soon as you understand wisely that there is no need. Otherwise all the time you will be thinking about yourself, about your health, about your children, about your house, whatever is supposed to be yours.




But the death proves that nothing belongs to you. You have come alone and you have to go alone. This is the wisdom, which is to be imbibed. You cannot practice it. You cannot force it, but it’s to be imbibed through your spirituality.



Then the greatest thing that happens is the joy, joy of the dancing of Shri Ganesha. Like a child you see Him dancing, how joyous He feels and you also feel. In the same way a little child being born within you and you start behaving like a small child. Normally it has no sense of lust, greed, nothing. It knows how to share.



So this is the position, we say, that you become a Gana. The army of Shri Ganesha. They are Ganas. They are very powerful and they do all the work of the world. They live in this world, but all their source of energy is from the Divine. So Shri Ganesha is an Omkara.




He is the first created Deity by the Goddess, because He is auspiciousness. So first auspiciousness is created for our good. We are auspicious because of Shri Ganesha. Some people, if they are in the house, they create problems. They are always creating problems, out of nothing. They are not auspicious people.





Those who are peacemakers, those who are loving, are the ones who are blessed by Shri Ganesha. What is the wisdom in fighting? You should find out what is the wisdom in fighting? Why are you fighting? For what things? For small, small things. Things that you can yourself correct. Why should you fight? If you have a fighting nature that means Ganesha is against you. Your Ganesha is sleeping. That power is not with you. There is no wisdom in it”




H.H. Shri Mataji
Shri Ganesha Puja
Cabella, Italy, 05th September 1998
(DCB March – April 1999)

Ganpati means the one who is the Lord of the Ganas

“Shri Ganesha's blessings are very important for all the people who are specially prone to some sort of a hurdle or “sankata” as they call it. He is called as Sankata Vimochan, the One who takes you out of all the hurdles of life. So many of you have experienced how He has helped you in different troubles and hurdles, and also different type of very, very difficult times. It is His style that He manages things so well, because He’s the Ganapati.


“Ganapati” means the One who is the Lord of the Ganas. As I have told you, ganas exist within us, very nicely settled down as these bodies, small, small bodies who report; if there’s any problem, they report to the brain that there’s a problem. And on the sternum bone is the, is the residence or we can say, is the throne of the Goddess Durga.


So whenever there is any problem we are found into some trouble, sternum bone start vibrating, and these bodies which are ganas get the information. “Antibodies” they are called in the medical terminology. Then these ganas attack. They can target also. They know how to target the trouble and attack it. One may think that only the people who are suffering medically are helped by ganas - is not true.



Also the people who are mentally upset, who are mentally suffering are also helped by the ganas. These ganas are so good at targeting their problems that sometimes one is surprised how things are worked out. For example, say something happens to someone, some child somewhere. Now his parents start crying for Mother, and the Mother is the Durga, say, then what happens that they immediately rush to that place and miraculously they cure the boy, miraculously it is saved.



So many miraculous things that have happened in your lives you cannot explain, but they are all due to this Ganapati's ganas. They are also small like Him, and they are very active and very alert. They never sleep. Any time there is any trouble, these ganas will go and attack the problem and find out solution for it. It is something unbelievable how they act and how they inform”.



Shri Ganesha Puja,

Cabella, Italy,25th September 1999

(DCB March-April 2000)

It is the wisdom and the innocence in you that matters…

”Shri Ganesha is the Child, but He is the giver of wisdom. So we can say that our children are the giver of wisdom, if we keep them on the line of wisdom. How wisely they talk. Some of them tell me all about you people and what you are up to. They take me into confidence completely.



Without children, the world would have been desert without any flowers. Shri Ganesha has created you; because of Him you were born and He is the one who looked after you when you were in Mother's womb. He is the one who saw to it that you are born at the right time. He is the one who has looked after your nourishment, the development of the foetus and the brain.




A simple villager is extremely practical and wise. Once a simple villager was traveling with some flamboyant boys who thought they were very smart. They were trying to tease this villager. So a boy asked him a question "If the butter is selling for a quarter of a pound, what will be the price of the egg in the next station. If you can not tell the price of an egg, then you can at least tell me my age." the villager said, "you must be twenty -two." "How do you know?" asked the boy. The villager replied, "I have a brother who is eleven years old and he is half mad, but you are full mad!!"

All this smartness and cleverness finishes off when it comes to Innocence. Many people have a feeling that we have lost our innocence that is an internal quality you have got.


You never lose your innocence. May be as clouds can cover the whole sky, your ego, conditioning and mistakes, but it is always there. Only thing is that it is for you to respect it and behave in a manner that you respect your innocence. Do not feel shy about your innocence. Your innocence itself is a power and will definitely give you that wisdom, by which you can solve all the problems without any difficulty".


H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
(Shri Ganesh Puja, Tirol, Austria, 26-08-1990)

Important is what you have reached & not what you know

" Whatever you can verify by your vibrations becomes your knowledge and is what is gradually told to you. You should not indulge into books or things, which talk of the origin of the earth, etc., because your mind will be diverted. You will take to knowledge which may not be knowledge and then you will start thinking ' I do not know this part, I do not know that part,' What you have to know is what you are.


You are the spirit and the light of the spirit will tell you everything, as much as you can bear. It will not tell you something that you cannot bear. It’s a very good analogy when we say that you are the light, but the light you are carrying is very different from this ordinary light. This light does not understand or think. Now the light you are carrying understands, thinks and it gives you only that much light which you can bear.


It won't flash or dim. It will be absolutely in relation to what you can understand. Sometimes the deities emit too much vibration in Pujas, but if you cannot bear it, then they trouble me but won't enter into you. One must understand that it's not important what you know about this or that. What is important is what you have reached. At what maturity you are in Sahaja Yoga."

H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

(Shri Ganesh Puja, Berlin, Germany, 27.07.1993)

For a child, enjoyment is complete

"For a child, enjoyment is complete. Whatever he sees, he makes a joyful thing out of it. Look at children. I've seen children, they find anything, they make a joy out of it. ... You see, they find anything, any space, they make a joyful thing from it, a play for them. For them life is also a play. Just a thing of enjoyment. And they make you also enjoy everything. If you are not in a good mood, they'll come and behave in such a manner that you'll have to come round and become a very simple, natural person. So to see a simple, natural person, we always say they are like children. It means they do not understand the cunning. They do not understand the stupidity of the people, they live in a world of innocence.Children are the most interesting things, I think, in the world. For me roses are very beautiful, but children are the most interesting thing, and they teach you so many things that you are surprised at their innocence."




(H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,
Shri Ganesha Puja September 2000)

It's the Paramchaitanya that acts

"When you give bandhans, what you do is to put the chaitanya into action. In every action in everything you do, you should know, it's the Paramchaitanya that acts. Only thing is, you have to be aware of yourself, and aware that it acts. And you just jump into that awareness, and it acts. So many people, though they know it in their brains, do not know it in their hearts. And so many people who know in their hearts, do not act in their attention. So only these three things you have to improve. One is your head, the other is your heart, and the third is your liver. If you can improve these three organs, this Paramchaitanya will act."



H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
(Shri Ganesha Puja, Switzerland, 8/8/89)

Eight Ganeshas

"India is the microscopic form of the whole earth, Mother Earth. So, in the triangle of Maharashtra we have got eight Ganeshas, which are manifesting vibrations, and were recognized by great Saints of Maharashtra. But, as you have seen, as a grace of these great Saints, especially Maharashtra has created human beings who have shraddha as the highest expression of their emotion and mind. Because of that lofty vision in the mind, whenever they see something on this sublime nature, their thoughts go to God. Thanks to the Saints of that State that people have that sensitivity and that kind of a movement".

(H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Shri Ganesha Puja, Riffelberg, Switzerland, 2/9/84)

Ashta Vinayakas

"... one has to understand how it is so important in Maharashtra that people worship Ganesha. As you know there are Ashta Vinayakas, eight Ganeshas are there, around this area, and this triangle of Maharashtra, which has got on one side one big mountain. On the other side we have another mountain, which, of course, is not in Maharashtra. And also on top we have another mountain. So like a triangle, which is made like a Mooladhara, means the Kundalini itself. So the Kundalini of the whole world resides in this area. That's why it is called, we should say, as Maharashtra, is the country which is very great, the nation which is very great.

(H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Shri Ganesha Puja, Sheri, near Pune, Maharashtra, India, 15/12/91)

You only know how to worship Your Mother

( worshiping mother)

“For Shri Ganesha no Gods exist except His Mother. And we know all the stories about Shri Ganesha, how He adored His Mother. Because He knows His Mother is the Power; and that He is the source of our wisdom, He is the embodiment of wisdom, and the greatest wisdom He has: that is better to worship the Mother than anybody else, because She is the Power. According to Him, even the Father, if we have to meet, we have to go through the Mother, and secondly Father is just the Witness. All His security, all His powers, all His beauty, Innocence, come from His Mother”

H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

(Shri Ganesha Puja - Riffelberg, Switzerland - 2nd Sept. 1984)

India is the microscopic form of the whole earth, Mother Earth

"India is the microscopic form of the whole earth, Mother Earth. So, in the triangle of Maharashtra we have got eight Ganeshas, which are manifesting vibrations, and were recognized by great Saints of Maharashtra. But, as you have seen, as a grace of these great Saints, especially Maharashtra has created human beings who have shraddha as the highest expression of their emotion and mind. Because of that lofty vision in the mind, whenever they see something on this sublime nature, their thoughts go to God. Thanks to the Saints of that State that people have that sensitivity and that kind of a movement".


H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

(Shri Ganesha Puja, Riffelberg, Switzerland - 2nd Sept. 1984)

What Principle navigates the Birds, fishes and dogs?

" Can you imagine the Birds go all the way from Siberia to Australia. How do they manage? What gives them the direction? It is the innocence, and the innocence is a magnet. In human being you don't find it evolved so much. They know which is north, south, east and west. Even a little bee will return to the place from where it comes. Even the fish have direction. Human beings can get lost. If you leave your dogs 5 miles away he will come back. How does he find the way? Their qualities, which are built within them through innocence, are actually the qualities of electromagnetic force and also pranana, which means when this electromagnetic force is charged with Shri Ganesha 's principle. They are so systematic, clean and sensible, but they are not ritualistic. Whatever God has given them, that binds them and they live within that boundary. Even if you go up to the stage of the animals, which live with the human being, they too are very affectionate. They just want love. One day if you do not care for your dog he will just not eat his food. It is so remarkable. I have seen among children, how they just want to love. They don't accept anything else except love. But as soon as they start growing up, specially in a materialistic world, then the whole materialism comes up".

(Shri Ganesh Puja, 19. 09.1993)

Mona Lisa is eternal 'cause of Ganesh principle in her smile!

"Ganesha establishes within you the higher self। The baser self, which enjoys all the baser things in life, is cut down or completely destroyed by Shri Ganesha. If you see Mona Lisa, she cannot be an actress, or win any beauty contest, but her face is very serene and motherly and pure. Why is it she is eternally so much appreciated? The reason is there is Ganesha principle in her. It's the mother. The story goes that this lady had lost her child and she would never smile again or cry. When one little child was brought to her, and she saw the child, the smile that came on her face of her love for the child is being depicted by this great artist. Even the eyes of a crocodile cracking her eggs to take out the babies are so gentle and loving. But when you become modern, your actions are funny. So love for your child has to be absolutely important, but as Sahaja Yogis you should not have attachment, only for your child."

H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi.

(Shri Ganesh Puja, Les Diablerets-Switzerland, 10th August 1989)