Krishna has said leave them to me and I will manage

Krishna has said in His Gita, ‘Sarava Dharmanam Pratyajyam Mamekam Sharnam Vaj.’



Forget about all your dharmas. Dharmas meaning that we have a dharma of a wife, of a husband, of a member of the society. All of them have their own dharma.



But He says leave them and leave it them to Me and I will manage. This is it, we have to learn, is to say that it is this Divine Power which will solve our problems. As human beings its a very difficult state, and this state only can be achieved through meditation.



I am not saying that you go on meditating for hours together. Not necessary, but with full faith in yourself and in the Divine Power, if you work it out, I am sure, it is not difficult to rise to that state of consciousness. That is what we have to achieve.



It is possible for men as well as for women. They don't have to think how can we, Mother, do it? After all, see all such people are no good for Sahaja yoga. Those who have diffidence about themselves cannot do anything. But those who are surrendered and those who think they can do it, can manage all this transfer of their power to the Divine Power. Just put it on the Divine Power.



Now supposing I have a car which can drive me down. So if I have a car, then I don't put bullocks on it. I don't push my car, I just sit inside and use it. In the same way if you have this great power around you, if your Sahasrara is absolutely, completely submerged in it, then you'll be amazed how things work out for yourself.



H.H.Shri Mataji
Sahasrara Puja
Cabella, 10th May 1998
(DCB Issue 11& 12, 1998)

Shri Krishna Gets the Butter

Three Paths

So we have three paths, as you know, in Sahaja Yoga.


The one is of Bhakti. Bhakti is where you sing the praise of God, have devotion, do all kinds of rituals, everything, and you think that you are very close to God.


This is one, which is being accepted by many, many people and by many so-called religions, that we must have complete dedication for God. How can you – you are not yet connected to God. How are you doing? How can you have any dedication to God, with whom you are not at all connected?



The second one was the Karma, that you do your work. You go on doing your work with a detached mind. I mean it’s not possible, but that’s what they say and we are doing our Karmas, good Karmas, we do all kinds of good things, go to various places for our cleansing, meet many great people of spirituality, go to all various places and pray. Visit all auspicious places which are being described. All kinds of rituals, we do for that.



That is the karma yoga. And that is what the karma yoga, according to us, is the right side.


Many people, as you know, are right-sided. Right-sided people are the people who are, as you know, full of ego, arrogance and think no end of themselves- very difficult to correct them. They also never see anything wrong with them. Whichever way they act, they think is all right.



That is the karma yoga, but He has said that whatever karmas you do, whatever its fruits are, that you cannot say. He said it in a very uncertain manner because definitely, if He had said it with certainty, people would never have understood Him. So He said it is not possible that whatever karmas you are doing could be the karmas which will get you the blessing of the Divine…..



‘Karmanyevadhikaraste Ma Phaleshu Kadachana’ , He has said it.


So then, which karmas we should do? Or should we give up all karmas? All the action, we should give up?


People were in two minds. This is the style of Shri Krishna, is to put people in two minds so they use their discretion.




And the 3rd one is the discretion. Which you call as the Gyanmarga. It’s the central path by which you evolve. You evolve into a new state. Into a new state of your mind, a new state of your being by which you become absolutely above every nonsense. Also you are endowed with power to fight whatever is bad, whatever is corrupting, whatever is killing this world. At that stage you are equipped with the divine power that you can finish off anything that is negative around you.



H.H. Shri Mataji
Shri Krishna Puja
Canajoharie, New York, USA, 29th July 2001
(DCB January-February 2002)

Chaitanya Shakti, a complete divine power

The complete power that is feeding [?] every moment just to go inside you. It will flow through your Sahastrar inside your being and completely revolve around your whole being and transform the inside into a complete Chaitanya Shakti, a complete divine power. Allow it to come in, accept it. Accept it without any fear. Let it get in. Every moment, every moment keep awake. It’s a very precarious time that we are up to.







I have only two hands you can see that very clearly. And though Mr. --------- says that I can do everything, I can do everything but not to make you do something. Your will, will be respected throughout. Every other thing can be looked after except for one - that you should be a perfect machine, a perfect channel, a perfect flute for my lord to play that tune of love. It is for you to clear out all your seven holes. It is for you to clear out your hollowness and to be complete within yourself and He knows his job. He is the artist. But you are the instruments. And the harmonious music from so many souls can fill the ears of these evil people and can penetrate into their heart and put love into them and may be that they themselves will give up their evil ways and fall at the feet of love.




Krishna is to be born within you today. A five-year-old boy went to kill Kalia. That Krishna is to born within you. Went and sat on the Kalia’s Sahastrar and was pressing with His feet and all the people were seeing this great drama of Krishna ’s dancing on the Kalia’s Sahastrara. Krishna is to be born within your being. When you are Krishna , you are not going to see me. Let us now go to the state, which is beyond words, beyond thoughts, into the realm of thoughtless awareness where the divine is pouring its blessings. These people have decided today to have a Puja, and you know what happens to Me when you do My Puja. So with all those problems that will be facing later, I would like all of you to be attentive about the Puja and to take full advantage of that. With this Puja you get the Mother’s protection, to begin with. And My Chakras, when they start moving, they give you special powers of love and bless all your Chakras and fill them up completely. So I would like you, though some two people are coming to do this, all of you to feel that you all are doing it - and you can feel it that way with oneness. And the blessings of My being will flow to you automatically”.

H.H. Shri Mataji

Shri Krishna Puja,

Mumbai, India, 28th August 1973

Everything is absorbed by the Virat

Once you get into Virat, then all your ideas of separating or differentiating goes away. You do not have any more ideas of races left, of nationality, of your city, of your village or anything. At that stage, you don't belong to any place.


You belong to every place and you don't belong to any place. Such a situation comes in. When you don't hanker after any particular food, you don't like any particular type of people, you can adjust yourself into any circumstance, into any families, into any kind of people. You can live with drunkards. I mean, I have lived with drunkards. Lived means I have shaken hands at least with so many of them.


You can be with any kind of person. Nothing bothers you because you are in the Virata state because everything is absorbed by the Virat and you do not feel anything. Whatever sort a person may be, you do not feel it. The Virata has to suffer, not you and that is what is the best state where I want all of you to reach and to become absolutely free.


Nothing can impress you,

nothing can influence you,

nothing can dissuade you,

but you stand on your self-esteem and understanding about yourself that you are a Sahaja Yogi and that you are connected with this Power and you are a citizen of Kingdom of God."

H.H.Shri Mataji

Shri Krishna Puja,

Cabella, Italy - August 16, 1992

Yoga is the union of our attention with the Divine

Today is a great day for all of us to be jubilant that the Primordial Being himself incarnated on this earth as Shri Krishna. So many aspects of his being have been described in so many of my lectures to you all; but the greatest and greatest of all the aspects of this Primordial Being was that he was the Yogeshwara. He was the God of Yoga - Yogeshwara. He was the Lord of our Union with the Divine.





Without his permission and without his sanction we cannot be Sahaja Yogis. He was Yogeshwara and a real yogi is a person who gets this Yogeshwara awakened within him. The word Yoga, that we understand, is the union of our attention with the Divine. But still we do not realize the implications - what does it mean? What should happen to us? Of course you get powers.



As soon as you become the spirit you get powers. One of the powers you get is of collective consciousness - that is also the gift of Shri Krishna - and that you start feeling the collectivity. Your ego and superego is sucked in, so you get rid of your karmas and your conditionings and a new sprouting of the new life of the new age starts. But still what is the speciality, the greatness of Yogeshwara? Because he is Ishwara for you. He is the Ishwara of all the Yogis and what is his capacity, what is his nature? That for him everything is a play - Leela.


H.H.Shri Mataji

Shri Krishna Puja,

15th August 1982, London

Shri Krishna leelas

I’ll tell you, how sweet he was like this. You see once Indra got angry with Him, and he started raining very heavily. So all the people, who were looking after, the cowherds called Gopas and Gopis, they were all getting drenched, and so He said:

“Don’t you worry”, and He lifted the Govardhan on His one finger, the whole Govardhan mountain He lifted on His one finger and they all came under the shelter of that mountain. So then He said to the Gopas, “Now my finger is paining, you better support it with your sticks that you have in your hand, otherwise My finger is paining.” This is the sweetness.

Like once, I mean, once He ate, I mean He really was a thief, a little thief, and fond of butter. So the butter of the house was kept in a little pot, and was hanging up, kept hanging there, so that no cat can reach it and all that, with a kind of thing we have a string thing to keep that pot.

So He collected all the children, and took out all the butter and ate it and the whole face was filled with butter, you se. so His mother came, and she took one stick, and she said, “Now you have eaten all the butter.” So He says, “I never ate any.” His whole face was filled with it. “And these boys must have put something on My mouth, because they have eaten everything.”

So then says, “let us see now, the whole day I work for your cows, and when I come home, you just trouble me like this.” And then He says, “ Now, I am your foster son that is why you are troubling Me like this,” And she starts looking at Him, and then He puts His hands towards her, little hands, and He said, “ But I have kept some for you in My hand, though they have eaten everything.” And puts it in her mouth, so that all her temper goes away, and she just embraces Him to His heart. And that’s how the whole thing ends up into a sweet drama.

When Krishna is awakened within us, we also can do all such dramas with each other, and enjoy the frolics. Then we don’t loose tempers, we don’t get angry, we enjoy each other’s personality very much.

H.H.Shri Mataji

Vienna Ashram , 2nd May 1985

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

Shri Krishna as Yogeshwara

So today we are going to see to the two aspects of Shri Krishna, which were the manifestation of his Divine birth.





In Rama’s life they showed a man, a purushottama, the best of the Father in worldly affairs. And in Shri Krishna’s life they showed him, the highest Fatherhood as in Yogeshwara, or in Divine world. So the first aspect of Krishna we have to understand is the Yogeshwara, and the second aspect of him as the Virata.






Yogeshwara means the Lord of the Yoga, or the power of Yoga. He is called because he reached the optimum that one has to reach as a yogi. As if he is the ideal that you have to reach. Now as a yogi, he was born of a royal family but he lived in the jungles, in the forest, with the cows, with ordinary people. He used to sleep on the ordinary places, like sometimes on the stone or on the grass when he would go with His cows for their feeding. Secondly, he was very, very aware, absolutely aware of his powers, without any ego. He had a special power called samharashakti by which He could destroy all those people who tried to harm the Divine manifestation.






The samharashakti is, expressed as the chakra in his hand. And another is the gada in his hand. These powers were within him, and He acted according to the power of Radha because She was the one who sustained the power of Shri Krishna. The proof of that is this, that when he was in Gokul with Radha he did all his samhara, work samharakarya and afterwards he just became a sarti - is a chariot driver for Arjuna. So for his disciple Arjuna he became even a chariot driver.



Another great quality of Yogeshwara was the complete discretion power, built in. So he knew who was a devil and who was not, who is good, who is bad; who is possessed, who is not possessed; who is innocent who is not. This was built in within him, this power, of complete discrimination.






And he had a capacity, more expressing his witness hood, as a sakshi. He had a capacity, I mean he was a sakshi himself. I should say this way is easier to understand. He was a sakshi, means he had the capacity of witnessing the whole world as a play. ...





Now this capacity in him to witness, has to be seen in every yogi. The element he controls is ether. We call it as akasha in Sanskrit. This ether as you know we are using now for our television, for our radio, for every sort of a collective work. So we have to be, in charge of the ether element, as yogis. And that is the subtlest of all, in the sense that, you permeate into everything with that. ...



The greatest quality of Yogeshwara is that he is not at all involved into it, detached absolutely.


If he eats his food he does not eat it,
If he speaks he does not speak,
If he sees he does not see,
If he hears he does not hear.




It has no effect on him; no retention on it; no action on it. Whatever he is, he is complete: sixteen petals is complete moon, sixteenth day of the moon is the Purnima. That is how one has to be, complete in oneself, complete confidence in one self. But confidence should not be confused with ego. Confidence is complete wisdom, it’s complete dharma. It is complete love, complete beauty, and is complete God. That’s what it should be.



Now when He said that “you give up all your dharmas and surrender to Me.” In Gita, what he was meaning is that all other things about which you are worried “you give up and become one with me, so I look after you.” Give up the responsibility to Shri Krishna, so the complete integrated Divinity will start expressing through you. Means if you say that you have to be responsible, then He says alright, go ahead, try. But if you say that “you are responsible, I’m just an institution or an instrument in Your hand”, then you start manifesting it well. And that is how your Vishuddhi chakra gets opened up.


H.H.Shri Mataji
Shri Krishna Puja

28th August 1983, Geneva

You cannot bind God in any rituals

To overcome from all kinds of ritualistic nonsense of religion, Shri Krishna’s advent was there. It was a very important advent but I don’t know how many people understand that. He came to show that its all ‘Leela’, it’s all the play of God. What is there to be serious? What is there to be ritualistic? You cannot bind God in any rituals. That’s why He came on this earth; to tell you that you should not try to bind yourself by rituals which are nonsensical.





These were His teachings, so many years back, He taught this six thousand years back. But still, if you see in every religion, there are so many rituals going on. So when the incarnations died, people started rituals; funny stuff, even when Shri Krishna died, they didn’t know what to do now. Because He said, “no more rituals… just play Holi, be happy, joyous, dance and sing”, that’s what He said. Now what to do? Now if He has said so. So they started a new thing, “let’s make it a romantic stuff.” Human beings know how to make everything perverse. Nobody can beat them in this. So they made him look like a very romantic personality, romancing with Radha. ‘Ra-dha’, ‘Ra’ is energy; ‘dha’ is the one who has sustained energy. And yet they show romances with Her…. She was Mahalakshmi Herself. They show His relationship with Mahalakshmi as if they were husband and wife. So there were also some poets who started describing them as husband and wife, and all kinds of nonsense.




In divine relationship there is nothing like husband and wife. There is the power which is potential feminine energy and the power that is kinetic masculine energy. There is no such relationship that exists as human beings try to make it. Because human beings have a habit to bring all the Divine incarnations to their own levels. As you have seen, the Best are the Greeks, who brought all the great incarnations to their own levels. In the same way they could not do much with Shri Krishna so they said “alright, make him a romantic personality that will suit us.”



H.H.Shri Mataji

Shri Krishna Puja, 6th August 1988

Pushpam Phalam Toyam

Shri Krishna said that do ananya bhakti. “ Pushpam Phalam Toyam. Whatever you will give Me, I’ll take.” He’ll take everything. He is the one who is the only bhokta, means He’s the only enjoyer. But what will you get? He says, “When you do ananya bhakti, it means when you are one with Me.”That means you are connected with Him.






That’s how He has explained bhakti, what bhakti is, very clearly. But people don’t understand. They think that bhakti means you go on singing on the street….. Bhakti it is not. It that was real, they would have achieved something, but they did not. Now don’t blame Krishna for that. He has clearly said it should be ananya bhakti.






Only by changing your dress, wearing a particular type of style, that’s not the way. That’s all so outward. It’s just to show off. But actually ananya bhakti is within yourself, when you are in that state, when you are one with the Divine. Unless and until that state you have achived, not only that but established, He doesn’t give you anything.





H.H.Shri Mataji
Shri Krishna Puja 2001

By coming into Sahaja Yoga you have become leelamay (playful)

This festival of Holi was made by Shri Krishna so that human beings would see the whole world as leela (play). By coming into Sahaja Yoga you have become leelamay (playful). You get completely absorbed in music and enjoy it. You have love and pure feelings for one another.





You do each work with great beauty and morality. But to be leelamay is to stop at Visshuddhi Chakra. After that, one has to move on Agnya. On the Agnya Chakra is tapas or penance. Then you should think about the burning of Holika which was due to Prahlads penance. We also have to ascend on that tapa because you have reached the Visshuddhi level; that you live together with love for each other. At Visshuddhi you have become collective, got love and universal brotherhood.






When you become universal then your caste, creed, countries all drop away. On Holi we should burn all those things which spoil our attention and damage the Agnya. Then this attention will clear out and we will celebrate Holi with joy and understanding. When your attention goes to Visshuddhi then you see the Shakti of Shri Krishna, Shri Radha, who is Allahad Dayini, the giver of joy. Just by seeing Her people feel joyous.






She is the Allahad Dayini Shakti which is in flowers, in children; and it can awaken in you. Till the depth comes this Allahad Dayini Shakti will remain verbal. Think about the combination of these two. It is very important for us to get depth within and to give joy from that depth is equally important.


H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,
Holi Celebrations, Delhi 1991

He saw Mahamud Ghazni sit under a tree and he turned into Shri Krishna!

"Mohammed Ghazni looted Somnath and the temple of Mahadeva. Shri Krishna came as Mahmud of Ghazni. Hanuman saw that Mahadeva got out of the temple and was running. Hanuman ran after him. At one point Mahadeva sat down and Hanumana said" you are the God of the Gods, then why are you running. What are you afraid of? He said ' you don't know this Mohammed Ghazni'. Then he saw Mahamud Ghazni sit under a tree and he turned into Shri Krishna.





Mahadeva said that under my nose the Brahmins were making money and looting people. I could not do anything so Shri Krishna came. You must have complete faith in the power of Shri Krishna, which is within you. If you have ascended fully out of this then he will not trouble you. Be careful because Shri Krishna will take your test and make you so miserable that you will not know what happened.






Shri Krishna cannot be controlled by any one. He does what He thinks proper. He usually punishes much more than your Mother. She is Ati Raudra and Ati Saumya. She is very hard and very soft. He is not .He will make you alright. You should be sure that you should have your Vishuddhi s alright and also Shri Krishna manifesting on others. You do not have to do anything. He will look after you and work it out. Left Vishuddhi is a disease of the West. Why should you feel guilty? You have not murdered anyone!".


H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

(Shri Krishna Puja , Cabella, Italy,19.07.1992)

What is Vishwa Nirmala Dharma

"One thing you must ask in your prayer in the evening " What have I done for Sahaja Yoga?" Just this one question. Person like me or Shri Krishna or anyone, don't even feel we are doing anything. So what can we ask?




If I want to analyze or think about myself, I get lost. It's beyond me. But you better know yourself. As far as I am concerned, I only think that as long as I live, I don't know, I may live forever, I am living forever may be but as long as I am on earth, I will see that Sahaja Yoga is fully established.





This is my promise to you. 'Sansthapanarthaya' He comes again and again to establish the religion; not only religion but Vishwa Nirmala Dharma, which is much higher religion than the ordinary religion of human beings. The Vishwa Nirmala Dharma will establish in a very short time on this earth."



H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
(Shri Krishna Puja, Ipewich, UK, 19-08-1990)

Who were the 16000 powers of Shri Krishna?

"Shri Krishna is so knowledgeable and cleaver, because he is the brain. He is the Virata. All His love, compassion and beauty were meant only for His gopis and gopas. So being a king His life is very mysterious to understand, but Sahaja yogis can understand.

When He became King He had to have wives: So He married five wives. Why five? Because they were five elements: they were the casuals of the five elements. He had 16000 powers. A man may be ninety years of age; if he wants to keep some woman around him they will say he is bad man. In India, a man may be about to jump into his grave, but if a lady tries to help him, they will say he had bad relations with her. In such a bad situation he did not want to have bad name. He thought, what to do about these powers because they would have to incarnate as women. So what He did, these women became 16000 princesses and one king captured all of them. When this man was about to abuse them, Shri Krishna invaded his kingdom and released all the16000 princesses. Shri Krishna brought them with Him and legally married them. But where is the question of marriage, because they were His powers.

Shri Krishna used their powers for creating so many things like had he not come, we would not have known the significance of Spiritual life."



H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

(Shri Krishna Puja, Ipewich, UK, 19-08-1990)

The essence of humbleness, humility and selflessness…

"… Criticism should go out of our minds but appreciation should be practiced, appreciation of other children, other people. That doesn't mean you appreciate all others but torture your wife or husband. That also is an imbalance. First responsibility is your family but you should appreciate others and this comes when you have no jealousy of others. If you have jealousy you have to use it for the right purpose. The right purpose is that you have to use it for the right purpose. The right purpose is that you have to be jealous of a person who is spiritually higher than you, and you practice so that you become better. If jealousy is for competition then you compete with a person who is more compassionate, more loving, more sacrificing, more patient. Then this competition becomes more nourished.

The worst enemy of collectivity is aggressiveness. Some people are basically aggressive, their style of talking is aggressive, or come from a very aggressive family, or having a kind of a superiority complex or an inferiority complex or a sense of insecurity. Or may be they are possessed. They try to dominate; they have very strong feeling towards people, of superiority. This has to be cured. What you have to practice is humility, try to be humble. There was a joke that one gentleman was going up from the staircase, and the other was coming down from it. The gentleman who was going up said to the other " Please move ". The other said, "I don't move for fools ". The person who was climbing up said "But I do" and he moved out.

That’s how the humility works. You have to be humble in your approach to others because you are so powerful you can bear it. That is humility which you have to practice, and all these qualities if you have you will really be surprised that you will lose your selfishness."….

H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
(Virata Puja, Melbourne, 10-04-91)

Shri Krishna, once said 'Oh God! I have terrible pain in My stomach'

"I will tell you a very sweet story of Shri Krishna and Radha. And then I will go away. Once it happened that the ladies who were married to Shri Krishna got very jealous of Radhaji. And they told Shri Krishna that you don't love us. On top of that Shri Narada came to put more oil on the fire. That he said,' He really, I believe, He never cares for you, He just likes Radhaji. He is not bothered'.

So Shri Krishna, as diplomatic as He was, He started saying. 'Oh God! I have terrible pain in My stomach, now what to do? So they said, now what to do? He said,' it is very simple. You know anyone who is my bhakta (devotee), if you can give the dust of your feet to Me to eat, then I will be alright.' So they got fright of their of life, you see.

As it is if I ell you anything, you just want to give your solution every time. Nobody listens to Me . if I say go here ,'No no it is better to go that way.' Come here 'no no, this way is better'. Everybody has a brain wave about it. Doesn't matter. So there they had brain waves. They said you see why don't you take some medicines? Then somebody said we would call the vaidya. He said, 'No, no I know for definite that I cannot be cured by anything else but one thing, that you have to get the dust of one of My bhaktas, and I will eat.'
So everybody started looking at each other. You see. As some of the Sahaja yogis do when it comes to paying! They never heard it. Some of them never heard. Better. You see, it is very tricky nature. So they said now what to do. If we do not cure Shri Krishna, He is just wailing and what to do/ Shri Krishna said,' Have some pity on Me, give Me some dust of your feet' so He said to Narada that you go ask Radha to send dust of Her Feet. So he went to Shri Radha, Shri Radhaji was in Vrindaban, and the soil of that place is yellowish in colour like Kesara, like Saffron. So he went and told that Shri Krishna is very sick, He has got terrible pain in His stomach.

She got fright. She said, "Really? How can that be, I cannot believe it. So what does He say? What treatment can He take? He says anyone of His disciples, anybody of His bhaktas , if they send a little of the dust of their feet, He will be alright. He has to take that as medicine. So She said alright, take the dust of My feet. He was amazed! He said, "What are you doing? You understand, if You give him the dust of your feet, then all your punyas (merits) will be lost. He is playing some trick you know. Just don't try this thing. She said,"Nothing doing, You better take it." But he said,"what about your punyas and papas" she said, " I know one thing. It is He, who looks after My papas and punyas. I have not to think about it."

So he took the dust of Her feet, which was absolutely yellow like saffron or like pollen of the flower. And he went and gave it to Shri Krishna. Shri Krishna said" I knew Shri Radha will send, now let me eat It.' He said, " You can eat, but you have to answer the question, that Shri Radha has said that you look after Her papas and punyas. How is it? How can it be? What does that mean? That You know what is punyas and what papas are and She is not bothered about it. She has not to worry about Her papas and punyas." He said, "Alright, now let me take the medicine." He took the medicine and said I better sleep. And Shri Narada saw the heart of Shri Krishna open and in the heart was the lotus of a very beautiful pink colour. On that lotus was lying Shri Radhaji. And Her feet were rubbing against the pollen of that lotus and the yellow of the Vrindaban clay was the same colour as that. And then he realized that when She is touching that lotus with Her feet, what does it matter if She gives the dust of Her feet to Shri Krishna to take. She is in His heart. When Her feet are in His heart, what does it matter? And that is how they realized that Shri Radha's love was so great that for Her She did not think of Dharma -Adharma, but just to be a t the command of Her Lord, She acted, and that is how She had a place in the heart of Shri Krishna."

(Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,) (Compiled from booklet " Marriages in Sahaja Yoga", 1987Ganapatipule)

Witness and laugh

A person who can witness himself laughing, that is perfect. One who laughs at others, his attention is in another direction. Again, one who can witness and laugh at himself, and his own environment and aspect, he is perfect. Endless blessings.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, concluding comment to Shri Krishna Puja 2003,

Pratisthan, Pune, India

Protection from false gurus

Sahaja Yogi: How do we protect ourselves from the clutches of the false gurus?

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi: Why did you have to go to a false guru? (Shri Mataji laughs) You tell me first, why did you go to a false guru? What attracted you to go to the false guru? How did you go there? You must ask yourself this first. Then you will realise that you ignored the evils of that false guru. That is what you didn’t protect yourself from. Now, in the past I have already given lectures on false gurus where I have clearly talked about their evildoings and how they take one for a ride. It is their business to entrap you all. There are different types of business which they adopt. Out of that, gurus also have a business to entrap you and you are trapped. From this, one must realise which trap we have fallen into. We have filled our brains with the badhas (negativities) of the false gurus. Now if you can tell me any of those badhas, then I can tell you…..

SahajaYogis: inaudible, two or three voices speaking together.

Shri Mataji: Now if you know one or two of these badhas, you let me know. The false gurus’ badhas. Now what do these badhas actually do? First they focus their attention on your pocket. (laughter)Isn’t it? As they start doing this, then you must understand that their intentions are different. But it is all on the gross level. On the subtler level, in fact, there are many who wouldn’t want to entrap you, but they would try to project their own importance. And for this reason they become gurus. It is like this, that one projects his importance. So you must watch all this and be critical about it. Then it will forsake you. But most of the people absorb their badhas, their ego, their anger, their physical health and many more aspects that you absorb from the guru. Like these gurus, when they fall sick, their shadow starts reflecting within you.

For this reason, you must analyse yourself and look at yourself, that, what have I received from this guru? This is very important. Then when there is a cleansing of yourself, you will see that it benefits you to a great extent. Why did you go to a guru when you were seeking for your own spiritual ascent? You went to a guru to know him but you were in turn entrapped. This guru is such a guru,and you yourself should know how to protect yourself from him. You should stay away from them. I had been to many such gurus just to see them and what they do, and how they tempt and attract people. And with what they entrap people.

So the first thing I saw was that these people find your own weaknesses, that what weakness you have. If this doesn’t work then they put badhas into you. The badhas are of various types. Out of these badhas you must first learn to detect what type of badhas he has put into you that you are unable to get rid of. The greatest badha that they put into you is FEAR. It keeps on frightening you, that ‘if you leave me, such and such thing will happen to you.’ This type of fear creeps within you. It doesn’t have much strength in it. But it keeps on frightening you. When this fear comes,you must say to it, ‘yes, I know it’. With this fear the human beings keep on going round and round the guru. For that Shri Krishna is there, who drives out this fear from everyone.

(Q+A after Shri Krishna Puja 2003, Pratisthan, Pune, India)

Developing sweetness in the Vishuddhi - from the heart

The humility is the best way of conquering this ego of Vishuddhi, and when talking to others, try to develop sweet methods, sweet ways, not hurting other people. And you will be surprised that Vishuddhi will immediately start behaving in such a sweet manner. So this Vishuddhi on the right hand side is to be controlled by surrendering as it is said. Actually you surrender your ego to begin with. And this ego when you surrender, it has to be done from you heart, it should not be a lipservice. From your heart: "I don't want this ego any more. I want Reality." "Let the Reality be seen by me, felt by me, enjoyed by me." And once you start doing it from your heart, you will be amazed that your voice will become sweet. Apart from that, it will have the Divine Power flowing through it. That is what we say that you have now "wak shakti", means the power of speech. So when you surrender ego, what you do actually is to say that "I'm not doing anything, it is You who does everything"; so that a little drop has now become an ocean, and so your sound has got the power of the ocean. (04.09.1983, Vienna, Austria)