To cross Agnya you have to meditate

Now one thing is there, obstructing Sahasrara, is the movement of your Agnya into thoughts. That is the only thing- that is the only thing that stops your entry into Sahaja Yoga.



Thoughts are coming all the time because a human being is born who reacts to everything. React to this and react to that and thoughts coming and thoughts go. There is a big crowd of thoughts because of that your attention cannot cross over Agnya and cannot reside in the Sahasrara.



So first of all one should see, what sort of thoughts are coming. You have to condemn yourself sometimes. You have to say: 'What nonsense. What have I been doing? What is the matter with me? How could I do all that?' Once you start doing that, these thoughts will start disappearing.



These thoughts are coming from two angle: one from the ego and another from your conditionings. And these are so much built up within you that they don't allow your Agnya to be crossed. That is why we have two Bija Mantras of HAM, KSHAM.



First one is when it is conditioning. You are endowed with this kind of fear: 'I should not do like this. I should not do like that. This is not allowed. That is not allowed.' That is the conditioning part of it. Conditioning can be of many types. But the ego part is that 'I must overpower everybody. I must get this. I must be able to rule everyone.'


These two things are there in the mind, which are all the time crossing. So it is important that we should go into thoughtless awareness and that thoughtless awareness is the real way that your Sahasrara can be nourished by the Kundalini. Because Kundalini cannot go through, cannot pass through and for that, as I said, there are two Bija Mantras. One is HAM. Another is KSHAM.



So if you are conditioned, you are frightened, you are afraid and you have ideas about yourself. These days the way people are describing: They say: 'I am an extrovert.' Somebody will say: 'I am an introvert.' Somebody will say: 'I am hippy.. I am that.. I am that..'



All kinds of things they can have attributed to themselves. But these ideas are all coming from outside, they are not from inside. To get to the inner side of yourself, the subtler side of your being, you must allow the Kundalini to go through the Agnya.



To cross the Agnya is a very important thing in modern times. And for that you have to meditate. If you can meditate with complete faith in yourself, this Agnya can be opened up. With surrendering to the Divine, you have to surrender yourself to the Divine and when this Agnya opens, you will be amazed. Your Sahasrara is just waiting to transfer, to give you all the help that you need through the all pervading power.



Your connection of Sahasrara with the all pervading power is established and by that you will be amazed how all these seven chakras work for you, how they help you, how they try to give you whatever is the real knowledge about everything. This real knowledge that you get is very joy giving.



You can see this real knowledge in everything. You don't have to start reading any book about it. In every situation and in every person, in every flower, in every natural happening, you see clearly the hand of the Divine. Once you see the hand of the Divine, your ego start disappearing, once you say that: 'It is you. You do everything.'



Kabira has said something great about this. He said that when the goat is alive, it goes on saying I am, ma ma, I am, I am. But when it is slaughtered and its intestines are made into strings, which are used for cleaning the cotton, then it said tuhi, tuhi, you are, you are. See in this symbolic way, they have suggested that you have to become the, dissolved into this divine power. It is the divine power that does everything.



What am I? I was just a drop and I fell into this ocean of awareness of the divine power and that is taking over and working it out. That will help you a lot to be a great Sahaja Yogi.



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

Sahasrara opening is very important

Only your Sahasrara can reflect the light of the divine. So your Sahasrara is extremely important. You must meditate to enrich your Sahasrara, to cure it, to make it completely nourished by the Kundalini.


There is no need to do many rituals but meditation and also little bit of taking bandhan, even now, today is necessary I think when you go out because still Kaliyuga is working its own pangs and the Satyayuga is trying to come up.



We are the ones who are going to support, look after the Satyayuga and that’s why the Sahasrara opening is very, very important. It is very important and those who want to grow should meditate every day. Whatever time you may come home, may be in the morning may be in the evening, any time but you will know that you are meditating when you can get into thoughtless awareness.



Then you will know, your reaction will be zero. Look at something, you will just look at it, you won’t react because you are thoughtless. You won’t react, when that reaction is not there, then everything, you'll be surprised, is divine, because reaction is your Agnya’s problem.



Once you are absolutely thoughtlessly aware, you are one with the divine. So much so that Divine takes over every activity, every moment of your life and looks after it and you feel completely secured, one with the Divine and enjoy the blessings of the Divine.


May God bless You!



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

when we meditate we go into Thoughtless Awareness

First to get Self-Realisation and then to be aware of your position. Then you’ll be surprised how you develop proper attention and proper understanding.



Absolutely, it is an easy thing to do as soon as you find that you have achieved that witness- state. So please try to make yourself a witness. When you see something, go into thoughtless awareness. That is your fort. Don’t think. See the beauty that is there, just pouring in, just watch how these tree are standing still just watching you all. See, absolutely still, nothing is moving. They don’t even allow one leaf to move……let it be. Till the breeze, till then we just keep quiet and watch. Like these mountains how they are steadily watching everything and emitting joy and beauty. In the same way, we have to become witness. We need not talk too much, we need not keep quiet but in the center we should witness the whole thing as ‘Leela’. That’s why He is called ‘Leeladhara’, means the one who sustains the Leela of persons.



It doesn’t make you mad, it doesn’t make you funny, but it makes you joyous. Anything that makes you joyous is the Vishnu principle of Shri Krishna. I hope all of us are going to enjoy our Vishnu principle hereafter as we have enjoyed before by meditating. Because when we meditate we go into Thoughtless Awareness. When we are in Thoughtless Awareness, then only we grow, otherwise we cannot grow. Whatever we may try we cannot grow. Unless and until we meditate we cannot become Thoughtlessly Aware.



All those who also want to gain in any walk of life, in any dimension, those who want to become, say, great artists, great scientists, great anything have to meditate. In Sahaja Yoga it is important you must meditate, otherwise the kundalini will come down and you will lose all your talents. That is a fact which has to be told and you saw how people have got transformed.


H.H.Shri Mataji

Shri Krishna Puja,

6th August 1988

Thoughtless awareness

Many people meditate but, their thought process is going on. They’re not thoughtlessly silent. Now this is the one point which is very important. If you have to grow, you should be absolutely in connection with Divine through thoughtless awareness. You don’t have to pray. You don’t have to call anyone – nothing. It just works because it is within you.





All these thoughts are bombarding you from both the sides in your mind. These thoughts that are coming to you, have no meaning with you. They do not substantiate you. Yourself, you are an ocean and you have to get into that state of thoughtless awareness.





It is always described in all the great books, but not so clearly as I am telling you. I don’t say that some of you do not get thoughtless awareness, so they’re good for nothing- no. But please try. You can all get into that state of thoughtless awareness. Even for a second, if you get it, it’s a very good idea. Then you go on increasing that second.





I think it’s a reflecting mind. When you look at something, you can become thoughtlessly aware and then your mind reflects to the depth of what you see. That’s how you all will become really very creative Sahaja Yogis.


What I find that this state of thoughtless awareness is not established by you. It is not good.





Today on this day of Diwali, I would say that you enlighten yourself with thoughtless awareness. It is not difficult. It’s within you because thoughts are coming from this side and that side and they are not the waves of your brain - no, just your own reactions.




But in case you meditate in the real sense of the word, then you’ll get into that thoughtless awareness, which is a very important point and all these nonsensical thoughts, which are of no use to you, will disappear. They won’t be there and then your growth is possible and you’ll grow very well.




Many people are here who will say, “Mother, we don’t get that state” - try. Try that. I don’t believe you cannot get it. All of you can get that thought that, “I can get it!” and you will get it. In that, you don’t have to discard anything, you don’t have to see anything, just go into meditation and you will be amazed how it will work.


Of course, you are very much there, most of you, but still, I would say, increase that thoughtless awareness, that area.




Today is very important because of this day of Diwali. Diwali is supposed to be enlightenment day, but enlightenment within is how much you are in thoughtless awareness and everything works out because you are the ocean of it.



You have it within yourself. Only you have to tap it. If you don’t tap it, then it doesn’t work out. You have to just tap it and you will be amazed that you are a source of such joy, source of such happiness. I should say a source of real enlightenment.



So today’s message is that, while meditating, go into thoughtless awareness. No thought is important because it’s your own creation. But if you have to become with the Divine creation, you have to get to that state of thoughtless awareness, minimum of minimum.



Once that comes to you gradually it will grow and you will be amazed how you’ll be able to grow into Sahaja Yoga in a very big way.

Thank you very much.



H.H.Shri Mataji
Diwali Puja
3rd November 2002, Los Angeles
(DCB March-April 2003)

Completely One with Him

The human mind is used to do things in a ritual way, that they think that if you have to raise this house you have to dig first the foundation then the piling up and then you have those pillars and then you have to have the roof and that is how one after another they plan out things.

But in God's own Kingdom, there is no planning. You sit down and just enjoy. If your attention is there all the work is done, full attention; and then he take out work and give full priority to that do not compromise your way through. You have to help others also to come up and so you must remember for that also your attention should be on your Atma, On your Spirit, on God, completely One with Him in that joy. The whole heart is there and with your both hands and your both feet, with all your attention you can pull out people because your attention is all the time fed, nurtured and looked after, then you will enjoy also the lifting of the people. Nothing can be alright unless and until you develop the subtleties of your attention; and they develop by receding your attention from all that is gross. Recede your attention whenever it goes too much into a thought, like that - 'Oh, forget it'. But into vibrations you pay full attention, seeing vibrations you pay full attention, seeing your own vibrations pay full attention, other things you need not worry they will be all looked after.


That is how your attention is subtler in the kingdom of God. When the lotus is in the mud and it has to come out it finds its way through many crevices and many holes in that mud but when it is out in the open - absolutely liberated free then it does not go on dashing here and there but just opens out and receives the beautiful dew, and the dew melts the fragrance in the lotus.


Automatically the fragrance starts flowing. It's a different method, it's a different way of life that is being Sahaja.



H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
BORDI SHIBIR, 27TH JANUARY 1977

"What are you searching?

"What are you searching? Why are you aimlessly and listlessly running about? The joy that you have searched in material gains, the joy that you are looking for in power, the joy that disappeared in the words of books-the so-called knowledge-is all lost in yourself, and you are still searching and seeking! You can pay attention to everything outside, yourself! You are lost in your thoughts, like babes in the wood! But there is great hope that you can rise into the Heaven of "thoughtless" awareness, which we call Self-realization."

"I invite you to this feast of Divine Bliss, which is pouring around you, even in this Kaliyuga, in these God-forsaken modern times. I hope you will come and enjoy the spiritual experience of the Life Eternal."



Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi


This letter was written by Shri Mataji in 1972 during Her first trip to America

VALAYA

WHAT IS VALAYA?


"After crossing the sixth centre of Agnya Chakra, the attention of the pupils (Sahaja Yogis) enters the limbic area known as Sahasrara. When this area is pierced through the top of the head (Brahamarandra) the post graduation degree is also bestowed upon the student by Shri Ganesha. This is self realisation. The entrance into the unconscious mind the higher degrees also have to be certified by Shri Ganesha. Though the post graduation is granted by the Adi Shakti the Primordial Mother herself, Shri Ganesha has to bless the pupil. On top of the human personality is the seat of Sadashiva, on his lap sits the great adorable child Shri Ganesha as He is always surrendered at the most coveted place of His parents feet. Above the seat of Sadashiva on the head of Shiva he forms the crescent moon as Ardha Bindu, from its cup the Pranava falls down on all sides. At the stage of Bindu (Point) He become absolutely subtle, that He enters inside the point which has no length or breadth as the total density of the concentrated awareness itself. Lastly he is the circular line that limits the Adi Shakti's power as Valaya or complete state (Poorna Stithi)".

Taken from : http://www.valaya.co.uk/HOME.htm

The Brain becomes aware of the Truth

So you become the truth and the strength of truth comes in you and then you’re not afraid of anything. You say it out loudly. You say, “This is the truth, I know this is the truth.” People may not accept it, they may crucify you, do what they like, but truth is truth and that truth remains forever and ever, it is eternal. But this brain that we do not think much of becomes aware of the truth. This is the blessing of the truth upon us, which comes to us through our Self-Realization, or we say through our Spirit. There can be complete seven lectures on truth if I go on, but I think I have to see to the other side of it, what else it does.


H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,
(1984 ,Public Program, England).

First the connection must be established

Another thing that happens to you is with your attention. Now our attention is outside, the reason is our brain has become like a prism, and the rays that come into us of awareness also are thrown out and as a reaction our attention goes outside. If I tell you take your attention inside you cannot take it, just cannot. Something has to happen inside and that's why when this Kundalini rises within you then your attention is attracted inside and this happening takes place. And then you find that you can enter inside as well as outside. But otherwise you cannot. Many people say that we are praying, now you are praying outside there is no connection, first the connection must be established. So when your attention is outside you react to everything. For example, I come and see these flowers, then I react to it and then I say something, or another thing I see all the time I am reacting outside. As a result of all the kind of sensations we get out of our reactions our attention becomes absolutely disturbed and we get into a lot of troubles.



H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,
(1984 ,Public Program, England).

If there’s a thought you cannot enjoy

First of all our eyes are not steady, they go on hovering from here to there, God knows what we are looking for. The eyes become impure because we start thinking about things, as soon as we see something we start thinking and a barrier is created. For example there is a beautiful piece something very beautiful you see, and looking at it if there’s a thought you cannot enjoy. But if there is no thought, there’s pure rapport, pure connection, between that beautiful art and yourself, then you just see it and enjoy that joy of the artist which he has poured into it, without thinking about it. Otherwise normally people will think, “How many pounds can I save?” or “What should I do? Should I purchase it or not?” All sorts of nonsensical flippant, cheap ideas can come into your head. Or could be something higher also “This color is not matched with that and this.” But a person who is a realized soul will just see, just like children, they just look, in the same way, without thinking. So the first thing that happens to your attention is that the thoughts subside. Thought is the first problem that has started with ego and now when the thoughts subside then you become peaceful



H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,
(1984 ,Public Program, England).

What are the Don'ts and Do's for Sahaja Yogis?

Question: What are the Don'ts and Do's for Sahaja Yogis?

Answer: First and foremost thing is that a Sahaja Yogi cannot smoke or drink. One absolutely hundred percent sure. Because if you drink or smoke, you will find after sometime, either you will lose your Vibrations, or you will start vomiting. You cannot smoke. If you smoke, your Visshuddhi will be caught. If you drink, your Manipur (Nabhi) will be caught, and whenever you put your hand towards my Photograph, your Nabhi Chakra will be burning. Many people have done it without any difficulty. They do not have any difficulty. They just give up. So this is one of the most important thing that you have to gradually give up. You just take my Name and it will work it out.Secondly. don't fast. When Mother is there you have not to fast. Only fast on Nrak Chaturdashi.

That's all. If you don't feel like eating, eat something else. But don't keep your stomach empty. You can drink fruit juice, or milk or whatever you like. These are certain things about the food and stomach Nabhi Chakra. Next the eyes, are the very important things, where you have to be very careful not to move your eyes very fast anywhere, try to keep your eyes steady, and mostly on the Mother Earth. You have heard about Laxmana, He never saw the face of Sitaji. Only saw Her feet. How can that be? He was always with them. So you can imagine what should be the position. For complete fourteen years, he has to lead a Bramhachari life. She was like his mother. He knew that She was Adi Shakti. But he just saw Her feet. That should be our case. We should lead a sanctified married life. Create a nest of family. A proper family house. Try to adopt, compromise, adjust. Make your wife realised, make your husband Realised, and bring peace in the family; because there are many great souls who want to take birth.

Those who got married like this, they all got realised children. So you must try to get a family life, a proper family, a proper relationship give service to your parents, don't find faults with your parents and try to be kind to them, and try to be good in the family. Don't spoil the children, also correct them. Make them loving. Make a nice society. Every one of you should be the carrier of Love of your Mother. If you are a Sahaja Yogi, and if you change and transform in your behaviour, naturally Sahaja Yoga will have its own reputation, and everybody will start taking to Sahaja Yoga. You cannot earn any money from Sahaja Yoga.Do not have Sahaja Yogis for business partnership.Do not use Sahaja Yoga for making money. You have to be generous people.

You have to be honest.There are Ten Commandments as they say, and be satisfied in your heart.You have to lead a chaste life, and see chaste things your priorities will change. Your friends will change, you will not like dirty jokes. You will just change, and run away from them. I have seen these foreigners now. They say t hat they just cannot tolerate those things now. Once upon a time whatever they used to tolerate and enjoy also; they cannot tolerate it now. Because you have become sensitive now. You have to be decent people.Don't be misers at all. All miserly people are against Sahaja Yoga, and if miserly people come I give them troubles. If you are miserly, you get lots of troubles. So don't get miserly. I am telling you, don't be too talkative also. If you become too talkative, and troublesome, I can stop your talking.If you don't talk at all; that is also not good. That means, don't go to extremes.

May God Bless you all.
Advice given by Her Holiness Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi on 22nd March 1977 (770322) at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

Patience gives you greatest joy

As people start becoming collective, they do not bother others, they do not trouble others, but they give joy to others. They are not bothered about their going and coming, their eating and everything. They just don’t behave like mundane, usual type of people, but they are very patient - saburi, as they call it. They are in the patience.

Now this patience is most joy-giving. Patience gives you the greatest joy. When you are patient, you develop all your qualities. I think in patience you blossom the best. But patience is not just to be patient. Patience is also a kind of a state within us. With just this patience … you just watch and see. Wherever you are, you are.

Now some people are worried that they must get into the bus. Some people are worried they must reach back home. Some people are worried they must get their food in time. According to them this is discipline. This is not. This is conditioning. But what is the discipline is of patience in Sahaja Yoga, where you watch everything and you are patient. If you are in the bus, you are there. If you are standing on the road, you are there. If you are walking on the road, you are there. On the contrary, it is a good idea to walk…. It’s a very good idea. Leisurely you can walk … to feel that, “I have to walk. I have to go there.” Once you start thinking you get exhausted sitting here, even if you have not walked. So it is important that patience should be made the discipline of life….

Patience is my quality. It’s my nature which I enjoy most of all…. If I lost my way, I enjoy it because I am there to enjoy myself.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,
Shri Mataji, 1988

A DOZEN DIAMONDS OF DIVINE MOTHER

A DOZEN DIAMONDS OF DIVINE MOTHER

1. Total Surrender– Total Surrender of all the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual problems/(enemies, negativities etc to be taken care of by Sri Krishna in the mother) at the lotus feet of the divine mother with utmost humility (left) and complete obedience (right) as an instrument of the divinity to accept the divine qualities of mother such as love, peace, joy, satisfaction, liberation, oneness, forgiveness….

2. PURE Desire: Have the purest of pure desires that is kundalini which is the reflection of divine mother to distance one–self from the mundane desires (which are problematic/insignificant and temporary) with firm determination and devotion and with utmost humility and honesty to get fulfillment in life.

3. Pure Action: The purest of pure actions is of spreading / proclaiming testament the “Truth” thru Sahaja yoga (Maha yoga) of divine mother and collectivity as a part & parcel of the whole by the spontaneous union of individual spirit with absolute spirit with absolute dedication and dispassion and with utmost obedience and sincerity (to others) to get perfection in life.

4. Pure Attention: Purest of pure attentions is the attention on the divine vibrated lotus feet of the divine mother to carry out all the above activities without obstacles to get perfection in life through continuous education from collectivity with a sense of discipline (physical, mental, emotional and spiritual) and with absolute discrimination of right (self) and wrong (non–self) and with unlimited love to get character–excellence in life.

5. Absolute Innocence: Absolute innocence of Ganesha to move about in the world smoothly to have livelihood and memorylessness like a child – wisdom, purity, chastity, frankness discretion and auspiciousness.

6. Total Recognition: Total Recognition of divine mother whole–heartedly and with absolute faith on the divinity, individual, worlds and on sahaja yoga practice.

7. Self – Introspection: Introspection of oneself by identifying with the others’ problems to rectify vasanas, samskaras, catches etc so as to have smooth & vertical ascent through constantly diverting the attention from extra–spection, word–spection, doubt–spection to Divine–spection. Then Slip into…..

8. Thoughtless – Awareness State: Witnessing / seeing without thinking and enjoying the things as they are with 100% absorption with the Kundalini.

9. Recognition of 12 Grahas: (Please these grahas) also so as not to have obstacles towards divinity from them in one’s ascent along with the pleasing of Divine Mother by being the part & parcel of the (whole) galaxy.

10. Doubtless Awareness State: When one’s attention goes to the points in the body and stays there till corrected and goes back to joy without having any doubts what so ever.

11. Feeling Consciousness – Niranand Shearjoy State : As one continues in this state, without any doubts, thoughts, imaginations to reach this state of shear joy being one with the divine in a collective manner.

12. Sadasiva Consciousness State: This state gives expansion of all four states leading to infinite level slowly to have God–realistion and to merge with APE at the end. At this state, what one says, thinks, looks etc – materializes as divine manifestations (Miracles).

TURIYA DASHA

Advice given by H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi:"... most important for all of us is to know that there's a nadi which passes through left Vishuddhi into the heart. Starts from the heart, goes up, passes through Agnya. It has four petals, opens up. This is the one which gives you the state which is called as Turiya.

We live in three states. In the living - in the awakened state, jagruti - our attention goes to this, that, and all that, we spoil our attention.

But the second one is the one what we call is that we sleep. When we sleep also all these things that have happened come to us from our past and things like that.But then we go to the deeper sleep called as sushupti. Is a state where you have deep sleep, and you dream of something that is reality also. You may dream about me. Like it's the ethereal part of the subconscious where some beautiful informations are passed. Supposing I've come, say, to Italy. Italians might know in their sushupti that I have come here or maybe anybody might know, depends on.

But the fourth state is called as Turiya. There are two more states. You are in the Turiya state, is the fourth. Turiya means fourth. Fourth state is where, that you are in a thoughtless awareness state. When there is no thought - just think of it - when there is no thought you have to be innocent. When there is no thought you have to have vibrations. When there is no thought you cannot be attached to anyone. So into that thoughtless state you have come now, is the Turiya disthuti. And in this state, when you are, these four petals which are within you have to open out in your brain. They come from your heart to your brain. And that is when you absolutely understand what is God. Absolutely know what is God is. That is the time when one receives the real knowledge. But unless and until these four petals open one may fall back."(MahaShivaratri Puja, 16/2/91)"



So, when you are in the center you witness, you start witnessing. When you steady yourself in the center. Because some people are such that they start on the left, go to the right, they become so ego-oriented that it’s impossible to deal with. But if you stay in the center, that’s the fourth side, is staying in the center. Turiya is the fourth dimension. If you could stay on that then you become a witness. And that’s the point where you start sucking the joy of every moment. Every moment, of everything, of every work, of every friendship, of every relationship, of every understanding."(Talk, Brompton Square, London, 7/12/81)"

So the relationship with the Adi Kundalini is that it is the reflection of the Adi Kundalini. Now the reflection — supposing you take an Indian mirror; you look in the mirror and you’ll find you look like nothing on earth, it will just cut you into three pieces, maybe, or anything. But if you take a Belgian mirror, say, then the reflection is correct, full – but still not three dimensional. But this is a four dimensional reflection — four dimensional it is, what is called as turiya state. And that four dimensional personality you have reflected because of your reflector of your desire. The reflector is the desire and the reflection is complete."(Shri Adi Kundalini Puja, 11/8/91)"


Turiya is the fourth state. In the fourth state you dominate these three gunas, you control all the elements. At this stage, you just say and it works. You have seen yesterday what happened with me. It just works, you become master of these three gunas. Like I used to describe that first you are sitting in the car and somebody's driving you. He uses your left and right side, or you can say, the brake and accelerator, and the car is driven. Then he starts teaching you how to drive. Then you start learning by using your left and right, accelerator and your brake. Then the third stage comes in where you become a driver, but still you are worried about the master who is sitting behind, that still you are doing a mistake, you are doing wrong. But then the fourth stage comes, you become the master. You make others drive. Order here, anyone, order the Sun, order the Moon, order. Order means just tell them, I mean not question of any domination is there. Just desire. Just say it, it works out. Now this fourth stage is called as Turiya Dasha.


Then comes the fifth stage in which - I don't want to give you names because you’ll stick on to those. They are not so clear cut. They mingle from each other you see, and they are mixtures. But in Turiya state when you mature properly, then you jump into the fifth state, in which you do not even, you do Sankalpa. You do not even determine or say anything. You just, anything slips out of your mouth, may not even slip out - it works. Is a state. There you handle the whole situation, sitting down here.


Sitting down here, you know each and every thing. Then not only you have mastered it, but in that you can enter into it. Now, for example, I’ll tell you what. I can enter into your subconscious, into your collective subconscious, into your supraconscious, into all the areas you see, I can if I want to. This is when you have mastered it completely, then you enter into it. When you are the master, then you enter into it. When you're master of this house, you can enter into any place.Then comes the seventh state and that is the state where you, just you are. Your being there is sufficient. Just being there. Nothing exists, but you - for yourself. Now all these seven states you can reach, because I stand beyond them and I have come down to the first state. I'm trying to pull you out. If you do not drag me down, I can pull you up very fast. So only request is don't drag me down."

H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
(Talk at Old Arlesford Seminar, UK, 18/5/80)

Thoughtlessness in meditation

Sahaja Yogi: How do you attain nirvichar (thoughtlessness) in meditation?

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi: In meditation? There is no vichar (thoughts) during meditation. Why should thoughts come in meditation? You are not to seek anything during meditation. It is only to be felt within. It is you who have to discriminate whether you have realised this or not during meditation. In meditation, first you will come to know your own mistakes, where you were wrong, and where you were right. When you start realising your own mistakes, then you are on the right track. When you look at yourself in the mirror, you see yourself. What is the use of seeing others? The trouble with us is, we always like to see others in the mirror. Then how will you identify your own faults if you start to see others in the mirror?

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

Surrendering to attain Thoughtlessness

Many people say, "we have surrendered everything", but it does not happen because they do it only in talking. Surrendering is not talking. You have to surrender to attain thoughtlessness. That is you have stopped thinking. When you stop thinking you come to the center. When at the center, immediately you go into thoughtless awareness, i.e. become one with God's power, and when you are one with the God's power, He looks after you. He takes care of your small things also. You will be amazed. It is worth trying and after that you will realize that what you were doing earlier was wrong. So once you are in thoughtlessness you will get all inspirations, all powers and everything.


H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
(Nirmala Yoga, 1982)

Significance of Thoughtlessness

All that happens in the thoughtless state is enlightened. Light never talks. If you switch on the light in the room, the light won't speak or give you any ideas. It would just make everything visible. The same is true about the light of thoughtlessness. First become thoughtless and then doubtless. Then all your doubts go and you know that there is some power that works. It works very fast and is all-subtle. You will be amazed how it happens. This is also about time. I never look at a watch. But my real watch is in the thoughtlessness. If you are thoughtless God takes you everywhere as if on his hands. He makes all arrangements. He knows everything and there is no need to tell him about anything. But you must see whether you are in the main stream or not. If you are not in it then you are stuck up somewhere on the bank; then the current comes and takes you in twice or thrice, but again you are on the bank. Then you say 'Mataji, nothing goes smoothly for me'. It won't because you are entangled. (Nirmala Yoga, 1982)