The Promise of honesty

Today– the day is considered auspicious because several great events happened. For example Sitaji returned home, during the period Ramachandraji, during Krishna’s times and several other great events that took place. They were all worked out by these great realized souls.





That is why, in the first place, you must take an oath today “We will not commit dishonesty any more for sure and if anyone does, then we shall ensure that he is caught.” But I find the blacks are at war with the whites in this country- any one fighting with the other. What they want is India to be divided into fragments. It is not going to make any difference. How is it going to benefit? It is only when you remain honest and you possess a good moral character.





Whatever you have learnt from the British, there is nothing worth learning from them. They are all in a bad state these days. But we have to save our own country and also to save the entire world. It is a great responsibility. You have been realized and the light has come within you. Yet if you want to jump into the ditch, then what can anyone do? Everyone should come up together to make an effort.




I want the Sahaja Yogis to constitute a committee. In case you come across any cheating, you should report to the committee. Then let us see what the committee does. In this way, you will be recognized. In this way, you will be elevated to higher positions.




So first of all, you should not become dishonest and also prevents other from becoming. This is very important. It is a great blemish on your country. There is adulteration in the edible oil, adulteration in the ghee. At every nook and corner you will find people laughing at us in mockery. No one has faith in us. In fact, the best people are in India. Nowhere, so many people have not been realized. They have not earned any punyas. Therefore, it is nobler to earn punyas than to earn money. There are innumerable poor people. Look at them.




So today is a very auspicious day and also a day of anand. Why joy? Because on this day we are blessed with heaven and we desire to be in heaven only. But cowards can never ascend to heaven. There is no need to be scared of anything.




Well, what on Earth is going to happen if you earn few paise less or more? All of you have become rich. I can see that. I have been coming here for the past seventeen or eighteen years now. All of you have become richer than before. The standard of living now has become better than before. But from morning until evening there is dishonesty, dishonesty and dishonesty. Thus the path is laid before you. All right, just take a resolution today that we shall not do any dishonesty and, if there is anyone, then we shall collectively oppose him.




Why were you blessed with Sahaja Yoga? Why were you given Realization? It was because you will emit light. If you do not possess light within, then how can you enlighten the outside? And focus that light to realize whether you are helping the dishonest? Nothing happens if you earn a little less or more. If you are honest, then God helps you. Why do so many people die in our country and nowhere else? The reason it is that they are to go to hell.




So you should know that if you commit dishonesty, then you have already established your first step to hell and you don’t need to utter lies in the second place at all. You must speak the truth. The man who speaks the truth becomes unique. If he practices Sahaja Yoga, then it can be remarkable. Like today, as you are remembering the Sufis, similarly people will remember you. You don’t need to do anything- only expose those who are dishonest. That is important.




People are protesting here over the issue of the dumping of garbage into the Yamunaji. Don’t throw this or that. Now, is this also to be taught? I have been to so many countries. Nowhere is waste disposed into any river. Then why are you so lazy? There are so many facilities available over here, like you can hand it over to the municipality or dispose of it elsewhere. But if you are accumulating the waste yourself, then what can you do?



H.H.Shri Mataji
Diwali Puja, Delhi
10th November 2007
DCB July-August 2008

Wisdom gives complete peace

Now to develop this wisdom what have we to do? So every time they will come and say, Mother how do we get wisdom? What is the way to get the wisdom?





Wisdom you have already within you. Shri Ganesha is already there who gives you the wisdom, but you must take to Shri Ganesha. There are people who become so much addicted to Shri Ganesha that they lose his identity completely. They become very slavish about the whole thing and they just believe that they are very spiritual, they are very great. All these false ideas are no good. Does your Ganesha give you wisdom?




Now you must count how many wise things have you done so far, where did you take a very wise decision? Have you been wise to do something or you have been just doing it because you are identified with a particular type of life or a particular type of answer?





So wisdom is a thing that gives you first of all complete peace. If your wisdom is developed then you become very peaceful, because whatever people may say, whatever they may do, whatever aggression they may do, whatever it is, you are peaceful, and you see the stupidity of other persons, of other nations and you understand why they are doing.




This wisdom is such an important thing in human beings because animals do not have so much wisdom as we have. Sometimes, of course, we have even less than animals but still by experience, you see, we have to learn that we have been making mistakes. So many mistakes we have committed so far. Now are we going to commit more mistakes?




Wisdom is not apparent outside. You cannot say somebody is wise while looking at that person. But in vibrations you will know that person is extremely wise. He may speak, he may not speak. If he speaks he will speak about something so deep, so wise and so nice without hurting others.





This kind of temperament if you develop is to become wise for every question.


For example some are very attached to their children. So much attached that they forget that they are part and parcel of this Divine force and they just doing all kinds of things. The other day I met one lady whose son was very sick. She took him to the hospital and doctors gave him all kinds of medicines and he became even worse. Then she telephoned to Me, Mother I do not know what happened? I went to the doctor and the doctor gave him this and that treatment and the child has become worse. But why did not you ask me before? Why did you go to the hospital first?


Lack of wisdom. I am there. Why don’t you ask me?




H.H.Shri Mataji
Navaratri Puja,
Cabella 27th September 1998
(DCB May- June 1999)

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)

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)

Only one thing God cannot do

God has His own powers. He has His own machinery. He has His own government, He has everything. It’s dynamic.




You can’t imagine how many dimensions He can work it out. Just you have to put it in the mouth of that machinery. If you can do it you get the results easily. Only one thing God can not do that is to make you sensible, to make you wise, that’s one thing that’s your look out, that’s in your own choice because you are guided by your ego.


You are identified with your ego and anything I say may upset you, or may appeal to you. God knows how you are going to react. But only way you can grow is to be in the center to see, not to go to extremes of anything, to be in the center, even listening to Me try to be in the center.



But human beings are funny as I told you, you see, they must go to extremes. You give them any job they must go to the extremes. Anything you give them they cannot keep to the centre, they can never keep the balance now, see this one if it couldn’t be balanced how can I speak on that, I mean in day to day life we never sit without a balance, on a chair, do we?


Do we sit on one side all the time? Or do we drive our car one side decline like that, do we do anything that is under imbalance, say for example, this lights see how they are well balanced. It has to be in balance everything but in our behaviour towards God we are very much imbalanced”:

(H.H.Shri Mataji, Caxton Hall, London , UK , 08. 03.1980)

Respect yourself

So rise now; you must rise above your petty, small mind. Rise up to the point where you should know you are going to save the whole humanity. If you cannot feel that, it’s better to leave Sahaja Yoga. Sahaja Yoga is not meant for people who are lousy. In Marathi the word is gabare. Tukaram has said, yerya gabalyache kam nahi – “It is not the work of the lousy.” ...


When you rise above all these petty things you will develop that divine discretion. That divine discretion is the real blessing of God. All other blessings that you think is a blessing is no blessing at all. Unless and until you can grow, what is the blessing? Like a tree which says, “Oh, it's such a blessing that I have got rain.” But out of that rain if you cannot grow, what is the use of having that rain on you? You have to be compassionate, beautiful, sensible people who are highest beings on this earth. Take out your attention from all nonsense that you have been busy with. That’s how you get possessed, that’s how you get conditioned; small, small things, you see. ...


Today is the beginning of a new era; of a new era of people of very high qualities, whose spirit has been enlightened. Let’s all think about it. Now you have to rule yourself, and you have to rule others through compassion, love and discretion. Today that’s the big time that I have declared that it is the universal religion, the Nirmala religion which is formed out of my teachings of love. ...


So now have respect for yourself. Raise your heads. You are the ones who are going to fight. You are the ones who are responsible. Prepare yourself, prepare your body, prepare your mind, be discreet. This is my, I would not say "request" again, this is my order. May God bless you. ...


Respect yourself, respect. May God bless you all. There’s nothing, nothing more important to Me than to see you rise to that level of understanding of your own values and worth, and discretion. You have to become sweet, nice people but very, very powerful, that you can control yourself, your tongues and your things; your control, complete control of yourself.
May God bless you again.


H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi ,

extracts from 'A New Era', Bordi, India, 6/2/85

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)

They are innocent

Now if you see the stones, they are innocent. If you hit the stone you'll get the hit otherwise it doesn't come up and hit you. They are innocent. If you see the rivers, they are innocent. Everything that has been created as matter is innocent. It is not cunning, it is not manipulative, it is not aggressive, nothing of the kind. They are innocent means they are under the complete order of God Almighty. They do not have their own free will to do what they like. Whatever is done is with the absolutely under complete command of God Almighty. And so they are, we can say they are innocent because they have no free will to do what they like.


So then if you see to animals also, they also are innocent, except for very few most of them are innocent. Innocent in the sense that they are called as pashu means they are completely under the control of Pasha of God Almighty. A tiger will behave like a tiger and a snake will behave like a snake but in human beings somebody will behave like a tiger, tomorrow like a snake and third day like a worm. There's no steadiness. Or this you cannot say that this gentleman is today tiger so tomorrow he will not be a snake, they have no free will to change their individuality. They are left alone.


So that is not the job of the Shakti to bother. That's already been created, they are there and they are existing, they have a purpose that's why they are there. And the purpose is only one, is to support human beings because you are at the epitome of evolution.


So she has created all this things just for you to be created and ultimately to get your Self Realisation, to have meaning to your life, to get connected to this all pervading power, to enter into the Kingdom of God. All is her work.



H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Navaratri Puja, Cabella Di Ligure,

27th September 1992

Sign of the Sahaja Yogi

“Am I being a wise person?” That is the first sign of the blessings of God. The one who has blessings of the Divine is a wise person, is very wise and his wisdom is shown by his silence. And his whole power, his divine power uses that person as a medium and works tremendously. That man himself is surprised how it has happened. A woman can have that. A man can have it. Anybody can have that wisdom, that profoundness, that temperament, which is so beautiful and so empowering."

"You might find somebody extremely wise, maybe your servant, maybe your driver, maybe anyone and you’re amazed how such a person can be so wise because maybe from his last life he has got it within him or he has gone into it and he found it. It’s not the state of one person. It’s not the property of one person, but it can belong to many of them. So the Sahaj Yogi is the one who has to have that wisdom. Why are you doing this? What is the need to do it? They don’t have to ask any questions. They just don’t do wrong. They just don’t do wrong things. They’re always on the right path. That is the sign of the Sahaj Yogi, I believe, and which is the blessing of the Goddess. If there is the power of the Goddess working in you, you’ll have the wisdom to work it out."

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Navaratri Puja 2002

Advice Given By H.H. Shri Mataji Gudi Padwa, 24 March 1993

This is the first day of the year of Sat Yuga. Nature will show you that Sat Yuga has started. Sahaja Yoga has brought Sat Yuga. You should have faith in yourself... you have to believe in yourself... you are realised souls. You should have faith in the working of Sahaja Yoga. What works is your enlightened faith. Complete trust should be there. Look at me, single handed I have spread Sahaja Yoga. Just have faith in Param Chaitanya. If you have any doubts... just ask me. God is not there (in the physical form) but at least I am there to talk to you. Hence Sahaja Yogis should now be free from doubts.


1. Leaders should be very careful. They should become free of all arrogance. They are only a communication link, like I have to put a letter in the envelope and post it. They should be careful of possessions.

2. Whenever we are planning something we should keep our attention on the most important thing. You should keep your priorities clear.

3. If there is negativity, you should tell me... I will work it out.

4. Often organisers get worried about money. In Sahaja Yoga you will always get money but if you worry about money then you will not get it. Money is not so important.

5. We should have wisdom about each other.

6. You should not have any fear. It is all a drama going on... there is nothing to worry. If you say that I am afraid then what am I to say? Even if you make a mistake, it does not matter. I can tell you it is mistake... you should not mind. If there is something to correct... I will correct it. If you are afraid... then your ego will come up... then I will simply pierce it. At least you should not be afraid of me. We learn from our mistakes. We should not be afraid to make mistakes.
(Australian Sahaja Newsletter - 10 February 1996)


Supposing there is no oil in this lamp... it will all go off. It has to have oil. It will go off. So the dedication part is the oil in you... is the attachment... complete attachment to your source. That's the dedication. But that dedication should not give you any other ideas but of a light which shines, which corrects others, guides the path of other people. If that is not so, then the source that you are tapping is not coming to you fully, and that your light is not burning properly. So into Dedication when you go, you must not think that it is any surrendering that you become like a cabbage. But you become dynamic. You become real power... not of destruction, but of construction. I mean, for destruction you do not need much power. And that power, sustained power, flowing power... has to be there. For that... Dedication is needed.

H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

(Gudi Padwa, 24 March 1993)

How do we really get Protection From Mother!

"Nobody can make me unhappy". This should be the principle," otherwise you start moving towards the Left-Side".

You may say that we don't understand Mother's style. She is full of tricks. Correct! I AM... but there is a very simple way of doing it. You can surrender to my wisdom, and the wisdom itself is active, it will work.... Wisdom within you is active. Because the deities are with you. ... and whatever happens to you , They are before you. Nobody can harm you, nobody can touch you. You are so protected that if anyone tries to harm you, immediately there is a protection. Also your own protection is there, as I said, "You jump into thoughtless awareness".


H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
(Diwali Puja, Cabella, 10.11.1991)

Discretion is a deep seated knowledge or wisdom

Discretion is to be understood very deeply within ourselves. And how we develop discretion is very important in Sahaja Yoga. But before we go to that, let us see how this discretion plays a part, very much in the manifestation of our expressions outside. We are the people, in the West, who always try to express ourselves outside. It’s very important how you look, it’s very important where you look, what you look at, what you see. It’s very important that your appearance should be good. [They are] very particular, they spend lots of time in improving their appearance. This is the minimum. Then they have a method by which we call the Medias. The country speaks or manifests through the Medias. And the Medias have to have training. Every country has its specialty one better than the other. And when you see all of them you find they lack discretion completely. Also in our speech, in our expression of literature, expression of poetry, expression of our relationships with others, any kind of expression, requires discretion which is a deep-seated knowledge or wisdom.

Hamsa Puja, Germany, July 1988

If there is Discretion, deep seekers do not go astray

If in the West people were not so much outside, they would have been much better off I think. Fashions won’t work out in countries where they are deeply rooted into traditions and into a proper understanding of life. Of course, the countries which have been very ancient, have been traditionally trying to improve themselves, with error and trial and error and trial methods, have developed much better discretion, much better understanding. But the countries, which have not gone through that entire ordeal, have not worked out, have not gone through that discipline, lack in discretion. And that’s why many of the people though they are of very deep seeking have gone astray. If they had discretion they would not have gone astray, they would not have gone to wrong places, but the discretion was missing.

We miss the biggest nourishment of Holiness if we have no discretion

So it comes to the discretion how to use your Ida Nadi and Pingala Nadi and discretion to understand what is good and what is bad. Now let us see the Ida Nadi. Ida Nadi is very important because the discretion in this can only come through traditional understanding. Ida Nadi starts from the Ganesha’s point – Mooladhara. So first we miss the biggest support, the biggest help, the biggest nourishment of holiness and auspiciousness, at Mooladhara, if we have no discretion. We always take to a thing, which is detrimental to our growth, and also which may destroy us, not only us but the whole country. We like people who are destructive, when there is no discretion. Discretion means that you must choose the things which are good for you, which are benevolent to you, which are good for the collective, which are good for your ascent. On the contrary, the people who have no discretion fall into the traps of wrong type of people.

The Qualities of Shri Ganesha – to please his Mother

There are so many qualities for Shri Ganesha, one of them is that he is a child and he is very humble. He is very playful and very interesting. Despite his size, he is very light weight because he can sit on a small little mouse. He doesn't try to show off. His Vahana (Vehicle) is very simple, the smallest creature, a mouse. With this mouse he expresses his own power that he doesn't need any other vehicle. His vehicle is his simplicity; he penetrates and affects the lives of people through very simple sweet methods. In Sahaja Yoga we have to realize how to impress others. In Sahaja Yoga nobody will be impressed if you have a very great car or if you have a wealthy expression of your life. What impresses people is the simple expression of your love through certain gestures, presents, and behaviours. I have seen people who are very sweet, who express themselves in a very innocent, simple, child like manner that goes into the heart of the people and then other Sahaja Yogis describe to me how they express their appreciation of others. It is very sweet, extremely loving and delicate; all that is like how a child plays around, how he amuses you and tries to do things for you, because they are not wise enough. They misinterpret. They want to say Mother this, that. It is not good. They try to show off themselves by saying that we have understood Mother very well. It’s not easy to understand. The only thing is, try and understand yourself. I am like a mirror for you. When you look into the mirror, you cannot understand the mirror, but you can understand yourself. This is a very simple thing, that's what is the quality of Shri Ganesha, that he knows what this Mother will like. He does everything that is good for him because by that he is pleasing his Mother. His complete dedication is to the Mother. He is not bothered with other Dieties. He fought with all of them. He goes to them through the understanding of Mother and respects them through the understanding of the Mother. But some people still cannot do that. They still stick on to a Diety they have been worshipping. Some sort of an ideology they have been having. They are not fully in connection with me. He is in connection with his Mother. To Him She is everything. She is the source of knowledge, joy and truth. He doesn't have to look to anybody else. It looks very egoistical to say these things in modern times. The other quality of Shri Ganesha is that he always tries to please his Mother. He doesn't want to do anything that will make her unhappy. One has to learn the respect of the Mother of Shri Ganesha. In that I find people are little over-smart. If I say something, immediately they will correct me. This smartness is not very helpful. (21.07.1993, Germany)

The Blessings of Shri Ganesha

Wisdom

The first blessing of Shri Ganesha, which is, I think the highest, is wisdom. That we learn what is good and what is bad for us, what is constructive and destructive, what should we do to achieve our self-realization. Those people who have got wisdom are very lucky people. But wisdom comes from no source but your own understanding of life. When a person starts thinking: "Why am I doing such and such a thing? What is the effect of my doing it? What is the result of my behaviour? Is it good or bad for me?" Then wisdom comes. Even if some people know that something is bad for them, still they do not have the power to control themselves. The reason is that the power of wisdom is not there. A person is wise who does not only know what is right and wrong, but also knows very well that his own powers are - not to do something wrong. He just does not do it. Wisdom is a complete power within ourselves by which we try nothing. It just spontaneously works through us and we do things which are proper and right. One may say: "Mother, what is the source of this Wisdom?" The source is Shri Ganesha, who is the giver of Wisdom. Once Shri Ganesha is insulted and he disappears behind the clouds of ignorance, then people start doing things which are unwise. (21.07.1993, Germany)

Innocence

Another power that Shri Ganesha has is that he generates innocence within you. We respect our innocence and our chastity; we respect a life style which is decent. In every scripture it is written that we should dress up in a way that is decent and decorous and our body should not in any way express an indecent feeling or behaviour on our part. This is the reason why in Sahaja Yoga we have to be very particular how we dress up. Our dress should be decent, dignified and in no way show vulgarity. Innocence is the most important thing a human being should have and it is the complete decoration of a human being one should look after one’s own chastity and morality. In some countries they think that chastity is meant only for women and not for men. It is meant for both. Like men trying to force women to be chaste and they themselves are not chaste, the women will not be chaste. They may try to be out of fear, but if they get a chance they will take to a life style which is wrong. They feel if men can do it, why not us. So the whole society has to take a very decent, decorous and dignified lifestyle. It's not only in dress but in day to day life, otherwise a kind of insecurity starts working among men and women and too much of a complicated life style starts. (21.07.1993, Germany)