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 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

If Shri Krishna is Yogeshwara and if He had no wife, then you go down

Shri Krishna was Yogeshwara. He was Yogeshwara. He was so detached that once His wives, who were His powers, said that “We want to go across and worship a particular saint.” He said, “Alright, why didn’t you go?” They said, “No, the river is in spate and we don’t know how to cross the river.” He said, “Alright, you go and tell the river we want to go and see such and such a saint and Shri Krishna has said you calm down. If Shri Krishna is Yogeshwara and if He had no wife, then you go down.”


So they went to the river and said that, “If Shri Krishna has had no wives and He is a Yogeshwara, then please go down.” And the river went down. So they were very surprised, that “He is supposed to be our husband and still He is Yogeshwara. He is so detached.” They crossed over and they went and worshipped the saint. So the saint said, “Now you can go back.”


When they were coming back, they found again the river was in spate. So they went back to the saint and said, “Now how do we go back?” He said, “How did you come?” They said, “Shri Krishna said that, ‘you go and ask the river if I was a Yogeshwara, then go down.” “Alright, so you go and tell the river that the saint did not eat anything whatsoever and he was absolutely detached about it, so the river will go down.” So they were surprised because they has fed him, he had eaten everything, he had done everything.


So they went to the river and said, “Oh river, the saint never ate anything, he was absolutely detached about food, he didn’t touch the food.” And the river went down. So they were surprised, “How is it the saint ate everything and didn’t eat anything?” It means he was in ‘Aswadha”, he was not involved into the food, he was detached and they were surprised. It looks like a lie from a human point of view, it is not. That is the fact. He is a Yogeshwara and he is so detached.



H.H.Shri Mataji

Shri Krishna Puja,

6th August 1988