Mataji Nirmaladevi was often asked so many
questions by disciples, followers, visitors, guests relating various problems
of life. Find below some of the
important questions and answers with Mataji.
Question - Joy – Could you explain the difference between joy and
happiness?
Answer - Oh, very simple,
you know. Joy does not have a double thing like happiness and unhappiness. Joy
is singular, absolute. It is absolute. It is thoughtless. It is fulfilment.
Happiness is always shadowed by unhappiness. It is the double-coined stuff,
double faces of a coin. Happiness will be followed by unhappiness, unhappiness
by happiness. It is a relative terminology. But joy is absolute – absolute. It is beyond thought. It is bliss.
by happiness. It is a relative terminology. But joy is absolute – absolute. It is beyond thought. It is bliss.
It’s
more like contentment?
Contentment can be relative still. But joy is that entire in one. Joy is
where you do not ask anything anymore. You are just there. It just emits. You
do not want anything. It just goes overflowing. It has nothing to do with your
rationality, cannot be perceived through your rationality. It is beyond. You
just feel it.
Question -Awakening
– What is achieved once this awakening happens? I mean, why are we better for
it?
Answer - We
are like a light.
Now when you are enlightened, what happens to you? You see the light.
In the light, you see yourself. All confusion is finished. You know the truth
and you feel so blissful and happy because you know everything. There is no
chaos, nothing. You are so relaxed and the power starts flowing through you all
the time. It is never lost and you see in that light whatever is good and
whatever is bad. And you understand everything so well.
And when you become the light, what do you do? It is to give the
light to others so that they should be enlightened also. But this dead light
cannot give light to others in such a way as that light can give to others. But
you can. Once you are realised, you can make others enlightened.
The whole confusion of disintegration, quarrels
and political problems and these economic problems and religion, everything
will subside absolutely when you are enlightened
