Enlightened Devotion

 

Enlightened Devotion...........

We don’t know that God almighty is the ocean of compassion and love. We human beings have to achieve a state to know Him. We don’t know God. We don’t know ourselves. First we have to know ourselves. Once we know ourselves, then only we will know God. I have seen ritualistic behaviour in the South [of India] very much. I was surprised how people were doing everything with their heart, but they did not know why they were doing it. They have such Bhakti but such a blind Bhakti that it will lead them no where. I used to think that when will I be able to tell them to be beyond this.

You have to have Shraddha and Shraddha is enlightened Bhakti. Unless and until you have your enlightenment the Bhakti has no meaning. Like this mike if it is not connected to the mains it has no meaning. Unless and until you connect it to this all pervading power of Divine Love which we call as Brahm-Chaitanaya our bhakti has no meaning because there is no connection- like telephoning to someone without the connection.

The simple thing is that this connection, this Yoga has to take place. You might have read lots of books or may know so many things like Vedas. So what? It's like you have a headache and the doctor suggests a medicine. He writes the name of the medicine. You are reading the name of the medicine but are not taking the medicine. When are you going to take it? Unless and until you take that you are not going to achieve by any chance whatever is promised to you. Because it is such a deep ignorance about all these ideas we have learnt and has penetrated into us. Such a lot of ignorance. That ignorance is really like a ditch of no return. I have seen people who have read books after books. There are people who do one lakh mantras, fasting and reach nowhere. They are the most hot-tempered people or they have no joy In their heart. They leave their families and think that they have done a great sacrifice. God does not want all this nonsense. Why will God who is your father who is so compassionate and loving personality want you to suffer?

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Jan 17, 1994

ॐ 卐 Jai Shri Mataji ॐ 卐

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Recongnizing our own Resurrection

RECOGNIZING OUR OWN RESURRECTION

- " So in Sahaja Yoga everything works out. You must know that it all works out. But you must also know that you must have faith in paramachaitanya. Also faith in yourself that you are in the Kingdom of God. I was very happy today the way you enjoyed all that and understood it but, one thing is there, that you all should, not that only enjoy this but feel it, as a responsibility. We have to, point it out to the whole world, how hypocritical they are, how they are using the name of God, and how they are ruining people, by their, tricks.

So today I don’t want to tell you lots of things. Today is a day still the Christ has not Risen as they say but I don’t know at this time, He must have come out of His grave already, as it is because, He came out and He was standing outside when His Mother came and asked Him: ‘Who are You?’ She couldn’t even Recognize Him. She couldn’t even believe that Christ has Risen. In the same way we also forget that we have Risen and that we are completely transformed, and we are free, absolutely free people. Nothing can dominate us, none of our conditionings, none of our ego, nothing can dominate us, none of our habits. Everything has died out and we are free birds to fly and to enjoy our flights. This is what we have to realize."

H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Evening Program And Talk: Nothing Can Dominate Us, Eve Of Easter Puja

Magliano Sabina (Italy)

How to Meditate

Meditation is very important step in sahaja yoga.  Mataji Nirmaladevi has advised all sahajayogis to meditate twice a day.  Let us see what is real meditation, how it is to be done etc. through one of her lectures given in London in  1980.

 Effortlessness: How to meditate

In the same way vibrations are coming, they are radiated. What you have to do is to expose yourself to it. The best way is not to put in any effort. Don't worry at what point you have a problem. Say, many people during meditation, I have seen, if they catch somewhere they go on looking after it. You just don't have to worry. You just let it go and it will work by itself. So you don't have to put in any effort. This is what meditation is.

Meditation means exposing yourself to God's grace. Now the grace itself knows how to cure you. It knows how to mend you, how to settle down itself to your own being, how to keep your Spirit kindled. It knows everything. So you don't have to worry as to what you have to do or what name you have to take what mantra you have to do. In meditation you have to do absolutely effortless, expose yourself fully and you have to be absolutely thoughtless at that time.

Supposing, possibly, you might not be thoughtless. At that time you have to just watch your thoughts, but do not get involved into them. You will find gradually as the sun rises, darkness goes away and the sun's rays go into every part and makes the whole place enlightened. In the same way your being will be completely enlightened but if you put in an effort at that time or try to stop something within you or try to give it a bhandan it will not.

Effortlessness is the only way into meditation, but you should not be lethargic about it - should be alert and watch it. The other side could be that people just dose off. No, you have to be alert. If you dose off, nothing will work out. That's another side of it. If you are lazy about it, nothing will work out. You have to be alert and open, absolutely aware, completely effortless, absolutely effortless. If you are absolutely effortless, meditation will work the best.

Don't think about your problem at all, whatever chakras you have, anything, just expose yourself to the vibration. See when the sun shines all the nature exposes itself to the sun and receives the sun the sun's rays start acting. In the same way the all-pervading power starts working. You are not to manoeuvre it, you are not to do anything about it. Just be effortless, absolutely effortless. Do not take any names (mantras). Do not bother if your Agnya is catching, this is catching, that is catching. It is working out.

It will go on working as long as it can and it will do the miracle that it has to do. You don't have to worry about it. It knows its job. But when you put an effort you actually create a barrier for it. So no effort is needed, be absolutely effortless and say 'let it go, let it go' - that's all.

No mantras are to be chanted. In case you find it's impossible then you can take my name, but there is no need even. When you put your hands toward me that is the mantra, it is sufficient, this gesture itself is mantra. You see there is no need to say it more, but the thought in the mind the emotion, is what we spread our hands to that and it should work. When this emotion is absolutely complete, there is no need to say any mantra - you go beyond it. So one has to be absolutely effortless, absolutely effortless.

Meditation is for your own ascent, is for your own capital gains that you have to have. But once you got it, you also achieve your powers. Like if you become the governor, you get the powers of the governor. At this time you don't have to think about anybody else. You are not put your attention towards anybody else but just receive, just receive it. Do not think about any other problem, but that you have to be absolutely effortless. It would work the best on the people who are just receiving it.

You have problems, that's why you are here, but you cannot solve them, they are to be solved by divine power. This must be understood fully, that we cannot solve our problems. So leave it in the hands of divine power and expose yourself effortlessly, absolutely effortlessly.

London, 1980

The flow of Nectar- Rising of Kundalini

 THE FLOW OF NECTAR- Rising of Kundalini

When the Kundalini is rising, She rises spontaneously and passes through these six centres. That time she also at Vishuddhi, she opens the Vishuddhi and when she emerges through it at that time the tongue is a little bit pulled in just to keep the flow on. This reaction is called as khecheri so when people are very deeply in meditation, those who have achieved great heights in meditation, they find suddenly they get into khecheri situation, or we call as mudra in that state as if some nectar starts flowing from your palette. If you move your tongue upward like that you’ll feel the cool coming down your tongue: try that.

Now this, you don’t have to do when you are in deep meditative state. It starts cooling down your tongue slowly as automatically you get into khecheri state. As far as Sahaja yogis are concerned today, there are very few who really feel that way. The reason is you do not meditate. We do not pay attention to our realization, also. We talk about it quite a lot, in the West specially we discuss it more than to do something about it. We have to meditate every day, just like washing our hands or just like cleaning our teeth, we have to in the morning-time meditate and also in the evening we have to meditate. We have to meditate both the times otherwise we cannot rise, we cannot grow. Just to think that we are realized souls you do not become. This cleansing has to be done every day, every day in and out. And this is why none of the experiences which are described are felt sometimes in Sahaja Yoga and people ask, ”Mother, how it is that we don’t feel the khecheri?” Because your attention is not also there where it should have been.

So one has to try to meditate in such a manner that it is working of the Kundalini is facilitated. The chakras are cleansed out and ultimately you are in a state of meditation. It is not a question of how to go into meditation, but is the question how to be in meditation all the time. So as you know that Kundalini, when she reaches the Agya Chakra and when She opens Agya chakra, then you can be in thoughtless awareness, then you don’t think – thinking just stops. You watch everything, just watch, but you do not get involved into what you are watching, but you just watch and that watching itself gives you the growth within. Think of the tree which is, say, in a turmoil order during earthquake: it won’t grow. When the earthquake stops, everything becomes quiet, everything is peaceful, then only the tree can grow. In the same way, our growth can only take place if we are peaceful within ourselves.

Shri Mataji Nirmaladevi.

From Drugs and Darkness to Light- real transformation

With the help of sahajayoga meditation many of the people who have successfully given up smoking, drinking and came out of darkness in the life to the real light full of contentment and self development\

Following is one of the testimonial in this regard shared by one sahajayogi. 

I am a forty-one year old artist who lives and works in Austria. My wife and I have a successful art work-shop in Vienna. We have a very strong, healthy son in his seventh year who also keeps us very busy. We have dear and gracious friends in many countries all over the world. Every day we discover new sources of joy and inspiration which we love to share with everyone we meet. We are Sahaja Yogis, individuals who have, by the grace of H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, achieved the breakthrough to Mother Nature's highest and most sought after blessing: Self­Realisation; Sahaja Yoga; Second Birth; Union of the individual awareness with the all-pervading Source of beauty and joy. Since experiencing this essential transformation seventeen years ago, I have been living a completely new life filled with the dignity, compassion and fulfillment which could only manifest through actual enlightenment.

I was born into a large family in a city in Canada. My parents were then chronik alcoholics and most of my memories, which reach back as far as my third year, are dark and fearful. Myself and two younger brothers were raised mostly by our older sisters. Our parents often fought. When my father left the family he was replaced by a man who I deeply feared as he treated us harshly and sometimes beat my mother. Twice, as a small child, I badly broke my right elbow. The second break was so severe that I almost lost my arm. My mother was not there that time to comfort me as she was being kept in a mental hospital, withdrawing from alcohol addiction.

Throughout my early school years I used to pray from my heart that I could live without fearing people. I was always drawn into the company of trouble-makers and began stealing at the age of seven.

When I was fourteen, my father, who had returned to us for five joyful and prosperous years, began drinking again and divoriced my mother. This is when my indulgence into alcohol and drugs, including cokaine and LSD, began. I was just fifteen years old when I took a massive over-dose of LSD and went temporarily insane; I would say, became possessed. For two weeks after this hellish experience I was in a dream-like depression. My personality changed and I often went out on weekends with bizzare clothes and painted face. Eight months after this fall I stumbled into another self­destructive trap: I was seduced into a cunning organisation that brain-washes its members, taking their money and destroying their mental and physical health. It was called Transcendental Meditation.

In the following eight years I became more and more tangled in self­doubt and anti­social sentiments. I lacked all normal motivation for pursuing a productive life. I sought escape from my numbness and frustration in drugs, alcohol and parties. I was always watched carefully by the police because of my illegal activities, and lived in fear of them. I could not relate to normal, productive adults and saw them as strange and frivilous. I spent my time with younger people who admired my wild lifestyle. I reached the age of twenty­ four with no professional qualifications; no position in society; no confidence; and little hope of fulfilling the countless desires which haunted me. I desperately wanted to know myself; to feel the joy and love of nature which sometimes overwhelmed me in my child-hood. But I found only noise and heaviness within.

One morning a friend of mine came over. I thought he wanted to buy some drugs but he said he had found something important. I knew him as a dull and lethargic person but now his eyes were shining with enthusiasm and delight. He asked if I would come to meet some special people. I insisted that Sunday is the best day to party and that I wanted to get drunk and go to the beach. At his insistence I agreed to attend a meeting on the following Tuesday. I was then completely unaware that it would become the single most precious day of my life.

The experience which I had during that first real meditation was quite vague. I had just begun to become aware of just how much I had ruined my delicate nervous­system. Gradually, as the days and weeks passed, I was realising that my fears and habits were fading away. The urge for intoxication was loosing its hold on me. A definite peace and clarity was growing inside of me. I moved away from my circle of crazy friends and a lifestyle which felt like deadweight over me. Small changes in my health came to my attention. After many years of suffering from painful hemmorhoids, this problem disappeared. My hair suddenly stopped falling out and later grew in again. Psycologically I became more secure. Nightmares about losing my eyesight and being possessed by demons did not come anymore. I slept deeply and awoke fresh. Even my eyesight improved, to a level above normal ( 105% ).

My parents were deeply impressed, especially when I had my beard and long hair cut and started wearing attractive clothes. The subtle, cool, pure vibrations which I began to feel and direct for my own better-ment and that of others, had a noticable effect on many. My mother suffered from emotional depression and even relapsed into alcohol and drug use. For nine months I did not see her, but often applied myself to directing these purifying vibrations to her. When I contacted her again she was like a new person. For the first time in about ten years she was rising early from bed each day, and even had a job caring for small children.

Another person who was astonished to see this change in me was a police detective who had watched me for many years in my home municipality. I happened to meet him one day, and he just congratulated me again and again. I think it gave him great hope.

By chance, or by divine intervention, my first fulltime job was a position with the city police department as a community­worker in an anti-theft campaign. I continued with similar work until, perhaps again through divine intervention, I married and moved to Vienna where my dreams to become a successful artist have been fulfilled.

In these few years I have met countless individuals from all walks of life ­ from London to Calcutta and from Moscow to Los Angeles ­ who have lived this miraculous metamorphisis and are using this natural power to transform others. It is my sincerest desire that anyone who reads these words will not judge the message mentally but will make an honest, scientific investigation into the historic subject which now faces them. If their desire is pure and their determination for revealing the truth is undaunted, I have no doubt that they will also achieve this magnificent inner-awakening which is dawning to the human-race.

reference -https://www.sahajayoga.org/Testimonials/default.asp#13

Birthday of Adishakti Mataji Nirmaladevi

 

Mataji Nirmaladevi, the founder of Sahaja Yoga was born on 21^st March 1923 at Chhindwara in India. In one of her lectures she had clearly told that she had taken birth not as per her wish but due to demand from public at large, becuase of their call and desire, the adishakti had to take rebirth. 

She belonged to Christian family and her surname was Salve before her marriage.  She was the daughter of a very affluent family .  Her father was a  great lawyer and fluent in 14 languages. Mr . Prasad Salve, her father translated the Quran into hindi language.  He was also  member of legislative council of India and helped in writing the Indian Constitution.    Though he was highly respected and honored by britishers, he did not hesitate to join the Indias freedom movement.  He actively participated in the movement also had been jailed for that. He also burnt his own foreign  made clothes in the public square of Nagpur.

Mataji nirmaladevis mother was also freedom fighter and had been to jail for participation in freedom struggle.  She was the first Indian woman to receive an honors degree in mathematics.  She was scholar in Sanskrit and deep knowledge of Indian culture. 

Matajis parents chose the name “Nirmala” which means  “Immaculate”.  Mataji had a very satisfied family life with two daughters.   From the childhood she was aware of a unique gift which she desired to make available to all mankind.  She was fortunate to have close association with Mahatma Gandhi since childhood along with her parents.  Gandhiji was aware of her power from her childhoold and hence sought her advice on spiritual matters at times.   Mataji was actively involved and played a role in quit india movement and hence had to undergo jail term.    She had studied Medicine and Psycology at the Christian Medical College in Lahore.

Mataji Nirmaladevi had  used her life for expansion and spreading of Sahaja yoga all over the world by using her own money and time.  She was aware of the hidden spiritual power in every human being which was known as Kundalini in Hindus, as Ruh in Muslims and known as cool breeze in Bible.   She helped mankind to know this all pervading power .  She found out and established a system whereby people can experience this divine power in the form of cool breeze over the whole body, more particularly on both palms of their hands and on the top of their head – around the fontanel bone area.

Mataji Nirmaladevi is the only guru on this planet who spontaneously gave the experiences of self realization completely freely throught the life.   Even after her passing away the sahajayoga is tought free of charge all over the world.   She was the only one who could awaken the spiritual power  (kundalini) at an en mass level.   A very rare and significant aspect of sahajayoga. 

Sahajayoga is now spread in more than hundred countries and enjoyed by people from all walks of life  without any discrimination as poor or rich, black or white, belonging to all religions and sects of the world.   They are practicising sahajayoga while carrying on their normal family life without any disturbance.  It is the only form of yoga which provides complete satisfaction, and numerous medical beneifits along with mental peace and harmony of body and mind.   For this reasons everyday there are so many seekers all over the world who want to join sahaja yoga and live peaceful life in the world.

For her contirubiton to the human society at large number of national and international awards have been conferred upon her.

On her Birthday all sahajayogis of the world assure her to follow the principles of “Wishwa Nirmala Dharma”.  The values she cherished throughtout the life like Love, Affection, Compassion, would be spread by sahajayogis. 

Mr. Klaus Nobel  once said –

Now, Alfred Nobel thought basically about peace as absence of war, but I assure you that peace is much more than absence of war. I see that peace exists in four specific areas. The first area is the peace that an individual has in him or herself. How do we treat our mind, our emotions and our feelings? How do we treat our body? Are we slaves to other masters or are your own master? Until we have the inner peace in ourselves, we can never have an outer peace in the world.

The safest and best way of finding world peace is to have massmovements that include all religions and philosophies, all enterprises whether they are of political or scientific nature, to realize what inner peace is.

Ladies and gentlemen, the self in us is the divine cosmic power that exists in each and every individual but which is dormant in most people around the world. The spiritual leaders from ancient lore, they knew about this and they spoke about it but this secret of secret has been suppressed deliberately until Shri Mataji, with great courage and great wisdom, being an old soul who decided by herself to come back to the earth at this critical time in our history in order to share her knowledge and wisdom, which is the Sahaja yoga, which is instant self-realization, which is to activate the dormant principle that we all have, the Kundalini, and have the Kundalini to raise up and thus we become what it says in the Bible, you are created in my image. That was the first category, first sphere of peace. The one we have in ourselves.

Worst Enemy of Liver is Alcohol

If your liver is not all right, your attention cannot be all right...and to keep a good liver, keep your eyes down."-H H Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi (8.03.1979)

.......But the worst enemy of liver is alcohol. Absolutely it’s the worst enemy. I mean, if you want to die… best thing is go to a pub, take drinks and die. It’s like buying your death. Like calling a bull, 'Come and hit me. I will give you money.' It is something like that. It’s absolutely self-destroying. And only after Realization you are so relaxed and you enjoy your company so much that it is very easy to give up.

........If your liver is not all right, your attention cannot be all right. So those people who have a habit you see – sometimes they’ll see through the back of their eyes, or from here – there – they think they are doing something great by doing these things – such people can never have good livers. So to keep a good liver, keep your eyes down. Don’t give them too much work. We are giving too much work to our eyes and that’s how it is keeping our attention all the time wobbled out, and if your attention is out, then you can never feel happy. So the liver sustains the attention and for you to be best Sahaja yogi is to put your eyes down, on the Mother Earth. Walk with less raising of your eyes. Respect your eyes. You’re not to waste your eyes on all the time anybody coming up your… I’ve seen even in meditation people can’t keep their eyes straight. You have to keep your eyes all the time in a mood that you’re enjoying yourself, and not enjoying others. But just enjoying yourself, you cannot enjoy others, you have to enjoy yourself, to enjoy somebody else’s vibrations. You can only enjoy others through their vibrations, not through their seeing. And because of this, once you have this kind of a habit, then your liver always gets into it. Then you curse yourself, you do all kinds of things… that’s no good. Just tell yourself- “Hold my eyes on the Mother Earth.” She sustains, She takes away all your problems and everything............

(An Extract of Talk of H H Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi at Delhi ,India, 8th March 1979. )