Formless Divine Power and Three Gunas (Qualities)

 

DIVINE SAHAJYOG

Focus Your Attention Towards the Formless Divine Power

Those who practice Sahaja Yoga should remember that while living in this physical form, we are meant to become mediums of the formless Divine. We have to rise higher. Our attention should be towards the formless, towards the Divine Chaitanya (vibrations), and we should observe the Chaitanya flowing within us.

If you are still satisfied only with the outer physical form, then you cannot progress further. You must attain the formless state within, through which your inner creative powers will grow.

The Shri Ganesha whom you worship in form must be attained in the formless state. You must establish Him within yourself. It is not enough to simply offer flowers and return; everyone does that. They may worship the Mother, worship Gauri, but the real purpose is to imbibe their divine powers within yourself. Through this, you can purify your attention, mind, intellect, and speech.

— Shri Nirmala Mataji

28.09.1988

The Three Gunas (Qualities)

1. Tamasic People

Ignorance, irreligion, arguments, fear, sorrow, guilt, inertia, laziness, immoral behavior, cruelty, and dreadful actions are all tamasic qualities. Such a person becomes extremely manipulative and cunning. Indirectly and deceitfully, they try to trouble others. Tamasic people often suffer from psychosomatic illnesses.

2. Rajasic People

Desires, ambitions, attachment, hatred, jealousy, delusion, pride, cravings, and ego are rajasic qualities. Aggressive behavior is also rajasic in nature. Such people create problems for themselves and their families. A rajasic person insists strongly on their own opinions and imposes them on others. However, if you closely observe their life, it is often miserable. They struggle to maintain harmony with others and cannot communicate peacefully. There exists a large gap between their soul and their existence.

3. Sattvic People

Truth, wisdom, detachment, faith, love, and contentment are sattvic qualities. Sattvic people believe in righteousness and spirituality. However, even religious people may sometimes develop feelings of disregard toward unrighteous individuals

Self Realisatiofn and Blissful Life

 

Giving you Self-realization is my first task; the second task is to provide you with a blissful life. If you have physical ailments, then the Adi Shakti will take care of them with full power; your problems will be removed. That power is comforting and at the same time it protects you.  

Through the awakening of Kundalini Shakti,  

diseases of the body and mind are removed.  

The founder of Sahaja Yoga, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi Ji, has described the awakening of Kundalini and its special qualities in the following way. There are many illusions in the human consciousness; when these illusions are shattered, the consciousness becomes radiant and blissful.  

Through Kundalini awakening, many of your illusions disappear. Kundalini is not merely imagination but a living power residing within human beings. This power exists in all human beings, and in an ordinary person its awakening happens spontaneously. Its awakening does not occur through any ritualistic practices, nor is its awakening possible if a person has committed evil deeds.  

Because even in worthiness, Kundalini does not examine a person’s past actions. Kundalini is righteous and is the Mother in a witnessing state. Yet it knows what goodness and what evil exist within a person. By the grace of Kundalini, diseases of the body and mind are removed. Kundalini Shakti is the willpower of Goddess Bhagwati.  

By the mere wish of Mother Bhagwati, it awakens in the Sushumna Nadi. In the form of vibrations of consciousness, it begins to flow within you, cleansing all three coverings of your body, mind, and ego.  

May it happen, may the consciousness become pure, and if your ego comes to an end, then you begin to receive the blessings of the Spirit. Divine vibrations flow from the Spirit because now the flame of the Spirit’s light begins to burn in a pure manner. Through your own experience, the illusions arising from being connected with falsehood will be destroyed.  

Although the Brahman principle is like the sun, its rays are reflected upon the water of falsehood and make our consciousness unstable; but when your consciousness itself becomes Brahman, this will no longer remain. By becoming one with the loving God and through meditation upon Him, all these illusions will disappear.  

This power of collective consciousness that has awakened within you (after Self-realization) is the Brahma Shakti, which exists throughout the entire universe, in every particle, in various forms. In inanimate objects it is inert power, in living beings it is the power of beauty, in the awakened state it is Krishna Shakti, in Sahaja Yoga it is Chaitanya Shakti, in the Supreme Being it is valor, and within Goddess Bhagwati it is the primal cosmic power.  

(Immortal sayings of Shri Mataji, Chaitanya Lahari, 2005)

Relationship between Meditation and Divine Energy

 

Sahaj Yoga –

The Relationship Between Meditation and Divine Energy

Meditation is an important means to bring balance and peace to human life. According to Sahaj Yoga, meditation is not just a mental exercise, but a process of awakening the soul. It connects us directly to our inner divine energy.

Sahaj Yoga was founded by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, who explained that every human being has a subtle energy within, known as the Kundalini Shakti.

This energy rises through the chakras located in our body and, by touching the Sahasrara chakra, connects us to divine energy. When a person meditates through Sahaj Yoga, this process happens naturally (sahaj).

After the awakening of Kundalini, a person experiences peace, joy, and cool vibrations within.

These vibrations are considered the direct experience of divine energy. Sahaj Yoga teaches that divine energy is not outside, but exists within us.

Through meditation, when our mind reaches a state of thoughtless awareness, we can clearly feel this energy. This experience not only leads to spiritual growth but also brings balance, morality, and positivity into our daily life.

Thus, from the perspective of Sahaj Yoga, the relationship between meditation and divine energy is very deep and direct. Through meditation, a person can awaken their inner Kundalini energy, unite with divine consciousness, and make life more peaceful, balanced, and joyful.

Austerity (Tapasya) is also Mental,

Verbal, and Physical

Controlling the mind from indulging in the pleasures of the senses is mental austerity. Speaking untruth or observing silence is verbal austerity. Fasting or giving physical discomfort to the body for fulfilling desires, such as in Hatha Yoga practices, are forms of physical austerity.

Austerity is the foundation of spiritual life. Saint Tulsidas glorified it by saying, “Tap is the basis of all creation.” A disciplined person determines the direction of their life, while ordinary people remain dependent on circumstances.

Through the energy of austerity, even unfavorable situations can be turned favorable. In fact, austerity is a scientific process with certain limits. Acting irrationally is not considered true austerity.

Avoiding salt, walking barefoot, or staying hungry may cause physical discomfort, but they do not necessarily bring spiritual benefits. Austerity should be practiced with a clear and determined purpose, following a proper path.

Austerity awakens our dormant impressions (sanskaras) and accelerates our spiritual growth. Its purpose is not only to gain energy but also to preserve and properly utilize it.

One who conserves energy becomes powerful. Austerity is not a miracle, but a means of self-refinement. Sahaj Yoga is one such refinement, where miracles happen naturally through tapasya—and this tapasya is meditation.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi explained a simple method of meditation in Sahaj Yoga. By following its principles and meditating twice daily, one attains purity.

With regular meditation, the subtle channels (nadis) are purified, and we begin to feel the flow of divine energy (cool breeze in the palms).

This divine energy brings remarkable changes in our lives. We become healthier and can help others as well. Meditation awakens our inner qualities through the activation of chakras.

One can become a Sahaj Yogi while living a family life and fulfilling all responsibilities.

Ego is the biggest obstacle on the path of austerity. Therefore, to attain the Divine, ego must be surrendered. Even demons performed intense austerities and received boons, but due to ego, they misused that energy.

Sahaj Yoga provides positive energy.

Even if someone practices it with a negative mindset, their thinking gradually changes. This transformation guides us in the right direction in life.

H.H. Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi,

London, 1980

The Opening of SHASRARA

 

I have come many times and taken birth many times. Many of you know it but Sahasrara was not opened. Nothing happened except crying weeping and wasting away all such lives. You could not achieve anything. The opening of Sahasrara only happened in this birth.

That too, I was working away in the nights’ end on, I used to enter inside kundalinis of everyone to find out what the problem is in this motor and that motor. And that too by being with my family, the last stage of Sahaja yoga, which we say the opening of Sahasrara, has happened. That’s why we celebrate 5th May as the Sahastrar day. That day when the Sahasrara opened up, your Sahasrara also opened up.

This means that day the super consciousness came into this world. That’s why you all feel the vibrations. You may ask why not many years ago? Only one in many used to get this and could achieve much. Supra consciousness was needed. God’s kingdom had to come. The sensitivity of that had to be spread in the world. Otherwise, the belief in God would have broken off. Else the world would have drowned away. And Satya yuga wouldn’t have started.

Satya yuga has started. And Satya yuga means that just any other worthless thing will not work. Satya yuga started from the day cancer started in this world. No hanky panky can go on now. You have to stand in dharma. If you do not stand in dharma, you will go towards excessiveness.

Earlier you may have heard a lot of people who used to have one peg a day. Now it does not happen like that. Now a ten year or a fifteen-year-old boy who starts on alcohol turns alcoholic within two years. Everything has become speedy and because of speediness, it won’t work now. Man has to become dharmic now and rise in his dharma. One who does not rise will be defeated. He will have to see losses, mentally, physically, emotionally. All types of losses. And he will see in front of his eyes that he is getting all these painful things. He will understand this. This is a special time.

You can say the time of transition to get down to Satya Yuga. Before fully getting down in Satya yuga, before establishing that your sensitivity should improve. This physical body of yours has the central nervous system and you should get the light of divine on your central nervous system. Till now it is only in the parasympathetic and you have god in your hearts. But this light should come onto your central nervous system and flow in the form of vibrations like it is described. When you understand this completely and study this only then Satya yuga will be established inside you fully.

JAI SHREE MATAJI

Public Program, Brahama Ka Gyan (Knowledge of Brahm), 1st February 1978. Delhi (India)

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SAMADHI AND CHAKRAS

 

This is the trouble with you. You read some nonsensical books - Samadhi, Bindu, this, that, all that. Now please forget it, please forget all these things. Sama-dhi, Samadhi means, first is the Nirvichara Samadhi. First is Nirvichara Samadhi that you achieve and the Kundalini just comes out of your head. Sama-dhi means, the dhi means the buddhi. And when it has got enlightenment it means Samadhi. So first of all, the buddhi gets enlightened - I just now I told you about that only, the first enlightenment. Now, the Bindu and this and that are higher stages. Ardha Bindu, then Bindu and then Valaya. But you should not be futuristic, just now if you have read some book no use trying to show off that. That's not a good thing. Just try to see what you are. Why do you want to talk about things which - which do not concern at this stage? Just now, supposing you are going by bullock cart, why do you want to ask about the airplane? Just now you go by bullock cart, then you get into the train, then you get into the airplane. All right? One by one, not like this. Because you have read the book, it doesn't mean that you are supposed to know everything. All these books are written by some sort of crankish fellows who have read something here and there and have put it down. But you must experience. I'm your Mother, so I don't want to give you big ideas, this and that. I want you to do the way we have to move. As a mother would say, "Now, this is the way you are. Now you are in the first class, so pass your first exam. Then you'll go into the second class, then pass your exam". Everybody has to go that way to mature properly; there should be no immaturity in a personality. So all these books that you have read you better throw them away, there's no good. But if it is by some realized souls you can keep them and think that they are higher people and we have to be at their stage. Only by reading the book you don't become those personalities, do you?...

(Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi 1983-02-04)

God has created fourteen levels within us. If you simply count them, then you know that there are seven chakras within us. Beside these, there are two more chakras, about which you do not talk much. They are the Chakra of Moon (Lalita) and Chakra of Sun (Shri). Then there is Hamsa Chakra. Thus, there are three more. Seven plus three makes ten. Then there are four chakras above Sahasrara. And about these chakras also I have told you: Ardha-bindu, Bindu, Valaya, and Pradakshina. These are the four. After coming to Sahaja Yoga and after your Sahasrara has opened, you have to pass through these four chakras, Ardha-bindu, Bindu, Valay, and Pradakshina. After passing through these four chakras only you can say that you have become a Sahaja yogi. And if you see from another angle, we have to cross fourteen stages in reaching up to Sahasrara. If you divide them then there are seven chakras situated on the Ida Nadi and seven on the Pingala Nadi. ... This 'fourteen' is very important in Kundalini Shashtra (science). Very important. It's a very important thing. We should fully understand that we become entitled to the blessings of Sahaja Yoga only after rising above these fourteen stages.

(14th Sahasrara Day 1983)

[Yogi: Shri Mother, could You say something about the Bindu and the higher chakras above that?] Shri Mataji: You see, I don't think you should worry too much about these. There's three stages higher than Sahasrara. I would suggest just now let us concentrate on Sahasrara, is a better idea. But Bindu, Ardha-Bindu and Valaya are the three stages in which one has to pass through later on, and you would pass gradually when you develop yourself horizontally. That's what we have started now, so let us keep to this idea that we have to develop ourself horizontally. We should see how we affect the other person, how we influence the another person. (1987-0506)

Within us, as you know, there are seven chakras for your ascent and two above it. So all these nine chakras are to be crossed in this life time. That should be your destiny.

(9th Day of Navaratri 1988)

In Sanskrit language, a bangle is called as valaya and that is the last stage which one has to reach in one’s ascent. That means the complete. (1986-0921)

MAYA : Worldly Illusion or Attachment

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, the founder of Sahaja Yoga, had a very clear and spiritual perspective on “Maya” (worldly illusion or attachment).

The main points of her views are as follows:

Meaning of Maya (Illusion): According to Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Maya is the worldly attachment, illusion, and materialistic attraction that keeps a human being away from their true Self and divine power.

It acts like a veil.

Freedom from Maya (Self-Realization): She believed that only through Kundalini awakening (Self-realization) can a person be freed from the bondage of Maya.

When the Kundalini rises and crosses the Agnya Chakra, the mind becomes thoughtless (a state of thoughtless awareness), reducing the influence of Maya.

Balance and Witness State: Mataji taught that one should rise above Maya while living a household life and fulfilling worldly responsibilities. She emphasized being detached while living within Maya, maintaining a witness state rather than

renouncing everything.

Love and Compassion: According to her, true love is the antidote to Maya.

Through Divine Love, a person can rise above material desires and attachments.

Lack of Inner Knowledge: Maya dominates as long as a person is not connected to their Self and the Divine. Through Sahaja Yoga, when a person attains Self-knowledge, the illusion of Maya naturally dissolves.

In summary, Shri Mataji did not

consider Maya as purely negative, but rather as a lower state of awareness that can be transcended through Self-realization and Sahaja Yoga.

Shri Mataji described Sahaja Yoga as a pure, universal path that integrates all religions. She also stated that she was a divine incarnation, more

precisely the Holy Spirit.

A loving invitation through a self-composed poem to attend the meditation center:

“Do come to the center sometimes,

Meet your Sahaja brothers and sisters, even if by chance.

You do come for puja…

Do come to the center as well.

How will purity flow through impure channels?

To cleanse these pathways, make some effort.

You do come for puja…

Do come to the center as well.”

Human body is the temple of God. But this temple must be enlightened and pure. You have to cleanse and purify your entire being so that it becomes a beautiful temple where God can reside.

Param Pujya Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Sahajayoga by women - Grihalakshmi

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi ji has given very beautiful and practical guidance for those women who, due to household responsibilities or social reasons, are unable to step बाहर of their homes.  

Based on Sahaja Yoga discourses, here are Mother’s main suggestions:

### 1. Recognize the Power of the Grihalakshmi  

Shri Mataji used to say that a woman is the **“Grihalakshmi”** (the auspicious energy of the home). If you are balanced and joyful within the home, your state influences the entire family. Mother said that when you awaken your inner power (Kundalini) through meditation, such attraction and peace develop in your personality that family members gradually begin to respect what you say.

### 2. Creating a Path with Love and Patience  

Mother always taught that there is no need to struggle or argue to step outside.  

* **Tolerance:** Mother said that even the hardest heart can be won with love and affection.  

* **Balance:** Fulfill your household duties so skillfully that no one has any complaints. When family members see that Sahaja Yoga has made you calmer, happier, and more efficient, they will themselves encourage you to go out.

### 3. Making the Home Itself a Center  

Shri Mataji showed a wonderful path for women who cannot go outside:  

* **Programs at Home:** Mother said, “If you cannot go out, bring Sahaja Yoga into your home.” You can invite neighboring women or your friends over for tea or satsang and give them Self-Realization.  

* In this way, your home itself becomes a “meditation center,” and you won’t feel the need to go outside.

### 4. Connection through Collective Consciousness  

In today’s time, this teaching of Mother has become even easier through technology. Mother always emphasized **collectivity**. Even if you cannot go out physically, stay connected with other Sahaja Yoginis through phone or internet. Giving vibrations to each other and joining collective meditation gives you, even while at home, the same strength that you would get by going outside.

### 5. Pure Desire and Prayer  

Mother said that if you have a **“pure desire”** to do the work of the Divine or to be in collectivity, then the whole of nature creates a path for you.  

* Pray to Mother: *“Mother, please create such circumstances for me that I may enjoy collectivity.”*  

* Regularly take **bandhan** and use vibrations to remove your obstacles.

**Conclusion:**  

Shri Mataji’s main message was that, while remaining within your **values** and **traditions**, and without any conflict, you should gradually transform the hearts of your family. When your devotion deepens, the doors to step outside will open on their own.