Spiritual state in the light of Sahajayoga

 

Spiritual state / maqaamt in the light of Sahajayoga

In the spiritual state, nothing can disturb you, nothing can overpower you, nothing can dominate you, because that state if you have, that means you are part and parcel of reality, then you are an honoured member of the God´s kingdom. Then you are the most revered personality. Then you are like a deity, then you are like a gana. In that state, when you are, it´s a state, again I say it, beyond the human state, you are extremely powerful.

- Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

As we all aware that just getting self realisation and feeling cool breeze is not much important , we have to attain certain state in Sahajayoga in order to understand depth of our self realisation.

maqaam or maqaamat (plural), translating to "state" in Arabic word.

Although the number and order of maqaamat are not universal the majority agree on the following seven: Tawba, Wara', Zuhd, Faqr, Ṣabr, Tawakkul, and Riḍā.Sufis believe that these stations are the grounds of the spiritual life, and they are viewed as a mode through which helps the overall attainment of union/ Yoga or oneness with Allah (Tawhid ).

According to sufi philosophy , state/ maqam is the one stage has been reached that the next stage may be attained. In order to reach a higher maqaam, one must continue to possess the maqaam below it ,in yoga ww called this as Pratayahar.

1. TAWBA - forgiveness ( Aagya chakra)

2. WARA - witness state( Visshudi chakra)

3.Tawaakul - trusting in God's plan ( Sahastrara)

4. RIDA - pleasure ( Heart)

5.SABR - patience ( Nabhi)

6.ZUHD - detachment of attention from material things ( Swadisthan)

7.FAQAR - faqar e faqat which means

Innocen or simple ( Mooladhara).

Haal -

One of the great realised soul Ali bin Usman Al-Hujwiri (formerly known as Data gunj baksh awliya - famous dargah of lahore , Pakistan) in his book Kashf ul Mahjoob: defines Hal as "something that descends from God into a man".

Above all the states Thoughtless awareness and doubtless awareness is what we have to achieve in meditation mentioned by mother in her talks many times.

taken from facebook post of Aparna Gangopadhay

Learning from the Sea

 

LEARNING FROM THE SEA

There is no need to go to Himalayas. The – whatever is covering is in the Himalayas, is what is nothing but the water from the sea only. It’s one of the circles, that water passes to the Himalayas, then comes back as rivers, again falls into the same sea. They have to come to the sea. So it is everything ends up here. And then it is allowed – it goes through tapasya – it allows the Sun to create that cloud by suffering the heat, heat of the Sun, and becomes vapours, and then it goes as clouds and you get your rain. In the same way we have to be; we have to bear the heat of others, the anger of others and create vapours – means the blessings, the vibrations for others. It is with Me, same thing. When I see somebody who is sick and I treat him, of course I have to bear a little bit, sometimes quite a lot, then I absorb it and then they become vibrations. They just start flowing as vibrations. So this is what you have to learn from the sea, which is very important for sahaja yogis, that you absorb everything, doesn’t matter. But don’t get attached to it, and let it become vapours, and the Sea can now become the vapours. As you all are here, all these vapours as vibrations should flow.

This method you should try to understand by courage. Because the other day when I was coming, there was a lady sitting just on the way: “Mother, her feet are out of order, or something gone wrong. Please treat her.” Why should I treat? Why can’t you treat? Are you afraid to treat someone? Then there’s another one who comes up to say: “Mother, You treat her.” Why can’t you treat? You all can treat them, you can help them, and you’ll be surprised, the more you’ll treat them the better you will be. You should venture, you should have that much courage to treat others. If you don’t treat others you won’t grow because that is what, like the sea, as you have seen, you become the vibrations. And when you treat others there are more vibrations. Why should God give you vibrations if you are not going to use it? Simple logic. Why should God give you light if you are not going to use it? Christ has said that, “You don’t put light under a measure.” That’s what we are doing when we are not using our hands, our feet, our brains for Sahaja Yoga: we are not creating vibrations within ourselves.

The same body that is yours can just become a bundle of vibrations, if you start using these vibrations. But if you don’t use these vibrations you’ll have problems, the problems, all the time, and you will not understand: “Why? I am doing everything, I am doing this” – because you are not using your vibrations.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Dec 29, 1991

taken from facebook post of Nilesh Kale Patil

 

Mahamaya would make You Your own Guru, Your Own Doctor

The role of Mahamaya in resolving global problems

Sahasrara is the most powerful chakra because it is the seven chakras combination and many others. With the Sahasrara you can do anything. You can manage the sun, you can manage the moon, you can manage the earth, you can manage the temperatures, everything. But, through Mahamaya things work out very normally, very normally and they should work out normally. For example somebody can say, “Mother, there is atmosphere full of all these horrible ecological problems, why don’t you clear them?” If it is cleared people will go on producing. It is the problem of the human beings and if it is corrected by me they’ll take it for granted. They have to face those problems, they have to change their habits, they have to understand that they are the one who are destruct, destroying themselves. Otherwise, if somebody’s there just to cleanse it out they will never change. Also, miraculously, one can do lots of things. One can say, “Mother, as you solve the problems of Sahaja Yogis, why don’t you solve the problem of others?” No. To solve their problem is not the end of my work, nor is the purpose. But to make them equipped so that they can solve their own problem, that’s what I have to do.

As I’ve said that you have to be your own doctor, you have to be your own guru. Without Mahamaya you cannot do it because She knows how far to go in correcting, how far to go in controlling because human beings, at large, have their own freedom. Sahaja Yogis have not that kind of a stupid freedom, but they have the freedom of the spirit. So to solve their problems is perfectly all right because they must have more freedom and more freedom. But what’s the use of giving freedom to other people who are going on and on and on without realizing what wrong they are doing to the whole world? So, for them it is necessary to come to Sahaja Yoga and that’s why it’s a Mahamaya Swarupa.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Sahasrara Puja 1994

Thee Stages for Graduation in Sahajayoga

 

Following is the text of speech given by Mataji Nirmaladevi in public program in United Kingdom -

“Three Stages for Graduation in Sahajayoga.”

..,,so you know about Kundalini, you know awakening of the Kundalini and all those things. Now we have within ourselves, this power by which it is going to happen to us. This is the power of pure desire, of pure desire within us because so far as we have seen all our desires that we have cannot satisfy us. So there must be some desire within us which leads us to completion or to the fulfilment of our ultimate desire to be the Spirit, and this power lies in the triangular bone in the lowest part of your spinal cord.

Without the Spirit, you cannot understand what is beneath and what is above.

Beneath is your beautiful being, the glorious human being that is created by God and above is the all pervading power of love of God Almighty...

So there are three stages we can say.

◆ First is you are to be awakened, the Kundalini, it has to be brought out of your head here (Shri Mataji’s hand above her head). so that the cool breeze of the holy ghost you can feel it on your head.

◆ This is the second stage where you start feeling a cool breeze also in the hand. So many people don’t feel in the beginning in the hand also on the head they do not feel, because it’s a very subtle thing, but if a Sahaja Yogi feels it that means it has started but in a very subtle way. Then you must allow it to grow more and more and to dispense all the obstructions on its way. Gradually, it becomes a steady light and then a Sahaj Yogi any Sahaj Yogi can put it in such a way that you start feeling it in your hands also. Starts flowing in your hands because from the hands of a Sahaj Yogi, that power is flowing. With that power, he can handle the situation in such a way that your hands start feeling it, flowing from your hand, flowing from here (Shri Mataji’s hand above her head).

Now, when it happens, suddenly, sometimes it happens to people in a very sudden way, in a sudden rush also because they have been seekers for ages perhaps. But then they feel, oh I feel very high, absolutely on top of the world, I’ve become a witness now, naturally, because it is such a change you see. But, that’s not the end of it because you must know how to kindle it properly, to keep it going and all that. If you don’t do that, it will again come down. You must learn how to keep it going, how to work it out. That’s the part that’s the transition part through which you have to go. Some people take at the most eight days, some people take a month or so. But once you have done it, you become your own master.

To give another analogy, a very simple one. It’s like this, when you are driving a car, there’s a break and an accelerator. This is the freedom that has been given to you first of all, to learn how to use the break and the accelerator. To take the car in a proper way, to keep it in the centre, the way it has to move. Then once you have learnt it, what happens is that you automatically become a driver. Nobody has to tell you now put the break, now do this. You know it, automatically you develop it. This is the second stage of driving.

◆ Now the third stage is that you really become an expert in that and you drive without even knowledge that you are driving, when you are perfect. But still there is one more stage left. That there is a master sitting behind, who wants you to drive this way and that way and the master says now stop the car. He’s there. Now what happens that when you really become a Sahaja Yogi, is the point, when you become the master. You start seeing the driver within you, and the accelerator and the break, and you control as a master. That’s the point you have to reach. So these are the four stages through which you have to pass, which gradually works out just like your graduation, without much difficulty, for which you cannot pay. But you must have respect for yourself, you must know you can do it and you must have that understanding that you are a human being. The epitome of evolution, and that you have to become the Spirit. It works out. It works out very fast, these days and should work out in this University also, alright. Analogy should not be taken too far because this is Divine working and Divine working is such that we can’t understand how it works. In the beginning, if I tell you, you’ll be amazed how it works you see. You will say now Mother explain, but I won’t be able to explain so many things. It’s tremendous. The Divine power has all your communications and everything. It’s tremendous and in a split of a second it works. It is to be seen for yourself. Now the time has come to prove the existence of God, to prove the existence of his Divine power. For the first time you start feeling the subtle power when you get your realisation. You start feeling it in your hands as cool breeze of the Holy Ghost. ...

May God bless you.

H H Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Public Program, University of Sussex, United Kingdom, May 25,1983.

Respect and Love - Essence of Sahajayoga

 

Following is the  text of message given by Mataji Nirmaladevi in one of her speech  given in London in  1980.

YOU ARE PART OF THE DIVINE BEING

I'll just give an example because I was discussing with someone today. When you give somebody a sort of BANDHAN you just turn your hand like this or like that. This is not the way it should be done. Your HANDS itself are to be RESPECTED because these are hands of a saint. And all the deities reside on your hands and fingers so when you have to give them Bandhan or anything, you have to use them properly. Use them in such a way that it's dignified to do it. Any indignity or cheap behaviour should be absolutely avoided.

Then dealing with each other you have to know that YOU ARE NOW IN THE CIRCULATION OF DIVINE POWER. You have to respect each other and Really love each other. You must respect because you all are SAINTS. EVERY SAINT MUST RESPECT EACH ANOTHER SAINT. That's the minimum of minimum. And if you do not respect each other, your Chakras will go out of order, specially Vishuddhi because it's the collective thing. And also Mother's Chakra will go out because your sense of security is your collectivity. And the love between each other has to be not only looked after but is to be nourished and to be worshipped and it should be a virtue. ...... And even talking to anyone very close -- say your brother, sister, husband, wife -- you must respect, you must respect, otherwise, it has no meaning.

You must respect your parents much more than you ever respected because they are Sahaja Yogis, because they are saints and they are your parents. RESPECT IS THE KEYNOTE OF RELATIONSHIP WITH EACH OTHER TO BEGIN WITH. AND RESPECT WITHOUT LOVE HAS NO MEANING. Respect and love for each other. ......... How much you earn, what is your position in life, where you live is not important. The main important thing is that WE ARE ONE and are the people who have become now prophets and we are the ones who have got the powers to raise the Kundalini of others and such a power has come into us because OUR MOTHER LOVES US VERY MUCH AND IT IS OUR DUTY THAT WE SHOULD LOVE EACH OTHER.

Eight Hurdles in Spiritual ascent

With the blessings of Mataji Nirmaladevi and by following the path she has taught us anybody and everybody can move on towards spiritual ascent.  However, it is not very easy.  

There are so many other factors which may come in our way of spiritua ascent.

During one of her speech Mataji Nirmaladevi has described following eights hurdles in spiritual ascent. It is our duty not be get caught by any of these, if we want to mover further on the path. 

Eight Hurdles in Spiritual ascent .....

" Excellent people are very few. They are born realised. I do not have their problem much. But one has to deal with the people who are in the center. They are looking towards good but have something hanging on to them which is not so good. So for these people there are inherent defects in the Kundalini which we must understand.

◆The first of them is bad health, physical bad health. One should know that health is very important thing. Because this body is the temple of God. Do not always say- " Mother cure me, cure me." Just say- " Mother Please keep me in the Spiritual life." You will be cured automatically.

◆The second hurdle which is Akarmanyata. Meaning a person does not want to work it out.

◆Third is Sanshya which is doubt.

◆ Forth is Pramad. It is one by which we go on faultering all the time.

◆ Fifth is Bhram- darshan. Hallucination.

◆ Sixth is Vishya- Chitta in which the attention is attracted by objects of your previous identifications where your attention has been.

◆ Seventh people get posseessed and get ideas.

◆ Eight one starts doubting. Mainly those who visited wrong gurus or wrong places.

Humility is the only way to know that there is an Ocean before you have got into the boat alright. But you have to understand a lot. And you have still to attend to your Attention to your Chitta, to your awareness. "

Caxton Hall, London.

10th December, 1979

Complete Surrender and Dedication to Mataji is key to real dharma

 

Dedicate to me not to Sahajayoga...........

“You have to Dedicate yourself completely to me, not to Sahaja Yoga, but to me. Sahaja Yoga is just one of my aspects. Leaving everything, you have to dedicate. Complete dedication, otherwise you cannot ascend any further. Without questioning, without arguing.”

[Most of it comes from the talk 30/07/1982]

“Dedication is the easiest way to get rid of all your angularities, all your problems, all your badhas.

Complete dedication, is the only way you can grow further.

Krishna said, ‘Sarva dharmanam parityajya, mamekam sharanam vraja’. Forget all the religion of the world (dharma).

There is no difference between him and me, but today I am the one, I am the one who has given you Realization.

All these dharmas are to be given up entirely, and you have to surrender fully from your heart.

Here, as you are before me today, I want to tell you very frankly, as Krishna had told only Arjuna, ‘Sarva dharmanam parityajya, mamekam sharanam vraja’.

Shri Krishna has said: “Give up all your dharmas and surrender them to Me, surrender to my dharma only”. “You should only know what you owe to Me” meaning the Divinity. Now Shri Krishna is not there, it’s Me who is Shri Krishna, so you must know what you owe to Me.”

[Krishna puja, 1983, Vienne]

“She can be achieved through bhakti. She can only be achieved through dedication. She’s only fond of her bhaktas, the devotees.

For this, meditation is the only way I should say.

Emotionally you may feel closer to Me in your heart.

But through meditation, surrender. Meditation is nothing but surrendering, is complete surrendering.

In your full freedom, complete freedom, you have to surrender.

And only through your bhakti, through your devotion and dedication, you can achieve Me. My achievement is the complete manifestation of your Divine power. It’s very simple, made so simple.

I’m only pleased by people who are simple, innocent, who are not tricky, who are loving, affectionate to each other. It’s very easy to please Me. When I see you loving each other, talking good of each other, helping each other, respecting each other, laughing aloud together, enjoying together each other’s company, I get my first blessing, my first joy.

So, the dedication in meditation, complete dedication in meditation, must be practiced. It’s not for your good now you are doing it, so-called ‘your’.

First you were a little baby, a small thing; now you are that collective being, so you are not doing anything for yourself, but for that collective being. You are growing to be aware of that whole which you are going to become.

Your jobs, your money, your wives, your husbands, your children, your father, mother, relations, these considerations are over now. You all have to take up the responsibility of Sahaja Yoga. Every one of you is quite capable. You are brought up for that.

In dedication, in complete devotion, you have to do it now, not for your own gain, for your own achievement, that’s over now. It’s for completely getting out of the mire and standing on the land, singing aloud the praise of your Father.

You have to bear the brunt, and the sacrifice, which are no more sacrifices to you because Spirit gives, it never sacrifices. Its quality is to give. So, you don’t sacrifice, you just give.”

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Moreover, in Sahaja Yoga, I’ve seen people of seventy years also want to get married. I can’t understand, you know. After all, loneliness is not possible in Sahaja Yoga, you have so many Sahaja Yogis. Where is the loneliness? I never feel lonely. I would love to be sometimes.

If you are not with me, my family is with me. I’m never alone and I’m never alone when I’m alone, really. I enjoy myself best when I’m alone because I have time to reflect back as to what we have achieved, as to how these moments were beautiful moments of meeting you all, all those beautiful places I visited with you, all the enjoyments.

So all such people who are explaining their problems of Mooladhara have to know one thing, that this is a sure certificate for them to go to hell, absolutely. Because either from the Mooladhara, you know, all kinds of diseases come in which are incurable, according to the doctor. Say, you take multiple sclerosis.

From multiple sclerosis through all the disabilities of the muscles, even cancers could be started by Mooladhara problem. Why is it so much cancer in the Western countries than in any other countries? Everybody has an explanation. Somebody said there are not so many doctors of cancer, that’s why there are. It’s not so.

Now, you see the disease of schizophrenia also can come from Mooladhara problem. Of course, you know AIDS is nothing but Mooladhara problem. But still, if you want to make a martyrdom out of that, that, “We are AIDS soldiers walking to our death,” then what can you do to such stupid people? And stupidity comes also from Mooladhara, because He is the giver of wisdom. How do you get the wisdom? Only by awakening your Shri Ganesh. 

Importance of Lord Ganesha , his qualities and teachings

 

Following is the extract of the gansh puja talk given by Mataji Nirmaladevi in Australia -

Shri Ganesha puja. Lanersbach (Austria), 26 August 1990.

Today we are celebrating the birthday of Shri Ganesha. You all know the story of His birth and I need not repeat it. But, as He was created by the Mother only, by Adi Shakti, in the same way you are all created after Him.

So, you are on the path of Shri Ganesha already. Your eyes sparkle the same way His eyes sparkle. You all have the beautiful glow on your face as He had. Whether you are small, big or old makes no difference. All the beauty comes to us through the glow of Shri Ganesha. If He’s satisfied, then we don’t have to worry about any other deities, because the power of all the deities is Shri Ganesha. He’s like a vice-chancellor sitting on every chakra. Unless and until He signs, Kundalini cannot cross through, because Kundalini’s the Gauri and is the Virgin Mother of Shri Ganesh.

Now we have to understand that we are here in the Western society where so much has gone wrong because we never bother to look after Shri Ganesha. Christ came and His message spread all over the world. He talked of things which are not practised by Christians, not at all. Because whatever they started is not based on truth. Truth is that Shri Ganesha took birth as Christ. If that is the truth, then they have to understand in the light of Shri Ganesha this great incarnation of Christ.

That is, He has told people that, “Thou shalt not have adulterous eyes.” Actually, for a saint, He doesn’t know what is an adulterous eyes, because He just sees. He just sees. As Shri Gyaneshwara’s beautifully said niranjanapani: to see without any reaction, just to see. 

That is the quality of innocence, which was brought to light by Christ, our Lord. But we did not imbibe any one of these qualities. 

Now supposing you are worshipping today Shri Ganesh. So why are you worshipping Shri Ganesha? You’re worshipping because your Ganesha must be awakened, that you should have the qualities of Shri Ganesha within you, that you should feel that innocence in your eyes. Otherwise you are a hypocrite. If you are sitting here and worshipping Shri Ganesha and you are not trying to put your attention to your ascent as Shri Ganesh, then it is useless.

And then He is an eternal child. He doesn’t have ego, He doesn’t have any conditionings. So, He’s an eternal child. We have to become eternal children of our Mother. To get to that state, what do we have to do is simple, that o to raise our Kundalini, fix it up, o to do meditation and keep our attention inside, more, and not to react.

Now, to say not to react means just to watch. And when you watch without thinking about it, then the truth, which is really poetry, comes out. That’s why a poet sees much more than an ordinary person can see. The inner’s beauty just starts penetrating your vision and you start seeing it.

So, you have seen children, whatever may be their origin, from whatever country they might be coming, whether it is Japan or whether it is England, India, Australia, anywhere, see the children are normally very beautiful.

 I realised, you see, these small, little children, their Ganesha is awakened in them. Everybody’s Ganesha is awakened when you are born. All the animals have their Ganesha intact with them, specially the birds. We never think how birds, all the way from Siberia go to Australia. What direction comes to them, from where? They have got a magnet within themselves. That is Shri Ganesh. Magnet is Shri Ganesha. So, this magnet, which is within us can attract innocent people and repel cunning, horrible as they call witch and devils and all those. So this magnet has both the qualities, that it repels those who are not all right and it attracts those who are innocent. And that is why in Sahaja Yoga we find that we cannot tolerate some people somehow or other, “We try, we try, we try. You see Mother, some are a bit difficult, you know.” They don’t know what is the reason. The reason is Ganesha. Now, in the Western society, as you know, not that they’ve not paid any attention to their Ganesha quality, but they have talked too much about the perversion of Shri Ganesha. They talk on the television, they talk here, there, in every way. The children see it and so many small, little children are suffering from Shri Ganesh problem, very small children. How do they get into these problems is because of the atmosphere is full of it.

He is the giver of wisdom.

So, Shri Ganesha has created you. Because of Him, you were born. He’s the one who looked after you when you were in the womb of the mother. He’s the one who saw to it that you are born at the right time. He’s the one who has looked after your nourishment, everything.

He’s the one who has looked after your development of the foetus, of the brain and everything. All is done that by this great personality, Shri Ganesh — so how much we owe to Him!

Now, many people have a feeling also that we have lost our innocence. That is something, an eternal quality you have got. You never lose your innocence. Maybe, as clouds can cover the whole sky, maybe your ego and conditionings and your mistakes might have covered it, but it is always there, always there. Only thing, it is for you to respect it, to behave in a manner that you respect your innocence. Not to feel shy about your innocence, never. Your innocence itself is a power and your innocence will definitely give you that wisdom by which you can solve all the problems without any difficulty.

But in a deeper way, if you see who is Shri Ganesha, He is the child of Adi Shakti. She created Him from the Omkara. Now, Omkara is the Logos, as you call it, is the first sound when Sadashiva and Adi Shakti separated, for creation. That sound is used as Omkara which are vibrations, which have light in it. They have all the causals of all the elements, only on the right side.

Then left side, it has the power of your emotions.

In the centre it has the power of your ascent.

So it’s a very powerful deity we have and He’s playful. Children are seldom cruel. He’s not cruel, but if anything is done against the Mother, then He goes all wild. Then He punishes and that is how the divine justice is brought to people.

Thus, if we surrender to Shri Ganesh, He protects us, He gives us wisdom, He gives a proper understanding, the protocol of the Mother. He does not know any other deity but His Mother. He doesn’t bother about any other deity but His Mother, and He knows that She’s the most powerful deity. And this is His wisdom, which must be imbibed. When you pray, you must try to imbibe that.

So today’s puja is specially to be done with a prayer in your heart that: 

“Shri Ganesha, please be kind and merciful and forgiving that You manifest within ourselves. 

Let all these hypocritical things, all these conditionings and all these wrong ideas we have or all the wrong life we have had, should just disappear like thin air, 

and let the beautiful moonlight of your soothing qualities of innocence be manifested through us.

Let us manifest these qualities.”

This is what is to be asked.

So, may God bless you all!

reference -https://www.amruta.org/1990/08/26/shri-ganesha-puja-lanersbach-1990