Many people may have a question as to how sahaja yoga actually works. Adishakti Mataji Nirmaladevi has explained it in her various speeches.
following explanation by mataji nirmaladevi is taken from one of her speech, but in parcial form, not totally, as it would be too big and reader may loose interest, if it is too big.
Matajis speech -
We must understand that Sahaja Yoga is not done through brain activities. Like many people think that if you just tell yourself, “You have to be like this”, it will work out. If you have to all the time inform yourself that, “Oh, you must get rid of a particular problem”, you’ll be all right. Or some people think that if they tell somebody, that “This is wrong with you and you should get well”, it will be all right. It is not so. Because Sahaja Yoga does not work on mental level. It works on spiritual level which is a much higher level than the mental level.
So what you have to do is to understand how to
correct your chakras. And you must understand how to work out your machines.
Perhaps people still live on mental level and try to solve problems on mental
level. And that’s why all the problems start coming out. Now, if you have a
problem with any chakras or there is anything catching or you find that there’s
something wrong with you, no use working it out on any other level but
spiritual level.
Some people believe that if they have dressed up like
something or if they outwardly behave like something, they become that. That is
not true. Like we have hippies in the West and they think that they have become
primitive. You do not become primitive by believing it. Because you are so
overdeveloped, that you cannot become primitive. So by just doing something
mentally we do not become.
Now, this mental level
can go even further in a subtler way into people. Some of you might feel that
by knowing some of the aartis and things by heart you will achieve great depth,
it is not true, also. Because that is also just words. But, if that is an
awakened thing within you, then they become a mantra. And then you can work it
out. But first of all you must achieve a certain standard to have that power to
create the mantras. Also, when you say some aarti, it’s not necessarily
possible that it will work out. Let us face the things as they are and not to
be conditioned by anything else. You have to achieve a certain depth within
yourself to even enlighten the mantras. First of all you should have clear-cut
vibrations, minimum of minimum.
If you have certain
chakras catching, then try to improve your chakras with the photograph. With
all due respect to the photograph. It’s only the photograph which is going to
work it out. Nothing else. Or if I am there. But once you have achieved a
certain state of enlightenment, then you can use mantras otherwise also, it
will help you. But first of all your heart must be clear. I’ve found out, in
general, there are two chakras overwhelmingly not working all right in most of
the western people. First is the heart. That means heart is not clear, that
heart is not clean, that in the heart you still are a small person, in the
heart you have not placed your Mother. You have to purify your heart by looking
at the photograph and putting all loving feelings about your Mother,
understanding Her work and putting Her into your heart. If the heart is not
clear, then everything has no meaning because it is a “dark heart” which is
doing all these things. The heart has to be clean, absolutely surrendered and
must try to put Me before everything else. I can tell you because you are all
Sahaja Yogis, I cannot say this to people who are not Sahaja Yogis.
But first of all,
people do not understand that you have to work it through your heart and not
through your brain. When we have to work out things through our brain, we try
to develop our brain, isn’t it? By memorizing, by practising something,
teaching our brain how to think, how to go this way that way. We try to train
our brain.
Now, we have to train our heart in Sahaja Yoga. And to train our heart in Sahaja Yoga one has to know, first of all, that it is enveloped either by ego or by superego. The limbic area actually represents the heart. And if there is ego, heart will always be so-called, it will not be the real heart that will be working, but it’s only mental, mental projection. And you will feel that “I’m doing it from my heart.” But it’s not true.
reference - Keep Your Mother Pleased”, Devi Puja, Vaitarna (India), 21 January 1983.
