Protocol to deal with Pictures of Mataji Nirmaladevi

 

Some Aspects Of The Protocol Of The Picture Of H H Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

[ by Gregoire de Kalbermatten]

 

When I was staying in the first ashram of the UK in Finchley, at some point, I took down some pictures of Shri Mataji that were posted on the walls. Someone complained to Her and, as I visited Her in Her flat at Ashley Gardens, opposite Westminster cathedral, She asked me what had happened. I responded that Her pictures were put on revolving doors and on the side of a narrow corridor, there were too many of them, so we could not properly put our attention on them. Her pictures are not a decoration. She approved.

We need to remind ourselves that the pictures of Shri Mataji are a gateway through which the wind of the Holy Spirit can bless human beings. This reality is energizing, it is sacred. The depth of this understanding is not reflected when we put pictures of Shri Mataji on key holders, letterhead, distribution leaflets and other material that is bound to be thrown away. While she said we should not bother if ill intentioned people desecrate Her public posters with graffiti, it is their problem, not ours … ours is still the responsibility to handle Her image with the due sense of protocol.

Her image, with myriads of subtle variations and moods, is manifesting this Saundarya Lahari, this Ocean of Beauty celebrated by Adi Shankaracharya. The protocol of Her image is the expression of our deep understanding, gratitude and respect. Most yogis know how to handle the picture of their guru with love and respect so I will not elaborate on this. Yes, She loved flowers so much, so decorating the altar with fresh flowers is a simple but sure way to please Her. However I recently received queries on the following point.

If we have been given pictures of Shri Mataji that are on material to be disposed of, or damaged, or the picture is blurred, or any other reason we do not wish to keep it, please let us not put it in the waste bin and definitely let us not burn them! If the support material is biodegradable we can put it in the living water, such as a river, lake etc… where the vibrations will be absorbed. For instance if we have a large quantity we can chose to put it in a bag loaded with a stone, so that the material will sink. If the support of the photo is plastic and the picture cannot be removed from its support, better to bury it in the earth.

The choice of the picture is also important. Of course all pictures of Shri Mataji are of Shri Mataji but… She mentioned several times that one should not take indiscriminate pictures of Her and also that … sometimes, the not so good vibrations of the photographer, affect the result. For instance, some pictures have been taken towards the last part of the life of our Mother when She was visibly unwell.

Our Mother was unwell, I reckon, because She took upon Herself the tremendous tapasya that resulted also from accepting in Her spiritual Viratangana Body, a number of us, disciples of considerable spiritual mediocrity. But would She wish us to document this? I am simply not sure that circulating such pictures has been an expression of the discrimination She wished us to have. It is easy to check which picture to use because, this is the case when the right choice is directly certified: we feel the vibrations.

referebce- facebook post by Emmanuel Reymond 

Spread Sahajayoga = Power of Innocence, Light within self, vishwa nirmala dharama

 

We all have to come out in the public, we have to find out ways and methods. It’s not only the leaders, everybody has to work it out what we can do to spread Sahaja Yoga. In every place you go: how can we give Sahaja Yoga? Of course I don’t want you to change your dresses – but you can carry big badges. People will ask you. You should say, “Yes, this is the person who has given us peace, joy and happiness.” Start talking like that, go to the markets, go to public places.

I go to market just to spread vibrations – you all have to do that, otherwise you will have the Sahaja Yoga enjoyment to yourself , but unless and until you share it you are not going to enjoy it fully. Look at Me. I have all the vibrations of the world. (Laughter) I have everything, I should be such a self-contented person, sitting at home – in meditation. (Laughter) At this age, why should I travel after all? (Laughter) I am the Adi Shakti – why should I worry of making everybody such a powerful shakti people? There’s no need. I should enjoy my powers, I can, but I cannot.

I have to work hard. I give the maximum time to Sahaja Yoga, than any one of you can give. I have a family, I have got my husband. He has a life which is very, very busy life. I’ve got grandchildren. I give the maximum time. Now see, from here to Rome, then to France, then to Spain. You all are having just a relay race. Alright, I am here – Italians are having a little strain. Then they will relax! “Now alright…” (Laughter) Then, what do I do? All the year round I am going from places to places…travelling. And when I have everything. Can you think of a rich man who is busy distributing all the wealth he has, while the others take time to take it? That is what it is.

So I have to tell you that you have to come in a new dimension of your enthusiasm. Sahaja Yoga is not for our enjoyment alone. “We are saints,” so what! For what? For what you are made saints? It’s not that the men should only do, or women should do, or this one should do, or that one should do. Don’t get involved into these temptations. There are thirteen temptations, which came out of the churning. The fourteenth one was a big hunter to neutralise all the thirteen.

Not that Sahaja Yoga wants to tempt anyone, but they become temptations because they are blessings to you, and blessings you start using as temptations. Now, for anybody, to have such a temptation would be more like a horse, which has to go to the south or to the north, is standing and eating the grass. You have to move, movement is the point, you have to move from places to places, you have to go from villages to villages, you have to go from houses to houses. This message has to spread.

Diwali Puja, “Power of Innocence”. Lecco (Italy), 25 October 1987.

Let Love flow from your Heart

 

" You must understand that whatever is being done by you, is all God’s power, that is, the working of the Adi Shakti and you are only the witnesses to see these miracles. For achieving that stage, you should pray: “May our ‘I consciousness’ fade away. May the truth that all of us are a small part of your being be assimilated within us, so that your Divine bliss would resonate every particle of our bodies and this life would be filled with beautiful melodies enchanting the whole of mankind, and showing the light to the rest of the world”.

Let love flow from your hearts. Love is unlimited. Your love is unlimited. Your attention is on material things and you are talking about eternity. Your attention should merge in eternity, so that you will have eternal life.

You are officials of God’s kingdom – then why are you sulking? All deities are your elder brothers in this kingdom. They are present in many forms along the path of Kundalini. You should recognize them and attain them. Kundalini is your Mother. Learn to always remain under Her care. Be Her child, and She will take you to the Ultimate.

Once you accomplish that, from where everything is born, you will have the rest very easily!

But you are not consistent in the practice of meditation, love, and a peaceful life. You are talking casually even to M koe. But how eager you are in worldly matters! How adamant you become on having what you want! Why are you not casual in that respect instead?

Do not run away from the reality because I am Mahamaya! Attain Me; I am yours! I am for you. I have given you that which has been beyond the reach of very great sages and saints. How will you make use of it? You have been given a very big asset. Thousands of stars and planets were created with just its one wave!

There is great significance to your rebirth. But you, yourselves, have to achieve that – you, yourselves have to find the meaning of “SWA” (Self)! Sahaja Yogis can do it. It is a big contrivance. I have told you the secret, but what have you achieved? Nobody sulks, having been benefited. ‘You are unhappy’ means you have not been benefited!

If you achieve the trick, you will open the gate of Joy and forget yourself, while enjoying the bliss! Nobody becomes happy from worldly matters.

I have given you the key to the treasure, which others haven’t got. But you must work to open the Door! You have taken everything casually. You want Mataji to feed you, to wake you up in the morning, to make you sit in meditation, and to clean you of anger, hatred etc…

Today is the day of Guru Puja. What ‘Guru Dakshina’ (Gif to the Guru) have you given me? Understand that your money is not worth the dust on the feet of your Mother Guru! You should give your hearts – only clean and holy hearts. You must clean your physical beings. Do not be lazy in that. Make a vow! You must get up early in the morning and spend at least one hour on meditation and worshipping. Perform ‘Aarti’ and meditation in the evening.

Satan’s disciples work hard at a funeral place [a dead place]. I cannot understand why you are taking everything so casually! Stop all gossiping! Leave all jealousies and quarrels! Time never waits for anyone. Do you want to go empty-handed, despite having the Key to the Treasure?!

If you do not accept God’s kingdom, Satan’s kingdom will come, and you will have yourself to blame for it!

Remember, because you Sahaja Yogis are dear people, [that] you have been selected as officials. If you ignore it, on the one hand you will be deprived of a great source of joy, and on the other hand, you will lose your authority, due to the incomplete knowledge of Sahaja Yoga. Hence, be wise and stand firm! Every movement has thousands of directions. Let your ray; spread in different directions. You will do the welfare to the whole world. Get over your ‘inaction to act’! You are to be captains! Let God’s melodies be sounded from your flutes. Transcend in your feelings above those who have not been realized and blessed, and God’s kingdom will be yours.

May you get that auspiciousness? All my efforts are for that! You have been made like temples. Keep it clean.

Some of you are enjoying yourselves in the ocean of bliss! My blessings are that all of you should be happy. Your worldly life and satisfaction should be of the same level.

A Sahaja Yogi’s satisfaction and the circumstances he is in, are balanced. Both of our legs grow together! If one leg is shorter than the other, you will become lame!

I do not want to tell you to lower the level of your circumstances, if the contentment is less. But a Sahaja Yogi’s satisfaction does not depend on circumstances. He is happy in the circumstances that are prevailing. If he is not, then his satisfaction is superficial, and not from within!

May God grant you an eternal place at

feet!

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi.

(Translation of a Marathi letter published in Normala - Yoga , 1983 no

God Almighty looks after you if you are completely didicated to Him

 

" The Divine temperament is generous. It is not bothered, as to what happens next. It’s not bothered, because it is connected with the Source. If you give one you will get a hundred. It is sure about it.

And to a Divine person, worldly things have no meaning, if they cannot give pleasures to others. A person who is very self-indulgent, always bothered about himself, is not a Divine person at all. In no way he’s Divine. It’s very common. It’s human. Everybody does that. Everybody is self-preserving.

But after Sahaja Yoga, you do not start all this nonsense again; you give it up.

And who looks after you? Who looks after your self-preservation? Is God Almighty. You are now completely dedicated to Him, and He looks after you. You don’t have to worry as to how to look after yourself, how to do this, how to do that. It is His work. The more you go on worrying about yourself, the worse it will be. The moment you give it up, it is looked after.

Many Sahaja Yogis must have experienced this in their lifetime: that when they try to give it up, they get all the help from God; but whenever they try to assert, and worry about their well-being and things like that, then there is a problem. You don’t know from where the help comes in.

And we have had so many examples, so many so-called miracles, where people wanted to do something, and suddenly they got the money from somewhere they least expected. So for a Divine person, the attitude should be of giving and of protection: protect.

Now, we are very good at protecting our bhoots, and protecting others who are bhoots.

You see, the sympathies always go to bhoots, because they have a way of creating a sympathetic attitude in your heart. So you start looking after that person because that person looks so much miserable. You have to protect the saints. You have to protect the principle of God, the Divinity in others, and not the bhoots. You are not here to care for all the bhoots of the world."

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, London. 14-11-1982 .

Solve material problems by dissolving attachment

 

" Except your own Spirit you don’t possess anything. Except for your evolutionary development you don’t possess anything. For example, now you are a saint you’ll be born a saint always – this is what you possess. The rest you don’t possess. It’s logical, logical. You need not to be realised to understand what I am saying. So why should we worry about our possessions?

When you leave this worry, this is another wisdom, this is a higher wisdom which you develop within yourself . And If we leave our possessions, our material problems are solved. ‘Leave’ doesn’t mean you throw them in the sea, but the attachment to it dissolves, and it is solved . "

" How the news has been organised, in the nature you see when the flowers bloom, how these bees come all the way; how the birds fly all the way from Siberia to Australia. What wisdom is that magnetism in them, the magnetism that is in the Mother Earth which tells them this is the way you have to go.

So we have to see to this magnetism within us: what makes us magnetic is not what we put up, what unnatural things we have, but what naturally we have achieved within and we are not afraid to express.

In fear you are never aggressive, but even in fearlessness you are never aggressive. In fear you might say that you are not afraid but you could be aggressive. When people look very frightened, if you push them to the extreme of fright, they can come back, but if you are fearless, you are in the centre, you are just standing there and watching.

Fearlessness never means aggression . "

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Sydney. 21-03-198

Finish Bad tendencies of Kaliyuga with Light enlightened within yourself

 

" Now Diwali is very significant because today is the darkest day, darkest night and longest night, and to end it up they put lights.

Now in the atmosphere it is all very dark, black, the sun is gone. So they put on all these lights. In the same way it is Kali Yuga . Now, Kali Yuga you can consider as one day. It is very dark, horrible, it has lots of problems , it has made our lives miserable and we don't know how to move with life. And this moment what is necessary is to enlighten people. Kali Yuga at its worst now. The kind of things people are doing even in the name of God is shocking.

But that is Kaliyuga, where we have lost all sence of direction. We do not know which way we are going. All kinds of wrong things we are doing and we think it is all right, after allwhat is wrong in it ? Everything you tell them -- ' what is wrong? ' You tell them, 'do not do it ' . They will say, ' what is wrong ? ' And that is how everyone has very , become very individualistic. In a way he is not , because they follow a fashion, they follow a style ---I mean they are not, they are slavish-- but they believe they are very independent, they are free people, they can do whatever they like.

As a result of this freedom in this Kali Yuga or the idea of freedom, what has happened with them is that they have become extremely ugly. The kind of things they are doing in Kali Yuga is unbelievable. Even they are priests, they are in the churches, this thing, that thing, they become so horribly immoral that cannot believe how can that be in the name of God,under this roof of God ? But it has started, that is Kaliyuga has to be finished.

So what do we do to remove the darkness of the night is to put lights. In the same way people should be enlightened. There should be light in the heart of the people. Once they are enlightened, this darkness from which we are suffering because of our ignorance will be finished and we will have the absolute knowledge. "

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Greece. 07-11-1999

Logically for Living Process - No Technique

 

NO TECHNIQUE

When I say there is no technique, people do not want to believe it, because technique they want. But you have taken for granted all these things, isn’t it? I mean, one day you are sleeping, you find that the blossom time has come, lots of flowers are there. One morning you get up you find most of the flowers have become fruits, and you take it for granted. Do you ask for a technique there?

In the same way what technique did you employ to become human beings from amoeba? Say from monkey’s state to human beings: did you cut your tails to become human beings? Didn’t we become spontaneously that? It’s rather difficult to accept. But logically, you tell me, if it is a living process, what do we have do?

It is impossible to explain to people that there is no technique. They must have a technique. Now why do we want to have a technique?Let us face ourselves. Because we think we must do something about it: if we are not doing anything about it, then how can we get it? Because we think whatever we have got in this world is through our effort, by working for it. But what have you got? You’ve got everything dead! Say for example, something is dead, these stones are dead and you have made a building out of it. So what? Dead from the dead! What have you got living with you? Have you got any living powers? Can you give life to a fruit or to a tree? You cannot.

What have you achieved? Is only dead. With effort you can only achieve dead. Have you achieved anything living? If you put such a question to yourself then you will understand that living processes, we have to accept, are spontaneous: we cannot put any technique on it. As soon as we want to have technique, we must know this is our Mr Ego who wants to get satisfied.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

23 Oct 1980