The Duties of Spirit

 

THE DUTIES OF THE SPIRIT

Now in that concept of the Spirit, the property of the Spirit is twofold. One in its nature, the nature of the Spirit is, as we call it, sat chit ananada, means it is the joy. Then it’s the truth. It tells you the truth all the times. It gives you discretion, divine discretion, and chit, the attention that acts, that works, that gives you all the information. So you have got the nature of the Spirit thus felt within yourself.

But on the other side, what does it want or what are its duties or why to be the Spirit is? Such questions arise later on when we are about to enter into the Kingdom of God. Why to enter into the Kingdom of God? So in outside and, we can say, all the manifestations of the Spirit is, that it is benevolent. It is hita cari. It gives benevolence to others. It gives you benevolence and it gives benevolence to others, also. The only joy in that is benevolence. And you think of all these material things, which are so important otherwise, as if they are for giving it to someone just to express your love.

So the benevolence that comes through love, benevolence doesn’t come through oppression or suppression or by intimidation but it comes only through love, and if you have faith in your love you can work it out.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

26 Dec 1988

How to Keep Mind in the Soul

 

There are many ways to keep the mind in the soul?

(1) Keep your right hand in left your heart and keep your left hand towards me and repeatedly say twelve times at least mother, I am soul, mother, I am soul.

(2) If you chant seven times from left to right, then your heart gets awakened and after that if you chant the mantra of Lord Shiva, the center of Lord Shiva in your heart will get awakened.

(3) The second thing is that this Brahmarandhra on the Sahastrar is your place of Shiva always, so even if you take care of Brahmarandhra, then also your mind will remain in the soul, Brahmarandhra which is always the place of Shiva. Even if you go, your mind will remain in the soul. In this way, you should do it carefully.

(4) Apart from this, there are many greatness through which you bring your mind in the soul and ask God to pray, pray that, Mother, make us a soul, Mother, let our mind remain in the soul, prayer is a very big thing for a Sahaja Yogi. Such prayer should be done that Mother, give me self-respect, give me Niranand, when this kind of prayer is done, then your mind slowly moves inward because you are beyond, every word is a mantra for you, whatever you say in your every prayer. Fulfillment happens. Those who think that by your grace I have got the soul, they have moved ahead. Yoga should be complete only then your mind can remain in the soul. Yoga is done completely with the soul.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, New Delhi 7/5/1983

Experience the PEACE beyond THOUGHT

 

Experience the Peace beyond thought

Now our attention is outside, the reason is our brain has become like a prism, and the rays that come into us of awareness also are thrown out and as a reaction our attention goes outside. If I tell you take your attention inside you cannot take it, just cannot. Something has to happen inside and that's why when this Kundalini rises within you then your attention is attracted inside and this happening takes place. And then you find that you can enter inside as well as outside. But otherwise you cannot. Many people say that we are praying, now you are praying outside there is no connection, first the connection must be established. So when your attention is outside you react to everything. For example, I come and see these flowers, then I react to it and then I say something, or another thing I see all the time I am reacting outside. As a result of all the kind of sensations we get out of our reactions our attention becomes absolutely disturbed and we get into lot of troubles. First of all our eyes are not steady, they go on hovering from here to there, God knows what are we looking for. The eyes become impure because we start thinking about things, as soon as we see something we start thinking and a barrier is created. For example there is a beautiful piece something very beautiful you see, and looking at it if there’s a thought you cannot enjoy. But if there is no thought, there’s pure rapport, pure connection, between that beautiful art and yourself. Then you just see it and enjoy that joy of the artist which he has poured into it, without thinking about it. Otherwise normally people will think, “How many pounds can I save?” or “What should I do? Should I purchase it or not?” All sorts of nonsensical flippant, cheap ideas can come into your head. Or could be something higher also “This color is not matched with that and this.” But a person who is a realized soul will just see, just like children, they just look, in the same way, without thinking. So the first thing that happens to your attention that the thoughts subside. Thought is the first problem that has started with ego and now when the thoughts subside then you become peaceful.

People talk of peace, “We should have peace” – how can you have peace? It’s not possible, is an impossible situation. You see we think by thinking, by organizing, by manipulating, we'll have peace. You cannot. You cannot have peace that way. How will you have peace? When the peace is established on your attention. When your attention is peaceful, when we are absolutely without any thoughts, then the peace resides. After all, the peace is disturbed by the human beings only, isn’t it? It is not disturbed by something else, is disturbed by human beings and now if the human beings are not peaceful, how can you have peace by talks? On the contrary when there are talks be sure that there will be some violent action after that. Always it happens because thought is incapable of keeping your attention in balance.

Now how do you remove the thought from your mind is the problem, thoughts are all the time in your mind. If you get possessed you may not have thoughts, but otherwise, which is the other way? The other way is the Kundalini when it rises. A thought rises and falls off and another thought rises and falls off, but when the Kundalini rises, then what happens, these thoughts become elongated and starts some working inside. And there is gap in between and this gap is the place of our peace. If you achieve that peace, the world peace can be achieved. By just taking placards, by shouting for peace you cannot establish peace, peace has to come from the hearts of human beings. In the hearts of human beings peace can be only established when you establish the spirit within it, its core where it manifests the bliss of peace. When you start enjoying the bliss of peace you don't want wars, you don't think of wars and that is the state where now the human beings have to rise and go to that. So these horrible times here which we call as Kali Yuga, the modern times, which are the times of complete illusion and when all the value system is changed, where everybody seems to be unhappy and sick, is the time also preceding the Krita Yuga, the time where everything will be done, perfected and established, that's the meaning of Krita Yuga. So to begin with primitive times, which we call Krita Yuga are established again, the primitive is again established, but here with awareness, like as I told you the matter becomes aware of itself. The Kundalini, which is a potential thing, which is a potential power of desire within us, which as we can call the primitive, manifests itself and becomes aware of itself. That is what is Sahaja Yoga today. It's all Sahaja, it's all spontaneous, all life process has been spontaneous, but today that is what it is. So, spontaneously our attention becomes peaceful, absolutely peaceful, and when that peace is achieved, that peace is established within your heart through the ascent. Then, every bit of that peace emits peace. Such a person wherever he is, he emits peace wherever he is. If there is quarrel going on there will be peace.

Talk, Chiswick Town Hall

London, 10/7/84

Open the Gate of Joy and forget yourself while Enjoying the BLISS

 

" There is great significance to your rebirth. But you yourselves have to achieve that ; find the meaning of 'SWA' (self). Sahaja Yogis can do it. It is a big contrivance. I have told you the secret but what you have 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 become happy from wordly matters. I have given you the key to the treasure, which others have not got. But you must work to open the door. You have taken everything casually. You want Mataji to feed you, to take you up in the morning and make you sit in the Meditation, to clear you of your anger, hatred etc.

Today is the day of Guru Puja . What 'Guru Dakshina' 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 Arti and meditation in the evening.

Satan's desciples work hard at funaral place. I cannot understand why you are taking everything so casually. Stop all gossiping. Leave all jealousies and quarrels. Time naver waits for anyone. Do you want to go empty handed despite having the key to the treasure ? "

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Translation of a portion of Marathi letter published in Nirmala -Yoga,

May -June, 1983

The Myth of Leadership

 

The myth of Leadership...............

It's the greatest myth ever going, is this leadership. There’s nothing like leaders in this Sahaja Yoga, it’s just a joke. And your Mother is very good at playing serious jokes. So be careful - don’t be childish about it, you have to understand that this is a big joke going on and it’s just a testing point and if I test you wrong, you can tell me, but I think this has worked well, because I can test people very well on that level and immediately I know when the person gets onto the horse of ego.

(extract from Guru Puja 1990)

This leadership business is a myth, and this myth must be seen as a myth. Whether you are leader or not leader makes no difference. But the maturity has to come. ... I want you to realize yourself, “What are we doing wrong? Where are we doing right?” and don't judge Sahaja Yoga on what merits you get out of it. If you are not getting merits there's something wrong with you. If you can really understand this, then you will become subtler and subtler and all your gross attachments will become absolutely negligible. You may have concern, but you won't have attachment. From inside, this complete detachment has to come up.

(extract from Guru Puja 1994)

If somebody becomes leader, I don't know what happens to him. It is a myth. There's nothing like leadership in Sahaja Yoga, nothing like that. It's just a myth. But suddenly people jump up. It is ego that gets pampered. But this ego can be easily managed if you worship the Raja Lakshmi. She is the giver of balance.

(extract from Shri Raja Lakshmi Puja, New Delhi, 1994)

Now you become, supposing, I don't know what, position, but supposing you become – the Governor - then you think you can do what you like, because you have become the Governor. This mind doesn't know that you have become the Governor, you are not the Governor. This governorship is ruling you, not that you are ruling the governorship. Once these ideas come into your head, you start behaving in a manner in which you should not behave. Even among Sahaja Yogis there are leaders. Leaders also start sometimes thinking, 'Ah, I'm a leader'. It's a myth – absolute myth - leadership in Sahaja Yoga is an absolute myth, which you should know. But once they know they are leaders, see, they become, sort of - absolutely mindful and full of thoughts. Thoughts how to dominate, how to control. When they start controlling others, then you must know that it is the mind which is telling them to control. Why to control anyone? If you are a real Sahaja Yogi, there is no need to control. There is no need to maneuver, to manipulate.

(extract from Birthday Puja 1996)

Anybody who tries to show off, if you run after that person, that means you have not fathomed your own depth. You must know what is your depth. And don’t get impressed by somebody because he can dominate you very well and he can go about. Just stand on your own two legs and see for yourself.

(extract from a talk to the Australians on India Tour, 1988)

You all have direct relationship with me, not through anyone. If you want to accept somebody's agency, then I can't help you. But otherwise you all have a direct access to me. You all can grow your Spirits; nobody can dominate you. Everyone has complete freedom to know their Spirit. And the Spirit is something cannot be dominated by anyone. ... Thank God we don't have any organization. Thank God we don’t have secretaries, assistant secretaries, under secretaries, vice secretaries, upper secretaries, lower secretaries - we don’t have any nonsense. Otherwise even that would have been dominating to people. Then they would have fought that. So we don’t have that problem. We don’t have any money problem, because we don't have all these nonsensical ideas. I have solved these problems by having no institutions, no positions. Everybody has position.

(Q+A, London, 1982)

Now leadership is just hocus-pocus, I must tell you. If somebody says, "Mother, you become the leader." I say, "No. [laughs] I know. I know that joke." So it's a joke. Leadership is a joke, you see, and if you know it's a joke, then only you'll work it out better. Because, you see it is this, there's nothing like hierarchy in Sahaja Yoga, as you know. We are all one, same. We cannot say that hands are better than feet and the feet is better than this. Nothing of the kind. In the same way, everything is very important and everything circulates like the blood cells. So we do not say that this blood cell is good and that blood cell is bad or this blood cell is higher, that blood cell is higher. In the same way, everybody is circulating. So one should not have any fear. Also fear of the leader should not be there. There's no need to fear the leader. If you are on your gravity, you keep to it. He will understand you. As long as leader is on the gravity, he'll be there. As soon as you go away, goes away from the gravity, he'll go away himself. So you stand on your own gravity point and nobody can disturb you. You should have no fear, nothing, nothing to bother in Sahaj Yog. As it is, you are all saints. What is there to bother? The whole Ganas, all the angels, all this all-pervading power is looking after you.

Shri Ganesha Puja, Perth, 1992

The Unconscious Flows From Above

 

THE UNCONSCIOUS FLOWS FROM ABOVE

In our brain, there are two packets, two curtains called the super-ego and the ego. They were created purposely. One increases from one side and the other increases from the other side. The one who is in the centre, the one who comes into balance, the one who comes into temperance and the one who does not go to extremes can get Realization. Within such a one only, the Kundalini rises through the centre and nourishes him. His attention is placed on the Kundalini within him and takes him into the Unconscious.

As soon as this takes place, this Unconscious starts flowing into you from above. You become one with that ocean like a drop becomes the ocean when it falls into it. It rises and falls with the ocean’s waves. If someone asks it, “What are you doing?” it replies, “What am I doing? This is going and coming.” The waves start flowing through him. His inner being becomes absolutely silent. The waves of silence start gently flowing from above.

This is the truth. This is not a cock-and-bull story. It is the truth, a great truth and you can experience it. It has to be made stable after getting it....as soon as that stability is achieved, in absolute peace and joy, you achieve that witness state described by Shri Krishna, by Jesus, by all the scriptures whether by Zoroaster, Socrates, Confucius or any of Dattatreya’s incarnations.

Spirit within you in anxious to give you Peace, Bliss and Joy

 

OUTER OR INNER SPACE

We have seen for many decades of our lifetimes, a fascination with outer space and space exploration. Is there really life out there and why is the prospect of this so desired, at least by a small percentage of the human race. Humanity has looked up or outwards at the stars for much if its existence, both practically as a form of calendar or click by which to measure time and seasons on earth and later inwardly, to try to analyse or comprehend our inner working. .

Whilst it is indeed fascinating to seek and understand such a minute fraction of what is beyond our Earth's orbit, this is all an outward and relatively movement. It's like us being fully enamoured with the branches of a tree flourishing outwardly whilst being totally unaware of the lack of development of the roots by which it is sustained in the earth.

Human beings often fail to be able to see that which is right before us. It is and has always been there in plain sight, yet still it eludes us.

Even when God or Divinity in the form of a highly evolved soul appears on earth, there are a percentage who listen, a percentage who 'hear', a percentage who truly 'hear' and 'know' within and an even smaller percentage who know what to do and how to be.

Whether you personally believe it or not, the real direction of travel truly lies within each of us, not out there until we have ourself.

Shri Mataji, explains it this :

"There is no fear from outside invasion, or from any star, or from any extra-terrestrial attack, no there is not. It is within us. The attack is built within us, of which we should be aware. In the name of freedom, we have collected within ourselves all the germs of our destruction. It is such a built-in process within us that we are not even aware that they are growing, that they are there. We are quite satisfied with ourselves, with our artificial life, with our so-called etiquettes and superficial mannerisms.

Innately within us there resides the Spirit which wants to enlighten you, which is anxious to enlighten you, to give you the peace, the bliss, the joy of your being. This beautiful lamp of yours which is being created, is with a great purpose. It has to be enlightened. Respect yourself! There is no ‘respect’ word left in the dictionary today. Respect yourself! We have to respect this lamp which has the light of the Spirit, that it should be enlightened, and let us be that lamp that shows the path of glorification of your being, and in that light, we can see God’s glory, too.

It’s such a beautiful world He has created for us. Everything He has given us, but we in our ignorance and in so-called freedom have ruined so many things. It is sometimes shocking to see how people are going just towards hell directly."

Hampstead Town Hall Centre, Hampstea