Enjoying the Disadvantage

 

Enjoying the Disadvantage

First time I went to America I also went by ship. Now the ship has one problem: that it cannot have any problem, because there are no solutions. It is so limited. Whatever is not on the ship is not there. Now, supposing you want to have a pair of scissors, it's not on the ship, so you cannot find it. So there's no problem. (laughter) Because you have possibilities and you have choices that’s why there is a problem. So, on the ship you start understanding, whatever we have we are happy.

In the same way a Sahaja Yogi should be: whatever we have we are very happy. So there’s no problem. Supposing you are lost on the way somewhere then you have to say, “I have to be here. That was God's desire, so I'm here. So I'm not lost. Whatever is myself is with me, how can I be lost?”

There are all such things, if you see, because many people write to me about their problems. And the problems are such that actually there are no problems. Once you start thinking like that you’ll be amazed how the problems get solved.

Now Italy had no rain for all these days. And that people wanted that there should be some rain before I come, because it should clean out the whole thing. So they must have said, “There is no problem.” So it rained. Then the other day it was quite cold. Now they wanted to have, say, a music program. So it was very cold, so we decided we'll not have it. So there is no problem. (laughter)

We slept nicely and got up nicely in the morning because we had to get up nicely in the morning. Otherwise in the night you would have been singing till three o'clock. (laughter) So, it’s better that it was not so all right. And now today it's very warm and nice.

So in Sahaja Yoga you must always think if there is a disadvantage it’s an advantage for us. You should see to the essence of the disadvantage and you will overcome it with an advantage. You will see human beings have done this many a times. Like in Holland, you know the sea is much higher than the land. So what did they do? They created canals. So automatically they got very good roads. They don’t have to worry about keeping the road all right.

So in every way if we can learn, how to enjoy the disadvantage, the so-called problem, then you'll see that the solving of that is the solution in a way that there is no problem. It should not be taken as a challenge, but like a big wave comes onto a swimmer how he enjoys it, you see, to jump over it. That's why we are not joy-killers and we are not also spoiled-sports - spoiled-sports - spoiling the sport.

So you should not say, "I don’t like it, I don’t enjoy it", but you should say, "Why not?" Because if you decide not to like it, you will spoil the joy. But if you keep yourself open all the time and think, "Oh, I’m going to enjoy it”, then you start enjoying. For example, cappuccino was difficult for me in the beginning. (Laughter) But now I enjoy. (Laughter & applause)

Thank you!

Talk on board a ship, Italy, 1989

Enjoy the Strength of Eternity, Divine Love and Strength of being Universal Being

 

" In the present everything is fleeting. Everything is fleeting that is not eternal. In the present the eternal stays, the rest all drops out. It’s like a moving river which doesn’t stop anywhere. But the moving river is eternal. The rest of the things are all changing. If you are on the Eternal Principle, all that is not eternal changes and drops out, dissolves and becomes nonexistent.

We have to understand our own dignity, our own essence. The first and foremost is that all the Sahaja Yogis are the chosen ones. They are the people whom God has chosen. In this city of Delhi there are thousands and thousands of people. All over the world there are so many people that we are suffering from overpopulation, but in Sahaja Yoga there are very, very few people. And when you are chosen the first, you must also realise that you are the foundations. You are the stones that are to be laid down and have to be strong, have to be forbearing and that’s why it is necessary that all of you who are now few, who are the first lamps that are going to enlighten other lamps in the world, you have to enjoy the strength of eternity, the strength of Divine Love, the strength of this Universal Being that you are.

This is what meditation is. So when Sahaja Yogis ask Me: “What should we do for meditation?” You be in thoughtless awareness that’s all. Don’t do anything. At that time, not [only] that you are moving towards the goal, or that the Unconscious is taking charge of you, not only that, but also that you are emitting, for the first time, the Divine into the nature, into your surroundings, into other people who are universally connected to you. Only thing is that we are used to one thing, that is we must do something about it, and so that’s why we start doing something. Meditation is the most Sahaja method.Then we have prayers and we have also puja. Prayers are also, if said in your heart, with the feeling of complete surrendering and asking for the Eternal, it will be granted. Just ask for that and the rest will take [you] step-by-step. "

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, New Delhi. 30-03-1976

Relation of Lakshmi and Guru Principles

 HOW LAKSHMI AND GURU PRINICIPLES ARE RELATED

So [Lakshmi] is born out of the Guru principle. And this Guru principle starts working in you, when you have this Lakshmi principle awakened. Not money, I’m not saying money. Is the Lakshmi principle when you start thinking, “What sweet thing I should give to another?” When you start thinking, “What should I do for others?” You have to be extremely sweet, soft, not dry, not dry people. “How to express my love?”

So first thing is, as the sea spreads its wings and says, “All right, let the sun take away my water, let me boil, let it become the clouds.” In the same way you people have to understand that unless and until I allow the Sun, that’s the Spirit, to evaporate this water from me, means to give to others, how will I develop this guru principle within myself?

You cannot have salt in the seawater unless and until you evaporate it. So you cannot become a guru unless and until you allow the evaporation of this water, of this wealth, the money that you have. But if you are not matured enough, like the sea, then you will remain at a level that, like mad, collecting all the muck of the world and ultimately end up in some lunatic asylum. Because all maryadas are lost, all dharma is lost. Without guru principle, how you can have dharma?

You do not think of anybody else, you do not even think of your father, mother or anyone, you don’t think of your collective work, you don’t think of the world. That’s too much. So you become small, small, small, small, small. But when this Lakshmi tattwa starts, that’s the first inkling of love, love for others.

I know you all love Me very much. But it’s not complete reflection of your Mother. You have to love each other and share everything with each other, with love. Then this first light of love, Lakshmi, starts showing in you. In that light when you move, you become very deeply generous, enjoy your generosity.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

21 Oct 1990

JAI SHRI MATAJI

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Reactions and Joy

 

REACTIONS AND JOY

[T]hat is why you are here for, there’s nothing else to offer in Sahaja Yoga but the joy of life, and that is the essence of all the achievements of life. Everything we do for the joy but everything whatever we do for joy after some times we find it becomes a sort of a reaction. So there is very important point that to make our individuality beautiful we should not immediately react to people, should not give our own opinion ‘I don’t like it, I don’t want it’, but we should absorb the beauty of another person. Now supposing there’s a flower you get, immediately you will see the beauty of the flower, you like to take the fragrance of the flower but suddenly you say ‘I don’t like flowers’ then what can the flower do to you? So one should not react and one should not have such subtle idea about your likes and dislikes because it’s a joy-killer habit, it’s a joy killer. If you want to enjoy take enjoyment from every person like the bee which takes the honey from every flower you must develop that sweet personality within yourself and then only you will know what is sweet, what is good and the enjoyment from one person to another, from one collective to another, from one city to another, from one country to another will be just beautiful like a swing, it will be like a swing going up and down enjoying yourself, that’s what is your real divine sensitivity. And the divine just wants to do that. It’s working out so many ways of giving you photographs, giving you miracles, working it out, making you believe that you are in the Kingdom of God. But if you have all these angularities and if you have all these ideas about yourself then please try to neutralise them.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Dec 27, 1989

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The Powers of Shri Ganesha

 

The Powers of Shri Ganesha......

I had told you yesterday, that we have to know about the powers that we have, and the powers that we can get. First of all we should know what powers we have got, and also we should know how we are going to preserve those powers and what more powers we can very easily achieve.

The first power that you get after Realization is the greatest power on Earth. This is the power of Shri Ganesha. It is only He can do this job that you people are doing today, and that power is of raising the Kundalini. No one so far in the history of spirituality has ever raised the Kundalini in such a short time as you people are doing. It moves under your fingers; it is absolutely Shri Ganesha’s power which is given to you.

At the time when you are giving the Realization, even if you are caught up in any one of your chakras, or you have any problem, even if you are little bit possessed, even if you are not such a good Sahaj Yogi, even if you are not that much surrendered to Mataji, even if you don’t have much sense of obligation about Sahaj Yoga, still the Kundalini rises under your fingers. This Ganesha key is given to you by Shri Ganesh, Himself, within you, to give you the confidence, to give you the confidence that you can raise the Kundalini, but not the feeling that you are raising the Kundalini. If you go on without surrendering yourself to Sahaj Yoga, after some time you will lose this power, very fast.

Another power which you have got at the raising of the Kundalini of anyone, you can notice it that when the Kundalini rises, that time there will be no obstruction of any kind. Whatever may be the obstructions around – say there’s a possessed person next door, he would not disturb you at that time. In your family there may be a person who is a negative person, but if you’re raising the Kundalini, at that moment he will be kept quiet, at the time when you are moving your hand on the Kundalini is the greatest power you are using. I don’t know how much shraddha you have about yourself and about the power that you have. At that time there will be no obstruction on your hand by anyone whatsoever – even by mistake, nobody will hold your hand or touch your hand.

The second power you have got when you are raising the Kundalini, that, at that time when you’ll be raising your Kundalini, you will be completely attracting the attention of another person with it, like a magnet, by which you should understand that you can raise your Kundalini wherever you feel like. When you are raising the Kundalini, supposing there’s lot of noise going on, there are all kinds of problems going on – supposing you are going in the train, there’s a noise of the train, or any such thing happening - that time your attention will not be distracted, but the attention of the person who is taking the Realization from you, will not be attracted by outside things at that time when you are raising the Kundalini. That means that you can give Realization at any time, because at that time you reside in the lotus which is closed.

The other power you have got, at the time of Kundalini Jagruti, that no baser feelings will rise within you. Even if you are a possessed person, at the time of Kundalini Jagruti you will not have baser feelings, impure feelings about the person whom you are giving Realization. Maybe before and after, but not during when you are giving Realization, these dirty feelings will not come to you – automatically, you don’t have to stop your mind, automatically it will work out. You’ll be absolutely satisfied, even if you are hungry you will not feel the hunger or any physical need, at the time when you are giving Realization. There will be no distraction of any kind; you won’t do anything that is undignified at the time when you’ll be raising your hand, because you are being blessed with dignity. At the time you are raising the Kundalini, you will never joke, or you’ll never make fun; you’ll not be frivolous. Automatically you try, it won’t work.

These are your supporting powers. All these five powers I’ve described are very few of the thousands others, but these are the five powers of Shri Ganesh. Now these powers can be maintained if you try to follow Shri Ganesh. His foremost quality is that He does not know any other god or anybody else higher than His own Mother. A complete dedication and complete obedience to Mother – He is made out of that obedience – complete love and affection for the Mother. He doesn’t argue; He doesn’t question; He doesn’t do anything, and that’s how these powers are in Him the maximum. If you think by arguing with me you are gaining, you are sadly mistaken. You have to keep me pleased, even Ganesha tries every minute to keep me pleased. Is a fact. So, please don’t try to displease me. I may not say anything, because outwardly I don’t say anything, but your powers will be reduced.

Ganesha’s fifth power is the power of wisdom and that whatever He knows He can draw it and write it down. Even that power you have got. When you are rising the Kundalini, you talk to the person in such a manner that the person becomes wise, and you also talk to him only that which is wisdom and also you write or show him figures, automatically which are right. Even if you don’t remember your figures, they’ll come out right.

Talk to Sahajayogies

Bordi, India 1980

Controlling Ego and Superego

 

Controlling Ego and Superego.....

First, I will speak in Hindi language and then in English. We are such a cosmopolitan people that I don’t know what language to take to. [Shri Mataji speaks in Hindi]

I am talking to them about Shiva’s worship – what should happen to you. But today, I am going to tell you about the internal happening within us when you get your realization. There are eleven rudras placed here – eleven rudras. They are particles, we can say, anshas as they call it, of Shiva’s powers. And all of them try to take out, or to remove all the false ideas we have about life. When the Kundalini rises, they all get enlightened - eleven of them. And, say for example, Buddha had a part of that; Mahavira had a part of that. Now, all of them, what they do is to control us from falling into the prey of various things. Like, we have an ego. So, Buddha will look after the ego part. He will see that you get shocked by your ego. You will be quite amazed how you could be so egoistical, and so insulting, and so humiliating. But when this rudra is not awakened, when there is no light in this rudra, then what happens? You start justifying yourself. You think whatever you do is correct, whatever you’ve done, whatever you’ve said, whatever you have achieved, you think is your right. You’ve done nothing wrong. For that, this Buddha’s rudra has to be awakened.

On the contrary, if you go on pampering your ego, if you go on becoming egoistical, you become absolutely a right-sided personality. Once you are a right-sided personality, you know what all the symptoms there are of such a person. Now, for that if you just watch and introspect and see for yourself what ego has done to you, what wrong ideas you had about yourself. So that’s why Mohammed Sahib has said, “Beat yourself with shoes.” He didn’t know what else to tell. Because this ego business can really burst you, your head completely, and you may land up into so many difficulties. Ultimately, I have seen people developing this yuppie’s disease where the conscious mind becomes absolutely useless, cannot move. Consciously people cannot move. Unconsciously they will, but not consciously. And this disease is so horrible. A person becomes like a reptile. You have to carry them on your body. They can’t walk on their own. They can’t sit on their own. In a very young age this can happen. This is happening in America. Also, I have seen two, three cases here, in India, also such a thing is happening.

So if you do not try to see your ego and control it, and feel repentant about it. In Sahaja Yoga, there is nothing like repentance, we don’t believe in repentance. Because we believe that you all have got your realization. You are beyond any mistakes. It’s not true. We have to repent. There’s a, in English, there is a word – sorry. Sorry, for everything they will say sorry. Even telephone if you pick up, they’ll say, “sorry.” I say, “Sorry, for what?” But this sorry itself is very empty. It has no meaning. It has no depth. When you say “sorry,” you have to see why you are saying “sorry,” and what is to be corrected. This is a very big problem of today’s generation where people have developed such tremendous ego - because all our economic growth, all our industrial developments, all our big, big organizations, all of them have given us a way that we should all develop our ego. If we don’t develop our ego, we will be lost; we are nowhere. And that’s how we start pampering it, and then this right-sided problem starts. Then as a reaction, it goes to the left side.

Actually, in the head it is on the right side. Here is the right side ego comes up, so the left rudra is that of Mahavira. So people do things, which are sinful, which are wrong, which are against Shri Ganesha. Then also there are controlling powers of Mahavira, who controls. He says, “You will go to hell. This will happen.” He describes all the hell, all kinds of hell, that you’ll go to hell and you’ll be burnt alive - I don’t know, all kinds of things He describes to frighten you. But that doesn’t help. So people start getting more onto the left side and, I should say, through this rudra, when this rudra gets helpless, then a tremendous depression comes in. One feels very depressed. “Oh God. What a depression I have. I am so sick. I am this thing.” And then you try to frighten others with your depressions. You show sort of a, what you call, a emotional blackmail you do. All kinds of things you will do, and beat your head and do all kinds of things. Could be through ego, could be through this left side problem of the left rudra.

These two rudras are very important because they are directly connected with our left and right sympathetic nervous system. So, it’s very important to see that you don’t fall a prey to these rudras. These rudras are to be satisfied. So to be normal, at least look after these two rudras, which are: one is one who controls the ego, and another is self-pity. “I just can’t do it, I’m this, that” and all kinds of depression. All this works out into, physically also, into very serious problems like cancer. If the rudras are caught up, you develop cancer. But all this portion gets swollen up. It’s called as the medha. This all portion gets swollen up, and you can see a cancer patient having a swelling all over. At least would be here, or may be there. Because such a swing in the nature of a person that you can’t say from which rudra they have developed these psychosomatic troubles.

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