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

Benefits of Realisation in Sahaja Yoga

Following is the example of one of the sahajayogi after getting realisation from Mataji Nirmaladevi.  Bandhan and Meditation has great importance in Sahaja Yoga.  Getting relief from various physical problems or worries is very common in sahaja yoga. Get self realised and experience the powers of sajajayoga. 

 A telephone to the divine

A few months after my self realisation, Derek Ferguson gave vibrations to my back Agnya chakra. I felt a cool flow behind my eyes, like cool soothing water. Following this I spent less time wearing my glasses – which I had done since I began school at the age of four and a half. Not long after I went to my local optician who had known me since a child for a routine checkup.

‘That’s not possible,’ he informed me, ‘at your age (21), your eyes get worse, not better – what a miracle. This is really a great improvement.’

So when I went on the Sahaja Yoga India Tour for the first time, in 1984, a few months later, I did not wear my glasses all the time. On one occasion I left the glasses on a window shelf near to where I was sleeping. When I came back they were nowhere to be found. After a thorough search I gave a bandhan and went downstairs. Almost immediately one of the (Australian) tour leaders came across to me and said that Shri Mataji had asked him to tell me that we should not give bandhans for a trivial thing like glasses. A bandhan was like a telephone to the divine and was to be used with due understanding.

Gillian Woltron

Miraculous experienes with Sahajayoga

                                                  

Mataji Nirmaladevi takes care of all her devotees all the time, unknowingly.  Some were fortunate enough to get her advise when she was alive.  But being the Godess herself, and prominently known world over for curing various diseases through sahaja yoga, she even today helps her sons and daughers ( devotees) to overcome all their physical problems and mental worries in a very special manner. She many a times guides in a dream. Or she does something when you are doing morning or evening meditation.  Or she provides you guidance through some other sahaja yogis, which help in curing the matter. I had personally many such experiences.  Rather I am alive only because of her blessings. In one of my dream she had extended my life in unique way. Jai shri Mataji, I owe you my whole life. 

Following is the experience of such type given by one disciple from United Kingdom.

I’d seen Shri Mataji’s photograph before I met Mother. I’d heard about these meetings and I came to the last meeting at Judd Street. One damp Sunday afternoon, it was raining, and I came with my sister, Maureen. It had a huge impact on me because I’d heard that there was a yogi lady and I had this kind of idea that I’d walk into a room full of silence and perhaps there would be little bells tinkling somewhere. But it was so unlike what I’d expected that the effect on me was really quite profound. I immediately felt that this is what it must have been like to come across Christ teaching in the marketplace. It completely hit me like that, which was quite strange because religion wasn’t part of my life. Quite the opposite, I came from a hippie background. And I just felt that here was an amazing personality and my feeling was, “How can a being like this exist? How could someone like that be here?”

The whole room seemed full of light and there was a tremendous impression of how powerful Shri Mataji was, but She was just very sweet. She asked us to come and see Her and I came up and She put Her hand on me and said, “This one’s sick,” I think were the first words She said to me. And the meeting went on. It was amazing and magical. I didn’t really have a chance to figure out what it was all about, but I knew it was something quite momentous. That was the first meeting. She said I was sick and that I needed something for my stomach and She asked for a bottle and the strange thing was — no one else seemed to see this — but it seemed to me that I saw Her take the bottle, turn round and open a sort of door into some kind of an atomic furnace and put the bottle in, take it out, shut the door and give it to me. And I was quite astonished. And I took it home, drank it and it had the most extraordinary effect. It cleared me out. She said I had six months to live. Yes, I was really in quite a bad way. We went back for more meetings and I had a whole series of extraordinary experiences when She was there, but I think the thing that really hit me was a kind of gut reaction, a kind of recognition that this was someone. I kept getting the feeling that this was someone like Christ.

Pat A.

reference-https://sahaja-yoga-experiences.com/how-could-someone-like-this-be-here/

Search of God - Search from within

 

THE MECHANISM OF HIGHER AWARENESS

This is the Yantra and the mechanism that is this Yantra – Kundalini – is a holy mechanism. And this mechanism is specially created within the being of the One Main, of the One means the Macrocosm and we are the cells – all of us – in that. We were made aware as fishes of the soil, we became reptiles. We were made aware of the food available at the heights, we raised our head. Gradually we became human beings.

After this state we started thinking of God. We started thinking on something beyond. Man is the only animal who thinks of God and of searching. Is the man aware that he has to become something? Why is he so confused? Why is he under so tension? What is he searching? He is searching something of which he has a glimpse – a glimpse of that Joy he kept with him and that Joy comes from his Self – Atma – in his heart – he has not felt. He has not been able to manifest the power of his Self but there is a mechanism placed within him, properly built up inside, all the time present in all the human beings just like this as it is placed in the One Being. In His image it is also placed within you.

As I said last time that you are all built to be just like computers. Now the job is to put you to the mains. That’s why you are seeking. That’s the only urge you have in life. All other urges are actually the side issues. You think you are searching in money, in position is a myth. Those who have money are dissatisfied, those who have positions are dissatisfied, everybody is dissatisfied. The satisfaction time only comes to you when you will reach the real thing which you are searching and the real thing is your Self and nothing else. All other things are useless because you are not searching anything else, you are only searching your Self and that Self is the reflection of God almighty, that is within your heart.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

21-Nov-1977