Sense of Dharma

 

EXPANDED SENSE OF DHARMA

The third chakra which is known as the nabhi chakra actually it is known as Manipur chakra rests above this triangular bone and it controls the solar plexus in the gross form in the human beings, and this is the chakra which represents our dharma, our religion. Now when I talk of religion immediately the modern mind gets after me saying what are you talking about these things. When I say dharma I mean ... everything has got religion. For example, you take a mango from the mango tree if you plant it you will get the mango. Or else you can see, as I told you yesterday, that a gold bangle is gold because it is not tarnishable - that is the dharma of gold. The water has got purification dharma. In the same way a human being has got his own dharma which is expressed in the bible as the ten commandments. These are ten dharmas a human being is born with but he has to establish himself into dharma when he has to go into dharmarthi state beyond that. But these ten must be established. If these are not established we can play about with dharma. If you play about with them then this is a problem in your awakening and in your realization. The nabhi chakra is the most important one and there rests the great incarnation or we can say the aspect of God we call Narayana himself and Vishnu and his power is Shri Lakshmi. Vishnu represents the subsistence - the dharma aspect of God. And Vishnu is responsible for the evolution of human beings.

We never find out why an amoeba has become a human being. What has made him come up to a level of human being? And what is going to happen to a human being? And after all why is he made into a human being. You are made for some purpose. What is going to happen to this human being afterwards - we never think of that. This evolutionary power comes to us through Shri Vishnu himself. Shri Vishnu is not the Hindu’s God. He does not belong to India; he does not belong to one particular state or one particular area. He belongs in the primordial being - in the great primordial being who we call in Islam ‘Allah hu Akbar’. He is the expression of that primordial being who is great. God has many aspects and one of the aspects is of his greatness. And that’s why as Vishnu he wants us to be great. Yesterday I told you that the body of Viraata contains everything that he manifests and we have to realize that we are a part and parcel of that great virata. And that we are in the process of realizing him because we are made in the image of God.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Jan 23, 1976

taken from facebook post of Nilesh Kale Patil 

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Know Self to know God

Mataji Nirmaladevi has time and again emphacised the need to know self, to move forward on the path of knowing the God.  Mataji has said that unless your kundalini is awakened, unless you get realisation, it is not possible .  Reading Books, Doing Bhajans, making prayers, poojas nothing would work, unless you are self realised.  When it happens then only what ever you do gets some meaning. Then you also know what is right to be done, and what is wrong to be avoided. So be guided properly by the spirit in your own body, by getting self enlightenment.

Followins is the extract of one of the message given by Mataji Nirmaladevi. -

Unless and until you have your Enlightenment, the Bhakti has no meaning

" We don’t know that God almighty is the ocean of compassion and love. We human beings have to achieve a state to know Him. We don’t know God. We don’t know ourselves. First we have to know ourselves. Once we know ourselves, then only we will know God.

I have seen ritualistic behaviour in the South [of India] very much. I was surprised how people were doing everything with their heart, but they did not know why they were doing it. They have such Bhakti but such a blind Bhakti that it will lead them no where. I used to think that when will I be able to tell them to be beyond this.

You have to have Shraddha and Shraddha is enlightened Bhakti. Unless and until you have your enlightenment the Bhakti has no meaning. Like this mike, if it is not connected to the mains it has no meaning. Unless and until you connect it to this all pervading power of Divine Love which we call as Brahm-Chaitanaya our bhakti has no meaning because there is no connection- like telephoning to someone without the connection. The simple thing is that this connection, this Yoga has to take place.

You might have read lots of books or may know so many things like Vedas. So what? It's like you have a headache and the doctor suggests a medicine. He writes the name of the medicine. You are reading the name of the medicine but are not taking the medicine. When are you going to take it? Unless and until you take that you are not going to achieve by any chance whatever is promised to you.

Because it is such a deep ignorance about all these ideas we have learnt and has penetrated into us. Such a lot of ignorance. That ignorance is really like a ditch of no return. I have seen people who have read books after books. There are people who do one lakh mantras, fasting and reach nowhere. They are the most hot-tempered people or they have no joy In their heart. They leave their families and think that they have done a great sacrifice.

God does not want all this nonsense. Why will God, who is your father who is so compassionate and loving personality, want you to suffer? "

H. H Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Jan 17, 1994

Importance of Makar Sankranti

Sankranti puja talks:

“It means the day today is the day the sun crosses over from the Tropic of Capricorn to the Tropic of Cancer. It is a very big day for us because, now during the summer time we have the harvest, and we look forward to the rain and so many things that happen in every country. The sun falls at right angles in this country during the summer season and so we welcome the sun.”

1985-0114: Makar Sankranti Puja in Suryavanshi hall at Mumbai India

https://www.amruta.org/.../makar-sankranti-puja-mumbai-1985

“This special day today is the day of Sankrant. Sankr – you know ‘San’ means good, holy, and ‘krant’ means the Revolution. Holy revolution.

Holy. And that’s what I’m telling them, what is the Holy Revolution is, that your own Dharma is established now through Sahaja Yoga.”

Makar Sankranti Puja Pune (India), January 1st, 1981

https://www.amruta.org/.../14/makarsankranti-puja-1981-pune/

“Makar Sankranti indicates that from this day the Sun will get warmer and warmer. The heat of the Sun is beneficial for mankind. All our movements depend on this heat. But the impact of the heat could also excite Anger in us. That is the reason that on this day we eat Jaggery (Gud) so that we become soft spoken. Because of the warmth of the Sun all vegetations and wealth grows on the earth. Fruits and vegetables are offered to the Goddess on this day to invoke Her blessings. By the blessings of the Adi Shakti the Earth element gets calmed down and human being thrives. The festival of Sankranti has cultural significance too. It is celebrated all over the country with joy and gaiety. It is celebrated in some other countries also but it has special significance in India.” ” This is what is today’s day is a great day for us to change, because  the Sun has changed its mood now. Sun is coming this side. So let us  welcome the Sun, coming to the North now, this way. And for  Australians to say that though the Sun has gone, let us establish the  Sun, the domain of Sun, within ourselves.

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Spiritual state in the light of Sahajayoga

 

Spiritual state / maqaamt in the light of Sahajayoga

In the spiritual state, nothing can disturb you, nothing can overpower you, nothing can dominate you, because that state if you have, that means you are part and parcel of reality, then you are an honoured member of the God´s kingdom. Then you are the most revered personality. Then you are like a deity, then you are like a gana. In that state, when you are, it´s a state, again I say it, beyond the human state, you are extremely powerful.

- Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

As we all aware that just getting self realisation and feeling cool breeze is not much important , we have to attain certain state in Sahajayoga in order to understand depth of our self realisation.

maqaam or maqaamat (plural), translating to "state" in Arabic word.

Although the number and order of maqaamat are not universal the majority agree on the following seven: Tawba, Wara', Zuhd, Faqr, Ṣabr, Tawakkul, and Riḍā.Sufis believe that these stations are the grounds of the spiritual life, and they are viewed as a mode through which helps the overall attainment of union/ Yoga or oneness with Allah (Tawhid ).

According to sufi philosophy , state/ maqam is the one stage has been reached that the next stage may be attained. In order to reach a higher maqaam, one must continue to possess the maqaam below it ,in yoga ww called this as Pratayahar.

1. TAWBA - forgiveness ( Aagya chakra)

2. WARA - witness state( Visshudi chakra)

3.Tawaakul - trusting in God's plan ( Sahastrara)

4. RIDA - pleasure ( Heart)

5.SABR - patience ( Nabhi)

6.ZUHD - detachment of attention from material things ( Swadisthan)

7.FAQAR - faqar e faqat which means

Innocen or simple ( Mooladhara).

Haal -

One of the great realised soul Ali bin Usman Al-Hujwiri (formerly known as Data gunj baksh awliya - famous dargah of lahore , Pakistan) in his book Kashf ul Mahjoob: defines Hal as "something that descends from God into a man".

Above all the states Thoughtless awareness and doubtless awareness is what we have to achieve in meditation mentioned by mother in her talks many times.

taken from facebook post of Aparna Gangopadhay

Learning from the Sea

 

LEARNING FROM THE SEA

There is no need to go to Himalayas. The – whatever is covering is in the Himalayas, is what is nothing but the water from the sea only. It’s one of the circles, that water passes to the Himalayas, then comes back as rivers, again falls into the same sea. They have to come to the sea. So it is everything ends up here. And then it is allowed – it goes through tapasya – it allows the Sun to create that cloud by suffering the heat, heat of the Sun, and becomes vapours, and then it goes as clouds and you get your rain. In the same way we have to be; we have to bear the heat of others, the anger of others and create vapours – means the blessings, the vibrations for others. It is with Me, same thing. When I see somebody who is sick and I treat him, of course I have to bear a little bit, sometimes quite a lot, then I absorb it and then they become vibrations. They just start flowing as vibrations. So this is what you have to learn from the sea, which is very important for sahaja yogis, that you absorb everything, doesn’t matter. But don’t get attached to it, and let it become vapours, and the Sea can now become the vapours. As you all are here, all these vapours as vibrations should flow.

This method you should try to understand by courage. Because the other day when I was coming, there was a lady sitting just on the way: “Mother, her feet are out of order, or something gone wrong. Please treat her.” Why should I treat? Why can’t you treat? Are you afraid to treat someone? Then there’s another one who comes up to say: “Mother, You treat her.” Why can’t you treat? You all can treat them, you can help them, and you’ll be surprised, the more you’ll treat them the better you will be. You should venture, you should have that much courage to treat others. If you don’t treat others you won’t grow because that is what, like the sea, as you have seen, you become the vibrations. And when you treat others there are more vibrations. Why should God give you vibrations if you are not going to use it? Simple logic. Why should God give you light if you are not going to use it? Christ has said that, “You don’t put light under a measure.” That’s what we are doing when we are not using our hands, our feet, our brains for Sahaja Yoga: we are not creating vibrations within ourselves.

The same body that is yours can just become a bundle of vibrations, if you start using these vibrations. But if you don’t use these vibrations you’ll have problems, the problems, all the time, and you will not understand: “Why? I am doing everything, I am doing this” – because you are not using your vibrations.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Dec 29, 1991

taken from facebook post of Nilesh Kale Patil