Meditate and Distribute

 

Meditate and Distribute..........

And the more you find something in your meditation, the more you want to go and distribute it to others. That has to be. If that does not come into you then it has not worked out; there is no purity; there is some sort of a bias. In that individual pursuit, whatever you find, you want to enjoy it with others, you want to give it to others. This is the sign of the person who has been really meditative. The one, who has been meditative and has not been able to distribute what he has found is cheating himself and cheating others as well.

Because that joy that you receive in your meditation has to be distributed. Has to be given. Has to be shown. It should flow in your being as the light radiates from every illumined lamp. You don't have to take a vow to say that this is an enlightened light. In the same way a saint should not have to be certified that he is a saint. The depth you achieve within yourself spreads all over, it is such an action and reaction.

The deeper you become, the radiation is much more. You don't have to spend too much time on meditation. But whatever time you spend, whatever you gain, has to be visible outside --How you radiate and how you give it to others. That's the quality of the saints you have to be. Unless and until you become deeper, we cannot save other Sahaja Yogis. And we cannot save those who are not Sahaja yogis. You have to rise higher and higher to pull the whole curtain up. Those who try to rise higher pull the whole thing upward, and they give a pull to every one who ascend with them.

H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Shri Devi Puja, Australia, 14/3/83

Matajis expectations from Sahajayogis

 

Following is extract of speech given by Mataji Nirmladevi at Perth during Devi Puja 

You have Adishakti with you...........

Now it was very spontaneously decided that we should have the Devi Puja in England. And this is the place where really Devi Puja should be, because it's the place of Sadashiva and where Adi Shakti should be worshipped. We have to today understand that why do we do Devi Puja? What is the reason for this Devi Puja? What do we get out of it? What are we supposed to achieve in our contents within ourselves? The first thing is that Kundalini is the Devi. She's the reflection of the Adi Shakti. So when you worship Devi, first you worship also your own Kundalini, by giving Her credit because She has given you this realization. It's much deeper understanding than normally people have about the Devi Puja, because they are not realized souls. Their Kundalini not is awakened. So normally when they do Devi Puja it's for the purpose of getting realization, so that the Devi should be pleased - prasanna - and should give them realization, or must give them a chance to get to somebody who will give them realization.

In the same way a Sahaja yogi must know that to be really achieving more content, we have to be not at a higher level outside. It's said in the Bible, "You have to be meek," but I think it was not explained to people. Only the strong people can be meek, secured people can be meek, only the rich in essence can be meek; not the people who are insecured, because they are insecured, how can they be meek? And not the people whom we think are rich, so-called, because if they are rich they are not generous, they are not satisfied, they are not philanthropic, so they are not rich. They are still greedy beggars.

So the content within us is to be seen. What is our content? You love me, I love you - it's very good. But when you love me, you have to know that there are certain qualities which are very loveable in a Sahaja yogi. Actually people get lost even after Sahaja Yoga. They think they can get over everything, they're perfectly all right, and they are thrown overboard. So when we say that we have to be meek, this is a content, the humility is a content. So try to do that, try to be humble with someone. You'll like yourself. You'll enjoy that quality within this that "You see, I'm humbler than another person. ...

You have to care for your own quality, for your own inner capacity to suck in...

So you have Adi Shakti with you, whose power is all this Divine. So you are at such an advantageous position. But first you must realize. So when we say we should have content, then the vessel has to be strong. Otherwise everything will break. And this strength is the one you should know, that you are completely protected. No one can harm you. They'll try - this has to be, otherwise how will you test whether you are absolutely safe or not? So somebody has to try some tricks just to see, and for you to watch how you are successful. Without doing anything you'll be amazed, everything will be cleared out. And you'll not know how things have cleared out, how things have worked out. So the strength comes. ...

The negativity that is around you is not so dangerous as whatever is in you. Today it has become subtler. The negativity has become subtler. It's entered into your being, and be careful - it may anytime topple you. Even one step you do not put right when you are climbing up, you can go down. So one has to be alert, without tension. You have to be alert without tension. And the alertness grows. When the light goes within you start seeing it. Immediately you see, "Oh, that's it! So I, the so and so - that's it." And you know how to correct it and you know how to put it right. And immediately you take to it. Like a good sari now has something fallen on it, immediately you clean it. In the same way we have to be very, very alert - daksha is the word for that. ...

So you have to kill your negativity, you've become as powerful as your Mother. No negativity can touch you. So you can give realization, you've got that power very well; and you can watch your defects more than that of others. And you try to put them out because they're not good, they're not for your benevolence, they're not for your ascent. By that nobody is going to gain. At the collective level it just works automatically. ...

Now another quality that you have: to believe that the Goddess is working through you. In you She resides, you have got the powers, it's penetrated into you - is that you can comfort people, you can cure them, you can give them peace, you can give them bliss. But then what Goddess has done in you is that She has given you the bliss, you have become bliss. Like there's say a cool air-conditioner, you get the cool from there. In the same way if you are emitting bliss, you give bliss to others. But there is no bliss within yourself, but what bliss you can give to others? So a Sahaja yogi has to be a blissful like the Goddess. ...

So to leave certain things into the hands of the Divine is what we call as surrender. And that much of is, if done, then most of your things will work out so miraculously. I mean, you'll be amazed, "How, Mother, how it is worked out? We never expected, how things we got it done?" There's a very, very big force working: the Force, the Energy which is the Source of all the energies, which has created this great universe, which has created this Mother Earth, created this sun, which has created you very delicately. This Force is working. And that Force is looking after you, so proud of you that you have come on the stage now.

So as it is we are today praying to the Goddess that "Help us to fight our negativity within us. Give us Your tiger so that we fight, give us Your lion so we fight." Let us fight all these horrible animals that are within us, these horrible haunting things that are within us, these horrible conditionings we have - you have to get rid of it. Still, still if you watch yourself, lots of conditionings are there, lots things, you see. If you see, there are covered with very thin curtains and you don't see it, but they are there. But let the tiger enter into all these dens and find out. And you enjoy that, riding over the horse, riding over the lion, and riding over the tiger - like a Goddess, why not? After all, children get all the heritage of the mother, don't they? So you have all the heritage available to you. But you have to be worthy, in the sense that you have to know that you are worthy, that's all. You have to just know that you are worthy and that you can do it.

So again today we are here to do this puja, which would have been in Perth but somehow or other it was not so, and is luck for you to have this puja. And it is something of a very deeper nature, very subtler nature. Like your blood it is, because on these seven days they say the Goddess has to wear the red all the time, because it's blood. And the first color you see in the womb of your mother is red - it's the security. One side is the red rag, another side it is the security. So for you it is the security around you. Every place you go, it is there - just feel it. You have entered I must say, entered the Kingdom of God, no doubt about it. You all have entered, so beautifully you are settled down.

May God bless you.

Navaratri Puja 1989

Dissolving Powers to Get Powers

 

DISSOLVING POWERS TO GET POWERS

Today is the day of the Gurus because [it] is the third day, the third Chakra of the Nabhi. [At] the same one we have the starting point of the Mahalakshmi. Mahalakshmi energy starts working after you have finished with the Lakshmi tattwa. If the Gurus are still busy with the Lakshmi tattwas, have no sense of sacrifice, have no sense of detachment they cannot be called as leaders.

The Mahalakshmi is the subtle form of our hankering, of our desires, is the subtlest, the epitome. Because first we search for power through physical, mental, emotional and ultimately we want to have spiritual powers also to impress others.

In Sahaja Yoga you come here to dissolve all your powers. You become so powerless that all the powers of God Almighty start working through you.

Supposing this instrument (pointing to the microphone She is talking into) has some powers I won’t be able to handle this. It would be going here, there and there. So to worship Mahalakshmi one has to remember that you must dissolve all your powers. That is the surrender that is what is ‘Islam’ as they call it. But these are all words for people.

Surrender is a very difficult thing to understand for human beings. They think “I can’t surrender.” What do you have to surrender, is nothing but your ego and your conditioning.

All these things I am telling you but if you learn them by heart like a parrot, you can repeat. That will have no influence on your followers. Unless and until you show in your own life that beauty, that composure, that care, that concern, that love, nobody is going to listen to a parrot. The meaning has to come from the practices not from the percepts. This is what Sahaja Yoga [is], which is very different from any other spiritual announcements.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Jan 3, 1987

Growing Upwards towards the Roots

 

GROWING UPWARDS TOWARDS THE ROOTS

Ganpatipule has a special significance because he is Maha Ganesha. The Ganesha at Muladhara becomes Maha Ganesha in the Virata that is the brain that means it is the seat of Shri Ganesh. That means Shri Ganesha governs from that seat- the principal of innocence. As you know very well it is placed at the back in the region of optic thalamus and it is the giver of innocence to the eyes. When He incarnated as Christ it is here in the front at Angya, he said very clearly that "Thou shalt not have adulterate eyes". It is a very subtle saying which people don’t understand what is the meaning of the word. Adultery means impurity in a general word. Any impurity in the eye thou shalt not have. It’s very difficult. Instead of saying that you get your realization and clear your back Angya, He has said it in short form "Tthou shalt not have adulterate eyes" and people thought it is an impossible situation. He was not allowed to live long; actually his public life is limited to three and a half years only.

So whatever He has said has a very great significance, that your eyes should not be adulterants; when there is innocence there is no adultery. It means there is no impurity. For example, with our eyes we see something and we want to possess it. We start thinking. The thought starts like a chain one after another, and then we get into the web of horrible thoughts, and then we become slaves of those thoughts. Without even our knowledge our eyes are turned to things which are very gross and take you downward. As Shri Krishna has said that the tree of awareness rose upside down such that the roots are in the brain and the branches go downward. Those who have gone to materialism have grown downward, those who have gone towards divine have grown upwards towards the roots. The main root as they call it is innocence - is Shri Ganesh - and he becomes Maha Ganesha in Ganpatipule; here he is surrounded by the father principal - the guru principle of the sea - the ocean, the Indian ocean.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Jan 1, 1986

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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