The Divine Cool Breeze September and October 2008 volume twenty-one number five

 I am going to be just like you all My life in the sense I am going to get old and you are going to. I mean the way I should be old, I will be. I'll be just like you. I am not going to do anything outside. It's like a German car, but it is who has to know the power of the German car. It's the best type. you

 4 Guru Puja 8 Sufis 10 Reflected 20 Bhakti 30 Knowledge DARASMERA-MUKHÂMBUJÂ 32 Buddha HER LOTUS FACE IS RADIANT WITH SMILES

 • 20 July 2008 • Cabella Ligure orbe d to Today is a great day for all the Sahaja Yogis. Because the Sahasrara opened in you, you could feel the existence of God. By saying there is God, that was not sufficient. And to say there is no God also was wrong, very wrong, and people have suffered who have said like this. Only after getting Realization you know that there is God and there are vibrations. This is a very big opening all over the world. Today I say that's why it's one of the greatest days for Many of you have felt the cool breeze on your hands and out of your brain. Some grown in Sahaja Yoga, some have not. Some are still carrying on with old catches. But now I have to say that quite a lot of you can become gurus – means teachers. And should act as teachers. To act as a teacher, you should know Sahaja Yoga, the theory you. Quite a lot have of you can you and the practice of it thoroughly well and then you can become a guru. It is a very [big] responsibility, a lot of understanding for a guru. You should not have any ego, first. You should not have any of your chakras catching. You should be absolutely clear all the time. And there the vibrations should be flowing in both the hands. If they are moving in one hand and not in another, you cannot become a become gurus. have to be a perfect Sahaja Yogi, then only you can be a guru. guru. So And so many of you can be, but you have to ascertain first: are you capable of being a guru or not? With humbleness, you'll understand. Those who think they can be a guru, should become gurus because now I can't travel from places to places and you have to do My job. It is to give Realization to people. But you have to be able to give en masse Realization, then only you could be a guru. If you can give en masse Realization, then could be a guru. You can use My photograph, but the Realization should not be from the photograph, you you Then only you but from u can be a guru. There can be ladies or men, both can become you. gurus and spread Sahaja Yoga all over.

 Dha dic In My whole touring business, Canada I have missed and I would request You have some of you to go to Canada because it's a very beautiful place and we have very beautiful Sahaja Yogis there. You have to do now My work. I won't be able to go all over, to give but have to go to other countries and create new Sahaja Yogis. You can do it. you To begin with, you can use My photograph, but later on you can only put the photo- Realization graph there. But use your own powers and give Realization. You can do it and that is how we can spread Sahaja Yoga all over the world. I have done My level best now, but I don't think now I can travel any more. So I am telling you that have to take over and work it out. That doesn't mean you cancel Me – no, not at all. I am there with you. And every place you work, you put My photograph. But Realization you have to give and try to give to people. you This is a sign mass Realization. If that doesn't work out, then you should know you are not a guru. If of a guru. you can give mass Realization, then only you are a guru. Otherwise you are not. I said you can use My photograph, but you have to give Realization to people. This is the sign of a things missing in people. I have explained very clearly. In the same way, you'll find those who come for Realization, they have some defects and will find out what chakras they are catching. You know how to clear those chakras, so you have to tell them how to clear. Now you have mastered Sahaja Yoga, so you should know what is to be done. If you think you have mastered, if you believe that you have mastered, then first of all you should ascertain and find out for yourself, if you are a guru or not. It is responsibility now to give Realization to people. And you can give if you have vibrations, as like a guru. Or for ladies also, they are called as a guruvee;* not as gurus, but as guruvees. *guruvee: the feminine But they can be called as guru also and they can also do this work very well. Solving the form of the word guru, problems of people is not difficult then. Once they get Realization, their problems will be solved. This is a big power you have got. You all should use. will really know what are different centres and what are the Then guru. you you but you can become gurus, your as used in Marathi

 How Sahaja Yoga will grow First of all, you can use a group if you want and afterwards you should do it individu- ally. Can you imagine, all of you, if you become gurus, how many Sahaja Yogis we'll have all over the world? Whatever you teach, you must practise. A person who drinks cannot become a guru. A person who flirts and has a licentious life cannot become a guru. So first examine yourself. Are you clean or not? If there are many possessed people who try to become gurus, they cannot. Honestly you should see on the photograph if you are pos- sessed, then you cannot be a guru. So now to become a guru is first to criticize yourself, to find out yourself fully and then you can become a guru. I don't want to tell anybody individually, but you all can find out. Say four, five people can join together and they can find out from each other if It is for you you they are all right or not, if there is missing, if they are catching. But if they say there you you can preach Sahaja Yoga. This is your to carry responsibility. This is how Sahaja Yoga will grow. Otherwise, after I'll retire or I don't go are all right, then you can become gurus and anywhere, then Sahaja Yoga will go into waste. So it is for you to carry the torch, the light. I's your responsibility now. You have got your Realization. I was born with the responsibility. I was born with all the understanding. And now you are also to understand yourself. Do not condemn yourself as long as you start your own Realization, but be careful. Don't become egoistical. You have to be very humble with everyone. And work it out because if they are not realized souls, you shouldn't condemn them, but tell them very patiently and sweetly that "you are not all right." Tell them how to meditate, how to improve. It's now a very big responsibility. Actually, I have done this work and you can do this work also. the torch. humble, very CC all have to become a guru. This is the day of Guru Purnima and I bless you, all become gurus. Whatever you have got now, don't waste it, don't throw it away, but use it for the betterment of people. If you want, in the beginning, have four to five people together, then you should separate. You have to give time to this. You have Realization, but you have to give Realization, otherwise your state is not all right, is So you that you got your not normal. So today I want to tell you what are the qualities needed for a guru. First of all, he should be a detached person. That doesn't mean you give up your family or anything, but should have a detached attitude, that anybody from your family does wrong, you you should go away from him or her. To spread happiness Secondly, through your Realization, you can see that you can spread happiness and remove their problems. You have seen whatever I have done – you can do it. You have got the power to do it, but no hypocrisy. No hypocrisy, otherwise you will spoil the name of Sahaja Yoga. So if you are sure about yourself, then only you should become work of Sahaja Yoga. I think I give you all My blessings and all My support, take over and become gurus. You can also have all the pujas and then you can use the photograph. You have seen how one has to work it out. And if somebody has some defect or some chakras are catching, then you should tell that person how to correct it – on the photograph it is the best – and very humbly you should tell them what is to be done. And you can save all the people. So now, carry the gurus and you am no more available – in the sense I have done My best and I think I won't be able to do this again. It is not My old age, but I want to give you a complete freedom to spread Sahaja Yoga. 4

 GURU PUJA it free and you also have to give it to people free, not to charge them or You have got in the pujas days only. Be careful that don't put yourself on the puja till you are confirmed and you are sure that you have created at least a hundred Sahaja Yogis, good Sahaja Yogis. Then they can do your puja also. But the best thing is to wait and see. You don't the puja business till you have done about a thousand people each, then you have the right to have a puja. But you could have a puja with My photograph till you are com- pletely all right. Now have confidence is the main thing. Do not condemn yourself. You are all realized souls, but those who can think they can become gurus, can become and try. You have to have patience with the seekers. You can't be angry and hot-tempered. Unless until they try to trouble you, you shouldn't lose your temper. You should be quiet. Most of the gurus are very hot-tempered, or have been before, and that's why they were busy with their temper and they couldn't produce anything sensible, I think. They could never give Realization. So I have to warn you: control your temper. Watch yourself if you get angry, then you cannot become a guru. A guru has to be a loving person, very loving and understanding. Then you have to be humble, not to abuse people, not to shout back and take at people. If they misbehave, you can ask them to go out, but don't shout. If you think somebody is misbehaving, you can ask that person to get out, but need not shout or S ome rest. get angry with that person. So it's a very big responsibility now. You got your Realization and so four or five of into get I have to go you should join to form a Sahaja Yoga group, giving Realization to people – try. Of you course, My photograph will be there, but still you must try. Try to understand that now what is your responsibility. If a position is given, you have to always carry on with the responsibility of that position. In the same way, if you become a guru, you have a certain amount of responsibility, that your own behaviour should be very good to begin with. In the beginning, you cannot tell them, "Don't go to church" or “Don't do this, don't do that." You give them Realization and then you can talk to them. In the beginning, you shouldn't tell them or they'll just shun you. Accept them as they are. In the beginning, you should not also cure people if possible. You can use My photograph to begin with, but don't cure them. Later on, if you are confident, then four, five together should treat CC person. Curing people is not very easy and you may catch, so before acting on anyone you must take a bandhan. A bandhan is very good. You should, even when you are going out, you should take a bandhan. You should also make a very good speech, if possible. Now you know so many things you can talk to them. It's a very big responsibility. that and The power and the authority Now I have been working from the year 1970 and today. So many years I have worked so hard, but I can't now do it. I have to go back and take some rest, as everybody has said and you will also Every time you have a meeting use My photograph. Those who think they can be leaders and, as gurus, they should first see their own vibrations, meditate on My photograph and find out. You have to be absolutely honest that you can tell about Me, if it is necessary, but use My photograph. agree. But you are a hundred percent all right and there is no catch and then you can become a guru. You have to be. First you may get two people, then three people. I started with five. you can imagine how one can go with it. Try first of all with two, three, five and more. You can also advertise afterwards. If you have given Realization to ten people, you can start your own organization, or whatever you may call it, and can work it out. So

 GURU PUJA Now you have the power, you have the right, but you must have a temperament also. In the beginning, you have to be very patient and kind – very kind. Then gradu- ally you will find that you can cure people. You can use My photograph for curing to begin with and later on you can see you can cure. First of all on vibrations, you'll see what chakras are catching, which are good, which are bad. And then you should cor- rect them. If there's something wrong, you must correct it and then become guru. It is not just accepting that "I am guru" that you become guru, but you have to be very, very – an authority on yourself. You have to judge yourself. First of all, you should find out: can you become gurus? And then you can send me your reports. I'd be very happy to know how many you have got now. And that is how Sahaja Yoga would spread, no doubt. It cannot remain at this because I am withdrawing, but because you are now stage so many Sahaja Yogis, it will grow and work out. But I think now I can't travel and I am going back. I won't be able to come back again – not possible. better work it out for yourself. You must write to Me if you have dif- So you any You have to ficulties, if somebody is catching or something or you have a problem. Now I don't think any newspaper will criticize you. They have done it for Me, but All of you promise Me that you'll try to become gurus. I didn't take any money from you, nothing from you. I just want that you should spread Sahaja Yoga. In the beginning, even in the pujas don't take any presents or money. You can only take a little money from them if you have need to have a hall or a big place, but that save the world. not for you. All My work is that. will be much later. First of all, try with few people. It will grow very well. Now another thing is puja. You should not allow them to do to you to begin with. have done three hundred Sahaja Yogis, you can't ask them to do you puja. You can use My photograph for the puja to begin with, but be very careful because have Until you powers now and it might pamper your ego. Maybe you start thinking you are you great – no. You have to save the world. All My work is that and I would ask you to write to Me in India if there is any difficulty. Also write to Me how you are spreading Sahaja Yoga, what is happening. I would like to know. But I think you will understand that I must retire now. I can't travel. If you have any questions, ask Me. Those who are confident that they can become raise hands. Oh, so many. Only one hand, not two. If anybody is making money, you should tell him not to do it and also write to Me. You cannot make money to begin with, but when you have about three thousand people, you can celebrate all the worshipping days and worship. But you must make at least three thousand disciples each. Then you can ask for a puja. There are some people who cannot become gurus, who are catching and they have problems. If you have problems, don't become a guru, otherwise it will affect you. But your gurus, you think question? I am opening a centre for international Sahaja Yoga and when you have done with three hundred Sahaja Yogis, you can ask them to do puja and take money. Before that, if you get any money, you can send it to that centre. There would be about eleven mem- bers in that centre and I'll declare it. If you have any questions, ask Me now. First three hundred people, you don't take any money, except for the hall or except for other expenses. But your hands how many would like to be gurus? May God bless you. if you are clear and opened out, then you can become gurus. Is there any don't take any money for yourself. Now can you raise again you

 Do you have any questions? You can take money or not, on an organization basis, that you have to have a hall, loudspeaker and all those things. But you shouldn't take it for your individual use. You should be very careful until you have three hundred Sahaja Yogis. You can form a group of five to ten people and start your work. You will enjoy it. Anyone has any problem, ask Me. I have to go to Canada. I have not been, but I'll try to find some time. First now I have to go to Russia and then I can go to Canada. You have to work more in your country How many would like to be a than outside to begin with and then you can spread it all over. Again let us see how many want to be gurus? Oh, what a big number. guru? you. Thank Thank you very much. Thank you all.

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 Tafes All the Sufis are one. All these great prophets are one. All these, we can call them prophets and also incarnations. They are altogether one.... I have read a book written by a one Sufi from Turkey and REPORTER: Is Sahaja Yoga like Sufism? Islamic spiritualism? great another one I have read it SHRI MATAJI: Not ism. That's the difference between the two. Anyone can call himself | with our Nizamuddin here, a Sufi. It's not an ism. Ism means a kind of theory or a kind of group who believes in who had written something and his disciples just the Sahaja Yoga makes a Sufi. Sufi means cleansed. It cleanses and rid of same. They write the same all these horrible things and you become a transformed person. Most of the Sufis didn't thing. I mean there is no know how they became Sufis. They were born like that.... Just by going around and difference because absolute knowledge is the same, only the expression may be different. They might use a different expression. something. It's not like that. you get you you don't become a Sufi. By following a certain code of life, you don't become around, you a Sufi. What does it is the kundalini. That has to rise.... If you read them, it is a descrip- tion of Sahaja Yogis. They didn't call them Sahaja Yogis, but they were because they are described to be like this or that and when they tell about their own experiences in poetry you are amazed to see they are talking like Sahaja Yogis. 6 April 1997 April 2001 Once you become empowered by that power we had Sufis all over the world. I have read them. I have read the Sufis of Turkey You see and also other places. Even in India we had Sufis, though they don't call themselves of love and compassion, such.... Sufi means saaf and saaf means clean, means pure. Those who are pure people I'm sure one day you'll are Sufis. In the purity they see nothing but divine grace, divine love, divine peace. They realize your potential, how talked of peace only. They could not talk of war. Anybody who talks of war cannot be a great you are. You're no person who has got any right to do that. War is absolutely like madness... Look at these few people who were Sufis, who were very clean people, how they have any Sufi. You are just the been able to channelize the other people into a better life. That is what you are. You have great knower of the true to channelize their lives. That's your job. Don't think about what is happening, how the knowledge, not of absurd people are stupid, immoral – forget it. What you have to know is what you are. You knowledge, whatever have to be aware of yourself and of your responsibility as being the purest of pure. As knowledge we have from My name is, indicates you are My children and that indicates the children of Nirmal. It the books.... Now see, Sufis means purity. Purity is the basis of your existence. You should try to see where, what you were, in write? They write nothing which part. There's no mistake in appreciating the art, appreciating all that is beautiful, but Sahaja Yoga. appreciating all that is created out of beautiful minds, but there should be no lust and 16 June 1999 greed in that appreciation – pure appreciation, purity is the message. And once you have the purity within yourself, you will love yourself. As I love you, you will love you also. The way people are And then less than any great saint or are Muslims. What do they will understand this word "love," which comes out of the purity. The blos- remembering the Sufis, the same way people are going to remember you soming of your purity, the fragrance of your purity, you enjoy all the time. And the love that you have flows, flows towards all those who are to be loved, who have to be looked you. Easter Puja 2000 | Diwali Puja 2007 after.

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 Enjoyment is only possible when you are beyond your mind.... Enjoyment comes when you are in complete silence, in a rippleless lake. The reflection of all the joy that is created on the shores of that lake is completely reflected. It is not deflected. If there were ripples, it would have been a different image altogether and would have been something nowhere near the image of reality. reflected Navaratri Puja1995 11

 He has created these beautiful lakes TA for these trees to see their reflection

 REFLECTION God created His reflection "Why has God created this beautiful universe?" has been a question asked for thou- sands of years. The reason is very simple to understand. This beauty that is created cannot see itself. In the same way, God who is the source of beauty, cannot see His own beauty. Like a pearl cannot enter into itself to see its beauty, like the sky cannot understand its own beauty, the stars cannot see their own beauty, the sun cannot behold its own brilliance. In the same way, God Almighty cannot behold His own being. He needs a mirror. And that's how He has created this beautiful universe as His mirror. In this mirror, He has created now the beautiful things like the sun. The sun has to see his own reflection also. So He has created these beautiful trees to see that when he shines they come up so well and look so green. Then He has created those birds to rise early in the morning to greet the sun, so the sun knows that "Yes, I am there, I am existing." Or else He has created these beautiful lakes for these trees to see their reflection and the lakes to feel their existence when the ripples start moving within themselves. So then He created human beings. The human beings cannot also see their own beauty, their own glory. That's why they are in the darkness. They are ignorant. They cannot see what lies within themselves. So they are running after something which is absolutely against themselves, which is ugliness, which is self-destructive. And the struggle to get to reality is such a lot that, as a result, they destroy themselves – like people have taken to these drugs, taken to all bad habits because they do not know YOLL see what beautiful things they are. So now a mirror has to be created for them to see for themselves, how beautiful they You see the complete are. Their mirror is their spirit. That spirit is to be brought in their consciousness, in their attention. Ifit comes in theirattention, then they can see their image. 21December 1986 reflection of There's no thought in your mind, so you start looking at anything without thinking. You start looking at anything that is created without any ripple of thought in your mind. Like all that is created around the lake of your mind is completely reflected in that rippleless lake and you see the complete reflection of that creation as well as the as well as joy that is bubbling in that creation. So your creativity becomes tremendous. You start seeing things, but not thinking. that creation the joy. 11 October 1983 The spirit reflects God has created human beings ... and now He wants to see His beautiful image in you people. So first of all, know that your mirror is your spirit. That is the mirror you have which you can see, which does not know its greatness, does not know its got beauty, does not know anything, in the sense that it reflects the beauty of God within you. Now in such a manner that we see our image of this mirror of God that we have ourselves. have to create an image or, you can say, we have to manifest our work you got within So when Sahaja Yogis start manifesting themselves, asserting themselves, project- ing themselves, then they can see their own image and they are surprised, "How can we be so beautiful? How can we be so nice? How can we be so powerful? How can we be the universal power? How we are helped?" When you get all these experiences of your goodness, of your greatness, of your glory, you start manifesting God. 13

 REFLECTION So now for God, your mirror is ready. For Him you are His mirror and He wants to see Himself through you. So all the beauty that you have, all the powers you have are within you.... It should please God to see your faces, reflecting His manifestation. Like you see the flowers – like the flowers which are fresh. You look at them with great admiration. you In the same way, when God see His reflection among Sahaja Yogis, He will very much be fulfilled. 23 December 1986 Shiva is reflected The one who is reflected within us is the Shiva, who is the pure spirit. This pure spirit within us is the reflection of God Almighty – Sadashiva. It's like the sun that falls in the water and gives a clear reflection. Or else it falls on the stone – it doesn't reflec- give any tion at all. If you have the mirror, the sun will not only fall on the mirror, but will reflect back its light. In the same way in the human beings, the reflection of God Almighty is expressed in the way your personality is. If your personality is clean and clear, innocent, then the reflection could be like a mirror. Thus, the saintly people, they reflect God Almighty in the proper manner, in the sense that their own identification with wrong things is no more. When there is no such identification and when a person is absolutely the pure spirit, then the reflection of God reflects into others. Luckily, you all have got your Self Realization. That means the reflection of God Almighty is already working into your attention. The attention is enlightened by the power of the spirit. The power of the spirit is that it is a reflection. That means the reflec- tion is never identified with the mirror or with the water. It is there until the sun shines. And when there is no sun, there is no reflection. So when you are in Sahaja Yoga, you have cleansed out yourself. Your kundalini has also cleansed you and and clearer and people see it, see it on your face. They see it in your body. They see it in your work, in your behavior, in everywhere. It is difficult for people to really believe in themselves, that they could be the reflection of God Almighty. They have some sort of complexes about themselves I think, that they cannot understand how they have suddenly become the reflection of God Almighty. But they have a capacity and they can become the reflection of God Almighty, for which they have to have faith in themselves, faith in their ascent, to believe that "we have become that." The confidence in Sahaja Yoga is very important. We are the spirit. now you are pure personalities. That's why this reflection is clearer We are the reflection of God Almighty which is purity, which is truth, 26 February 1995 which is knowledge. The spirit resides in us in our heart. It is the reflection of God Almighty. In the Sanskrit language, this aspect of God which is all-pervading and is the first and the last, is called as Sadashiva. It is the father who does not incarnate. We say Yahovah ... or the God who does not incarnate. This great aspect which encompasses everything ultimately and also manifest everything is reflected within our heart as the spirit. We are that. Diwali Puja 1991 7 October 1981 The quality of the reflector The spirit is eternal. It is all-powerful. It never loses its power whether we are old, young. Whatever condition we may be, the spirit has its own power all the time. But the reflec- tion of the spirit in us, the light of the spirit in us depends on the quality of our reflector – how we are. And because of the quality being so poor sometimes, darkness is created within us. And in that darkness we do not know sometimes – even to that extent – that there is something beyond. 26 November 1979 14

 If you learn how to surrender to the Primordial Kundalini, then your kun- You are a Sahaja Yogi and the mirror, dalini is immediately strengthened. It's like this: supposing you have a stone and you try to put anything on it. It won't reflect. Then you improve with in the reflection, you should see Me and the wood – still nothing will be reflected. Then you paint it – some reflection will come. Then you some mercury and make it a mirror, it will reflect – but still, it may not be the perfect mirror. So this is how the kind of a reflector you are. On that depends the kind of a reflection you get and the kind of personality you develop. So there should 23 July 1983 be no aim as such, but to be dissolved into the reality should be the desire within you. Start dissolving into it. Then one does not have to talk about detachment. One does not have to talk about anything, about any virtues. They automatically come because now you have become the Divine. Once you become the Divine, even your kundalini becomes absolutely, beautifully, completely reflecting the Primordial One. have the glass. The glass won't reflect. But if you use not yourself.... The reflection should be of Me, of something that is ideal before you. Kundalini Puja 1990 The Mother Earth reflects You are the reflection of Sahaja Yoga. That is the reflection of the Adi Shakti in you. But the reflection in the Mother Earth is also expressed in different places, different countries, different cities, as the manifestation of chakras and the Adi Shakti's creations. It was very important first to create a very holy Mother Earth for human beings to be You are the mirrors, not Me. You have to reflect Sahaja Yoga. born on.... If we are the true reflection of the Adi Shakti, then we should be pure, So first of all, you have to become absolutely pure, like the white stone. Even if one black drop falls on the white, it shows... In that reflection you are Me. In that reflection the Mother Earth is Me. In that beautiful creation within you, you have to become very sensitive to the Adi Shakti Puja 1997 good reflectors – the good gurus. need of the world. Guru Puja 1981

 You can't see your reflection within Me. п w This is Mahamaya. This is the secret part of it Reflections in the body Your heart – this is the abode of the reflection of God Almighty. And the kun- dalini is the reflection of the Primordial Mother. So in the heart resides the that you don't know. Primordial Father and in the kundalini resides the Primordial Mother. And here 12 October 1987 [at the heart] the reflection within us is the spirit. The body is the reflector of the spirit. Without the body, you cannot have the spirit and, if you have the spirit which is enveloped in a soul, that also contains a kind of a body in a subtler way. So the spirit can only be expressed in a body. 26 February 1992 Love is reflected You are like the mirrors and I want to see the refection of the moon in you. The love we talk of is to be subtler. It becomes really subtler when you really enjoy. Like giving something to someone is one of the ways of judging it. When you start enjoy giving – not taking, just giving – then you should know on the material level you have felt. You have touched that shore of subtlety on the material level only. 25 January 1982 Sahaja Yogis reflect you get Realization, you become absolutely free people. Free means your you get enlightenment, own spirit guides you. The spirit, as you know, is the reflection of the Divine, awakened in the God Almighty. If everybody has the same reflection and is awakened, then your heart and in the spirit is in the awareness it works, as if they know what is right and what is wrong, what the reflection of the complete is constructive and what is destructive. It is not some sort of a false satisfac- Divine Force. 5 June 2000 tion that you have, but, in reality, you feel the reality and that is what has to Sahasrara Puja 2000 Once When your spirit gets happen. You are knowing your Self. And all those who know their Why does God want you to know Him? Because He wants to see His reflection Self cannot fight with each in you. He wants to see His reflection. That's why He has created you and He other. Because this Self is the wants to see His reflection in you. The same with the Goddess. She has given reflection of one person, of you Self Realization because She wants to see Her reflection in you. So you have one Deity, of one God. And to prepare yourself for that reflection, which is so much purer, beautiful, loving, so how can you fight when compassionate and, above all, full of wisdom. So this is the point one has to He is within your heart. reach where you understand you have to have wisdom.... New Year's Puja 2000-2001 It is a kind of a personality which really reflects God's love. That reflection should come from you. You are Sahaja Yogis. That doesn't mean that you are something higher than others, but you are different. You are above them. You have no superiority. That's why you are different. You are so humble. That's why you are different. You are so joyous. You are so peaceful. That's why you are Shri Krishna Puja 2000 SI humble.

 REFLECTION Absorbing the reflection The reflection on the stone of even the sun is zero. And the reflection of the sun on the lake is sometimes the reflection that is felt in the Sahaj Yogis. When they see, feel it, it flows. They can feel the breeze in their hands ... but still their attention is not fully enlightened. The spirit has not permeated inside. It's just reflecting still. In the mirror, you see the reflection of the sun. But even then, when you removed it, you cannot reflect it. This is the difference – that even if you become the mirror of the and until it permeates into your being and transforms you into something new, you have not done full justice to yourself and nor to the powers of your spirit. The spirit has come just like a vision to you, an experience to you, but the growth of your being has not yet started and, if it has started, it's so slow that unless sun, 10 November 1980 you may not achieve much in one lifetime. Reflections in four dimensions When you worship the Adi Kundalini, the reflection in you, which is your own kundalini, feels very happy. Also the Deities feel happy. In that happy mood, you can achieve a very much deeper experience. That's a fact. But to keep it up, you have to meditate, otherwise all these strands will go back, slip down, which have come out in the puja.... Supposing you take an Indian mirror. You look in the mirror and you'll find you look like nothing on Earth. It will just cut you into three pieces maybe – or anything. But if you take a Belgian mirror, say, then the reflection is correct, full – but still not three dimensional. But this is a four dimensional reflection. Four dimensional it is, what is called as the turya state. And that four dimen- sional personality you have reflected because of your reflector of your desire. The reflector is the desire and the reflection is complete. So when you worship the Adi Kundalini, what you are trying to do is to cleanse your kundalini as well as please the Deities. Because this is an object, it is an object. It is not to be changed – but the reflection can change. It's beyond Me to really express the great joy that I see in your hearts, reflected in My Heart. Shri Adi Kundalini Puja 1991 Creating your own reflection We come to the point that the creativity, if it is our aim – for that the attention we should purify and to be purified with love, with compassion. And the same attention, when it is filled with love and compassion, it gives you dynamism. It gives you strength. Its untiring zeal you get. And the joy of seeing your reflec- tion into another person is very beautiful. No words can describe it. Actually when you give Realization to another person, what you try to see is your image in that person, as if out of an ordinary glass you are making it into a beautiful mirror and then you want to see that. That is how you create. You Guru Puja 1989 create your own reflections. This reflection improves and you grow more and more within yourself through know of the Adi Shakti or through the power of kundalini. AS you that the Adi Shakti has Her own kundalini, which is the Adi Kundalini. And the reflection of that within you is [your] kundalini. So you have to worship and it is the best way to please your own kundalini, your own Mother who has Shri Adi Shakti Puja 1996 the power given you this birth. May God bless 17 you.

 She has given you Self Realization because She wants to see Her reflection in you. So you have to prepare yourself for that reflection which is so much purer, beautiful, loving, compassionate and, above all, full of wisdom.

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 I DON'T KNOW HOW TO CREATE BHAKTI WITHIN YOU. That I can't say, but I have seen people with bhakti. They have achieved great heights... I don't know how the bhakti and shraddha has helped them so much. In this, I must say, Indians are the best because they have this power of bhakti and of shraddha.... Bhakti is love and love which is under- standing, which understands what is bhakti and shraddha. Unless and until you develop that bhakti and shraddha within you, you cannot rise. You cannot rise above your problems. You cannot rise above your personality because bhakti is something you cannot impose on anyone, you cannot force on anybody.... You have to have all your qualities absolutely intact. You should be intelligent. You should be understanding. Everything should be there. But at that time, the joy of bhakti is within you. And this joy of bhakti, when it starts flowing, the Goddess Herself enters into being. I have seen people – bhaktas, many great saints in India – who achieved a lot of heights. They have gone too far into it and, if you read about them and if you understand them, you are amazed how, without any help, without any guidance, how could they go that deep and worship the Devi. Worshipping is not just out of sheer reading or some sort of a chanting or anything, but it's the deep attention of your heart. I think it's the spirit. If the spirit is awakened within you, you develop the bhakti and drop out all nonsensical ideas, all different things that have crawled into your head – but you just develop the bhakti. Now all these qualities described of the Devi are left-sided, are in the brain – memory, н your smriti rupena samsthita – other things also. Whatever are described are in the brain. And then the bhakti reaches the state. It just neutralizes everything. All the problems of the brain are neutralized and you become a wise person. So the greatest boon of the Devi is to give you wisdom. You can call it awareness. You can call it anything. It's a kind of a wisdom by which you become absolutely a divine personality. That wisdom you must reach through your bhakti. But, you see, we have people of all kinds. Some are very much in the shraddha, in the bhakti, in the devotion, but they are wrongly placed and they don't understand to whom we should worship and where we should Now Sahaja Yoga, it is an actualization. Sahaja Yoga is a sakshat, is actualization in which know whom to worship and to whom to surrender. It's not blind in any way. Whatever is blind bhakti can take you to any kind of nonsense. And that's how many cults have come up. Many of these things have come up, but that's not a thing that sees, that knows, that understands. It should be understood by your intelligence, by all your qualities, what your bhakti is like. Now we have, through kundalini awakening, reached a very great height, I must say, of the understanding of bhakti, the power of bhakti. The greatest power of bhakti is that bhakti go. is devotion you shraddha is dedication it protects you. Those people who are suffering from any kind of trouble, protects you. kind of problem, just get out of it because this bhakti of yours gives you the right type of understanding, the understanding of yourself – also the understanding of the sur- roundings – the understanding of the whole universe, I should say. Why people behave like this, why they are like this – all this can be solved through bhakti. It should not be blind, but it should be a wise bhakti – wise with wisdom. any Unless and until you develop your It is only possible through Sahaja Yoga, otherwise whatever bhakti people do like mad, that cannot be bhakti. You don't become mad. You become a wise man – a wise man, as we have so many in the past and the way they have talked about everything is surprising. How they have said things about human awareness, about your ascent is remarkable. As I sometimes I feel, they have really prepared a field for Me, a proper area for Me to talk to people. that bhakti and shraddha within you, you cannot rise.

 B with bhakti, God comes to them отеs Especially in India ... we are very much devoted people. In the same way, all over it should happen... Bhakti and shraddha – these two things are missing in the western life, I must say. We should come back. We should develop. We should grow. But even in the eastern life now, it's missing. For them the ideal is now the western life. Once you take to western life, that part is over because the whole thing is judged with ideas – what is beneficial, what is helpful in life. But bhakti and shraddha, according to them, is of no use, that doesn't help. Most of the people nowadays think like that. But you are very few I who have understood what is bhakti and what is shraddha. So I would say the Goddess gives you bhakti and shraddha – by what? She gives you through your meditation, that you see so many miracles happening in your life and are amazed how this has happened.... She corrects you.... The most important point is surrendering... It is within us, within our power as human beings to be wise. I have seen animals have such a sensitivity to vibrations, extremely sensitive. How? Because their wisdom is intact. It works in them. They are not conscious of it. The difference is human beings are conscious of their wisdom. This is the only difference. Animals have wisdom, but automatic – we should say natural – but we have inculcated this or we have developed you this wisdom within us ... through our meditation, through our understanding of bhakti and shraddha. So it's very important to understand the value of bhakti within us. You cannot super- ficially touch it. Those who are superficial will never get it. Wisdom only comes through understanding what wisdom is.... First of all, find out about yourself. If you are a real Sahaja Yogi, if you really want to be a instrument of this power, then what have to do is to become full of bhakti and shraddha for that. And this bhakti and shraddha are very joy-giving, I know it. It never you tired, it never troubles you, nothing, but it's very nourishing and beautiful. makes you But it should be at the right place, with the right aims and the right understanding... So the bhakti and shraddha to the Goddess definitely gives you wisdom. We have had some people in India who did lots of bhakti, so-called, and showed lots of shraddha, but they were not. They were just talking about it or doing all kinds of things about it, but they were not. So wisdom is something, a very innate quality, very innate. It's not superfi- cial. You cannot just say that this person, is he wise or not? It shows that just like a power, it's a power of understanding and it's supported by the power of the Goddess. So She is the giver of wisdom. This is the biggest quality of the Goddess, that She is the giver of wisdom. And wisdom comes as a part of the evolutionary process.... The first thing is anybody who is supposed to be your guru or supposed to be the person who is guiding you must have bhakti, the bhakti of the Goddess – very important to understand. Navaratri 2002 22

 Bhakti is devotion. That too is another trick of Shri Krishna, the way He describes bhakti. Now find people on the street, "Hare Rama, Hare Krishna" sing- ing. In one word He has concluded. He says, "You must do ananya bhakti." Ananya means “when there is not the other." That means when you have submerged yourself into the Divine, you are one with the Divine, then you should do bhakti. Otherwise I do not accept. He says that you CC "If you give Me some leaves or some fruits or some flow- ers, I will accept, I will accept." But for Him, the real bhakti is only possible when you become one with the Divine. Otherwise it's just a show. Shri Krishna Puja 1998 People who are in their spiritual awareness or spiritual ascent, try to take to bhakti. They take to bhakti more. They worship God from their heart, from their emotions. They work through emotions. There are twenty-four types of relations they establish with God. That's called as "a bhakti relationship," we can say, and they dwell upon "Oh God, when CC it and all the time and and CC weep cry say, will I meet you?" Such people are the ones who take dom- ination from others, suffer, sacrifice and lead a life of great suffering. But in their expression, in their achieving God, they start doing bhakti and they think, through bhakti, they will come to God. But with bhakti, God comes to them. Because of their bhakti, God comes to them and He incarnates for the bhaktas. The ones who cry for God, He incarnates. 2 September 1983 CC Shri Krishna said that do ananya bhakti. “Pushpam Phalam Toyam. Whatever you give Me, I'll take." He'll take every- thing. He is the one who is the only bhokta, means He's the only enjoyer. But what will you get? He says, "When do ananya bhakti, it means when you are one with you Me." That means you are connected with Him. That's how He has explained bhakti, what bhakti is, very clearly. But people don't understand. They think that bhakti means you go on singing on the street.... Bhakti it is not. If that was real, they would have achieved something, but they did not. Now don't blame Krishna for that. He has clearly said it should be ananya bhakti. Only by changing your dress, wearing a particular type of style, that's not the way. That's all so outward. It's just to show off. But actually ananya bhakti is within yourself, when you are in that state, when you are one with the Divine. Unless and until that state you have achieved, not only that but established, He doesn't give you anything. Shri Krishna Puja 2001

 you start seeing yourself, you start entering into the realm of bhakti. You become a mild person, You are a very pleasant person, very gentle, very understanding. This person has to verify how he is behaving towards others. Now the attention starts moving from oneself to another and you start seeing how you behave, how you love, what is the quality of your compassion. When you love somebody without any expectations, just love, then you are absolutely dedicated to that person – absolutely. You just obey. You'll do anything for that person. If there is this love which you call as surrender, this is just the love. Surrender is nothing but the love and that love which is extremely joy-giving. This bhakti starts, this dedication starts and you are cleansed by that bhakti. All the bad qualities you have ... all the deficiencies you have, all the problems you have, you understand and you get over it. Now if you see somebody with the same qualities, with the same troubles, you, in the love of that person, try to tolerate. Such a person just tolerates. There is no aggression and these people forgive. Realized souls go on forgiving. Their capacity to forgive is tre- mendous. They do not bear any malice against anyone. They don't have any anger about anyone. They just go on tolerating and forgiving and forgiving. This forgiveness is just a music, I should say, of your bhakti... I have seen some people they have such bhakti, such devotion, which is shraddha – it's higher than bhakti of your being. It just envelopes you completely. When you have that shraddha, it is very miraculous. It works so many miracles. When become a sweet person. You don't talk too much. You don't harass B anyone. н – that it becomes and parcel part Guru Puja 2000 There is bhakti gamya. You cannot get to Mother unless and until you have really bhakti your heart. It is all already sort of a built-in restriction. What can you do? If you don't have bhakti, you cannot get to Mother. No, you cannot. You cannot get to God. But if you have bhakti, then you can get to Mother. It is written, “bhakti gamya." If somebody "All right, raise my kundalini!" I cannot raise his kundalini.. But if somebody says, "Mother, will You please give me Realization?" once – so not only humility, but bhakti. And bhakti is only possible if you have from CC says, SO Guru Puja 1992 faith. your Collectivity is the blessing of Viratangana. She teaches you how to love each other. She teaches you how to enjoy other Sahaja Yogis. She teaches you how to have bhakti in your heart. But that teaching is like innate. If I say She teaches, does it mean you are the dis- ciple and She is the teacher? No. You become Viratangana yourself.... All that happens, absolutely happens in your brain. That's how your brain, which is the one which receives all the information and creates all the information, creates all the mental projections, becomes a new vehicle to create a dimension which goes higher, not declining. Virat Viratangana Puja 1993 There were two types of people who became aware of the higher powers of nature. One of them was the people who thought we may be able to excite the nature itself, so they the started worshipping all the five elements through the Veda mantras and all that ... result of which we see today is the manifestation of science, that they have been able to harness the energy of those five elements. The second type of people, who became aware that there must be some force which is giving us evolution, they started singing the praise of God in bhakti and requesting God to incarnate on this Earth. These were the bhakti margis. That is how in the Virata in the Primordial Being there are two forces as there are in the human beings. One is the emotional force, which is the bhakti, which gives us existence. This is the force through which the whole universe was conceived, was desired. And in our Sahaja Yoga terminology, it is called as the Mahakali Shakti. 6 February 1981 24

 ALL THE TIME I FEEL THAT IT'S YOU One lady, who was a Devi bhakt and had done so much study of bhakti and all that and knew so much, just merged into Me. I just couldn't understand her, how and what she has done because normally people don't do. When they are read- ing about the Devi, they think, “All right, this is Devi, this is Mataji." You see, it's separate things. They don't know they are reading about the Devi. So she said, "Mother, I just identified. It's written that how You are gentle, the Goddess is gentle, how She touches me, how She looks after me, how Her attention is on me. Like there's a sentence, kataksha kataksha nirikshana every glance is an inspection, but inspection is not a very good word, but nirikshana means "divine inspection." "So all the time I feel that it's You, You. You are all the time. When I listen to music, I feel now, 'See, She is looking at me, She is feeling me, She is nourishing me.' All the time I feel Your love." That's how the bhakti comes in. So if you have vibra- tions, that doesn't mean that they are something dry, you see. CC CC CC No, it means the joy of bhakti. Bhakti is – you can call it adoration, this, that. It's the ocean of love that is God. You just get drenched into it. There's no words to it. And that is what, when you feel you must know, that you have taken the spirit as a real connection between you and your Mother or Father. There's no differentiation. You are one in that your ocean, drenched in the ocean. You are the drop. You are the ocean. You are one in that bhakti. And that bhakti cannot be mechanical because it is not man-made. So to enjoy Sahaja Yoga, you must know that it's not dry vibrations only, but it is the bhakti. That is the joy of Shiva's quality, the quality of joy that He adds to our life. Everything seems to be surrounded, resounding. Same thing – the joy that "I'm loved so much by God, that God loves me, that I have a meaning in life..." Understand this one little point your heart into your brain, not from the brain to your heart. It comes as if the ambrosia of your bhakti covers your brain absolutely. that it comes from Mahashivaratri Puja 1991

 B I WENT TO MEET ONE REAL GURU. Oh, he was a very horrid fellow otherwise. He has slapped so many people, thrown so many people down from the hills and all those kinds of things he has done, no doubt. But still, for Me, he has tremendous regard. I went to him, so he just started talking to Me as you talk to a Goddess. He said, "How do you find these worldly people here?" I said, “All right. After all, I have created them." "Haan!" But he said, "Still but, You have got. With Your power, why don't you change them a little bit?" I said, "That's what is the problem. I have given them freedom." I said, "All right, it's freedom to you. You can choose if you want to get transformed or not. I cannot force.' He said, "But God Almighty You are. You can do anything." I said, "I can do everything, but I do not want to do certain things. One of them is to take the freedom from them. That is their freedom to choose. That's given to them כי away because if they have to have the ultimate freedom, they should have this little freedom intact." So he was quarrelling with Me about this. He said, "But when You are God Almighty, there could be some other method. These horrible people, what to do?" I said, “Your concern is all right and I understand because you are a guru, but when I am God Almighty, supposing, then My style is different. I can't be like Then he said, “That's true. You can't be like me." That is what I found in him. He was talking to Me only as if I am God standing before him and then he told all the disciples, “You see, you praise. You praise the Lord. You praise Her – stuti kara – because God is fond of praise." I said, “Really?" "Yes, if praise Him. Whenever I want something to be done, I just praise Him and He does it for me." you." you praise the Lord, then He gives you everything. I've seen that. I always So I said, "It's true. I must accept – bhakti gamya. You cannot get to Mother unless and until you have really bhakti from your heart. It's all already sort of a built-in restric- tion. What can you do? If you don't have bhakti, you cannot get to Mother. Bhakti is only possible if you have your faith.... Your faith in God has to be absolutely, absolutely untarnishable. Nothing can disturb them. That's very important. You've seen all the miracles of God. You’ve seen how you are working out His powers. You've known all these things, but still the faith in God is missing. The person who has complete faith in God is called as the one. It is God himself, they say. It is called as Paramachaitanya. The guru is called as the one who is himself the Brahmachaitanya. So when this faith in God is absolutely established in you that there is God Almighty - "He's almighty and that I am the messenger of that God" – just this understanding, when it becomes absolutely firm in you, then you are in the gurupada. I bless you today that all of achieve that state, that you reside in that gurupada state. And wherever you are, whatever you are, whatever may be your position, whatever you may do, the faith in the God Almighty, that is so truly within you, will express itself. Not only that, but it will manifest. It will act just like God. So many things can be said. I've said so many things before. So many can be said later on also. But today we have to remember one thing, that we must have complete faith in the kingdom of God and in the powers of God Almighty – complete faith. And then in ourselves. you 26 Guru Puja 1992

 It is within you – the Tree of Life.. It is placed, this great mechanism which spontaneously works out our Self Realization, becoming, by which your karmas, your actions become spontaneous and you get connected with God. you are. Your bhakti has some meaning. Your devotion has some meaning. 10 September 1981 So Adi Shankaracharya was asked, "Which is the greatest quality?" He said, "Devi bhakti, Mother's bhakti. She CC is the Devi. Your Mother is the Devi. Understanding that, do Her bhakti. In that bhakti, there should not be any false thing. The first quality, the highest quality, if it is seen in a human being from his heart, all his bad qualities will be destroyed. He will get light and attain moksha." That is why He has always praised the Devi. In the beginning, He has described a lot, written lots of books like Vivek Chudamani. Lastly, He said that by only pleasing the Devi, one can get everything. Then why do these things? Why to do debates? Why to do discourses and break one's head? Just praise the Devi and whatever will you want. His wisdom very get you few people have. Shri Durga Puja 1982 (translated from Marathi) One of the sayings about the Goddess is that Ya Devi Sarva bhuteshu, bhakti rupena samsthitah "The one who gives us that dedication, that sense of dedica- tion, You are the one who resides in with that everyone sense of dedication." And it is such a joy that cannot be expressed what this is, that one you feel when you are 9 March 1983 dedicated. I know who are progressing in dedication and devotion. I have seen people improving so much. You need not face Me. You need not see Me. In person I need not be there. It's all in the All-pervading Power. That's all My light, which knows each and everything about you. And only through your bhakti, through your devotion and 31 July 1982 dedication, you can achieve Me.

 As you say, “Mother, bless us," I say, “You also bless Me."

 YOUR FAITH IN ME, I MUST SAY, IS GREAT. I am Myself surprised at that. I am quite a camouflage. It's not easy to understand Me. I don't understand Myself. On one side, of course, I'm Divine, no doubt. On the other side, I am very human. Even in a film if I see somebody suffering, I start crying. I can't bear it. I can't cure children because I can't see their sufferings. It's another aspect of Mine. н I've made Myself extremely human and this divinity of Mine also is just Sahaj. I've done nothing. I've been like this and I'm like this. I've not achieved anything. If I've achieved anything, it is the understanding of human beings because I always felt that all these incarnations and all these prophets never understood human beings. They never knew that they are not enlightened people and no use talking to them of these great things. It's all a waste. It's like a blind person, you explain to him all the colours and the beauty.... So this human realization – I should say that I had – is so beautiful. Now I understand what is the joy of bhakti, what is the joy of gnyana, what is the joy of karma because a person who doesn't do anything, who is Nishkriya, a person who has no bhakti and who has no gnyana is just wakened completely. I had to fill in Myself with all these things that I have to know the gnyana – not the gnyana of the Divine because, after all, that is not difficult because if I am that, I know that, but the gnyana of the human beings, the problems of the human beings. I had to study for years the human beings to work it out. But once it has worked, thatť's what is said, that there is divinity in you. It has started expressing itself and such beautiful divine lights are sitting before Me... Look after your vibrations, which pulsate in your being, because the spirit has awakened in your attention, in your central nervous system. That's the most important thing you have to do. The rest of it is Sahaj. The rest of it is absolutely Sahaj. Shivaratri Puja 1992 IF YOU FEEL HAPPY, THEN MY HAPPINESS IS COMPLETE. But you felt for Me, that I should wear [these ornaments] itself shows that you wanted to see them on Me. It is also such esteem of your very subtle bhakti, very subtle love for your Mother. In these modern times, to have such bhaktas, itself is a big blessing for Me. So, as you say, “Mother, bless us," I say, “You also bless Me." You have already blessed Me by this beautiful arrangement you have made, the way put yourself, surrendered yourself for this great puja because all is such an inter- have you dependent process. You do the puja. I can't do the puja. You have to do the puja. do the puja, the chakras are awakened. Mine are awakened, but in When you you they are awakened. Now how to explain to people what is the importance of puja? If you have not tasted the fruit of a puja, it is impossible to explain. It is at a higher level only one can under- stand all these things. Birthday Celebrations 1983 29 A.

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 Such a tremendous power, so alert, so affectionate, so kind is there - and a Mother, who is teacher. your Mother teaches children with love. Not only that, but you never even felt how I taught you Sahaja Yoga. You just learnt it like that. It's a child's play for you. It's such a difficult and subtle subject. You picked it up without any difficulties. So artfully it was done. Beautifully it was done, built-in within you. Now you know, "This is Sahaja Yoga, this is not Sahaj Yoga." All this knowledge came to you so sweetly. Navaratri Puja 1990

 BUDDI and the villager a story about forgiveness To BE A MOTHER AND TO BE A GURU IS THE MOST DIFFICULT THING. I do not know what comes first, but, of course, every mother wants her child to be good and the Holy Mother wants Her child to be a holy person. The first thing is the holiness. Now for that, how can you compel someone? The only thing that makes you understand is this: if you don't become holy how will you get your ascent? We have to be holy. What dis- cipline for making a person holy? What can you force? What can you get angry can one put for? The only method I use normally is to forgive. Maybe the forgiveness is the highest quality for teaching people. When they know that they have done wrong and they confess it, then you have to forgive. In the life of Buddha, there was a man who was abusing Him without understanding and when he finished with his abuses and Buddha had left, people told him, “Do know CC you who you were abusing? It was Lord Buddha." He got the fright of his life. He said, "Where is He gone?" CC "He has gone to another village." for what I said. Please forgive So he went to the other village and he said, “Sir, I am sorry me. It's all and I should not have done it. You can punish me the way you like." wrong Lord Buddha said, "When did do that?" you He said, "Yesterday." Buddha said, “I don't know yesterday. I know only today." You see, when you tell these things, how great one feels, isn't it? So your greatness, your nobility will definitely influence people. It's not by fighting, by quarrelling, by saying harsh things that it is going to work out. Guru Puja 1993

 Credits and Notes Front cover and contents pages photographs: Her Holiness Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 13 June 2008 (Calin Chirou) Content pages quotation: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 15 November 1980 Contents pages name: the 924th name of the Goddess from the Sri Lalita Sahasranama Pages 2, 3 and 7: Guru Puja 2008, Cabella (Calin Chirou) Page 8: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi Pages 10 and 11: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi and Sahaja Yoga, Cowley Manor, Cheltenham, United Kingdom, 1982 (Mark Callaghan) Page 12: trees reflected in a lake, North Vancouver, Canada Page 15: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Cowley Manor, Cheltenham, United Kingdom, 1982 (Mark Callaghan) Page 17, 18, 20 and 23: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi Page 25: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Sankranti Puja, India Page 27 and 28: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Mother Earth Puja, Surbiton, United Kingdom, 21 August 1983 (Mark Callaghan) Page 30: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi in India, circa 1980 Above: Erna Titan and Nishi Pachnina, Guru Puja 2008, Canajoharie USA (Omar Davis) Back cover photo: leaves and tree, North Vancouver, Canada Back cover quotation: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Shri Krishna Puja 1988 THE DIVINE COOL BREEZE www.divinecoolbreeze.org S10 SUBSCRIPTIONS: Contact@divinecoolbreeze.org CONTENT:editor@divinecoolbreeze.org The Divine Cool Breeze, 881 Frederick Road North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada PRINTED BY King Printing Company Inc., 181 Industrial Avenue East Lowell, Massachusetts 01852 USA and Nirmal Transformation Pvt Ltd. No.8, Chandragupta Housing Society, Paud Road Kothrud, Pune 411038, Maharashtra India

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September and October 2008 volume twenty-one number five
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 I am going to be just like you all My life in the sense I am going to get old and you are going to.
I mean the way I should be old, I will be. I'll be just like you. I am not going to do anything outside.
It's like a German car, but it is
who has to know the power of the German car. It's the best
type.
you
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8 Sufis
10 Reflected
20 Bhakti
30 Knowledge
DARASMERA-MUKHÂMBUJÂ
32 Buddha
HER LOTUS FACE IS RADIANT WITH SMILES
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to
Today is a great day for all the Sahaja Yogis. Because the Sahasrara opened in you, you
could feel the existence of God. By saying there is God, that was not sufficient. And to say
there is no God also was wrong, very wrong, and people have suffered who have said like
this. Only after getting Realization you know that there is God and there are vibrations.
This is a very big opening all over the world. Today I say that's why it's one of the greatest
days for
Many of you have felt the cool breeze on your hands and out of your brain. Some
grown in Sahaja Yoga, some have not. Some are still carrying on with old catches.
But now I have to say that quite a lot of you can become gurus – means teachers. And
should act as teachers. To act as a teacher, you should know Sahaja Yoga, the theory
you.
Quite a lot
have
of you can
you
and the practice of it thoroughly well and then you can become a guru. It is a very [big]
responsibility, a lot of understanding for a guru.
You should not have any ego, first. You should not have any of your chakras catching.
You should be absolutely clear all the time. And there the vibrations should be flowing in
both the hands. If they are moving in one hand and not in another, you cannot become a
become gurus.
have to be a perfect Sahaja Yogi, then only you can be a guru.
guru. So
And so many of you can be, but you have to ascertain first: are you capable of being
a guru or not? With humbleness, you'll understand. Those who think they can be a guru,
should become gurus because now I can't travel from places to places and you have to
do My job. It is to give Realization to people. But you have to be able to give en masse
Realization, then only you could be a guru. If you can give en masse Realization, then
could be a guru.
You can use My photograph, but the Realization should not be from the photograph,
you
you
Then only you
but from
u can be a guru. There can be ladies or men, both can become
you.
gurus and spread Sahaja Yoga all over.
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dic
In My whole touring business, Canada I have missed and I would request You have
some of you to go to Canada because it's a very beautiful place and we have very
beautiful Sahaja Yogis there. You have to do now My work. I won't be able to go all over, to give
but
have to go to other countries and create new Sahaja Yogis. You can do it.
you
To begin with, you can use My photograph, but later on you can only put the photo-
Realization
graph there. But use your own powers and give Realization. You can do it and that is how
we can spread Sahaja Yoga all over the world. I have done My level best now, but I don't
think now I can travel any more. So I am telling you that have to take over and work
it out. That doesn't mean you cancel Me – no, not at all. I am there with you. And every
place you work, you put My photograph. But Realization you have to give and try to give
to people.
you
This is a sign
mass Realization. If that doesn't work out, then you should know you are not a guru.
If
of a guru.
you can give mass Realization, then only you are a guru. Otherwise you are not.
I said you can use My photograph, but you have to give Realization to people. This is
the sign of a
things missing in people. I have explained very clearly. In the same way, you'll find those
who come for Realization, they have some defects and will find out what chakras they
are catching. You know how to clear those chakras, so you have to tell them how to clear.
Now you have mastered Sahaja Yoga, so you should know what is to be done. If you think
you have mastered, if you believe that you have mastered, then
first of all you should ascertain and find out for yourself, if you are a guru or not. It is
responsibility now to give Realization to people. And you can give if you have vibrations,
as like a guru. Or for ladies also, they are called as a guruvee;* not as gurus, but as guruvees. *guruvee: the feminine
But they can be called as guru also and they can also do this work very well. Solving the form of the word guru,
problems of people is not difficult then. Once they get Realization, their problems will be
solved. This is a big power you have got. You all should use.
will really know what are different centres and what are the
Then
guru.
you
you
but
you can become gurus,
your
as used in Marathi
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 How Sahaja Yoga will grow
First of all, you can use a group if you want and afterwards you should do it individu-
ally. Can you imagine, all of you, if you become gurus, how many Sahaja Yogis we'll have
all over the world? Whatever you teach, you must practise. A person who drinks cannot
become a guru. A person who flirts and has a licentious life cannot become a guru. So
first examine yourself. Are you clean or not? If there are many possessed people who try
to become gurus, they cannot. Honestly you should see on the photograph if you are pos-
sessed, then you cannot be a guru.
So now to become a guru is first to criticize yourself, to find out yourself fully and
then
you can become a guru. I don't want to tell anybody individually, but you all can
find out. Say four, five people can join together and they can find out from each other if
It is for you
you they are all right or not, if there is missing, if they are catching. But if they say
there
you
you can preach Sahaja Yoga. This is your
to carry responsibility. This is how Sahaja Yoga will grow. Otherwise, after I'll retire or I don't go
are all right, then you can become gurus and
anywhere, then Sahaja Yoga will go into waste. So it is for you to carry the torch, the light.
I's your responsibility now. You have got your Realization.
I was born with the responsibility. I was born with all the understanding. And now
you are also to understand yourself. Do not condemn yourself as long as you start your
own Realization, but be careful. Don't become egoistical. You have to be
very humble with everyone. And work it out because if they are not realized souls, you
shouldn't condemn them, but tell them very patiently and sweetly that "you are not all
right." Tell them how to meditate, how to improve. It's now a very big responsibility.
Actually, I have done this work and you can do this work also.
the torch.
humble,
very
CC
all have to become a guru. This is the day of Guru Purnima and I bless you,
all become gurus. Whatever you have got now, don't waste it, don't throw it away,
but use it for the betterment of people. If you want, in the beginning, have four to five
people together, then you should separate. You have to give time to this. You have
Realization, but you have to give Realization, otherwise your state is not all right, is
So
you
that
you
got
your
not normal.
So today I want to tell you what are the qualities needed for a guru. First of all, he
should be a detached person. That doesn't mean you give up your family or anything, but
should have a detached attitude, that anybody from your family does wrong, you
you
should
go away from him or her.
To spread happiness
Secondly, through your Realization, you can see that you can spread happiness and
remove their problems. You have seen whatever I have done – you can do it. You have got
the power to do it, but no hypocrisy. No hypocrisy, otherwise you will spoil the name of
Sahaja Yoga.
So if you are sure about yourself, then only you should become
work of Sahaja Yoga. I think I give you all My blessings and all My support,
take over and become gurus. You can also have all the pujas and then you can use the
photograph. You have seen how one has to work it out. And if somebody has some defect
or some chakras are catching, then you should tell that person how to correct it – on the
photograph it is the best – and very humbly you should tell them what is to be done. And
you can save all the people.
So now,
carry the
gurus and
you
am no more available – in the sense I have done My best and I think I won't
be able to do this again. It is not My old age, but I want to give you a complete freedom
to spread Sahaja Yoga.
4
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it free and you also have to give it to people free, not to charge them or
You have got
in the pujas days only. Be careful that don't put yourself on the puja till you are confirmed
and you are sure that you have created at least a hundred Sahaja Yogis, good Sahaja Yogis.
Then they can do your puja also. But the best thing is to wait and see. You don't
the puja business till you have done about a thousand people each, then you have the
right to have a puja. But you could have a puja with My photograph till you are com-
pletely all right.
Now have confidence is the main thing. Do not condemn yourself. You are all realized
souls, but those who can think they can become gurus, can become and try. You have to
have patience with the seekers. You can't be angry and hot-tempered. Unless until they try
to trouble you, you shouldn't lose your temper. You should be quiet.
Most of the gurus are very hot-tempered, or have been before, and that's why they
were busy with their temper and they couldn't produce anything sensible, I think. They
could never give Realization. So I have to warn you: control your temper. Watch yourself
if you get angry, then you cannot become a guru. A guru has to be a loving person, very
loving and understanding. Then you have to be humble, not to abuse people, not to shout back and take
at people. If they misbehave, you can ask them to go out, but don't shout. If you think
somebody is misbehaving, you can ask that person to get out, but need not shout or S ome rest.
get angry with that person.
So it's a very big responsibility now. You got your Realization and so four or five
of
into
get
I have to go
you
should join to form a Sahaja Yoga group, giving Realization to people – try. Of
you
course, My photograph will be there, but still you must try. Try to understand that now
what is your responsibility. If a position is given, you have to always carry on with the
responsibility of that position. In the same way, if you become a guru, you have a certain
amount of responsibility, that your own behaviour should be very good to begin with.
In the beginning, you cannot tell them, "Don't go to church" or “Don't do this, don't
do that." You give them Realization and then you can talk to them. In the beginning, you
shouldn't tell them or they'll just shun you. Accept them as they are. In the beginning,
you should not also cure people if possible. You can use My photograph to begin with,
but don't cure them. Later on, if you are confident, then four, five together should treat
CC
person. Curing people is not very easy and you may catch, so before acting on anyone
you must take a bandhan. A bandhan is very good. You should, even when you are going
out, you should take a bandhan.
You should also make a very good speech, if possible. Now you know so many things
you can talk to them. It's a very big responsibility.
that
and
The power and the authority
Now I have been working from the year 1970 and today. So many years I have worked so
hard, but I can't now do it. I have to go back and take some rest, as everybody has said and
you will also
Every time you have a meeting use My photograph.
Those who think they can be leaders and, as gurus, they should first see their own
vibrations, meditate on My photograph and find out. You have to be absolutely honest
that
you can tell about Me, if it is necessary, but use My photograph.
agree. But
you are a hundred percent all right and there is no catch and then you can become
a guru. You have to be. First you may get two people, then three people. I started with
five.
you can imagine how one can go with it. Try first of all with two, three, five and
more. You can also advertise afterwards. If you have given Realization to ten people, you
can start your own organization, or whatever you may call it, and can work it out.
So
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Now you have the power, you have the right, but you must have a temperament
also. In the beginning, you have to be very patient and kind – very kind. Then gradu-
ally you will find that you can cure people. You can use My photograph for curing to
begin with and later on you can see you can cure. First of all on vibrations, you'll see
what chakras are catching, which are good, which are bad. And then you should cor-
rect them. If there's something wrong, you must correct it and then become guru. It
is not just accepting that "I am guru" that you become guru, but you have to be very,
very – an authority on yourself. You have to judge yourself. First of all, you should find
out: can you become gurus? And then you can send me your reports. I'd be very happy
to know how many you have got now. And that is how Sahaja Yoga would spread, no
doubt.
It cannot remain at this
because I am withdrawing, but because you are now
stage
so many Sahaja Yogis, it will grow and work out. But I think now I can't travel and I
am going back. I won't be able to come back again – not possible.
better work it out for yourself. You must write to Me if you
have
dif-
So
you
any
You have to ficulties, if somebody is catching or something or you have a problem.
Now I don't think any newspaper will criticize you. They have done it for Me, but
All of you promise Me that you'll try to become gurus. I didn't take any
money from you, nothing from you. I just want that you should spread Sahaja Yoga.
In the beginning, even in the pujas don't take any presents or money. You can only
take a little money from them if you have need to have a hall or a big place, but that
save the world.
not for
you.
All My work
is that. will be much later. First of all, try with few people. It will grow very well.
Now another thing is puja. You should not allow them to do to you to begin with.
have done three hundred Sahaja Yogis, you can't ask them to do you puja.
You can use My photograph for the puja to begin with, but be very careful because
have
Until
you
powers now and it might pamper your ego. Maybe you start thinking you are
you
great – no.
You have to save the world. All My work is that and I would ask you to write to Me
in India if there is any difficulty. Also write to Me how you are spreading Sahaja Yoga,
what is happening. I would like to know. But I think you will understand that I must
retire now. I can't travel. If you have any questions, ask Me.
Those who are confident that they can become raise hands.
Oh, so many. Only one hand, not two.
If anybody is making money, you should tell him not to do it and also write to
Me. You cannot make money to begin with, but when you have about three thousand
people, you can celebrate all the worshipping days and worship. But you must make at
least three thousand disciples each. Then you can ask for a puja.
There are some people who cannot become gurus, who are catching and they have
problems. If you have problems, don't become a guru, otherwise it will affect you. But
your
gurus,
you think
question?
I am opening a centre for international Sahaja Yoga and when you have done with
three hundred Sahaja Yogis, you can ask them to do puja and take money. Before that,
if you get any money, you can send it to that centre. There would be about eleven mem-
bers in that centre and I'll declare it. If you have any questions, ask Me now.
First three hundred people, you don't take any money, except for the hall or except
for other expenses. But
your hands how many would like to be gurus?
May God bless you.
if
you are clear and opened out, then you can become gurus. Is there any
don't take any money for yourself. Now can you raise again
you
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 Do you have any questions?
You can take money or not, on an organization basis, that you have to have a hall,
loudspeaker and all those things. But you shouldn't take it for your individual use. You
should be very careful until you have three hundred Sahaja Yogis. You can form a group
of five to ten people and start your work. You will enjoy it.
Anyone has any problem, ask Me.
I have to go to Canada. I have not been, but I'll try to find some time. First now I
have to go to Russia and then I can go to Canada. You have to work more in your country
How many
would like
to be a
than outside to begin with and then you can spread it all over. Again let us see how many
want to be gurus? Oh, what a big number.
guru?
you. Thank
Thank you very much. Thank
you all.
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All the Sufis are one.
All these great prophets
are one. All these, we can
call them prophets and
also incarnations. They are
altogether one.... I have read
a book written by a one
Sufi from Turkey and
REPORTER: Is Sahaja Yoga like Sufism? Islamic spiritualism?
great
another one I have read it
SHRI MATAJI: Not ism. That's the difference between the two. Anyone can call himself | with our Nizamuddin here,
a Sufi. It's not an ism. Ism means a kind of theory or a kind of group who believes in who had written something
and his disciples just the
Sahaja Yoga makes a Sufi. Sufi means cleansed. It cleanses and rid of same. They write the same
all these horrible things and you become a transformed person. Most of the Sufis didn't thing. I mean there is no
know how they became Sufis. They were born like that.... Just by going around and difference because absolute
knowledge is the same,
only the expression may be
different. They might use a
different expression.
something. It's not like that.
you get
you
you
don't become a Sufi. By following a certain code of life, you don't become
around,
you
a Sufi.
What does it is the kundalini. That has to rise.... If you read them, it is a descrip-
tion of Sahaja Yogis. They didn't call them Sahaja Yogis, but they were because they are
described to be like this or that and when they tell about their own experiences in poetry
you are amazed to see they are talking like Sahaja Yogis.
6 April 1997
April 2001
Once you become
empowered by that power
we had Sufis all over the world. I have read them. I have read the Sufis of Turkey
You see
and also other places. Even in India we had Sufis, though they don't call themselves of love and compassion,
such.... Sufi means saaf and saaf means clean, means pure. Those who are pure people I'm sure one day you'll
are Sufis. In the purity they see nothing but divine grace, divine love, divine peace. They realize your potential, how
talked of peace only. They could not talk of war. Anybody who talks of war cannot be a great you are. You're no
person who has got any right to do that. War is absolutely like madness...
Look at these few people who were Sufis, who were very clean people, how they have any Sufi. You are just the
been able to channelize the other people into a better life. That is what you are. You have great knower of the true
to channelize their lives. That's your job. Don't think about what is happening, how the knowledge, not of absurd
people are stupid, immoral – forget it. What you have to know is what you are. You knowledge, whatever
have to be aware of yourself and of your responsibility as being the purest of pure. As knowledge we have from
My name is, indicates you are My children and that indicates the children of Nirmal. It the books.... Now see, Sufis
means purity.
Purity is the basis of your existence. You should try to see where, what you were, in write? They write nothing
which part. There's no mistake in appreciating the art, appreciating all that is beautiful, but Sahaja Yoga.
appreciating all that is created out of beautiful minds, but there should be no lust and 16 June 1999
greed in that appreciation – pure appreciation, purity is the message. And once you have
the purity within yourself, you will love yourself. As I love you, you will love you also. The way people are
And then
less than any great saint or
are Muslims. What do they
will understand this word "love," which comes out of the purity. The blos-
remembering the Sufis, the
same way people are going
to remember
you
soming of your purity, the fragrance of your purity, you enjoy all the time. And the love
that you have flows, flows towards all those who are to be loved, who have to be looked
you.
Easter Puja 2000 | Diwali Puja 2007
after.
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10v 1S
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 Enjoyment is only possible when you are beyond your mind....
Enjoyment comes when you are in complete silence, in a rippleless lake.
The reflection of all the joy that is created on the shores of that lake
is completely reflected. It is not deflected.
If there were ripples, it would have been a different image altogether
and would have been something nowhere near the image of reality.
reflected
Navaratri Puja1995
11
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these beautiful lakes
TA
for these trees
to see their reflection
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God created His reflection
"Why has God created this beautiful universe?" has been a question asked for thou-
sands of years. The reason is very simple to understand. This beauty that is created
cannot see itself. In the same way, God who is the source of beauty, cannot see His
own beauty. Like a pearl cannot enter into itself to see its beauty, like the sky cannot
understand its own beauty, the stars cannot see their own beauty, the sun cannot
behold its own brilliance. In the same way, God Almighty cannot behold His own
being. He needs a mirror. And that's how He has created this beautiful universe as
His mirror.
In this mirror, He has created now the beautiful things like the sun. The sun has
to see his own reflection also. So He has created these beautiful trees to see that when
he shines they come up so well and look so green.
Then He has created those birds to rise early in the morning to greet the sun,
so the sun knows that "Yes, I am there, I am existing." Or else He has created these
beautiful lakes for these trees to see their reflection and the lakes to feel their existence
when the ripples start moving within themselves.
So then He created human beings. The human beings cannot also see their own
beauty, their own glory. That's why they are in the darkness. They are ignorant. They
cannot see what lies within themselves. So they are running after something which
is absolutely against themselves, which is ugliness, which is self-destructive. And the
struggle to get to reality is such a lot that, as a result, they destroy themselves – like
people have taken to these drugs, taken to all bad habits because they do not know YOLL see
what beautiful things they are.
So now a mirror has to be created for them to see for themselves, how beautiful they
You see
the complete
are. Their mirror is their spirit. That spirit is to be brought in their consciousness, in their
attention. Ifit comes in theirattention, then they can see their image. 21December 1986
reflection of
There's no thought in your mind, so you start looking at anything without thinking.
You start looking at anything that is created without any ripple of thought in your
mind. Like all that is created around the lake of your mind is completely reflected in
that rippleless lake and you see the complete reflection of that creation as well as the as well as
joy that is bubbling in that creation. So your creativity becomes tremendous. You start
seeing things, but not thinking.
that creation
the joy.
11 October 1983
The spirit reflects
God has created human beings ... and now He wants to see His beautiful image in
you people. So first of all, know that your mirror is your spirit. That is the mirror you
have
which
you can see, which does not know its greatness, does not know its
got
beauty, does not know anything, in the sense that it reflects the beauty of God within
you. Now
in such a manner that we see our image of this mirror of God that we have
ourselves.
have to create an image or, you can say, we have to manifest our work
you
got within
So when Sahaja Yogis start manifesting themselves, asserting themselves, project-
ing themselves, then they can see their own image and they are surprised, "How can
we be so beautiful? How can we be so nice? How can we be so powerful? How can we
be the universal power? How we are helped?" When you get all these experiences of
your goodness, of your greatness, of your glory, you start manifesting God.
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So now for God, your mirror is ready. For Him you are His mirror and He wants
to see Himself through you. So all the beauty that you have, all the powers you have are
within you....
It should please God to see your faces, reflecting His manifestation. Like you see the
flowers – like the flowers which are fresh. You look at them with
great admiration.
you
In the same way, when God see His reflection among Sahaja Yogis, He will very much be
fulfilled.
23 December 1986
Shiva is reflected
The one who is reflected within us is the Shiva, who is the pure spirit. This pure spirit
within us is the reflection of God Almighty – Sadashiva. It's like the sun that falls in the
water and gives a clear reflection. Or else it falls on the stone – it doesn't reflec-
give any
tion at all.
If you have the mirror, the sun will not only fall on the mirror, but will reflect back its
light. In the same way in the human beings, the reflection of God Almighty is expressed
in the way your personality is. If your personality is clean and clear, innocent, then the
reflection could be like a mirror. Thus, the saintly people, they reflect God Almighty in
the proper manner, in the sense that their own identification with wrong things is no
more. When there is no such identification and when a person is absolutely the pure
spirit, then the reflection of God reflects into others.
Luckily, you all have got your Self Realization. That means the reflection of God
Almighty is already working into your attention. The attention is enlightened by the
power of the spirit. The power of the spirit is that it is a reflection. That means the reflec-
tion is never identified with the mirror or with the water. It is there until the sun shines.
And when there is no sun, there is no reflection.
So when you are in Sahaja Yoga, you have cleansed out yourself. Your kundalini has
also cleansed you and
and clearer and people see it, see it on your face. They see it in your body. They see it in
your work, in your behavior, in everywhere.
It is difficult for people to really believe in themselves, that they could be the reflection
of God Almighty. They have some sort of complexes about themselves I think, that they
cannot understand how they have suddenly become the reflection of God Almighty. But
they have a capacity and they can become the reflection of God Almighty, for which they
have to have faith in themselves, faith in their ascent, to believe that "we have become
that." The confidence in Sahaja Yoga is very important.
We are the spirit.
now you are pure personalities. That's why this reflection is clearer
We are the reflection
of God Almighty
which is purity,
which is truth,
26 February 1995
which is knowledge.
The spirit resides in us in our heart. It is the reflection of God Almighty. In the Sanskrit
language, this aspect of God which is all-pervading and is the first and the last, is called
as Sadashiva. It is the father who does not incarnate. We say Yahovah ... or the God who
does not incarnate. This great aspect which encompasses everything ultimately and also
manifest everything is reflected within our heart as the spirit.
We are that.
Diwali Puja 1991
7 October 1981
The quality of the reflector
The spirit is eternal. It is all-powerful. It never loses its power whether we are old, young.
Whatever condition we may be, the spirit has its own power all the time. But the reflec-
tion of the spirit in us, the light of the spirit in us depends on the quality of our reflector
– how we are. And because of the quality being so poor sometimes, darkness is created
within us. And in that darkness we do not know sometimes – even to that extent – that
there is something beyond.
26 November 1979
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 If you learn how to surrender to the Primordial Kundalini, then your kun- You are a Sahaja Yogi and the mirror,
dalini is immediately strengthened. It's like this: supposing you have a stone
and you try to put anything on it. It won't reflect. Then you improve with in the reflection, you should see Me and
the wood – still nothing will be reflected. Then you paint it – some reflection
will come. Then you
some mercury and make it a mirror, it will reflect – but still, it may not be the
perfect mirror.
So this is how the kind of a reflector you are. On that depends the kind of
a reflection you get and the kind of personality you develop. So there should 23 July 1983
be no aim as such, but to be dissolved into the reality should be the desire
within you. Start dissolving into it. Then one does not have to talk about
detachment. One does not have to talk about anything, about any virtues.
They automatically come because now you have become the Divine. Once
you become the Divine, even your kundalini becomes absolutely, beautifully,
completely reflecting the Primordial One.
have the glass. The glass won't reflect. But if you use
not yourself.... The reflection should be of
Me, of something that is ideal before you.
Kundalini Puja 1990
The Mother Earth reflects
You are the reflection of Sahaja Yoga.
That is the reflection of the Adi Shakti in you. But the reflection in the Mother
Earth is also expressed in different places, different countries, different cities,
as the manifestation of chakras and the Adi Shakti's creations. It was very
important first to create a very holy Mother Earth for human beings to be
You are the mirrors, not Me.
You have to reflect Sahaja Yoga.
born on....
If we are the true reflection of the Adi Shakti, then we should be
pure,
So first of all, you have to become
absolutely pure, like the white stone. Even if one black drop falls on the white,
it shows...
In that reflection you are Me. In that reflection the Mother Earth is Me.
In that beautiful creation within you, you have to become very sensitive to the
Adi Shakti Puja 1997
good reflectors – the good gurus.
need of the world.
Guru Puja 1981
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This is Mahamaya.
This is the secret part of it Reflections in the body
Your heart – this is the abode of the reflection of God Almighty. And the kun-
dalini is the reflection of the Primordial Mother. So in the heart resides the
that you don't know.
Primordial Father and in the kundalini resides the Primordial Mother. And here
12 October 1987
[at the heart] the reflection within us is the spirit.
The body is the reflector of the spirit. Without the body, you cannot have the
spirit and, if you have the spirit which is enveloped in a soul, that also contains
a kind of a body in a subtler way. So the spirit can only be expressed in a body.
26 February 1992
Love is reflected
You are like the mirrors and I want to see the refection of the moon in you.
The love we talk of is to be subtler. It becomes really subtler when you really
enjoy. Like giving something to someone is one of the ways of judging it. When
you start enjoy giving – not taking, just giving – then you should know on
the material level you have felt. You have touched that shore of subtlety on the
material level only.
25 January 1982
Sahaja Yogis reflect
you get Realization, you become absolutely free people. Free means your
you get enlightenment, own spirit guides you. The spirit, as you know, is the reflection of the Divine,
awakened in the God Almighty. If everybody has the same reflection and is awakened, then
your heart and in the spirit is in the awareness it works, as if they know what is right and what is wrong, what
the reflection of the complete is constructive and what is destructive. It is not some sort of a false satisfac-
Divine Force. 5 June 2000 tion that you have, but, in reality, you feel the reality and that is what has to
Sahasrara Puja 2000
Once
When
your spirit gets
happen.
You are knowing your Self.
And all those who know their Why does God want you to know Him? Because He wants to see His reflection
Self cannot fight with each in you. He wants to see His reflection. That's why He has created you and He
other. Because this Self is the wants to see His reflection in you. The same with the Goddess. She has given
reflection of one person, of you Self Realization because She wants to see Her reflection in you. So you have
one Deity, of one God. And to prepare yourself for that reflection, which is so much purer, beautiful, loving,
so how can you fight when compassionate and, above all, full of wisdom. So this is the point one has to
He is within your heart. reach where you understand you have to have wisdom....
New Year's Puja 2000-2001
It is a kind of a personality which really reflects God's love. That reflection
should come from you. You are Sahaja Yogis. That doesn't mean that you are
something higher than others, but you are different. You are above them. You
have no superiority. That's why you are different. You are so humble. That's why
you are different. You are so joyous. You are so peaceful. That's why you are
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humble.
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Absorbing the reflection
The reflection on the stone of even the sun is zero. And the reflection of the
sun on the lake is sometimes the reflection that is felt in the Sahaj Yogis. When
they see, feel it, it flows. They can feel the breeze in their hands ... but still their
attention is not fully enlightened. The spirit has not permeated inside. It's just
reflecting still. In the mirror, you see the reflection of the sun. But even then,
when you removed it, you cannot reflect it.
This is the difference – that even if you become the mirror of the
and until it permeates into your being and transforms you into something new,
you have not done full justice to yourself and nor to the powers of your spirit.
The spirit has come just like a vision to you, an experience to you, but the
growth of your being has not yet started and, if it has started, it's so slow that
unless
sun,
10 November 1980
you may not achieve much in one lifetime.
Reflections in four dimensions
When you worship the Adi Kundalini, the reflection in you, which is your own
kundalini, feels very happy. Also the Deities feel happy. In that happy mood,
you can achieve a very much deeper experience. That's a fact. But to keep it up,
you have to meditate, otherwise all these strands will go back, slip down, which
have come out in the puja....
Supposing you take an Indian mirror. You look in the mirror and you'll find
you look like nothing on Earth. It will just cut you into three pieces maybe – or
anything. But if you take a Belgian mirror, say, then the reflection is correct,
full – but still not three dimensional. But this is a four dimensional reflection.
Four dimensional it is, what is called as the turya state. And that four dimen-
sional personality you have reflected because of your reflector of your desire.
The reflector is the desire and the reflection is complete.
So when you worship the Adi Kundalini, what you are trying to do is to
cleanse your kundalini as well as please the Deities. Because this is an object, it
is an object. It is not to be changed – but the reflection can change.
It's beyond Me to really express
the
great joy that I see in your hearts,
reflected in My Heart.
Shri Adi Kundalini Puja 1991
Creating your own reflection
We come to the point that the creativity, if it is our aim – for that the attention
we should purify and to be purified with love, with compassion. And the same
attention, when it is filled with love and compassion, it gives you dynamism. It
gives you strength. Its untiring zeal you get. And the joy of seeing your reflec-
tion into another person is very beautiful. No words can describe it.
Actually when you give Realization to another person, what you try to see is
your image in that person, as if out of an ordinary glass you are making it into
a beautiful mirror and then you want to see that. That is how you create. You
Guru Puja 1989
create your own reflections.
This reflection improves and you grow more and more within yourself through
know
of the Adi Shakti or through the power of kundalini. AS you
that the Adi Shakti has Her own kundalini, which is the Adi Kundalini. And
the reflection of that within you is [your] kundalini. So you have to worship
and it is the best way to please your own kundalini, your own Mother who has
Shri Adi Shakti Puja 1996
the
power
given you this birth. May God bless
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because She wants to see
Her reflection in you.
So you have to prepare yourself
for that reflection
which is so much purer,
beautiful, loving, compassionate
and, above all, full of wisdom.
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seen people with bhakti. They have achieved great heights... I don't know how the bhakti
and shraddha has helped them so much. In this, I must say, Indians are the best because
they have this power of bhakti and of shraddha.... Bhakti is love and love which is under-
standing, which understands what is bhakti and shraddha.
Unless and until you develop that bhakti and shraddha within you, you cannot rise.
You cannot rise above your problems. You cannot rise above your personality because
bhakti is something you cannot impose on anyone, you cannot force on anybody.... You
have to have all your qualities absolutely intact. You should be intelligent. You should be
understanding. Everything should be there. But at that time, the joy of bhakti is within
you. And this joy of bhakti, when it starts flowing, the Goddess Herself enters into
being.
I have seen people – bhaktas, many great saints in India – who achieved a lot of
heights. They have gone too far into it and, if you read about them and if you understand
them, you are amazed how, without any help, without any guidance, how could they go
that deep and worship the Devi.
Worshipping is not just out of sheer reading or some sort of a chanting or anything,
but it's the deep attention of your heart. I think it's the spirit. If the spirit is awakened
within you, you develop the bhakti and drop out all nonsensical ideas, all different things
that have crawled into your head – but you just develop the bhakti.
Now all these qualities described of the Devi are left-sided, are in the brain – memory,
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your
smriti rupena samsthita – other things also. Whatever are described are in the brain. And
then the bhakti reaches the state. It just neutralizes everything. All the problems of the
brain are neutralized and you become a wise person.
So the greatest boon of the Devi is to give you wisdom. You can call it awareness.
You can call it anything. It's a kind of a wisdom by which you become absolutely a divine
personality. That wisdom you must reach through your bhakti.
But, you see, we have people of all kinds. Some are very much in the shraddha, in the
bhakti, in the devotion, but they are wrongly placed and they don't understand to whom
we should worship and where we should
Now Sahaja Yoga, it is an actualization. Sahaja Yoga is a sakshat, is actualization in
which know whom to worship and to whom to surrender. It's not blind in any way.
Whatever is blind bhakti can take you to any kind of nonsense. And that's how many
cults have come up. Many of these things have come up, but that's not a thing that sees,
that knows, that understands. It should be understood by your intelligence, by all your
qualities, what your bhakti is like.
Now we have, through kundalini awakening, reached a very great height, I must say,
of the understanding of bhakti, the power of bhakti. The greatest power of bhakti is that
bhakti
go.
is devotion
you
shraddha
is dedication
it
protects you. Those people who are suffering from any kind of trouble,
protects you.
kind of problem, just get out of it because this bhakti of yours gives you the right
type of understanding, the understanding of yourself – also the understanding of the sur-
roundings – the understanding of the whole universe, I should say.
Why people behave like this, why they are like this – all this can be solved through
bhakti. It should not be blind, but it should be a wise bhakti – wise with wisdom.
any
Unless and until
you develop
your
It is only possible through Sahaja Yoga, otherwise whatever bhakti people do like mad,
that cannot be bhakti. You don't become mad. You become a wise man – a wise man, as
we have so many in the past and the way they have talked about everything is surprising.
How they have said things about human awareness, about your ascent is remarkable. As
I sometimes I feel, they have really prepared a field for Me, a proper area for Me to talk
to people.
that bhakti
and shraddha
within you,
you cannot rise.
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Especially in India ... we are very much devoted people. In the same way, all over it
should happen... Bhakti and shraddha – these two things are missing in the western life,
I must say. We should come back. We should develop. We should grow. But even in the
eastern life now, it's missing. For them the ideal is now the western life. Once you take
to western life, that part is over because the whole thing is judged with ideas – what is
beneficial, what is helpful in life. But bhakti and shraddha, according to them, is of no
use, that doesn't help. Most of the people nowadays think like that. But you are very few
I
who have understood what is bhakti and what is shraddha.
So I would say the Goddess gives you bhakti and shraddha – by what? She gives you
through your meditation, that you see so many miracles happening in your life and
are amazed how this has happened.... She corrects you.... The most important point is
surrendering...
It is within us, within our power as human beings to be wise. I have seen animals
have such a sensitivity to vibrations, extremely sensitive. How? Because their wisdom is
intact. It works in them. They are not conscious of it. The difference is human beings
are conscious of their wisdom. This is the only difference. Animals have wisdom, but
automatic – we should say natural – but we have inculcated this or we have developed
you
this wisdom within us ... through our meditation, through our understanding of bhakti
and shraddha.
So it's very important to understand the value of bhakti within us. You cannot super-
ficially touch it. Those who are superficial will never get it. Wisdom only comes through
understanding what wisdom is....
First of all, find out about yourself. If you are a real Sahaja Yogi, if you really want to
be a instrument of this power, then what have to do is to become full of bhakti and
shraddha for that. And this bhakti and shraddha are very joy-giving, I know it. It never
you
tired, it never troubles you, nothing, but it's very nourishing and beautiful.
makes
you
But it should be at the right place, with the right aims and the right understanding...
So the bhakti and shraddha to the Goddess definitely gives you wisdom. We have had
some people in India who did lots of bhakti, so-called, and showed lots of shraddha, but
they were not. They were just talking about it or doing all kinds of things about it, but
they were not. So wisdom is something, a very innate quality, very innate. It's not superfi-
cial. You cannot just say that this person, is he wise or not? It shows that just like a power,
it's a power of understanding and it's supported by the power of the Goddess.
So She is the giver of wisdom. This is the biggest quality of the Goddess, that She is
the giver of wisdom. And wisdom comes as a part of the evolutionary process....
The first thing is anybody who is supposed to be your guru or supposed to be the
person who is guiding you must have bhakti, the bhakti of the Goddess – very important
to understand.
Navaratri 2002
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Krishna, the way He describes bhakti. Now find
people on the street, "Hare Rama, Hare Krishna" sing-
ing. In one word He has concluded. He says, "You must
do ananya bhakti." Ananya means “when there is not the
other." That means when you have submerged yourself
into the Divine, you are one with the Divine, then you
should do bhakti. Otherwise I do not accept. He says that
you
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"If you give Me some leaves or some fruits or some flow-
ers, I will accept, I will accept." But for Him, the real
bhakti is only possible when you become one with the
Divine. Otherwise it's just a show.
Shri Krishna Puja 1998
People who are in their spiritual awareness or spiritual
ascent, try to take to bhakti. They take to bhakti more.
They worship God from their heart, from their emotions.
They work through emotions. There are twenty-four
types of relations they establish with God. That's called as
"a bhakti relationship," we can say, and they dwell upon
"Oh God, when
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cry
say,
will I meet you?" Such people are the ones who take dom-
ination from others, suffer, sacrifice and lead a life of great
suffering. But in their expression, in their achieving God,
they start doing bhakti and they think, through bhakti,
they will come to God. But with bhakti, God comes to
them. Because of their bhakti, God comes to them and
He incarnates for the bhaktas. The ones who cry for God,
He incarnates.
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Shri Krishna said that do ananya bhakti. “Pushpam Phalam
Toyam. Whatever you give Me, I'll take." He'll take every-
thing. He is the one who is the only bhokta, means He's
the only enjoyer. But what will you get? He says, "When
do ananya bhakti, it means when you are one with
you
Me." That means you are connected with Him. That's
how He has explained bhakti, what bhakti is, very clearly.
But people don't understand. They think that bhakti
means you go on singing on the street.... Bhakti it is not.
If that was real, they would have achieved something, but
they did not. Now don't blame Krishna for that. He has
clearly said it should be ananya bhakti. Only by changing
your dress, wearing a particular type of style, that's not
the way. That's all so outward. It's just to show off. But
actually ananya bhakti is within yourself, when you are
in that state, when you are one with the Divine. Unless
and until that state you have achieved, not only that but
established, He doesn't give you anything.
Shri Krishna Puja 2001
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 you start seeing yourself, you start entering into the realm of bhakti. You become
a mild person,
You are a very pleasant person, very gentle, very understanding. This person has to verify
how he is behaving towards others. Now the attention starts moving from oneself to
another and you start seeing how you behave, how you love, what is the quality of your
compassion. When you love somebody without any expectations, just love, then you are
absolutely dedicated to that person – absolutely. You just obey. You'll do anything for that
person. If there is this love which you call as surrender, this is just the love. Surrender is
nothing but the love and that love which is extremely joy-giving. This bhakti starts, this
dedication starts and you are cleansed by that bhakti. All the bad qualities you have ...
all the deficiencies you have, all the problems you have, you understand and you get over
it. Now if you see somebody with the same qualities, with the same troubles, you, in the
love of that person, try to tolerate. Such a person just tolerates. There is no aggression
and these people forgive. Realized souls go on forgiving. Their capacity to forgive is tre-
mendous. They do not bear any malice against anyone. They don't have any anger about
anyone. They just go on tolerating and forgiving and forgiving. This forgiveness is just a
music, I should say, of your bhakti... I have seen some people they have such bhakti, such
devotion, which is shraddha – it's higher than bhakti
of your being. It just envelopes you completely. When you have that shraddha, it is very
miraculous. It works so many miracles.
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become a sweet person. You don't talk too much. You don't harass
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There is bhakti gamya. You cannot get to Mother unless and until you have really bhakti
your heart. It is all already sort of a built-in restriction. What can you do? If you
don't have bhakti, you cannot get to Mother. No, you cannot. You cannot get to God. But
if you have bhakti, then you can get to Mother. It is written, “bhakti gamya." If somebody
"All right, raise my kundalini!" I cannot raise his kundalini.. But if somebody says,
"Mother, will You please give me Realization?" once – so not only humility, but bhakti.
And bhakti is only possible if you have
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faith.
your
Collectivity is the blessing of Viratangana. She teaches you how to love each other. She
teaches you how to enjoy other Sahaja Yogis. She teaches you how to have bhakti in your
heart. But that teaching is like innate. If I say She teaches, does it mean you are the dis-
ciple and She is the teacher? No. You become Viratangana yourself.... All that happens,
absolutely happens in your brain. That's how your brain, which is the one which receives
all the information and creates all the information, creates all the mental projections,
becomes a new vehicle to create a dimension which goes higher, not declining.
Virat Viratangana Puja 1993
There were two types of people who became aware of the higher powers of nature. One
of them was the people who thought we may be able to excite the nature itself, so they
the
started worshipping all the five elements through the Veda mantras and all that ...
result of which we see today is the manifestation of science, that they have been able to
harness the energy of those five elements. The second type of people, who became aware
that there must be some force which is giving us evolution, they started singing the praise
of God in bhakti and requesting God to incarnate on this Earth. These were the bhakti
margis. That is how in the Virata in the Primordial Being there are two forces as there
are in the human beings. One is the emotional force, which is the bhakti, which gives us
existence. This is the force through which the whole universe was conceived, was desired.
And in our Sahaja Yoga terminology, it is called as the Mahakali Shakti. 6 February 1981
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One lady, who was a Devi bhakt and had done so much study
of bhakti and all that and knew so much, just merged into
Me. I just couldn't understand her, how and what she has
done because normally people don't do. When they are read-
ing about the Devi, they think, “All right, this is Devi, this is
Mataji." You see, it's separate things. They don't know they
are reading about the Devi.
So she said, "Mother, I just identified. It's written that
how You are gentle, the Goddess is gentle, how She touches
me, how She looks after me, how Her attention is on me.
Like there's a sentence, kataksha kataksha nirikshana
every glance is an inspection, but inspection is not a very
good word, but nirikshana means "divine inspection."
"So all the time I feel that it's You, You. You are all the
time. When I listen to music, I feel now, 'See, She is looking
at me, She is feeling me, She is nourishing me.' All the time
I feel Your love."
That's how the bhakti comes in. So if you have vibra-
tions, that doesn't mean that they are something dry, you see.
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No, it means the joy of bhakti. Bhakti is – you can call it
adoration, this, that. It's the ocean of love that is God. You
just get drenched into it. There's no words to it. And that is
what, when you feel you must know, that you have taken the
spirit as a real connection between you and your Mother or
Father. There's no differentiation. You are one in that
your
ocean, drenched in the ocean. You are the drop. You are the
ocean. You are one in that bhakti. And that bhakti cannot be
mechanical because it is not man-made.
So to enjoy Sahaja Yoga, you must know that it's not dry
vibrations only, but it is the bhakti. That is the joy of Shiva's
quality, the quality of joy that He adds to our life. Everything
seems to be surrounded, resounding. Same thing – the joy
that "I'm loved so much by God, that God loves me, that I
have a meaning in life..."
Understand this one little point
your heart into your brain, not from the brain to your heart.
It comes as if the ambrosia of your bhakti covers your brain
absolutely.
that it comes from
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I WENT TO MEET ONE REAL GURU. Oh, he was a very horrid fellow otherwise. He has
slapped so many people, thrown so many people down from the hills and all those kinds
of things he has done, no doubt. But still, for Me, he has tremendous regard.
I went to him, so he just started talking to Me as you talk to a Goddess. He said,
"How do you find these worldly people here?"
I said, “All right. After all, I have created them."
"Haan!" But he said, "Still but, You have got. With Your power, why don't you change
them a little bit?"
I said, "That's what is the problem. I have given them freedom." I said, "All right, it's
freedom to you. You can choose if you want to get transformed or not. I cannot force.'
He said, "But God Almighty You are. You can do anything."
I said, "I can do everything, but I do not want to do certain things. One of them is to
take the freedom from them. That is their freedom to choose. That's given to them
כי
away
because if they have to have the ultimate freedom, they should have this little freedom
intact."
So he was quarrelling with Me about this. He said, "But when You are God Almighty,
there could be some other method. These horrible people, what to do?"
I said, “Your concern is all right and I understand because you are a guru, but when I
am God Almighty, supposing, then My style is different. I can't be like
Then he said, “That's true. You can't be like me."
That is what I found in him. He was talking to Me only as if I am God standing
before him and then he told all the disciples, “You see, you praise. You praise the Lord.
You praise Her – stuti kara – because God is fond of praise."
I said, “Really?"
"Yes, if
praise Him. Whenever I want something to be done, I just praise Him and He does it
for me."
you."
you praise the Lord, then He gives you everything. I've seen that. I always
So I said, "It's true. I must accept – bhakti gamya. You cannot get to Mother unless
and until you have really bhakti from your heart. It's all already sort of a built-in restric-
tion. What can you do? If you don't have bhakti, you cannot get to Mother.
Bhakti is only possible if you have your faith.... Your faith in God has to be absolutely,
absolutely untarnishable. Nothing can disturb them. That's very important. You've seen
all the miracles of God. You’ve seen how you are working out His powers. You've known
all these things, but still the faith in God is missing.
The
person who has complete faith in God is called as the one. It is God himself,
they say. It is called as Paramachaitanya. The guru is called as the one who is himself the
Brahmachaitanya.
So when this faith in God is absolutely established in you that there is God Almighty
- "He's almighty and that I am the messenger of that God" – just this understanding,
when it becomes absolutely firm in you, then you are in the gurupada.
I bless you today that all of achieve that state, that you reside in that gurupada
state. And wherever you are, whatever you are, whatever may be your position, whatever
you may do, the faith in the God Almighty, that is so truly within you, will express itself.
Not only that, but it will manifest. It will act just like God.
So many things can be said. I've said so many things before. So many can be said later
on also. But today we have to remember one thing, that we must have complete faith in
the kingdom of God and in the powers of God Almighty – complete faith.
And then in ourselves.
you
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 It is within you – the Tree of Life..
It is placed, this great mechanism which spontaneously works out our Self Realization, becoming,
by which your karmas, your actions become spontaneous and you get connected with God.
you are. Your bhakti has some meaning. Your devotion has some meaning. 10 September 1981
So
Adi Shankaracharya was asked, "Which is the greatest
quality?" He said, "Devi bhakti, Mother's bhakti. She
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is the Devi. Your Mother is the Devi. Understanding
that, do Her bhakti. In that bhakti, there should not be
any false thing. The first quality, the highest quality, if
it is seen in a human being from his heart, all his bad
qualities will be destroyed. He will get light and attain
moksha." That is why He has always praised the Devi.
In the beginning, He has described a lot, written lots
of books like Vivek Chudamani. Lastly, He said that by
only pleasing the Devi, one can get everything. Then
why do these things? Why to do debates? Why to do
discourses and break one's head? Just praise the Devi
and
whatever
will
you want. His wisdom very
get
you
few people have.
Shri Durga Puja 1982 (translated from Marathi)
One of the sayings about the Goddess is that Ya Devi
Sarva bhuteshu, bhakti rupena samsthitah
"The one
who gives us that dedication, that sense of dedica-
tion, You are the one who resides in
with that
everyone
sense of dedication." And it is such a joy that cannot be
expressed what this is, that one you feel when you are
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dedicated.
I know who are progressing in dedication and devotion.
I have seen people improving so much. You need not
face Me. You need not see Me. In person I need not be
there. It's all in the All-pervading Power. That's all My
light, which knows each and everything about you.
And
only through your bhakti, through your devotion and
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dedication, you can achieve Me.
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 YOUR FAITH IN ME, I MUST SAY, IS GREAT.
I am Myself surprised at that. I am quite a camouflage. It's not easy to understand Me.
I don't understand Myself. On one side, of course, I'm Divine, no doubt. On the other
side, I am very human. Even in a film if I see somebody suffering, I start crying. I can't
bear it. I can't cure children because I can't see their sufferings. It's another aspect of Mine.
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I've made Myself extremely human and this divinity of Mine also is just Sahaj. I've done
nothing. I've been like this and I'm like this. I've not achieved anything. If I've achieved
anything, it is the understanding of human beings because I always felt that all these
incarnations and all these prophets never understood human beings. They never knew
that they are not enlightened people and no use talking to them of these great things. It's
all a waste. It's like a blind person, you explain to him all the colours and the beauty.... So
this human realization – I should say that I had – is so beautiful. Now I understand what
is the joy of bhakti, what is the joy of gnyana, what is the joy of karma because a person
who doesn't do anything, who is Nishkriya, a person who has no bhakti and who has no
gnyana is just wakened completely. I had to fill in Myself with all these things that I have
to know the gnyana – not the gnyana of the Divine because, after all, that is not difficult
because if I am that, I know that, but the gnyana of the human beings, the problems of
the human beings. I had to study for years the human beings to work it out. But once it
has worked, thatť's what is said, that there is divinity in you. It has started expressing itself
and such beautiful divine lights are sitting before Me... Look after your vibrations, which
pulsate in your being, because the spirit has awakened in your attention, in your central
nervous system. That's the most important thing you have to do. The rest of it is Sahaj.
The rest of it is absolutely Sahaj.
Shivaratri Puja 1992
IF YOU FEEL HAPPY, THEN MY HAPPINESS IS COMPLETE.
But you felt for Me, that I should wear [these ornaments] itself shows that
you wanted
to see them on Me. It is also such esteem of your very subtle bhakti, very subtle love for
your Mother.
In these modern times, to have such bhaktas, itself is a big blessing for Me. So, as you
say, “Mother, bless us," I say, “You also bless Me."
You have already blessed Me by this beautiful arrangement you have made, the way
put yourself, surrendered yourself for this great puja because all is such an inter-
have
you
dependent process. You do the puja. I can't do the puja. You have to do the puja.
do the puja, the chakras are awakened. Mine are awakened, but in
When
you
you
they are awakened.
Now how to explain to people what is the importance of puja? If you have not tasted
the fruit of a puja, it is impossible to explain. It is at a higher level only one can under-
stand all these things.
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 All this knowledge came to you so sweetly.
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 Such a tremendous power,
so alert, so affectionate, so kind is there
- and a Mother, who is
teacher.
your
Mother teaches children with love.
Not only that, but you never even felt
how I taught you Sahaja Yoga.
You just learnt it like that.
It's a child's play for you.
It's such a difficult and subtle subject.
You picked it up without any difficulties.
So artfully it was done.
Beautifully it was done, built-in within you.
Now you know,
"This is Sahaja Yoga,
this is not Sahaj Yoga."
All this knowledge
came to you so sweetly.
Navaratri Puja 1990
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and the villager
a story about forgiveness
To BE A MOTHER AND TO BE A GURU IS THE MOST DIFFICULT THING.
I do not know what comes first, but, of course, every mother wants her child to be good
and the Holy Mother wants Her child to be a holy person. The first thing is the holiness.
Now for that, how can you compel someone? The only thing that makes you understand is
this: if you don't become holy how will you get your ascent? We have to be holy. What dis-
cipline
for making a person holy? What can you force? What can you get angry
can one put
for? The only method I use normally is to forgive. Maybe the forgiveness is the highest
quality for teaching people. When they know that they have done wrong and they confess
it, then you have to forgive.
In the life of Buddha, there was a man who was abusing Him without understanding and
when he finished with his abuses and Buddha had left, people told him, “Do
know
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you
who you were abusing? It was Lord Buddha." He got the fright of his life.
He said, "Where is He gone?"
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"He has gone to another village."
for what I said. Please forgive
So he went to the other village and he said, “Sir, I am sorry
me. It's all
and I should not have done it. You can punish me the way you like."
wrong
Lord Buddha said, "When did
do that?"
you
He said, "Yesterday."
Buddha said, “I don't know yesterday. I know only today."
You see, when you tell these things, how great one feels, isn't it? So your greatness, your
nobility will definitely influence people. It's not by fighting, by quarrelling, by saying harsh
things that it is going to work out.
Guru Puja 1993
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Front cover and contents pages photographs: Her Holiness Shri Mataji
Nirmala Devi, 13 June 2008 (Calin Chirou) Content pages quotation:
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 15 November 1980 Contents pages name:
the 924th name of the Goddess from the Sri Lalita Sahasranama Pages
2, 3 and 7: Guru Puja 2008, Cabella (Calin Chirou) Page 8: Shri Mataji
Nirmala Devi Pages 10 and 11: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi and Sahaja
Yoga, Cowley Manor, Cheltenham, United Kingdom, 1982 (Mark
Callaghan) Page 12: trees reflected in a lake, North Vancouver, Canada
Page 15: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Cowley Manor, Cheltenham,
United Kingdom, 1982 (Mark Callaghan) Page 17, 18, 20 and 23:
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi Page 25: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Sankranti
Puja, India Page 27 and 28: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Mother Earth
Puja, Surbiton, United Kingdom, 21 August 1983 (Mark Callaghan)
Page 30: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi in India, circa 1980 Above: Erna
Titan and Nishi Pachnina, Guru Puja 2008, Canajoharie USA (Omar
Davis) Back cover photo: leaves and tree, North Vancouver, Canada
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 These trees are standing still just watching you all.
See – absolutely still, nothing is moving.
They don't allow
even one leaf to move.
Let it be – until the breeze starts.
Mother starts the breeze.
Until then, we'll just keep quiet and watch.