Adi Shakti Puja. Cabella Ligure (Italy), 25 May 1997. Today we are going to do the Puja of Adi Shakti. It’s a difficult subject to talk about Adi Shakti, because it’s not easy to understand that Adi Shakti is the power of Sadashiva. Sadashiva is the God Almighty. She is His breath, as they some people call it. Some say She is the desire and some say that She’s the entire power of Sadashiva, and Sadashiva cannot do anything without Her powers. This subject has been described by many people in various books in different ways. But actually we need not go to the background of the creation of Adi Shakti, for that at least you’ll need seven lectures (Shri Mataji smiles). But we’ll come to the point when Adi Shakti started working on this Mother Earth. The first thing is we must know, that She created a Kundalini in the Mother Earth itself and She created Shri Ganesha out of the Mother Earth, it’s very interesting. So, the Mother Earth becomes a very important thing for us. If we do not know how to respect the Mother Earth, we do not know how to respect ourselves. The expression of Adi Shakti within you is the Kundalini, no doubt. That is the reflection of Adi Shakti in you. But the reflection in the Mother Earth is also expressed, as you all know, in different places, different countries, different cities, as the manifestation of chakras and Adi Shakti’s creations. It was very important first to create a very holy Mother Earth for human beings to be born on that. So, the reflection of the Adi Shakti as Kundalini first was on the Mother Earth. Kundalini is, we should say, is a wee part of the Adi Shakti, or we can say that She is the desire, pure desire, of the Adi Shakti. So, Adi Shakti is the desire, complete desire of Sadashiva; and Kundalini, Adi Kundalini is the desire, complete desire of Adi Shakti. Now this one was first expressed in the Mother Earth, inside the Mother Earth. Inside the Mother Earth, the Kundalini came up in such a way that it cooled down the inner part of the Mother Earth as much as it could, and then it manifested on the surface of the earth as different chakras. So, it’s tremendous similarity that we have with Virata, the Mother Earth and the human beings. If all of them are being reflected by the Adi Kundalini so there has to be a great connection between them. It is not understood by human beings how they are connected to this Mother Earth. This Kundalini passed through different centers, creating different centers in the Mother Earth and ultimately broke through Kailasha. And I don’t know how many have you been to Kailash you’ll see tremendous vibrations flowing out of Kailash. Now the way we insult our Mother Earth, what we are doing is we are insulting the Adi Shakti. So many ways there are we should respect the Mother Earth. I mean it was an Indian custom to begin with, when you got up from your bed and you touched the Mother Earth with your feet, you have to say, “Oh Mother Earth, please forgive me because I’m touching You with my feet”. All the movements of Mother Earth are controlled by this inner Kundalini, which is the reflection of Adi Shakti. The gravity that it has also is the manifestation of the Kundalini of the Mother Earth. Now, why we are suffering in this beautiful planet, because we do not respect what we have to respect the most. Mother Earth is to be respected, meaning what? Meaning that whatever is created on this earth, by the movement of the earth, by the sea, by all the elements, has to be respected. Today’s problem is pollution, all kinds of things people talk of. The reason behind it, people never understood the importance of all these five elements which are supportive of our life. So, to respect the Mother Earth people do Bhumi Puja. Many people, when they are building a house, they will do the Bhumi Pujan, means they will respect the Mother Earth, because if She is not being respected maybe there could be an earthquake, which means that this Mother Earth understands, knows and acts. It acts in such a manner that human beings don’t understand why such things happen. Now, we can say that, in a place called Latur, it was Shri Ganesha’s fourteenth day and they had to submerge the statues into the sea or into the river, so they went all out, singing, dancing. After coming from there they all started drinking, and drinking is not liked by Mother Earth at all. If you are drunk and you are walking on the road you’ll fall down. It so happened with their drinking that a big earthquake broke in, and all those who were dancing, were drinking, all of them were engulfed into that earthquake by Mother Earth. Only our center, which is there, was surrounded by a big gap but nothing happened to our center and not one single Sahaja yogi was ruined by that. We can understand because we are sahaja yogis, how the Mother Earth has acted to save those people who were sahaja yogis. So the understanding of Mother Earth about saints is very great. She knows who is a saint, She knows the feet of a saint and that’s why, you know so many things were created, like Moses, He went to the sea and the Mother Earth came up, for them to walk through. If all the Jews had walked, it would not have worked, but it was Moses and His saintliness that the Mother Earth Herself came up and helped. In the same way, when Rama was building a big bridge between Lanka and India, the Mother Earth came up as a bridge.So, we should not try to curse the Mother Earth for any mishaps on this Earth. If people are saintly they will be always protected by Mother Earth. She will always try to give them whatever they want. You can see in the minute way, that supposing now, in our Cabella here, the roses are of such a big size, such a big size roses, you won’t find such big size in the whole world. But we have here, such big ones. In Pratishthan, we had flowers of sunflower so big as that. One man could not lift it. Now, how is it all this is happening in particular places? Is the Mother Earth who knows who is living here, who is walking on Her back we should say, or on Her soil, because Mother Earth understands vibrations. Now, certain places we say that are very holy. How have they discovered that these places are holy, because of magnetic forces. The magnetic forces in England, I was surprised, were crossing each other at a place called Oxted where we lived. They were crossing since long, but we lived there later on. So, Mother Earth also organizes and arranges things for saintly people. It's very interesting to see how the Mother Earth guides you in a proper way. I mean, I don't know how many instances I can give you. But we don’t understand the value of the understanding of this Mother Earth and Her loving protection for all the saints. In the same way, we have to understand how the whole atmosphere, the rain, comes in at the right time, the moon, the sun, everything works out in such a beautiful manner because they know it’s a saint. They know these are saintly people sitting here. They know that they are pure people, that they are the essence of life and they should be looked after, they should be cared for, they should be bothered for. It is not bothered about people who are of no use. For example now for Haj, so many people went and so many were killed. Some went to Amarnath and they were killed because they were not saints, just ritualistic people, going for a ritual which, in the discretion of the Mother Earth, was of no avail and of no advantage to them. But nobody learns from this, nobody learns. When so many people were going to say, Amarnath were killed, Pakistan said, “See, they should not have gone to this Amarnath, it’s a false place, why did they go there? And by going there what has proved is that it’s not a holy place”. But when the haj thing took place, they had nothing to say, they didn’t know how to explain this haj business and the killing – (She corrects Herself) dying of so many people. The reason is this, that these people have been going to haj all the time. Once there was a stampede with thirty-two thousand people being injured and troubled and killed. Now this is it. Now, what is Mother Earth suggesting, that going to these places, holy places, they are really holy, no doubt; going to these places, you are not doing any spiritual ascent. You are not achieving anything by going to these places, which are really holy. That cannot be challenged. They are holy places. You must be knowing that I was born in Chhindwara, and Mecca and Chhindwara are on the same Cancer line. How is it? What is about Mecca? Mecca is Makkeshwarashiv – it’s a Shiva. Why did Mohammed Sahib ask people to worship a stone? He didn’t believe in stones, He was against all kinds of idol worship; then why did He say this black stone, which is there, has to be worshipped, for that people have to go there. What was the reason? Because He could feel the vibrations, He could feel that it’s a swayambhu, so He said it. So, all the Muslims like mad are going there. By going there nobody has improved, I have not seen anybody improved by going to Mecca. It's just a kind of a ritual. They think if they go there, when they will die tomorrow they will tell God, “See now, we have a certificate, we have been to Mecca.” Like our pope once upon a time used to give certificate, that when you go to heaven, you can show the certificate that now you are a real Christian. In this way, all these artificial things came up, but there is reality behind it. The difference is the reality is for the real people and not for false people. But this ritualism has grown too much. Like in India we have many swayambhus created by the Kundalini again I would say, and which are really worshipped. I’ve been to most of them and I was surprised that most of the pujaris were suffering from some sort of a serious disease. Like one was a paralyzed fellow. He said, “We are serving this God here, and You said this is swayambhu; then Mother, how, why is it we are suffering from this disease?” I said, “Because you are just making money. You can’t make money out of God. If you don’t want to serve God, you don’t stay here, but if you want to serve God, then you can stay here, but don’t make money out of this”. It’s very common, I have seen, those people who make money get paralysis, I’ve seen it. It’s a very deep understanding all these elements, Mother Earth, everybody has about everything. Because their Kundalini is not like your Kundalini, which is, though in itself is pure, but because of your human endeavors, human mistakes, ego, superego, all sorts of nonsense, the Kundalini is not so sensitive, nor does it tell you what is happening. It has to be very alert, sensitive spirituality within you, by which you can say immediately what you think, what you know, what you understand about anything. But the problem is that this doesn’t exist. Why is it you should not be so sensitive? On the contrary, I have seen, if their mind works against somebody, then they start saying, “You are catching on this, you are catching on that, you are catching on that”. Actually, the person who’s saying that is catching. So, with this thing one has to understand that if we are the true reflection of Adi Shakti, then we should be pure, absolutely pure, like the white snow. Even one black drop – that’s why I wore today the white sari - falls on the white, it shows. You should be so white that anything, any minute black spot also should be seen by you, and in others also to be felt by you. If that height is achieved by pure life, by pure thinking, by pure heart, it is not necessary to manipulate anything; no, no need at all. It’s all natural like the Mother Earth is. Does She manipulate anything? Nothing. Just see how spontaneous She is. You put a seed in the Mother Earth and see how it sprouts. She is so spontaneous, Her activity is so spontaneous, we never wonder about it. See different types of flowers, different types of fragrance, different types of shrubs and trees, how She grows with such balance in every place. In every minute atom and molecule of that Mother Earth there is sense. So before us is the best reflection of the Adi Shakti and that is this Mother Earth. So first we must respect the Mother Earth. I like you people because you are sitting on the ground, it’s very good. For meditation, if you can sit on the Mother Earth, it will be extremely good because the special quality of the Mother Earth, which also I have unfortunately, that I suck your problems. She too sucks your problem and when she sucks your problem you get rid of them without any difficulties. So, if you cannot, say, sit on the ground, then you take a stone, better is, or you can have a marble, or something which is natural on which you should try to sit. But if you sit on the plastic and do your meditation, I don’t know what is going to help you, the plastic? That’s why I request you always, that use natural things, because natural things can absorb your problems very well. Unnaturally also we live otherwise. You see it is on the physical line, also on mental line. On mental line what do we do, that we go on arguing, explaining, it’s going on and on and on and on! There’s no end to it. One should get headache, you see, actually with all that. But if you are spontaneous, if you are very spontaneous, immediately you will know what the other fellow is trying to do or to say or to communicate. You don’t need much thinking about it, because you can absorb even the thought of another person. Absorb doesn’t mean that you take the bad thing of that person, but it’s like the sieving out. You absorb what another person is saying and you sieve it out. Now the problem of this Adi Shakti is this, that I decided that I will have all of you enter into My body, absorb all of you. It’s a very dangerous game I know, but I did play, because I’m supposed to do at this stage of time, that I should absorb you all in My body. So with you, all your problems are also gone into Me, all your troubles also have gone into Me. But by absorbing it, see, it’s like ocean into which you are put and you are cleansed. But what about the ocean? Ocean has got still your problems and things lingering and they are very troublesome. So the best thing would be for you to cleanse yourself. Cleansing is very important through introspection. But doesn’t mean thinking, never means thinking. But introspection means meditation and that you all should meditate. I must tell you, we had a meeting of the leaders and they came out and sat in the drawing room. As soon as they assembled I had such a severe pain in the stomach and I had such a bad diarrhea that you can’t believe. Now, who has got those problems, I don’t know. Who has brought these problems, I don’t know. But as a Mother, as a Mother, I don’t mind anything, as long as you all get well and purified. Just like as the Mother Earth cares for you, I also care for you. And just like as the Mother Earth loves you, I also love you, whether you are bad or good is not the point. But to be kind to Me if you could try to be really good Sahaja Yogis, not a showoffs, not business-like, not only thinking type, not argumentative, not criticizing others; if you just try to meditate every day ten to fifteen minutes, I tell you, My health will be first class. Because I have taken your injections inside and they start torturing My life for nothing at all. See so, now, it’s a risk I have run, and I am sure you are all very sensible people, and you will understand that your Mother shouldn’t suffer. This is every-day crucifixion for Me sometimes you know, and I don’t know what to say. For example, the other day in Delhi, one gentleman who is a leader, came to Me, to see Me, and My one foot started going like that and paining so much. I mean I didn’t know what to tell him that, “You get out now,” because I just can’t hurt him, you know. But I said, “What’s the matter, where have you been, what did you do?” And so he realized and he went out, and really it improved. Nearness also, I think, has an effect, because if a man like that is, or a lady like that is full of problems and she comes very much closer to My attention, then I have to take up the cross, it’s like this. A very simple understanding should be that, “Why are we in Sahaja Yoga?”.We are in Sahaja Yoga to ascend, to go higher and higher, as you sang yesterday. It was very entertaining yesterday the way you talked about your ambition to be higher and higher. Really it was very joy-giving, no doubt. But what are we doing about it, what are we trying about it, we should see. Seriously we must think, are we meditating, are we all doing something to elevate others also, to give Realizations to others? Specially, women I have seen, don’t do much of this, which is very bad, because you are the mothers. You have to go all out to give Realizations to others. But men are more active that way and women are not. So it works the other way round. Now on one side the men are, I think are active but don’t meditate. Women meditate and men do the outside work, it’s sort of a part-time, or you can call it a good labor division that, “You meditate at home and we’ll go all out”. It’s not going to work out. So one has to meditate and one has to also go out to spread Sahaja Yoga. Both things have to be done. Supposing now you meditate and you don’t spread Sahaja Yoga, you will never ascend. Because after all this Kundalini, you see, She’s a sensible woman, She’s very sensible. She thinks, “Why should I make her a saint? What is the use?”. Sahaja Yoga is not individualistic, it’s not for one person to become a saint and sit somewhere, it’s not like that. It’s not meant for one person, for oneself, it’s not individualistic. It’s a collective happening. So if you are not helping to the collective, Kundalini says, “All right, you are all right as it is”, just like our body. See, in our body if one organ says, “All right, now I am all right, I am not going to work out”, or one cell says that, “I am not going to now grow, it’s all right. Why should I worry about the whole body?”, it won’t work. It’s a living, it’s a living organism, I have told you hundred times, when it is a living organism, it has to grow, it has to grow and also to absorb. To have energy you have to meditate and you have to grow. If you don’t grow, you are finished. You are no more a Sahaja Yogi. I wouldn’t call a person a Sahaja Yogi who has not even given one person Realization. Cannot be a Sahaja Yogi. Sahaja Yogi has to give Realizations to others. Apart from other activities, the main activity should be how we give Realizations to others. Unless and until we really look after that side of life, we can never, never grow in Sahaja Yoga. For example now, take My position. I’m all right, I’m complete, I have no problem. But why did I work so hard and wanted so many Sahaja Yogis, why? What was the - I don’t have to grow either, I’m overgrown already. I don’t have to do it, but why? What is the need? The need is like this, the need is of love. I have so much love that I have to channelize it. If I don’t, I’ll suffocate, I can’t love Myself. So, this love has to spread. For that, I have to have you people, who can take this love to others and make them happy. This is a kind of a vision I have, and in this special time, it was promised by many people, by many saints, and it is so obvious that you are all specially chosen for this kind of thing. Now how far you understand your importance is a different point. You do for your emancipation, all right, you meditate. But if you are not channelizing the love, the Divine love, what is the use? Now supposing I repair something very nicely: I repair this machine [microphone] nicely, put it right, everything, and I don’t speak, what’s the use of having this? In the same way, (Shri Mataji laughs), if you work very hard, I know people who get up at four o’clock, have their baths, do meditation, sit down, in the night again they sit down for meditation. But they never go out, they never talk to others, they never spread Sahaja Yoga. They do not give Divine love to others, so how can this great problem of this world be solved, that it has no love? It has never known Divine love. It has to be given to them. They have to feel this Divine love, this power of Adi Shakti. They have to know it. Otherwise, you have been selfish, I would say, that you had a nice time having all this and you have not given it to others. This is the reason why Sahaja Yoga sometimes fails to create a proper balanced personality in a human being. Some people are like this, that now supposing a Sahaja Yogi has married another Sahaja Y,ogi, take a position like that. Now My desire is that they should develop a complete understanding of each other, love for each other, but a love for Sahaja Yoga and for others. This is the only way we can justify marriage in Sahaja Yoga, otherwise why should they marry? But it doesn’t happen like that. What happens is, once they are married, then either they will quarrel, they will ask for divorce; if that doesn’t happen luckily, because in Sahaja Yoga, so easy to get married, you know. If that doesn’t happen, then they start having their own family, their own homes, they are again becoming very small, very, very small, very limited. Did you come to Sahaja Yoga for that? You have to realize your responsibility. See this Mother Earth, how she knows her responsibility. She’s just made out of nothing but soil, some mud, but look at Her. How she is conscious, how she is particular, how she works it out, how She is attentive, how She is careful. While you, though you have been blessed so much by everything you are, are you thinking of giving it to others? With twelve disciples, whatever was the problem of Christianity, I mean it was nothing good job, I must say, but still Christianity spread out. Islam was not a very good job either, it spread out. All those bad jobs have spread out so much, so why not the good job of Sahaja Yoga? It has to spread, it has to go to various places. Try and find out where you can go and talk about it and do something good to others and help them somehow to rise above this common existence of misery, unhappiness and destruction. The time is very short and I think if you see the time, the rate at which we are moving is not proper. We have to be much faster, we have to go much ahead and we have to create much more Sahaja Yogis through our consistent, very intensive effort. But we - it’s a side issue, you see, it’s by the way, Sahaja Yoga is by the way. And this is why we are failing in our responsibility. We have to learn from the Mother Earth. You might say that, “Mataji, how can we be like you? After all You are Adi Shakti”.Many people say that. “You are Adi Shakti, so what, you see, with one finger You can move things like that”. But why should I? Why should I, what is the need? So in that reflection that you are Me, in that reflection that the Mother Earth is Me, in that beautiful creation within you, you have to become very sensitive to the need of the world. What is the need of the world? Today, if you fail, the whole thing will fail forever. Only very few will be there. So the need for you is to spread Sahaja Yoga, because this love is not only for you. Is not to be enjoyed by you, but is to be enjoyed by as many possible in the whole world. So, today, we have to decide that, as the children of Adi Shakti, we have to go all out, everywhere, every corner, we have to shout and we have to tell loudly what is the time in which we are living, and what is the responsibility that you have to fulfill as Sahaja Yogis. There must be some reason why you are here. Like in the beginning, Sahaja Yogis used to ask Me, “Mother, was I this last life, was I Shivaji last life?” I said, “What’s the use? You might have been anything, but what are you today is much higher”. Try to understand. You might be, say, Napoleon, you might be, say, one of the kings say, or maybe the queen from somewhere. So what, what did they do? Did they raise anybody’s Kundalini? Did they have any power? Even the disciples of Christ or even Mohammed Sahib’s disciples, anyone - did they do it? Did they have any understanding of Kundalini? Did they have any love for others, that they should give them Realization? There were some Sufis, they never gave Realization to anyone. There were so many saints who never gave realization to anybody. Mohammed Sahib never gave Realization to anybody. Gautam Buddha never gave realization to anybody, think of it. Christ never gave Realization to anybody. Anybody. Krishna did not do it, Rama did not. Nobody - but you can do it! You can do it and you know everything about Kundalini. It’s a very big thing because you are children of the Adi Shakti. You are here and your Mother is here. It’s a very, very fortunate thing for Me that you are here. I’m very proud of you, but again and again I have to tell you that the work has to be with a faster speed, we have to move with a faster speed and get more people to Sahaja Yoga. It is rather, rather difficult for Me to say something forcefully, that’s not My nature you know. Can’t get into tempers and cannot get angry, and I cannot forcefully say something to you, but if you fail, then only thing will be that you have failed Me completely. It means that, nothing less than that, and if you don’t want to do it, then I would request all of you to take a vow today that you will spread Sahaja Yoga and you will talk about Sahaja Yoga, know about Sahaj Yog. There are many who don’t know anything. Also, it’s very surprising they are Sahaja Yogis, they don’t know anything. And don’t create problems for Me, like marriage, “We can’t now live now with the wife, we can’t live with the husband”. All sorts of nonsensical problems people create for Me in Sahaja Yoga. Are you here to create problems, or to remove problems of people? So, on the whole we have done well I must say, but it’s not the final. We have to work faster with more enthusiasm and joyfully. You don’t know what joy you get when you give Realization to somebody. It’s the most joyful moment is when you give Realizations to others. Just try, you must try once, you’ll enjoy it, then you’ll want more and more and more. Now after Sahaja Yoga really the want disappears into this desire that, “My God, this man is going, should I call him and give him Realization?” On the street, you will feel like calling him, “Come here, come here, I want to give you something”, then make him sit down, give Realization. This will be your style, like mad - you’ll say, “Oh no, no, look at this, this gentleman is without any Realization, let us give him”. You’ll have to go to churches, you’ll have to go to universities, you have to go to all such congregations where they have no idea about what they can achieve; and then tell them without any fear, without any malice. You can talk to them and you should tell them, “Now we are here to help you, for your good. We have not come for our good but for your good, now listen to us”. And I am sure, very sure, that the Kundalini within you will be very happy. She is not happy you see. She is not happy with people who are not using her fully. So, she’ll be very happy to help you, and do the needful for the emancipation of the whole world. May God bless you. [Puja begins. Ganesha Atharva Sheersha is recited. Then leaders go on stage.) Yogi: Hindi 63. [Bhajans: “Jago Savera”. Ladies go on stage for Devi puja. Bhajans: “Vandana Karuya Matajila”. “Jogawa”] Yogi: Hindi song number 67. “Vishwa Vandita”. (Then Aarti is performed. Then Mahamantras follow.) (After collective Namaskar) Shri Mataji: May God bless you all. May God bless you all. [End of video]