ADVICE FROM SHRI MATAJI FOR TODAY :

I bow to all the Sahaja Yogis of the world.

It is very heartening to see so many of you assembled here to do the Guru
Puja. To worship your Guru in person is regarded as the highest blessing. But
in My case it is a very different combination that I am your Mother and your
Guru. So you can understand how Shri Ganesha worshipped his Mother. You
all are created in the same image of Shri Ganesha who worshipped His
Mother and then He became the Adi Guru, the first Guru. He is the primordial
essence of mastery. Only the Mother can make the child a master.

And the Motherhood in any Guru – whether male or female – can only make
the disciple a Guru. So, first you have to become the prophets and develop
that motherhood within yourself, then you can make others also prophets.

Now, to become a Guru, what do we have to do after our realization? Guru

word means gravity. Gravity means a person who is grave, who is deep, who
is magnetic. Now as you have learnt in Sahaja Yoga that realization takes
place in complete effortlessness. So normally a Guru tries to make his
disciples effortless, which is called as Prayatna Shaithilya – means ”relax
your efforts”. Without doing anything you got your Prayatna Shaytilya,
otherwise Kundalini would not have risen.

Then the second stage is Vichara Shaithilya – the thoughtless awareness.

This also you got it without doing anything.

And the third is complete negation of thought – Abhava – and the bliss of
peace. So one has to understand that you have to pass then, through three
stages. First, when you get your realization all these things come
spontaneously, for that moment. When you raise the Kundalini of others,
these things happen to them spontaneously. You too have that power now to
raise the Kundalini of people and to establish it in them. But we must
understand why it has to be done that way, why we have to have Vichara
Shaithilya. Because when you project any thought, it is artificial. It is not
reality. Thought always stands between you and the reality. When you put in
an effort, you stand against becoming.

For example, if I have to cure you, I just put my hand and finished – no
effort. Because I am that. You get your realization because I am that. I don’t
put in any effort, I don’t think about it, I am that.

Just looking at someone, it can be done. Just putting attention to someone, it

can be done. Just with a small desire, it can be done – because you are that.
You can mould it the way you like.
And this is what one has to understand – that innately if you are that, if you
have already become, then what is the need to put in any more effort?

But when we say these things, you see, then people think you have to be
lethargic, that you need not do anything, you become a Guru without doing
anything. That’s why, at the very outset, I said it goes in stages.

So the first stage is of Shri Ganesha – how He surrenders to the Shakti, to the
Mother – that is the beginning. If one cannot surrender that doesn’t mean
you don’t do anything, but surrendering means the worship, the respect of
the higher, the obedience to the higher. Not to argue it out, not to react,
acceptance. Absorption, like a child absorbs the milk of the mother without
questioning, without reasoning.

That’s why Christ has said, “You have to become like children”. But if you are
questioning, then you are no more a child.

So first is the state, which you have to develop, is the child-like state. But
child, which is a realized child, which has to have a gravity. If you can
develop childhood first, then everything takes proper course, because
maturity cannot take place unless and until you start from the very
beginning. And gravity means maturity not frivolousness.

So now the quality of Ganesha, as you know, is that He has Viveka, means He
has discretion. He “has” means He “is” discretion. So try to develop your
discretion power so that Shri Ganesha gives you the wisdom – subuddhi –
wisdom. And this is why you have to have a dependence on Shri Ganesha. So
at this point you have to make a negation of efforts.
Some people have an attention which is all the time looking this side, that
side – cannot see to one point – so fix your attention. So gradually, you will
find, you’ll discipline yourself.

So the effort that you put in is very important in the beginning of Sahaja
Yoga. Another thing is very common, in the West, is the harsh tongue, the
sarcasm, and hurting others – is a very subtle way of violence.
Or if they are really blunt they can start with ego expressions also “I, I, I…”
Such people should stop talking completely, make an effort to stop – just
don’t talk. Now watch your mind – is it trying to talk something sarcastic,
nonsensical?

So, this watching also requires effort. So, to sprout the seed is easy, but then
one has to put in the effort to look after the little plant. And when it matures,
then it’s on its own.
So the… first the effort should be made to protect yourself against the mind
which you have built in, through your ego or superego, that goes into the
wrong direction of effort.

But sometimes, be very careful, you have to be discreet. And the best way to
be safe on discretion is to keep in the centre – never go to any extreme of
anything.

For example, some people are very fond of music, say. So they’ll go on after
the music part of it. Some people, say, are fond of poetry. Then they’ll go
after the poetry only. There is nothing wrong in those things. But whatever
you achieve in all these things must be brought back to the collective and
must be enjoyed by everyone, and you should also enjoy what others have
found.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Shri Guru Puja, 1984
ADVICE FROM SHRI MATAJI FOR TODAY :

Try to fix your nails higher and higher and try to cling on to them and cling
on to them because Sahaja Yoga is something so miraculous and so great.
The whole thing is so great that it is not possible for human beings to
conceive what they’re achieving. You have really entered into the Kingdom
of God. But you cannot conceive this still with your brain that what you
have got, so must know that the greatest of greatest has happened to you.
And to keep it up you must try to achieve higher levels and higher levels of
spirituality and forget all that, forget other things, just try to go higher and
higher with your dedication to yourself and to Sahaja Yoga. I bless you
again and again for a higher ascent in your being and a deeper enjoyment
in life. May God bless you.

PUJA AT MELBOURNE 1983

Paramatma (God) is the enjoyer! And therefore all should desire Him. We
should enjoy the God, who is the enjoyer of everything. If we start
enjoying Him, what else do we need to enjoy? We should enjoy His Bliss!!!
What is God’s creation; what a beautiful world He has made; how many
things He has given to us; now we have become sahaja yogis, God has
given this Shakti in us; now we can know our Atma (Spirit), and can
recognize the Spirit in others! How much unending ‘grace’ God is
showering on us; with these thoughts you should grow in inner happiness.
If you start enjoying the God and His love like this, then you will find that
your heart is growing and still more growing and you feel as if it is
encompassing entire creation!!!

TODAY, MY MESSAGE TO YOU IS; START ENJOYING THE PARAMATMA,

LEAVING ASIDE ALL OTHER THINGS… ENJOY GOD, HAVE THAT JOY
EVERYWHERE, OF WHAT GOD HAS GIVEN TO YOU, WHAT ARE THE
THINGS HE HAS GIVEN TO YOU, BE JOYOUS ABOUT THEM. THEN YOU
WILL FIND THAT YOUR ATTENTION HAS STABILIZED. IN THIS WAY YOU
WILL PROGRESS IN SAHAJ YOGA.

Every minute you should appreciate, “ I have received this! I have received
such and such blessings etc…” Otherwise your complaints will never end
and your aggression will also not stop.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

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