«I couldn't bear it, ... I went down and saved them...»

« I just couldn’t bear it. »

... something wonderful...

Now, if you really become 

a witness state, if you are in a witness state then 
what will happen? 

If you watch any such things that are happening:
it will subside. 

If you are in a witness state and in that level, then no accident will take place in your sight. Even if there is an accident, then you can save the person, you can help the person very actively.
That’s in a very small scale, but even in every large scale, you can do it, something wonderful.

I remember, ...

I was not very old at that time, but we were living in a house very close to the Secretariat where they had a strike.
And they were asking for a separate Maharashtra or something. 

So the police was standing there and by the order of the Chief Minister, 

they were shooting at everyone who was coming, anyone! 

and they were enjoying the shooting game, all of them!

Mumbai riots in 1982

I saw all this 

and 

I just 

couldn’t 

bear it. 

I just 

went down 

and 

asked 

the 

police 

to 

stop. 

They stopped, you’ll be amazed, they stopped!

Then I carried those people who were wounded up to my house, took out their bullets and all that, called the ambulance 

and saved them. 

But for that, one thing was there: 

I was in 

a state of witnessing, 

so you become fearless.

... and saved them...

There is no fear at all, 

once you learn how to have 

the state of witnessing. 

Because,

 when you are not witnessing ,

you get disturbed, 

you get upset, you get excited, 

you may join also this wrong type of people. 

But if you are in a state of witnessing,

 that itself is a power. 

And that witnessing state helps you to win over so many difficulties of other people.

(Krishna Puja, Cabella, 1998)

...If you are part and parcel of My body, ...

Last of all is the attachment to your children, to your wife, your, your, your…. 

Whatever is mine is not ‘I’. "My house", that’s not ‘I’. My this, my, my, my, must be given up (mamatva), is to be destroyed. 

Instead of that, you should say ‘we’. 

‘We’ is a good word. I so many times say ‘we’. 

And people start wondering what they – somebody asked Me, “Mother, when you say ‘we’, what do you mean? How can you make us feel that way, that we are all one, the way you say ‘we’?” I said:

“Why not? You are part and parcel of My body. 

Aren’t we: ‘we’?

Do I separate my finger from My hand? 

If you are part and parcel of My body, then I have to talk like 'we',

because I’m conscious of this collective being sitting here.

So, we have to talk like “we” and not “I, my” and when you have to address about yourself, speak it in a third person. ,

Like you can say, “This Nirmala is now going to London.” Really it’s true because this body’s going there but My heart is going to remain here. So to say that I am going is not true – if I am Adi Shakti where am I going? 

I’m going nowhere. 

I’m everywhere. 

Where can I go? 

There’s no place where I don’t reside. 

And if I have to go such a place, is Hell only, where I don’t want to go!

So, what I say that “This Nirmala is going now, leaving Australia. Tomorrow I’ll be leaving.” So what happens? Just this body has to move – that’s all."  Like that, you start saying about your body. 

This mind of mine, this mind of Mr. So and So. It’s better to address yourself as Mr. or Mrs. or Miss. “So Miss, will you please get up now?” Better address yourself!

Children talk like that, like a third person. You’ll be amazed, you will see the joke behind the whole thing. 

You’ll know how to laugh at yourself. “Oh, so, Mr. come along, now he’s behaving like this.” And you’ll really become a master of yourself because you know how to handle this baby. It will give you that sense of maturity. 

…/…

1983-03/21 Birthday Puja,  Sydney, Australia