M:C-S SwayamBlog: 2017-01

Monday, January 2, 2017

After GREGOIRE, Legacy and Questions

When mourning the death of a man, we do not bury just what he was in the last moments, or his last years.
We pay tribute to a life-time.
The totality of a man.

Hurst Green house

Gregoire was supposed to become a great and successful diplomat, representing a country that plays an important role in international peace negotiations. Instead he travelled to Hurst Green to meet Shri Mataji, and, without him knowing, unwillingly, She change his destiny into becoming our "elder brother", that was in 1975.

Shri Mataji advised him to resign this career. Then after, he worked with the UN focusing on different issues, especially thise related to Water. This allowed him to travel all over the world, frre fo any obligation towards a specific country or government. His travels exposed him to representatives of Dictators, tropical diseases, permanent jetlag and many deserts. His job was a planet-dimensional one.

But his travels also allowed him to meet, interact with and teach Sahaja Yogis in many different countries, thus becoming a real "big brother" for many of us, almost everywhere.

France, 1985.
'Inauguration of l'Avènement'

Upon Shri Mataji's request, he was the first to fulfill Her wish, writing a book about Sahaja Yoga and Her incarnation. The Advent remains today the most read, the most precise and one of the most useful tools to spread and deepen Sahaj knowledge.

The French yogis in particular are deeply indebted to him for rewriting 'L'avènement'. That story started after a Guru Puja evening programme in 1983, when he asked me about a potential French edition of the book. It was first published in 1985. Many seekers got their Self Realization from finding this book on the shelves of French bookshops. Seekers who read the book overnight, so many of them far from Sahaj centres, could start a new life. FRANCE has been specially cared for by Gregoire.

Playing with a Yuva,
Colombia Ashram

One should not forget the impact of L'Avènement in Africa, bringing in its first yogis (by mail - means: paper letters), in Ivory Coast or Congo. The same effect was produced by the Spanish translation in Colombia, to the Hispanic world. Of course other translations followed everywhere.

Hence, while speaking of Gregoire, we are speaking of a work, a presence, a life expanded to the whole planet.

No wonder then, if 150 Sahajis gathered at his funeral. Along with the Swiss community, some brothers came from Germany and Austria, of course, from Belgium, 3 from France, Italy, Netherlands, but some took a fast plane from USA, Montreal and even Moscow. Many tributes were read about his loving character, shared as much with the first ashramites in London, as with his own family, be it anywhere else, with white-haired sahaj - pioneers of yore-, or with contemporary yuvas. All of them described the Love he was spreading, his constant care and attention to the spiritual growth of his fellow yogis and his own permanent quest for purity.

After the demise of our beloved Shri Mataji, and now the - as we say in France - 'disappearance' of Gregoire, we Sahajis have to face our heritage, and our destiny. What about our divine way of life?
What about our meditation, our depth?
What about our collectivity?

Now that the memorial ceremony is over and that the flowers and incense have been offered, lets consider Gregoire's life as a whole, of whom we are the heirs, and ask to ourselves:
Are we able to take some inspiration from such a life, dedicated to the Spirit, and to sharing the Self-realization with the whole wide world?

Guru Puja 2008
dialogue on stage about the CC.

A column of uttermost actuality

«Hallucination ....out of compassion ! - the game of power...»

It's said that at Sahasrara the Goddess incarnates as Mahamaya; because the job She has to do is of a very different nature. At the heart chakra, Anhata, She has to just defend, just defend the seekers from the clutches of the evil forces which are also not so subtle. They are very gross-like forms, human forms. And it's easy to fight and have a war with them, kill them.

But at the point of Sahasrara, the work is very complicated. First of all, the Sahasrara of the human beings is itself a very complicated thing. First of all, it's not that the time is very precarious, but also every country has its own complication to add to Sahasrara. Apart from that, you know, in Sahasrara we have got the seats of all the centers, not only the seven centers we are dealing with. And so many Nadis... are worked out through Sahasrara.
(...) But today, it being incarnated in it's full force, is acting through you. Is acting towards you.
It is helping you in a very big way, which I don't know if the complicated brains are aware of. So many dimensions it is working, because first of all, we have this horrible thing called ego. ... Many people, in Sahaj Yoga also, think like that, start thinking that they are something great.

... With some people it may act in a way that you want to enjoy the game of power, those who have missed it or those who know how to use it.
There could be another type who are the ones who think they have always suffered and they are suffering now also.
There can be another type of a group of people, who - when they come to Sahaj Yoga - they have complications of emotions. I know of some people, I've heard, that they felt attraction for a man or a woman and they started behaving in that fashion - after coming to Sahaj Yoga.
Sometimes the attraction to money, attraction to greed and lust becomes subtler.
...
So the Mahamaya being the subtler force, - is the subtlest of all!, which you cannot understand and can explain through your brains, at all - acts and just stupefies, it stupefies them. Unless and until that is done they cannot stop it, they cannot cut themselves away. They - in a subtler way - they remain the same, but not aware of it. People who are miserly become miserly, in a very subtle way, in a very sophisticated way, but they are miserly. Those who are dominating become dominating in a subtler way.
... And that's why the Mahamaya acts. First of all it stupefies you, completely. So you realize that whatever you think or react to something, to certain situations, it's a Maya, is just a hallucination created.

....
"Maha" means the great, because it has all the powers of all the Deities, it controls all the Deities; it surmounts over all the Deities.
And "Maya" also means love and compassion. All this effort for what? People don't understand. In the west people don't understand why am I doing it? There must be some reason:-It's compassion!
But the play of the compassion comes through the Mahamaya power. ...
( 1985-04/20: Mahamaya Shakti, Part 1, Birmingham, UK)

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Monday, January 2, 2017

After GREGOIRE, Legacy and Questions

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