Introspection: the questions,
the methods, the risks.
Ganesha puja 2007 |
When
you understand that you have ego,
you start looking at yourself.
you start looking at yourself.
See to
yourself, the introspection:
- Can I be my own Guru?
- Have I become my own Guru?"
- Can I be my own Guru?
- Have I become my own Guru?"
- How
dare your body ask for anything?
- How dare your mind tell you anything?
- How this conditioning works on you?
- How dare your mind tell you anything?
- How this conditioning works on you?
that
you should meditate
and judge your vibrations
if you are really collective or not.
and judge your vibrations
if you are really collective or not.
In
Sahaja Yoga also many people come either to make money, either to get cured,
all kinds of things! But if you are detached, then only:
Sahaja Yoga will spread.
Sahaja Yoga will spread.
Are we
collective?
Are we
willing to share everything that we have?
Do we
look down upon people who come from other countries?
Do we
have racialism in us?
... Love others:
do you feel "What have I to bring for them? What is missing in
them?"
Do you work it out, do you go out of the way to help them?: “What have I done for Sahaja Yoga?”
Do you work it out, do you go out of the way to help them?: “What have I done for Sahaja Yoga?”
(1990-0708: Guru Puja, Avignon, France)
"While meditating..." |
That is a very important thing, which people are doing in all the countries where I am not. Because I am in England, people take Me for granted: "Mother is doing everything." So I get up at 4 O'clock, take My bath, meditate for you all. I better start doing that again. Otherwise you have no time to meditate. So at least let Me meditate for your sake.
So everyone must today promise to Me that they will meditate everyday....
"Every morning I'll get up and do my meditation. And while meditating,
I must concentrate on myself and not on others.
and see for myself what is catching, where am I catching, which chakra I am catching, what have I to do?"
(Navaratri 1984, London ) Watch the short video: BREATHING AND MEDITATION
More on MEDITATION, Silencce, Love: click here
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Marylin, or Einstein, depends on your vision |
So introspection, also, if it brings about depression and demeaning of
your personality, best is not to introspect . Because all these
mental activities, I have seen, create problems.
But in a state where
you are thoughtlessly aware, introspection comes to you automatically. You see it automatically. You understand it automatically. You do not think about it, it just comes to you.
The whole picture comes to you and you are at peace with yourself. You are never in turmoil, never in trouble. Then you don’t get angry.
Then you do not argue, then you do not discuss, but you become as if dropped in to the ocean of awareness and you don’t have to worry as to solve something. When you are reflecting, then you find that this power works.
(Navaratri 10/01 1995)
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Now in our mantras we say that, "Mother, I am my own Guru". But saying that, do we realize that, "If I am my own Guru," this "I" and "my Guru": between the two:
what have I achieved?
"Where am I? Can I guide myself? Have I got the light of the Spirit on my attention so well- established and manifested that I can guide myself and guide others later on?"
First of all, in the Guru principle it is important that you see to yourself the introspection:
"Where am I? Can I guide myself? Have I got the light of the Spirit on my attention so well- established and manifested that I can guide myself and guide others later on?"
First of all, in the Guru principle it is important that you see to yourself the introspection:
Shirdi Sainath with a dog |
"Can
I be my own Guru?
Have I become my own Guru?"
Have I become my own Guru?"
Now,
in your case your Guru is a Mother, a woman, so it has to be among women that the development
of their Guru qualities have to be very well manifested. But it's just the way
it is not.
For them, they are still the mothers or they are the wives or they are Sahaja Yoginis. But they don't realize that you are also the Gurus, because your Mother is a Guru, because She's a woman, and you have to be also of that quality, that people should say, "Look at this woman, she's such a Guru!" But still, as I hear from the different leaders that the ladies are absolutely still very much far away and are very few who can be called as real Sahaja Yoginis.
For them, they are still the mothers or they are the wives or they are Sahaja Yoginis. But they don't realize that you are also the Gurus, because your Mother is a Guru, because She's a woman, and you have to be also of that quality, that people should say, "Look at this woman, she's such a Guru!" But still, as I hear from the different leaders that the ladies are absolutely still very much far away and are very few who can be called as real Sahaja Yoginis.
.../...So
one to get over taste [about food] one
has to work out. It's an experiment you have to do with ourselves. Unless and until we introspect ourselves and do
experiments we cannot rise, because though the Kundalini is trying Her
level best, but your conditionings are so great that it cannot pierce through
and cannot melt you onto that Guru level.
If you see the lives of all these Gurus, they were married, they had children, they lived a normal life. But in their own personal life they were absolutely detached people. So first detachment should come from food. And there whatever you like you just don't eat. That's the best way, because already because of liking something. Supposing if somebody's fond of ice-cream. He must have already spoiled his liver, so they give up. If you like pasta, give up pasta. If you like something else, just give up...!
If you see the lives of all these Gurus, they were married, they had children, they lived a normal life. But in their own personal life they were absolutely detached people. So first detachment should come from food. And there whatever you like you just don't eat. That's the best way, because already because of liking something. Supposing if somebody's fond of ice-cream. He must have already spoiled his liver, so they give up. If you like pasta, give up pasta. If you like something else, just give up...!
.../... one
can learn that these are born realized and the way their Guru principle is
acting - are we also acting the same way? Or we are doing something that is not
good for our ascent. So even after coming to Sahaja Yoga if you do not try hard to introspect yourself, you have missed the
point that you compare yourself with your Guru - all the time.
Then everything has to be understood in the right perspective that we are Sahaja Yogis. Now for a Sahaja Yogi first and foremost thing that he has to have love.
Then everything has to be understood in the right perspective that we are Sahaja Yogis. Now for a Sahaja Yogi first and foremost thing that he has to have love.
First, for
others, not for himself. If you are all the time worried about
yourself, "My body is such, my this thing such and I have to do this and
that" then you don't love others. But do you seek to the comfort of
others? Do you feel the compassion of other Sahaja Yogis? Do you feel, "What have I to bring for them?
What is missing in them?" Do you work it out, do you go out of the
way to help them? First of all Sahaja Yogis.
.../... For
our ascent whatever is needed has to be done. If you have to punish your whole
body, all right. If you have to punish yourself, all right. If you have a
conditioning, get rid of it. Just
introspect yourself, that is Self Realization, is to know yourself.
When you know yourself and know what
is clinging onto it, just to remove it completely, work it out the way
you like, work it out the way you like.
...ask for anything?? |
You see, it is very important that the body, mind,
everything should be your slaves. Nothing should dominate you; you should be on
top of everything.
How
dare your body ask for anything?
How dare your mind tell you anything?
How this conditioning works on you?
"I am a Sahaja Yogi, I'm above everything."
Like the lotuses come out of the ponds, you have come out of it.
We have so many proofs to show that you are realized souls. I'll show you some photographs that I have to show that there is light. I can put light into you, they are all enlightened.
But in My presence if you become the light, you must carry the light also.
How dare your mind tell you anything?
How this conditioning works on you?
"I am a Sahaja Yogi, I'm above everything."
Like the lotuses come out of the ponds, you have come out of it.
We have so many proofs to show that you are realized souls. I'll show you some photographs that I have to show that there is light. I can put light into you, they are all enlightened.
But in My presence if you become the light, you must carry the light also.
Not
only in My presence, but when you go out.
(1990-07/08: Guru Puja, Avignon, France)
----------------------------------------------------------Attachments are so many, still in Sahaja Yoga ...
Imagine, with so many angels [that you are], the whole of England should get realization in no time, but we are still trying to learn what we are. Hanumana had no problem because from His childhood He knew that He was an angel and He has to do the job of an angel.But, because we were born as human beings and now we have become angels, we find it difficult to be dynamic like other angels were.
even your individual thought, is powerful... |
Even your thought, collective thought, even your individual thought, is powerful, and your attention is powerful.
Because of this fear, or maybe the conditionings as you can call it, or maybe the ego part which is still sticking onto you, you still hang around false things, and that force, that dynamism is not expressed.
I have to do it, so I'll do it. . |
Now imagine Hanumana as Gabriel, had to go and tell Maria that there's a Child which is the incarnation. "The Savior is going to be born to you". She was a young virgin! To break such a news which was horrible, compared to the conditionings of those days! He did it. "I have to do it, so I'll do it. If that's the order, I'll do it." Because He knew that the carrying out of the order is His nature, is built within Him and He's not going to doubt it. He's not going to wait, but just told and He does it.
So a great understanding has to be within us, that we are growing within ourselves, but if we do not manifest, if we do not show our qualities, and if we do not express it in our life, in our doing, in our object, in the meaning of our life, then Sahaja Yoga is not going to spread; nor is it going to help you much.
Shri Mataji, in the fifties |
So you have that subtle power within you that you can work out on people's Kundalini without even their knowing about it. But in meditation when you sit down, you must admit to yourself, "I am an angel and as being an angel, I have no attachments with anything else but with God's work."
Unconvenient truths - Comforting lies |
When I see you so lovingly |
Except for when I see you so much lovingly coming to the station, then the whole heart becomes like an ocean I think, and just starts like a big swell of a tide, ...
...The attachments do not give you the capacity to enjoy that ocean. If you are standing on the shore, how will you enjoy the ocean? You have to jump into it. But you've got your anchorage onto different things, so you can't jump in. And you are so safe. You know how to swim, you know how to kill a shark, even one sight of yours is sufficient. But because you're not aware, it is not active. Absolutely this is the case.
I've seen people who get small positions in life and they start boasting about it - "I met this-and-this man, I met that-and-that man, and this happened and that happened" - you feel like laughing at the person!
But you have met Sahaja Yoga, by which you have grown, you have been nourished, you have become so great.
(1989-04/23: Shri Hanumana Puja, Margate, England)
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Are we willing to share everything that we have?
Do we look down upon people who come from other
countries?
Do we have racialism in us?
So first and foremost, to judge yourself is to see your vibrations, that you should meditate and judge your vibrations if you are really collective or not.
Because you are not like that, Sahaja Yoga does not spread.
I have seen people from Hare Rama Hare Krishna: poor things have found nothing! They get up at four o'clock, start their Hare-Rama Hare! Krishna bhajan - four o'clock! Then the whole day they wear a very thin dhoti in which they are shivering. They shave their heads and put a pig's tail here which is bought in the market. If you see their dedication you'll be surprised. How they are so much dedicated, when they haven't found anything whatsoever?
What about the nuns? You see them, you will be amazed. One fellow came from the
Catholic Church to us. He was trying to be a priest. He said, "Mother,
Sahaja Yog - you don't do anything." I said, "What do you want to
do?" "No, there we could not eat any meat on Fridays. On Saturdays,
we could not drink anything. Then on Sundays, the whole day we had to fast and
pray to God." "Then - what about the rest of the time?"
"The rest of the time, we had to remember Bible by heart and then recite
it. And if we made even one mistake, the Father would give us a nice
beating."
So first and foremost, to judge yourself is to see your vibrations, that you should meditate and judge your vibrations if you are really collective or not.
Because you are not like that, Sahaja Yoga does not spread.
I have seen people from Hare Rama Hare Krishna: poor things have found nothing! They get up at four o'clock, start their Hare-Rama Hare! Krishna bhajan - four o'clock! Then the whole day they wear a very thin dhoti in which they are shivering. They shave their heads and put a pig's tail here which is bought in the market. If you see their dedication you'll be surprised. How they are so much dedicated, when they haven't found anything whatsoever?
..There, we could not... |
That's another problem with Sahaja Yoga because it is Shri Krishna's play. It's
so simple. You don't have to do anything of the kind.
No disciplining, nothing: left to you, you are your own master! You are your own guru. But these things which are lingering in your mind, which was just the opposite of Shri Krishna's life, which you have acquired in this country, are still there, here and there, here and there: left.
Some of the people are really still so much busy with themselves. They look so pale, thin - I tell you, I can't believe they are Sahaja Yogis.
So when we see Shri Krishna's life, the way He lived. And then He went to help the Pandavas. He told Arjuna that, "I can be your charioteer. I can drive your chariot. But I will not fight." Arjuna knew that He was all powerful, if He is there everything will work out. "And all My army, I'll give to Kauravas, to see the balance." He said, "All right." He didn't fight to show off, I am this, I am that. Like here, "Mother, I am the leader. (Laughter) I am the leader." "Can't hear, I can't hear." (Laughter) "Mother, I am this."
You are a Sahaja Yogi. It's a very great name that you have achieved. The
highest position you have achieved. There's nothing more to be achieved. Like
somebody asked Me, "Mother, the Indians in India never catch. Why do we go
on catching all the time?" I said, "Because Indians in India know
they have achieved it now”. Nothing’s to be achieved! - You want to have God's Realization -
I don't know what other Realization! They don't think like that. They say: "We have achieved now. We are in the sea. It's for us to swim over."
No disciplining, nothing: left to you, you are your own master! You are your own guru. But these things which are lingering in your mind, which was just the opposite of Shri Krishna's life, which you have acquired in this country, are still there, here and there, here and there: left.
Some of the people are really still so much busy with themselves. They look so pale, thin - I tell you, I can't believe they are Sahaja Yogis.
So when we see Shri Krishna's life, the way He lived. And then He went to help the Pandavas. He told Arjuna that, "I can be your charioteer. I can drive your chariot. But I will not fight." Arjuna knew that He was all powerful, if He is there everything will work out. "And all My army, I'll give to Kauravas, to see the balance." He said, "All right." He didn't fight to show off, I am this, I am that. Like here, "Mother, I am the leader. (Laughter) I am the leader." "Can't hear, I can't hear." (Laughter) "Mother, I am this."
(Laughter) |
(1996-09/29: Shri Krishna Puja,
New Jersey)
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But
the question remains. Somebody, say, wants to dedicate his life, so called, for
Sahaja Yoga. Then what do you do? What do you do if you dedicate? First thing
is your faith. You must know: how is your faith into anything. You really
believe in it or you do not? If you do believe in it, what have you done about
it?
So
at this stage, you have to introspect:
What
are we to do?
How
far do we have to go?
It’s a very, very important time and you are
extremely important souls here sitting down but if you don’t value your own
systems and yourself, why should God worry about you? Why should God try to
give you ideas? Why should He try to take any interest even in you – persons of
that [kind?]
So now, I have to just tell you that on this day of this Puja, it's such a combination that is the Dusshera, I am here, and also is the - now we can call it - the last day of the Devi Puja. We have to see within ourselves, introspect:
So now, I have to just tell you that on this day of this Puja, it's such a combination that is the Dusshera, I am here, and also is the - now we can call it - the last day of the Devi Puja. We have to see within ourselves, introspect:
“What have I done for Sahaja Yoga?”
Except
for looking after my children, cooking for the husband, that’s all. Men can
also think the same way, “What have we done? What have we done for Sahaja Yoga?
- Just, I want to meet politicians, I
want to meet this person, I want to meet that person.” For what?
They
should come and meet you but your
faith in yourself is very weak. I think that’s the main reason for all
this fall is faith in yourself. This faith is such a thing that you know it is
so. You have seen My photographs. You are convinced about it. There is nothing
to be convinced but this faith is not one with your heart. It is not just with
your being. It's outside. All right, Mother will do that. Mother will solve
this. Mother will do this. But, whole thing is now to Me, looks like, that I
have to compulsorily tell you to do some sort of a tapasya. You ask somebody,
“Do you meditate?”
“No Mother,” very plainly. “No Mother, we don’t.” -“So, what are you doing
here?” -“My, there’s some pain in my
knees so I have come to you.” All right. “But I don’t meditate. I am very
honest. I don’t meditate. I just have some pain in the knees. Please cure it. I
don’t meditate.”
(No, Mother) |
How
many of you really meditate every night? Guido said that “Mother, if You tell
like this they will say, “All right in the night we do but not in the morning”
because Mother has said, “Do it in the night.”
There’s no earnestness. There’s no expected any kind of a enthusiasm about it. All right, if not today, we will see tomorrow. Mother says like that “It's not necessary. It's not important. It's all right.” So you satisfy yourself. But who is the loser? Not Me.
There’s no earnestness. There’s no expected any kind of a enthusiasm about it. All right, if not today, we will see tomorrow. Mother says like that “It's not necessary. It's not important. It's all right.” So you satisfy yourself. But who is the loser? Not Me.
",,, Not me..." |
So
now, what I am trying to say that you have got your realization. Now you have
reached a great state of understanding, also of the inner knowledge and also
about your connection with the spirit and with the God Almighty. All this you
know now. Many things you know. Despite
that, it's not yet what it should be from your heart, from your earnest
desire. It doesn’t help at all any one to deceive oneself, never.
So I am not saying something for x, y, z. I am saying for all of you. Don’t try to cheat yourself.
So I am not saying something for x, y, z. I am saying for all of you. Don’t try to cheat yourself.
(1993-10/24:
Navaratri Cabella, Italy)
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Now
in this ascent people get into lots of problems.
First and foremost is the ego problem, specially in the West. Ego stands up and you start thinking you are great, you are better than others, and there's something special about you. This ignorance is more dangerous than the worldly ignorance, I think, because in the worldly ignorance you do feel the consequences of wrong things. But you, when you are halfway, when your ignorance is that about yourself, when you are going to a higher realm, then one should always understand that you cannot have ego.
Then what starts is introspection.
First and foremost is the ego problem, specially in the West. Ego stands up and you start thinking you are great, you are better than others, and there's something special about you. This ignorance is more dangerous than the worldly ignorance, I think, because in the worldly ignorance you do feel the consequences of wrong things. But you, when you are halfway, when your ignorance is that about yourself, when you are going to a higher realm, then one should always understand that you cannot have ego.
Then what starts is introspection.
You
start looking at yourself, what's wrong with you.
When you understand that you
have ego, you start looking at yourself. Or when you find there's something
missing or something wrong, then also you start introspecting.
This
should be a very, very honest, very honest effort. Some people in Sahaja Yoga
at a very early stage start thinking that they're very great and they don't
need any introspecting. And they rise again into the clouds of ignorance
without achieving selfhood, or I can call Self-realization.
So you have to introspect and see for yourself, what have you been doing, what are you, how far you have come,...
Now the style of such a person changes gradually - how? First of all, a person who is extremely aggressive, hot-tempered and full of ego starts becoming very gentle and mild. Another type which is frightened and afraid and very cautious start becoming fearless. At that stage you have no fears. You are sure that you are on the right path and you are moving on the right lines. You are not easily disturbed there.
So you have to introspect and see for yourself, what have you been doing, what are you, how far you have come,...
Now the style of such a person changes gradually - how? First of all, a person who is extremely aggressive, hot-tempered and full of ego starts becoming very gentle and mild. Another type which is frightened and afraid and very cautious start becoming fearless. At that stage you have no fears. You are sure that you are on the right path and you are moving on the right lines. You are not easily disturbed there.
But
still you have to rise higher and higher where, when you meditate, you understand that there's something wrong
within yourself. You have achieved your Self-realization, you have got
the blessings of Self-realization. Your health is good, you got all kinds of
blessings which you cannot count. All that is there, but still you have to go
further. And that is to understand all the knowledge about Sahaja Yoga. You
have to understand through your mental capacity first to begin with, and then
you have to verify how far it is correct, how far you have understood it, how
far you have worked at it, how far you know.
And when you start seeing yourself, you start entering into the realm of bhakti. You become a mild
And when you start seeing yourself, you start entering into the realm of bhakti. You become a mild
person become a sweet person, you don't talk too much, you don't
harass anyone. 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.
.../... So at this development stage you should be
encouraged, and understand that you can reach that state very easily through
meditation and introspection.
With
introspection you will develop a new quality of understanding, that you will
find solutions to things. That is another quality a
person who is a realized soul has. It can find solutions to all your problems.
It can, he can suggest what is the way you can be helped. Then a kind of a brotherhood out of the shraddha develops:
You may be giving big lectures on Sahaja Yoga, you may
be doing all kinds of things; but unless and until you have shraddha, you
cannot rise. And this shraddha is a kind of a love within you, I should say, which
spreads like gentle fire, which doesn't burn, which doesn't give heat but cold,
beautiful breeze-like feeling within, which makes you understand. You will
never talk ill about a Sahaja yogi, never. I never listen to anybody who tells
Me something against Sahaja yogi - up to a point: when it is a collective
complaint, then I am little bit bothered and I talk about it to the leader.
But otherwise if one person comes and tells Me this and this, I just tell that
person to introspect yourself, it's not so.
(1991-07/28: Guru Puja, Italy)
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.../...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!
Ocean to which you are put... |
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 that way, 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, you see it's like ocean to 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.
"A risk I have run..." |
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. [Ude Bai, Ude]. 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 say.
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. [Ude Bai, Ude]. 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 say.
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 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." Is 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'll 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. You 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 is 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.
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 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." Is not going to work out.
Kundalini, Pateshwar temple, near Brahmapuri |
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. You 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 is 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.
What I'm saying... |
(1997-05/25:
Shri Adi Shakti Puja, Cabella)
----------------------------------------------------In Sahaja Yoga also many people come either to make money, either to get cured, all kinds of things.
But if you are detached, then only, Sahaja Yoga will spread.
As long as there are attachments, you should know that you are not yet a Sahaja Yogi.
I am not saying " You, take out your eye or cut your hands!" I didn't say that, to that extent.
What I'm saying: you should
introspect and see: " How much am I attached to this or to that,
and why am I so much attached, what does it matter? " Always, as a result
of attachment you'll always find disappointments.
I've seen parents who have doted on their child, loved their child, this, that: children mostly go astray.
But if you have a detached love for your child, you do nice things for the child. At the same time, you know when to say 'no', when it is not good. " This I don't like, don't do it!", you must say that.
But detachment is even wider than that.
I've seen parents who have doted on their child, loved their child, this, that: children mostly go astray.
But if you have a detached love for your child, you do nice things for the child. At the same time, you know when to say 'no', when it is not good. " This I don't like, don't do it!", you must say that.
But detachment is even wider than that.
(1994-10/02: Yogeshwara Puja, New Jersey, USA)
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«But if you fail, then only thing will be that you have failed Me completely.
Here 4 extracts from Shri Mataji, to meditate upon,
the 23rd of february: A DAY FOR INTROSPECTION
- Sahaja Yoga sometimes fails
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 repaired this machine [microphone] nicely, put it right, everything, and I don't speak, what is the use of having this? In the same way, 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.
2. if you fail,...
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, it's by the way, Sahaja Yoga is by the way" and this is where we are failing in our responsibility. We have to learn from the Mother Earth.
"Only very few..." |
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.
3.( If ) ...you have failed me completely
Sufi dervish gathering, Persia 17 c. |
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. Gautama Buddha never gave realization to anybody, think of it! Christ never gave realization to anybody- anybody! Krishna did not do it, Rama did not.
"...failed me...." |
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.
"...Go to the churches and tell..." |
that you will spread Sahaja Yoga
and you will talk about Sahaja Yoga, know about Sahaja Yoga. 77There 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 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?
(AdiShakti, Cabella, 25 May 1997)
4. "If"... 2000... 2011... 2013...
With all this background, I
know by the year 2000,
Sahaja Yoga will come out in the whole world as something very great…
(applause)
- You did not allow me to complete the sentence!:
If you people become real Sahaja Yogis.
All of you.
All of you who are attending to Me here.
Even this much group, if it becomes real Sahaja Yogis.
It doesn’t matter if I can’t meet you personally.
It doesn’t matter if I can’t go to your places.
It doesn’t matter, nothing matters.
Christ’s disciples worked when he never existed.
So it’s not important, what is important is that you are the people who are responsible for the emancipation of this world, for the synthesis of this world, to bring peace and joy and happiness to people."
- Listen to it: http://vimeo.com/26408995
02-23/2013. Seminars for the second anniversary
Most revered and beloved Shri Mataji,
Yes, we are coming
shamelessly exhibiting
our groupism,
our subtle way to erase Your person for selling footsoaks
our ways to forget the Spirit and promote here, health, there, rituals
our efficiency in managing 'wellness' centers, but no 'meditation center'
our school ISPS out of control
our...
Apart from flowers, milk and honey (that we do not produce ourselves) what do we have to surrrender?
What are we proud of -that could please a Mother?
- I do not 'celebrate', I have nothing to present.
Such an inspiring post! Thank you bhaiyaji, will share. Jai Shri Mataji :)
ReplyDeleteLet all of us put these problem in our hearts and dissolve them with our power. That way we are sure and have faith that we are the son of Shree Adi Shakti. All sahaj works are using the power inside, never outside. Jay Shree Mataji.
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