«...There isn't much space in the Kingdom of God...»

So, let us try on the first level, where there are genuine seekers of a high level, and you will be amazed how they are SORTED OUT.
You see, there isn't much space in the Kingdom of God, to be very frank. 
And we should not worry if we don't have many people over there. 
For us, it is a responsibility we must have all the population of this world going up there - is wrong idea. 
That's not needed at all, you see; we should not crowd them there. Here only, we can't sit all of us here, we'll have to have a bigger place. So we should not bother so much as to the quantity, that the quantity is not much. 
Of course we should try our level best to pass the message, because they should not say that 'We did not get the message.'
Pass the message is all right, but we need not in any way force people or ask them to come to Sahaja Yoga or make them Sahaja Yogis; it's a difficult thing. 
The more you will try, the worse it will be; they will be so troublesome that it's going to be an impossible task.
So in your generosity you must have discretion: 

1982-1114: Diwali Puja, London,UK

Whatever is wrong is wrong, 
whether it is today, tomorrow or yesterday or thousands of year back, whatever is wrong for your dharma, for your sustenance is wrong! The new phrase, is that "What's wrong in this, what's wrong in that?" - That question will be answered by Kalki only! 
I'm just telling you that it is wrong, and it is extremely wrong, it is against your ascent, it is against your being, and then you will not have any time to repent and to ask this question: "What's wrong?" You will be chopped off. 
That is what, is the Kalki incarnation. He is going to come on a white horse, as they say. It's a tremendous thing that is going to work out! Every human being is going to be SORTED OUT 
And nobody can then claim! See? Everything is being advertised. Everything is being published ...

.../... One has to understand that such an incarnation is imminent! 
And Krishna's powers, are given to Him, which are only Hanana Shakti; Brahmadeva's powers, which are only Hanana Shakti are given to Him; Shiva's powers, which are just Hanana Shakti, the part of it which is a Tandava, is given to Him. Then, Bhairava's shakti, which is also, you know what Bhairava has got as a symbol of killing, is a big sword-like thing; and also Ganesha's Parusha; and also Hanumana's all Navasidhis, which are going to destroy, are given to Him. All Buddha's forgiveness, and Mahavira's Ahimsa, is going to turn upside-down.
All these eleven powers are going to come, on top of us 
when we will be finished with Sahaja Yoga, 
when we will be absolutely  SORTED OUT, 
and the last killing will be done by Him. 

I wish it was just a killing! 
It is not going to be ordinary Hanana, like even Devi has done. Because Devi has killed all these rakshasas thousands of years back, but they are back in the seat again, all these rakshasas. 
Now the problem is very different, at the present moment, which you should try to understand. That in the olden days, till the Krishna's time when He says, that "Yada yada hi dharmasya, glanir bhawati bharata. Vinashaya cha dushkruthaam panitra na echa saguna." These two words you must understand: to destroy the Dushkruthaam, means the, cruel people or the negative forces, and to save the saints. "Sambhavami yuge yuge", "I'm going to come again and again".
But the problem of the Kaliyuga is that, there is no pure and simple person as a sadhu or as a rakshasa. 

So many rakshasas have entered into your brains. You side with so many people who are wrong, who are doing wrong, who are doing all kinds of wrong things in the name of politics, in the name of religion, in the name of progress and education and all that. Once you are sided with them, then they are in your brain, they are within you. 
And when they are within you, how to destroy? 
The dushkruthaams, they are within you! You may be a good person, but you may be destroyed because of having them in your heads. 
So there is no hard and fast rule as to say who is a real negative and who is a real positive.

1979-0928: Relationship between Kundalini and Kalki, 

Public Program, Bombay, India

...then : What is your responsibility to Sahaja Yoga, which is the work of God, which has started and you are my hands?
You have to do the work of God, and you have to fight the anti-God elements, the satanic elements. You are not responsible for your family any more, those who are, are half-baked Sahaja Yogis I said, are useless absolutely good for nothing. All such will drop out, their families will suffer, I know this is going to happen.
Because now the forces are gathering in such a way that SORTING OUT will start. 
Your responsibility {is}to yourself, to be the spirit, your responsibility to Sahaja Yoga, your responsibility to understand Me, better and better and better. 

Your responsibility to understand this mechanism that is within you, your responsibility to understand how this mechanism works out everything.
The responsibility is to how to become a guru...

1982-1219: Shri Mahakali Puja, Lonavala, India

Question: This gentleman says that You said there was going to be a great Advent. What is this Advent?

Caxton Hall, GdK

Shri Mataji: It’s rather embarrassing. I think this answer we can do later on. But there is one great Advent who is going to come after this,  which is just going to SORT OUT everything.
There won’t be any chance left. 
There won’t be any more realizations.
There won’t be any comforting relationships. 
No meetings, no conferences, just the SORTING OUT  as described in the Bible.
Question: Is there any means to go against this SORTING OUT  that is going to take place?
Shri Mataji: What is it, the meaning?
Translator: Is there any means, any way to go out, to avoid this SORTING OUT ?
Shri Mataji: Yes, you can take your realization.

1983-0825: Public Program, Lausanne, Switzerland

But once you start dedicating yourself to Sahaja Yoga, immediately you'll find things will work out. Something, there is something you have done wrong, which you should not have done, or something is, you have not understood, you have done something under misunderstanding: try to find out! Things must sort out, they must soothe out in Sahaja Yoga. Everything SORTS OUT. 
Not only that, but I have seen it just becomes absolutely beautifully falling into line, and you are amazed how it works out, from a small thing to big thing. 
So if it is not working out in your life, there's definitely something wrong. So it is the morality of your, I should say, financial morality.
Also, there were some horrible mishaps we had in this country of yours, where horrible leaders came who were interested only in money, that's how they came to Sahaja Yoga. 
And what has happened to them, you know well...

1991-0331: Easter Puja, Sydney, Australia

«There is a big fraternity of 'bhoots! »

 NOBODY IS PERFECT - BUT BHOOTS ARE PERFECTLY... 
Somebody might make mistakes, all right, doesn't matter. Somebody may be dishonest, doesn't matter, but give them security. 
But what we do is to give security to bhoots!

I've seen, very common! People will have only interest in the bhootish people. They will trust a bhootish people {more}than to trust a person who's a little dishonest, doesn't matter. 

You see, what is dishonesty? Supposing somebody doesn't give income tax, doesn't matter. It is this government or is that government, what does it matter to us? 

As long as that person is honest to God it's sufficient. Our honesty is of a different level. So we become angry with that person, we get upset with that person. There's nothing to get angry.

1984-0422: Easter Puja, Temple of all Faiths, London

LEFT,  RIGHT,  AUSTRALIA...
So in Mahalakshmi principle, one has to be careful, absolutely, to see where are we going. 
Now the group system starts, also with the same. There is a big fraternity of 'bhoots', I must tell you.
If you go to the left, all the leftist will join you. 
If you go to the right, all the rightist will join you. 
Then, they will fight amongst themselves, and get out of it. 
Now, for Sahaja Yogis who believe in fighting back, in grouping back, they should know, they have derailed. Maybe they were very intelligent, they thought they could do that, maybe!

From Ganesha Puja, 2007.

But none intelligence, none of them are above the Divine intelligence. 
But when you start moving out of Mahalakshmi thing, you become like a common person, even worse than a common person, I would say. 
So, then you are grabbed by the negative forces which are around us. 
Just like all others are grabbed, you are also grabbed. 
There are conditionings, which also you should see do we have:
Say: a western person must see western conditionings very clearly. What are these conditionings? Because we are seekers of truth, we do not belong to any country. 
We belong to the universe, Vishwa Nirmala Dharma. 
We do not belong to Australia,...
1992-0220: Shri Mahalakshmi Puja, Brisbane, Australia

YOU WON'T BE ABLE . . .
Our nation is Kingdom of God and our King is God Almighty and we have no other King and no other nation. 
If you cannot transcend those barriers of stupid limitations you cannot become Sahaja Yogis. But this is in a very gross way. 
But in a very subtle way, I see a lady who is catching or who has badha will immediately crawl into another one - somehow. She may belong to any country, doesn't matter! You see, a bhootish woman, say, coming from India, will crawl up to another one in Australia. Straight forward, march! Just start watching, "Where is she going? Oh God, that's it!"

So the bhoots are very collective, a big fraternity, great fraternity. 
If they see somebody who is possessed, this bhootish person will immediately go. It is very surprising that the bhoots are so collective. 
Apart from that, they know Me very well. They understand Me very well. 
Even a little child if he is caught up will start crying before Me, shaking before Me, not coming before Me. 
But when they are realized, they don't understand, and moreover, they don't understand a simple principle:
that we are now possessed by our own Spirit and we are ONE.
So, they should stick on more to the person who is a spiritually evolved personality. But instead of that, for them some "third-rater" something is much more important than a person who is such a highly developed person.
This is where we fail in our collective.
A very subtle method of these negative people{is} just finding out how to form a big formidable group to attack. 

With that, you lose your vibrations. Once you lose your vibrations then you say: "Oh, this is too much. We must have compassion. We must have love. After all we are all Sahaja Yogis." So it's the compassion and love of bhoots among themselves. 
They are talking of "compassion to each other". Even with me, they said: 
"Mother, you have to be kind." 
I said:  

"Are you more compassionate than me that you are teaching me?"
If I'm saying anything to this lady, taking all my breath and all my energy on her, then I'm doing it for her benevolence, and it's my compassion that it works,
but what you are doing is not for the benevolence but for the destruction of that person.
So no use supporting someone who is negative. Many negative persons who have been asked to get out of Sahaja Yoga sometimes create this problem of coming: "Oh Mother, you know, I'm so good, but they tortured me, they troubled me so much!" 
Now, I'm seeing a bhoot in the person. I can clearly see. I can see the negativity. 
But if you do not see, you will immediately start taking sides, "Oh God, look at this, poor thing is tortured." 
You'll lose your vibrations, you won't be able to find out!

1988-0723: Shri Buddha Puja, San Diego, California

The Magic to attracting people- is the personnality!

 

Shirdi Sainath

I've been telling you this and I've been requesting you, but the conditioning is such that still,
though you have become a Guru Tattwa, 
you don't understand that you have to be detached. 
For a Guru there is no brother, sister or any other relationship except for the relationship for the Mother. There is no other relationship exist. One of these principles are to be understood. 
Very important I feel, is for all of us, that our relationship is only to Mother and to Sahaja Yogis and not to any relationship, which has come to us, whether through Sahaja Yoga or whether through anything else. Now, this, I have been explaining because 
our Mahalakshmi Tattwa is not all right, 
that's why we get sort of fritter away, 
lost into these things .

Grunewald, resurrection

And the Mahalakshmi Tattwa has to be like an ascending force, all put together. Like my father used to give an example that, supposing you have collected lot of wheat and you spread it on the ground, it will be all lost. It will be spread out like this, this side, that side, it will be all lost but if you put it in a bag, it will rise, in height naturally. It will have mariyadas, it will rise and it will go higher and higher.
In the same way, this principle of Mahalakshmi can spread just across like that and can just destroy
all that Mother has given us and all that we have had all these years, 
only by spreading it out, 
Now, to collect it inside, is to pay attention to yourself: 
first of all try to clarify your ideas and your understanding in brain is important because Mahalakshmi Tattwa ultimately works in the brain, the enlightenment of the brain is done by Mahalakshmi Tattwa, it gives you the Sattwa, the Truth, you see. 
So in the brain you must clarify, reach logically, logically you must reach the conclusion that "I don't have to do these things, I have to do these things, I have to ascend, this is why I am here, why I'm here. What am I supposed to do?" 

Convince...

Now, logically you convince your brain, first of all. It is very important now after realisation because if logically your brain doesn't understand, it will always be
cheapish, childish, undignified  - or 
could be harsh, horribly oppressive. (Link)
It could be one of these. 
So, in Guru Tattwa, there are ten elements. 
Five of them deal with the weight, weight. 
Guru is the weight you see, weight of a person. How much weight you have got? The gravity, as we call it. 

Person has gravity. When he talks how much balance he's got. See in Indian music, we call it Vazan means the weight. The weight of the person, means when he is dealing with himself or with others, how much weight he caries. In English also they use this weight. How much weight he carries with others? 
Means, how much he can really impress others. If you impress too much, all right, then the person will say, "Oh, it's too much!" That is a very big quality with western people is "Oh, that is too much!". They have an idea, you see this is all ego oriented. "That is too much". If you tell them too much, "Oh, that is too much! She is too much. I move slowly, slowly. It is too much for me". 

It's very common, it's very common reaction, so how much weight you have- and the second one is the quality of magnetism. 
Two things in magnetism. 
First is the quality of weight, that's how much dignified you are, how you talk, how your language is, how your behaviour is. You should be human but sometimes even with me, I find people talk in a very funny manner. I just don't understand, how is it that always they say the wrong thing. I mean, even if they have to say one sentence, they will say a wrong thing. It is absolutely with them. Is also Vishuddhi which is also Nabhi -comes from Nabhi because you must know that Vishuddhi Chakra is the ascent of the Nabhi Chakra. So what happens, that a person whatever he is, is expressed through his language, through his behaviour, through his face, through his nose, his eyes, everything, through the Vishudi Chakra.
So the ascent of the Nabhi is expressed, shown, through the Vishuddhi Chakra. 

Now, whatever you have in the Nabhi, is shown here. 
Supposing now a person who has the Mahalakshmi Tattwa properly developed, such a person will have a way of dealing with another person where he will have the weight, as well as the understanding, how far to go with the person. How far to carry on with this person. How far talk to a person. How far to think about person. How much importance to be given. That is one point, is very important.
And the another point is that how much magnetism you have. 
So you reverse back to yourself. 
The magnetism is a magic, is a magic of a person. A person is magnetic because he has certain magic. 

Now this magic is comes from your own personality, 
from your own personality. 
So the basis of magnetism on the left hand side is started, and that basis is Shri Ganesha.Shri Ganesha is the basis of that magnetism. So your innocence, innocence is the best way to have that magnetism. 
Magnetism, you cannot express in material way, it is not a material stuff but it is something abstract, comes from your quality of Ganesha, Shri Ganesha. Such a person is magnetic, magnetic means that such a person attracts another person because of the weight of the person, because of the quality of the person. Such a person attracts, but does not attract for lust, greed and non-sensical things but attracts another person because of the fragrance of love in the subjects. Now it is always confused, confused because it's such an abstract thing. 
So, one must understand it in a very subtle way what is this magnetism, that, one should understand. 

You see, there some gestures people use artificially which normally they have been using just to attract other people, the way they walk, the way they dress, the way they live. All these things are of no use. It is something so inner, that fragrance is so inner which must be developed. 
But in Sahaja Yoga I have seen people just don't bother about it, just don't bother! They think the way they have been living, the way they have been this, say if they are English, they are English, if they are French they are French, if they are Indians they are Indians, if they are from Kolhapur they will be from Kolhapur. These ideas first must be curbed off because the fragrance spreads everywhere whether you are English or anyone. 
So the fragrance of a person develops through first of all in Ganesha principle within you.

A Shri Ganesha Puja

Ganesha principle is to be first of all seen to. 
Now a Ganesha person is not a person who is absolutely a remorse type, or a person who is such a gone case, that even if you beat him up and make him into a complete minced thing, he will bear it. 
It's not like that, it's not that. 
On the contrary, the quality of magnetism is such that it attracts you, to a point where you are not disturbed. 

Now this is a very important point we should know. 
You see, if you have other loves, love like carnal love and all other loves you have, then by that love you may attract the person, then that person can destroy you and it destroys you, always. 
But this attraction does not destroy, does not destroy. The attraction is up to that point that you are not destroyed because you being much higher much deeper and much weightier, you cannot be destroyed by a thing that, whom you are attract. 
Always the greater magnet attracts the smaller magnet and that is what one should understand. 
This magic and this charisma, charismatic temperament of a person, comes 
by first of all, the Ganesha Tattwa, innocence 
and secondly by complete dedication and devotion. 

Those who are completely dedicated and devoted to Mother, not to anything else - Ganesha Tattwa again!- not to your wife, not to your husband, not to your sister, not to your country, not to anyone: but to Mother. Complete dedication gives you that charisma or that attraction. In Sahaja Yoga such a person becomes really attractive and such a person has it. 
Now some people think that if you are a very passive person and if anybody says anything to you and you don't mind, sort of a person you are charismatic, is not. 
People like you, because they can dominate you, they like you because they can dominate you. 
Now if you think that by your aggressiveness and by your shouting and by your screaming and these people, you will achieve that charismatic temperament, you cannot. You cannot achieve that height, so how do you achieve it?

Brighton beach, 1981

By becoming more innocent. 
Now how innocence develops in a person is by not thinking about it
Like you see, somebody asked me "How do you manage your income tax?" I said "By having no income at all." Then they asked me, "How do you solve your car problem? - By not having any car at all not mine. They said, What about your house problem? -By having no house of my own.! NIH, Nih, nih. Everything is NIH for me. Then "how do you sir solve your this problem? -
by not having it, just have no, not have it!"
Don't take up headaches upon yourself, see when you take up headaches of yourself then only the innocence is reduced.

1983-01/01: Mahalakshmi Puja, Kolhapur

http://www.nirmalavidya.org/en/catalogs/events/detail/850.html

https://vimeo.com/24849209

«It is not imposed» Mr Nalgirkar: On Havans and Protocols

FROM Mr Nalgirkar, June 15
«The document , you are refering is not my personal document. It was issued in India in 2002 by the SY country leader on the advice of HH Shri Mataji and it is followed in the country even before 2002.
You may refer to your National Committe and decide what to do.
It is not imposed.»

Swayamblogger understands
In 2002, Shri Mataji was perfectly in conditions to promote this ritual in the West. She did not.
National committees are free to organize their rituals as they wish.

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SWAYAMBLOGGER'S  SUGGESTIONS FOR CORRECTIONS (sent in May 2015)
A mail to Mr Nalgirkar <nalgirkar@hotmail.com>
followed by: FIRST FEED BACK from readers

leading a havan in Delhi, 1979

Dear Brother,
That might be late, but your document about Havan is just now circulating among the French Sahajis. I prepared this letter 2 months ago, and did not send it.
But it so happened that during the National seminar in France, our havan, following your guidelines, was done under the shelter of our umbrellas. And in Cabella, the Saturday before the AdiShakti Puja, a sudden heavy storm put a premature end to the same ceremony.
Rain is weird, during havans, while "the nature is supporting you" Mother used to say.

I am sorry to write what follows, but, having joined Sahaj in 1982, and acted as pujari during 15 years in Colombia, I would like to make some remarks about three parts of your document,  which need more precisions for the people, to use it properly.

Of course, I acknowledge your introduction, which refers humbly and spiritually to Shri Mataji. We are Sahaji -brothers no doubt.
My concern comes from the practical parts of the document, as many yogis, especially new people, new centers, and new countries, while starting the worship, will directly go to the performing of the Havan.

 1/ First mantras
1-a Having assisted, and sometimes organised, Havans with Shri Mataji, She never asked any other mantras than 'Shri Agni-devata', and 'Swaha- swamini'. Also never asked for Ganesh Atharva sheersha.

1-b More important: I have witnessed in 2014 in Cabella a havan, and a young yuva shakti was spontaneously asked to lead it. Probably feeling too shy, she just sticked to the" letter" of your protocol. It so happened that no invocation to Shri Mataji was to be heard, but the repetition 3 times of (until yet) unknown Sanskrit mantras.
As you exactly write:
Mantras to open a havan (om twamewa sakshat,  shri_________namo namah)
Shri Nava-graha devatā: You are... The deity of the nine planets
To me, those mantras are a novelty.
But more than anything, I do not read any part that we should add: "shri  Adishakti Mataji, shri Nirmala Devi, namoh namaha".
Mother taught us that, if any: who are we to call the deities, without Her name?

1-c You state: NO OTHER 108 NAMES AT ANY TIME
(SHRI MATAJI’S 108 NAMES MOSTLY , ONLY SOME TIMES 108 NAMES OF MAHAKALI )
On this,  I can not agree:
I was personally sent by Shri Mataji to say the 108 names of Shri Vishnu during a Shri Krishna Puja Seminar in Cabella.

1000 names of shri Adi Guru, 1983

I was attending the 1983 Guru puja seminar with the 1000 names of the Guru.
You will find here the 1000 names of Shri Ganesha: 1983 Jan 18, Havan in Nasik http://www.nirmalavidya.org/
en/catalogs/events/detail/867.html
You can also check on nirmalavidya website:
1983 Jan 07 Havan in Rahuri ; Jun 17 Havan in Paris 1983: 108 Names of Shri Lalita - 21 Names of Vishnu 1983 Aug 21 Havan for America 1983 1983 Aug 31       Havan for Shri Krishna's Birthday 1983      1983 Sep 10   Havan in Tivoli 1983        Havan   Italy  -1983 Oct 10   Havan for New Yogis in Canada.

These, and many more, were performed under the orders of Shri Mataji.
I strongly hope some corrections/ additions will be made on these points.
Of course, Divinities related to the right side should not be worshipped by a Havan. But all Ida-, and Satya-,  guna-related deities are.

•  About negativities:  The teaching of Shri Mataji is written here. No need to spread any other proceeding: http://www.nirmalavidya.org/en/catalogs/events/detail/990.html

  2/ List of Ingredients for Havana
I am surprised at the list of herbs, grains, etc. As you notice, many of them are difficult to find in South America, Uzbekistan or Iceland. You gently state that such havans is such deprived places would not be meaningless.
Shri Mataji, on Her part, had been asking for something much more simple.

First havan in England, 1976

Though: something is available everywhere on the planet that you do not mention:
Forgiveness.
Shri Mataji clearly advised, referring to a Shri Jesus-Christ, that, if you have a conflict with your brother, first forgive, and make peace with him, and only after, come to the Altar with your offerings.
Is it because of the funny relations between the different trusts in India that you forgot this point? (In many other countries as well, does the Divine accept our offerings, among such divisions and hatred, so obviously anti-sahaj? Who knows?)
I deeply hope this condition: forgiveness, would be added in the most clear form. (*)

•  FINAL:   After the Havan to Shri Krishna in Switzerland, 1983, Shri Mataji told me:" look, this Englishman has added wood and arranged the wood pieces of the havan after the end, so the benefits are all lost". I see this capital instruction is missing, that not only nothing more has to be offered, but one has to let the fire (i.e. Shri Agni) "work" at his pace, without any disturbance.

3/ The initial quote
I read: "You have to learn certain things about faith. One of them is the protocol. If you have faith while learning the protocol, you will not feel bad. But if you're forced into it [the protocol] while the 'mixture state' is still going on, you will feel bad about it." (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi - " Becoming " -Old Alresford, England - 18 May 1980). http://www.nirmalavidya.org/en/catalogs/events/detail/362.html

3-a/ This quote is taken out of its context!
I refuse to believe that it were done on purpose. 
The 80'es were years when Mother never referred to any rituals as such. On the contrary, Hindu brothers were the ones who proposed Her to perform pujas and use list of names, etc. She happily agreed with that, but always cercled them into certain limits. In this 1980 talk from which the quotation comes, the word "protocol" is related to the recognition of Shri Mataji, and the respect towards Her person, and photography, by people who did not hesitate in invading Her house, and in abusing Her money.
Those were the times.
She never meant protocol as rituals, but from the heart and recognition. I hope you will agree on this point. The proof: (**)
3-b/ The cutting of the quote has consequences.
This extract leads the reader to understand that, if he does not learn (how to follow) the (=your) protocol, he has no "real faith", and ends up being- feeling- "bad". What a threat!
 - Let us be careful that the word "faith": in the West faith does not mean the same as Shraddha. It refers to "mister Paul", and the blind subservient faith of the Catholics.  In a different way, in your quote, Mother refers to the faith in the fact that Realization fulfils our pure desire, in the reality, and comes from Her only -not the faith in rituals.
As an historian, trained in criticizing the texts and their interpretation, I deeply regret the way you use this quote. It sounds like a menace in the West.  I hope also that this would be rectified.

I did not want to start a quote-fight, 

but I feel the necessity to quote at least this one, which you can check with the link:

«But I would say that also in Sahaja Yoga I've found 
there are all kinds of funny ideas growing here. 
Like certain rituals they'll take up. 
Then they prescribe certain rituals, they'll talk about it, and a kind of a power-orientation is there. » 1998-0621 Shri Adi Shakti Puja, Cabella  http://www.nirmalavidya.org/en/catalogs/events/detail/2930.html

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Shri Mataji in a church

Mister Nalgirkar, with full respect, I would not end without expressing this last concern.

Since Shri Mataji has not been in conditions to control us Her children, that is since 2003, many novelties have been introduced. I leave it to your wisdom the interpretation of thisthey prescribe just above, and whom did She refer to, at that time.
Anyway, most of those rites are derived from Brahmanic rituals.

I came in Sahaj in 1982 for Atmaskashatkar, for a universal religion of the Self - and meditation. I have been really happy to learn about havans, pujas, and dedication to the Devi from Mother, (that is from Herself).
From Her teachings, advices and practices, I wrote a booklet about Pujas and havans in 1987, which has been widely spread and reproduced, in French as well as in Spanish, and had received no critics since.

Shri Mataji at Nuzammuddin

Shri Mataji never taught Herself any of those novelties, I really mean: publicly. On the contrary: «... To think that you can have me attracted towards you by your protocols, which is dead, has no meaning..» (**) This is what I learned from Mother, that She opposed 'novelties'.
 - Please do understand that I did not work hard during 30 years spreading Sahaj Yoga and VND to find it merged into Hindu rituals, which I see being accumulating year after year.
I really hope those concerns will find their way, and will enhance your vision. No use insisting on the fact that this letter carries also the surprises, disappointments, or distrusts, that are felt by many yogis and friends.
Maybe, those true devotees are just withdrawing themselves with sadness, silently, after witnessing Sahaj falling aprey to outdated ritualism.

2015 Flooding next to the Hangar of Cabella.

Some just find their place at the end of the pandal and close their eyes, finding shelter in their known Samadhi. Too humble, too scared, or too tired, they never find any mean to carry their concern openly, and to voice it.
Maybe the Rain, of which I spoke in the beginning, is trying to teach us something.
Whatever, with all the due respect, and, once again, sahaj-brotherly love, let us end this letter with a big hug of our hearts.
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(*)  «...Let Christ be born within us. Let's be, like Him, the one who always insisted, "Love your brothers. Love your sisters." Who are your brothers and sisters? He asked the question too, "Who are My brothers and sisters?" "Sahaja yogis are my brothers and sisters."
Somebody offered at the altar. He said, "What are you to offer at the altar? Have you reconciled with your brother?" Have you reconciled? First reconcile, and then bring flowers to Mother. He said it already.»
1984-1123: Shri Jesus Puja, Hounslow, UK http://www.nirmalavidya.org/en/catalogs/events/detail/1205.html

(**) « ...Nobody should think that they love Me more than anybody else. 
Nobody should think like that. Some people know more rituals, some know more protocol, doesn't matter, but I know who loves me. 
The one who loves others loves me the most.
I don't care your protocols and your ritualistic things, are nonsense for me. What does it matter to me? The one who loves others is the one who really loves me. Take it from me! 
I've had all these rituals and all that, and I have no care for these things.
Makes no difference whether you say good morning to me or good evening to me, is not important. What you say to your brothers and sisters is the most important.

Sahaj Yoga will never work out, if you do not look after that side: how you behave towards your wife, towards your husband, towards your brothers and sisters. That is the most important thing. Anybody who tries to so play such tricks will get out of Sahaj Yoga. You know that I've thrown out very, so-called important people out of Sahaj Yoga. When they did like this to dominate others, by saying
"This is not good, you should not put your hand there or put your feet there or do this and that." Who can know the protocol of Divine Mother? You cannot bind Me into protocols. You cannot bind Me to anything I am unlimited. 
I am detached. You cannot bind me to anything. To think that you can have me attracted towards you by your protocols, which is dead, has no meaning.
It has to be a living protocol of being kind and generous, beautiful.
Some are lethargic. [Say a husband wants the wife to work all the time. Wife wants the husband to every time. Everybody is finding faults with each other. They are not Sahaja Yogis. Sahaja Yogis are the people who take it Sahaj. »
1981-May 24: Subconscious Supraconcious, Formal Talk, Chelsham Rd, London  http://www.nirmalavidya.org/en/catalogs/events/detail/543.html
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FROM BELGIUM
Brother --- thank you very much for cleansing the clouds
of ignorance on Yagnyas of every kind. It is a shame that all
kinds of brahmanic and other rituals should be used in Sahaja
Yoga. Mother frequently warned us about such connections.
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Dear sisters,syg+shakti@
I would like to share with you this letter of an ancient French Sahaja Yoga about a different way, or a "new way" to do a havan which looks closer to an Hindu ritual than the Sahaja protocol that Shri Mataji taught us.
(It is a long letter but it is worth reading it.)
Nowadays, it seems that some Sahaja Yogis need to have new rules or just more rules; they might have the impression that it gives them more discipline. May be they want to be very respectful and add this thing, that thing, because simplicity can look like a lack of protocol for them.
We all know deep inside that Sahaj discipline comes from our subtle being and not from outside and that protocol is conduct by the heart. But sometimes, it is hard to see the difference, especially for the new people.
Please let me know what you feel about this way to conduct a havan.
Jai Shri Mataji
Lots of love,
------------Dear Shaktis,
I can't agree more with the letter of our dear brother Michel. It is very nicely written and it is supported by a solid evidence from Mother's talks. My next question though is why in the 7th edition of Mantra book page 292 we have these Hindu havan mantras?
Love,
-----------FROM AMERICA
Dear ***,
After reading your, and most! posts to shaktisangha for many year (but being unable to post for some reason), the letter from Michel below moved me to respond.
Please forward this email to him as I do not have his email id.
I would like to let him know that he has one more yogini who has the same understanding and appreciation that he has expressed in this letter. Only wishing that the same could be communicated, understood, and realized by Sahaja yogis worldwide.
Perhaps, this single note of affirmation carries little weight. If it can permeate throughout the ether into the enlightened attention of our brothers and sisters, our desire is fulfilled.
With great love and affection,
Jai Shri Mataji-!
Your sister in America,***
-------------FROM FRANCE
You made it perfectly CLEAR
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Big hug,***
------------FROM France,
Merci - de soulever cette question ...
À noter aussi que nous n'avons plus le droit qu'à 2 havans par an à Holi et lors du Navaratri...
-------------FROM ENGLAND
Hello***!
Thank you for sharing the letter
…, whom I know since a long time.
I would say that on this point I totally agree with him: the old Sahaja Yogis have had first hand experience of the Teachings of Shri Mataji (also all recorded on tapes, DVDs etc...) which She gave very clearly with regards to performing Pujas and Havans and there is no need for anyone to 'add' or 'substract' to the rituals given by Her, which are very simple to follow and if carried on well, allow the vibrations to flow!
--------------------FROM France
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