SHRI DIVYA-VIGRAHA - SHRI MATAJI NIRMALA DEVI

In the Puranas, the modern times we are now living in are called Kali Yuga, the Age of Confusion and Conflict. Yugas are periods of time, thousands of years long, that recur in a cyclic or spiral progression. Dwapara Yuga is the second age, when people begin to lose some of the great qualities they had in the first or Golden Age, and Kali Yuga (modern times) marks the lowest point of moral and spiritual development in each cycle. It is followed by Krita Yuga, the age of transformation or actualisation of spiritual experience, which leads finally to Satya Yuga, the Age of Truth or Reality, in which the Golden Age returns and all man's faculties begin to manifest themselves in their full glory once again. Thus according to the Puranas humanity has great hope of enjoying Satya Yuga which will give peace, harmony and Divine love.

If we tally the description of Kali Yuga in the Puranas with very obvious observations of the present state of our society, it seems to me that the worst period of Kali Yuga started during the first quarter of this century. It is almost unbelievable how culture and thought have completely changed in such a short time, particularly in the West. In Kali Yuga, all traditional values are more and more undermined and destroyed and there is great moral confusion. There is also a restless seeking for new forms and new kinds of order. According to the Puranas, when the lowest point is reached, the people will have lost contact with their inner sense of dharma (innate sense of righteousness which is sustained). There will be confusion between right and wrong. Children will no longer respect their parents. Men will think and act like women and women will become like men. The lowest grades of human beings will take over positions of power and authority, and the higher, spiritual type of human being will be neglected and despised.

About twenty years ago, marking the very first stirring of a new Satya Yuga, the transitional age called Krita Yuga started manifesting itself. Krita Yuga is a unique period of spiritual ascent as the All-Pervading Divine Power called the Paramchaitanya in Sanskrit has become active at the level of ordinary human existence. It is predicted that this Divine activity will bring about the long awaited Satya Yuga, the era of growth and spiritual ascent.

All the signs show that it is the Era of Truth which is now advancing and we can see very clearly. For example, how quite ordinary people are becoming aware of Absolute Truth and Reality through Sahaja Yoga. Sahaja Yoga is the spontaneous union of the individual consciousness with the All-Pervading Divine Power through the awakening of the residual Power of Kundalini which lies dormant within all human beings in the triangular bone at the base of the spine called the sacrum — the sacred bone.

Krita Yuga has another characteristic by which, when this Yuga is manifested, the falsehood of all outside religions, all people in power who are unpatriotic and dishonest will be automatically exposed. All false prophets and cult leaders will be exposed and all organizations that perpetrate falsehood and hatred in the name of God will be exposed because in Krita Yuga the Truth is spontaneously brought out. All corrupt entrepreneurs and false teachers will also be exposed.

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A second characteristic of Krita Yuga is that whenever there is a falling away from Dharma the inner Divine Laws of Righteousness which are innate and which regulate both human existence — the whole world structure as well as manifestation of the Cosmos — will arise as a result with a corresponding, compensatory effect. This is called the Law of Polarity or in Sanskrit karma-phalam which means in practical terms that whatever you have done, you will get the fruits of those actions — As you sow, so shall ye reap. (ceea ce semeni vei culege)

So in this Yuga all persons will get their karma phalam. If they have led their lives in accordance with the Universal and Eternal Laws of Being they will enjoy an existence which is harmonious and fulfilling. But, on the other hand, whatever wrongs they have done — that is, whenever they have fallen out of the central path of Dharma, either individually or collectively — they will have to pay for that in this life time.

In Krita Yuga there may be much to suffer. This is very unfortunate but it is simply the effect of our own actions which we have to face. Of course suffering can be avoided if people achieve their ascent; what in Yoga we call "the State of Spirit" or "union with the Divine Power." In Krita Yuga this manifestation of exposure and punishment through the law of polarity will take place as long as we do not accept the path of spirituality, which is the only true and satisfying path for human beings. The suffering that befalls people, both collectively and individually, will be nothing but their own karma phalam, the result of their own choices.

However, despite this aspect, Krita Yuga is also a very blissful era for those who are genuinely earnest seekers of Truth. In Krita Yuga there are unique opportunities for self-transformation and, with their ascent, these seekers will achieve a very high state of spirituality. But in this Age of Krita Yuga such is the Power of Divine Compassion and Love that those who have made mistakes and are consequently suffering are also redeemed of their sufferings by the activity of this All-Pervading Divine Love.

Further more, it is said in the Puranas that the residual Power, the Kundalini, will be awakened and will grant Self-Realization to the seekers. This Power will also grant them physical, emotional and spiritual bliss, and all the problems which come from our inner being — energy centres of the subtle system — will be solved through the spontaneous cleansing and harmonizing activity of the Kundalini. In this way all individual human problems as well as those collective or social problems that have been created by human beings will be solved. But is it said that this state is meant only for people who, through their ascent, have achieved the state of Selfhood. These are ancient prophesies which can now be seen vividly.

The Indian sage, who may be called the pioneer in this field, was the first great astrologer, Bhrigumuni. In his book "Nadi Granth", he made clear predictions about these modern times. He also specifically predicted how the Kundalini would be awakened spontaneously through Sahaja Yoga, that is, spontaneous union with the Divine, and become the means of both individual and collective transformation on a mass scale, through teachings incarnation of a great Yogi. This Yogi would be an unparalleled master of the Kundalini and would teach all the people the ancient

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secrets of self-transformation. These are the times described in the Holy Bible as the "Last Judgement" and in the Koran as "Kiyama", the Resurrection Time. Astrologically it is also called the Age of Aquarius, the time of rebirth and of great spiritual development on the Earth.

Of course this is also the Age of science and technology in which human beings progressed beyond the stage of blind faith. And in this great happening of the Last Judgment and the Resurrection Time one need not, and should not, believe blindfolded in whatever is said about ascent or salvation, but should treat it like a hypothesis and observe the facts with an open mind like a scientist. Of course, if a hypothesis is proved then any honest, scientifically-minded modern person has to accept it.

The pure Knowledge of the Divine manifesting itself directly through Self-Realization will progressively lead to the creation of a new race for the New Age. This Knowledge is not then for very few privileged individuals, as it was in the past, but for the benevolence of the whole world. In this way the last breakthrough of our evolution will be achieved en masse. The entire human race can be renewed and transformed. Dharma, righteousness, will once again be universally respected, and human beings will live in Peace — harmoniously with themselves, with Nature, and with each other. . . .

In My opinion every Westerner has, as a matter of urgency, to understand the vital role he has to play in this great Age of Transformation and of the Last Judgment. The Western mind has to realize the enormous responsibility which has been placed upon the West and the Western people need urgently to find out how to achieve the balance, not in terms of money, but in the vision of their responsibility. This is very much required for the ascent of the whole humanity. Otherwise on whom will the blame of destroying the innate human culture by the dynamism of modernism lie, the advanced or underdeveloped?

In these Modern Times, in the evolutionary process, we have reached the state of human awareness. This human awareness can work through its thinking, rationality or conditioning. Many modern poets have described them as "the Calls of Freedom of the Self." But what if one can rise to a higher dimension of awareness? Why not open our hearts and minds to the unique discovery that has been revealed for this vital ascent?

The Kingdom of God that we were promised is at hand. This is not a phrase out of a sermon or a lecture, but it is the actualization of the experience of the highest Truth which is Absolute, now manifesting itself in ordinary people at this present moment.

THE MEANING OF PUJA - SHRI MATAJI NIRMALA DEVI 1980

...Now for Puja, one has to understand that without Realisation, Puja has no meaning, because you are not "Ananya", is you have to become aware of your whole.

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Krishna's description of Bhakti is "Ananya". He says "I will give you Ananya Bhakti", He wants Ananya Bhakti, means when there is not the other, means when we are realised. But when it comes to giving, He says, you have to come to Me with Ananya Bhakti, means when you have become one with Me." Then you should have the devotion, not before that, before that, you are not connected."

Now Puja is a left hand side projection. Is the neutralisation of the right side, very much, specially for people who are very right handed, atmosphere which is very right handed, Puja is ideal for them. Is the Bhakti, is the Devotion that you project. Now what happens actually when you project with Puja? It has been found out, and now as I am telling you, that first you have to awaken within you the Deities that are still asleep, by worshipping Them. But as these Deities, Primordial Deities, are with Me, you worship Me, and every Deity in Me is awakened, by which your deities are awakened. So first, your vibrations must improve, to receive. If the reception is not good, what's the use of any Puja or projection? So first of all, we sort or prepare our instrument, or prepare our projecting instrument. That preparation done by praying to different Deities, as we call that, a Kundalini Puja.

By praying to My Kundalini, you improve your reflection. Because then the vibrations from Me start flowing into yours, and they awaken it. This is the projection as far as you are concerned.

Once the instrument is alright, then you project outside. And now, how do you project? By worshipping the Goddess as the Protector of the whole universe, praising Her different attributes, even Her Face, Her Hands, everything has a meaning. Praising Her Powers. By saying that, by repeating that, you echoe in your projection Her Powers, and then your projection becomes that powerful. It's a very subtle happening that takes place. It's miraculous. These things look so simple, just like washing my Feet. Simple thing is washing my Feet. Now see these Feet, I don't know if you see, the whole universe I see there, and I really get stunned by them.

When you wash My Feet, what do you do? Actually , My Feet have been working very hard. And then, you put a little water, to soothe them, to suggest that you can feel the effort put in by these Feet... and a kind of a very sweet, melodious love flows out of these Feet then. Like today I was coming, and I suddenly saw Paul standing: "Same thing happened to me." See, what a care it is, what an understanding! Mother is coming, She should not get lost!

It's that, and this thing all started melting. Because this love who understands everything, doesn't want anything, but is only excited if there is somebody to receive the love. Then how do you say you are going to receive? By expressing these small small things. So when you soothe My Feet, wash Them, clean Them, you know what They mean: you recognise. That recognition, how are you to show? You see, these ceremonies, little ceremonies are important, because they express your recognition. It could be absolutely dull, dead and finished. And it could be absolutely living, if you know why you are doing it. Then you apply some oil and things, again soothe My Feet. Just say "Mother, You have worked very hard, Your Feet have worked very hard".

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Just saying that itself, I mean makes no difference otherwise, if you say in a very rational manner, but to that Love that are these Feet, it makes a very big difference. This sweetness, the little thing a little baby just put her hand on her mother's cheek, just to express the gratitude, and the mother's heart starts jumping with love...

It is a very reciprocal behaviour, it's very subtle, and that kind of a subtle working is fixed already: it works that way only. The more you more you love from your heart, the more the joy will be there. The more you are rational and more mental, there won't be so much. It should be first of all your cleansing is important, but the projection should be towards your Mother, that is the height. Once you achieve that height, then you become all powerful, and then you can give to others. But that giving is nothing but is a very mutual and absolutely reciprocal, because the Devi knows about you, everything: if you are trying anything else, She knows and She will also tell you frankly that this should not be done, that should not be done, it should not be done, clearly, so that you do not be under any misunderstandings.

But still, to work it out, you must know it has to be reciprocal, it cannot be one-sided, it has to be both sides. Then it works out better, and a kind of a homogeneous feeling with that Love comes in, sort of a lubricant, a beautiful feeling of movement within yourself comes in.

Puja really is the triggering thing, triggers you, it triggers you into another realm, it's really miraculous. Once you have done the Puja, then you can project out, much more, in your silence only. Your silence itself becomes so powerful. Now in this special case of our Western lives, we have to establish our Innocence, very important. It is the first thing that is attacked, Innocence is attacked by so many things. So we have to establish our Innocence. And Innocence is the most powerful thing: it doesn't see anything bad, it doesn't see...

...how people are: they don't love! So Ganesha is very important for the Western countries, very important, because that's the Essence of everything, I think, that's the most essential thing, that's why we worship Ganesha first. And Ganesha was created first of all, because He is the eldest son, He is the first son, He is the eldest brother you have, and though Kumara is treated as an elder brother always, while Ganesha calls Himself as a younger brother, but He was the first created, because He remains young always, never grows, so in a way, He is always younger to you also.

It's a very, very subtle understanding: a very young little thing is so much wiser, He is wisdom. Can you imagine a little baby is so intelligent, a little baby so wise? Much more, He is like a grown-up little baby, a very matured, wise, little baby. So by age, you are always older than Him, but by wisdom, He is the eldest.

Then like this you should understand how we evoke all the Deities within us, by doing these small things, by saying Their mantras, because now you are awakened, every word you say is awakened now, is "siddha mantra".

On this Guru Puja I'm really going to give you the way of how to do the "siddha" is the establishment of the siddha, to master to master every chakra and every Deity

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bestowed upon it, to master it, how to do it, I will tell you this Guru Puja no doubt, I'm going to work it out. But this Puja is to be done with full understanding, and with full recognition:

It's a great fortune. Even the Devas are jealous of you, all the rishis are jealous of you, so many are jealous of you. The greatest advantage for you, greatest fortune. Make full use of it.

And they are very simple things that can please, very simple. You know your Mother can be pleased with very very simple things. It's like that only: it's how much heart you have put into it, is the point.

I think tomorrow we should have the puja, today we have understood about it: it is more to be felt and understood and realised, than to be thought about. Because you'll go into thoughtless awareness. It is more source of triggering.

For example, I think I'll ask Harry to give the miracle we had yesterday on our way. He was loosing his way throughout, and Regis was navigating him, so we were all lost... But then we had a miracle while coming back: there was on the M-1 a complete jam, and miles together we could see there is no movement, and suddenly, within two minutes, what happened? What I told him, and how he worked it out. It's a problem, you see, to get after everything, to do it... Now he thought that I have told that you put your attention inside. Now he has a slope in his left side, and when you do it too much inside, you go on the slope... and he understands that something's going wrong.

I never said that you get after anything. Now, "put your attention inside "means: if you get Realisation by that. If you don't get Realisation, there's something wrong somewhere. You have lost your way, that's the main point. So I told Harry that you don't put your attention inside, because you go on the slope...

Just they were there... This is what is Maya that upsets you. Project yourself outside...

There was another experience I told these people was this: that there where two journalists, one Mister Marathi and a friend who are Sahaja Yogis. And I went to the journalist's association, they had a meeting. And there is another one who told Me: "No, no Mother I have complete faith in You because there was a miracle that happened to a friend of mine Marathi who is a Sahaja Yogi".

I said :"What happened?". He said they were coming from Poona down to Bombay, and the breaks failed, and the slopes, you see, on the gaps, it moves very fast. And suddenly they saw a huge big truck coming up, with all the lights on top, and they didn't know how to control, and they were about to dash out. And just they closed their eyes and they said: "Now, Mother, save us!" And suddenly they found that the car had crossed the thing, and the thing was moving upwards, the truck was moving.

They didn't know, as if somebody had picked up that car and put it on the other side. So these miracles can work out, in case you project yourself out. But for protecting

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outside, first you should be cleansed inside. But for that also, all the time if your attention "where am I catching?" then you go onto rationality: "I must be catching because of this, I must be catching because of that".

I have told you hundred times not to say "WHY?". Give up this word "why?". "Why am I catching?" It will settle down. This maddening must go away! You cannot answer "why" of anything in Sahaja Yoga, can you? Why did I meet you? Why did you get Realisation? Ask hundred questions, two hundred, three hundred, five hundred, you will not have any answer.

So, give up that: it's not your rationality, it's the Grace, it's the whim of the Grace. That's working it out! What are you trying at? Just ask for the Grace. Finished. It's silent. It works out.

This is maddening! You will become mad people. This is the greatest madness that people want to know why of everything. How can you understand? You don't have that "chitti" to understand anything.

Can you explain? How can you? If you make a little ant understand human civilisation and this dirty politics you play, it may understand. But you cannot understand why of God. This is the relationship. So now, you give it up asking questions like that. It's too tremendous for this rationality. Why God is doing? How He does? What are His powers? Only thing, as scientist, you note down: "yes, it is so, yes, it is so, yes it is so". Verify it and note down. Only your awareness is changed from the scientist's, that you can see subtler working.

But why it works? That's His whim! He'll do what He likes! Who are you to question God? How can you question God? Just give up asking this question "why?" and you will feel very much better. It is god you see! He does it! This is what is faith. Not the blind, but real with understanding. I have told you this story of My grandmother many a times, as she used to tell Me about faith, and which I have repeated so many times, but again I'll repeat it today: There were three people at different places, and one man was going to see God. So they came to know about it. So one of them was in the forest, standing on his head, doing all kinds of yogas and things like that, and praying to God - must be with both hands towards Him, and soaking the feet, may be - like mad, you see, and asking: "Why don't You meet me? Why don't You meet me? I want to meet You! why don't you meet me?"

And the man who was going to see God was going through that side. He said "Now please go and ask Him why don't You come and see me, You better come and see me, Why don't You do it?" So he said "alright, I'll come". He had become thin, you see, absolutely thinned down, condition very miserable. He said "alright, I'll go and tell God about you". Go. Then he went up to God. No, no, before that. Then he met another type who was sitting on the street. And will be at the street side, and he said: "Oh! I heard you are going to meet God?" He said yes, he is going to meet God. So he said: "Then communicate one small little thing." He said:" "What?" He said that "Just tell Him I have had no food, please send me my food now, I'm hungry."

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He said "What?" - "Yes, you just tell Him that much." So he went up. He saw God. So God asked: "Did you meet some people on your way?" He said "Yes, I met a horrible one who is all time saying "why not, why this, should I do it and should I not, and this and that, it's going on. So, will You go and meet him? He's asking."

He said "No, better tell him to do it little more, you see... still he has to do. He requires more effort: he won't be satisfied: Till he gives up his efforts, let him go on!" I mean he would have become mad like that. But now God says: "Alright, let him go ahead! What to do? If you tell them, they don't want to listen, so let them go ahead!"

Then he said: "Then I met another mad fellow, who was on the street, he said that: "I'm hungry, ask God to send some food foe me, please ask. - He said: "Really?" Then called His managers He says: "Please! Send his food! Have you not yet arranged his food and order? Please arrange it!"

He was quite surprised. He said: "What is this? This man is just telling "I'm hungry", and God is so much worried about this fellow and not worried about the fellow who is standing on his head and asking such a lot of questions to God!"

So God knows everything, so He told him: "Alright you are going down, you just tell them one story to both of them, and see their reaction, and then you will know. So He told him a story. "You tell them that "I went to God and saw there, God passing a camel through the eye of a needle."

He said: "Really?" He said: "Yes, you go and tell them." So he came down. This fellow was still on his head. He came back: "What did God say?" - He said you have to go on still. - Oh! Really? Well all glory to God! - He said "Yes, he said so." - He said: "Really?" Then, "Did you see something special there?" - He said: "Yes, I saw that He passed a camel through the eye of a needle!" - He said: "No, no, don't tell me stories! How can such a big camel!..How can it pass through the eye? After all it's impossible! It is impossible! This is impossible! You are just now trying to befool me. No, no, I cannot take it. I cannot take it!"

So he went to another fellow. He was nicely eating his food. He said: "Yes! I knew, you see, I just told you because you asked me if you have to tell you anything, I knew God will send my food and everything. I'm quite alright." He said: "Did you see anything wondrous there?" - He said: " I saw the wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles, that God passed a camel through the eye of a needle!" - He said: "What is so miraculous? He is GOD! He's GOD ALMIGHTY! What? He can pass even universes after universes through that hole!

What is it for God? He is God Almighty don't you understand? God Almighty! Because you have met Him, you think He is nothing! Because you did it so easily, you think He is nothing! Because He behaves like you, you think He is nothing! He is GOD ALMIGHTY! So what? to Him, what is it?"

Then he realised. This is Faith. That is what is enlightened within you with Puja. Not your rationality which is brought down actually quite a lot. So with this idea, tomorrow we'll have the Puja, alright?

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THE JOY OF THE ABSOLUTE - SHRI MATAJI NIRMALA DEVI, 1985

It is a very privileged place for you to enter into the Sahasrara of the Virata (The Cosmic Whole), to reside in the brain as cells of Sahasrara. These are specially created cells through the working of the Swadistana. Passing through all the chakras, when they arrive at Sahasrara they are equipped to handle the brain's activity without getting involved with other elements in the body...

...The first thing that happens to a Sahaja Yogi at the Sahasrara level is that he becomes 'Beyond', (Atita). He transcends so many things, he goes beyond time, (Kalatita). Time is his slave. If you have to go somewhere then suddenly you discover that everything is working at the same time when you are able to do it. Like you are, say, to catch a train and you arrive late at the station, you find the train is late for you. Things work out in such a way that you feel they are all active for your complete convenience. So you go beyond time - 'Kalatita'.

Then you go beyond dharma (Dharmatita). That means dharma becomes part and parcel of your being. Nobody has to tell you, "you do this" or "you do that" - you just do it. Whatever you have to do, you do it.

When you go beyond all these dharmas, that are the human dharmas - human dharma is that one's attention gets attracted either with lust, greed to something, and then one cannot draw one's attention away. Then the attention becomes 'dharmatita'. That means the attention loses its dharma.

The dharma of the attention is such that we have to use the dharmas taught by the prophets to control it. Because we are coming (in evolution) from the lowest level.

So these (lower) dharmas exist in our being and start showing, and when they attack us, then we have to have some measures with which to control them. So we build up our dharmas, OUR OWN SELF-REGULATION, and control them, those dharmas which have come to us from lower conditioning. This is the greatness of human beings, that they have made their own dharmas, established on top of the lower dharmas.

But with the Sahasrara ascent the attention loses that quality, which means you do not need to put dharmas, restrictions upon yourself. You do not have to discipline yourself, but you get disciplined automatically. The attention does not get attached to, or attacked by, anything whatsoever, it is so pure.

Like water does not stay on the Lotus leaf, so you become 'Kalatita', you become 'Dharmatita'. You become 'Gunanita'. Means, you go beyond the three 'moods' (Gunas) with which you are born, left, right and centre.

The left one in the one by which you have emotional attachments of your attention. The second one (right) is the physical and the mental attachments. And the third one (centre), is the attachment to the dharma, attachment to be righteous and to make other righteous, of disciplining others and disciplining yourself... Where a person tries to control all his enemies of lust, anger, pride, vanity, attachments and greed.

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All these restrictions on the attention get lost and you become a free person of complete wisdom. Your attention itself becomes dharmic. So you lose all your gunas and you become 'Satgunis', means virtuous, not by discipline, but spontaneously. You become righteous SPONTANEOUSLY!

Sometimes such people puzzle you. Like Christ took a stick in his hand and beat people who were selling things in the presence of God, in the sense, in front of the temples. According to laws, we should not have temper, but his temper is a temper of a 'Gunatita' and such a temper is a spontaneous happening, which is not to be analysed, it has to happen.

The temper of the Devi on the rakshasas, the killing of the rakshasas... Krishna telling Arjuna that "You have to kill all these people, they are all dead already". They all get explained because you go 'beyond' , in the 'Atita', beyond conditions. Only the one who can control is beyond. The one who is in it cannot control it.

If you have to pull in a ship you have to be on the shore, the one who has gone beyond can only do that. So you go beyond, in 'Atita'. But, when it comes to knowledge about such a person, you cannot think, because such a person is beyond thinking. You cannot describe because such a person cannot be described.

You cannot say why Socrates agreed to take the poison. Why Christ agreed to get crucified. That is beyond human comprehension. That is how you behave beyond human comprehension and you are not to take 'certificates' from human beings. Your 'certificates' come from God Almighty and not from these human beings who are at a lower level. It would be like a dog writing about human beings.

So you reach a state which can be described with the word 'a', that means 'without'. So such a person is without thought, he does not think. Such person is without greed, such a person is without lust, devoid of it. Such a person is said to be 'ascesa': 'Out of which nothing is left out'. Like when you want to make a vacuum, you go on creating the vacuum. Reach any point and the vacuum cannot be completed because it reaches a point all the time where you find some part of it remains. You cannot have a complete vacuum. But such a person has a complete vacuum - a vacuum of all the negative, aggressive qualities - complete, they do not exist. Such a person is an eternal being nobody can kill, nobody can harm, nobody can hurt. The hanger of anyone or respect of anyone does not touch such a person. He is not disturbed by insults or non-insults. He is not elated by prayers, because he is devoid of the capacity to enjoy the boons of the ego.

So at the third state he reaches he gets the blessing of the word 'Nih'. Nih is the first word of my name, but in Sanskrit, when you combine it with 'Mala', then it becomes 'Nirmala' (Pure). But the word is Nih... ...But this word nira or nih, is used in two forms... One for say: 'Without' or 'Devoid of'. Then another form is: 'The only', 'The absolute joy, nothing but joy. It is complete freedom.

So you have all kinds of joys, as I told you before.

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You have Swananda - the joy of the spirit, then you have got Brahmananda - the joy of well-being. You have got Leelananda and Krishnananda - where you have the joy of the play. But when you reach the state of Sahasrara it is NIRANANDA - means, sheer absolute joy. Although the name 'Nira' is my name, it means 'Absolute'. So when you put such an adjective before anything else it becomes absolute. Thus YOU become absolute. And when you are at that state of absolute then there is no place for anything else to be there but yourself.

But let us see what is 'Absolute'? That means it is not relative, it has no relative qualities. Absolute cannot be compared (Atuliya) it cannot be compared. It cannot relate to anything, it is absolute. It cannot be comprehended because it cannot be related to anything else through which we can comprehend. It is absolute. Whatever way you try to know it, you go away from the absolute. Wherever you try to analyse the absolute, you are away from it. So this is what at Sahasrara you get - 'Nirananda' (Sheer joy).

In different stages of Sahaja Yoga we had to start from 'Sarirananda', means the ananda (Joy) of the body; 'Manasananda', the joy of the 'Manas', the psyche. Then you can say 'Ahamkarananda', where you have to have the satisfaction of the ego. But the state that now has to be established within us is of 'Nirananda'.

Then what is the question of fear? What is the question of talking about it? You cannot talk about it, because how will you relate it? I cannot say "It is like this, it is like that". There are no words to describe the Absolute. Only by negation: 'not this, not this' and what remains is absolute. So you reach the state of absolute and that is the state a complete communication is established and in that communication you have nobody else but the absolute within you. That is the level to which you should aspire. That should be the ascent. We should be established within ourselves.

We do not have to go to the Himalayas, we do not have to do anything drastic. Remaining in this world, we have to become the Absolute, the 'Only' (Kevalam). There is nothing like "How?" for it. You just become. You just become, like a flower becomes the fruit. It is all built in, within you. Allow it to work out.

Just by surrendering you become. Surrender it and you will be surprised; you will be at the state where you will enjoy your absoluteness. It is absolute love, it is absolute compassion, it is absolute power. The words stops, the description stops. You just become the absolute and feel your absoluteness through it with the oneness. If somebody is not with you, you do not worry. There is no company needed. You are alone enjoying the Absolute. Only there can you also enjoy the Absolute in others, in the best form, without seeing anything else but the Absolute.

May God Bless You.

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SHRI HANUMANA PUJA - SHRI MATAJI NIRMALA DEVI

1) Shri Hanumana destroys all those who trouble others. Ravana feared only fire so Shri Hanumana burnt Lanka to terrify him and make him realise that what he was doing was a terrible mistake. In that no life was lost but people got frightened and went against Ravana. Fire goes upwards.

2) Mighty people are always balanced and loving e.g.. Shivaji Maharaj. If you are balanced then you are SY. Give a bandhan for those who trouble others as well as you. You will see that it is your experience that those who troubled you are destroyed. If you are protected then other SY are also protected as Shri Hanumana surrounds you for protection.

3) Shri Hanumana is very childlike, strong, fast, calm, straight forward, understanding, intelligent and can make out what's right or wrong but at times Shri Hanumana is a powerful destroyer. Shri Hanumana understands everything when said with love and humbleness. He is also a form of Shri Ganesha.

4) Whenever any one troubles you just think that Shri Hanumana is with you. SY's security moves along with them as SY have security of all Ganas. The Ganas inform Shri Ganesha form which direction the attacks are being made both visible and invisible. After this Shri Ganesha tells Shri Hanumana about attacks who then gets ready to face the attack. Here Mother gave an e.g. of SY who were saved when America dropped a bomb at their place who then came to Cabella and said that they didn't knew who saved them and that they were the only ones who were saved during the attack. The explanation Mother gave is: Because you have accepted SY due to this change, you have become dynamically powerful. No one who so ever can touch you now because of Shri Hanumana.

5) Now what should happen when one is protected? He should become calm, serious, fearless and should not run away. He should just stand against wrong people and they will run away. What is self realisation? It means that we must understand who protects us. If one has love for others, thinks how to make others happy no one can destroy you. You don't have to carry any weapons with you, they are present inside you, also there is no need to make oneself strong. Here Mother told a interesting story of how SY must be in this world: There used to be cock fights in China. In order to teach the cock how to fight and win, the king sent his cock to a saint as no one dares to fight a saint and is left alone. After one month the king brought back the cock and sent him to fight in the ground with other cocks. All the cocks were busy fighting with others but this cock just stood watching everyone there. One by one the wounded cocks were taken away. The rest which survived became afraid of the cock as he didn't fight like others and they ran away. Finally this cock won the contest without fighting at all.

6) Shri Hanumana is on right side i.e. Pingala that creates enthusiasm, heat along with Bhakti.

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7) If you don't achieve the power of balance from Shri Hanumana then diseases like liver trouble, asthma, heart attack are caused. If the heat is not controlled then it leads to blood cancer, intestinal trouble as we don't listen to Shri Hanumana.

8) Shri Hanumana is egoless so if you worship, we also must be egoless. If we believe in Shri Hanumana then we believe in Shri Rama who resides in our right heart, if we don't behave like Him then we get asthma. Similarly we also believe in Shri Shankar (left heart) and if we don't behave like Him we get heart attack.

9) Shri Hanumana is an idol of balance whereas Shri Ganesha is an idol of innocence & intelligence.

10) Shri Hanumana has balance, love and Shakti darshan so SY must stay quiet and watch how any problem gets solved. When one becomes very angry frequently he gets the disease of Alzheimer in which one loses his balance, gets confused and shrieks. It is very difficult to heal.

11) Shri Hanumana does the 'Lanka-dahan' (burning of Lanka) of drunkards i.e. destroys them. Drunkards don't love anyone and are half mad and half people. They attack people hence Shri Hanumana fills their stomach with heat and diseases like cancer and ulcers. SY must not keep any kind of relationship with drunkards nor they must anything from them.

12) When person plays his conscience Shri Hanumana looks after them.

13) We must use right-sided energy to be in balance and we also must give a bandhan of love to control angry people.

14) If you love others then their good habits come to you and if you hate others their bad habits come to you.

15)Love yourself first and then others 'Nirvachhaya prem' (love without asking any thing in return )You are SY so you have the power to love others with heart and then you are able to give others happiness and enjoy their fragrance.

16) No one can touch you if you do pure Bhakti.

DIWALI CELEBRATIONS - MAHALAXMI PUJA 18.11.2001 - 7:00 p.m.

SHRI MATAJI NIRMALA DEVI 2001

How blessed we are to see this happening. It's a miracle - how things Are worked out. A new phase has started and we have a very open challenge to get people into enlightenment. People are not so ignorant now. They are very much changed, especially their attitude towards Truth. They get stuck if they think 'this' or 'that' is the truth - even if it can't be verified. Unlike humans, animals have an innate capacity to

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smell evil. How have animals developed this capacity? We understand many things: for instance we cook our food, animals don't, but sometimes I think we cook our brains. The way people think and try to avoid the truth with ego is amazing.

Humans Need to rise higher above ego and superego and conditioning. Watch yourself from there and ask 'why is this?', 'what is the reason for my own misunderstandings?' and 'why do I accept wrong things?' Once you see this then you can for-give others who have it is, you have risen higher than these people. Under-stand this point and then you can forgive.

For the people who are actually bad - don't worry - it is the work of the Divine Power to destroy. But watch yourself so you see your complete image and try to cleanse it. Very important. Your Mother pities those who do wrong - it's their responsibility to correct - to introspect. Real p+owers will come from this introspection: powers to give realization; to under-stand problems of your country, the world; and when you realize you need to work this out because you are the soldiers of Divine Power. With that beautiful idea, we start cleansing ourselves. You don't need to worry about 'how, what, where and when' the negativity is working out - you are a soldier. You have to just fight. There should be no obstacle - just push forward. It's only a myth that there are obstacles.

It's not easy to raise the awareness of people. It's very difficult for some people to get out of the problems of Agnya. Best is to introspect....'am I doing everything right or wrong?', 'how am I working for my betterment?' Some people are forward in Sahaja Yoga but what is the purpose - so Others see what you're doing? For example, there is this very big building. All the buildings in the nearby area may fall down because of earthquakes, but This one building won't, because it is built on very solid ground. It can't Be destroyed or distorted. Mother knows everything - finding a fault with others is interesting, but finding faults with yourself is another thing. This is the best way to improve your awareness.

The Joy of Diwali is for the world. We work for our-selves, but what are you doing for others? Only such people are useful to Sahaja Yoga. You have to first give up identification with your-self... if you are too much identified with you, what is the aim of your lives? We have to change the world. Changing yourself is one thing - but changing others is quite another.

Think of the dream I have, that we have to change everyone and Transform them. We should try all methods and all the tricks to transform those Who can be transformed. Trust yourself. Have faith in yourself. Very soon It will happen. Your anxiety should be 'how can I transform this person?' You tell one person, and another follows. At the airport, people were Holding their hands to me. I said 'what is this? These people are not Sahaja Yogis' but without knowing they held their hands to me. Instead of getting annoyed, give them a chance.

They are all fed up with all the artificial things. You'll be surprised By how many are waiting for you. Diwali cannot be celebrated with one Candle only. You need many. I ask Sahaja Yogis 'What did you?' and they say 'nothing'.

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What's the sense of having realization if you feel shy to talk about it, to share it. Introspection - The light inside is there, you have to look after it. Yesterday, you saw the meteor showers. - How timely they were. The showers came to give a new experience. This is the time that even the nature knows - this is the time for a special thing.

Normally I get letters that say 'my relation is sick, or my marriage is broken'.... nonsensical problems. Those who write aren't realized souls.... they can't take care of the problem themselves, but need to write to me. Only Sahaja Yogis are your family. So I asked this lady, 'Why do you write about this cousin and that cousin?' She says 'because then they will come to Sahaja Yoga - if they're cured'. Mother doesn't want to 'advertise' like this. Why are we Sahaja Yogis? Just to cure relations? Who knows, they may be sick because of mistakes they have made.

You need to pay attention to yourself - to your ascent - with understanding and wisdom. We have come for a very special work, a very high work. Why are you asking me about your Mother, your Father? You can cure them yourself. If these relations are not Sahaja Yogis, why do you want to trouble me? All this is maddening. I'm not concerned, you shouldn't be concerned. Tell these relations they have problems because they're not in Sahaja Yoga.

I would request you to stop wasting energy on people who are not Sahaja Yogis. This is very important... as all the time their attention is on Wrong things. You must realize you belong to a very high quality spiritual <of human being> of which there are very few. You must make an effort to see. This understanding is also manifesting in others.Don't worry about things that have no value. You are a special race - You are special soldiers who have been trained. It is to be understood that You have your energy reserved for Sahaja Yoga. You should help everyone who is a Sahaja Yogi or who wants to become a Sahaja Yogi. We are one personality, one God, and the Sahaja Yogis are all the different hands. This oneness must be established.

There are some people who are active and those who are active in criticizing. This is the year of great achievements and great success. If you start doing something in a nonsensical fashion nothing will work out. Sahaja Yoga does already have good soldiers - but we need more. You have to work out the collectivity. You can only be a Sahaja Yogi. Not a Sahaja Yogi and a Christian, or a Sahaja Yogi and a Muslim. You cannot waste yourself for The light of the Divine to spread. But don't go to extremes - some say 'Mother, we have given up our parents, etc. and still we're not right.' – such half -baked people - don't pay too much attention. These people aren't friends, nor Sahaja Yogis. Sahaja Yogi is a special character who fights for the truth.On this Diwali day, I want to bless you all. Respect yourself and Understand your place in the movement of Sahaja Yoga. How are you working it out? Your attention should be a dynamic force working it out. If so, next year, I Know it will be different, and we will have many more lights.

May God bless you

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SHRI ADI SHAKTI PUJA 4.4.1990, SHRI MATAJI NIRMALA DEVI 1990

This is the first time the Puja of the Adi Shakti is being done. All the Shaktis arise from the Adi Shakti. And also the Shaktis of Mahakali, Mahalakshmi, Mahasaraswati. All these Shaktis get absorbed back in Her. Only the Adi Shakti can do this work because She has supremacy over all the Chakras. She is the One who controls the various permutations and combinations of the Chakras . . . Till mankind does not get Self-Realization till then he cannot go straight for very long. After Lord Jesus Christ the ordinary people started following the religion started by Paul and then everything started going wrong. In this way in every religion things went wrong because religion became difficult and inaccessible. In Modern Times people spoke very wrongs things about Kundalini.

Now the question arose how mankind should be told that there is God, there is Truth, and it is in the form of the Spirit. So it was necessary for the Adi Shakti to incarnate because only She could do this work. She had to come amongst mankind and take the birth of a human being, by which She could understand what are the problems and faults in human beings . . . This new Job was such that all the Deities, the saints, the Incarnations and all great people had to come. They had to come into the bodily form of the Adi Shakti who had to incarnate. And that is why this Incarnation has come, that the whole world can rise, can evolve. The Divine which has made this Universe, this world, would never want His creation be destroyed at the hands of humans. And that is why this Work is so tremendous.

NIRVIKALPA - SHRI MATAJI NIRMALA DEVI

It is gratifying to see so many Sahaja Yogis come to celebrate the Sahasrara Day. Without breaking the Sahasrara, we could not have achieved the ascent en masse. But the Sahasrara which is the brain has gone into too much complications in the west. And the thoughts are very much twisted, one upon the other.

To keep Sahasrara open should be very easy if the Western brains could understand and be aware about your Mother. When your Mother is the Deity of Sahasrara, the only way to keep the Sahasrara open has to be complete surrendering.

For that many ask me, How do we do it? It's a very funny question. It is irrelevant. If your Sahasrara has been opened out by someone, and luckily that is the Deity before you, it should be the easiest thing to surrender. But it is not. It is difficult because the attention that has come up through the cells of the brain is polluted. It is impure. It is destructive. It's poisonous and when the nerves are spoiled, the light of the Spirit does not shines on the nerves. And you feel the inability to surrender. Normally it should be the easiest thing to do.

So we have to mentally approach ourselves. We have to talk to ourselves and say to ourselves "What are you doing? What is surrendering? It is enjoyment, it is just enjoyment. Then why I cannot surrender? What is lacking in me? Am I a very low level person? Am I the one who was just saying I'm seeker but I'm not. Am I

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dishonest person that I cannot surrender? If so, what am I proud of? Myself? If that is the situation, then why am I so much enamoured by my ego? ...

But I have heard that people are arriving at different times for Sahasrara Day . I was amazed. It's typical western mind. By the way, Sahaja Yoga is to be done, mostly by-the-way. It should be convenient. It should be a weekend. When just by-the-way for a holiday, we can go to Vienna. There of course, by-the-way, we'll have puja and by-the-way Mother will raise the Kundalini. She will awaken our Deities and then by-the-way we'll be enjoying the blessings. No sacrifice can be done for God. No time, they have no time. Everything is by-the-way. It's rather amazing, for war people give up their lives, for destruction they work so hard, day and night. But for construction of humanity for the ultimate goal of Divinity, in the West, how many there are who really surrender? If it suits, then we'll be there. Sahaja, this is Sahaja style. We should reach Sahaja. I heard about this many a times. There are still many who are that kind of an attitude towards Sahaja Yoga. It is something surprising me. ...

It's so precious that no words can describe the greatness of these moments which we are spending together. You have to feel it within yourself, the assignment that is given to you through your own Spirit, through your own state. You can fulfill the assignments.But lack of faith in yourself cannot give you surrendering powers. Surrendering is the opening of Sahasrara, keeping it completely open so that Nirvikalpa state is established within us. There should be a regular progress of improvement, regular progress of the opening. Have you ever seen any lotus or any flower that blooms, blooms, and in between again does not bloom and then blooms then collapses then blooms. Have you ever seen such a nonsensical phenomenon in the nature? You come up, again you go down, again you come up, you go down. Have you ever seen a tree that comes up, again goes inside the mud, again it comes up, again it goes back into the mud, blaming other people. Have you seen any animal which started growing, then it becomes a dwarf, again it grows, again it becomes a dwarf. ...

But the area of Sahasrara is the realm of God. When the Brahmarandra opens fully, then the heavens open within yourself. The Kundalini which has risen up and given you realisation creates that subtle opening, by which the Divine starts pouring all its subtleties inside your brain. But if you're pressing it from both sides with these balloons, sometimes opening, sometimes closing, sometimes opening, the Divine recedes Its attention. You must know that. The attention is receded back and if it is done many a times, the Divine doesn't bother. So it is you who have to achieve that state and all of us can achieve that state of Nirvikalpa. In that there is just progression. After Nirvikalpa you cannot come down. If somebody is still going up and down, up and down, he should know he is still not up to the point and he should face up to himself or herself that "No, I have to be into Nirvikalpa where I do not come down".

The people who are not in the Nirvikalpa state are not going to be saved. I am very sorry to say that. They are not going to be saved. They will be punished. May not be the same way (as) those who are not realised souls, but they will not occupy the seats in the realm of God Almighty. At least you must reach the state of Nirvikalpa.

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Do not blame any circumstance. Do not blame your father, mother, brother, atmosphere, this, that. ...

... You can say this Sahasrara day is a very big day because I never threw such an ultimatum before. Because now we are established as Vishwa Dharma, as the Universal Religion. We are not like other religions where, after the deaths of the incarnation, people started the religion and did whatever they wanted with that.

In our living time we are going to make ourselves that instrument which will represent Vishwa Dharma. We have to have strong Deities within ourselves. We have weakened them by all our mistakes. Doesn't matter. They are weak because traditionally we haven't got the strength. Doesn't matter. But now this Religion has been established. We cannot have black spots any more. We have done all the choosing, the training, everything. And you all have to jump into the boat now. There's no more time left for us for dilly-dally. Those who will be left behind will be left behind. It is a very intense period now, you must understand. The intensity of the period is not by-the-way. It's not any more Sahaja Yoga. It is Maha Yoga now. And you have to become Maha, you have to become great, otherwise you cannot be there. You have to jump out of all these things.

... I have short time, because the instrument has to be all right. If you have to expedite your growth of the instrument in a proper way so that the God of Love, God's Love flows and the God of that Love feels happy about it. We have to create such a beautiful flowers that He appreciates, that He does not destroy. The Spectator of this play has to be satisfied so that He postpones His destruction. That's why I said the time is short, time is very short.

If we want our children to grow into the realm of God, they are great saints who are born, if you want to give them a full chance of enjoyment, then let us first of all become proper parents and not people who just live with illusions. Everything in Sahaja Yoga cannot be explained. I cannot explain. I cannot because you don't have those powers to understand.

... take a vow within your heart. It's not the words that are important. It has to be living action of your being. That should prove it, that should convince you that we are fully surrendered. And the effects of that you will feel in your own personality, in your own being, in your own manifestation.

I'm working 24 hours. Not a single minute I waste. And in the same way I hope you will dedicate your 24 hours for your emancipation and the emancipation of the whole Universe.

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