- Chitta Nirodh.
« -Teach me how to avoid things that tempt me, take away my attention.
-Take away my thoughts, give me a witness state by which I see the whole drama.
-Let me never spite others and criticize others.
Let me see my mistakes, not others.
Let me see why people are not happy with me.
Give me strength to have a very sweet tongue and a very sweet nature, so that others like my company, they enjoy my company.
Let me be like a flower and not like a thorn.
You have to pray. All these prayers are going to help you. Then ask for the greatest prayer, which you must ask…
Please keep me away from EGO that gives me ideas that I am superior to others, or in any way that takes away my meekness and my humility.
Give me the natural humility, by which I can penetrate into the hearts of people.
Just you have to bend your head and you go up to your heart…Where resides the SPIRIT, be with it. If you are anyway hurt in your ego, or you are hurting somebody’s ego, it is just the same. You’ll behave in the same manner, the same egoistical manner.So try to understand that these things have to go away. Its best is to pray and ask for help. Prayer is a very big thing, but with your heart, pray that:
God, give me strength and that growth, that we can please our Mother sometimes.
We want to please our Mother…We want to see her happy.
The only thing that will really gives Me happiness is…: that the way I love you, you love each other.»
From: Advice at Chelsham Road, 1980
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«You must know that you represent Me…Try to imbibe some
of My qualities…Some of My qualities. You must show patience.
Now the best way would be to pray. Prayer is a very
great thing for Sahaja Yogis.
Pray with your heart.
First of all you must ask for strength from Mother,
Give me strength so that I be genuine, I
wouldn’t deceive Myself…
You are deceiving yourself morning till evening!
Give me strength that I face myself, and
say it with my heart that I try to improve myself.
Because these are defects which are not your own. They
are outside, if they fall off you’ll feel all right. You‘ll be perfect.
Now, then you should ask for forgiveness, pray for
forgiveness, there should be prayer…Say that
You, forgive me. Because I have been
ignorant. I did not know what to do. I have done mistakes, So You, please
forgive me.
That is the first thing one has to ask…is the
forgiveness.
Then second thing…You ask for… is
Give me a sweet tongue, a method by which I
become communicative with others. Others respect me, they like me, they like my
presence.
Give me strength, give me love, give me the
beauty of culture, beauty of understanding that everyone loves me, wants me.
Ask for prayer. In the prayer you ask that …
O
Lord give me the sense of security…Of my SPIRIT… So that I don’t feel insecure
by which I trouble others, or get angry.
Give me the sense of my own dignity, so
that I do not feel that I’m belittled, or someone has littled me.
If you are at a higher position no one can belittle
you. It’s can only be belittled by your foolishness and tomfoolery. Ask for
strength that
give me my witness state.
Give me satisfaction,
ask for satisfaction,
let me feel my satisfaction for what I
have.
Whatever I have. Whatever I eat.
Everything.
Take out my attention from all these
things.
You know that your attention is in the stomach. And
those who are very much interested in food will get liver in any case whatever
you may try.
In anything like this wherever my attention
is going, please give me strength to pull it back
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On witness state and Eyes that See the Reality:
here, a LINK to more information.
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On witness state and Eyes that See the Reality:
here, a LINK to more information.
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From Shiva 1984:
That's why it is said that after
Realization one must try to practice the Shiva Tattwa by practicing detachment.
Now how do you practice this detachment?
Because we get attached to something, of
course through our brain, but through our attention. So we try to do what we
call chitta nirodh, is to control
your attention. Where is it going?
In the practice of Sahaja Yoga, if you have
to rise higher you have to improve your own instrument and not the instrument
of others. This is one thing one should know, for definite.
Now, you just watch your attention. Where
is it going? Watch yourself.
As
soon as you’ll start watching yourself, your attention, you’ll become more
identified with your Spirit. Because if you have to
watch your attention, you will have to be your Spirit, otherwise how will you
watch it?
So now see where is your attention going.
First, the attachment is, in all gross
ways, to your body. So we see Shiva – there’s no attachment to His body. He
sleeps anywhere. He goes to the cemeteries and sleeps there, because He's not
attached. He can never be caught up by any bhoots or anything, nothing of the
kind. He is detached.
The detachment is to be watched and seen
through your own attachments. Now, because
you are realized souls, not yet the Spirit, has not come into your brain of
course, but still you are realized souls.
So what you can do is at least to watch
your attention, you can do that. You can watch your attention very clearly by
seeing where your attention is going. And then, controlling your attention,
also, you can do. Very simple!
To
control your attention you have to just remove your attention from this to
that. Try to change your priorities, all this
has to be done now, after Realization - a complete detachment.
For Shiva, it doesn't matter whether He is
in a cemetery or in his own Kailasha or anywhere. Where your attention is? You
see that your human attention is hopelessly bad. Very entangled nonsense it is..../...
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India tour 1987/
I hope My words act as mantras on you and
that all of you try to follow a path of ascent and not of descent.
Don’t talk too much about things especially
before meditation and after meditation. Try to keep quiet for a while.
To be quiet itself is very great, and also
if there are thoughts then you have to say,
“Not
this, not this, not this.”
Disturbances should not upset you, any
disturbance whatsoever.
I hope this time you are going to achieve a
lot because I have a feeling at this time, in all the pujas I am really working
very very hard, very hard, and if you people little bit, little bit decide that
we are not here for enjoyment, for buying clothes or saris or anything, but we
are here for our ascent. If that is decided in your heart, I am sure it will
work out.
Please try to control your attention.
Control, chitta nirodh,
control it! Where is it going? Where is my attention going? Where is the
attention going? Ask yourself: "Am I there or am I outside?"
Otherwise you’ll have very funny awareness,
very funny awareness. Not that you are not intelligent. Not that you are
incapable of understanding what I say. Only
thing is whatever I say it’s not recorded, and even if it is recorded it is
used for others,
If you see this point, all right. Everybody
has improved a lot coming to Sahaja Yoga; everybody has got a lot of peace
within themselves and joy within themselves.
Now what we have to do is to get to the climax where nobody can touch
you, where you will be touching others, not others touching you.
They’ll just come up to your feet and then you have to pull them up. I hope
this time you are going to build up all that.
