The Aims of Meditation: what is to be achieved?

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Contents of his page:
   Becoming the Shiva in 2 steps
   The three powers of Mother's Name
   Meditation and this great power of the Guru.
   You are for the whole world
   Complete Realization   Translation of an Old Marathi Letter.
Becoming the Shiva in 2 steps
So now you have got the attention or the body,  the whole body of the atom, then,  the nucleus, and inside the nucleus is the Spirit. In the same way - we have this body, the attention of the body, and then we have the nucleus - is the brain, and the Spirit is in the heart. So the brain is controlled through the Spirit. How?


That around the heart there are seven auras which can be multiplied into any number, seven raised to power sixteen thousand, which are the ones which watch the seven chakras, raised to power sixteen thousand .

Now this Spirit is watching through this aura. Watching, I am again saying "watching" through this aura. This aura is watching the behavior of your seven centers in your brain. Is also watching all the nerves that are working in the brain - "watching", again.
But when you bring the Spirit into your brain, then you go two steps ahead, because when your Kundalini rises, She touches the Sadashiva and Sadashiva informs the Spirit. Informs in the sense - reflects in the Spirit.
So that's the first state where the watching auras start communicating through your different chakras in the brain and integrating it.
"...reflects"

But when you bring your Spirit to your brain this is the second state: then you really become self-realized, in the full way, in the full way, because then your Self, that is the Spirit, becomes your brain. Action is very dynamic, it opens then, the fifth dimension in the human being.
First when your become realized, collectively conscious, and start raising the Kundalini, you are in, you cross the fourth dimension.
But when your Spirit comes into your brain, then you become the fifth dimension - means, you become the doer. Our brain, now, for example says, "All right, lift this thing up."  (= the microphone) So you touch it with your hand, you lift it up. You are the doer. But when the brain becomes the Spirit, the Spirit is the doer, and when Spirit is the doer, then you become a complete Shiva - self-realized.
"when it touches the spirit"

In that state, if you get angry, you are not attached. You are not an attached person to anything whatsoever.
If you possess anything, you are not attached. You cannot attach, because Spirit is detachment, complete detachment. You don't bother about any attachments whatsoever. Even for a second, you are not attached.
Now I would say, to understand the detachment of Spirit, we should study ourselves very well, clearly. How are we attached?
We are attached, firstly, by our brain, mostly by our brain, because all our conditionings are in our brain and all our ego is also in our brain. So all emotional attachments are through our brain and all our egoistical attachments also are through our brain. 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...
1984-0229: Shivaratri Puja, Pandharpur, India
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The three powers of Mother's Name

“The meaning of Nirmala”, Nirmala Yoga No11
Translation of Her Holiness Mataji's Speech in Marathi, wherein she has explained the meaning of her own name Nirmala.
 It is good that all Sahaja Yogis have come together. When we meet like this, we can discuss many things of mutual interest and tell even small details about them to each other. The other day I told you how to clean yourself, as your Mother's name itself is Nirmala and it contains many powers.
 The first word is NIH which means not. 
Something that actually does not exist, but appears to exist, is called Mahamaya (illusion) and the whole world is like that. It is seen but it is not true. If we are involved into it, we feel that it is the only thing we have to fight for. Then, we feel that economic conditions are unsatisfactory, social and domestic conditions are bad, everything around us is bad and we are not happy about anything.
Water on the sea surface is very dirty and turbid. Many objects are seen floating on it. But if we go deep into the sea there is so much beauty, wealth and power that we forget that on the surface the water is so bad. The point is that everything that you see around is illusion. You must remember, first of all, it is all nothing.

If you have to establish NIH, you have to tell yourself, whenever a thought comes, say it is not there; another thought comes, say it is not there. You have to feel this again and again. Then you will understand the meaning of word 'NIH'.

The illusion that you see is not just the illusion, but there is something beyond that. However, we have wasted so many years of lives in it, that we give importance to all that actually does not exist, and in doing that, we have made heaps of sins. We have tried to derive the pleasure from many things. We have received nothing from whatever we have tried to enjoy. Essentially, it is all nothing.
So the outlook should be: it is all that nothing, it is all false. Only Brahman is real; the rest all is false. You have to adopt this viewpoint everywhere in life. Then, you will know what Sahaja Yoga is.

What happens with most of the Sahaja Yogis after realization, is that they think, "now that we are realized we have Mataji's blessings. Then why are we not prosperous?". That means they think God is in the prosperity. 
If you find out why your nature does not change, even after realization, you will know that our Swabhav,  the nature of our spirit, does not change. See how beautiful is this word Swabhav:  'Swa' is Atman, i.e. the spirit and  bhav  is the nature. Have you become the nature of your Self? If you become your Self there is so much beauty within, that all that goes on; outside would appear like drama. 
So long as this witness state is not fully awakened within you, you have not followed the word 'NIH' and also you have not practiced it. Suppose you are aware that you have not established 'NIH' within you, and even now you become sometime emotional or egoistical, coercive or submissive, and feel sad about it, then the state of being on 'NIH' is at the centre of these extremes. 
You are neither in this state nor in that. This state can be best achieved in the meditation. Just by following the idea of 'NIH' in your life you will become (Nirvichar) thoughtless.
First of all you should become thoughtless. Once you start jumping on a thought, however good or bad it may be, you go into some sort of inertia and in that state you jump from one thought to another. So some people have said that a bad thought should be opposed by a good thought. In other words, if a vehicle or train coming from one direction  is pushed back by another one, both will stop somewhere at the center. It is good, but occasionally it can become harmful. A bad thought when put down by a good thought remains suppressed, but it can suddenly come up, and it happens with many people. They press down their normal thoughts and always tell themselves that they must be good to others and must be well behaved etc. These people can sometimes be in trouble. Suddenly they get exasperated and others cannot understand why these well-behaved-people are annoyed. Also they lose their inner peace. All the beauty within them is destroyed. So we should be always thoughtless. 
Ban all thoughts from your mind and then you would automatically remain at the centre. You must make all efforts. Now you would ask:  "Mother how can we do anything without thinking?"But what are thoughts? They are hollow.

In thoughtless state you are one with the God's power. That is: the drop, which is you, comes in the ocean which is God. Hence His power also comes to you. Does this finger think? Is it not still moving? Give your thoughts to God and ask Him to think about you. But it is rather difficult, because you are not thoughtless.
Many people say "we have surrendered everything", but it does not happen, because they do it only in talking. Surrendering is not talking.
You have to surrender to attain thoughtlessness. That is, you have stopped thinking. When you stop thinking you come to the centre. When at the centre, immediately you go into thoughtless awareness, i.e. become one with God's power, and when you are one with the God's power He looks after you. He takes care of your small things also. You will be amazed. It is worth trying, and after that you will realize that what you were doing earlier was wrong. 
So once you are in thoughtlessness you will get all inspirations, all powers and everything. The idea that you get in thoughtlessness is an inspiration. You will be surprised. Everything will come to you as if on a plate. You are standing to give a speech: just be thoughtless and start! Although you have never given a speech earlier, or do not even know how to do it, or have no special knowledge of any subject, you will speak so well that others will be astonished how you know so much. But once you are deep in the thoughtless state all comes from there and not from your brain.
I tell you about me. You pray "Mother kindly see that such and such happens to me". And  I do not think about that. It is amazing! I put all that in the thoughtlessness: all machinery is working there. Just put it to that machinery and it is all ready. Allow that machinery, you can call it silent machinery, to work. You should put all your problems to it. But it is very difficult for intellectuals because their habit is to go on thinking about everything.

You should be able to go into thoughtlessness while trying to understand a subject; all becomes clear automatically! Research, that you are doing, should also be in thoughtless state. Let your hands work, while you are thoughtless! You can do your research extremely well in this way. I tell you many things. I have never read science in my life and know nothing about it. Still I tell you all that. Where does all the knowledge come from? From the thoughtlessness; I only speak and see all that is going on! It was all kept ready in that computer which is speaking. If you are not in the thoughtless state, you do not use your computer, and put your brain on top of it. It is such on old computer and lot of accurate work has been done on it. You are bound to make mistakes if you use your own brain and do not consult the computer.
All what happens in the thoughtless state is enlightened. Whenever suffix 'Pra' is used (in Sanskrit, Hindi or Marathi) it means enlightened. Light never talks. If you switch on the light in the room, the light won't speak or give you any ideas. It would just make everything visible. Same is about the light of thoughtlessness. That 'NIH' is common in all such words like Nirvichar (Thoughtless), Nirahamkara (egoless); you establish it, and then you come into doubtless state. First become thoughtless and then doubtless (Nirvikalpa). Then all your doubts go and you know that there is some power that works. It works very fast and is all subtle. You will be amazed how it happens.
This is also about time. I never see watch. Sometimes it stops and shows, when the time is 3 or 4. But my real watch is in the thoughtlessness. It is permanently stopped. If anything is to be done, it takes place at the right time, then there are no regrets whether it is late or not. Whatever it may be, I am not bothered.
Yesterday my car failed but I was relaxing because I wanted to see the stars. That beauty is not visible in London and I wanted to see it. Its splendor was spread all over the sky. The sky thought Mataji should see it! Sometimes I must look at that also! I was enjoying it. In short, you should not be a slave of anything.

If you are thoughtless, God takes you everywhere, as if on His hands. He makes all arrangements. He knows everything and there is no need to tell Him about anything. But you must see whether you are in the mainstream or not. If you are not in it, then you are stuck up somewhere on the bank; then current comes and takes you in, twice or thrice, but again you are on the bank. Then you say “Mataji, nothing goes smoothly for me”. It won't! Because you are entangled.
Shri Ganesha's praise that you sing is excellent. It says, "Flowing in the main stream (Pravaha)" which means enlightened mainstream. You should not bring your own separate current in it. The Aarti of Shri Ganesha also says “Nirvani Rakshave”, i.e. protect me when I am dying. You also pray “Raksha Raksha Parameshwara, O God protect me!”, but you want to protect yourself! Why should, then, God protect you? He says "Let him protect himself!" What I want to emphasize is that you must learn to go deep and realize all this in the thoughtlessness, then you can become Nirvikalpa (doubtless).
You must have no attachment (Nirasakta). We have here, (India) 'my son, my daughter'. In England, it is just the opposite. There, they are not attached to son or daughter. They are worried only about themselves. Here you have this attachment; my son, my daughter, my house etc., everything is mine and at the end you are left only with “mine”! You should say "Nothing is mine and everything is yours." Kabir says "so long as a goat is alive it is bleating 'main, main' ( I, I) but when it is cut the taut strings of its guts sound on an instrument ? Toohie, Toohie  (You alone are.)
You must become like that. Once you are established in the idea I am nought, I have no existence, then only you will understand the word 'NIH'.
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Let us consider the word 'Lah' . It is Lalita's word. My second name is Lalita. It is the blessing of Devi. It is Her weapon.
When LA, i.e. Goddess, becomes Lalita, or when the Shakti becomes Lalita, which means active, that is when the vibrations rise within Her, the vibrations which you are feeling on your palms, that Shakti is Lalita Shakti.  It is full of beauty and love. When the power of love becomes active, it becomes LA Shakti. She envelops you from all sides. When she is active, what is the worry? What is your power? Can you make even one fruit-tree leave fruit? You cannot make even a leaf or a root! Only 'LA' Shakti does all the work. The realization that you have got is also from this power. From this Shakti have come, 'MA' Shakti and 'NIH' Shakti. 'NIH' Shakti is Shri Brahmadeva's Power: Shri Saraswati Shakti. And in Saraswati Shakti you must attain the qualities of 'NIH'. Attaining 'NIH' is becoming completely unattached. You must become completely unattached.
'LA' Shakti has love in it. She relates us to others. Word LA, comes in  Lalam, Lavanya,'. Word LA has a sweetness of its own, and you should impress others with it. You should use this Shakti while speaking to others. What should you do when this Shakti, the power of love, is spread everywhere in moving and non-moving things?
You should leave all thoughts to the first power, because thoughts come from the first power. What should you do in the last power, i.e. LA Shakti? You should enjoy the bliss of love. How? By forgetting yourself. Has anyone measured how much one loves others? It should grow. How you enjoy it? Does it occur to you, how much you love others?
With the Yogis of Brighton, UK.
I always enjoy loving others; feel! -how the love is flowing everywhere! I do not know whether you feel or not. I cannot understand much about human beings. But I feel how the love is flowing all over. Like a musician who forgets himself in his own melodies and feels how his music is flowing everywhere, similarly, love must flow without any interruption. That is, you should achieve Lalam Shakti, which is the power of vibrations, i.e. Lalita Shakti. Therefore you should first achieve Lalita Shakti.
You must first find out how you view others. Some people of low category look at others with an idea to steal something or to get some benefit. There are some who are interested in finding other people's faults. I do not know what pleasure they get, but they keep looking for other's shortcomings. This way they become aloof and then suffer. Only man can teach how to invite troubles. It is not possible for me. How glad am I to meet all!
You should use Lalam Shakti in such a way that you should go into thoughtlessness while looking at other person. That person also will then become thoughtless. Hence I ask you to do 'bandhan'. It is helpful to do 'Bandhan' to 'NIH' Shakti and 'LA ' Shakti which is transferring 'LA' Shakti into 'NIH' Shakti. I have to tell many people to raise their left sides. I tell those people to raise their left sides, who are very proud, or think they are working very hard, or are very busy. It is filling our own love into own five elements. Love in our hearts, or the power of that love from our hearts, should be filled into the power of action as if you are painting with colors on a canvas. When the power of love is filled in the power of action in a person, he becomes extremely loving and that love gradually shines through his behaviors and in his personality and flows to others. It makes his every action enjoyable to others. Such person becomes so alluring that you feel relaxed and happy in his company for hours. So, your love should become enjoyable, and winning other people's hearts. This becomes useful in such a way that we get friends and the affection for each other grows. Everyone feels that there is a place where one can get all love and affection. Hence we must cultivate the God's power of Love.
 If we get any thought we must tell ourselves that we are throwing dirty things in the Ganges of God's power. With this attitude of mind our 'LA' Shakti the power of love will remain absolutely clean and we will enjoy that cleanliness.
You should never be critical of others. If you ask me about some person, I can only tell you regarding his kundalini and on which chakra he is caught at present or gets frequently caught. I cannot understand anything beyond that; how he is or how his nature is etc. If I am asked, I say 'what is nature?' It is so changing;  I- River  is flowing here; who can tell where it will be in future? You have to see where you stand. If you are on this side, you are bound to feel it unusual that the river is flowing here. I see from the side of the ocean, so I know where it comes from. So never brand anybody as useless. Every person changes and he must change. The work of Sahaja Yoga is to bring about the change. Those who believe in Sahaja Yoga should never say that such and such person has become useless. Everybody must be given the freedom. You all know how we stand. Now if you think this way, you will not only respect yourself, but will also respect others. One who has no regard for himself never gives regard to others.
We must develop Lalam Shakti, I cannot adequately describe the joy of it, even by writing a book, because it cannot be expressed through words; they are very much inadequate. In other words, if you have to describe  smile  you can only tell how the muscles move, but you cannot tell the effects of the smiles. You should allow this power to be effective and develop it. Man gets a kind of beauty, an elegance and good nature from 'Lalam' Shakti. You must see that this power grows through your speech, behavior and other activities. Some person's annoyance is also pleasant!
That sweet and pleasant power is called Lalita Shakti. People have completely distorted its idea. They say that it is the power of destruction, but it is not at all correct.

This power is extremely beautiful, creative and artistic. Suppose you sow a seed, then some of its parts get destroyed, this is 'Lalita' Shakti. But the destruction is very gentle and easy. The seed then grows into a tree that has leaves. Those leaves also fall, which is again very simple and easy. Then come the flowers. When the flowers become fruits some of its components fall and then come the fruits. Those fruits are also cut for eating. The taste that you get after eating is also this power. In this way these two powers work. You should understand that you cannot make any statue without cutting and chopping. If you understand that this chip-chopping is of the same kind, you should not feel bad if you have to do it sometimes. That is also necessary. But an artist does it artistically, whereas an artless person does it bluntly. So this power depends on how much art is in you. 
Sometimes you look at a picture and you want to keep looking. If someone asks you what is so nice in that picture, you cannot express it in words. You only look at the picture. Some pictures are such that you become thoughtless just by looking at them. In that thoughtless state you are enjoying the whole pleasure of it, and this state is the very best. Instead of comparing it with something, or describing it with similes, you should enjoy the bliss of this state to your hearts' content. There are no words or no expression to describe it. You have to experience it from within. All should have this experience.
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Word 'Mah' which is between 'NIH' and 'Lah' is very interesting.
'Mah' is the word of Mahalakshmi.
'MA' is the power of Dharma (Righteousness) and also the power of our evolution. In 'MA' Shakti you have to comprehend, assimilate and get Mastery. For example, an artist conceives the idea of his creation with his 'LA' Shakti; he makes it with 'NIH' Shakti and then uses 'MA' Shakti to bring it in conformity with his idea. At every stage he checks whether it agrees with his idea, and tries to improve if it does not. He does that again and again. This is 'MA' Shakti. That is, if something is not good: do it again, once, twice and so on!
This job of improving involves efforts. We have to improve ourselves also. But for this, the evolution would have been impossible. God has to make enormous efforts. We have to accomplish 'MA' Shakti and preserve it. If it is not done, other two powers fall off, because this power is the centre of gravity. So you should be at the centre of gravity, and the centre of gravity is 'MA' Shakti of our evolution. Other two powers will become active in you only when you grow along the power of evolution. But you must fully understand and develop 'MA' Shakti.
So long as you are not realized, it is alright to say that if God loves you, He should come to you; but thereafter you cannot say so. For with 'MA' Shakti you have to balance other two powers. In melody you balance the tunes; while painting a picture you bring about the balance of different colors. Similarly you have to achieve the balance of 'NIH' Shakti and 'LA' Shakti. You have to work for attaining this balance. On many occasions you lose it. That Sahaja Yogi who can maintain it rises to a very high level.
...the problems are necessary because...

Very emotional Sahaja Yogi is not good. Similarly very busy Sahaja Yogi is also not very good. One should activate one's power of love and see how it has worked so far. Suppose I follow certain method, but even in that, every time I do something different. You must have seen that every time, I come out with something new, some new method. If this does not work try some other thing. If that also does not work, do something else. Nobody should fix his method. You rise in the morning apply vermilion, pay obeisance to Mataji; this is all mechanical. It is not living process. In living process you should find out different new methods. I always give the example of the root of a tree. It penetrates deeper and deeper into the soil, circumventing the obstacles. It does not fight with them and it would not have been able to hold the tree without the obstacles. Hence the problems are necessary because you cannot progress without the problems. The power that teaches you how to overcome these problems is 'MA' Shakti. Therefore it is 'MA Shakti' i.e. Mother's power! For that, first thing required is wisdom.
Suppose a person is very mild natured and says, "Mother I am very soft what can I do?" I tell him to change himself and become a lion. If some other person is a lion I tell him to become a goat. Otherwise it won't work. You have to change your methods. Person who cannot change his methods cannot spread Sahaja Yoga because he sticks to only one way, with which people get bored. You should find new ways. This is how 'MA Shakti' works.
Ladies are expert in it. They make different recipes everyday and the husbands are eager to know the menu.
This is the Shakti with which you accomplish your balance and concentration. When you take it to the highest state, you get the vibrations flowing from your balance and wisdom, and they will not flow if you do not have wisdom. Person from whom the maximum vibrations are flowing is a wise person; in fact it is his wisdom that is flowing. On this basis, it can be assessed how great Sahaja Yogi you are.

You will naturally be caught on your chakras. You should know when you are caught that you have lost your balance. The imbalance shows that  MA  Shakti is weak in you. The first letter from any real name Mataji is  MA , that is mother, and this work has been done only by 'MA' Shakti within me. This was not possible if only 'LA shakti' and 'NIH shakti' were there. I have come with all the three powers but  MA  Shakti is on top. You have seen that  MA  Shakti is Mother's power. It must be proved that she is our Mother. Will you accept if someone comes and says "I am your Mother."?  You won't. Mother must be proved.
What is Mother?
We have a place in Her heart. We have every right on Her and She has on us, because She loves us very much. Her love is absolutely disinterested. She always wishes well of us and has nothing in Her heart except love for us. You will have faith in the Mother only if you understand that all that decorates you, i.e. your spirit, is in Her. You should prove all this to others. Sahaja Yogi should be able to do that. Other people should know that he is a wise person. For that, you need the balance; the balance between the powers of love and action, and it should be so beautiful that people are influenced by such person without their knowledge. Sahaja Yogi should accomplish it.
You think at home how to activate these three powers and use them. 'NIH' Shakti should give all beauty and gravity to your homes.
You should devise new ways and means of contacting the people. These powers should be used to propagate Sahaja Yoga. For their proper use, use your 'NIH' Shakti,   i.e. the power of action should be very strong. Albeit that, you must have main 'LA' Shakti, that is the power of love. But  LA  Shakti is to be activated with 'NIH' Shakti. But if one way does not work, find some other way; try first red and yellow. If it does not suit, take red and green, and if that also does not help, do something else! It would be wise not to be adamant. An adamant man cannot do anything in Sahaja Yoga. All that you want to do is to spread Sahaja Yoga, then try different ways.
I agree to do what you insist on, because I know that human beings are not like me. You can never tell what an obstinate person will do, you should not allow him to go to an extremity. I know all this from 'MA' Shakti. But you should not insist on particular things. Mataji does not insist. Whatever is there, you should accept. Whatever you do, you should have in mind that you are doing an important work. I have no desire. There is no 'LA' Shakti or 'NIH' Shakti or 'MA' Shakti within me. There is nothing! I even do not know that I am these powers. I only witness all the play.

When the life is changed like this, there will be 'Siddha' Sahaja Yogis [= those who have complete mastery over Sahaja Yoga] among human beings. So far, they have not become siddhas. You have to achieve the mastery. Siddha Sahaja Yogi is the one who becomes completely one with God and wins Him over. He has to do everything for that. I am now going after that, it is to be seen how and where you use your mastery.
Sometimes I tell you not to do certain things. You should not feel bad about that. You should not feel sorry in 'MA' Shakti because I must tell you all that. Some people feel sorry. You must remember that you have to become master (Siddha). All others must accept that you are Siddha. It should be clear to them the very moment they see you that you are Siddha. You must ensure this. If it happens everything will be fine.
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Meditation and this great power of the Guru.
MahaShivaratri Puja, Pune, India  2004-02/15
This is a subject which you can only explain in Hindi language, which says that this Guru Pada, you get from somebody else. But that somebody else itself, is endowed with the power, the power of peace of mind, to begin with, and also the power to overcome all kinds of earthly problems: mental problems, physical problems. All these problems you can solve through your mental balance and mental blessings from your Guru. When you become the Guru, you yourself have the power to bless others. With your blessing power you can create a guru out of many. And once the Guru is created and there is a Guru, who has this power, it s very satisfying and is very [enabling].
The satisfaction is so much that you don t want anything. This is the power of Shiva. You have seen, Shiva doesn t have much clothes, He doesn t decorate Himself, He is just sitting in meditative mood, all the time. He doesn t want anything. He s so satisfied with Himself that He doesn t want anything. And that is the power you get after the Self-realization, if you have a Guru, and Guru of that level and caliber.
One should not try to become a Guru. That s very impractical; if you try to become, you ll never. It has to come to you automatically, without any asking, without any effort. So the only way you can get to it is through Dhyana. 
Dhyana is meditation. 
When you meditate, just meditate, and meditate; 
do not ask for anything!. 
Meditation itself gives you that instrument which can bear this great power of the Guru. 
And then you automatically, you give this power to others; you don t have to work it out. Just in your presence people can get this power of complete satisfaction. And there is salvation for you and for others.
So all the problems which are faced for the journey of ascent are finished and you are now drenched in the bliss of heavenly peace and joy. That is why it is called as Kaivalya, means: only, only the blessings. See, that means there is no other word to translate it. There s no other way of explaining it. 
It s a state.
It s a Stithi, it s a state. In that state you have to rise, and you know that you are in that state. It s a very remarkable thing, that once you reach that state you don t have to ask for anything. It s all there and you are so satisfied. I can go on talking about this special power, but I think whatever I have said, please meditate on that. And you are all capable of reaching that state, that state of complete peace and joy. May God bless you!
[kaivalya n., isolation Va1m.; perfect isolation , detachment of the soul from matter or further transmigrations , beatitude; leading to eternal happiness or emancipation. Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon]

 You are for the whole world

Sahasrara Puja, Cabella, 2002-05/05:…)
Sahaja yogis are saints; not saints, but they are more than saints because they can express themselves better. They have powers in them which they can utilize, which can show to other people that you are so powerful, that you can manage things much better than what you think.
 For example, say there s a problem and the whole world is upset about it. Only thing, if you know how to witness it, it will disappear, it will disappear in the whole world. It cannot remain there. So nowadays the world is full of turmoil as you see, full of nonsensical people coming up, full of quarrelsome people; dominating people are overpowering. At this time, if you just see this in the witness state, this will disappear, because very powerful you are, very powerful. But you must know first of all that you must have the equipment to use the power. If you have that equipment within you, you can do it.
But with your ego you cannot. Ego is the greatest hurdle for your ascent. You see that ego is at a place where you have to just cross to go to Sahasrara. And to break Sahasrara is very easy otherwise, but if there is ego, you are already lost in that ego.
So, against all this one has to understand that “watch yourself.” Is he egoistical? What does it think about itself? Ego is very limited, it makes you limited, and you don t see the purpose of your life. Why have you become a realized soul? You don t understand. You just are involved in your own affairs, in your family, in your children, in your something like that, very low!
But if you have an egoless temperament, then you are very effective, the whole power works. What I ve seen, is that the power of Sahasrara is so great: in some people it has worked wonders; they have worked it well, greatly. But, because of ego, so many people are still not of that level that we can say they are Sahaja yogis.
(…) 
What we need today are people who are egoless and who have powers completely flowing in them. With the opening of Sahasrara all these powers should flow. If the Sahasrara is fully opened
 
all these powers of love should flow. You ll be amazed; I mean, wherever I go people just fall in love with me. I don t know why, I don t do anything to them, but just they feel My love. That s what it should be, that people should feel your love and they should know that you are a lovable person.
Sahasrara Puja, 1982: "like an artist seeing its own creation fulfilled;"
be ashamed of; because your country whatever it is, is not doing very well, it s not spiritually equipped, so why should you be so proud of your country? When you will work it out ,and they will become spiritually equipped, then of course you can have pride in your country, but I see not that happening. And so you have to work it out.

 Complete realization

“Advice given by Her Holiness Mataji Nirmala Deviji on 15th February 1977 at New Delhi, on Sat-Chit-Anandaa in English”
Now we were talking about 'Sat-Chit-Anandaa'. Again I have to use Sanskrit words. 'Sat-Chit-Anandaa' is the 'Super Consciousness', the all pervading power. 'Chit' is the attention, the 'Consciousness'. You are just now conscious and listening to me. Every minute you are conscious. But every moment is becoming dead into the past. Every moment is coming from the future to the present. But you are conscious at this moment and are listening to me.

A thought rises and falls. You can see the rising of the thought, but not the falling of the thought. In between these thoughts, there is a space called 'Vilamba'. If you can stop for a while, you get to the Conscious Mind and there exists the 'Sat-Chit-Ananda'. You can say 'Sat-Chit-Ananda' is the condition of the mind or the state of mind, where there is no thought, but you are aware ;'Nirvichar'. This is the first stage, where you jump into; into the 'Super Consciousness'.

[Vilamba mfn. hanging down, pendulous (as arms), delay.]

Some people may think that by realization you must achieve something, as Adi Shankaracharya did, but it is not possible. With some it may be, but with everyone it is not possible.

Your first stage is Nirvichara. You become thoughtlessly aware. That happens when the Kundalini rises above the Agya Chakra, meaning enters into the limbic area, when your attention just touches 'Sat' [=existing reality] point. The reality separates from Mithya [=illusions]. You become two personalities. At that state you start separating, like when one is putting lime in the milk, then it starts separating into curd and water. In the same way the beginning of reality starts.
This is the state when you can say that the Kundalini has awakened only. We must understand the different stages, as it happens. I am giving you a very detailed picture but normally the Kundalini shoots off to 'Sahastrar' in most of the people. In some people it does not. It takes time.
(...) I am very anxious always that it should come out of the Brahmarandra. At that stage you start getting the vibrations; but at this stage you are just a Chit' only and you just touch the Sat point. Your attention is only charmed by the Spirit. Only the attention part, as I told you, is like a flicker or light in a Gas lamp, and Kundalini is like a gas which touches the spirit; and the light of the spirit spreads in the central nervous system, Chit part, the outer core, the Chitta, means the attention part. At that stage the Kundalini opens the Brahmarandra, when you feel the vibrations from your hand; and you can feel another person's also because you become collectively conscious'. Collectively conscious again, out of Sat-chit-Ananda, that you just touch the Chitta part. Thus you start feeling the Chit of your Chitta becoming the 'Chitta' of the collective consciousness, which  means that you drop into the ocean of SaChitAnanda, in which you only feel the collective consciousness. That means you can feel another person's Kundalini.
[Cit: to perceive , fix the mind upon , attend to , be attentive , observe , take notice of; to aim at…
Citta: mfn. Noticed, " aimed at "' , longed for;" appeared", visible; n. attending , observing]
Yesterday there was another gentleman, as you have seen it, who was arguing with me that we have suspended intelligence, but all that I said was "what is the suspended intelligence?, I do not know about this thing". So I told him this. He said that, "I am in a Turyadasha” I said "if you are in  Turya, you can feel the Kundalini of another person, and you cannot certify yourself like that, but can you feel the Kundalini of another person?". But he said 'no'. Then I asked him "how can you be in Turya?"  If you go in Turya, if you cross this stage, then you have to feel the Kundalini of another person. Now you have seen there are many people who can feel the Kundalini and they all say the same thing. They talk the same language, whether they do so in English, Indian or any other language. They say the same thing i.e., this chakra is catching or that chakra is catching. This is because you start seeing your own Kundalini, thereby seeing the Kundalini of others, because through the fingers you can feel what is happening.

You just feel the Chita and not the Ananda part of it. First stage is through Chitta, that you feel the Kundalini of another person; thereby you can raise the Kundalini of another person. After a while you can give realization also to another person with the assistance of my photograph.
But the Ananda stage is not yet reached. In the beginning you just feel the cold breeze in your hand. You feel peace and tranquillity and also there is no thought. You feel the thoughtless awareness, but the Ananda part is not yet felt at this first stage. Because now I have studied thousands of human beings and their problems, I know; this is the fact!
But there are some who have reached the last stage, though they are very very few.[Ananda m. joy, enjoyment, sensual pleasure; pure happiness "' , one of the three attributes of Atman or Brahman]
Thus at the first stage when you come, is the Chit stage, the consciousness stage, you touch the Sat, which means you start seeing the reality. This is one thing that you feel which is flowing. At this time you start saying “it is coming” or “it is going”. Just now you said, “It is coming”. You didn't say that “I am receiving, I am giving”. That ' I ' goes out of your language. But still the Ego and the SuperEgo are not completely gone down. They are still there, but your attention has come up and you feel the Chitta. With this 'Collective Consciousness' you can cure people, you can give them Realization as I have told you, and also you can feel the Kundalini of any person in the whole world, and cure the Chakras of that person. You can tell the condition of another person far away by sitting down here. Wherever your attention goes, it works; thereby your attention becomes Universal. A drop of your attention becomes one with the ocean of the Sat-Chit-Ananda.
 Listen to me carefully because many people at this stage drop out and only the attention becomes effective
(…) Now from where the vibrations are coming, or how far it is going and can give the depth of such Chakras? There are many abstract important happenings taking place.
Once you get the realization, the Chiranjivas [= Beings existing since the Beginnings, Immortals] surrender to you. They are watching you. You are their responsibility. All the 'Deities' are awakened in you.

  If you do anything against the 'Deities' immediately they will harm you. If a person who has got Realization goes to a place which is not to be seen or which is not to be felt, or which is not a good place, or to a fake Guru, immediately he will feel heated up. If he does not run away, and if he still goes on and on, he will lose his vibrations and he will become like another ordinary person. Initially it is in a very transitory stage. Still, I would say at this point, that the repulsion is not so very great that the man does not accept it, because, if you accept it, you become completely realized. If you do not accept it, then there might be a little bodily problem that you might have. You might harm your own fingers, or you might get little burning sensation here or there. But if you are not afraid of these bodily sensations and if you ignore them, then you start rising higher and higher and I have already informed you that all the Chiranjivas' start guiding you, and looking after you.
Nirvikalpa and Mastery
Shri Krishna Puja, Mumbai, India 1973-08/28: 
I have told you many a times … that you should know you are never alone when you are realized. There have been many people who have been realized, before even you were born, who exist, who are anxious to help you at every moment. In our shastras [= Scriptures] we call them Chiranjiva], you know them. They are people who are Niranjanas, as he said about Bhairava and Hanumana. All these people exist and they are waiting just for a call from you.
 [niraJjana mf.  Spotless, pure, simple; void of passion or emotion] 
If there is one realized person in the train, there cannot be an accident and if there is an accident, nobody will die in that train. If a realized soul is walking on the road, and if he sees a mishap, his attention goes there immediately and the mishap is averted. His attention is being blessed. All this, a scientist cannot understand. Somebody just now asked me, "If he is guided by internal God, then he cannot do anything by himself". It is not so! The internal Gods are his own part-and-parcel, you can say that I am guided by my brain, hence I cannot do anything else! You can see, the Gods are in your internal parts, by yourself. What is this self left with, then? When you are united with this Self, you become a hollow personality, then you do not have this feeling of the self. All the time you will say: "it is going, it is happening, it is flowing". You start looking at yourself as a third person. You do not identify yourself with your Self. It happens. You can see these people how they are working.
(…) So, the 'Joy' of enjoying other Human beings,  joy also starts, these are the feelings, this is how you enjoy Nirvichara Samadhi . Samadhi does not mean going into unconsciousness but the unconscious becomes conscious. The universal unconscious becomes conscious. So this is the first stage. 
In the second stage, you become 'Nirvikalpa', where there is no Vikalpa [=alternative, indecision, irresolution, doubt, hesitation]. Just now in Delhi there are very few Sahaja Yogis like that. First of all, by temperament, they are Vikalpi [=irresolute]. The reason is a complete atmosphere of Vikalpa. If you say something, another will pull you down by saying something else. So the thing is that the whole atmosphere is so Vikalpi that you are not yet settled down in Sahaja Yoga. But we have also got very great Sahaja Yogis in Delhi as well.
Now, you will ask how do you become Nirvikalpa? Supposing you are in the water, you are afraid of being drowned; therefore, you are picked up and put in the boat, then you are no longer afraid of being drowned. Now you can settle down firmly. You have to be firmly settled and with that you get certain powers: your Kundalini starts moving. We have in Bombay certain people whose Kundalini rises at least one foot high. They are very developed people.
At the Nirvikalpa state the collective consciousness becomes subtler and subtler. At that stage you can understand the very deep significance of things when the reality starts becoming clearer. For example, you start understanding the working of the Kundalini. You start understanding how it penetrates. You can understand how it works out.  You can use it for experimentation with your own hand and you can move it as you please. You can cure people and you can show the Kundalini's working in different ways. You can combine in permutations and combinations of the Kundalini. You can say that, in the first year of music, you must learn seven notes and two other notes and ordinary ragas. But when you grow subtler and higher, then you know all the minute points of how to create music.
At the Nirvikalpa stage you need not put your hand towards the person. By sitting down you know where it is, what is happening, where he is catching, what is the problem: what are the 'collective problems. You have no doubts about Sahaj yoga, nor about Kundalini, nor about anything else. There are no doubts at all. At that time you start experimenting about it and you start using it. Mastery of Kundalini starts.
At that stage the Chitta, the consciousness, becomes subtle. Somebody was sitting with me, and outside the Sahaj yogis knew that this gentleman is going to get realization and they knew that Mother is giving the realization. Such Sahaja Yogis are extremely pleased at such time and they do not grudge or grumble about small matters. They are carefree and live in a big way. They are not touchy. Their attention is in the subtle. They have no time for outside gross matters, so their attention is always deep into the subtle part. They are not bothered. 
Such people are the satisfied souls. Such people are the ones who are going to create the Pillar for Sahaja Yoga. Because, when somebody sees such a person, a transformed person like that, they get shocked: "Just look at this man! He is such a great person, he was a very horrid man earlier, and how he has changed like this. See how is he transformed!"
Christ and the money changers, Caravaggio
At this stage, at the Nirvikalpa stage, the vibrations emit; then there is no questioning at all. But such a man gets into a terrible temper if he sees somebody is misbehaving with me, and cannot bear it. Christ has said, "Forgive all those, for they know not what they are doing." But supposing they had done anything against His Mother, He would not have forgiven in the least. In the Bible it is written; "Nothing will be tolerated against the Holy Ghost". And the Holy Ghost was His Mother, which is Adi Shakti. Hence you cannot tolerate anything against your Mother or Sahaj yoga and one can get into a tremendous temper or a "Samara shakti" [force to battle] which they develop. It is said that such a man, if anybody tries to do some harm, he will immediately bring him down, through their devotion towards their Mother.

We have a notion that a realized person should never lose his temper. It is a very wrong idea. Then you will say, "Why Krishna killed Jarasandha, why did he kill Kansa?" How do you explain the violence of Krishna? How do you explain Devi, who killed demons when She came and got into Her Temper? She used to get into tremendous temper and then she used to kill. The temper of Shiva! How do you explain this? It is a foolish idea to say that they should not get into the temper even if someone tries to kill them. Even Christ had to take the whip in his hand and drive them away. You have a right to get into a temper, if you are in a Nirvikalpa state, since you are given that right of even raising one's own voice, when need arises. I am using all the Ayudhyas, if you have noticed, in my hand: the Chakra, the Parasha etc. [weapons, such as discus, axe]. They are there and I have to use them, and you cannot stop me from using them. This is what I say, that by reading people don't understand things. A man who is quietly sitting and is being pestered by everybody is called a realized person? What nonsense! How dare you spite at such a man! Is the spite of a Devi to be borne by a realized soul? To say that a realized soul should not get into a temper is a wrong thing.

It is true that after Nirvikalpa, the Ganesha becomes really Jagrut [Awakened]. Such a person is not tempted by any women. No temptation for another woman will exist, except for his own wife, where he goes on living like a celebrated husband, because husband and wife are united in a bond of matrimony. Otherwise, he is a sanctified householder. He does not have temptation for any alcohol or anything like smoking and is beyond temptation. A Nirvikalpa man cannot have any temptation

(…) When you get into the Nirvikalpa state, the Ananda starts settling in you. When you see cities, any beautiful picture or scene,  immediately what you find is a great flow of Ananda coming down. This is the Grace -that you are just lost into it; like the Ganges flowing over you, you are completely drowned into it. Your consciousness becomes Ananda.
In reality you come to know that, till now we have never known that there is a Sarvavyapi Shakti [all-pervading energy], but now we are aware of the same.
We can feel it coming in our fingers.
This is the Reality.
There is Chaitanya [=flow of Divine Consciouness] all around us, which thinks, which understands, organizes and loves us; all this you come to know, the knowledge part of it.
Then, the Ananda which is the Hridaya [=the heart] starts emitting it.
Later on what you get is Vilaya into Ananda.At that stage complete Self realisation takes place.
At that stage you can control the sun, you can control the moon, you can control every element.
Beyond that, there is God's Realization.
There are three stages to that also, but just now I have told about this. 'Sat-Chit-Ananda' state.


The 'God's Realization' is the stage which Gautama Budha and Mahavira only had achieved and settled down in our brain. Christ is all here. These two are not incarnations. They are born as Human beings. They were born to Sita, as Luv and Kush. Then they were born as Buddha and Mahavira, and Adishakti was their Mother once again. Later on they were born to 'Fatima' as Hasan and Husain [= grandsons of Prophet Muhammad]. They are the two milestones you have got, by which you can know to what height a Human being can rise. (…)



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 Translation 
of an Old Marathi Letter.

My dear Modi and other Sahaja Yogis,
Many blessings. Received your letter. I am very glad to know that your Ida Nadi has become clean and I hope, Ida Nadis of all have become clean at least to some extent. 

Here I had told all, that I would work, while under anaesthesia, to clean the Ida channels of all. I worked for 3 days cleaning it by vomiting nearly 50 times every day and it is nice that the cleaning has become possible. This physicaI being has to be used for the mission for which it has been taken and therefore I am not bothered by the illness and other troubles. On the contrary all such and different experiments with this incarnation will have to be performed. Why are you so anxious about it ? What else is the use of this body ? I never have any pains. All I want is that, in the laboratory of this body, some work or the other must go on.
Time is short while the work to be done is very big. You cannot do the cleaning of Ida channel only on the strength of your realisation. I knew that it had to be cleaned from within. 

In ancient days all seekers had to do this action (Kriya) constantly right from their childhood at the residences of their gurus at isolated places. The seekers had to do it individually in many lives.
Delhi, 1979
Because, now you have attained the state of collectivity I have done it in collective consciousness. Although you say I have done it, the distinction of you and I should not be there in collective consciousness. Mantras ‘’Twam Bhawani, Twam Durga, Twam Ambika etc.’’ are good for Ida Channel, but when you are established in Sahaja Yoga, you will have to say ‘Aham Bhavani’. However this Mantra can be said only when your purity becomes one with that of ‘Aham Bhavani’ and I tell you now itself that this wiIl happen. After cleaning the Ida Channel I am awakening Pingala Nadi. Sahaja Yogis had become rather lethargic due to the conditioning of Ida Channel. Laziness and a tendency of avoiding the work was dominating in them. Their attention was being frittered away on avoiding the work. But I have now started the work of awakening Pingala Channel. All of you should raise your right hand from right side over your head and leave it on the left side but while doing it, you must apply your will power so that your desires will materialize.
With the awakening of collectivity, you will have many people to share your work which you are doing alone. The sphere of Sahasrara envelops your heart. When conditioning of heart is reduced, as if the glass of a lamp becomes clean, rays of ever resplendent Spirit awaken Sahasrara sheath and the light of bliss spreads, which is felt in Sahasrara. This light enlightens all sides of colourful heart and decorates it with the qualities which can be described as pleasing, blissful etc. 

Gradually this state will grow and become stable within you. Most of the Sahaja Yogis should try this method, but there should not be merely the mechanical movement of hands.
Whatever you do, it should be done with the faith that you have in worshipping, zeal of a warrior and sensitivity of an artist. There should be complete purity in the recitation of Mantras to awaken the deities and your heart must be involved in it. Only then the awakening will take place.
You should understand a simple principle. How can a big fire be lit with a small match stick? Will a wick hold the flame if water is mixed in the oil? How can those Sahaja Yogis have enlightenment who are using Sahaja Yoga to solve only their own petty problems? And why should God give them the enlightenment? Lighthouses do not show light to themselves even for a moment. Therefore, they are considered so important and are looked after.
Please circulate this letter among all Sahaja Yogis.
Your Mother, NIRMALA


Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi as KaliBhairava Form, taken in Rahuri by a photographer, 1970's.