INTROSPECTION is done "while meditating"


Ganesha puja 2007
When you understand that you have ego, you start looking at yourself.
See to yourself the introspection: 
Can I be my own Guru? 
Have I become my own Guru?"
How dare your body ask for anything? 
How dare your mind tell you anything? 
How this conditioning works on you?
That you should meditate and judge your vibrations if you are really collective or not.
In Sahaja Yoga also many people come either to make money, either to get cured, all kinds of things. But if you are detached, then only Sahaja Yoga will spread.
Are we collective?
Are we willing to share everything that we have?
Do we look down upon people who come from other countries?
Do we have racialism in us?
...Love others: Do you feel: "What have I to bring for them? What is missing in them?" 
Do you work it out, do you go out of the way to help them?  
“What have I done for Sahaja Yoga?”
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"While meditating..."
So everyone should meditate everyday. That is a very important thing, which people are doing in all the countries where I am not. Because I am in England, people take Me for granted: "Mother is doing everything." So I get up at 4 O'clock, take My bath, meditate for you all. I better start doing that again. Otherwise you have no time to meditate. So at least let Me meditate for your sake. 
So everyone must today promise to Me that they will meditate everyday....
"Every morning I'll get up and do my meditation. And while meditating I must concentrate on myself and not on others.  
And see for myself what is catching, where am I catching, which chakra I am catching, what have I to do?"
(Navaratri 1984, London )
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Now in our mantras we say that, "Mother, I am my own Guru". But saying that, do we realize that, "If I am my own Guru," this "I" and "my Guru":  between the two,
 "What have I achieved? Where am I? Can I guide myself? Have I got the light of the Spirit on my attention so well- established and manifested that I can guide myself and guide others later on?" 
First of all, in the Guru principle it is important that you see to yourself the introspection:
Shirdi Sainath with a dog

"Can I be my own Guru? Have I become my own Guru?"
Now, in your case your Guru is a Mother, a woman, so it has to be among women that the development of their Guru qualities have to be very well manifested. But it's just the way it is not. For them, they are still the mothers or they are the wives or they are Sahaja Yoginis. But they don't realize that you are also the Gurus, because your Mother is a Guru, because She's a woman,  and you have to be also of that quality, that people should say, "Look at this woman, she's such a Guru!" But still, as I hear from the different leaders that the ladies are absolutely still very much far away and are very few who can be called as real Sahaja Yoginis.
.../...So one to get over taste [about food]  one has to work out. It's an experiment you have to do with ourselves. Unless and until we introspect ourselves and do experiments we cannot rise, because though the Kundalini is trying Her level best, but your conditionings are so great that it cannot pierce through and cannot melt you onto that Guru level.
If you see the lives of all these Gurus, they were married, they had children, they lived a normal life. But in their own personal life they were absolutely detached people. So first detachment should come from food. And there whatever you like you just don't eat. That's the best way, because already because of liking something. Supposing if somebody's fond of ice-cream. He must have already spoiled his liver, so they give up. If you like pasta, give up pasta. If you like something else, just give up,...
.../... ... one can learn that these are born realized and the way their Guru principle is acting - are we also acting the same way? Or we are doing something that is not good for our ascent. So even after coming to Sahaja Yoga if you do not try hard to introspect yourself, you have missed the point that you compare yourself with your Guru - all the time.
Then everything has to be understood in the right perspective that we are Sahaja Yogis. Now for a Sahaja Yogi first and foremost thing that he has to have love.
First, for others, not for himself. If you are all the time worried about yourself, "My body is such, my this thing such and I have to do this and that" then you don't love others. But do you seek to the comfort of others? Do you feel the compassion of other Sahaja Yogis? Do you feel, "What have I to bring for them? What is missing in them?" Do you work it out, do you go out of the way to help them? First of all Sahaja Yogis.
.../... For our ascent whatever is needed has to be done. If you have to punish your whole body, all right. If you have to punish yourself, all right. If you have a conditioning, get rid of it. Just introspect yourself, that is Self Realization, is to know yourself. When you know yourself and know what is clinging onto it, just to remove it completely, work it out the way you like, work it out the way you like.
...ask for anything??
You see, it is very important that the body, mind, everything should be your slaves. Nothing should dominate you; you should be on top of everything.
How dare your body ask for anything?
How dare your mind tell you anything?
How this conditioning works on you? 
"I am a Sahaja Yogi, I'm above everything." 
Like the lotuses come out of the ponds, you have come out of it.
We have so many proofs to show that you are realized souls. I'll show you some photographs that I have to show that there is light. I can put light into you, they are all enlightened. But in My presence if you become the light, you must carry the light also.
Not only in My presence, but when you go out.
1990-07/08: Guru Puja, Avignon, France
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Now, this I am talking for introspection.
Are we collective?
Are we willing to share everything that we have?
Do we look down upon people who come from other countries?
Do we have racialism in us?
So first and foremost, to judge yourself is to see your vibrations. That you should meditate and judge your vibrations if you are really collective or not. Because you are not like that, Sahaja Yoga does not spread.

I have seen people from Hare Rama Hare Krishna: poor things have found nothing! They get up at four o'clock, start their Hare-Rama Hare-!Krishna bhajan - four o'clock! Then the whole day they wear a very thin dhoti in which they are shivering. They shave their heads and put a pig's tail here which is bought in the market. If you see their dedication you'll be surprised. How they are so much dedicated, when they haven't found anything whatsoever?
..There, we could not...
What about the nuns? You see them, you will be amazed. One fellow came from the Catholic Church to us. He was trying to be a priest. He said, "Mother, Sahaja Yog - you don't do anything." I said, "What do you want to do?" "No, there we could not eat any meat on Fridays. On Saturdays, we could not drink anything. Then on Sundays, the whole day we had to fast and pray to God." "Then - what about the rest of the time?" "The rest of the time, we had to remember Bible by heart and then recite it. And if we made even one mistake, the Father would give us a nice beating."
That's another problem with Sahaja Yoga because it is Shri Krishna's play. It's so simple. You don't have to do anything of the kind. No disciplining, nothing: left to you, you are your own master! You are your own guru. But these things which are lingering in your mind, which was just the opposite of Shri Krishna's life, which you have acquired in this country, are still there, here and there, here and there: left. Some of the people are really still so much busy with themselves. They look so pale, thin - I tell you, I can't believe they are Sahaja Yogis.
So when we see Shri Krishna's life, the way He lived. And then He went to help the Pandavas. He told Arjuna that, "I can be your charioteer. I can drive your chariot. But I will not fight." Arjuna knew that He was all powerful, if He is there everything will work out. "And all My army, I'll give to Kauravas, to see the balance." He said, "All right." He didn't fight to show off, I am this, I am that. Like here, "Mother, I am the leader. (Laughter) I am the leader." "Can't hear, I can't hear." (Laughter) "Mother, I am this."

(Laughter)
You are a Sahaja Yogi. It's a very great name that you have achieved. The highest position you have achieved. There's nothing more to be achieved. Like somebody asked Me, "Mother, the Indians in India never catch. Why do we go on catching all the time?" I said, "Because Indians in India know they have achieved it now”. Nothing’s to be achieved! - You want to have God's Realization - I don't know what other Realization. They don't think like that. They say, "We have achieved now. We are in the sea. It's for us to swim over."
1996-09/29: Shri Krishna Puja, New Jersey
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But the question remains. Somebody, say, wants to dedicate his life, so called, for Sahaja Yoga. Then what do you do? What do you do if you dedicate? First thing is your faith. You must know: how is your faith into anything. You really believe in it or you do not? If you do believe in it, what have you done about it?
So at this stage, you have to introspect:
"...Why?..."
What are you doing?
What are we to do?
How far do we have to go?
 It’s a very, very important time and you are extremely important souls here sitting down but if you don’t value your own systems and yourself, why should God worry about you? Why should God try to give you ideas? Why should He try to take any interest even in you – persons of that [kind?]
So now, I have to just tell you that on this day of this Puja, it's such a combination that is the Dusshera, I am here, and also is the - now we can call it - the last day of the Devi Puja. We have to see within ourselves, introspect:
 “What have I done for Sahaja Yoga?”
Except for looking after my children, cooking for the husband, that’s all. Men can also think the same way, “What have we done? What have we done for Sahaja Yoga? -  Just, I want to meet politicians, I want to meet this person, I want to meet that person.” For what?
They should come and meet you but your faith in yourself is very weak. I think that’s the main reason for all this fall is faith in yourself. This faith is such a thing that you know it is so. You have seen My photographs. You are convinced about it. There is nothing to be convinced but this faith is not one with your heart. It is not just with your being. It's outside. All right, Mother will do that. Mother will solve this. Mother will do this. But, whole thing is now to Me, looks like, that I have to compulsorily tell you to do some sort of a tapasya. You ask somebody, “Do you meditate?”
(No, Mother)
 “No Mother,” very plainly. “No Mother, we don’t.” -“So, what are you doing here?”  -“My, there’s some pain in my knees so I have come to you.” All right. “But I don’t meditate. I am very honest. I don’t meditate. I just have some pain in the knees. Please cure it. I don’t meditate.”
How many of you really meditate every night? Guido said that “Mother, if You tell like this they will say, “All right in the night we do but not in the morning” because Mother has said, “Do it in the night.”
There’s no earnestness. There’s no expected any kind of a enthusiasm about it. All right, if not today, we will see tomorrow. Mother says like that “It's not necessary. It's not important. It's all right.” So you satisfy yourself. But who is the loser? Not Me.
",,, Not me..."
I don’t need Sahaja Yoga, do I? I am doing all the tapasya for your Sahaja Yoga. What about you people doing some tapasya about it?
So now, what I am trying to say that you have got your realization. Now you have reached a great state of understanding, also of the inner knowledge and also about your connection with the spirit and with the God Almighty. All this you know now. Many things you know. Despite that, it's not yet what it should be from your heart, from your earnest desire. It doesn’t help at all any one to deceive oneself, never.
So I am not saying something for x, y, z. I am saying for all of you. Don’t try to cheat yourself. 
1993-10/24: Navaratri  Cabella, Italy
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Now in this ascent people get into lots of problems. First and foremost is the ego problem, specially in the West. Ego stands up and you start thinking you are great, you are better than others, and there's something special about you. This ignorance is more dangerous than the worldly ignorance, I think, because in the worldly ignorance you do feel the consequences of wrong things. But you, when you are halfway, when your ignorance is that about yourself, when you are going to a higher realm, then one should always understand that you cannot have ego.
Then what starts is introspection.
You start looking at yourself, what's wrong with you.
When you understand that you have ego, you start looking at yourself. Or when you find there's something missing or something wrong, then also you start introspecting.
This should be a very, very honest, very honest effort. Some people in Sahaja Yoga at a very early stage start thinking that they're very great and they don't need any introspecting. And they rise again into the clouds of ignorance without achieving selfhood, or I can call Self-realization. 
 So you have to introspect and see for yourself, what have you been doing, what are you, how far you have come,...
Now the style of such a person changes gradually - how? First of all, a person who is extremely aggressive, hot-tempered and full of ego starts becoming very gentle and mild. Another type which is frightened and afraid and very cautious start becoming fearless. At that stage you have no fears. You are sure that you are on the right path and you are moving on the right lines. You are not easily disturbed there.
But still you have to rise higher and higher where, when you meditate, you understand that there's something wrong within yourself. You have achieved your Self-realization, you have got the blessings of Self-realization. Your health is good, you got all kinds of blessings which you cannot count. All that is there, but still you have to go further. And that is to understand all the knowledge about Sahaja Yoga. You have to understand through your mental capacity first to begin with, and then you have to verify how far it is correct, how far you have understood it, how far you have worked at it, how far you know.
And when you start seeing yourself, you start entering into the realm of bhakti. You become a mild 
Realm of Bhakti...

person become a sweet person, you don't talk too much, you don't harass anyone. You are a very pleasant person, very gentle, very understanding. This person has to verify how he is behaving towards others.
Now the attention starts moving from oneself to another and you start seeing how you behave, how you love, what is the quality of your compassion.
.../... So at this development stage you should be encouraged, and understand that you can reach that state very easily through meditation and introspection.
With introspection you will develop a new quality of understanding, that you will find solutions to things. That is another quality a person who is a realized soul has. It can find solutions to all your problems. It can, he can suggest what is the way you can be helped. Then a kind of a brotherhood out of the shraddha develops:
You may be giving big lectures on Sahaja Yoga, you may be doing all kinds of things; but unless and until you have shraddha, you cannot rise. And this shraddha is a kind of a love within you, I should say, which spreads like gentle fire, which doesn't burn, which doesn't give heat but cold, beautiful breeze-like feeling within, which makes you understand. You will never talk ill about a Sahaja yogi, never. I never listen to anybody who tells Me something against Sahaja yogi - up to a point: when it is a collective complaint, then I am little bit bothered and I talk about it to the leader. But otherwise if one person comes and tells Me this and this, I just tell that person to introspect yourself, it's not so.
1991-07/28: Guru Puja, Italy
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.../...That's why I request you always, that use natural things, because natural things can absorb your problems very well. Unnaturally also, we live, otherwise. You see it is on the physical line, also on mental line.
On mental line what do we do, that we go on arguing, explaining, it's going on and on and on and on, there's no end to it. One should get headache you see actually with all that!
Ocean to wich you are put...
But if you are spontaneous, if you are very spontaneous, immediately you will know what the other fellow is trying to do or to say or to communicate. You don't need much thinking about it because you can absorb even the thought of another person. Absorb doesn't mean that you take the bad thing of that person, but it's like a sieving out. You absorb what another person is saying and you sieve it out.
Now the problem of this Adi Shakti is this, that I decided that I will have all of you enter into My body, absorb all of you. It's a very dangerous game I know, but I did that way, because I'm supposed to do at this stage of time, that I should absorb you all in My body. So with you, all your problems are also gone into Me, all your troubles also have gone into Me. But by absorbing it, you see it's like ocean to which you are put, and you are cleansed, but what about the ocean? Ocean has got still your problems and things lingering and they are very troublesome. So the best thing would be for you to cleanse yourself.

Cleansing is very important through introspection. But doesn't mean thinking, never means thinking. But introspection means meditation and that you all should meditate.

I must tell you, we had a meeting of the leaders and they came out and sat in the drawing room. As soon as they assembled I had such a severe pain in the stomach and I had such a bad diarrhea that you can't believe. Now, who has got those problems, I don't know. Who has brought these problems, I don't know. But as a Mother, as a Mother, I don't mind anything, as long as you all get well and purified. Just like as the Mother Earth cares for you, I also care for you. And just like as the Mother Earth loves you, I also love you, whether you are bad or good, is not the point. But to be kind to Me if you could try to be really good Sahaja Yogis, not a showoffs, not business-like, not only thinking type, not argumentative, not criticizing others; if you just try to meditate every day ten to fifteen minutes, I tell you, My health will be first class.
"A risk I have run..."
Because I have taken your injections inside and they start torturing My life for nothing at all.You see so now, it's a risk I have run, and I am sure you are all very sensible people, and you will understand that your Mother shouldn't suffer. This is every day crucifixion for Me sometimes you know, and I don't know what to say.
For example, the other day in Delhi, one gentleman who is a leader, came to Me to see Me, and My one foot started going like that and paining so much. I mean I didn't know what to tell him that, "You get out now," because I just can't hurt him, you know. But I said, "What's the matter, where have you been, what did you do?" And so he realized and he went out, and really it improved.
Nearness also, I think, has an effect, because if a man like that is, or a lady like that is full of problems and she comes very much closer to My attention, then I have to take up the cross, it's like this. A very simple understanding should be that, "Why are we in Sahaja Yoga?" We are in Sahaja Yoga to ascend, to go higher and higher, as you sang yesterday. [Ude Bai, Ude]. It was very entertaining yesterday the way you talked about your ambition to be higher and higher. Really it was very joy-giving, no doubt. But what are we doing about it, what are we trying about it, we should say.
Seriously we must think, are we meditating, are we all doing something to elevate others also, to give realizations to others? Specially women I have seen, don't do much of this, which is very bad, because you are the mothers. You have to go all out to give realizations to others. But men are more active that way and women are not. So it works the other way round. Now on one side the men I think are active but don't meditate. Women meditate and men do the outside work, it's sort of a part-time, or you can call it a good labor division that, "You meditate at home and we'll go all out." Is not going to work out.
Kundalini, Pateshwar temple, near Brahmapuri
So one has to meditate and one has to also go out to spread Sahaja Yoga. Both things have to be done. Supposing now you meditate and you don't spread Sahaja Yoga, you'll never ascend. Because after all this kundalini, you see, She's a sensible woman, She's very sensible.
She thinks, "Why should I make her a saint? What is the use?" Sahaja Yoga is not individualistic, it's not for one person to become a saint and sit somewhere, it's not like that. It's not meant for one person, for oneself, it's not individualistic. It's a collective happening. So if you are not helping to the collective, kundalini says, "All right, you are all right as it is," just like our body. You see, in our body if one organ says, "All right, now I am all right, I am not going to work out," or one cell says that, "I am not going to now grow, it is all right. Why should I worry about the whole body?" It won't work. It's a living, it's a living organism, I have told you hundred times, when it is a living organism it has to grow, it has to grow and also to absorb.
What I'm saying...
To have energy you have to meditate and you have to grow. If you don't grow, you are finished. You are no more a Sahaja yogi. I wouldn't call a person a Sahaja yogi who has not even given one person realization. Cannot be a Sahaja yogi, a Sahaja yogi has to give realizations to others. Apart from other activities, the main activity should be how we give realizations to others. Unless and until we really look after that side of life we can never, never grow in Sahaja Yoga.
1997-05/25: Shri Adi Shakti Puja, Cabella
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In Sahaja Yoga also many people come either to make money, either to get cured, all kinds of things. But if you are detached, then only Sahaja Yoga will spread. As long as there are attachments, you should know that you are not yet a Sahaja Yogi. I am not saying " You take out your eye or cut your hands " I didn't say that, to that extent.
What I'm saying: you should introspect and see: " How much am I attached to this or to that, and why am I so much attached, what does it matter? " Always, as a result of attachment you'll always find disappointments.
I've seen parents who have doted on their child, loved their child, this, that: children mostly go astray. But if you have a detached love for your child, you do nice things for the child. At the same time, you know when to say 'no', when it is not good. " This I don't like, don't do it", you must say that. But detachment is even wider than that.
1994-10/02: Yogeshwara Puja, New Jersey, USA