"...how to be in meditation all the time"

Shri Krishna Puja, Mumbai, India  1973-08/28:

Why that Kansa was to be killed? Why Ravana was to be killed? Of course, killing doesn't help much -that I have realized! Because, all those [devils] who were killed are back again in their saddles. But still, you don't fight those horrible people.
You just fight your self out. You just watch yourself: where are you? What are you doing? Are you on the divine, or on the gross? Just think about it:
 every moment; Every moment you are in meditation -just think of the moment and the dynamism of that moment: the complete power that is feeding you every moment just to go inside you. It will flow through your Sahastrar inside your being and completely revolve around your whole being, and transform the inside into a complete Chaitanya Shakti, a complete divine power. Allow it to come in, accept it. Accept it without any fear. Let it get in. Every moment, every moment keep awake!

I can do everything but not...

 It's a very precarious time that we are up to. I have only two hands you can see that very clearly. 
And- though Mr. ** says that I can do everything-  I can do everything but not to make you do something. 
Your will, will be respected throughout. 
Every other thing can be looked after except for one - that you should be a perfect machine, a perfect channel, a perfect flute for my lord to play that tune of love.
It is for you to clear out all your seven holes.
It is for you to clear out your hollowness and to be complete within yourself and He knows his job.
He is the artist. But you are the instruments. And the harmonious music from so many souls can fill the ears of these evil people and can penetrate into their heart and put love into them and may be that they themselves will give up their evil ways and fall at the feet of love.

Krishna is to be born within you today. A five-year-old boy went to kill Kaliya. That Krishna is to born within you.

 Gauri Puja, Auckland, New Zealand 1991-04/08:
As far as Sahaja yogis are concerned today, there are very few who really feel that.
The reason is you do not meditate.
We do not pay attention to our realization, also. We talk about it quite a lot, in the West specially we discuss it, more than to do something about it.

We have to meditate every day, just like washing our hands or just like cleaning our teeth;, we have to, in the morning-time, meditate, and also in the evening we have to meditate. We have to meditate both the times otherwise we cannot rise, we cannot move. Just to think that we are realized souls you do not become. This cleansing has to be done every day, every day in and out.

And this is why none of the [spiritual] experiences which are described are felt sometimes in Sahaja Yoga;
and people ask, “Mother, how it is that we don’t feel the khechari?” [feeling of cool breeze on the tongue]?  -Because your attention is not also there where it should have been! 

none of the ...experiences are felt sometimes in Sahaja Yoga

So, one has to try to meditate in such a manner that this working of the kundalini is facilitated. The chakras are cleansed out and ultimately you are in a state of meditation.
 It is not a question of how to go into meditation, but is the question of how to be in meditation all the time.
So, as you know that Kundalini, when she reaches the Agnya Chakra and when She opens Agnya chakra, then you can be in thoughtless awareness, then, you don’t think – thinking just stops. You watch everything, just watch, but you do not get involved into what you are watching, but you just watch and that watching itself gives you the growth within.
Think of the tree which is, say, in a turmoil order during an earthquake: it won’t grow. When the earthquake stops, everything becomes quiet, everything is peaceful, then only the tree can grow.
In the same way, our growth can only take place if we are peaceful within ourselves.

this Kundalini has to .. water that brain,

So for a Kundalini growing wider and wider and rising higher and higher, first thing is we must have peace within ourselves, but this peace is possible if you can make really peace with others. If you cannot make peace with others who are in Sahaja Yoga, who are in the collective, if you are in a turmoil, this Kundalini can never rise. That is why collectivity is so important.
Without collectivity your Vishuddhi cannot open, and without collectivity you cannot have the growth of your spirituality.
It’s the growth of the spirituality, as they say, the tree of life is upside down and the roots are in the brain, and this Kundalini has to go and water that brain, as we water the roots. Then it starts growing downward and that’s how you start expanding. 
When you start expanding, then you touch the depth of your divinity, and once you have touched the depths of your divinity then you start working it out in such a manner that people will know that you are yogi-jis, you are people of higher realm, you have something great. It is not how many times you read something, it’s not how many times you talk about Sahaja Yoga, it’s not even how many times you just go on reciting names, but how many times from your heart your pure desire is to ascend.

How powerful you are...

If this pure desire is upon you, then the first thing and the last thing you do is to meditate – you can’t do without it. Even if you try, you can’t do without it! If you will sleep without meditating, you’ll think “Oh, I have not meditated” – not out of guilt, but “I have missed something, I have missed something.” That should happen to us.
So this power of Gauri has to be respected because She’s our mother; She’s our individual mother, She has given us second birth. She is the one who knows all about us; She’s so gentle, so kind: how she slowly rises! She doesn’t give us trouble; She takes all the trouble of penetrating through these centers and She gives us a second birth, because She understands everything – She knows everything; She organizes everything; She brings forth all the beauty that you are. Once you start developing that beauty within yourself, then you’ll be surprised how powerful you are, that all these things are of the same nature. It is the truth that you discover, it is the same as the beauty, is the same as the joy. You don’t have to think that joy is separate [from truth], that truth is different, truth is different [from beauty]. Because we are not yet at that point, we just take one facet, but once we reach that point then the whole thing seems to be one, there is no differentiation at all: iIt’s all one. Many facets of a diamond, but it’s one diamond, and that diamond is your self, your spirit

·        The thoughts are coming from the Swadisthan!

Second Night of Navaratri, Sydney, Australia 2007-10/13:

So what is the second chakra? Do you know which one is the second chakra?

You must enjoy...

Ah? What did they say? You must tell loudly. Swadisthan is the chakra, is very important because in this Kali Yuga, Swadisthana works the most. We have so many agents to make it work, and work very hard. You know what is in second chakra. In the second chakra, what happens [is] that we are caught up by our ambition and the ambition makes you run up and down, and I’ve seen many Sahaja Yogis also getting lost, so it’s a very important day for all of you.

So, second chakra is important because in modern times it is very, very cosmic as well as active. We become very active, over active, and we start thinking about everyone with whom we are not concerned, and bothering our heads. So today’s chakra is important because it bothers your head, it troubles you a lot and you start thinking about them. You start thinking what have you said, what has happened, who is angry - all sorts of nonsense! You are all Sahaja yogis, so you shouldn’t worry as to all these people, what they say, what they are doing. You should just enjoy yourself. Second chakra,  you must enjoy. That’s the best way to enjoy Sahaja Yoga. Where your Swadisthana is satisfied nothing can destroy you or disturb you. At Swadisthana you can really look after; Swadisthan Chakra is so much good for you because now you are Sahaja Yogis and you can master it. That is one chakra which upsets, especially in the West,  people think too much, all the time thinking, thinking, thinking. That’s from Swadisthan; you get that problem from Swadisthan.

To satisfy Swadisthan, you have to take to silence. You have to take to quietude and look at yourself. What is bothering you, what is troubling you, what gives you ideas and thoughts is Swadisthan. And some people think so much. There may not be any problem, but they create their own problem with the Swadisthana,  and just go on bothering about the stuff.

Swadisthan is very happy when you are just laughing and enjoying and not bothered about nonsense. How much time we waste on nonsense! We don’t need it, Sahaja Yogis don’t need it. It’s only those who are not yet realized [who] must be suffering. They do suffer and they might even trouble you, but just laugh at it and you must pardon them, forgive them, because they are doing this because they can’t help it. You see, this Swadisthan Chakra is bothering them so they can’t help it.

So now, don’t allow your mind to bother about whatever nonsensical thoughts are coming - all kinds of, all kinds of nonsensical thoughts. You have nothing to do with them, but the thoughts are coming. Now, this is the work of Mister Swadisthan: he’s trying to distract you, you must get into silence. Once you get into silence, then he will go away and won’t bother you. 

·          Pay attention to every chakra

 Sahasrara Puja,  Mesnières en Bray,  France, 1984-05/05:

It is so wonderful for your Mother to see you, so many beautiful Sahaja Yogis, assembled together on this day of Sahasrara.

I think the first era of Sahaja Yoga has ended now, and new has started. In the first era of Sahaja Yoga...

The starting point was first the opening of the Sahasrara. And gradually moving towards the completion, I find there are so many who are great Sahaja Yogis today. It is a very natural process of growth that you have gone through. The first one was, we can say, just the awakening of the Kundalini, and piercing the fontanel bone area. As you see on top of your head these bandhans [the puja took place in a chapel], that’s how you too have in your head, the same way,and you have the chakras the same way, built in your Sahasrara. So in the first era of Sahaja Yoga, we have awakened the deities in your centers, in the medulla oblongata and also in the brain.

But now the time has come for us to spread it on a horizontal level and, to move it on the horizontal level, we have to understand how to go about it.

Like the seven colors of the rainbow, we have got seven colors of the light of these centers, of the chakras, and when we started from the back, from the Mooladhara, bringing it up to this side, the Agnya, then it is placed in a different order, if you see it clearly. I mean to say that in the Sahasrara, because it's a concave placement, it’s important to understand that the center of the fontanel bone area corresponds to our heart. So,  heart is the pivotal point for the second era now. I hope you understand what I mean. So, if you have to place your attention to Sahasrara, first thing you have to do is to pay attention to your heart.

In the sahastrara...

 In the Sahasrara, the heart-chakra and the heart itself, the Atma, coincide. Means the Jagadamba becomes one with the heart, that is the Atma, so we see that here the yoga takes place. At this point of time it is very important to understand that we have to take a bigger step.

The whole Sahasrara moves in this way: all these chakras throw their lights in this way, in a clockwise manner and the axis is the heart.

So the essence of all the religions, of all the prophets, of all the incarnations, is compassion, and is placed in this chakra of heart. 
Thus we understand that in the second era now, we have to have compassion; is the manifestation now of the compassion. If God Almighty had no compassion, He would not have created this great universe. Actually His power, or the Adi Shakti, is the embodiment of His compassion, and this compassion has brought forth all the evolution to human level and even your emancipation as Sahaja yogis, and compassion is always completely covered with forgiveness.

Trinity, Avignon, France, 1454

So you can see the Trinity meets at this point: the Son of God is forgiveness, is the embodiment of forgiveness. So the God Almighty, who is the Witness, the Mother who is the compassion and the Child who is the forgiveness, all of them meet at heart chakra in the Sahasrara.

Now, one must learn how to improve Sahasrara itself. You know the presiding deity of the Sahasrara very well. Now, the place of Sahasrara is in your head, as you think it to be, but it’s just the center of the whole universe. To develop this you have to pay attention to your heart chakra in the fontanel bone area. If you pay attention to the fontanel bone area then there you must establish the deity. But this deity has to be first established into the heart.

Reality is absolute...

Now you are very lucky people that you have the deity in person with you. The people who got realization before I came on this earth had to imagine the deities, and in that imagination they were never perfect. But as they say that at Sahasrara “She is Mahamaya”, that is how it is described. So if you also see the person, you may not be knowing fully that person, or in the perfect way, or a complete way, because Mahamaya Shakti is much greater than your imagination, that is why one has to surrender. With your limited imagination of brain one cannot see the deity.

Also it is said “She is Bhakti gamya”, you can know Her through bhakti, through devotion. So the devotion has to be there, but the devotion has to be a very clean devotion, in the sense there should be no malice in the heart, heart should be clean. Heart, to keep it clean is very difficult. Always human beings have a relative understanding of reality, but reality is absolute. So to achieve that, one has to get rid of all the other kind of impurities that are within the heart.

Identified with false things...

So in the beginning we try to achieve our realization, not with very clean heart. At that time, we had lots of attachments, we were identified with false things and also we thought, by getting realization, we’ll become very powerful people. After realization, also, we started indulging into petty things. We started asking for favors for our relations, friends, mothers, sisters, and the women thought of their husbands and their brothers, their children. They all asked for the blessings of all those with whom they were entangled. All this entanglement, you got over, I know, very soon.

Now the job of an Avatara is such that He has to fulfill the desires of His bhaktas, His disciples. For example, Shri Krishna was asked by gopis that” we want you to be with us individually with every one of us”, so He divided Himself into many Krishnas and He was with everyone of them. But that was a very divine desire, I think, that was a very divine desire of the gopis. But when you asked me about your brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, I tried to do that, whatever was possible. Also the Kshema [=well being] that you asked for, ashrams you asked for, all the things that you needed, was there for your desire to be fulfilled. So, at the Krishna's level it was "Yoga kshema vahamyaham". So the Kshema was looked after at Krishna's level because it was promised. [Do your yoga, I care for you well being, Bhagavad Geetah]

Put the feeling of compassion...

But what’s next in the new era that has to come? As you have now good families, good ashrams, good jobs, everyone is happy, let us think of the next era. Next era is of compassion, as I told you, but [if] any one of the chakras are weak in you still, the light that becomes white because of the seven colors may dim out, or may be defective. So, all the chakras that are within us are to be looked after: to pay attention to every chakra, and put compassion, the feeling of compassion on these chakras. 

Now let us take the chakra of Shri Ganesha. You pay attention to Shri Ganesha and establish Him through your thought, because now your thought is divine, in the Mooladhara chakra, with great respect. Here now, you have to know that in the first era of Sahaja Yoga I could not have talked of these things to you, of this, this is much subtler doing, subtler work. Now, put your feeling on that chakra -chakra is the pradesha, is the country, and the King is Shri Ganesh, and that's the country. Now when you put your attention onto that chakra, put your feelings towards Him, of feeling of love and adoration to Him, to begin with; and then to manifest compassion, you have to ask nothing but one thing that, "O God of innocence, give innocence to all the people of the world". 

But first you have to be innocent to ask that, otherwise it is unauthorized asking, or you can say, you have no right to ask. So, to understand innocence, you should try to understand yourself, how your mind is working. When you, say, look at anyone, do you feel that you should possess that person, do you feel unduly attracted, or something base feeling comes into your mind? For an innocent person, when he sees a beautiful person, or a woman, or a beautiful scene, or a beautiful creation, the first thing should happen that he becomes thoughtless, there is no thought. So if there is no thought, there's no question of having any expression of possessiveness or any kind of a baser feeling.

Chhota Mahadeo, next to Chhindwara

But if you pray to Shri Ganesha, also unauthorized a little bit, that "Please make me innocent, so that I'm empowered to ask you for this boon that, wherever I go, I become the source of Innocence, so that I emit innocence; when people look at me, they feel I'm innocent." This is compassion, the compassion to ask Him to give you the power of compassion itself. So that, as you see here, these beautiful centers, as if the lights start moving horizontally. It starts moving on the sympathetic nervous system. So you become the powerful Innocence yourself. You don't become stupid or childish, but you become child-like.

The whole behavior is extremely dignified and innocent. Normally if you find a person who is dignified, [he] is, normally, is not an innocent person. Because he puts up a show, it's a deliberation, to become serious and show that he is very dignified to impress others. And a child doesn’t put up the show of innocence, of dignity or anything, because the child is not aware of deliberations. But you develop that rare combination of innocent dignity.

Now the other quality of Shri Ganesha, starts expressing itself on horizontal level, that you become discreet. But that is a power, I’m again saying, is a power of discretion you develop. Now, one must understand the difference between the power of discretion and discretion itself. So the power means it acts. For example, you may not speak, but if you are standing somewhere the discretion itself will act in the situation. Like a Sahaja Yogi, supposing, is a good Sahaja Yogi, is going in a train, and the train has an accident - mostly it will not, but has - nobody will die. So you establish the discretion which is power itself that acts by itself. You don't have to say that you act, it acts, but you just become the vehicle, a beautiful clean vehicle of that discretion. Then you should believe [that] now you are spreading horizontally.

In the first era of Sahaja Yoga, you needed to see me in person. As we say in Sanskrit, a “Dhyeya”, is the target, you wanted the target in front of you, whatever is to be achieved. 
So now when you wanted that all the time and you felt happy, secure, joyous, when you had that in person before you.
Then, in the second era, now, you will not desire so much that Mother should be there. You'll take it over from me. This is the Divine Desire I'm telling you about, and you have to work on that from today onwards. I am with you, you know that, but need not be in this body, because I don’t know if I exist in this body or not. But once this desire starts working, you will see tremendous miracles happening.

When the child is born to a mother, automatically she gets milk, so, the nature is so connected with the whole thing! In your divine desire also it is connected, and it is very evident when you are a divine person. So you may find me anywhere: you are walking on the street, suddenly you might find Mataji walking with you. 

You should no be shocked if you see me...

So, this is the second era we have started, and you should not be shocked if you see me sitting on your bed and putting my hand on your head, or you may see me in the form of Christ walking into your room, or as Shri Rama. That has to happen, so you should be prepared.

Already so many miracles have taken place on you, but on a grosser level. You have seen the light coming on my head and the photographs have shown some miracles to you, but many things will happen, that you will see something that you could never imagine. This has to happen just to convince you that you have reached a certain height of your evolution in the new area of Pragyaloka [area of Knowledge] because this is a new state into which now you will be entering on a horizontal basis.

In this area you will give up asking for gross things, and also for anything subtler, anything that is subtle; the asking will disappear, and that is the time you will become very powerful. Whatever I say happens as you know, only thing, I cannot command you to be evolved. The Kundalini's work in you has been done, quite a lot, now the new work of compassion, of spreading it to others, has to be done by you. As the light grows brighter and brighter, the area it covers becomes bigger and bigger. So you become the giver of compassion.

• In my last lecture, which you have heard already, I have requested you how to do Tapa. With a complete surrendered mind you have to go through the pilgrimage, say, of this castle. This is one of the glimpses of the tapa that you have to do, because I am told some of you had to get into little difficulties and you people suffered a little bit on your way, for the pilgrimage. But it is fun to be venturesome and to get into places where the devils dare not go, and if you know how to get fun out of the so-called discomforts, then you should know you are on the right lines, and as you start becoming discreet automatically, you should know you are progressing well.
• As you become more peaceful and your temper vanishes in the thin air as soon as you see somebody attacking you, then know that you are progressing well. 
• As soon as you see an ordeal or a calamity falling on the personality and you do not get worried about it, then know that you are progressing. 
•  When no amount of artificiality can impress you then know you are progressing. 
• No amount of material well-being in others makes you unhappy, no more unhappy, then know that you are progressing well. 
• No amount of labor or troubles are sufficient to become a Sahaja Yogi. Whatever you may try one cannot become a Sahaja Yogi, while you have got it without any effort, so you are something special. 
• So this, once you understand that you are special, you will become humble about it. Then when it happens to you, that you humble down when you see you have achieved something, that you have some powers, that you are emitting innocence, that you are discreet and as a result of that you become more compassion, humbler personality, a sweeter personality, then you should believe that you are in the heart of your Mother.

This is the sign of the new Sahaja Yogi now in the new era who has to move with new force, where you will grow so fast, that without meditation you will be in meditation. Without being in my presence,you will be in my presence. Without asking, you will be blessed by your Father.

This is what you are in for; and again I welcome you to this new era today on this great day of Sahasrara.

Tad Nishkala by Shrī Ādi Shankarāchārya

The one who is beyond time

Tad Nishkala is also known as the Atma or Nirvana Shatakam –six verses on the theme of spiritual liberation

 "That’s what you are. 

You are eternal bliss and awareness; consciousness:

the pure Consciousness,

I think this must be.

Everyone must learn it by heart

 and must say it in all the ashrams.

 That’s a very good way

of remembering what you are!

 May God bless you!"

 Guru Puja, Gmunden, Austria, 6 July 1986

Elephanta

Mano-buddhi ahaṅkār chittāni nāham Neither mind, nor intellect, ego, nor thought Na cha shrotra jivhe, na cha ghrāna netre Nor the ears, nor the tongue, nor the nose, nor the eye sNa cha vyomabhūmir, na tejo na vāyuhu Neither ether, nor earth, nor fire, nor wind Chidānanda rūpah, Shivo’ham, Shivo’ham Eternal bliss and awareness am I, I am Shiva, I am Shiva Na cha prāna saoṅdhyo, na vai pancha-vāyur  Nor the energy of Life, nor the five vital breath sNa vā sapta-dhātur, na vā pancha-koshah Nor the body’s seven elements, nor the body’s five sheaths Na vāk pāni-pādao, na cho pasthapāyū Neither organs of cleansing, nor speech, hands, nor feet Chidānanda rūpah, Shivo’ham, Shivo’ham Eternal bliss and awareness am I, I am Shiva, I am Shiva Na me dvesha-rāgao, na me lobha-mohao Neither loathing, nor liking, attachment nor greed Mado naeva me, naeva mātsarya-bhāvah Nothing of pride or jealousy Na dharmo, na chārtho, na kāmo, na mokshah Neither duty, nor riches, desire, nor release Chidānanda rūpah, Shivo’ham, Shivo’ham  Eternal bliss and awareness am I, I am Shiva, I am Shiva Na punyam, na pāpam, na saukhyam, na duhkham  Neither virtue, nor vice, pleasure, nor pain Na mantro, na tīrtham, na vedā, na yadñyāhā Holy place, mantra, Vedas, nor Havan Aham bhojanam naeva, bhojyam na bhoktā Nor the eater, nor food, nor enjoyment of eating Chidānanda rūpah, Shivo’ham, Shivo’ham  Eternal bliss and awareness am I, I am Shiva, I am Shiva Na me mṛutyu shankā, na me jāti bhedah Neither fear of death, nor distinction of caste Pitā naeva me, naeva mātā, na janma Nor father, nor mother, nor birth have I Na bandhur, na mitram, gurur naeva shishyah Nor disciple, nor guru, nor brother, nor friend Chidānanda rūpah, Shivo’ham, Shivo’ham  Eternal bliss and awareness am I, I am Shiva, I am Shiva Aham nirvikalpo, nirākāra rūpo I am without doubt, I exist without form Vibhur-vyāpya sarv’atra sarv’endriyāni All-pervading am I, I give life to the senses Sadā me samatvam na muktir na bandhah Eternal, unchanging, neither free, nor attached Chidānanda rūpah, Shivo’ham, Shivo’ham Eternal bliss and awareness am I, I am Shiva, I am Shiva