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| 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?"
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?
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?
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 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:
First of all, in the Guru principle it is important that you see to yourself the introspection:
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| 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,...
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,...
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.
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| ...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.
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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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?
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."
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?
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| ..There, we could not... |
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."
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| (Laughter) |
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:
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| "...Why?..." |
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:
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,” 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.”
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| (No, Mother) |
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.
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.
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| ",,, Not me..." |
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.
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.
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.
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
And when you start seeing yourself, you start entering into the realm of bhakti. You become a mild
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| 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!
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| Ocean to wich you are put... |
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.
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| "A risk I have run..." |
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.
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.
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| Kundalini, Pateshwar temple, near Brahmapuri |
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.
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| What I'm saying... |
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.
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
