Shri Mata ji Nirmala Devi

21/03/2024

21/03/2024

The first and foremost thing is we have no peace within our hearts. We talk of peace. I know of people who have got awards in peace, have no peace within their hearts, no peace at all. Unless and until we human beings have peace, there cannot be peace in the whole world. It is we who create wars. It is we who do all kinds of violence…. We ruin the possibility of people getting into the kingdom of God.

So peace can be only achieved by establishing peace in the hearts of the people. And that is only possible, if you achieve the state of thoughtless awareness. You remain in the present and there, where you’ll be amazed, you will be standing like a rock because you will have reality in your hand. You can work out the way you like.

Actually, I don’t work out anything whatsoever – really. You may say,” You do this and you do that.” I don’t. It’s the pramchaitanya which works it. In the same way, it will work for you also. But you must have faith in yourself and absolute faith in Sahaja Yoga- absolute. That’s the only way we can achieve this, that many, many, many people, most of the people of the whole world – I wouldn’t say all of them rather difficult to say that, but may be possible – should enter into the kingdom of God with us. That’s the most important thing, more than all these worldly things and more than all these nonsensical things….

That will take its own course. You don’t have to worry. That works out automatically. Only thing where you really need your own diversion or your own focusing is Sahaja Yoga, in and out.

If we really want peace on this Earth, if we want really progress for ourselves, if we want all kinds of physical, mental and emotional problem being solved, all for our good, why not we come to Sahaja Yoga, where we don’t have to do anything except for raising our kundalini, except for meditating for it for very little time and to achieve that state of joy?

H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Birthday puja 21. 03. 1994 -
Kolkata😇💫💐

21/03/2024

21/03/2024

Birthday Puja, (Shri Mataji’s first visit to Australia) Burwood, Sydney. March 21, 1981.

I’m just trying to remember if I had a more fantastic birthday than this! Where words do not come, there the joy cannot be expressed. When it becomes so deep that there is no movement.

This is a great country: Australia has been created for a special purpose in Sahaj Yoga. This is the Mooladhar Chakra where resides Shri Ganesh, of this world. How important it is to keep this centre awakened within us.

The information about my coming can only be broadcasted from this centre: then the world Kundalini is going to rise.

When you are putting your hands towards me then the Divine love passes through your fingers, goes down through your Ida and Pingala and informs Shri Ganesha about my presence; and then the Kundalini rises.

So today, we should say, is a great day in the history of Divine work, where I came to Australia.

They asked me, “Was there any incarnation in Australia? Did God visit Australia in human form?” I said, “It’s not easy to meet Shri Ganesh! Even Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesh could not reach Shri Ganesh.”

And you know that He is placed like a lotus where all kinds of people who are insulted, tortured, ignored are sent. Here He really decides whom to send to hell and whom not to send.

God’s decisions are very different – they are above you. Human decisions are extremely cruel and dry.

And today you find so many saints in this Mooladhara. Definitely this is the work of Shri Ganesh. He has called you on this great chakra – where Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesha also, cannot enter in it. And you should stay here and grow into beautiful saints of very great magnitude in spirituality. Such glory is to him, is such a fortunate thing and such a blessing, that even Indians could be jealous of you.

One has to see how Shri Ganesha acts within us. It’s very important to recognise him, understand him and to imbibe, otherwise you will be wasting all his energies staying in this place, living in this place, so close to him.

And though he’s the giver of wisdom, I wonder how many people understand the word ‘wisdom’. Wisdom is the centre of gravity within us which gives us the fulcrum on which we rotate, by which we realise that we are inclined to the left or to the right.

This fulcrum we have to be aware of, because otherwise we will not know how far we have gone. Not only [that], but you should know that it is so much the centre of gravity and our fulcrum so close. Because if your centre of gravity and fulcrum are separated there’s no integration: you can be ruined, completely. So wisdom means this integration between your understanding, and the understanding of Shri Ganesh within.

For example, we go to extremes; extremes of behaviour. I would give you a very simple example: I was going to Hong Kong and the lady who organised it telephoned to me again and again, and she told me that, “A big batch of people are coming to receive you; and you are going to be on the television from the moment you land, and this is going to happen and that is going to happen,” Every day spending so much money describing the scene that I’ll be a “hot news” and all sorts of things that she was talking about. And she was on and on and on and also she told Dr Warren [that] except for giving the newspaper [advert] she didn’t have to pay for it. It was going too far.

At that juncture it was not necessary to go to such a limit and plan it out: that there would be people coming inside the aeroplane to receive me – makes no difference to me! – and there would be a car waiting near the aeroplane to take me to the airport, and I don’t know who was waiting where at every point! (laughing) And when we reached there it was six hours late and I told Warren, “It’s all going to be a fizzled out, take it easy!” And the plane just deposited us in Bangkok! There was no way – six hours. And we had to take another plane in which nobody came in, no car, nothing: went down looking for her, couldn’t see her. Telephoned to the hotel, they said, “No arrangements thrown.” Warren thought, “Mother has gone to another extreme!” (laughter) Quite worried that there’s no one to receive us at the airport down there. It’s all a joke.

Going to extremes has to be corrected in you as well, because if you get successful with your this kind of planning, then you’ll go on doing this kind of artificial planning and not the planning of the Divine. The Divine has its own plans and we have to feel the plans of the Divine. It works it out. You are just an instrument to work it out. So if you try to do something of your own, something too much, then who is going to suggest, “This is the balance,” is Shri Ganesh. And that balance, once it’s established in you, you know how you should balance yourself.

There is no alternative for Sahaj Yog, no alternative; one must know. Everything that is living has no alternatives. For example, if a mango tree says that, “I will create a pomegranate,” it cannot! There’s no alternatives. Whatever is there, it has to see and enjoy; but not to force its way on it.

This is one of the things we have to understand to establish our wisdom. Because of our concept, our idea, our anything, even about God for example, about our achievements itself, can be absolutely wrong if you have no wisdom. But in nature, if you see, those who grow are never bothered about what shape they are going to take, do they? Does a tree measure itself up to know how many dimensions it is going to grow? It grows as much as it can, slowly, steadily, the coordination of the nature itself.

Like that the wisdom is the one that understands. It is an establishment, it’s a state of mind. We can say it’s the state of being, when you become wisdom.

Such a wisdom, outside, is also expressed so beautifully. Such a wisdom gives you gentleman and a gentlelady, only in a personality which is settled down. If you are frustrated with a problem, if you are unhappy, if you are suppressed, any extreme will not allow this flower of wisdom to grow. So even in frustration you have to look back and you have to stand back and see for yourself, “What am I to be frustrated about?”

Count your blessings one by one, count your blessings one by one. I’ll say again, count your blessings one by one. Once you start counting your blessings, you will find, in such a short time, where are you.

Now the extreme projections of mind can take you to: “I’m not going to face!” And you would like to do it.

But in wise projection, you can say this, that you are what you have to be. You are saints. You were born to be saints in this great country. You are specially blessed people in the heavens and are sent on this Earth to do this Maha Yoga, to spread it.

You have achieved that state. And if you are saints you should not be bothered as to a few things like, “Oh! I haven’t got a suitcase,” or something sort of a thing like that; which you have never been very much bothered can you see that? And any kind of extreme behaviour. For example, for materialism you people are not so bad, in the sense [that] you understand the value of aesthetics. But in possessiveness let us take the wise path, wisdom; logically, it has to be logical: what do we possess in this world? Just think of one thing that we can possess.

Except for your own Spirit you don’t possess anything. Except for your evolutionary development you don’t possess anything. For example, now you are a saint you’ll be born a saint always – this is what you possess. The rest you don’t possess. It’s logical, logical. You need not to be realised to understand what I am saying. So why should we our possessions?

When you leave this worry, this is another wisdom, this is a higher wisdom which you develop within yourself. And If we leave our possessions, our material problems are solved. ‘Leave’ doesn’t mean you throw them in the sea, but the attachment to it dissolves. It is solved.

Like, Kay [McHugh] lost her travellers’ cheques, she did not know, she was not knowing. Suddenly one man bumped into her. I was with her. He said, “Imagine, I never knew I am going to meet you! When I went to a particular cashier or somewhere he said, ‘Do you know this lady? I’ve got her travellers’ cheques with me.’ And here, suddenly, I bump into you!”

How the news has been organised, in the nature you see when the flowers bloom, how these bees come all the way; how the birds fly all the way from Siberia to Australia. What wisdom is that magnetism in them, the magnetism that is in the Mother Earth which tells them this is the way you have to go.

So we have to see to this magnetism within us: what makes us magnetic is not what we put up, what unnatural things we have, but what naturally we have achieved within and we are not afraid to express.

In fear you are never aggressive, but even in fearlessness you are never aggressive. In fear you might say that you are not afraid but you could be aggressive. When people look very frightened, if you push them to the extreme of fright, they can come back, but if you are fearless, you are in the centre, you are just standing and watching.

Fearlessness never means aggression.

So the confusion of our own concepts can only be cleared out if there is light within us. For us, if somebody is aggressing us then you think [that] if we do not aggress the other person we are frightened of there is no vengence, then we are useless, we are weak people; so we should fight back. Even when you are fighting back you are weak people. If it was not so, what is there to fight back?

In fearlessness you become the witness. You see the joke behind all this extreme behaviour of another person, and also you know the technique kaushalam (कौशलं). Yoga also means kaushalam, it means technique: how to manage the show by which his action doesn’t trouble you also; if you want to. If you don’t want, you can even take the action upon yourself, to prove it that, “Whatever you are doing is a little silly and stupid.” Like Christ getting Himself crucified. It was a wise decision because if you have to prove that life is eternal, the best thing is to die and show. And to be [done] publicly, so that nobody should say that He was not dead. Still there are many people who are saying that He was not dead! Still there are people who are talking like this: “He was not dead. He was alive. So he got out of the place.” Because they don’t know how to explain.

So He had to die publicly and then his resurrection was to be seen by many people. This drama had to be performed for you to have the wisdom to know that life is eternal. It doesn’t mean that He was weak, by any chance.

So the idea of our aggression, or our suppression, both come from either fear or some sort of a satanic pleasure to oppress others.

So wisdom lies in seeing yourself also. See how wisdom is so important.

Throughout if you find, in every chakra, within it lies pranava – is the life of every chakra. Because it is the wisdom that tells you whether you are in a chakra or not. So how wisdom is important that you even become a sakshi if you have wisdom, otherwise you cannot. You become a witness only when you have that focal point adjusted to your centre of gravity. That is wisdom.

When people tell me about somebody who has harmed them they paint such a dark picture of the whole thing, as if it was another war that was fought. Then you go and listen to another side, they paint another horrible picture of this side. Between these two pictures, you find the one is reflecting the other, the other is reflecting the other. There’s no end to it, it’s eternally going on from this to tha, to that to this. How do you end it up? Only by your wisdom, by understanding it’s an illusion.

The main thing is the mirror on which it is reflected is just an illusion that is appearing, and we are worried about it. The whole illusion will drop out as soon as you just see the mirror and don’t worry about the reflections: they’ll come and go. It is for you just to witness it, that’s all. The mirror is a mirror which is a solid thing and all the reflections are illusions. That’s how we miss all the sweetness of our own being.

Wisdom lies in the understanding that you are the Spirit. You are not all these illusions, you are the Spirit, you are the Spirit.

The attention was, as animals, was on food only you can say: you develop food, nothing else but food. This grows higher and higher in awareness and you came up to a point where he started thinking that he is the prime minister or he is an actor or an actress and this and that a so-called they have achieved; or maybe they start thinking they are atheists and all sorts of things, communists, specialists (laughter).

It’s a drama going on. They are wearing wigs after wigs. If they like this wig they’ll wear this, otherwise throw away. This has killed the romance completely! You start loving the wigs of a person! And wigs can be bought, they could be exchanged. You go into the market and you can get, say, about ten types of wigs. Supposing you say, “Oh, I like this colour for the hair,” so the lady will go and wear that and come out, and then you will like her for the wig that she has bought. Then another may wear the same, or this same lady who looked nice with one wig could bore you completely because there’s no living dynamism, that charisma.

Every moment is so beautiful. It breaks into new waves of such beautiful colours and beautiful music. That’s all lost with these bought images.

Every minute the image changes with a living personality into tremendous beauty. But the first point is the wisdom to know that our images cannot be purchased or bought or created or made: they evolve!

So we have to only see to our evolving force: are we nearer it or are we out of it? Are we moving with our evolving force of getting ourselves crucified with all these artificial misidentifications that says that, “You are this, you are that.” You are nothing but a seeker. It’s category I have told, many a times, that you are a seeker and you have to seek. Now, what do you seek? Is your Spirit. And once you have found it, establish yourself on that. That’s what you are! And to know that you are that Spirit itself is so satisfying; is itself emitting wisdom which is so joy giving, and is nothing but love. It’s love, I tell you. I mean I cannot go beyond this: there’s no word in human language to say what is love. To me it is nothing but silence. Everything stops at that point. This feeling where the wisdom becomes love, and love becomes wisdom. That’s the real integration of life.

Open your hearts, allow Shri Ganesha to be settled in that, that innocence which enhances everything. Look at the little ones how they came forward to give me flowers: every step, every movement was so joyous, was creating such a beautiful, delicate ripple in my heart. And it’s written as history for me, to see these little, little sweet, innocent Ganeshas coming forward.

And the wisdom becomes so powerful, that you know the source of love as Ganesha in you. For him, he did not know anybody else but one: that which is the source of love.

Never questioning, never argued: no alternatives. No new ideas came to his mind, he’s just taking in. Working it out within yourself and the whole thing just works out.

The more you enter into it you will understand that you have really entered the Kingdom of God where He looks after everything: you want a house? All right, have it! What do you want? You want that? Have it! (laughter) Take care of your problem? Have it. It’s all God’s own thing. Who owns it but God? He is the One who owns everything and He’s the One who enjoys everything, and He wants you to enjoy everything. It’s only through the power of wisdom that you can achieve it.

Today, though I had to show a part of that achievement in wisdom in which there is no artificial; it’s so natural. But natural doesn’t mean baser. Some people think to be angry is also natural. But you are a human being and a Sahaj Yogi. Whatever is natural to a Sahaj Yogi is not the same as whatever is natural to a buffalo! We have nothing to learn from them, they have to learn from us.

So whatever is natural to a Sahaj Yogi has to be learnt in the school of wisdom. Not by any rules, or anything that I say, “You don’t do this,” and, “You do this!” “You are not to do like that.” “You are not to do this way!” Not that.

Even in the hand if you see, this portion is Australia (Shri Mataji points to base of Her hand where the Mooladhara is). Now just see, this portion is the source for all the fingers, is the connecting point, this is your point (Australia). But it doesn’t say anything. For example, this finger means something, this thumb means something, this finger means something, this means something, but this [base] doesn’t say anything, doesn’t do anything. But without this nothing exists. If it is cut out here, you are paralysed, all the movement is finished. This is the connecting link with the Divine and the guiding link. This only tells which finger to move, where to take, how much to contract, which person. All of this is controlled in this portion.

A day will come when the information will reach the whole world through the awakening of Ganesha in my children, the Sahaji Yogis in Australia. And the whole world is going to get the blessings coming from Shri Ganesh.

Of course, you know that Kundalini is in India and only then this Kundalini can rise.

But one thing you must remember is that you are really placed at a very pivotal point and that the responsibility is too much on you. And the responsibility is to keep the whole atmosphere pure and send forth all the fragrance of the lotus. Though, maybe, you will feel you are surrounded by all mud and everything, but still you have to be very strong lotuses. For the whole world you have to come up and send forth that beautiful fragrance of announcement that the Blossom Time has come.

I was asking for the river’s name, what’s the name of the river. I wonder if you thought about it. See, the river’s name is Parramatta. ‘Parra’ in Greek means ‘above, beyond’ and ‘Matta’ means ‘the mother’. Your river’s name itself is Parramatta. It’s a Greek word, and how the Greeks have known of this word ‘Parramatta’? This river had to be here, the Adishakti only had to be here, to bless Shri Ganesha all the time which has to work hard.

He’s the one who sorts out: Lambodara. The one you see in the Sistine Chapel, very well pointed out. It’s a huge big stomach. It’s really an Australian character, personality, standing there sorting out people. Throwing left and to the right. It’s so beautiful, I wish you could get that picture some time. And you will be surprised – it’s an Australian, you can see it perfectly. It’s an Australian character. That is Christ. Absolutely an Australian body, standing up. I don’t know how Michelangelo could see that so clearly, that He had to be Australian like that one.

It has been so beautiful to come down, so beautiful.

It’s blissful for you maybe, but for me it’s nothing but complete joy, complete joy.

I had told I will not do anything after three years time, I will just settle down. Because the saintly person is not supposed to move from places to places, they must settle, they must have their own ground – that’s called as takiya, and you are not to leave that. But I am your Mother, moving all over.

And, can you imagine, I have been to all the world’s places, but never to Australia before, so to come here first thing was so great that even today I have not been able to put all that into words.

May God bless you!😇💫🥀

21/03/2024

17/12/2022

16/12/2022

Pre-Christmas Talk and Farewell Puja. Montague Hall Hounslow (UK), 23 November 1984.

So yesterday was a nice day for all of us, and I said something of a different level. We’ve been talking all the time about the mundane things and these things sometimes are very … are of so much importance, we think. But when I talked to you yesterday, I hope you all realized that we have to now jump into another realm of a subtler understanding of Sahaja Yoga.

First we are worried about our families, our children, our households; then, our marriages. One after another all these questions came up, and we were concerned about all these things; little, little things.

Then we also got concerned about the ashrams which we were running: the problems of the ashram, what we have been doing, how we have been facing the problems, how people are creating problems. That’s how our humanity started acquiring a subtler understanding. And then we also realized that we are blessed by God, that there’s something great that is always looking after us, some higher Force, some special Attention is there about us. This is what we realized.

Today I was explaining how it happens, that how we realize that God is helping us too. Any problem is an effect of some sort of a cause – every problem. Like Mona wrote a letter that she was driving in a motorway and the car went out of control, and the brake would not act. And there was a car coming from the right, car coming from the left, cars going through in front and behind. And she felt that they’ll be finished – two of them were traveling, two Sahaja yoginis. So the cause was the car or the brake or whatever it was, the mechanism, and the effect was all the problem. So now, how to overcome that problem? Supposing you try to neutralize the effect, you cannot, because cause is still there. You try to improve the cause, it doesn’t work out. Then what to do? So the easiest thing is to cross the cause, to ascend over, to go beyond the cause; so the cause does not exist for you, so the effect does not exist for you. As long as the cause exists in your attention, the effect will be there. So what did she do? She just prayed to Me, just thought of Me that “Mother, now it’s my last chance” – that’s all. So the cause disappeared, because you go beyond it. And the effect also disappeared, and she was surprised.

So you must ascend away from the cause. Now a problem: “my wife is like this”, “my husband like this,” “my family life is this,” “Sahaja yogis are like this” – all kinds of things are there. It’s an effect. Now what’s the cause? – is such and such person. All right, now what are we to get – relation of the cause. Surrender it. You are, you have the right to do that. You have a knack to do it, you can do it. You are capable of it, you are entitled to do it – but you don’t do it, you forget. You just forget. If you surrender that cause, the effects will go away. But that is the thing at that time to remember, that you have to ascend. To go beyond the cause is the best way to get rid of it.

So I’ve been playing with you. You had causes to say, “Oh Mother, this is the problem. I have no job.” Now I have a job, then the job is to be hard. Then the wife is not there, so must have a wife. The wife has a problem, so she is to be divorced – and that and that, and this is that. Then, “I am like that. I am very bad because there’s a bhoot in me.” So the bhoot is the cause. “And I am behaving like this because there’s a bhoot in me.” That’s also a scapegoat, I think.

So first you go beyond that, saying, “What is bhoot? Who is bhoot? I know my Mother. And Mother, You look after this bhoot of mine” – that’s all. But for that an emergency has to come to you, otherwise you just don’t do it, with that power. When you are in emergent condition, then it works out faster. When it is not emergency then it’s half-hearted, like Mona’s condition.

There was another case where a journalist was traveling from … or something and his brakes broke down, and he was with another journalist, so both of them were coming – this another journalist told me. The another one was Sahaja yogi. So he found his brakes are not working and he found his car is going, in front there is a big truck coming up and another truck coming from behind. And there was no way for him to turn or to get out of it, and his brakes were horrid. That was a emergency, you see. Such an emergency that developed into his mind, that “Oh God, now the last moment has come. Now we’re finished.” There is a truck coming from there and another truck, and within a split of a second he was to be finished. And he just told his friend, “Think of Mother” – that’s all. And what he found, that he was nicely crawling on the road and the trucks were left behind, and the brake was working.

But that emergency has to come. Human beings are such that unless and until they are put into tight corners, they never do that. Once they are in a tight corner, then they do it. That is the reason why people try to take ascetic life, because if you are an ascetic then you are in a tight corner. They go to Gobi Desert to create that emergency within you, so that you think of God. But that’s too late to go to the Gobi Desert. They create problems for them to get into tight corners, so that they can get out of it. But for Sahaja yogis if they are wise, they need not have.

But how do we achieve it otherwise, without any … ? Only way is meditation. Everybody must meditate, it’s the point. If you do not meditate, you can continue for a while. You may be all right for a while for two, three months, maybe two years, but then you drop out. Many people think, “Oh, what’s the need to meditate? You see, it’s all right. If we don’t meditate, doesn’t matter.” It’s not so. Because in meditation only you grow. In emergency you suddenly grow, no doubt. I mean, you jump like a jack-in-the- box. You just come up with a spring. But if you have to have continuous growth then you must meditate, allow the thoughts after thoughts coming, and then allow them to subside, because you rise into the state of thoughtless awareness. And in that thoughtless awareness you grow. And you grow in your detachment to the cause of all the effects. If there is no cause, there is no effect.

But this is the problem with us, is that we do not meditate, normally. Only when it comes to absolute last point, now you’ll have to fall in the well – then we think of it. Maybe at that moment you are helped, but you don’t grow. Growth can only come if you meditate. That is one very important part, is complete help to people who meditate in the normal way. In the normal life, how do we grow? If we have no oxygen, we cannot grow. We have to have sufficient oxygen, we have to have sufficient food, we have to have all these things. But in spirituality you grow through meditation. There’s no way out. Those who think they can grow are bumptious, actually bumptious people, because they can talk a lot about Sahaja Yoga. I have seen people who talk too much about Sahaja Yoga. They can give big lectures, this, that, but have no vibrations at all. They can’t do any work for Sahaja Yoga, they are not collective, they have no sense to be collective, all kinds of problems.

But the growth is to be achieved through meditation. That is one part of it. That is, we can say, is the worship, is the puja. Then you don’t have to give up anything, you just become detached, detached from the cause itself. That’s one part of it. Secondly, that this I would say will take you to the subtler side of your emotional bindings, because emotional binding has given you certain identification: you are a Christian or a Hindu or a Muslim, or this and that, or a British or any kind of a race, or whatever you have to call it. All those things will drop out, because you get a detached personality.

So these emotional bindings – “he is my brother,” “she is my sister,” “I am worried about my wife,” “I am worried about my child” – all these emotional bindings which make you a smaller personality will drop out, and you’ll have one emotional binding, is that “I am growing in my compassion. Compassion is active, my compassion is effective. My compassion is alight. My compassion is this discretion. I am a yogi.” And secondly you read about Sahaja Yoga, you know about Sahaja Yoga, you know the technique of Sahaja yoga, you raise your kundalini, you clean your chakras, try to understand about mantras. You master your mantras, you master your deities, you please them. All these things when they are done properly, then your mental bindings will drop out.

Those who think they are great scientists, they will know that all this is no science; the science of God’s technique is much more. Those who think that they are over-read, well-read people, when they read about Sahaja Yoga and work it out on themselves and see for themselves, and on others, they will know that whatever they have read is all stupid, has no meaning, is empty. And that’s how a kind of an emptiness will come in, emptiness of ego, because they’ll see that knowledge is so great. Like Newton said that “Knowledge is like an ocean, and I am like a little child collecting some pebbles at its shore.” What an understanding! So that emptiness comes in you, and then the real knowledge starts coming into you. The identification with real knowledge comes. You talk; when you talk, that talk has an effect – that’s a mantra. You just don’t jabber, “Oh, I am in Sahaja Yoga. I have been in Sahaja Yoga for fifteen years” – good for nothing. You may be there for a hundred years but you may remain a donkey as donkey is, absolutely.

But you may have been there only for one year, and you may become from a donkey a human being, and a yogi too. But that is what we have to first of all recondition ourselves, by attaching ourselves emotionally to Mother. I mean, you have an advantage over many other yogis of the world who came, poor things, they had nothing to look forward. They knew of a Primordial Mother, they knew about this, but they had no Form. You have a Form. You are very fortunate and lucky people; you have a Form. It’s easy to adore a Form than to adore something abstract in the air, do you see; absolute consciousness, how do you adore it when you can’t see it?

But that attachment doesn’t mean in any way that you have to give Me anything. What do you give Me? Nothing, but detachment from the cause. And this works out – you have seen it in your lifetime. You also say that “It works out, Mother, somehow it worked out.” What is bandhan? It’s nothing but you are attaching yourself to your Mother, you’re just telephoning to Her. This is a telephone going to your Mother, that’s all. You know I also play with you, I also say, “All right, I am giving you a bandhan.” I am giving bandhan to Myself! It’s a telephone call, just a telephone call. But the faith has developed now that yes, this is the real faith, where you get completely detached in your emotional things. It’s just “My mother” – all right, just give her a bandhan, finished. “My father” – give him a bandhan. “My brother” – give him a bandhan, whatever it is. Bandhan, whatever it is. You are putting that … in the bonds of your Mother. But you are not conscious that you are doing that. You are just binding them with the love of your Mother which is flowing through your hands.

What are these vibrations, is your Mother’s love. You’ve got it, it is flowing through you. But what about your love for your Mother? And that is what I find, that at the time when there is complete emergency that surrender comes in, and it works.

So there’s no need to create any emergencies. You must slow and steadily work it out, and it will build up by itself within you. You will have that power within you, I assure you. But meditation is one way; another is the knowledge of Sahaja Yoga. Not showing off, not telling others, but working it out in yourself – different chakras, how they work out, on yourself, not on others. Once you start teaching others, it’s a bhoot in you. You’d better learn it for yourself, even within yourself. I know who has mastered which chakra, which …. Nobody tell others that “this is the way to do it,” that’s absolute nonsensical ego. So such things should not be done. If somebody asks you, you can tell individually, but on a large scale you do not give lectures on that, and don’t confuse people.

Now, so we have two things, that we have to get over our emotional grossness and our mental grossness; same with our physical grossness. Physical grossness can be overcome if you surrender yourself, to one medicine, is vibrations.

Like Anupama, My grandchild, told her mother, “You are born in allopathy, then you are following homeopathy. Tomorrow you’ll find out some jumbopathy, then some numbopathy! So, but I am born in God and I follow only God’s pathy, and God will look after me and God will cure me.”

So My daughter said, “Why? You may also change.”

She said, “Why? Because God never changes.” Simple answer: God will cure you. But you must have that much ascent to say that, as you just jump out at the time of emergency.

Same sort of an urge, that same sort of a personality should be within you to say that. Just if you say, “Oh God, please save me,” God has no time for such people. You have no time for God, God has no time for you either – a simple thing.

So from sublime to mundane things when we come, we exist in both the things and we are effective. Whether we are in the lamp or in the light or in the oil, we are at a subtler point; and we, if we give the effectiveness without being the cause. Because you are beyond the cause, so there is no need to create any cause for anything, but you see the effect. So once the cause is finished effect is achieved, and it’s achieved what is to be achieved, the correctness of it. The correct thing you get. You do not get perverse thing, but if you go with a cause then you can have perversity, you can have all kinds of problems. So the best thing is to detach yourself from causes and then you get the effect, like as I told you that the brake got all right. The effect was there, the car was all right, everything was fine so the effect was all right; but the cause was lost. There was no cause. Why? How? How the thing was perfected?

If you ask the effect of it, you say how did you get it? You can’t explain, it didn’t work out. So because the cause is missing you cannot put it to any cause; you sometimes say it’s divine the way it’s worked out.

So the only cause that is really effective is divinity. But the divinity should not be just as a mundane sort of a thing, “All right, yes, Mother’s photograph is there, namaste. Good. Namaste. Good morning, Mother” – finished. That’s not the way. You have to know your Mother, and you have to love your Mother – that is what it is. It’s very embarrassing to say that you must love Me. But as a Mother in this lifetime I have had many embarrassing things, and one of them is this, that I don’t know how to tell the children. Now this is the fact. So you need not go through any emergencies or any such problems. You just develop yourself in such a way that you are so developed that it just acts and works out.

So I’ll give you a example of that. It works the least in England, surprisingly, where I’ve worked the most – least in England. I’ll give you a simple example, now. You see, your coming to India was decided I don’t know how many months back. I have been to India once and I’m going second time, and England is the only place where you have to pay your money directly. People have not yet paid, but Australians have done it. Australians, who are eighty, eighty-five people have done it, but English have not done – everything they are slow. But when it comes to ego they are the first, their flags are the first. In the ego, where is it generated? – in England the great.

So when it comes to doing something they are the slowest, when it comes to criticism they are the highest, and then when it comes to the ego suddenly you’ll see, give them any position, it’s …. Why? Again you can explain, because there is a cause. You’ll say it is inertia, blame someone, or it’s a bhoot, or it’s my ego or my superego, it’s not myself. Myself, I am all right. Some cause. Why you have not paid so far? It’s such a problem; I have to go now. If you were not coming you should not have come, but if you are paying, you better pay for it. Now, what’s the matter with you?

They started with fifty people, now they end up with thirty-five. We have arranged for it, we have ordered for things and we have got the buses and all that; now they are missing. Nobody asked you to come. On the contrary I was saying, “Keep it low. Keep it low, so that we’ll make it nice.” But you cannot have less than 350 or you can have three hundred, you can have two hundred, but you cannot just have 210. Where to put them? A simple thing – see all the mundane style. But in other places what they have done? “All right, we have to go. Mother will work it out.” It’s worked out. Everybody has got money, everything done, it’s all here.

Americans have done it, surprisingly, but English – they don’t know whether they are going or not. Still there are some. Poor Gavin has to run up and down for all of you. I tell you, he is the one who has such patience. And I was amazed that there are still eleven people who have not paid, can you believe it? I mean, it’s such a simple thing. If you don’t want to go, don’t go. If you want to go, you go. Tell him you are not going or you are going, finished. I mean, nobody wants you there. But even this little thing you cannot because you have a kind of a … because, because this has happened, because that has happened, because ….

So the English have to come up much more, because I have really worked for you people very, very hard, and again God has given Me work again five years more; I don’t know what we are going to do.

Sometimes I feel I should not be back, because no use. This is a small example I am giving, very small example, it’s very mundane type. You can see in other places also, like that. You tell them anything, “But why, Mother, it happens like that? Why do I do like this?” I mean, asking Me a question, asking Me the cause! “Why did I behave like this? Why do I get into temper?”

Like I have known people who have been coming to Sahaja Yoga, doing Sahaja Yoga and all that, but then they go to some other Steiner’s place. Then they go to some other courses. I mean, they have no faith in Me – Sahaja Yoga. They are practicing this, they are practicing that like mad, still going on. That’s only possible in England, I tell you, nowhere else – it’s a speciality. I have known of so many people who came to Sahaja Yoga; without practicing Sahaja Yoga, curing, helping them in Sahaja Yoga, working it out. They leave Sahaja Yoga. They’re going to this place, that place, that …. Is this the way?

Now I have known lots of people who try to blame the leadership. I am telling you all these things because I was very sick when I came here, really I tell you, I was sick for eight days and I was sick even afterwards; because you know, you are all in My body and I suffer, so I must tell you.

And then they say the leadership is no good, leader should be very strong, the leader should be this, and their leader must have a big thing in his hand, and they said if he hits us, we are not going to be all right. Again the cause; again the cause. I tell you, you have one of the best leaders in Gavin, and I must tell you, he is the man who spent a lot of money. Without telling Me he has covered many expenses, his office has worked for us. He took all nonsensical people. If I told him, “This fellow is getting some ego,” he’ll employ in his office. If I say, “This fellow has got bhoots,” he’ll employ in his office. He has worked with such bhoots that I could not manage them even for a day. He tries his level best to go to people and tell them that, “See now, come.” He has saved so many people by his sense, by his understanding; but the only thing is he, openly he doesn’t lead, that’s his mistake. He should openly tell, “You are a bhoot and get cured, then you’ll be all right.”

But if you say, “Come here. You see, you are a bhoot, doesn’t matter. I have got lemons, …, chillies. You sit down.” Then, “Mother, he is identifying himself with the greatest bhoot.” Let us face it. If you have understanding of your leader, then you should know that I know better than you know about it. And this is very saddening sometimes. Why don’t you understand the sheer goodness of a person? The amount of bhoots he has tolerated in his office, I tell you, I can’t stand them for more than one day, some of them.

So egoistical, some of them, off their heads, and some of them are so bhootish that even if they come downstairs I get a pain in the stomach, in My house. But he stood them. Why? What was the need? Just that he thought that he’d help them. Whenever I told him that “This person is bhootish,” I find him employed by Mr Gavin Brown. Then one day I had to tell him, “Sack all of them,” and they were sacked. Why do we have the maximum number of bhoots in England, I can’t understand. Is it necessary to have them around?

On the day when I am going I should not tell you these things, but when I go away I find these bhoots come back, and they become the causes, and the effects are shown. So I have to make a complete open picture to you to see that you can ascend to the highest of highest, being born on this great land of this country. But you can also go very down, I have seen that. Because you’re always blaming someone, last of all Gavin, and this is the worst thing that you have done. Let anybody say that to Gregoire – he’ll chop that person off ten times and bring that person to me in chopped stages! Really, I mean! He’ll say, “What nonsense! All right, it’s … go ahead.” You tell Mr. Warren, I don’t know what he’ll do with all of the Australian type. They are all gems, no doubt.

But you deserve a man like Gavin. I thought, they are special people that I’ve worked for you so much, but I am amazed. The decent people don’t need such leaders, do you? But the people who are decent now turn out to be Australians, surprisingly, the way they behave towards Me: so sweet they are, you’d be surprised, the children you know. Gavin, he bought some cups and saucers for Me because when I go there they thought they’ll give Me tea in good cups and saucers. So he bought for all the centers one cup and saucer, good one. So the children, little, little children, they collected money; after all, Mother will have a cake, also must have a plate. So they sent a check here, just see – how sweet! But I never eat cakes, you know that, but still – so sweet the children, I should say.

What is the reason? Why do we dominate or get dominated? Why? Again the cause. Go beyond the cause. I bless you again and again that when I come next time, see that you don’t make any mistakes anymore.

Meditate and meditate and meditate, and when you come to India some of you, I would like to show you as my prize things from where I’ve worked, you know. Even where I’ve not been, you see, somebody else has given realization to someone in Nepal, you see, and they are wonderful flowers; and here am I, something wrong with Me! Where I have worked, people are more worried about the causes.

I have to really make a very, very straightforward appeal to you that now, grow within yourself. Are you magnanimous, are you generous, are you systematic? Are you impressive, are you kind, are you collective? Are you attached to all these nonsensical things still? Do you talk big, do you give big lectures? Humble down yourself, and then you’ll see your greatness. Unless and until you put your head down to your heart, how will you see your Mother?

I wish you all great luck now, and happy Christmas to you and happy New Year, and a very great New Year in spiritual growth. Let’s show it. Let all of us decide today. Forget about your wives and husbands and children, and this and that nonsense. Now you are yogis, you are united with Divine. Grow in it, prosper in it. May God bless you all.

Now the today’s program should not be very big because we are not allowed lot of time, but it’s nice that today we could have a little puja of farewell. But it should be a very small … because it is, how much you receive is the point, because before going I don’t want to have all kinds of chakras, you see, going into spasms. I am sometimes afraid of a puja in England.

Gavin, I think you can just … It’s the mastery. You must have the mastery, upon yourself first of all. If you are not a master you cannot act – and upon your instrument, that’s the point.

And I would not like anybody to disrespect the leaders at all. You may be very intelligent, that’s outside Sahaja Yoga. In Sahaja Yoga you have to listen to your leaders and respect, and nobody should try to find faults. I know his faults, what are his faults are, and I know how to deal with them. Everybody should try to strengthen. Now I would say in Australia, which is a modern thing, I should say that the whole thing works like one body. Nobody questions Warren. They telephone to him, they tell him, they collect money, they put the money – it’s all working like one body. Here everybody is trying to cut the head – or attack the heart; that’s your heart, that’s your brain.

So please remember all of you should offer services to Gavin, to Sahaja Yoga, before criticizing. Those who say the books are not arriving, let them take over the books. Even booking My seats and all that he has to run, I know; whatever you may say about … he used to do all this. So you should offer your services also, to do these jobs. Otherwise Sahaja Yoga won’t work out.

We are not only here to take blessings but we have certain duties also, and that’s what everybody should offer, their measure: what can I do, how can I help? What is the work? Let’s see now.

I hope in the next meeting you all should sit down and find out what you can do. A group can be formed: two, three persons can sit and do it with love, with attention, so that his burden will be reduced, and you will all feel the joy that you are doing something for Sahaja Yoga. Mother has done so much for you, what have you done for Sahaja Yoga? You want to have nice ashrams, nice place to live there, all right. You want to have comfortable places, cheaper places, all right. You want to have good health, all right. You want to have fine children, all right; enjoy your life. But what about giving, giving your heart, your respect?

Next time when I come back, I want to see that you are all growing as one body. At least the Heart should be integrated, if nothing else. Imagine a heart which has the valves which pulsates at various times, all muscles going at different wavelengths. How can this universe survive with a heart like this? So I have to request all the, all the cells of the Heart to be alert, to be one in unison with God, and in loving care of the whole universe. May God bless you.

So what is this puja supposed to be today? It’s farewell puja today, so let’s have it, just before the birth of Christ.

Let Christ be born within us. Let’s be, like Him, the one who always insisted, “Love your brothers. Love your sisters.” Who are your brothers and sisters? He asked the question too, “Who are My brothers and sisters?”

“Sahaja yogis are my brothers and sisters.”

Somebody offered at the altar. He said, “What are you to offer at the altar? Have you reconciled with your brother?” Have you reconciled? First reconcile, and then bring flowers to Mother.

He said it already. Think of Him, how forgiving He was, how magnanimous, how great, and how He thought of His Father all the time, completely dedicated, doing His work. So with all praises to Christ and to His Mother who worked in a very potential manner, we have to today within ourselves awaken that great Spirit, which is actually the Omkara. Even the memory, even the idea of that is so joy-giving. Let His life be reflected in your lives. You have to be true Christians.

Let’s have … what is it? ….

I think … Now I would say, next time when you come to puja, all of you must have the hundred-and-eight names of the Goddess. You must have all the papers that are there. Like we have these books, all of us must have these papers, not only one person should have. We should try to remember certain things also: the names of the Goddess, the names that we recite. We should read them again and again and understand them, the Sanskrit meaning of it. And it should come to us very easily, because that is how we are going to work out our chakras.

I don’t think we have names of Christ, it’s all right, and this time I hope we will try to read some names of Christ. But we have the names of Ganesha but not of Christ, so we’ll say the hundred-and-eight names of Shri Ganesh, and somebody can wash My feet, all right ….

Have you? Well really, that’s the best. But so, I would say somebody should say now, let’s see. How many names we have? ….

Let Me create the names, and we’ll give it to others. Why should only Gavin keep the names? It’s not like a prime minister of this country, you have chosen the leader. Prime minister is paid money for, she’s – that’s her job she is doing. He is not doing his job. You all are doing the job of God.

So why should there be any such thing that …. Now somebody should read it, and somebody can. Now who will read it?

Now somebody should read it and somebody can wash My feet. But don’t do it too much, eh? This is Christ – it’s not easy to absorb. All right, let’s see. Let’s see how much love you have for Him, how much you absorb Him ….

Get up now. So you must get up to help, some of you. And others also. There’s nothing to fear that there is ego or anything. Don’t keep back thinking, “Oh, they think I’m just being … ” – no, run! Run for the job.

Now, what is it? Get some things what you need.

Now, who will conduct the puja? Bala, you can do it? All right, come forward. Some ladies can come also, what’s the harm? Now come here. …. The water and all that ….

Now, you being friends, you need not trouble too much ….

(A Sahaja yogi takes the names of Lord Christ.)

We bow to the one who is the only son of His Virgin Mother

In whose every pore of His body galaxies whirl as dust

Who was born to teach us of His Father Sadashiva, the everlasting Almighty God. Amen.

Aum twameva sakshat Shri Jesus sakshat

Shri Adi Shakti Bhagavati Mataji

Shri Nirmala Devi Namo Namah.

He is the primordial Being, the Aum.

He is Vishnu and the son of Vishnu.

He is Mahavishnu.

He is pure pranava energy.

He contains millions of universes.

He was born in the primordial cosmic egg.

He was conceived in the heart of Shri Mataji.

He was foretold by the prophets.

He was heralded by a star in the east.

He was attended by the three Magi, who were Brahma, Shiva and Vishnu.

He was born in a stable.

He is the teacher.

He is a friend of the cows.

He was attended by cows.

His father is Shri Krishna.

His mother is Shri Radha.

He is the Savior who burns all our sins with His fire.

He adorns the Agnya Chakra.

He is light.

He is of the nature of sky.

He is fire.

He performed miracles out of His compassion.

He whose cloak was touched.

He is a friend of ascetics.

He is worshipped by families.

[Shri Mataji: Because tapasa – He stands at tapassvi. Now you see, that’s why. Ascetic, why? Because He is a tapassvi.]

His bija mantra is “Ham, Ksham.”

He is the forgiver.

He allows us to forgive.

He is the Spirit.

He is born of the Spirit.

He who was crucified and resurrected in pure Spirit.

He who rose again after three days.

He is peace.

He absorbs all thoughts.

He abides in the Adi Agnya Chakra.

[Shri Mataji: He abides in everything, but in human beings in the Agnya Chakra. He is the Omkara. He abides in everything, but in the human beings He abides in the Agnya Chakra.]

He who promised the Comforter who is Shri Mataji, the Holy Spirit.

He who returns as a king.

He is Shri Kalki.

He is the principle of evolution.

He is the support of our evolution.

He is the end of evolution.

[Shri Mataji: He is the support of the universe – Mooladhara.]

He is the evolution from collective subconscious to collective consciousness.

He is the narrow gate.

He is the way to the Kingdom of Heaven.

[Shri Mataji: He is the narrow gate to the Kingdom of Heaven, and He is the way. All right.]

He is the silence.

He is Lord Kartikeya.

He is Shri Maha Ganesha.

He is the purity of innocence.

He is continence.

He is generosity.

He is the light in the eyes of Shri Mahalakshmi.

He is obedient to His Mother.

He is the perfect Sahaja yogi.

He is the perfect brother.

He is the embodiment of joy.

He is the embodiment of gentleness.

He spits out the half-hearted.

He condemns the adulterous eyes.

He condemns all fanatics.

[Shri Mataji: Actually, neutralizes the adulterous eyes. He makes the adulterous eyes innocent, because He is innocence.]

He is uninterested in riches.

He gives all riches to His devotees.

He is pure white.

[Shri Mataji: No, this is, you can’t say He is uninterested in rituals – what makes you think? The rituals which are real ….

See, the one who is riches, how can He be interested in riches? That’s the point …. Riches He is. Not interested at all, because He being the riches – that is gunatita, as you call it – you see, the being and the non-being. When you are the non-being, you cannot be interested in the being. Beyond, He is beyond.]

He is the sacred heart.

He wears a crown of thorns.

He condemns misery.

He suffered so that we should enjoy.

He is a child, yet He is the ever ancient.

He is the Alpha and the Omega.

He gives the kingdom of heaven equally to those who are first or last.

He is ever with us.

He is beyond the universe.

He is the sign of the cross.

He is above discrimination.

He is the witness.

He is the one who is witnessed.

He overcomes temptation.

He exorcises evil.

He condemns occult practices.

He is the embodiment of tapas – penance.

He worships His father.

He is hallowed by His Father.

He whose name is holy.

He is intelligence.

He is wisdom.

He is perfect humility.

He is angry with materialists.

He destroys ego and absorbs superego.

He is the destroyer of desires.

He is the pure power of desire.

His church is the heart.

He has the eleven destroying powers.

He is the destroyer of false prophets.

He is the destroyer of untruth.

He is the destroyer of intolerance.

He is the destroyer of racialism.

He is the destroyer of anger.

[Shri Mataji: Of fanaticism – it’s very much so.]

He is the herald of the Golden Age.

He is worshipped by our Mother.

He is praised by our Mother.

He is loved by our Mother.

He is the one who is chosen.

He is awakened in all Sahaja yogis.

He who rides the white horse at the end of the age.

He is the end of our fears.

He guards the gate of our Mother.

He is the only way to the Kingdom of God.

Aum Shri Mahalakshmi, Mahavishnu sakshat

Shri Mahavirata sakshat

Shri Adi Shakti Bhagavati Mataji

Shri Nirmala Devi Namo Namah.

[Shri Mataji: I think the word “worshipped” should be “adored by our Mother” because He didn’t like it, I think, it’s catching on the Agnya. So it’s “is adored by.” See, He’s so particular – you see, the protocol is not all right, that’s why.

See – better! Agnya was fine. See? …. Some catches there are. I was wondering which one of them was …. Now we’ll say, “He is adored by our Mother.”

He is adored by our Mother.

[Shri Mataji: Again, three times.]

He is adored by our Mother.

[Shri Mataji: Again.]

He is adored by our Mother.

He is adored by our Mother.

[Shri Mataji: See? He’s very particular.

May God bless you.]

(Hymns to Shri Mahalakshmi, in Sanskrit.)

You got the meaning of that? The description of Mahalakshmi, what She gives you, and also the description about Her relationship with Vishnu, with Hari – is Shri Krishna, that She is the beloved of Shri Krishna (Hari …) Is the beloved of Shri Krishna; and that’s how it explains how Mahalakshmi, if She is Mary, then Mary is Radha ….

…. This has to be done by boys who haven’t got the feeling of marriage, or think of it. It has to be that pure.

(Mother is directing them to perform the puja correctly.)

(Recitation of Devi Suktam.)