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> BIRTHDAY PUJA 21.03.1982 © COPYRIGHT SHRI MATAJI NIRMALA DEVI
Nice to see today, so many
Sahaja Yogis looking like beautiful lotus flowers as the blossom time
is filled with the fragrance of your beauty. It's such a pleasure for
me to be your mother, and to be able to communicate the divine, the
powers of divine, the beauty of divine to you. It was never possible
before, as you know, everyone tried their level best but nobody could
achieve it, to communicate that beauty. As you know Sahaja Yoga or this
- "Mahayoga" is a very unique system which never existed before.
It has come into existence, of course, I should say that, because the
'Para Brahma' decided to take a form, but you also all decided to come
on this earth to receive the bliss. It cannot be possible to do anything
with one hand. The beauty of Sahaja Yoga is great, no doubt, which I
am sure very soon people will realise, that this is the only way, all
lost people will come back to Sahaja Yoga. I am sure and they will achieve
what they are due. You don't have to do anything for Sahaja Yoga. You
just walk in and get your realisation. In India there was a man
who came to see me and he told me a big story about his boss. He told
me that he is under debt, he had so many problems. His wife is like
this, his children are like this, he has political problems, and all
sorts of problems he had, and then he got his realisation. He said,
"Mother, what have you done to me?" I said, "Why?"
I have forgotten all this and I am enjoying. I am enjoying, you see.
I said, it could be an escape. He said, "No I can see all that
but I am still enjoying" Next time when he met me, he told me that
I have solved my problems, because I was in joy and I could share it
with others, things have improved a lot. That's how Sahaja Yoga works
instantaneously, spontaneously, without any effort. It is true, but
we have to face certain things. The fact, that we were not
so prepared for Sahaja Yoga, in the sense that we are people living
in this life of turmoil, confusion, all kinds of funny ideas. And the
ideal 'Dharma' is also missing. It's only in the books or in the churches,
may be somewhere, people talk, only talk.It's not actually existing.
Moreover we have also not got the traditions left with us which are
required to be in a person to worship the divine. Most of our traditions
we have lost, because firstly, we discovered that there is lot of hypocrisy
and insincerity as far as religion is concerned. The people who talk
about religion, behave in such a manner that you can't believe that
there is God. So they denied God, they denied all the traditions. They
said it's all useless, it has no meaning, better give up all the religions,
it is fanaticism, it's all nonsense, because it did not give them fruits.
According to them, they could not wait for Sahaja Yoga to come in to
prove that all religions are absolutely correct and their traditions
are absolutely necessary, if you really want to have the maximum of
the joy and the beauty of the divine. But it so happened that we lost
those stretches, we have lost. Most of the traditions are lost. It's
surprising, how many traditions we have lost and we are not aware of
it. So, a new education is needed
for us to understand the traditions of worshipping. It's easy to have
a Puja, because your mother is always available. If you just tell her
there is Puja, she will just dress up and come down. But in tradition
at least there should be an invitation, you have to come and receive
and ask for coming, now you see the joke of the whole thing. But it's
alright because, you don't know, it is alright. It's not only that.
I am saying on the whole. A worship is a tradition which has come to
us from great seers and ancient sages. Anybody, even say Moses, you
can say Socrates, you can say Dattatreya or Markandeya or anyone of
these people have found out the ways and methods, how to tune our instruments
to the divine, to achieve the maximum joy. How to please the deities,
that's the main point. But it's a crude word, 'please'. But say how
to spark them or invoke them, so that they give you complete blessings.
And the trick of the trade one has to learn, one has to educate. There
is nothing wrong in getting educated. So we know, that we have to educate
ourselves, first point. And secondly, we have to know, that, for that
we have to be humble. The humility should be such that I have to learn,
I have to educate. Nothing wrong in it. I have told you before, that
in ancient times, the Gurus used to be so strict with their disciples
that they used to put them hanging on the well for three days, before
they could enter even into their university. So if they could stand
all that insults, then only they would bring the students inside and
start talking about any education. Because you see, in educating
a person, if you have no humility and understanding, I do not know.
It's a fact. Because it is a new journey towards the roots as I have
said, you are the roots. Sahaja Yogis are the roots of the whole universe.
Do you know that? You are the roots and as roots you have to know how
to journey through this. When you grow deep, the tree which is through
you grows deep. It is through you only the nourishment of this overgrown
universe is going to be looked after, and the more it overgrows, you
must grow deeper. But for that, you must have education. It's important.
Look at the little cell at the Up of a root. How it moves? With complete
understanding and wisdom. Supposing it is hit by a stone, it will not
feel bad - it knows where to recede, where to go further, where to go
round and how to use the same stone for making the tree very strong.
All this education you have to get through your experiences and by all
the time saying humbly that, l have to learn". That is very important that we have to have that humility to educate ourselves because with that education you will imbathe this tremendous task into the minds of the people, which is very difficult. The movement is outward in these shoots. It's easy to impress a person if you are insincere, very easy. If you can dress up in a particular way, smile in a different way, look in a different way, if you can act very well, you can impress anyone. For the people who are superficial, we can say, the veneer that we have so far is not needed any more. There is no need to have the veneer, because inside we have found our self, our own spirit, our own beauty, which is going to flower out, which is going to come out. So there is no need to have any artificial veneer at all because I know you and the deities know you. There is no need to have any artificiality outside. We put on some sort of an artificial veneer. What is the use for us? Nothing. We are not going to impress the people outwardly. We have to impress them inwardly. So for inward growth all this veneer must stop. The veneer has come through so many kinds of acceptance of norms and we can say the formalities of life. that veneer is within us. If you say, thank you ten times, finished. If you say, sorry, two times, it's alright. But from inside to feel sorry, to genuinely feel sorry, to be genuine about it, is our work. But that doesn't mean that we should have no tradition. Tradition gives us that beauty, to grow in a proper way, e.g. you will see, we find people talk here sometimes gives you a shock. "I will buy you a lunch today", say a thing like that, it's horrible to say such a thing, as to say, "I will buy you a lunch today". This is a very rude and crude way of talking. Isn't it? On the contrary, it is better to say, that "wiII you give me the pleasure of you having for lunch?" It is no artificiality. That is the way you should feel. There is no artificiality because from your heart, it is coming. You are saying it from your heart. But if you are not saying it from your heart, it's better to say that it would be a pleasure. Because to say, that I will buy you a lunch and you buy me tomorrow, to say another thing you say, this also possible. This people think is very open, and there is no insincerity. Because you are insincere, that's why you want to avoid insincerity. Why not be sincere? By saying,
whatever looks so sincere, is actually vulgar. It’s not proper
to say so. But for a Sahaja Yogi if he is traditional, as well as his
inner-self is sharp, he is like a beautiful diamond. So I feel that
in education, our language has to change, our style has to change. We
have to live in a way that people should feel that we are very decent
people and very normal people. You don't have to do anything
abnormal to be a Sahaja Yogi. You have to be extremely normal, decent
people who know decent language. There is no need to put up any show
e.g. you see an artificial smile or an artificial face. There is no
need at all. For a Sahaja Ybgi, to become like any other person is no
hypocrisy. You see, a Sahaja Yogi may think, Mother its a hypocrisy
because I am a Sahaja Yogi, I am a realised soul, why should I dress
up like other people. You see this is hypocrisy. It is not? For a king
to dress up like a beggar, is it a hypocrisy. Will you call it a hypocrisy?
It's not. Now supposing, l am a Goddess, I am not supposed to dress
up like ordinary people, I am to be decked up all the time, I should
have this, that. But I have to dress up like ordinary people. So is
it hypocrisy? It is not hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is to claim something,
that you are not. It's a higher level. This is supposing a person, who
is not even a realised soul, and he says I am a Guru. Then he is a hypocrite,
but not a real Guru, behaves like an ordinary person. It's a question
of discretion. One should understand, it is a question of discretion.
So when you dress up like an ordinary person, in an ordinary way, there
is no question of any hypocrisy. But may be, you are doing for a thing
not to appear something, so much that others' ego is hurt. Actually,
I do that, only just not to hurt anybody's ego. To be very frank, I
go about like that because I do not want to hurt anybody's ego. Because
hurting ego means that they will go down further. So, may be that is
the reason that you are doing for the sake of their good if you have
to take up a dress like that Doesn't matter. But hypocrisy comes in,
when you are not that and you claim something. Now, for a Sahaja Yogi, it
is important to know that he has to improve. He has to go further. He
has to grow. And for the growth, whatever is necessary, must be accepted
in right, proper way. Now, today is a very auspicious day, that you
are celebrating my birthday. I am sure, by the time, I am sixty years
of age, you could grow so fast. In this year, I wish that you grow so
fast that when people see you, they should feel a great, beautiful personality
standing before them. Each one of you have to be great people, each
one of you. For me, that's the only thing to be seen. It can be accelerated
very fast if you understand that you have to learn every moment. The
humility is necessary. Once you know that you have to grow every moment,
you will be amazed, how fast you can do. Every moment you will have
to change. For example, your style of talking. Some people have a style
of talking. You can see the Mirror. How would you like a Sahaja Yogi
to have that kind of style of talking? Some people have a style of laughing
in a funny way. All the time, they will be laughing, giggling, while
talking hey, hoo, and they go on. That's not the way a Sahaja Yogi should
be. He should be serene. He should laugh when it is necessary. He should
smile when it is necessary. It is so much in tune with your spirit that
whatever you do, should create beauty. Even when you cry, at the time
when it is necessary, it should be beautiful. See, tears come into your
eyes sometimes, they do. But you see somebody very sick, somebody very
ill, unhappy, then the tears should come, and not when something about
you is bad; That is a Sahaja Yogi. A
Sahaja Yogi must feel for others and not for oneself, In the same way,
when you laugh, you see, you shouldn't just laugh, as a matter of habit.
Some people have a habit, whenever they start with a laughter or they
will just imitate, Hae they will say again, Hae. It has got no meaning.
It looks idiotic also. So one should not appear that way or one should
not be so serious, that the next moment a person wants to get away from
you, the way you are serious. I mean there are silent bores also. They
just bore you with their silence. But whatever you speak, it should
come out of your heart. If it really comes from your heart, I tell you,
it will have so much effect, because heart gives that beauty to you
that's your spirit. Connection is with your spirit. When you speak from
heart, feelingly, whatever you speak, it shows so much of your feelings
on your face and on your behaviour and everything and it touches another
person's heart, means, you touch the roots of the person . You touch
the absolute innermost part of his 'Antahkarna' as you say - innermost
compartment of his light and from there the light comes. Now this difference we must
understand, that our education now is going to be sincerity to speak
from your own heart, and not from outside. Now we have all the formalities,
how to speak how to eat. These things are very superficial for Sahaja
Yoga. These are not so important. For Sahaja Yoga these things do not
matter. But traditionally, those things that are accepted, must be seen,
discreetly used and we should behave in such a manner that whatever
we say from our heart, should have that beautiful cover of traditions,
that's all. But you need not be artificial at all. There is no need
to be artificial. Now the line to draw between
artificiality and reality is very difficult for people, because, you
see, if you intellectualise it, you can intellectualise everything.
For example, if I say, something is very wrong with you. So, you may
feel that I have criticised or something. You may feel bad. This is,
according to these realities is not true. It is unbelievable. Because
you have come here to educate yourself. Now I have to tell you something.
When I tell you, and if you feel hurt, than it is not reality. Then
what is it? It is your ego. You are playing with your ego and not with
your spirit. On the contrary, a man who has spirit, will feel happy
that I am in the attention of the Mother and that she can correct me. Not to be away from Mother's attention, is very important. Because supposing, today you might feel something bad and you may try to get out of the attention. Who will look after you? She is looking after you and she has to correct you and she has to tell you that this is not proper and this is not good and this is good. In that you have to have faith that you will definitely come up. You will have to come up because I am interested in you. So to be in the Mother's attention is very important, and that Mother's attention is all the time with you till you absolutely try to get out of it. Because I cannot force myself
upon you, that is the main point. I cannot force myself upon you, but
if you want my attention then I have to tell you. If you are touching
something, say, a child is touching this fire, won't you tell the child,
don't do it. So every moment, the Mother has to look after. And she
loves you, and not only that, but to her, you are so important. I mean,
nobody would like to say anything to anyone these days, because people
want to be popular, this cheap popularity. I am not a person who is
asking, for popularity. What I want, that my children
should be beautiful people, when they enter into the 'Kingdom of God'.
They should be respected as great saints, sages. More than anybody else,
they are special people. That's how they are to be educated. May be,
I am very ambitious, you might say. But my ambitions are based on reality.
I am sure I can achieve these. But you must develop that humility and
understanding within yourself that we all have to improve, we have to
be in the attention of the Mother. If she has to say something to us,
we are not ,to feel hurt. If you feel hurt, then know that it is your
ego. Beat yourself with shoes. Take it out, because it is not good.
I cannot go on pampering your ego all the time till you are completely
blasted off and then you come and tell me "Mother why didn't you
tell me?" For example, somebody asked me, he is in love with somebody
and wants to marry her. I knew that the person was horrible and he should
not marry that person and I said that, in a way, it's alright. I mean,
I first was in a shock and I kept quite. I said, now how to say that,
not to pamper his ego either, but to say. How to say that, no or yes.
It was very difficult. So, I said, all right as long as she makes you.
happy, it's alright. Now the word happy, has double meaning. Happy means
only your ego can be happy, not the spirit. It's joy. I did not use
the word joy, I said happy. See I have to be clever about it. Now, if
you had thought of it, why would Mother say happy, she should have said
if it gives you joy. If I say joy then it's correct. But I said happy.
I said it three or four times to him that, does it make you happy. He
said, "Yes". If it makes you happy then you can marry. Now
see, if he is very intelligent, and he should have thought of it. But
he never thought of it that I was meaning that it is not going to give
you joy, if it gives you happiness, you marry. Happiness means your
ego pampering, it's simple. Also you have to educate yourself to understand
your Mother. This is the third thing, that you ought to know, is to
understand your Mother. See I have to be clever.
Because if I am not, if I am very blunt, you get blasted. If I am not,
you are lost. So I have to be clever. And when I am clever, they call
me Mahamaya. So at least, let me keep to one style, let me be a "Mahamaya".
Alright, accepted. But then you try to understand that if I tell you
something, you just get absolutely annoyed and angry. And the people
get lost. You see, they get lost. If you tell them don't do it, they
get lost. If you say, do it, then they get lost, in any case, because
they are doing a wrong thing. So it is a big problem and you should
see what is good for you - 'Swartha', 'Swa-artha', it also means selfishness,
but it means the meaning of yourself. That's what you have to find out
for yourself, what is good for you and if Mother is saying something,
then what is the meaning of what Mother is saying. I am too simple but
I am very crooked. Because when I tell you something, straight-forward,
you do not understand. So I have to go in a round-about way. See that's
the diplomacy of Shri Krishna. You see because Mother's intentions are
very simple and sincere that my children should grow into real divine
power. They should become really, actuallly, divinity. They should,
be nothing, but embodiment of God's love. I am very ambitious. I have
all confidence in myseIf, in you also and I am sure you will understand,
that I do not do your ego pampering, I encourage you and I also sometimes
discourage you. Both forces are important, if you have to progress properly.
So when I encourage you, you feel happy means your ego is there. When
I discourage you, you feel discouraged means you are super-egoist. So
don't have to be both. You have be in joy because unless and until you
educate yourself fully, the feeling of joy, the feeling of spirit, the
oneness with spirit will not be your own. It's like, you see, my car
which did not start. You see it's a hopeless instrument, it can't take
me up to this Chelsham Road, where I have to go for such an important
thing. So what's the use of having such a car, isn't it. That's what
it is. One has to understand if this habit of Mr. Paizar is like this, it doesn't take me there, better not to have such a habit. Better not to have this kind of personality. Better not to have this mentality. Better not to have this kind of attitude. Better give up. It's all
nonsense. I have to enjoy. I have come on this earth to enjoy the bounties
of God's love. So it is a very great day, today, because internationally
you are all celebrating my birthday. Yesterday about 10' o'clock, I
started feeling the vibrations flowing and my husband told me that,
in Australia, the puja must have started. And then later on, say, 12'
o'clock again, it was in India I think, continuously. So I feel now
that all over the world, my birthday is on; even when it will finish
here, it will go to America and all over the world, out of twenty-four
hours, I will be emitting vibrations perhaps, because everywhere they
are worshipping me. As the sun is moving 12' o'clock, they will be all
worshipping me'. It's great thing that such a day has come, people are
feeling around the world that it's a great day when the divine decided
to start this 'Mahayuga'. Now, for your education,
I was thinking of writing a book, or say, an article, about 'how to
educate yourself'. But the problem is, that when I write it. I do not
want you to feel, that is directed towards me. Because you will find
some identification, your identification. It's not directed towards
anyone. It's a general thing. Today, you might be having that problem,
tomorrow another might be having that problem, anybody It is a general
thing, I, with all your permission, if you say so, I think I should
write it down. Which will help you. Which you should read impersonally,
impersonally and that is going to, I am sure, help you. That should
be really the beginning of my another book which I am thinking for Sahaja
Yogis that I should take to one book, only for Sahaja Yogis. The one
I have written is for everyone, but this one would be only for Sahaja
Yogis. And the first chapter would be 'How to educate yourself, to be
in Sahaja Yoga, to grow in it, and not to be deluded by ego or super-ego.
I hope, I have your permission today and I will start that thing for
you. Now if there are any questions you should ask, because we have reached the point, where we can start the puja now. You should know that another cleverness your Mother has, you see, may be the car was failed because of me, perhaps. You cannot say. I am very clever at certain things like arranging timings. You know that the thing is, that there was a Puja in Khandala or some place, Lonavala. We had a Puja there. For that Puja you see they had fixed up the time at nine. As usual they had fixed up themselves. They never asked me. 9 o'clock puja is fixed. Mother, come at nine. Mother should come, sit down. Alright, do my puja. You see, at 9 o'clock, imagine, I said alright, I will be there so, l wouldn't go for my bath till 11 o'clock. They were saying, Mother, go for your bath. I said, just a minute, I will go, I will go. And without bath I wouldn't come for the puja. So, they said why Mother is not going, they were all very upset. They were waiting and waiting for me, why Mother has not come still. I said, alright I will just go for a bath. At eleven, I went for the bath. They were to have puja at nine, you see. Then I came back at about eleven thirty. I came down and they started
the puja. Before starting the puja, I sald, now please see the 'Panchang'
- where they write the dates. It was written that till 11 o'clock was
'Amavasya' - the day when there is no moon and no good work to be done
during that time. It is inauspicious, you see, I said, how could I take
my bath before that. They were all amazed. I said, I never read 'Panchaang',
but I know what is to be done when and what time is the 'most 'auspicious
time', that is the time everything has to be done. Now you don't have
any 'Panchaang' today, but you can find out about it. These things are,
very important. Timings are, because as I have to consult all the deities,
I have to consult all the stars, and also you know, the stars have got
all the deities on them, they are all to be consulted, they are to be
put right, the whole thing is to be geared up, for puj a, so that you
have the maximum advantage. I have to work very hard for all these things
and it's a very big operation. Such a huge complicated operation that
you do not know. You see when you start doing my puja, you get your
vibrations, you think, 0! Mother has given us vibrations. It's not so
simple. It's a very very big operation. Imagine, to get a car done is
so difficult. Now here, there are so many complicated stuffs and the
whole universe is involved into it, so one has to work out very carefully. So only thing, one should
have humility, but you don't understand Mother, so much. It's alright,
we have to understand our Mother more and more, so for that, education
is also very important So far you had faith in me, thank you very much
for that and I hope, you will have more faith in me and understand me
better. Why I do certain things and why it is necessary, these cannot
be rationalised unless and until you really reach that state of rationality
where the spirit gives you the light to understand. Then you will see
that time, Mother will allow some time to pass and that happens. Sometimes
she comes earlier or later is little whimsical to an ordinary person
but it is not, it is not. It is the working of the divine, which is
to be understood from the divine point of view. See from the human point
of view, it may also look crooked, it may look vicious some Umes, may
look funny. But it's not so. It has to be done like that and I really
use traditions to hide all that, which looks funny to you. Tha's how
I manage, otherwise, you will be surprised the things I am doing like
killing the 'Rakshasas' and all that It's a horrible thing, but I am
doing all these things. You know I am doing lots of thing, like I gave
bandhan to this 'Narkasura' and they had no meetings, not a single person
turned out for their meeting. So all these tricks I am playing. You
may call it espionage or ahything. You may call it anything very serious
but what can I do about it. it is so, one has to work out in this crooked
world, to take them out and do something really about it. It is a big
operation on, while you are the real people on the stage, I mean the
whole opera and everything is for you. The whole dress-makers and everybody
is sitting at the back. They are all working it out and you are on the
stage, and you have to achieve it. You are the actors and you are the
real things which are going to give the show. That's true. So, you have any questions,
please ask, and then we will go ahead with this puja business. I must
tell you, that Indian Sahaja Yogis have bought for my touring, something.
These are of course going to be my personal archives, I must say. And
they have sent it to be worn today for the programme. They thought that
the programme is going to be in India and they had made all these ornaments
for me, there. But poor things I decided to come here and have the programme. And they think they are specially privileged people that I will go to England. But then I told them, how many birthdays have I had with you. How many? Then they kept quite. You see, otherwise they thought why this privilege to these people, Europeans and English. So I said, how many birthdays I have had with you. Because they had made all the preparations, they had made all the stovings and everything for me, and you will be amazed how beautifully they had made all these things for me. It's alright and we have to think about them. And today, on the 22nd, they are having a big programme in India, where there will be some speeches and things and some music programme, and it is free to all, and I hope it will be successful. It must have started by now, it's about 5.30 or 6 o'clock, they are going to start. It's about that time, and that's how your Mother is postponing a little bit, if you don't. Alright, any questions?
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