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> BIRTHDAY PUJA 21.03.1983 © COPYRIGHT SHRI MATAJI NIRMALA DEVI OVERCOMING
THE SIX ENEMIES I could not believe about
ten years back, that within ten years I'll be able to achieve this result.
We should not judge the progress of Sahaja Yoga in relation to other
plastic gurus. Even to create one saint will require a thousand lives
to pass, and so many have become prophets, it is a very big thing for
you. Let us forget about what dents we have within ourselves. We have
to know that we are prophets. This assumption has to be established
- that we are prophets. If you could just assume what you are, what
you have become, you'll emit the glory of God! Like a flower when it
blossoms, it has its fragrance which flows automatically, but it is
only human beings who have freedom even not to assume, to dramatize
or to assume what they are. Even if they have become prophets they still
linger on with what they are not, in imagination and are still frightened,
are still ego-oriented. It's falsehood. It's not your true nature. Its
like acting in a drama, becoming the actor. Like somebody is acting
like Shivaji, so he becomes as if he's Shivaji. The whole lifestyle,
everything changes-he becomes like Shivaji. But the same person if he's
acting like Hitler, he becomes like Hitler. Both are artificial. Artificial
they become. Now when you are really prophets
you find it difficult to be the real person what you are, not the artificial
which has gone back, which is no more there, all finished. The sinner
is dead, the egoistical is not there, the frightened one is gone forever,
you are a prophet. Rise in the glory of that personality. People who
are not prophets, who are not Godly, who are doing anti-God activities
can assume to be prophets. But those who are really prophets do not
want to assume the situation - that they 'are'. As soon as you assume, you
become that. We must today get over this kind of a play our mind has
been doing so far. All falsehood has to drop out. Of course as I said,
I could never have dreamt that in ten years, I'll achieve these results,
with so many devils around us to entice you. I'm afraid, it must go
to you people also, that despite all hurdles and problems you had, you
have ascended, ascended so far, and have become beautiful prophets.
You are so transformed that little more - just to assume what you are,
will make you feel so sweet. I talked to my grand daughter, elder one,
and she's just a little girl, only 11 years of age, but she told her
mother "Now I can't talk to Nani (grandmother) because she's a
Goddess. How can I talk to Her! I feel shy." At that age! While
in her own life as they are saying she's topped in all the class, she's
the editor in a magazine in her school. She's tremendous. And she's
so humble that she told her mother I feel shy to talk to Nani, she's
a goddess, how can I talk to Her. And Rustom told me that there are
vibrations emitting from her. That's how you have to grow.
First of all you have to Know you are prophets and you must know that
I am the Holy Ghost. I am the Adi Shakti. I am the one who has come
on this earth for the first time in this form to do this tremendous
task. The more you'll understand this the better it would be. You will change tremendously.
I knew I'll have to say that openly one day and we have said it. But
now it is you people who have to prove it, that I'm that. Christ had
disciples who were not even realised souls and they have spread Christianity
- whatever it is. Under such circumstances that Christ was crucified
and they were left high and dry, just twelve people struggling but they
put it up. They were very humble people, their quality was extremely
humble and they knew the difference between them and Christ and the
Mother. Also they knew the difference between them and the others and
they took to lives which were pure, illumined by the name of Christ.
They were not realised souls. They cleansed themselves and kept their
lives beautiful. So Sahaja Yogis can't afford to have these six enemies. First of all, the temper which really doesn't behove. Replace temper with compassion. Today is 60th birthday and we have - to just fight only six enemies within ourselves. Second is which you have, most of you have done it, is to retract your attention from perversion. Most of you have done it. Your eyes are better now, steady. But still you are egoistical. Vanity. Still people are jealous, competitive. You still have some lurking materialism. A new thing that is coming, you are - getting attached to your families. So we have to change it now, in a different use. Same thing can be used for doing God's work. - They can be used as the six hands of Sahaja Yogis. The first one is the anger. You have to be angry with yourself when you do wrong things. And not to feel guilty but angry with yourself for doing wrong things. Guilty is the best way never to get rid of it. It's like a store house kept for personal archives, locked up. I have suffered a lot because of your guilty business very much. And they come out one by one. So you have to be angry with yourself when you feel guilty: "How can I feel guilty? Why did I do such a thing? I'm not going to do it." So develop your anger against yourself and not against others. And anger could be reserved for the day of war. Otherwise when the war will
break out all the Arjunas will drop their weapons and it will be said
that "Arjuna was a great warrior - till the war started."
So we are not going to waste our energy in warring with things which
are just like shadows. Not to fight the shadow. Sex, perversion, - has
to be diverted towards your family, your wife and you have to respect
your chastity now, the whole thing becomes nothing but chastity, you
lead a chaste life. Not to be like a dog, but like a human being. All
that attention has to become chastity which is your power, which is
your protection, which is your connection with the Divine. Not forced
chastity but a chastity of balance and understanding. With your family,
with your wife, in a very - chaste way you can live. Same with women
- is more for women, I would say. That they should not join hands with
other men who talk against your husbands, or who teach you against your
husbands. All such men should be thrown out of Sahaja Yoga, who try
to teIl women against their husbands. This is a very sanctum sanctorium
place where you should not interfere against the husband. Nobody has
a right. If there is any problem you should let me know. It's a sign
of stupidity. Then the vanity must be made
into pride. You should be proud that you are Sahaja Yogis, really proud.
Raise your heads with pride that we are Sahaja Yogis. Pride is never
oppressive, it's a glorious thing to be proud. But vanity is. Actually
pride is nothing but the expression of self-esteem. Begging, borrowing,
mimicry, all these things come from the less understanding of yourself.
So vanity should be the pride, and the pride should be the expression
of self esteem. Self esteem is very different from ego. One is reality,
another is complete artificiality. Men now should behave like men and
not like women, docile, like cows to be tied with a rope whenever their
women want them to. They have to lead the society. For the women's rights
in India, the women never fought, with the men. They never fought with
the men because men are also the fathers, the brothers, and they are
concerned about the well-being of women. Women seldom fought there because
they knew once they start politics of this fighting men, there's no
end to it. This is basically, they knew they have to live with men,
they can't fight them. But men themselves fought;- even in America it
was Abraham Lincoln who fought for the liberation of women, not women. So you have. to be not egoistical,
but proud. Proud that you are Sahaja Yogis, proud that you have been
born in such times when you have to carry on the duties of God's work.
That God has chosen you! So that you should come up to that level. Like
some people I find suddenly become morose recluses, in Sahaja Yoga.
They will never be forgiven because God has given you so much. Supposing
somebody gives you a diamond. You are proud, you put it on and showoff.
But when you have been given your Spirit you should be proud and not
behave like recluses. Some people feel, "I shall not take any job
now. I'll not go out, I'll sit at home and meditate." There's no
place for such people in Sahaja Yoga. 'I can't do this.' The word "can't"should
go away from the dictionary of people who are supposed to be Sahaja
Yogis. You just can't say, - "I can't do it." So the self-esteem will give
you that kind of a dynamism which is needed for Sahaja Yoga, a discreet
dynamism, a wise dynamism. I won't have to solve your problems any more.
The quality of competition and jealousy should be brought round. Their
should be competition between yourself, the one you were and what you
are. Who wins? Whether your past or present. Your present should go fast,
faster and faster, leaving this past behind as much as you can. There should be no competition
between Sahaja Yogis in acquisition. Sometimes I have also seen competition
in shouting, screaming and being harsh to others - there's a big competition
on. Let us have competition in compassion, in mildness, in sweetness,
in beautiful behaviour. Who is more cultured, who is more gentlemanly,
who is deeper; keep somebody an ideal before you like that, whom you
think is a very gentlemanly person or a lady who is really like a lady.
But on the contrary if you have a lady who behaves like a man, as your
ideal, that is also not alright. Or a man who behaves like a woman,
that's also not ideal. On the other way round. A woman who tries to
show that women are different from men and women must get this... In
Sahaja Yoga there is nothing like - women and men, that women must get
this and men must get that. Because you are Spirit. But the cover that
you have, the body that you have, the light you have, the lamp that
you have, is a different thing, and to keep the lig~ht on, a woman has
to be a woman and man has to be a man. As yesterday I told you, that
an apple should not try to be a mango and. mango should not try to be
an apple. It looks nice to be the best apple and looks nice to be the
best mango. So the recluses, those who say, that you have to get out
of it, behave really, not like human beings but I think like - I don't
know what animals do that way. Like when you get your doles you cannot
become indolent, you cannot. As far as possible I don't like people
taking doles. Not a sign of good Sahaja Yogis. You all should be hard
working, you must have qualifications, you should be good people on
top of everything. Good students, good cooks, good mothers, good fathers,
good administrators - from where are we going to get these people. We
cannot be dishwashers, can we? So the competition between
women and men must be stopped. Women must have their own place and men
must have their own place. And women must know that men are their hands.
If you are the shakti, they are the machines and don't kill your machines
by shouting at them, by screaming at them and by putting them down,
making them diffident. We'll have no place. We have to encourage them
to do God's work. You have to support them, look after them, because
they are the machines, they are the hands and you are the power. Of
course if these hands go against the power they will suffer. So there
should be no competition between children and you - my child, and his
child, there should be no such competition, take out your mind from
there. There would be complete sharing. So the competition should end
in sharing. How much we share? How much can we share? See drunkards
cannot sit and drink alone. They have to have some people to share.
The thieves must have ten people to thieve. But when it comes to the
nectar of God's love how can we alone have it? Cannot enjoy. There's
no enjoyment at all in it. So let us be gentle and kind with each other.
The people who are going to enjoy the nectar should have competition
in sharing that nectar by which they get more and more of that. Who
shares more? Who is more generous? Materialism should be taken to its
beauty. You can have one thing done with your hand. That's much more
beautiful than running after money, counting money, you'll become crackpots
really. Those who count their money morning to evening are real crackpots.
They always lose money, there's something wrong with their brains. Count your blessings. See
life, the beauty in matter. How life has worked. See a wood, I see the
pattern it has created on that, the life. But it's not morose, its not
dead, it's not insipid, it's bubbling. You can see in art, you can see
in all that is beautiful, the reflection of God's creative power and
the joy that he wanted to emit for your happiness. While you become
slaves of matter. He never wanted you to do that. You are the masters. Last of all is the attachment to your children, to your wife, your, your, your... Whatever is mine is not 'I'. My house, that's not 'I'. My this, my, my, my, must be given up, 'Mamatva' is to be destroyed. Instead of that, you should say 'we'. 'We' is a good word. I so many times say 'we'. And people start wondering, one day, somebody asked me, "Mother, when you say 'we', what do you mean, how can you make us feel that way, that we are all one, the way you say 'we'. I said why not? You are all part and parcel of my body. Aren't we 'we'? Do I separate my finger from my heart? If you are part and parcel of my body then I have to talk like "we" because I am conscious of this collective being sitting here. So we have to talk like "we" and not "I, my". And when you have to address about yourself speak it in a third person. Like you can say: "This Nirmala is now going to London." Really, is true, because this body's going there but my heart is going to remain here. So to say that I am going is not true - if I am Adi Shakti where am I going? I'm going nowhere, I'm everywhere. Where can I go? There's no place where I don't reside and if I have to go to such a place, it's Hell only where I don't want to go. So, what I say that "This Nirmala is going now. Leaving Australia." Tomorrow I'll be leaving. So what happens? Just this body has to move - that's all. Like that, you start saying about your body. This mind of mine, this mind of Mr. so and so. Is better to address yourself as Mr. or Mrs. or Miss. "So Miss, will you please get up now?" Better address yourself. Children talk like that. Like a third person. You'll be amazed, you will see the joke behind the whole thing. You'll know how to laugh at yourself. "Oh so Mr. come along, now he's behaving like this." And you'll really become
a master of yourself, because you know how to handle this baby. It will
give you that sense of maturity. So to say that this is my child, this
is my wife; of course you have to look after your wife and your children
because they're your responsibility but do for other children more than
you would like to do for your own child. So this complete identification
with your children, over protectiveness, will give you trouble. You
have to believe that your family is the family of your Father, and your
Mother is Iooking after it. If you think you can look after your family
by yourself - go ahead! So don't be overprotective, don't be too worried,
too upset about your family.And keep a very sociable temperament so
that your children also don't become like that... Tell them how to share.
If one child has fallen off ask other children to help. Form plays in
which you should show, how a child who is coming, who cannot walk properly,
how other children go and try and find out methods how to help him to
come out. Teach them, through drama through stories, through various
things, what is goodness. You must help even without the idea of help.
It's a pleasure, it's a privilege. It's a great honour that you. can
do. You must change your ideas
completely. Many people have a habit to serve 'your' child first - is
absolutely very vulgar, shows bad breeding. Must serve others first,
and then your own family. Keeping something back for your children hiding
something for your children - is all a sign- of a person who is like
a 'kupamandaka', means a 'frog who lives in small well.' Get over it.
Try, men to form your own group of men and women should form their group
of women. There should be no instruction to women from men too much.
Is not proper. - I have discovered so many funny things, I can't understand,
- how these things work out. But, it is because one side you feel your
family is too much, your husband is too much, you must be absolutely
secluded from all the rest, or on the other side it is that you give
up your husband completely - he is no good, the marriage is unsuccessful,
and stick on to something else which is supposed to be a something,
higher goal of destruction. So both things are not good. You must stand
for your husband or wife or for your children, when it is right. But
obviously you should not do it, apparently you should not do it. If
you tell your child, "Alright I understand, but I don't want to
-do it in the public." People should not also know that he's your
child. The way he mixes up with others, stays with others, shares with
others, that's how a Sahaja Yogi should. be. You know as for myself,
- I've not even given realisation to my children so far. Can you believe
it? Leave alone the knowledge of Kundalini. You can teach them. I know
I can give them any time I want to. I have not given them time at all,
no time to them. It You see, how much time do I spend with my own daughters?
Very little time. In the whole year, this year I was there for three
days with her. So the relationship at this time is the most important,
is of Sahaja Yoga and Sahaja Yogis. I have seen some Sahaja Yogis write
to their parents, to their mothers to their brothers, much more than
they write to the other Sahaja Yogis. Its very amazing. To their fathers
but not to other Sahaja Yogis. You must start writing to
other Sahaja Yogis. Those who have lived in London, how many to them
are writing to people in London? Have they made any friends or anything?
- nothing of the kind. They are so busy with their own problems, they're
not bothered, to create that bondage of love. As if, they have no interest
in Sahaja Yoga. They stayed in the ashram, in London. How many of you
are writing letters to them? To London people. How many letters do you
write? Now You have met them in this programme, how many of you are
writing letters to them and keep in contact. How much does it take to
write a letter? Nothing. I hope as soon as you go back today you all
should write letters about today's birthday - how it was celebrated,
in a beautiful way. Not to your family, not to your people, but to others.
All of them are all over, you know how they are. You write to them because
you know they're heads of the thing. Like if you write to Gregoire or
you can write to Ruth in Italy, you can write to Genevieve in Geneva.
You have met all of them - you should write! Ladies must write to ladies
a nd men must write to men. Arneau is in Lusanne why not write to him?
He's there; now do you know that his wife has to go to America for a
delivery? We should know about each other, very intimately. About how
many people I know so many things, all the details. That's how; you
must flood yourself with that love. Tomorrow you go to America or to
any one of these places, you have there, your brothers and sisters already
established. Write to them about your Mother, what you think. You only
write to me sometimes but never to each other. Don't write too big letters
to me especially. But write nice, sweet letters, poetic letters, they'll
feel happy, its like sending flowers. Taking ideas from there it will
be a very good idea. This will overcome these
six enemies and make them your slaves and use them for your purpose.
Then they'll become great things. Then they'll be your assistants then
they'll be your commanders of your army they'll be your decorations.
It is all in your hands. With wisdom, you have to do it. At this time,
at the age where I've reached - I was always there, same age, I've always
been mature like this, child like this, just like a young girl and an
old woman, all put together and every year, every time. But I've definitely
matured in understanding human beings. I've definitely got better understanding
and maturity as far as my knowledge about human beings is concerned
because they are ("Why is he crying so
much?"... "He wants to go to the toilet". Let him go".
"He wants me to go with him". "He should go himself."
Let him go, this is the thing you see, these children are very obstinate.
Its bhootish isn't it? Let him go. He won't listen. Better go See. Alright
take him down. What to do, you see, very obstinate. They're bhoots.
Such a big boy can't go to the toilet. Just to disturb, that's all.) You must really slap him
now, if you give him two slaps now, his bhoot will go away. Two slaps
and next time he won't do it. You see at this time you must slap, not
very hard but let him know that you don't like it. Bhoots can sometimes
only go away with slapping. I have seen especially with children it
happens. Two slaps on the face and they're alright. Because they're
bhoots you see and they have to go away. Now whatever I have said
to you yesterday about children be careful. You have to make your children
assets and not liabilities, on Sahaja Yoga. So try to train them up
properly. Bring them up, they deserve a good hand, to handle. In the
beginning you have to be very strict and punish them if they do anything
wrong, so they know what is right, what is wrong. And once they grow
up you'll be amazed what an asset they are. Some of them are very good
children but if the influence of the bad children comes up too much,
they might spoil the good children also. So better encourage children,
who are good, who have been very sweet. So I think of my young age,
of my childhood and the dream, how it has come true. Whatever I have
dreamt is beyond my imagination. It's done now, as far as I'm concerned
you don't need me much, any more. I've told you whatever was needed
for your counselling. I have taught you the method how to redeem others,
and comfort them. You know. everything. Now just become masters in this
art. Forgetting your past. You are all great people, all of you. So,
when next year, I should see you sitting on this seat, not in my lap.
On your own, teaching your children. Let the second generation start
now. The first generation is ready, now the second generation has to
come and you have to look after the second generation. I want to be
a real grandmother of very grand children, that's a special privilege
and real promotion and maturity. Look at this (rain is pouring down).
He' going to flood your Parramatta (river in Sydney). Because I have
said now I'm the Holy Ghost. Everybody seems to be over-happy and joyous.
So thank you very much, for having me here and think of all the Sahaja
Yogis all round the world, all of them. Today, I think we should send
some telegrams, about twelve telegrams if possible, to all the centres,
saying 60th birthday of Mother was celebrated with great joy. She sends
blessings, or something. They'll be very happy. But according to Indian
method it's 61st because the day 1 was born, that was also a birthday.
That was a real birthday. So they call it 61, and we are going to have
a big programme in India also. You are specially favoured
people, and I hope you'll favour me specially too. This year I hope,
all of you are going to take up a new role and a new style of life where
you become mild people, not docile men but mild people and docile women.
Women have to be more docile, domesticated. They look nice. They become
gentle they'll smile better, they create such joy. We are here to create
joy and not to enjoy some rights, which are artificial, to create joy.
How much joy do we create? How much joy do you, we give to others? So
today on this great occasion, we have to feel our joy, within our heart.
Very deep down within us lies that source of joy. So we have to go deep
down within ourselves and feel the joy of this sixty year old Mother
of yours, that I have within myseIf. Go deep down, its there, enjoy
it and then give it to others. Like a fountain of joy you should give. May
God bless you. Declare to all the nations now, that I am the Holy Ghost and I have come for this special time, that is the resurrection time.
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