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> JANAM DIWAS PUJA 21.03.1996 © COPYRIGHT SHRI MATAJI NIRMALA DEVI MIND IS A MYTH Today I am going to talk
about the mind. People don't know what this mind is. It is very easy
to understand for Sahaja Yogis that we are the ones who react, react
to everything that is outside. The reason is, we have two horrible tendencies,
one which is an Ego and another tendency is that we are being trained
that way or we can call it the superego or the condit!onings. So both
the things, our ego and conditionings are all the time acting outside.
This reaction which is built in within us is just like bubbles in the
ocean. And these bubbles keep us away from reality. These bubbles are
of thoughts and they just blast you all the time in your head and you
don't know, why they are coming. When you depend on this artificial
mind of yours then you have no discretion as to understand what is good
and what is bad. This mind is the one Where all kinds of evil things
start. All kinds of quarrels, fights and possessiveness, lastly the
war also comes there. It is in this mind only which is nothing but a
myth, all these concrete destructive ideas somehow or other come up
and then they start grow-ing and growing. Then you find people whom
you can impress also, put ideas into their heads. By reading, they learn
or by their lectures or by mesmerism, whatever kinds of things they
can do. They put your mind into such a frame that you accept these destructive
ideas. For yourself individually or maybe for the collective. This mind is just a myth
and we are working through this mind. We are all the time satisfying
ourselves by saying, 'oh that's my mind, my mind wants it.' You see,
like one Indian Sahaja Yogi went to America. And he told me that Americans
are (Manavede) mad after their mind. I said what do you mean. He said,
I gave money to my wife to buy one shirt for me. She went and. bought
some skirts. She has many skirts but she bought some skirts. So I asked
he? why did you buy the skirts. She said, my mind said that you should
buy the skirts, so I bought skirts. So this is what it is that the mind
can take you to all kinds of wrong things because it has no connection
with reality firstly, and secondly it is a mythical thing. Absolutely
mythical. You see people think that
whatever they have created, it is out of their mind. It is a wrong idea.
All great scientists, say Einstein has said that I was tired of trying
to find out the theory of relativity, very tired. He had some concept,
like all scientists take up some sort of a concept and they try to build
up their research on that and then I thought I have taken a wrong concept.
One day he was playing with the soap bubbles like a small child. And
suddenly from somewhere unknown, he says, the theory of relativity dawned
upon him. Many scientists have said that, that they don't know from
where they get this idea, from where did they get it. It has a special
study now people are doing, to find out how these scientists got these
things and in a very Sahaja manner. Even the way penicillin was discovered
or anything was discovered by these people, was not through the probing
or manipulation of the mind but through some unknown force it came into
their mind and that's what they thought that this was from their mind.
Some, but most of them realised, even Newton realised that it is coming
from something, some source which l am not aware of. As Sahaja Yogis you know,
it is the source of the divine power which is all pervading, the Paramchaitanya.
You know, because you can feel it. You know it is there. But even when
you know, you must know you have to go beyond your mind, into thoughtless
awareness-minimum. Always I tell you meditate!, meditate!, because you
should be in thoughtless awareness, where you do not react. So what
happens, you become a witness. You become the witness of the whole drama,
of the whole scene and you are absolutely at ease with yourself. No
problem. What you are doing, that you become an instrument of this Paramchaitanya,
of this all pervading power. You are just watching, you are a witness
and as watching everything you realise that whatever you watch, cannot
react on you. But you know what it is. And this is what, is the state
in which you understand the reality of the whole situation. I have told you many a times, that if you are standing in the water, you are afraid that the waves might kill you. But supposing you get into a boat then you can watch those waves, as something beautiful maybe. If you learn how to swim, you can jump and bring back people who are getting drowned. This is exactly what happens when you are in that state that you can give realisation to others. You can put them in connection with the divine power but first of all you must know how to become thoughtlessly aware. Some people say 'Mother, for a second only we become, for two seconds we become. Because you see, in our mind,
even if you come to Sahaja Yoga you have so many conditionings, to begin
with. First of all, if you are born in India then you are identified
with India. If you are born in England you are identified with England.
One thing I have noticed about Sahaja Yogis, once they get out of this
nonsense of this mind, first thing they start criticizing the way they
have been living in the atmosphere. For example they say 'This is Indian,
this is what the Indians are'. If they are British, they say 'These
are the British, you see they will be the best to criticize, even others
cannot criticize as they criticize, as for example Europeans say I know
Europeans very well', like that. The mind itself, start's
seeing, the mind itself sees that it is a myth. And then the cheating
that takes place all the time, that the intelligence that cheats itself,
stops. You start seeing the thing in a proper, full manner, because
you don't react. To react, is a sign of a person who is very conditioned.
You can be conditioned by many other things like, you are born in a
particular religion. What has religion to do now a days with human beings?
There is no real religion anywhere. It has become like a money orientation
or you can say power orientation. That's why they are all fighting among
them selves. And you know for definite that no religion is exclusive.
But they fight The reason is, the mind is conditioned that you must
fight for your religion. Now, they have no. religion within. There is
no religion that is working, out in their lives. They might be the most
corrupt, most immoral people but they belong to a particular religion,
like a club. And then they start identifying themselves at something
and they have a right to do these things because they belong to a particular
religion or to cult, this and that Now there are people who can really
use this mind. Though it is artificial. In modern times you are using
so many artificial things, and this artificiality can creep into everything,
like plastic. This mind can penetrate into anything and it penetrates
into the minds of people. That's how Hitler managed all the young people
of Germany. All these people, who have been able to destroy the reasoning,
which is logical not through the mind. If it is through the mind, it's
no logic. It is just a reasoning that we can see clearly stupidity. Because this mind, which
is just a bubble as I told you and is so limited that it cannot comprehend
the beauty, the glory, the expanse of reality. This mind is just a collection
of all the garbage we should say, which we have to somehow or other
deny and tell ourselves that I have to go beyond my mind. So called
mind of mine has done no good for me. This 'mind of mine which has been
all the time controlling me is just like the watch we have made and
which is controlling us or like the computer that controls us. We have
to be careful that we are the ones who have created this mind and this
mind has no business to control us. Many people try to control
the mind. There is a way of doing it that I'll control my mind. Now
try to understand, how will you control the mind? Only through mind!
Either by ego or by your conditioning. You have no means of controlling
your mind because it is the mind which you have created. And that is
just existing there which you cannot control, though you might think,
I can control. "You have to go beyond this mind. And to go beyond
this mind the most helpful thing is Kundalini- awakening. Because she
passes through your limbic area, pierces through your fontanelle-bone-area
and just takes you away, out, into the realm of reality." And the
Yoga takes place between your brain I should say, your heart, with this
all pervading power. She is the one which connects. She is the one who
does it. Many peopIe are doing Sahaja Yoga, I know that. But it is difficult
for them, sometimes, to get to meditation, to establish this thoughtless
awareness, which is an extremely important state, which you all should
achieve. So many Sahaja Yogis are there and I am happy to know that they are getting deeper and deeper. But as long as you, they are in the turmoil of their mind, they cannot progress. Whatever is created out of their mind, has no reality in it, is very limited and is also sometimes very repulsive. Because with this mind people start thinking, I'm such and such now you become. Supposing you become the governor. Then you think you can do what you like because you have become the governor. This mind doesn't know you have become the governor, you are not the governor. This governorship is ruling you. Not that you are ruling the governorship. Once these ideas come into
your head, you start behaving in a manner in which you should not behave.
Even among Sahaja Yogis there are leaders. Leaders also start sometimes
thinking 'I am a leader.' It's a myth, absolute myth. Leadership in
Sahaja Yoga is an absolute myth. But once they know they are leaders,
they become sort of absolutely mindful and full of thoughts. Thoughts,
how to dominate, how to control. When they start controlling others,
then you must know that it is the mind which is telling them to control.
Why to control anyone? If you are a real Sahaja Yogi there is no need
to control. There is no need to manoeuvre, to manipulate. Now, once
your attention goes beyond the mind-only the Sahaja Yogis will understand
this point very clearly. When this mind goes beyond the thoughts, then
the manipulation of the attention is very important. Then whatever you
manipulate means you take this attention to this or to that. You will
be surprised how dynamic you become, how effective you become and how
knowledgeable you become. Because once you can take this attention to
anything you want, immediately there is light on that issue, on that
person, on that problem and you see how it works out, how it helps. In Sahaja Yoga you have said, Mother there have been lots of miracles with 'your attention' or something like that. I agree, but your attention also is quite capable of doing things which normal people can't do. Because, now your attention is purified firstly, and secondly it is manipulated with the divine power and is manifesting it's powers. But before that, I have seen people who come to Sahaja Yoga, they send me letters of crying 'Mother, this is happening, that is happening, my father is sick and my leg is paining, my hands are paining’, all 'kinds of things'. Not only on the physical level, but also on mental level and all sorts of things they go on. They sometimes write to me
such long letters, I don't know how to read them. There is nothing to
write so much. ‘But they do, because at that stage they are still
reacting and they don't know what to do.' They go to such a limit, that
they think that Sahaja Yoga is like a contract. Now I have come to Sahaja
Yoga, I must get this. This must happen. They come to Sahaja Yoga then
they will think it's a contract and they must get this and they must
get that help. All this kind of behaviour is not that of a Sahaja Yogi. In Sanskrit there is a very
good word 'tathast' a very good word. 'Tathast' means the one who is
standing on the shore and watching. That is the state in which you have
to be. But as a result you do not become a person who is not effective.
You become extremely effective. If such people are there, you won't
believe, so many things can happen. Wars can stop. Peace can spread.
People who are evil will be exposed. because it's such an 'amass' working
out' of Sahaja Yoga, Sahaja Yogis should not in any way find themselves
in conflict with each other. Still I find sometimes and I am amazed how people criticize other Sahaja Yogis or other leaders while they themselves have problems. The reason is that once you start going beyond the mind you automatically become introspective. And you start seeing 'what's wrong with me - this mind of mine-now'. So better stand before the mirror or can even close your eyes and say "Now Mr. Mind, what are you doing? What are you up to?" You face yourself. You stand out from yourself and see for yourself and ask the mind. "What are you up to" That's the way. Once you
are out of it you can control it. I am happy that you are celebrating
my birthday. Now I am supposed to be quite old though I don't think
like that,' because I don't think. One has to be beyond the mind. To
think about yourself all the time or to think about things which do
not concern you sometimes and just try to put your mind into a turmoil
which is very dangerous these days. To stop your thought first of all
I think in Sahaja Yoga you should stop reading anything. Because if
you start reading, then what happens again, you start collecting thoughts
from that book. I have seen many people whose mind is nothing but the
books from others or the words of others or quotation of others. They
are nowhere you cannot find them. They are all lost people. He says
so and that one says so. When I was writing this book
which you know that I have written now they were saying "Mother
but Plato said like this and Rousseau said like that". I said,
let them say whatever they wanted to, I say what I know. Why should
I refer to them. I don't have to go to the libraries and read what Rousseau
said, what Plato said. What I know, whatever I have witnessed in my
life I should write it clearly, without thinking about what others have
to say, what others have described. And also this mind has another
big problem, that whatever is written down in black and white becomes
Bible. Then whatever is done before is something great like now there
is no Christ, there is no Mohammed Saheb and there is no Abraham, there
is no Krishna, there is no Rama, today. But they will think of what
Rama said, what Krishna said, then in Gita this he said. In Gita he
has not said a word about Kundalini, so why Mother is talking about
Kundalini. He might have said can't say. Who wrote Gita? Never Shri
Krishna, Christ never wrote Bible, Koran was not written by Mohammed
Saheb. So what they have said, why should you worry about that? But people like when they
are identified. Now there are Christians who have come into Sahaja Yoga,
still they are happy if it is Christ. Very happy. If they are Hindus,
it should be Krishna or Ram a. If they are Moslems it should be Mohammed
Saheb, Fatima or someone. Otherwise they can't get out of it, it's very
difficult. Their mind is such, that is so much made from childhood you
are told "You are a Moslem, you are a Moslem, you are a Christian,
you are a Christian", so they believe it. Supposing you are born
in some other religion then what would have happened. You would have
been something different. But this mind has been injected with the ideas
which have gone into your head, and that's how you are so much without
any freedom. You are tied down with these conditionings. And that's
what I find among Sahaja Yogis also a very big conditioning that such
and such thing is good or bad, they decide. You see for yourself. For
example, if I talk on Guru Nanak, then the Sikhs will be very happy,
but I talk on Christ, they won't be happy. I talked on Christ in Pune,
so they Said, She is trying to convert everybody to Christianity. And
when I was talking about Shri Krishna in London, they said, She is making
everybody a Hindu; This identification that we have is coming to us
so intensely from - we should say, it's like from the birth. All these ideas still are
there and we are not free. That doesn't mean that you should not have
faith in all these people. They were all great we have great respect
for them and understanding. But first you be free. You be free to know
them. Your mind should be free. It should not be the, injections that
are put into your heads that you cannot see the point. That's why they
don't enjoy also, I have seen, partly they enjoy, partly they don't.
So to become a free person because Sahaja Yoga is to give you complete
freedom and also complete sense of freedom, so you respect the freedom
of others. On the whole you understand what freedom is. If that doesn't
work out, then I would, say that Sahaja Yoga is of no use, because it
should work out in such a manner that you should get rid of all these
conditionings you have had. Now take the second enemy
of ours, is Mr. Ego, which is another headache and which works very
fast. In many countries where already ego has been bloated. See these
balloons if they were bloated alright it's very easy to again make them
big but if they were never done that then it's difficult for you to
pull it out you have to put it to pump otherwise It won't be bloated.
This ego comes to us from different angles and it actually, you will
be surprised, from the deformity of our chakra. For some people money is
very important. We must get money, somehow or other. If I don't get
money, what's the use being in Sahaja Yoga. Money is very important.
We are living in a money-oriented world, no doubt. But I have told you,
that what's the use of having money that makes you a fool? Now see the
countries which are very much money-oriented, who are supposed to be
very rich, all the Scandinavian countries, and Switzerland, whatever
they might have done to get that money, doesn't matter. But they are
people with money. Young people are committing suicide. There is a competition
going on. They are very unhappy. Why? That means money cannot bring
happiness. Money, money, money, if that goes into your head also, then
you cannot be a Sahaja Yogi. But the money is there just for you, to
use it, to express your love. Now, you go to the shop,
then you see something. This is very nice to be given to such and such
person. You think like that it's a very sweet feeling you get there
you can give this to this one, he needs it very much. When your mind
becomes the other way round, I mean, when it is thoughtlessly aware
then you will buy something that is joy giving, something artistic,
something beautiful, something useful, to that person. It will be a
kind of a mind that will be extremely full' of generosity. Enjoying
it's generosity, and all the time it will guide you to the projection
of your attention to things by which you can give happiness to others.
Small, small things, not necessarily expensive things. If you have money,
better spend money in buying things that you can give to others, that
you can express your love, your gratitude, your "shraddha".
It is very remarkable how people give money to these 'Sadhus' and 'Babas',
in thousands and thousands and crores of rupees. Because, in them it
has come, that to satisfy their "shraddha", they must give
it, and so they give. And they have amassed and amassed so much money.
They have no sense of it, they' don't understand the value of that.
To them it is nothing but money. In the modern times the worst thing
of ego is money. I have seen people who are very rich, supposed to be
great business - "walas" and something like that. They must
meet me separately, we must come, Mother, and see. But they are useless
people, absolutely useless. They will come and tell me, you know I'm
having a loss in this, I'm having a loss in that, can you help us in
this way or that way. I just don't say anything to them but they have
said, Mother we have recovered because of your blessings may be but
it is stupid. Like LaoTze described that you are' going through the Yarig-Tze River. It's beautiful. On the sides you see beautiful scenes, but you better be on the boat and reach the ocean. In the same way, supposing we have to catch a plane, and we see something very nice on the road ,,and get down there, how can we catch the plane? The side effects of this
mind are these, that we divert our attention to wrong things and waste
our energy into it. Ultimately we are not happy, as you know that in
general wants are not satiable. It's the love that you give and the
love that you receive which is not a love which is entangled into anything
with any purpose, with any idea but just to feel that love, pure love
within yourself and within others is the greatest gift of the Divine.
All other things are useless, you'll find. You find it every day. Today
you want to have a car, all right have it, then you want to have a house,
have it. But you are not bothered about the car now you want to have
a house. Now you get the house, then you are not satisfied, then you
want to have something else and something else. Which is that "want"
which is satisfying is this pure love, genuine love that you feel for
the others and others feel for you. We have other lots of conditionings
of ego. In our country in India specially, to dominate, the wife is
one of the greatest ego. I have seen people, how they tortured women,
their wives and the children of others, just because they think "I
am a man". What do you get? You don't get joy, you can never be'
joyous. If you try to dominate another person you can never be joyous,
never be joyous. It's only through loving and affection and care that
you can feel the joy, because joy has these symptoms, joy is not domination
by demanding or asking. These are not the signs of a person who is joyous.
The joyous person is that who just enjoys the caring, the loving, the
gentle 'relations' hip. And this is another point where I've seen Indian
men specially and specially in the north because of they say Muslim
influence the men are extremely dominating to their wives. And they
insult the wife also. So, the women here have become extremely dominating
also. Naturally action has a reaction. This reaction itself is a wrong
idea and this reaction should be just dissolved into the feeling of
pure love, the ocean of compassion. For example I see on the
streets of Delhi so many people begging, small children are there and
all that. And, now the feeling that I get is not of scolding them or
getting angry with them, may be they are cheating maybe anything after
all everybody is cheating even those who have lots of money are cheating.
So what is there if these poor people are cheating, doesn't matter.
But the compassion is built in within me like this, that let me somehow
get a plot of land somewhere, let me organize some sort of a place where
all these people who are orphans can be put and given all the help.
And maybe from this bond of misery and poverty you might get lots of
lotuses coming out. But the feeling has to be collective. I feel that
way that will solve' the problem of Delhi, but that doesn't mean that
like other social workers. Like I have been connected with some social
workers and I was amazed that it was nothing but an ego-pampering-business,
it has nothing to do with social workers. Haphazard and nothing deep
in their attention to look after these people. With the great feeling
of love and compassion we all can do it and work it out. One of my desires is this,
if it is a desire of you all, it will work out. It's very important
that they are also human beings and we have to look after them. But
for that one should not think that, "I will be the treasurer, I
will be the president, and I will be this". All this clergyship
should go away, from the mind itself, otherwise you are not free, you
know. Like there is a nice joke about it, that, somebody went to see
the minister and the private secretary was there attending to the people. And he was getting very angry
with them and all that. So, some villagers said "Who are you?"
He said "don't you know I am P.A." "Ah, PA. ho?".
That means you are drunk, all right, we have nothing to say. So, a person
with ego behaves is a person like a, you can, say a drunkard or sometimes
like a lunatic also, really like a lunatic. Sometimes you have to meet
them with a bargepole, I told you, some of these people who have got
awards for peace, one has to talk to them with a bargepole, because
they might just jump on you. Just like a cat or could be like a leopard.
You don't know how they are built up. I don't know how they got these
award for peace, but they have. The peace is within ourselves.
And this peace has to be retained and introspected and seen. Are we
peaceful? Or we are reacting. If we are reacting then we are not peaceful.
But people will say "Yes, yes I am very peaceful, but I have to
react", then you are not peaceful. Just face yourselves straight
forward and see for yourself that if you are peaceful, then this peace
will spread all over. It will help others. It gives them physical, mental,
emotional and spiritual peace. You people have a great responsibility
of coming to Sahaja Yoga. It is not just a certificate or my badge that
you are a Sahaja Yogi. I would like also women to see to this point,
because what I have seen about women is that they are mostly worried
about their children and about their husbands, jobs, and thing's like
that. But they are not worried about others, about people who are around
them. They have to also take to Sahaja style of life in which they expand
their love, expand their attention to other people and see 'how they
can, please others. This situation used to be non existent in the Western
countries. I think they never knew that you should please somebody for
no reward or for no purpose. If you give any present to somebody they'll
say "Oh, what do you want?" They cannot understand that somebody
wants to express one's love. Now mind has changed because
Sahaja Yogis are there, and they are different people but what I have
seen before was so remarkable that they thought it was a weakness that
they are giving us presents because they feel they are weak. AII these
ideas are changing in the west and, we should not adopt their stupid
ideas that we can control people by giving them things, or by giving
them some sort of promises. We have actually to control ourselves and
that control can come if you do not allow your mind to control. That
control is a complete freedom for example now take an aeroplane which
is perfectly built, which is absolutely alright then only it can fly.
In the same way if you are a perfect Sahaja Yogi then you'll have no
problems in dealing with any problem, with any circumstances, with any
person whatsoever. There are many Sahaja Yogis
in the west I have seen, they said "Mother we don't want to take
any active work because we'll develop our ego". They think their
balloon is already bloated out and if they do some work their ego will
go up, so they say, we don't want to do. It's not so. It's the love.
You are working for love. Such an ocean of love is
within you. How can you do without that? And this has to work out at
every level, whether it is your family, city, country or the whole world.
This is the new generation we have to create of people who believe in
love which is truth, without love you cannot have truth. Because when
you love somebody you know everything about that person. In the same
way when you love your country you know everything about that country,
but first you must love. Why people are now having problems, because
they don't love their country. If you love your country you will know
what is the essence of your country, what are the problems of your c6untry,
what it is going through. And that intense feeling of oneness itself
will work out because after all you are connected to the Divine. But
with intensity you should feel for all these 'things that are really
so destructive and troublesome in these modern times. I again want to thank you
for celebrating this birthday and for all the sweetness you have showered
upon me. You are just like these beautiful flowers for me which are
anxious all the time, to make you happy, to please you. Just like that
I find you before me, beautiful flowers, fragrant, with divinity. I
hope you all will understand your own value and work it out. May God Bless You.
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