Krishna Puja Evening Program (2007)

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"I wanted to thank all of you for enjoying this wonderful music from different parts of America. And that shows Sahaja Yoga has a great chance – if it works out this way in America, it will work out everywhere… And it will give the peace and the joy of leading a spiritual life.

I’m so very happy to see all of you here, and all of you enjoying this very encouraging for Me and very supportive of Sahaja Yoga! I bless you all, all… from America and all lands. I’m told that you are from different countries, so all the people, I bless you!

We should know we are all one! There is no need to fight, or no need to argue. But let us enjoy the common thing, as we enjoyed this program tonight.

I hope you are comfortable here. (Shri Mataji is looking around Herself, watching the pendal.) I don’t know, I haven’t seen, I had no chance to see how your things are placed. But if you have any complains or any problem, please, let Me know. (Everybody bursts out laughing, applause; Shri Mataji is laughing, too; great applause, ‘Jay!’ Shri Mataji is laughing.)

Thank you very much! Thank you!"

More On Holi

"This festival of Holi was made by Shri Krishna so that human beings would see the whole world as leela (play). By coming into Sahaja Yoga you have become leelamay (playful). You get completely absorbed in music and enjoy it. You have love and pure feelings for one another. You do each work with great beauty and morality. But to be leelamay is to stop at Visshuddhi Chakra. After that, one has to move on Agnya. On the Agnya Chakra is tapas or penance. Then you should think about the burning of Holika which was due to Prahlads penance. We also have to ascend on that tapa because you have reached the Visshuddhi level; that you live together with love for each other. At Visshuddhi you have become collective, got love and universal brotherhood. When you become universal then your caste, creed, countries all drop away."

"On Holi we should burn all those things which spoil our attention and damage the Agnya. Then this attention will clear out and we will celebrate Holi with joy and understanding."

"When your attention goes to Visshuddhi then you see the Shakti of Shri Krishna, Shri Radha, who is Allahad Dayini, the giver of joy. Just by seeing Her people feel joyous. She is the Allahad Dayini Shakti which is in flowers, in children; and it can awaken in you. Till the depth comes this Allahad Dayini Shakti will remain verbal. Think about the combination of these two. It is very important for us to get depth within and to give joy from that depth is equally important."

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Holi Celebrations, Delhi 1991

Shri Mataji on Holi

"And not to become a person who is just outwardly something like Christian, Hindu, Muslim. No! Inside. Inside you have to become. Now as a result of that you have seen what Shri Krishna has said, that once you become from inside then I don't have to tell you, "Don't drink, don't do this, don't do that." Nothing. You just don't do it, you just don't do it, and you understand it so well that this should not be done, that should not be done. To overcome all kinds of nonsense of religion Shri Krishna's advent was there. It was a very important advent but I don't know how many people understand that. He came to show that it's all Leela, is all the play of God. What is there to be serious? What is there to be ritualistic? You cannot bind God in any rituals. That's why he came on this Earth, to tell you that you should not try to bind yourself by rituals which are nonsensical. This was his teaching so many years back, he taught this 6 thousand years back. But still, if you see in every religion, there are so many rituals going on. So when the incarnations died, people started rituals; funny stuff, even when Shri Krishna died, they didn't know what to do now. Because he said, "No more rituals ... just play Holi, be happy, joyous, dance and sing," that's what he said. Now what to do? Now if he has said so. So they started a new thing, let's make it a romantic stuff. Human beings know how to make everything perverse. Nobody can beat them in this. So they made him look like a very romantic personality, romancing with Radha.

Ra-dha, Ra is energy, dha is the one who has sustained energy. So, show romances with Her.... when She was Mahalakshmi Herself! To show his relationship with Mahalakshmi as if they were husband and wife. So there were also some poets who started describing them as husband and wife, and all kinds of nonsense. In divine relationship there is nothing like husband and wife. (There) is the power which is potential and the power that is kinetic. There is no such relationship that exists as human beings try to make it. Because human beings have a habit to bring all the Divine incarnations to their own levels. "