Neeraja: Born of the Sea

"This Lakshmi was born or came out of the sea, the great sea, which was churned thousands and thousands of years back. And She came out of the sea because She is the daughter of the sea. That's why She's called as Neeraja. Neera means 'water' and ja means 'born out of.' This has happened thousands and thousand years back that She was born. So what is that? What is this Lakshmi? See symbolically, what is it expressing? It is expressing the awareness. Lakshmi expresses awareness, and She came out of the sea, you know that; the awareness first started growing in the sea. The life started existing in the sea, to begin with, and then it grew out. Without the life there is no awareness. First the life, because everything is jarda, everything is dead, and when it becomes life it means it has awareness. So the awareness started growing in the sea."

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H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Shri Mahalakshmi Puja, Hampstead, London, 9/11/80

Power flows from Humility

"... see for yourself how many powers you have already got and the more you'll know, the more you'll become humble. It's very surprising, you'll become humble, no fear of any kind..." (quote from Navaratri Puja, 9 October 1994, Cabella. Italy)

Power and Humility

"... see for yourself how many powers you have already got and the more you'll know, the more you'll become humble। It's very surprising, you'll become humble, no fear of any kind..."
(quote from Navaratri Puja, 9 October 1994, Cabella। Italy)

The Power is in the Depth of your Meditation - the Horizontal Movement

But My horizontal movement is quite large and is very subtle, and I do it quietly. But you must also understand that you can do a lot by your horizontal movement. By horizontal movement what happens, that you start meditating on a particular subject which is a very bothersome subject, and which is for the destruction of humanity. Anything. You just put your attention to it and meditate. If you are that deep, that means if your caliber has improved to that extent, you will immediately put an effect on that. Immediately you will see, there will be a change. There will be something happening in that direction. This is your power, which you have to actually develop.

[1987-05-06 - The need to go deeper, Sydney, Australia]

Our Chakras are made of these Essences - the Subtle Movement

To work out many things of that kind we have to be deep people, we have to go much deeper within ourselves to touch our essences; at least, you know very well that all our chakras are made out of these essences, and when we go deep into ourselves what we find, that we can touch the elements very well. But while doing so, actually we move horizontally. When we start moving horizontally, at the core of it we find that there are these essences placed, and these essences then start exciting the essences across. Like in the radio you have seen, there's ether. Now when you speak on one side of the radio, it gets completely manifested in the essence of the ether, and then everybody can hear it. Now when you people just give a bandhan sometimes, you find that you have communicated with another person, but that's only the essence of the ether; we can say, the subtler of the subtlest. People have only gone on to the subtler side, we can say, by science; but you go to the subtler side, and that subtler side gives you all these effects.

1987-05-06 - The need to go deeper, Sydney, Australia

Reach your own Essences - the Essences of all the Elements

The deeper you go, the deeper you touch the essences of all the things, like all the elements. When you had finished your meditation you saw how the rain fell down, how the rain came suddenly. So rain has felt your depth, or you have felt the depth of rain. Now you know that if you light one little candle and put your finger towards it, with My photograph there, it acts. It reacts and it gives you a flame which burns, sometimes gives you smoke, sometimes it gallops, so you have noticed that there's a reaction even in the fire. So all elements have an effect, if a saint wants to have an effect, but first of all you must reach your own essences. Once you reach your own essences, then you reach the essences of all the elements, and then you can handle all the elements as you like, or you can order them as you like. First they will act, expressing that they have been touched. Like today, the rain came pouring down. Then later on you can command, and you can ask the rain to come.

Develop your Depth

I am happy that you all were meditating here, and were trying to develop your depth. You all have depth, a very deep personality within yourself. But we have to touch that, that's very important, because you see, we sing, have music, that's a very good thing. We enjoy each other's company, also is very good and that's a nice thing, but we have to enjoy our own company also, by meditating, going within yourself.

"Now, what is the use?" one may ask. "Mother, now we have got Realization, we have a nice life, we are enjoying ourselves, and we are doing so well."

[1987-05-06 - The need to go deeper, Sydney, Australia]

Humility and Powers

"... see for yourself how many powers you have already got and the more you'll know, the more you'll become humble. It's very surprising, you'll become humble, no fear of any kind..."

(quote from Navaratri Puja, 9 October 1994, Cabella. Italy)

In Her Heart

"You see, you must know
that as you reside in my heart,
I also reside in your heart...
...and I know what`s happening"

Shri Mataji says with a huge joyful smile
during a talk to Sahaja Yogis in
Strasbourg, France 1985.

Stonehenge & Kingston

Of course some of the people are of such high caliber even in this country that they are very satisfied. You do not know how much has been done in this country also by God. For example, I went to see Stonehenge, Stonehenge is the creation of Mother Earth. You can see the vibrations. You can feel it. There are so many things done in this country. Kingston itself is so vibrating, I was amazed.

- Shri Mataji's address given at Kingston (UK) on 11th June 1980

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. "

" You just become, like a flower becomes the fruit. It's all built in within you. Allow it to work out."
--Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi