War Anxiety

If you look at the development of the civilization, of this modern civilization, you can easily find out that we have really outgrown ourselves without any sense of proportion and limitation. As a result even in science we have discovered horrible things like atom bomb, hydrogen bomb; all these horrible things which are just destructive. So somehow or other, whatever we try, whatever is the mental projection of human beings it boomerangs back. Whatever we go up to a point, comes back to you and is destructive. So what is the reason why we cannot reach that point where we are at the best and then stop there? This cannot be worked out because at a human level we always go to extremes. To understand yourself first of all you have to become the Spirit. We do not understand ourselves. We think we know ourselves; this is not true. Because we are made up of these seven centers which are subtle within you and unless and until you know about these centers you cannot know yourself and you cannot know others as well.

Now then many people who are fed-up and are seekers; I mean this is a special category of people as William Blake has said that, there will be men of God who will become Godly, and make others also Godly. These are the seekers. Seekers who are trying to find out why, when we have done everything that is prescribed, we have acted according to what is written jdown, still why is it we haven't got the satisfaction and the joy of life, which has been promised? There is nothing wrong with Bible; there is nothing wrong with Koran; nothing wrong with all these great books, no doubt. But why it is not going into our heart? It's all mental...

   But there is no experience of it, and that's why... whatever we may follow. We like to follow. Everything that is given to us: all right, follow this, follow that, follow that, follow that, and then what? Anybody who follows any religion, any religion whatsoever which are absolutely all right, can commit any mistake, so they don't follow actually. That shows that it has not gone inside them. It's not ingrained; it's not innate with their being. So what is the reason why we cannot have it?

Those who were saints in any country; take it Lao-Tse, you can take from Socrates onward this side Mohammed sahib, Nanak sahib; all of these people. You'll be amazed to find that all these people behaved in such a manner that we cannot find faults with them. I mean if you want to find, you may with your ignorance. But the kind of life they led; how is it that they were like that? What was so great? It was the Divinity which expressed. While we all have this Divinity within ourselves, we have all these powers within ourselves, only thing, we have to use those powers, we have to manifest them and for that manifestation it is important that we have to become self-realized in the sense that you have to get your second birth. 

 

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi   February 26, 1992  Public Program  Christchurch, New Zealand

Normal Human Awareness

Yesterday I have told, quite elaborately, all the chakras and their names and their deities and all the three forces, but today I'm going to tell you what lies beyond these [lines ?]. Beyond the human awareness. Is a subject of psychology, you can say, though psychology is such a child's science and the knowledge is so limited. Because they are probing from outside. It's an objective knowledge in the sense that you come from outside and see for yourself. You grope at something and say this is this, then you grope at another thing and say this is this. You have heard the story of six blind men trying to understand an elephant. As I told you yesterday that there can be a method by which you can put the light on and one can see clearly the complete, the total picture of man. In this picture I've not been able to show that part but in the human mind, as you all know, there are different strata of consciousness. Now you are listening to Me, paying attention to Me, your Chitta is towards Me. This attention is the conscious mind, you know that, you are conscious of what I'm speaking. Moment to moment you are listening to Me. This present moment now, at this moment, this moment as it is, it's slipping. Is becoming the past and the future is coming inward. Every moment is disappearing and a new moment is coming. You cannot stop the present, you cannot stop your attention at present. Now, to be at this moment, you cannot think, that's the difficulty. You either think of the past or of the future, but you cannot think of the present, of this moment. So, we have our past and our future, in a simple way.

The past, they call it as subconscious mind. Subconscious mind, they call it as psyche sometimes. I don't know what do they mean by psyche, they are so confused. But we have a subconscious strata, in which we store all that we collect, experiences, conditionings, everything. This work is done by the left-hand side channel, known as Ida Nadi, which is worked by the power of MahaKali. Now this word should not shock all the English knowing scientists. This MahaKali power works with storing of all the experiences, all the thoughts that are coming to you from the present into the past, is done by MahaKali power. Thinking of the future, planning of the future, organizing the future is done by the right-hand side power of MahaSaraswati, which acts through the Pingala channel. In the gross form they are expressed left and right sympathetic nervous system. But for a doctor, both the systems act simultaneously, they are so interconnected that it is very difficult for them to verify two different functions which are allotted to them. Because the ways and methods are so gross. The left side attends to our emotional being, the lower left side to our physical, we can say psychosomatic side, the right side, the lower to our physical being and the upper right side to our thinking.

The center channel of Sushumna is a completely independent system which works out our sustenance. In the beginning, when a person wants to drink, he wants, all the parasympathetic activities are performed through the subtle action of this channel known as Sushumna and the power that acts is known as MahaLakshmi. This power evolves us, it gives us Dharma... is a sustenance. The complete periodic table, if you have studied chemistry, is amazingly organized. The carbon is placed as a tetravalent element, with four hands just like a Ganesha. I do not want to go into the details of the periodic table, but it is so well organized that every atom of every element has to have the last circle with eight protons, if there are less, or if there are more than four, they either become the negative or the positive element. What a tremendous planning it is. And when we say there is no God, we must understand such a tremendous planning could not have been achieved by just chance. It doesn't work out by that law of chance. All right forget about God, because suddenly if you talk of God the scientists get a shock. But he exists and these are his three powers, which perform these three actions in our being. By the first we build up our past, by the second we build up our future and by the center, the Sushumna Nadi we exist in the conscious mind.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi   February 23, 1977  "Normal Human Awareness
"  India

Shiva: A Symbol of Satisfaction

This is a subject which you can only explain in Hindi language, which says that this Guru Padh you get from somebody else. But that somebody else is itself endowed with the power, the power of peace of mind, to begin with, and also the power to overcome all kinds of earthly problems, mental problems, physical problems. All these problems you can solve through your mental balance and mental blessings from your Guru. When you become the Guru, you yourself have the power, to bless others. With your blessing power you can create a guru out of many. And once the Guru is created and there is a Guru who has this power, it's very satisfying and is very [UNCLEAR: enabling?].

The satisfaction is so much that you don't want anything. This is the power of Shiva. You have seen Shiva doesn't have many clothes, He doesn't decorate Himself, He is just sitting in meditative mood, all the time. He doesn't want anything. He's so satisfied with Himself that He doesn't want anything. And that is the power you get after the Self-realization, if you have a Guru, and Guru of that level and caliber.

One should not try to become a Guru. That's very, impractical. If you try to become, you'll never. It has to come to you automatically, without any asking, without any effort. So the only way you can get to it is through Dhyana. Dhyana is meditation. When you meditate, just meditate, and meditate, do not ask for anything. Meditation itself gives you that instrument which can bear this great power of the Guru. And then you automatically, you give this power to others; you don't have to work it out. Just in your presence, people can get this power of complete satisfaction. And there is salvation, for you and for others.

So all the problems which are faced for the journey of ascent are finished and you are now drenched in the bliss of heavenly peace and joy. That's why it is called as Kaivalya, means only, only the blessings. See that means there is no other word to translate it. There's no other way of explaining it. It's a state. It's a Stithi. It's a state, in that state you have to rise and you know that you are in that state. It's a very remarkable thing, that once you reach that state you don't have to ask for anything. It's all there, and you are so satisfied. I can go on talking about this special power but I think whatever I have said please meditate on that. And you are all capable of reaching that state. That state of complete peace and joy. May God bless you.​​

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi    February 15, 2004   MahaShivaratri Puja   Pune, India