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What is meditation – Mana & Prana

Say we have got Prana and Mana. Now Prana represents the right side and the Mana-Shakti is the left side. All right? These two have to be dissolved – in the air, means dissolved. Now how do we do it? To dissolve these two things, they are connected with each other. After realization, not. So before meditation We give ourselves a balance, all right? Which side is more resided left at the time. Supposing you are emotionally – at that time – disturbed, then you put your right to the left. If you are that time disturbed on the left side – ah, I mean disturbed in that sense that if a left side is frozen, then you raise your left side and give yourself a balance before meditation.

Now let us see, which side is less, first of all. Put your hands like that. Are you all right? Getting cool breeze? Getting it? [INDIST.SOUNDS LIKE: May this side not.] All right. Better? Are you getting in this side? Now – something moving? Cool breeze is coming now? Is there a cool breeze? Is it? There is cool breeze in your hand? Are you feeling it? All right.

So once you have given yourself a balance then the best thing is to pay attention to your emotions, to Manas-Shakti. Watch them. You can enlighten your emotions by thinking of your Mother. All right, just enlighten them. Just She will solve the problem. Whatever are the problems in the Mana, all right? So once you get connected with those emotions and you start looking at them in your meditation you will see these emotions are rising within you and if you try to put these emotions on your Mother, as put at the Lotus-Feet of your Mother, they will start also dissolving those emotions and they’ll become sort of – ah – expanded. Expanded, you see.

You will extern that in such a way that, you will feel you are in control, these emotions. You are in control of them and by that controlling those emotions your emotions – which are expanded, enlightened – are powerful. And these emotions, when you feel that way, then the cause of those emotions can be solved. For example just now you got emotionally stirred up because I talked about – say – these children. Naturally, anybody would be. Now when you are stirred up with that you put that problem and those feelings that are rising in you, that those waves of feelings that are coming at the Lotus-Feet of your Mother.

So they get touched, say by that power you can say. Then these emotions become enlightened and when these emotions become enlightened they have a power to solve the problem. Do you see the point? As if they had reached the shore where they got the light and this problem can be solved. Because now you are not in an individual self, you are in the expanse, you are in the samashti and because you have entered into that position, that’s why you have got these powers of entering to another person’s body, to see the vibrations of another person, to raise the Kundalini. Otherwise you could not have done it.

So for you it is very easy to [INDIST.SOUNDS LIKE: weep] because I am also sitting here in Person. So easy to put these emotions just there so that they get enlightened and your wish is fulfilled, because emotions are nothing but wishes. These are unfulfilled wishes. Now how they do it otherwise is also this way that you take up these emotions and put them, so that is, these emotions are actually – the left side, as I said, is the desire.

So the desire is taken, any desire, and is put in the Prana. Now how do you put it on the Prana? That you control your Prana – that’s why they do Prana-yamas, you see? Like you sit down now, very comfortably, now you have a desire, you put your attention to that. Attention is very important – you see? Now this attention is to be put onto the Prana, so the emotions are there and then bring those emotions and put them into your attention, means they are now, you are aware of them.

Now what you do is to watch your breathing. See now, try to reduce your breathing, reduce it. In the sense that you have breathed out, wait for a while, then breath in – for a long time. Then you breathe out. So in one minute your breezing will be less than normal. All right? Try that. Breathe in – now with the emotions, keep the attention on the emotions – you see? – so that the connection is established.

Hmm. Better? You see the Kundalini rises? Now when you are breathing you find that there is a space in-between, which you just leave it vacant. Breathe in! Now leave it vacant. Now breathe out. Now leave it vacant. Breathe in. Keep it there. Then leave it. Keep out-side. Now breathe in. Now start breathing in such a way that you stop your breathing. Your attention should be on the heart, or could be on the emotions.

It’s better? Keep the breathing inside for a while, then bring it out, then outside for a while. Then again, then you’ll find that for a while you will not breathe. Hmm. You see, you settle down. The layer takes place between your Prana and your Mana. Both the Shaktis become one. Now at this stage when you are silent, now you think of your intellect – it’s lost. Now just think of it, it’s lost, it’s no more there. So what is happening, actually that this layer – the attention goes into the intellect and enlightens the intellect.

Aha, now see, the thought is not there – try to find your intellect within yourself! Now see! See, where is my intellect? Try to find it! It’s not there, it’s not working. Again try it! It is working, but it has become the samashti, has become the collective now. Ha! See now! Did you follow that? There is no thought. This exercise will give you this thoughtless awareness, establishes in you the thoughtless awareness. There is no thought. So the second lesson – all right?

May God bless you!

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Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,  London, UK, 1981

• Say we have got Prana and Mana. Now Prana represents the right side and the Mana-Shakti is the left side.
• Supposing you are emotionally – at that time – disturbed, then you put your right to the left. If you are that time disturbed on the left side – ah, I mean disturbed in that sense that if a left side is frozen, then you raise your left side and give yourself a balance before meditation.
• So once you have given yourself a balance then the best thing is to pay attention to your emotions, to Manas-Shakti. Watch them. You can enlighten your emotions by thinking of your Mother. 
• those feelings that are rising in you, that those waves of feelings that are coming at the Lotus-Feet of your Mother.
• Then these emotions become enlightened and when these emotions become enlightened they have a power to solve the problem.
• Do you see the point? As if they had reached the shore where they got the light and this problem can be solved. Because now you are not in an individual self, you are in the expanse, you are in the samashti and because you have entered into that position, that’s why you have got these powers of entering to another person’s body, to see the vibrations of another person, to raise the Kundalini.
• So easy to put these emotions just there so that they get enlightened and your wish is fulfilled, because emotions are nothing but wishes. These are unfulfilled wishes. .
• So the desire is taken, any desire, and is put in the Prana. Now how do you put it on the Prana? That you control your Prana – that’s why they do Prana-yamas, you see? Like you sit down now, very comfortably, now you have a desire, you put your attention to that.
• Attention is very important – you see? Now this attention is to be put onto the Prana, so the emotions are there and then bring those emotions and put them into your attention, means they are now, you are aware of them.
• Now what you do is to watch your breathing. See now, try to reduce your breathing, reduce it. In the sense that you have breathed out, wait for a while, then breath in – for a long time. Then you breathe out. So in one minute your breezing will be less than normal. All right? Try that. Breathe in – now with the emotions, keep the attention on the emotions – you see? – so that the connection is established.
• Now when you are breathing you find that there is a space in-between, which you just leave it vacant. Breathe in! Now leave it vacant. Now breathe out. Now leave it vacant. Breathe in. Keep it there. Then leave it. Keep out-side. Now breathe in. Now start breathing in such a way that you stop your breathing. Your attention should be on the heart, or could be on the emotions.
• The layer takes place between your Prana and your Mana. Both the Shaktis become one. Now at this stage when you are silent, now you think of your intellect – it’s lost. Now just think of it, it’s lost, it’s no more there. So what is happening, actually that this layer – the attention goes into the intellect and enlightens the intellect.

Aha, now see, the thought is not there – try to find your intellect within yourself! Now see! See, where is my intellect? Try to find it! It’s not there, it’s not working. Again try it! It is working, but it has become the samashti, has become the collective now. Ha! See now! Did you follow that? There is no thought. This exercise will give you this thoughtless awareness, establishes in you the thoughtless awareness.

There is no thought.

So the second lesson – all right?

Dictionary Samasthi: totality or whole viewed as the sum of its parts is an example of samaṣṭi;

About developing meditation as daily practice, and how to enjoy it

Our whole style, is, sometimes, takes us more outward than inside. So let us try to see how we can go inside. I think the only way is to achieve the state of thoughtless awareness, through collective living and through meditation individually also.
Collective and also individual meditation.
Try to come to a state where you are thoughtless. Try to, put your attention on a thoughtless awareness level. Then the growth start. Because that’s the present, not the past, nor the future.
So if you stop at, thoughtless awareness you start seeing something much beyond that exists you see.
Now for example I see these flowers. See it.
Now what does it relate to Me, I should see. Of course the beautiful color the fragrance immediately, the thought goes to the love, with which it is given. Immediately. Jumps onto the essence of it. These are not given, just for any, expression of expectations. But just to express the love. And I see that love immediately. And that I enjoy. This is, a very important point.
That in thoughtless awareness, you immediately jump, onto a relationship with love.
Say you see the nature around. Immediately, you feel, look at the love of God, how He has created this beautiful world for us. How He has given so many things to us.
And then this, horrible competitiveness just drops out. Because in the present only you can, enjoy what you have achieved. Not in the past or the future.
Say you, buy a little carpet like this. You wanted to buy, you must have worried about it, you must have thought of saving money whatever it is.
When you buy it there’s no joy. Then you want to buy something else. Like it goes on. But supposing you are in the present. Here now I’m sitting with you, in the present. I know all of you, very well. Like a picture.
Even the folds of your clothes and everything.
Your sitting position, everything is like a picture. And it comes to you, and what does it feel. You look just like these flowers. Very abstract, feeling of joy. So we should try to live in the present. Not in the future and in the past.
I’ve got so many letters of confessions. Ah I did this, I did that, I mean I never read them. Never.
You should not waste your energy in confessing. That’s a wrong thing to do. I don’t want to know it. But they send you know for their own maybe satisfaction, whatever it is. So doesn’t matter. So I just burn them off. Or tear them out. So forget the past. That doesn’t mean that whatever has built you up to this level, you
should forget. Whatever has been nourishing, your parents, your other relationships, your country, your reading, anything that has nourished you, you must know.
But, don’t think that my childhood was much better or much worse my mother was bad.
This is psychology also. Teaches your mother was bad that’s why you are like this. All blame goes to the mother poor thing. She has given you birth, she has looked after you.
But they will blame your mother. Blame the psychologist than the mother. That they are putting funny ideas into your heads.
So when you, think of your past, you have to more deal with the whole thing as if, you are there for some sort of a treasure, for your nourishment. Not just to blame you I did this, I took drugs. It doesn’t matter what is it. Now you solve your problems. I did all the things. Forget it. When you are in the water, in the sea, all
right you were drowned but you are saved now you are on the shore. What’s the use of thinking about what was happening then. It’s useless. Ha.
But the one who saved you from there, or the one, the fish that brought you out or whatever it is, those experiences are nourishing, should think of that. Then you won’t have this diffidence you won’t have this kind of a, confused mind. You’re clear cut. Now I am different.
See, when a fruit comes out of a flower it doesn’t think of the flower. In the same way, we should not worry about what has gone wrong with us in the past, but what has gone good with us, we can think of it because that nourishes us.
Now for future also, we have to think about future, but not to extend your projections mental projections. But in meditation. You have to see for yourself what is the future for Sahaja Yoga.
What can I do? How can I purify myself completely? What have I to do about it?
In the beginning say, to get up in the morning was a very difficult task, for western people also. Get up in the morning, have baths, do meditation, is too much. It’s a punishment sort of thing. But you’re not forced I mean if you can’t get up it’s all right. But some started getting up, putting their effort, previous night they would decide now tomorrow whatever may happen I’ll get up. Try, what’s the harm. Let’s see if it helps. Also they see somebody getting up in the morning meditating, so different. Then they start doing.
The other day I was in Calcutta, there was one gentleman, very learned lawyer, and a chartered accountant. But he had, started a factory which was confiscated by the government, and he won the case, lost lot of money, winning that case and the compensation has not yet come. It’s so many years now, about ten years. So I told him divert your attention from there. Get into your own profession that you have. Now he’s a multimillionaire. He doesn’t bother about the little compensation he said: ‘ I had better compensate the government now’. He’s all right.
So I told him how did you achieve it, so he said to me that I saw another one, who was much younger to me, who had nothing, he was just an ordinary person, and he was very hot-tempered, ill-treating his wife, doing all kinds of things, and, was never available at home, for any, difficulties. Moreover outside also he would go
and aggress others, and trouble others. After Sahaja Yoga he changed, completely.
Not good at jobs and then he gave up frustrated, and he couldn’t do well, anywhere, started a business, he got a loss and all that, and more frustration. Then he came to Sahaja Yoga. And he developed a personality, a security. He became very rich, suddenly. He was surprised at himself and he is not attached. Said all these
riches I have got Mother I want to do it for Sahaja Yoga. Whatever he got a plot of land big plot of land and he wants to start a Sahaj school there.
I was amazed at him. He said: ‘No, what is it, how much money do I need, it’s more than sufficient’. He started working it out that way.
Then seeing him, this gentleman changed, the one who was a chartered accountant. When I saw his face I was amazed. Not the same person. So much just like a blossom. I said: ‘What happened?’ ‘It’s nothing. I get up in the morning, do my meditation. Evening I do my meditation, that has changed’. Such a small thing life has changed. But, if you have to go for an interview people will get up at four o’clock in the morning. And
if they get up. But if you have to meditate they don’t. Then it’s a punishment to them. Specially in England is very much worse. But now gradually they have understood the value of it.
How it helps you, to do meditation in the morning, and in the night. It’s only five minutes in the morning and ten minutes in the evening, not much. There’s no discipline about it, we don’t want to force
anything on you. No way of forcing we’ll have. Because that has never happened. Also disciplining children and all that. I’ve found out a new method by which we can really discipline them better, which I’m going to implement now on them. Let’s see how it works out.
So we should know the principle of Sahaj Yoga.
And the one of the principle of Sahaja Yoga is that, we have to meditate, if we have to grow.
Meditation means at that time we are in thoughtless awareness. That time neither future nor past. So we open out ourselves, to the Primal Force, to this all pervading power, to fill us up, with inspiration, with, beautiful ideas. Actually like the nourishment of the tree which is achieved by the sap of the tree. And to feel
the love of God. To feel how we are instruments of that love, and how the love can flow through us.
So in the morning I’ve told them to, meditate about five minutes, or say ten minutes. But we shouldn’t put the watch, now five minutes, and a bell rings. Oh, finished. That’s not the, you should enjoy. I have told some people five minutes, they go on sitting for one hour. They enjoy. It’s an enjoyment. .

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 1992 Canberra, Australia

• the only way is to achieve the state of thoughtless awareness, through 
  collective and also individual meditation.
• Try to come to a state where you are thoughtless. Because that’s the present, not the past, nor the future.
• you start seeing something much beyond 
• Now for example I see these flowers.  These are not given, just for any, expression of expectations. But just to express the love. And I see that love immediately. 
• That in thoughtless awareness, you immediately jump, onto a relationship with love.
• Say you see the nature around. Immediately, you feel, look at the love of God, how He has created this beautiful world for us. How He has given so many things to us.
• In the present only you can, enjoy what you have achieved. Not in the past or the future.
• So we should try to live in the present. Not in the future and in the past.
• You should not waste your energy in confessing. 
• So forget the past.
• Whatever has been nourishing, your parents, your other relationships, your country, your reading, anything that has nourished you, you must know.
• But, don’t think that my childhood This psychology teaches your mother was bad – that’s why you are like this. All blame goes to the mother poor thing. She has given you birth, she has looked after you.
  But they will blame your mother. Blame the psychologist (rather) than the mother. 
• think of your past, as if, you are there for some sort of a treasure, for your nourishment.
• See, when a fruit comes out of a flower it doesn’t think of the flower. In the same way, we should not worry about what has gone wrong with us in the past, but what has gone good with us, we can think of it because that nourishes us.
• Now for future also, we have to think about future, but not to extend your projections mental projections.
• But in meditation. You have to see for yourself what is the future for Sahaja Yoga.
• What can I do? How can I purify myself completely? What have I to do about it?
• In the beginning say, to get up in the morning was a very difficult task, for western people also, a punishment sort of thing.
• But you’re not forced . But try, what’s the harm. Let’s see if it helps. 
• Example of gentleman from Calcutta,  very learned lawyer, and a chartered accountant. 
• I said: ‘What happened?’ ‘It’s nothing. I get up in the morning, do my meditation. Evening I do my meditation, that has changed’. Such a small thing life has changed.
• But now gradually they have understood the value of it.
• How it helps you, to do meditation in the morning, and in the night. It’s only five minutes in the morning and ten minutes in the evening, not much.
• There’s no discipline about it, we don’t want to force anything on you. No way of forcing we’ll have. Because that has never happened.
• And the one of the principle of Sahaja Yoga is that, we have to meditate, if we have to grow.
• Meditation means at that time we are in thoughtless awareness.
• That time neither future nor past.
• So we open out ourselves, to the Primal Force, to this all pervading power, to fill us up, with inspiration, with, beautiful ideas.
• Actually like the nourishment of the tree which is achieved by the sap of the tree.
• And to feel the love of God. To feel how we are instruments of that love, and how the love can flow through us.
• So in the morning I’ve told them to, meditate about five minutes, or say ten minutes. But we shouldn’t put the watch, now five minutes, and a bell rings. Oh, finished. That’s not the, you should enjoy. I have told some people five minutes, they go on sitting for one hour. They enjoy. It’s an enjoyment.

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• Is the inner enjoyment of the inner beauty of your Self, the inner glory of yourself. Watching yourself within, is beautiful.
• But some people, started as hypocrites doesn’t matter. Still they achieve. And some are very smart you see. They think they can cheat themselves, very well, with their intelligence.

No use, what’s the use, of cheating yourself with your intelligence, is of no advantage. So we have to think that, this intelligence, which doesn’t give us the strength, to rise, to ascend, to our heights, is not the real intelligence.
The super intelligence will just, show us the, achievement, that we have to achieve. Will show us all that beautiful pure life, that we have to achieve. That’s the work of a super intelligence. But for the dullards, Sahaja Yoga is very difficult. They are busy with something here and something there. They can never rise.
They never make a point. And they can never understand, what is important in life for a Sahaja Yogi.
So when I say you meditate, I do not mean that it’s a discipline for you, no, no way. But it’s a path, it’s a way, out for you to get to your thoughtless awareness.
Where you know yourself, means you know, not on your chakras, not the chakras of others, but you know that you are the spirit, that you are the pure spirit, and that you have been glorified.
As if there’s a covenant with God, before you were born as human beings, and now we arefulfilling that, and going back to that which was put within us. We are achieving that. And that’s what is the most, important understanding about oneself.
Say Mother has said that, you are beautiful, you are compassion, you are virtuous and that, you are, the Truth. You are the Spirit. So why not we become that. Why not? So whenever your so-called intelligence starts telling you: ‘Oh it’s all right’. No escape from this is going to help you. I mean if you want to escape, you are free to escape, no doubt. But why to escape this which is so important, which is so good for you.
It’s a very easy way Sahaja Yoga is the easiest.
When I see what people have done to achieve their ascent, I get frightened really. You have to go to Himalayas, without any clothes you have to stay there, and exert yourself.
I’ve got a film of Adi Shankaracharya. Poor fellow had to renounce the world, just to go to spread this, means satya vedas. Which is the same. I mean that is message of Christianity or message of Buddhism, any message like that, in the real way, is the same. How much He had to suffer. That’s not the case. You don’t have to
suffer. Every step you move, you get ten times the blessings, in every way, materially, physically, emotionally. But the greatest is the spiritual. And in that, you become such a personality that, whatever may happen around, you enjoy yourself.
It’s not a relative life any more. Just enjoy your self and others who see you also enjoy you. I want you all to get all the powers so-called that I have. And should be even more. That’s what I want you to have. That’s the desire of a Mother always.

Attention

When we say we have become our own Guru, we should really try to find out with our introspection: Are we our Guru or not? Because, before this your mind was on one side and your heart was on another side and your attention was in another dimension. So these three things were creating confusion within you.

If you understand a human being, then you will be surprised to see how these three things act separately in a human being. And sometimes they fight also. First is your intellect and your mind, second is your heart, your feelings, your emotions, and the third one is your attention. In these modern times this confusion is the worst because all the time your attention is outside. It could be towards beautiful things, or beautiful women, or beautiful men or all kinds of nonsensical way of wasting your energy. Such attention then is absolutely like a horse which is let loose. You cannot control such an attention. And this attention runs wild from one to another.

It’s a fashion also. It’s sort of a very popular thing to keep the attention moving all the time. But this attention that has to be towards the Divine, towards the Almighty, is just being frittered away. Thus, attention doesn’t grow its own roots. First is to find out about yourself: where does your attention go? What makes you feel like looking after or concerned for attention? You see, the attention comes from various problems, and could be your upbringing where you are not controlled, could be your education, could be your atmosphere in which you live or could be your own ego or your conditioning.

(Hindi: “The water is maybe a bit too cold, that’s why. What is it, tea? Is it hot? Pour it here, I’ll drink it. That’s fine”.)

So, this attention is being attacked by all these outside energies or negative forces and it gets entangled – like a river flowing straight into the ocean can get lost in a barren place. In the same way this attention, which has to go towards the Divine, gets frittered away and is vanished. This weak attention cannot take you towards the Divine. Ultimately you find that all this attention is being completely absorbed or frittered away by the nonsense that’s going on.

Unfortunately or fortunately, you are born in these modern times, and in these modern times, as you know, is a very chaotic condition. In these chaotic conditions, you don’t know what is right and what is wrong. And there are all kinds of attractions, which can take away your attention and reduce the energy of your attention.

It is possible more for the people who are very right-sided. Also the left-sided people can be very much affected. Right-sided people, as you know, go up to a point and become extremely dry, self-opinionated and aggressive. All their attention is in aggression, while the people who are on the left side are indulging too much into their own whims and their desires and their own temptations. Both sides can fritter away your attention which is the most important thing. It is the most valuable thing is your attention. But the attention cannot be controlled by a person who doesn’t have a weak mind or a weak heart.

Now supposing you take somebody who is a very intelligent person. The intelligent person puts all his attention in capturing the attention of others. I don’t know why, but it’s a kind of a paradox. The person who himself is having such a lot of aggressiveness and all that, tries to be very sweet, tries to be very nice with people just to keep good relations or, we can say, the good behavior towards people so that they pay attention to that person. This is a very subtle thing. They are not even aware about it, that we do such a thing just to make others pay attention to us. That is how we have seen that in these modern times so many stupid things people do just to attract the attention of others. Most of the fads that had come up in modern times are just to make something stupid so that people should pay attention to them.

Of course, the Sahaja Yogis are not like that. But I am just pointing it out how, in the modern times, you have to be very careful that you should not try to attract the attention of others. Instead of that, what you have to do is to pay attention to others in a very subtle way, not with any expectation that if you are paying attention to somebody, that person should pay attention to you. It’s a very big struggle, I’ve seen, in Sahaja Yoga also, that people try to, say, become very popular or become very outstanding, or something of a very great qualities, to show off that they are something better than others.

A person who is really in connection with the Divine, is least bothered about how people pay attention to that person, but automatically the attention of such a person is on others, which is very , very subtle, very subtle. You cannot make out that the attention of such a person is on you, but it works and it works beautifully.

We have to understand that we have now come to the realm of the Divinity. We are in the Kingdom of God and we are divine people. We are very powerful people, but if we fritter away our attention, we become very, very weak people. Is easy to feel that we are Sahaja Yogis, we have done so much of realization of others or we have helped so many people. All this consciousness if it comes within you, then know that you are still not fully developed Sahaja Yogi. There should be no consciousness of what you are doing or what you are committing. There is no need to boast about it. There is no need to advertise it. Whatever you are, is already, can be seen by everyone. But even that desire is not needed because you are doing just for the satisfaction of your Spirit.

So then, when we come to our heart, in the heart resides the Spirit, as you know very well. Now when it is the heart, which has to work over your brain and which can work, what becomes of you is nothing, but you become a source of love and compassion. A source, I am saying. You do not assert on others. You do not say that, “I’ve done so much for you and what are you doing to me? What is this that I should have so much expressed, in so many ways, and here you are, you are forgetting me and not doing anything for me?” So the expectation of reward if it is there, then you must know is your mind which is giving you these ideas and is working it out that way that you just now put attention to the amount of love the other person has given you for whatever you have given to another person. Is very subtle.

So in Sahaja Yoga, you should see now yourself as just a source of love, which is just flowing. In that, you do not say that you have to have this or that, or you have to achieve this goal, or you have to become that. Is finished now. Once you have become the source, then how can you become something? The thing is, those who are receiving from the source want to have some sort of a reward or some sort of a recognition. In this subtle way if you move, your mind is very clever. In Sahaja Yoga, we have very clever, intelligent people. But this mind… You have to be very careful because this mind can cheat you. So ask your mind, “Why are you in Sahaja Yoga? What is the purpose of your Sahaja Yoga?” Gradually this mind will shut up.

And then, you have to ask yourself that, “What is my own desire now? What do I want? What do I want to achieve? Why I am in Sahaja Yoga?” If you ask this question, you will see you’ll just dissolve, you’ ll become thoughtless.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Italien, 16.7.1995

• INTROSPECTION: Find out with Introspection: Are we our Guru or not?
• your mind, your heart and your attention these three things act separately in a human being. And sometimes they fight 1. your intellect and your mind, 2. is your heart, your feelings, your emotions, 3. your attention.
• 1. PROBLEM: ATTENTION ON THE OUTSIDE In these modern times this confusion is the worst because all the time your attention is outside. 
• Such attention then is absolutely like a horse which is let loose. It’s a fashion also. It’s sort of a very popular thing to keep the attention moving all the time. 

• in these modern times there are all kinds of attractions, which can take away your attention and reduce the energy of your attention.
• this attention that has to be towards the Divine, towards the Almighty
• First is to find out about yourself: where does your attention go?
• So, this attention is being attacked by all these outside energies or negative forces gets entangled, gets frittered away.
• This weak attention cannot take you towards the Divine.

• Right-sided people, become extremely dry, self-opinionated and aggressive.
• people who are on the left side are indulging  into their own whims, their desires and temptations.
• But the attention cannot be controlled by a person who has a weak mind or a weak heart.
• 2. PROBLEM: TRYING TO CAPTURE THE ATTENTION OF OTHERS
• Now suppose a very intelligent person. The intelligent person puts all his attention in capturing the attention of others.
• This is a very subtle thing. They are not even aware about it, that we do such a thing just to make others pay attention to us.
•  so many stupid things people do just to attract the attention of others. Most of the fads are just to make something stupid so that people should pay attention.
• you have to be very careful that you not try to attract the attention of others, to show off that you are something better than others.
• Instead of that, what you have to do is to pay attention to others in a very subtle way
• without expectation that if you are paying attention to somebody, that person should pay attention to you.
• SOLUTION: PUTTING THE ATTENTION ON OTHERS, BECOMING A SOURCE OF LOVE
• A person who is really in connection with the Divine, is least bothered about how people pay attention to that person, but automatically the attention of such a person is on others, which is very, very subtle, very subtle.
• You cannot make out that the attention of such a person is on you, but it works and it works beautifully.
• Is easy to feel that we are Sahaja Yogis, we have done so much of realization of others or we have helped so many people.
• There is no need to boast about it, no need to advertise it. Whatever you are, can be seen by everyone.
• you are doing it just for the satisfaction of your Spirit.
• you become a source of love and compassion.
• you should see yourself as just a source of love, which is just flowing.
• SELF DECEPTION THROUGH MIND OR INTELLECT: So if there is an expectation of reward, or some sort of a recognition then you must know is your mind which is giving you these ideas.
• your mind is very clever. But this mind … You have to be very careful because this mind can cheat you.
• So ask your mind, “Why are you in Sahaja Yoga? What is the purpose of your Sahaja Yoga?” Gradually this mind will shut up.
• And then, you have to ask yourself that, “What is my own desire now? What do I want? What do I want to achieve? Why I am in Sahaja Yoga?” If you ask this question, you will see you’ll just dissolve, you’ ll become thoughtless.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Indien 1989

•  a journey  of our ascent – our speed has to be brought down.
•  the thoughts are bombarding our minds and we react very fast to others and to these thoughts.
• So one has to be aware, one has to be knowing what is happening within yourself, that the thoughts are bombarding, you are the one who is under the challenge
• The thought process can start by your conditioning or by your ego – only two problems.
• the first thing should be to watch yourself that you are not reacting
• but you are experiencing and enjoying the silence, the subtleties, the beauty, the glory of your being as well as whatever is around you.
• You don’t have to force yourself to break this habit, but just to be on the watch-out.
• It’s not necessary to talk too much about it also, nor it is necessary to think about anything.
• So to watch something without analysis, without thinking about it, is reality.
• If you can achieve that point where you watch everything without reacting, you are in reality
• then only the penetration into the subtleties of your surroundings, of your relationships, your friendships, the whole universe, dawns upon you.
• what is the use of wasting your brain, your mind, your thought, in suggesting something which doesn’t work out, and never going to work out either.
• So just accept it.
• Acceptance is the way we are going to enjoy.
• But acceptance doesn’t mean tolerance, because tolerance means you have to work very hard to accept … When you say, “I have to tolerate it, you see, because my mind doesn’t accept.”
• So acceptance as it is whatever you see, acceptance. And that is how people grow I have seen, those who start accepting. That’s the sign. That’s the sign of their strength and their depth.
• Like the propensity of this Mother Earth, She is what She is. And She bears whatever is there. If you put a heavy thing on Her, She’ll put equal and opposite force and bear it. She doesn’t say, “I’m tolerating it, I am exerting any pressure”. But She is just accepting.
• So the witnessing and awareness develops when we start just accepting things as they are.
• Then second problem is “I like”. Now, “I like to eat a cake” – but there is no cake, what to do? Now, whatever is there, enjoy it as a cake. But if you go on thinking like that – “I like whatever is not here” – you can never be happy,

Enjoy, don’t react.

The travel may not be very comfortable. The roads are so very filled with speed-breakers and [Shri Mataji laughs] all kinds of obstructions.

Is a journey like of our ascent I felt, that our speed has to be brought down.

In the West we have become very speedy, no doubt, and to bring down this speed we have to use meditative process that we feel our peace within ourselves. Also the thoughts are bombarding our minds and we react very fast to others and to these thoughts.

So one has to be aware, one has to be knowing what is happening within yourself, that the thoughts are bombarding you, you are trying to ascend and you find it very difficult to get rid of the thoughts.

The thought process can start by your conditioning or by your ego – only two problems. [Shri Mataji smiles, laughter]

And you are the one who is under the challenge. So you have got these simple people in the village who start watching everything but they do not react. If you do not react then your thoughts will give up.

So the first thing should be to watch yourself that you are not reacting, but you are experiencing and enjoying the silence, the subtleties, the beauty, the glory of your being as well as whatever is around you.

You don’t have to force yourself to break this habit, but just to be on the watch-out. It’s not necessary to talk too much about it also, nor it is necessary to think about anything.

Because supposing you see a tree – so it’s a tree only. What are we going to think about it? And whatever we may think about it, it’s going to be the tree! [Laughter].

So there’s no harm in appearing little bit stupid – doesn’t matter. But this is the basic thing, is, that when we start analyzing, we are breaking our own nerves, and poisoning our own mind and brain. So to watch something without analysis, without thinking about it, is reality.

If you can achieve that point where you watch everything without reacting, you are in reality, and then only the penetration into the subtleties of your surroundings, of your relationships, your friendships, the whole universe, dawns upon you.

That’s why I’ve said that in this pilgrimage the first thing we have to remember [is] that we have to be aware ourselves.

But when you are only thinking about others, how others have to behave: “They should do like this!” – that leave it to your leaders to break their heads, that’s not your job. It’s a headache for them I know, but they have to do it, it’s all right. [Laughter] But why do you want to break your heads for nothing at all?

So to judge others, to think of others, what they are doing, what’s wrong with them, about anything whatsoever you may think is wrong – is not going to be corrected.

Like I know some people who are specially bureaucrats, they are travelling, supposing, by the car. Then they will say, “I think, you see, this road should have gone this way”, or “I think it would have been nice if this house was facing the other way” – but it’s not, you see? It is not going to face [that way].

It is going to be the way it is, so what is the use of wasting your brain, your mind, your thought, in suggesting something which doesn’t work out, and never going to work out either.

So when we start like, “I think these trees should have been little taller” – but they are not! “I think that the crows should stop their noise” – they will not. So just accept it.

Acceptance is the way we are going to enjoy. But acceptance doesn’t mean tolerance, because tolerance means you have to work very hard to accept that the trees are of the same height – they can’t grow – it’s too much for you. When you say, “I have to tolerate it, you see, because my mind doesn’t accept.”

So acceptance as it is whatever you see, acceptance. And that is how people grow I have seen, those who start accepting. That’s the sign. That’s the sign of their strength and their depth.

Like the propensity of this Mother Earth, She is what She is. And She bears whatever is there. If you put a heavy thing on Her, She’ll put equal and opposite force and bear it. She doesn’t say, “I’m tolerating it, I am exerting any pressure”. But She is just accepting.

So the witnessing and awareness develops when we start just accepting things as they are. “I think” doesn’t work out. “I think it would have been better like this” doesn’t work out.

Then second problem is “I like”. Now, “I like to eat a cake” – but there is no cake, what to do? [Laughter, Shri Mataji laughs]

Now, whatever is there, enjoy it as a cake. But if you go on thinking like that – “I like whatever is not here” – you can never be happy,

Feeling vibrations and clearing your chakras on the left side

You have to know that you all have been seekers before this is not the first time you have been seeking. So already you have reached a certain state where you feel and you are aware that something more has to happen to you, you are already ready for that, some of you have really taken birth in this time just for this.
So, because I’m not going to talk of your past, past is over now, we have to think of the present. One has to know that all of you, got Realization, some people have certain problems, on their different centers as I told you, different types of problems people have.
Because of these problems, the Kundalini goes back to its attention because Kundalini has to look after your problems. She’s your mother so she goes there, attends to that problem and again she rises. But only thing you have to learn, how to make her rise, how to cooperate with her, how to understand your own problem and give additional help to solve the problem.
Now you will be amazed that you just get rid of your false identifications with yourself. You become absolutely detached from that, because you start talking in the language of chakras and centers. You start saying that, “This center is bad, that center is bad, this is not alright Mother, that’s wrong with me, that is wrong with me”, that’s all. You don’t say I’ve cancer, you don’t say I’m mad, you don’t say I’m egoistical. You just say : “Mother this center is not alright, that center is not alright.” Depending on the quality of your centers, the chakras, as -they are, the ones who really are the channels for the energy of God to flow in. Regarding them, you have to be careful, how your chakras are. Are you clean or not? Some of you will find cool breeze flowing alright in the hand, but may be, one chakra is catching. On one chakra you will feel the heat, or you may feel the numbness, you might feel also a kind of a – we can say a kind of a tingling on certain fingers.
Now wherever there is tingling, you must know there is a kind of a struggle going on between those chakras and the Kundalini. So you should just try to help your chakras, to awaken them and also must know that every one of you are part and parcel of the whole. You are awakened now, you are awakened to that part and so you have to be more careful. Because if you suffer from some chakra, I can feel it. But if others, those who are not Realized, I don’t feel it at all, I’m not bothered, There can be any number of devils or anything, doesn’t matter to me. But if you people, who are Realized souls, have a slight problem immediately I know that you have this problem, my attention is diverted to that. So you must understand that the attention is all the time there to look after you, to give you a better guidance, your Spirit is all the time working. But you must learn how to take the guidance from your Spirit that’s the main point; so nobody is lower or higher as he said. I’ve seen some people who were declared as drunkards, this, that, overnight, there are finished [with that], they are perfect people, not only, but very good Sahaja Yogis.
So, you see, all these clouds have come on the sky of your being in this life time, doesn’t matter, makes no difference, but your past is great, that shows. So you don’t have to worry as to how far you are where you are, there’s no degree or anything to measure it. They must be all aware already, otherwise you would not come to me, first of all. And to get Realization itself, is very big.
Now there’s a very good seeker I know of, who came to me, and he got his Realization but he did not feel it on his hand, because he has a very bad Vishuddhi. And with a bad Vishuddhi chakra, you may not feel it in your hand, doesn’t matter, but you’ll feel peaceful, you’ll feel joyful. And you can feel it on top of your head, or others can feel it. Gradually your fingers will start improving and they will give you better results.
For example, people who do hard work with their hands, also their fingers can be numbed, so we have to use certain methods, like looking after our hands. This body now is a temple of God so we have to look after it in a way, respectfully, not for the way the – you see, the prostitutes, when they want to sell their body they look after their body. No, but respect, with respect to our body.
We have to look after ourselves in a way that we should keep good health. And to keep good health in Sahaja Yoga, there are thousand and one things, which you have to know, which is very easy to understand, and which will be told to you for no price at all, nothing. It is the Divine that is anxious that you should get it, that you should settle down, that you should enjoy. So you don’t have to be so anxious about it. These anxieties must be given up, just try to understand your centers.

Now many of you did feel the cool breeze. But may be, after some time, you may lose it, doesn’t matter. You’ll go up and down, like that, doesn’t matter. It does not mean that you’ve lost it, not at all.
Now supposing you try a method, a simple method, that you first put your left hand towards my photograph – just now you can try – and right hand on the Mother Earth, let’s see.
Right hand on the Mother Earth, that’s why I wanted to have it in the open, but doesn’t matter now, this rain is good for you for the farmers, let’s have it.
So now put your left hand like this, and right hand – those who are sitting can put up like that [towards the sky]. Like this. Back [the palm of the hand towards Shri Mataji’s rear]. Right hand like this, right. Not left, right.
Sahaja Yogi : …the ground. No like this.
Shri Mataji : Back. Yes, right hand.
Now what we are doing, the left hand side power, is the emotional power. Now if you have an emotional problem – say, somebody has been taking drugs, he’s a left sided person. Some drugs are, LSD and all that right-sided, but most of the drugs take you to the left side. Gurus are left sided part. Most of these problems are mental problems, are left sided problems. But the problem of the intellectuals is right sided, futuristic people is right sided. People who are running the rat race are right sided, you see, that kind of over activity, that kind of things. On the contrary, those who have taken to drugs are left sided. So first try with the left, let’s see.
Now put your right hand on the Mother Earth. Put your right hand on the Mother Earth.
Now, put your left hand towards Me.
Gradually, you’ll find it will start flowing in your left hand. Is it flowing?
Put your right hand on the Mother Earth, because the Mother Earth takes away; you see, you are just earthing it, put it on it, touching it, touch, touch it, you see, you are earthing yourself, is a very simple thing.
Now left sided problems easily go to Mother Earth, it’s true, but the best is to have a light. Now, say, if you have a candle, candle is the best, for left sided problems, candle is the best thing to take it. Because left sided problems, we can say, are cold problems, or problems which arise from coldness. You see, a person who becomes inactive.
Now see

• you all have been seekers before, this is not the first time you have been seeking
• all of you got Realization but some people have certain problems, on their different centers
• Because of these problems, the Kundalini goes back to look after your problems. She’s your mother so she goes there, attends to that problem and again she rises.
• The only thing you have to learn, is how to make her rise, how to cooperate with her, how to understand your own problem and give additional help to solve the problem.
• You start talking in the language of chakras and centers.
• The chakras really are the channels for the energy of God to flow in.
• You have to be careful, how your chakras are, are they clear or not?
• you will find cool breeze flowing or one chakra is catching – you will feel the heat, feel the numbness, you might feel also a kind of a tingling on certain fingers.
• there is a kind of a struggle going on between those chakras and the Kundalini. So you should just try to help your chakras
• So you must understand that your Spirit is all the time working
• the attention is all the time there to look after you, to give you a better guidance
• But you must learn how to take the guidance from your Spirit that’s the main point
• Now many of you did feel the cool breeze. But may be, after some time, you may lose it, doesn’t matter. You’ll go up and down, like that, doesn’t matter. It does not mean that you’ve lost it, not at all.
• To get Realization itself, is very big.
• With a bad Vishuddhi chakra, you may not feel it in your hand, but you’ll feel peaceful, you’ll feel joyful, you can feel it on top of your head, or others can feel it. Gradually your fingers will start improving.
• people who do hard work with their hands, their fingers can be numbed
• This body now is a temple of God so we have to look after it respectfully, with respect to our body.
• We have to look after ourselves in a way that we should keep good health.
• You don’t have to be so anxious about it. These anxieties must be given up, just try to understand your chakras.
• A Simple Method:  you first put your left hand towards my photograph and right hand on the Mother Earth
• So now put your left hand like this, and right hand up like that [towards the sky].
• the left hand side power, is the emotional power. Now if you have an emotional problem – say, somebody has been taking drugs, he’s a left sided person.
• (Some drugs like LSD are right-sided, but most of the drugs take you to the left side.)
• Most of the mental problems are left sided problems.
• The problem of the intellectuals is right sided, of futuristic people is right sided.
• Put your right hand on the Mother Earth and put your left hand towards Me.
• the Mother Earth takes away; you are earthing yourself, left sided problems go to Mother Earth
• Gradually, you’ll find it will start flowing in your left hand.
• Now for left sided problems the best is to have a light.
• a candle is the best, for left sided problems, because left sided problems, we can say, are problems which arise from coldness. 

Now see

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Ort, Jahr

The Need To Go Deeper

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, we are doing so well.”

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 got 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.
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. That is, 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 onto the subtler side, we can say, by science, but you go to the subtler side, and that subtler side gives you all these effects.

Now you have seen also that in some of the photographs suddenly you find light coming out of My head, or there’s somebody shown as with the light, somebody’s with the head the light is coming – you have seen all this. This is done also by the same method, but here the deities like Vishnumaya works out. She’s very active, She works it out, She does all these things. And you know that also that when they gave Me once a beautiful crown in Switzerland, in the sky they got the photograph of the same. Very beautifully done, the crown was there, Fatima’s crown, My face, My eyes and everything so clearly. All this is done by Vishnumaya. So all the, all the essences are working out for you, as well as all the deities are working out for you. They are very anxious that these things should be done, and you are the channels for them to work it out.

Now for example, as I told you the other day, if you don’t keep yourself all right. A simple thing I have told you, to put in the nose some ghee. It’s a very simple thing but that helps Me a lot, because that helps My Vishuddhi. But if you don’t do it I suck in, in any case, whatever problems you have, I suck in. I suck in the problem of Sahaja yogis, also the problem of the city where I am, also the problem of the country where I am, maybe of the whole universe. 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 destructive of humanity. Anything – you just put your attention to it and meditate. If you are that deep, that means if your calibre 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.

So we have to meditate, and by meditation we develop that strength within us, so automatically we start solving the problem. Like our antennae grow up to that point: the way we are strong inside, they grow outside to help so many things which are to be helped. Now you see that people are realizing that the world is in a great mess, and there are lots of problems that have come through materialism, through wrong thinking, through emotional thinking, through stupidity we can say. We have no time for all this. What we have to do is to develop ourselves deeper and deeper and deeper, so that on horizontal plane also we are effective.

Sahaja Yoga first of all is for personal improvement, is for the inner improvement as far as the personal side is concerned – means your intelligence must improve, your temperament must improve, your heart must clear out, your feelings must be all right. Then you should, your health should be all right, then your relationship with others should be all right, your ego should go away, your superego should go away – all these things are there. But this only helps a personality, just a personality that is very limited, that is yourself. But now this personality can become an instrument, if you can develop that depth within yourself. But normally what happens, people are very much still worried about themselves, say about their wives, about their children, about their husbands or their household, or this and that. These are not important things, because we have to be those instruments which are what you call them, like pilotless bombs, we have to develop that depth within us. That depth is possible, and you can really cure many problems of your country if you could just meditate on them.

Now for today, I had actually sucked in most of the problems which I had felt were there in Canberra and later on in that conference, and later on here. All these problems came into My understanding, I would say, and I was trying to work on them. My working style is different because I have very sharp and very effective instruments. But I have to pay attention to it and I a little bit suffer also, doesn’t matter.

Now for you also, it is important that you also develop those deeper feelings within you, deeper sense within you. But mostly people are very superficial type. They just think about their body, their impressions, how they carry themselves. At the most they’ll think we have to be very legal-minded, or we have to be at the most not drinking, not smoking, and all these things are achieved and we have achieved everything. But I think that is not so.

And second point is that we think that if we love each other, if we love Mother, that is the end of everything. It’s not true also, because you see, your love for Me is there no doubt and it should be intense, it should be deeper; but the deeper you go into that love, then you will be surprised how you receive a special quality of correcting the things that are wrong around you. Gradually that quality improves. For example, a Sahaja yogi goes to anybody’s house, that house must become auspicious. But such a Sahaja yogi must have a good heart. If the heart is not good, in the heart there is still anger, passion, lust, greed, then such a heart won’t affect. But a person who has purified himself, if he goes into any family, any household, any society, the whole change will take place. The circumstances will change. Things that do not work out will start working out immediately.

Like they said, “Mother, as soon as You sent from this Sunday, everything started working out as far as the television is concerned and radio is concerned.” I didn’t do anything – in a way. But that should happen with you also. Wherever a saint goes, things are changing. But you have to be a saint, and a saintly person has a very deep understanding of another person, and this is what it is lacking: we don’t have that deep understanding for each other. Then even if you have for some of your own friends, or maybe in the same ashram that you are staying and all that – but it should deepen much more. You should go further and further.

Now even if you think of Me, it works out. It’s the other way round also. But first of all the meditative process should be increased. We all must meditate, that is very important – meditate sincerely. Not just because we have to meditate but because we have to be deep, we have to grow within to express our great powers of divine love; to correct so many things, which you can do very easily – I know you all can do it. There’s no need to have big degrees for that, big education for that, nothing is needed. What is needed is a deep feeling of love for the whole universe, and that changes. The all-destructive forces change their course, and it is then for the constructive forces. But on the whole that works out much faster if you all do that meditation with sincerity, with intensity, with understanding. All right?

May God bless you.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Sidney, 1987