Is Shri Mataji God Almighty or the Adi Shakti?

[Guest guest]

Last night my daughter finally got me to explain David Suzuki's The

Sacred Balance concerning the water element. She just loves pre-

bedtime stories on any topic, no matter how mundane. All that

matters is that she converse with me.

 

So i started explaining the elements and how we humans are the

product of these scared, life-sustaining essence of the Creator.

Then i had to explain that we humans are also sacred, if not more.

This was quite an easy task.

 

i told her that Shri Mataji is within us, whom she continues

visiting and conversing on a regular basis. i told her that Shri

Mataji is the Adi Shakti and thus that makes us sacred. If the Adi

Shakti lives within us in the Sahasrara then we have to be sacred.

 

Lalita was in agreement.

 

Then i told her that there is a Light within which she has witnessed

to be always above Shri Mataji at all times. i told that i believe

that the Light is God Almighty and this makes us sacred.

 

Lalita also expressed the same believe that the Light is God

Almighty. i told her that she should not believe me just because i

just told her so.

 

Lalita replied that she knew a long time ago that the Light was God

Almighty. i asked her is she had ever asked Shri Mataji about the

Light and Lalita replied she have never done so. Then how was she of

that opinion. Lalita replied, " What else could it be? "

 

" The most magnetic of all religious symbols is the light, the

light that radiates everywhere within and without — the light that

never was on land or sea. Great mystics have realised the Peerless

One in the form of Light. Moses saw the burning bush and received

the word of God. The Upanishad seers saw It as Jothi Aham — the

Splendour in the self.

 

In many a Devaram and Tiruvacagam, and the lyrics of Tayumanavar and

Ramalinga Swamigal, we have allusions to light as the symbol of the

formless God; and Light also indicates goals and the radiance of

Wisdom, as well as the illumination of Supreme Awareness.

 

Gleaming as the earth and all the spheres 

Oh Thou expanse of matchless Effulgence!

In radiant forms of Light art Thou beheld

Oh Formless One!

 

Tiruvacagam 22.8.9. "

 

 

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the

Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things

were made by Him; And without Him was not anything made that was

made. In Him was life; and the life was the Light of men.

And the Light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehend it

not. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same

came for a witness, To bear witness to the Light that all men

through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to

bear witness to that Light. That was the true Light, which

lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

 

John 1:1-10

 

 

Dan Costian, in the Bible Enlightened, tells that the " Bible is

seen to be full of terms about light. Lossky tells us that " for the

mystical theology of the eastern Church these are not metaphors,

rhetorical figures but words expressing a real aspect of

godliness. " " The godly light does not have an abstract and

allegorical meaning. It is a data of the mystical experience. " The

author then referred to " Gnostics " , the highest level of godly

knowledge [that] is an experience (a living) of the noncreated

light, where the experience itself is the light: in lumine tuo

videbimus lumen (in Your Light we shall see light.) "

 

Eternal, endless, existing beyond time and space, it appeared in the

theophanies of the Old Testament as the Glory of God. The Glory

is " the Uncreated Light, His Eternal Kingdom. " Being bestowed to the

Christians by the Holy Spirit, the energies appear no longer as

external causes but as grace, as inner light. " Makarius the Egyptian

wrote: " It is . . . the enlightenment of the holy souls, the

steadiness of the heavenly powers " (Spiritual Homilies V.8.)

 

" The godly light appears here, in this world, in time. It is

disclosed in the history but it is not of this world; it is eternal,

it means going out from the historical existence: `the secret of

the light day', the secret of the true knowledge, the fulfillment

of the Gnosis . . . It is exactly the beginning of parousia in the

holy souls, the beginning of the revealing at the end of times, when

God will be disclosed to everyone in this distant Light. " "  

 

 

Lama Surya Das, in Awakening to the Sacred, enlightens with

reference to Patanjali: " The heart and mind can find peace and

harmony by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true

self as supreme effulgent light

                           

Patanjali is often called the father of yoga because he was the

first person to codify and write down yoga practices. In this

meditation instruction, he is telling us to let go of all

distracting sights, smells, and sounds and meditate on our spiritual

nature, our luminous true self. He is telling us to look inside and

experience the radiance within. 

 

All cultures, peoples, and religious groups through all times have

talked about the phenomena of light in the context of the religious

or mystical experience. Those who have seen visions of holy beings

typically see them surrounded by white light. People have always

described going to the light, finding the light, being called by the

light, dissolving in the light. We read about light in The Egyptian

Book of the Dead as well as The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Men,

women, and children who have had classic near-death experiences

vividly describe arriving in a place of white light; they speak of

themselves and others as being bathed in white light.

 

Prior to being described as the light of any religion, light was

just light. Light is a part of the primary source material. Later,

as the history of mankind developed, the concept of light became

institutionalized; it was then interpreted according to cultural and

religious beliefs. Pure light thus became light of God, light of

truth, light of Buddha, light of Jesus, cosmic light, and ocean of

light depending upon where you were born and what you were taught.

Light, however, is constant. It is fundamental energy.The New

Testament, referring to John the Baptist, reads: " He came for

testimony, to bear witness to the light that all might believe

through him. " Later Jesus says, " Put your trust in the light while

you have it so that you may become sons of light. " . . . 

 

British mystic George Fox, who founded the Quaker religion, used the

term " inner light " to describe our ability to personally experience

God within ourselves. He himself had such an experience, which left

him with the lifelong conviction that everyone can hear God's voice

directly without mediation by priests or church ritual. This is the

central tenet of the Society of Friends.

 

According to Buddhism, all beings are imbued with a spark of inner

divine light. In describing our original Buddha-nature, we use such

phrases as innate luminosity, primordial radiance, the unobscured

clear natural mind, and the clear light of reality. . . . The Jewish

mystics use similar words when they speak of the inner spark or the

spark of God. The Koran, referring to man, talks about the little

candle flame burning in a niche in the wall of God's temple.

 

Almost inevitably a spiritual search becomes a search for divine or

scared light. By cultivating our inner core, we search for this

light in ourselves as well as the divine. "

 

http://www.adishakti.org/his_light_within.htm

 

 

i have come across SYs who claim that Shri Mataji is God Almighty

even though She has never claimed so. Shri Mataji has always said

that She is the Adi Shakti. Maybe they should be reminded again what

Shri Mataji has declared numerous times:

 

" But today it is the day I declare I am the One who have to save the

humanity. I declare I am the One who is Adi Shakti (Holy Spirit or

Ruh of Allah), who is the Mother of all Mothers, who is the

Primordial Mother, the Shakti of the Desire of God who has

incarnated on this Earth to give meaning to itself, to this

Creation, to human beings. And I am sure that through My love and

patience and My powers I am going to achieve it.I was the One who

was born again and again. But now I have come in My complete form

and with complete powers. I have come to this Earth not only for

salvation of human beings, not only for their emancipation, but for

granting them the Kingdom of Heaven, the Joy, the Bliss that your

Father (God, Allah, Sadashiva) wants to bestow upon you. "

 

Shri Puratana Devi, United Kingdom — December 2, 1979

Purantana [810st]: Primordial or Ancient) 

 

 

" I am the Adi Shakti (the Holy Spirit or Ruh of Allah). I am the

One who has come on this Earth for the first time in this Form to do

this tremendous task . The more you understand this the better it

would be. You will change tremendously. I knew I'll have to say

that openly one day and we have said it. But now it is you people

who have to prove it that I am that! "

 

Shri Adi-Shakti Devi, Sydney, Aust. — March 21, 1983

(Adi-Shakti [615th]: Primal Power; being the First Cause.)

 

 

i find it disturbing that these SYs are so brave to make such false

claims in the collective but are afraid to announce the Last

Judgment in public. They should realize that it is a blasphemy to

convince others that God Almighty is walking on Earth at the moment.

 

And the general public will take action if they ever make such

claims. The Muslims especially will react most violently, be

extremely incensed and will probably issue a death fatwa if any of

these mislead SYs dare claim in public that Allah is on Earth. We

can only claim that the Adi Shakti (Holy Spirit or Ruh of Allah) is

on Earth to announce the Last Judgment and Resurrection. This is the

Truth and prophecy pre-ordained by both the Koran and Bible.

 

it's going to be a long, torturous and winding road,***

 

 

jagbir

 

*** John, you have 100% of my support for the collective. i wish to

again reiterate that collective meditation is the best way for

ANYONE to ascend as SYs go out of the way to accommodate newcomers.

There is much to learn from the collective and the vibrations are

definitely much stronger and sustained. There is definitely no

substitute for the collective, especially for new seekers.

 

However, once established and if there is a necessity to leave the

collective in order to grow or heal, this step must be taken and

even supported by the collective itself. Any attempt to show

resentment or alienation, which is sometimes the case, will only

make healing longer.

 

We must respect the absolute freedom of all devotees of the Adi

Shakti, whether they are in or out of the collective. Exhibiting

fanaticism, inducing fear and enforcing rigid 'rules' will never be

tolerated by those who wish to become their own masters.

 

No one can control any SY. We can only surrender our ignorance and

ego to the Adi Shakti within, and seek Her protection and guidance

for the rest of our lives. This Truth will increasingly prevail when

Shri Mataji finally leaves us.

[Guest guest]

shriadishakti , " jagbir singh "

<adishakti_org> wrote:

>

> Then i told her that there is a Light within which she has

> witnessed to be always above Shri Mataji at all times. i told that

> i believe that the Light is God Almighty and this makes us sacred.

>

> Lalita also expressed the same believe that the Light is God

> Almighty. i told her that she should not believe me just because i

> just told her so.

>

> Lalita replied that she knew a long time ago that the Light was

> God Almighty. i asked her if she had ever asked Shri Mataji about

> the Light and Lalita replied she have never done so. Then how was

> she of that opinion. Lalita replied, " What else could it be? "

>

 

" Now see if there's God or not. You can feel it. Within yourself He

can hear you. He is the Glory of all the Glory. He loves you. He

protects you. He guides you. He has created you to be really His

Love. But accept it. Any time any thought is coming to you - pray;

and you will be moving in the way of that Ocean which is the

Unconscious mind, which starts with thoughtless awareness.

 

If you cannot become thoughtless, you pray to Him: " Forgive me for

what I've done, and forgive those who have done harm to me " . "

 

H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

 

 

" In the Age of Aquarius, what is important is not to have, but to

be. We have concentrated too much on external things, forgetting

that we are souls. We have been totally unconscious to what is of

the inner life. But the proliferation of material greed, political

power, and racial discrimination now crumbles before the spiritual

rebirth, which forces us to look inward for the principles that

force us to uphold the renewed ideals of love, honor, and truth. The

children who are born in the time of Aquarius no longer want to

believe, they want to know. Knowing for ourselves — personal

knowledge that goes beyond a mere belief in the words of others —

is a sacred principle of the Age of Aquarius. We go beyond faith to

find truth. "

 

Walter Mercado, Beyond The Horizon, A Time Warner Company, 1997, p.

44.

 

 

" Some scholars and mystics have claimed that there is a common

base to all mystical experience: `all mystics, said Saint-Martin,

speak the same language and come from the same country. Throughout

recorded history men and women known as mystics have experienced a

certainty about the nature of reality, about the place of human

beings and other sentient creatures in that reality, and a

perspective on everyday mundane life, that seems to bear a

remarkable similarity from culture to culture, from century to

another. It is as if they experience that the soul, the Higher Self,

in communion with the Absolute, God, Divinity, can be a greater,

higher, more inward reality than the personality living in the

living world. The greater reality suffuses the lesser and alters it

beyond recognition. `The infinite shines through the finite and

makes it more and not less real.'206 This is not a doctrine, a

dogma learned through a church or established religion, but a

personal experience, an inner knowing, which lies at the root of all

religious doctrines and is prior to them. "

 

Jean Hardy, A Psychology with a Soul, Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.,

1987, p. 109.

 

 

" Mysticism, a quest for a hidden truth or wisdom ( " the

treasure hidden in the centres of our souls " ), in the 20th

century is undergoing a renewal of interest and understanding and

even a mood of expectancy similar to that which had marked its role

in previous eras. Such a mood stems in part from the feeling of

alienation that many persons experience in the modern world. Put

down as a religion of the elite, mysticism (or the mystical faculty

of perceiving transcendental reality) is said by many to belong to

all men, though few use it. The British author Aldous Huxley has

stated that " a totally unmystical world would be a world totally

blind and insane, " and the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore has

noted that " Man has a feeling that he is truly represented in

something which exceeds himself. " "

 

Britannica Online(1994-1998 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.)

 

 

When a man knows God, he is free: his sorrows have an end, and birth

and death are no more.

When in inner union he is beyond the world of the body,

Then the third world, the world of the Spirit, is found, where the

power of the All is, and man has all;

For he is one with the One.

 

Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishads 1.11. The Upanishads,

Juan Mascaro, 86