When the Goddess comes in the Sahasrara, the Shakti, She is Mahamaya.

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Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

 

 

 

 

 

“So today I’ve decided to have Mahamaya Puja. I have never talked about Mahamaya, as it is not to be talked or told it’s a secret, as they say. Is the basic of Sahaja Yoga, I should say because is described when the Goddess comes in the Sahasrara, the Shakti, She is Mahamaya. ‘Sahasrara hai Mahamaya,’ already described. She has to be the Mahamaya means She should camouflage Herself fully. Nobody should be able to know Her as the Goddess, to begin with, and even if they get realization they should not reach to the end of it. There are many reasons for that.The first thing, the job. The job of

Mahamaya was to give Realization. . . . Now this work, difficult work of giving Realization to others is very intricate. It has to work out in such a manner that nobody feels that it is done by some great personality or with a great awe or fear. So the Mahamaya Incarnation has to come, that people can come closer.Also, it has one advantage, very great advantage is that when a simple person who’s just a housewife starts giving Realization, people are flabbergasted. Also they think, "If she can do it, why not we do it? After all, she’s just an ordinary housewife. So, it’s all right. If she can do something, we can also do it."So they have self-confidence and, being a Mother, She does Her loving part, Her compassion, but the greatest is the patience. You see, none of them had so much patience, all these Incarnations who came. You see how they disappeared from this Mother Earth quickly, I’d say, by some excuse or other but I had to stay. I don’t know how long, but

it has to be done up to a point this work of giving Realization. . . .But now, what is the purpose? As I told you, is that I could come close to you and I need not, sort of, fill you with fear or oddness, or even a feeling that I am not a human being. I behave exactly like human being, I react exactly like human beings and all these Powers are hidden within Myself. Unless and until you are a Realized soul, you won’t understand. Whatever you may do, you won’t understand.Or maybe in the previous life you had your Realization or maybe also you have done such tremendous punyas that you can recognize. There are people like that who have done it.But to make it more, sort of, congenial to you is to become absolutely a human being. So I married. I have children. I have grandchildren and I do shopping, as you see. People are surprised how I take Coca-Cola. I’m not supposed to take Coca-Cola? Or I eat popcorn. They’re surprised. But I have to be just like

you. But inside I am not. Outside I am."

Shri Pustih Devi

(Pustih [444th]: Nourishment. It is She who nourishes the Jiva — annam Brahmeti vyajanat (Tai-Up. 3.2). ‘Know food as Brahman.’)