Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi: You have such a unique Light within you.

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What appears as underwater reeds is actually the Light of God Almighty emitting out the top of the heads of a few Sahaja Yogis, with vibrations flowing out from the remaining, as they meditate on Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi.http://www.adishakti.org/new_age_children/did_you_see_the_sun.htm

 

"The experience of light phenomena, other than physical, is quite common. Unfortunately, our present civilized world does not pay attention it. People who have had such experiences are often disbelieved, shunned or ridiculed. It is time to restore the sacred, because it is as necessary to the survival of man as is food to the physical body. Life on this planet came into being by the light of the sun. Take the sun away, and Earth is a dead planet in no time. Man equally needs the light from the subtle realms. Many experiences of light phenomena present themselves to his mind. This is well known and well documented in regard to kundalini experiences. According to the Indian tradition kundalini is a type of energy that is held at rest in a dormant, potential state in the human body. When this energy is awakened, it rushes up along the central axis of the spine to the crown of the head, where it gives rise to a

mystical state of consciousness. Awakening kundalini causes a psychospiritual transformation during which many psychic and psychological phenomena happen. Light, in its many forms, is an important aspect of the kundalini awakening, and has also been reported by mystics of all religious traditions. In alchemical texts, light is often mentioned as an important experience of the spiritual alchemist. The alchemists often distinguish between the "natural light" which is a created light omnipresent in the created world, and the "supernatural light" which is uncreated and spiritual, and is present in the spiritual or divine realms. They warned not to go into the different kinds of colored lights but to continue the "distillation" or "purification" until one experiences the brilliant white light, the uncreated Light. The same advice is given by yogis." Light Consciousness (soulguidance.com)----------------

"The value of direct experience is many things. One benefit is the ability to follow ourselves, to guide ourselves, rather than fully handing ourselves over to spiritual leaders. Recently, a spiritual leader with innumerable devotees throughout the world was uncovered as a paedophile. He used the guise of a spiritual leader very convincingly, as a way of attracting unsuspecting people for his horrible desires. This is one of many examples proving the dangers of blind belief and the lack of inner investigation.

Another benefit is apparent in the person's own spirituality. While many spiritual people seem to walk a vague and abstract path that on inspection has no solid foundation, a person who is able to experience spiritual phenomena themselves comes to realise the concrete nature of spirituality. We lose the misty fog that surrounds much modern spirituality. Instead, we develop along a tangible spiritual path due to the fruits of our own efforts.

Directly experiencing mystical things is magical, strengthening and beyond our imagination. It is exciting and clarifying, gradually giving us everything we need, answering our many questions and putting us personally in the realm of the esoteric. The experience of astral projection, for example, coming out of our body and encountering awesome spiritual beings, occult temples, etc is incredibly liberating and refreshing in that our experience solidifies the reality of things, blowing all the tedious theory that clogs our mind out of the water. What we are capable of is beautiful and we are all able to do it, no matter who we are — even you.

Legitimate spiritual experience reveals the spiritual path. While this is lacking, we can't really penetrate into the heart of what is spiritual. Belief in itself is not enough. We need to know.

There is no requirement in Gnosis to believe or disbelieve, to accept or reject. All that is needed is the interest in approaching the techniques with an open mind, testing the information through sincere effort. We would all testify that the teachings are real and effective — but you don't need to take our word for it… aim for the first-hand experience…" Dave, The Value of Direct Experience, (www.mysticweb.org)--------------------

"Shakyamuni Buddha said, 'This light of lights is not blue, yellow, red, white, or black. It is not matter, not mind. It is not existent, nor nonexistent. It is not a phenomenon resulting from causes. It is the source of all Buddhas, the basis of practicing the Way of enlightening beings, fundamental for all Buddhists.' . . Why do students today not keep this in mind or believe in it resolutely? Because they do not believe in it resolutely, they become lowly ignorant fools, not escaping vicious circles . . . Those who erroneously cling to the ego do not believe in the light, so they are herein arbitrarily making themselves bob and sink in birth and death . . .

Dwelling in the great treasury of light all day and all night, you turn yourself into a lowly hireling, roaming in misery, a longtime pauper. This is your own conceit of inferiority, having forgotten the call of your noble origins. How sad it is to take up a nightsoil bucket and become a cesspool cleaner, thinking of the body of pure light as a defiled body full of misery. This is the saddest of the saddest, which nothing can surpass . . .

Nowadays, those who shave their heads and wear black as latter-day followers of Buddha spend the days and pass the months illumined by the light of Dipankara, 'The Lamp,' but they do not wonder what Dipankara Buddha, The Lamp Illuminate, really is. Therefore they are not real students; they just make use of the appearance of renunciation in order to grab donations. In reality, they are actually vagrants and roustabouts.

If you deny this, let me ask you, what are the marks and refinements of the Lamp Buddha? You cannot say anything, yet you cannot say nothing; speak quickly, speak quickly!

How sad that you only learn of the Lamp Buddha as an illuminate of the past and do not know that the Lamp Buddha shines throughout all the time. How then could you believe that it is teaching and attaining nirvana in your nostrils, in your eyes?

Now there is a group of the lowest type of hearer, who repeatedly weary of life and death and hurriedly seek nirvana, arousing their determination on the basis of the idea of something really existing and something being attained. Adding religious greed on top of selfish conceit, their seeking mind never rests until they die. Teachers without perception praise them as good people of faith, so they take pride in egotistical clinging and possessiveness as diligent spiritual practice, eventually turning into ghouls . . .

This spiritual light is unbroken from the infinite past through the infinite future, this is called perpetual energy. Utterly free of senses and objects, the essence manifests, real and eternal, this is called permanent stability of radiance. Trusting in this spiritual light, abiding peacefully, imperturbable, is called the supreme concentration of simply sitting . . .

If you cannot investigate truth through your own eyes, even if you shave your head and dress in black, you are pitiful living beings. Even if you can interpret a thousand scriptures and ten thousand treatises, you are "counting the treasures of another house," you are "seafarers who know there's something valuable but do not know the price."

Tell me, right now as you defecate and urine, dress and eat, ultimately whose experience is it? And what, moreover of the colors of the waters, the scenery of the mountains, the coming and going of heat and cold, the spring flowers, the autumn moon, thousand of changes, myriad transformations — what brings all this about? Truly this is a "countenance most wondrous, light illuminating the ten directions." It is "samsara and nirvana are like last night's dream." It is "being is nonbeing, nonbeing is being." If not thus, even if you speak of "always being there on Spiritual Mountain," it is a false teaching, it is specious discourse, even if you hear of "eternally silent light that neither comes into being nor passes away," I would only say it is only talk, with no meaning. . . .

However, as I see students today, being grounded on ignorance, they spend their lives polishing day and night, expecting to eventually see through to the light in this way. Then again, some try to see this radiant pure light by practicing meditation to get rid of random thoughts flying around, repeatedly trying to beat out the flaming fires, hoping to see the eternally silent light thereby. If you think the total nourishing of thought to be right, then are wood, stones, and clods of earth right? All of you are the lowest kind of hearer, who drowns while trying to avoid being burned. How foolish! Clinging to the sitting of two vehicles and the inclinations of ordinary people, you want to realize supreme universal enlightenment; there is nothing more stupid and perverse.

For this reason it is said, "Those on the two vehicles may be diligent but lack the spirit of enlightenment; outsiders may be intellectually brilliant, but they lack wisdom. Ignorant and stupid, petty and fearful, they think there's something real in the empty fist." . . .

Some of them may wrongly give definitive approval to a temporary surge of energy, or it may happen that through a temporary inspiration they sit for a long time without lying down, so that the mind and consciousness are thoroughly fatigued, everything becomes the same to them, activity and function stop for a while, and thoughts quiet down; then they misunderstand this state, which resembles the solitary radiance of ethereal spirituality, misconstruing it to be the state where inside and outside become one, the original ground of the fundamental state of essential self.

Taking this interpretation to Zen teachers who have no true perception, they present the view. Since the teachers have no eyes to perceive people, therefore they go along with the words of those who come to them, giving them worthless approval, so that the call themselves graduate Zen monks. Countless followers of the Way with shallow consciousness and little learning fall into this poison. Truly, even as we say it is the age of dereliction of the teaching, is it not all pathetic?

I humbly say to people who are real seekers, who have the same aspiration, do not cling to one device or one state, do not rely on intellectual understanding or brilliance, do not carry around what you learn by sitting . . .

This is the light in which the ordinary and the sage, the deluded and the enlightened, are one suchness. Even in the midst of activity, it is not hindered by activity. The forest and the flowers, the grasses and the leaves, people and animals, great and small, long and short, square and round, all appear at once, without depending on the discrimination of your thoughts and attention.. This is manifest proof that the light is not obstructed by activity. It is empty luminosity spontaneously shining without exerting mental energy.

This light has never had any place of abode. Even when buddhas appear in the world, it does not appear in the world. Even though they enter nirvana, it does not enter nirvana. When you are born, the light is not born. When you die, the light is not extinguished. It is not more in Buddhas and not less in ordinary beings. It is not lost in confusion, not awakened by enlightenment. It has no location, no appearance, no name. It is the totality of everything. It cannot be grasped, cannot be rejected, cannot be attained. While unattainable, it is in effect throughout the entire being. From the highest heaven above to the lowest hell below, it is thus completely clear, a wondrously inconceivable spiritual light.

If you believe and accept this mystic message, you do not need to ask anyone else whether it is true or false; it will be like meeting your father in the middle of town. Do not petition other teachers for a seal of approval, and do not be eager to be given a prediction and realize fruition. . . .

This essay should not be shown to anyone but people who are in the school and have entered the room. My only concern is that there should be no false and biased views, whether in one's own practice or in teaching others." Zen Master Ejo, Absorption in the Treasury of Light (Thomas Cleary, Minding Mind, Shambhala Publications, Inc, 1995, p.65-82.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

 

 

 

 

 

"One has to know on this point that you have got the Light . . . You have to give up all that is falsehood. If you are fully enlightened you will give up automatically. You don’t have to be told. The Spirit automatically feels responsible that it has to give Light. It has to tell that you please give Light, because it is Light. Because it is Eternal Light nothing can kill it.

There is a sloka, "It cannot be killed by anybody, nothing can destroy it. Even if you want to suck it you cannot." It is such a powerful Light. You can verify it whether it is eternal or not. You have to see for yourself you have such a unique Light within you. In the history of spirituality of this world so many have got Realization — such a Light in them. How could these stupid, flimsy, useless conditionings dominate you now, when you are the carrier of Eternal Light."

Shri Sahasra-Pad DeviBeing The Light Of Pure Compassion,Istanbul, Turkey — November 6, 1994

Sahasra-dala-padmastha (528th): Residing in the Thousand-Petaled Lotus.