Nirguna Brahman, being aware of our shortcomings and limits, voluntarily takes on many different forms.

January 27, 2004

"Gods and GoddessesMost Hindus believe in Nirguna Brahman, or God without attributes, as well as Saguna Brahman, or God with attributes. Nirguna Brahman is beyond space, time and causation; It is the only final and absolute reality that exists outside of the material universe and is not bound by its dualities and limitations, such as male and female, hot and cold, pain and pleasure, etc. Nirguna Brahman, however, is hard to worship because of the human being's limited capacity to understand or grasp a metaphysical entity that is without attributes. And Nirguna Brahman, being aware of our shortcomings and limits, voluntarily takes on many different forms, shapes, and names to help human beings better understand ourselves, nature, the universe, and God. This physical manifestation of Nirguna Brahman in the material universe is known as Saguna Brahman (or Ishvar or Bhagwan)."

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

"Today is the nineteenth Sahasrara Day, if you count the day the Sahasrara was opened as the first. I have to tell you the story about the Sahasrara Day, about which it was decided long time back, before I incarnated. They had a big meeting in the heavens. All the thirty-five crores of gods, the Deities, were there present to decide what is to be done. This is the ultimate that we have to do to human beings — to open their Sahasrara, to open their awareness to the Spirit, to the real Knowledge of the Divine, to remove the darkness of ignorance. And it had to be spontaneously because it has to work the living force of God. Also it had to be very quick.So all the Gods requested that I, the Adi Shakti, has to take the birth. They all tried their best. They did whatever was possible. The saints were made by them but very few. They incarnated and people made

religions out of them which were perverted and brought them a bad name. No Reality in those religions. These religions were money oriented or power-oriented. There was no Divine Force working, actually it was all anti-divine. How to now turn human beings away from these superficial religions, these perverted paths of destruction? How to tell them about all these established organizations? For ages they have been ruling, making money, making power.It was a tremendous task; it had to be done with great patience and Love. It was very delicate work also because they believed in those religions, innocent people, simple people — to blast them that this is all nonsense, they are not religions, they are against the Incarnations, against all the prophets, against all the saints. That's why all the real saints had to suffer. It's a powerful work that was to be done, and that's why the Adi Shakti had to take birth on this Earth."Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi