What Shri Mataji said about being 'enlightened by joy'...

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Dear All,

 

Shri Mataji has taught us that self-realisation/salvation is our connection with

the Divine... whereby our consciousness is enlightened. However, She also tells

Sahaja Yogis at Lausane, Switzerland that after having our self-realisation

(a.k.a. salvation)... we must also grow into the " joy of our self-realisation "

(the joy of our salvation).

 

Since this is the special Season of Joy, whereby we celebrate the Advent of the

Birth of Christ... what better time to attain the Joy of our Salvation!!!

 

Warmest Wishes of the Season and Joy to All!!!

 

Violet

 

 

" Even when you get your realisation you are sometimes in a growing stage up to a

point. Like you're nourished by the Mother Earth all the time but you're not

aware of it. In the same way the womb of Sahaja Yoga ('the womb of the union

with the Divine') nourishes you to grow up into beautiful beings. Still you have

to come up to a point when it has to click in such a way that you start feeling

the awareness of that unbounding love. In the small children it clicks very fast

because they're so innocent and uncomplicated and in some people also I've seen

it click very fast as soon as they get their realisation.

 

But... in some people they have some more ego trip left to be finished. So, they

come to me. I find they are flying in the air like bubbles and as if blown by

the nourishing Mother blown out-like the bubbles on the surface of the sea. And

there are many who are suffering from superego. They get mixed up with the sand

and become very heavy and all the time weeping and crying about personal things.

But... once the thing clicks they become one with the spirit of the ocean. Then

they feel that deep, joyous force of the sea which nourishes them, guides them,

and elevates them every moment. Like deep down in the sea they go and there they

find the beautiful pearls of eternal experiences.

 

And when they find these pearls they bring to me as poems, as dances, as smiles,

as laughter, as enjoyment. These are all within you, and they lie there away

from your consciousness.

 

Though your consciousness is enlightened by self realisation it is not yet

enlightened by joy. That is... something happens to all of you gradually, as I

told you, and should happen to all of you as soon as possible. What is there to

surrender (to) the force that " itself " is flowing toward you and nourishing. Do

we say the lotus has surrendered itself to its fragrance? Do we say that the sun

has surrendered itself to its brilliance? Do we say that the moon has

surrendered itself to its coolness? It would be absurd to say like that.

 

The word " surrender " (used) sometimes can mean only 'at the most in context of

Sahaja Yoga' (in context with one's union with the Divine)... 'that we

surrendered our egos, our limitations, our shallowness.' What we have achieved

is our own. We have surrendered all that is useless for something that is great

and eternal. This weight of the ignorance has to drop out. "

 

(Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi - Talk to Sahaja Yogis (Advice) - Lausane,

Switzerland - 25 August, 1983)