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

[Guest guest]

Tue May 4, 2004 10:23 am

 

> shriadishakti , " jagbir singh "

> <adishakti_org> wrote:

>

> Today morning i was updating some files and decided to confirm yet

> again what has been cross-examined numerous times over the years.

> At about 7.30 am 10-year-old Lalita was asked about the Light:

>

> Question: What is above Shri Mataji's head?

>

> Lalita: The Light.

>

> Question: Can you look at it for a long time?

>

> Lalita: Yes, you can look at it.

>

> Question: Does it not blind you?

>

> Lalita: It doesn't blind me.

>

> Question: Is it different from the sun you see on Earth?

>

> Lalita: Yes.

>

> Question: Why?

>

> Lalita: It's smaller.

>

> Question: Anything else?

>

> Lalita: It doesn't blind you. What else ...... It's brighter. OK?

>

> myself: Thank you Lalita.

>

>

> This Light is always above the Great Divine Mother, and this Spirit

> of God Almighty resides within the Sahasraras of all humans. Unlike

> Her incarnation on Earth as Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, now an aging

> octogenarian, She is eternally youthful and of unsurpassable

> beauty. Kash, Arwinder and Lalita have always maintained that they

> have never seen any woman as beautiful as Shri Maha-Devi who is

> truly the Great Primordial Goddess. (Shri Saraswati, Laxshmi and

> Kali are also extremely beautiful but none are comparable with the

> Maha-Devi.)

>

 

Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:59 pm

 

> In shriadishakti , jagbir singh

> <adishakti_org> wrote:

>

> A few months ago i asked my ten-year-old daughter Lalita what that

> immensely brilliant Light above the Adi Shakti in her Sahasrara

> is. She replied " God! "

>

> i remained silent for a long time to absorb the immensity of that

> single word answer.

>

 

 

Jesus answers, “Every one who has known himself has seen it (The Light).”

 

" As Jesus talks with his three chosen disciples, Matthew asks him to

show him the " place of life, " which is, he says, the " pure light. "

Jesus answers, " Every one [of you] who has known himself has seen

it. " 53 Here again, he deflects the question, pointing the disciple

instead toward his own self-discovery. " (53. Dialogue of the Savior

132.15 — 16, in NHL 233.)

 

Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels,

Random House, New York, 1989, p. 131.

 

 

Professor R. Panikkar: " This light is cosmic as well as transcosmic. "

 

" This universal symbol of Light is surely one of the best symbols Man

has found to express the delicate balance that almost all cultures

have tried to maintain, with varying success, between a merely this-

worldly or atheistic attitude and a totally otherworldly or

transcendent attitude. There must be some link between the world of

Men and the world of the Gods, between the material and the

spiritual, the immanent and the transcendent. If this link is of a

substantial nature, pantheism is unavoidable. If the link is

exclusively epistemic, as Indian and many other scholasticisms tend

to affirm, the reality of this world will ultimately vanish. The

symbol of Light avoids these two pitfalls by allowing for a specific

sharing in its nature by both worlds or even by the " three worlds. "

This is the supreme light spoken of in the Rig Veda and in the

Brahmanas; it is mentioned also in the Chandogya Upanishad and in the

well-known prayer of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: " Lead me from

darkness to light!'' It is also the refulgent light of the golden

vessel stationed in the dwelling place of the Divine: " The

impregnable stronghold of the Gods has eight circles and nine gates.

It contains a golden vessel, turned toward heaven and suffused with

light.'' This light is neither exclusively divine nor exclusively

human, neither merely material nor merely spiritual, neither from

this side only nor from the other. It is precisely this fact

that " links the two shores. " This light is cosmic as well as

transcosmic. "

 

Professor Raimundo Panikkar, The Vedic Experience

 

 

 

Zen Master Ejo: " Those who erroneously cling to the ego do not believe in the

light. "

 

" 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: " You have such a unique Light within you. "

 

" 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 Mataji Nirmala Devi

Being The Light Of Pure Compassion, Istanbul, Turkey

November 6, 1994