A God who is in the deepest sense of the word subjective

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" People, such as the ulema, might be unable to understand the Islam

of a Sufi like Ibn al-Arabi. Muslim tradition makes Khidr the master

of all who seek a mystic truth, which is inherently superior to and

quite different from the God which is the same as everybody else's

but to a God who is in the deepest sense of the word subjective. "

 

Karen Armstrong, A History of God

Ballantine Books, 1993, p. 237.

ISBN-13: 978-0345384560

 

Main Entry: subjective

(1): peculiar to a particular individual : personal (subjective

judgments)

(2): a: modified or affected by personal views, experience, or

background (a subjective account of the incident)

b: arising from conditions within the brain or sense organs and not

directly caused by external stimuli (subjective sensations)

c: arising out of or identified by means of one's perception of one's

own states and processes (a subjective symptom of disease)

 

Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary

 

 

Muslims, Hindus, Christians and all have to evolve to a higher state

 

" That you have to be born again, that you have to be baptized, that

you have to become a Pir, that you have to become a Brahmin — all

these descriptions have come to us from all the great scriptures. It

is very easy to say that we don't believe in God, we don't believe in

any Incarnation, we don't believe in Jesus, we don't believe in any

religion, we don't believe into anything; is very easy to say. Even

it is easy to say that we believe in them, we believe in God, we

believe in Christ, we believe in Krishna, Rama, all that. Both things

are equally the same.

 

When you believe in God you believe in the darkness and ignorance,

and when you do not believe in Him also you are in ignorance. By

believing into you close your eyes, accept the faith and go along

with it. Of course it shows that you are conscious of some Power

which is beyond. Such people have a great chance. But in the case if

you go to these extremes in this kind of faith then you start only

believing in Christ, only believing in Muhammad, only believing in

Krishna — I mean depending on where you are born. How human beings

are so narrow-minded?

 

If you are born in England either you will be a Catholic, or a

Protestant, or maybe one of these witchcraft people. You believe into

anything because you are localized in a place; there has been some

identifications because your mother believed into something, because

your father believed into something, or you paid for it. And this

faith can become such a blinding effect on people that you develop

absurd types of groups which call themselves as Christians, Hindus,

Muslims — whatever you may say — and are extremely, extremely

exclusive, blind, and fanatic. "

 

Shri Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi, Being Born Again

Caxton Hall, London, U.K. — May 12, 1980

 

 

" The religion of Christianity or any religion is the religion of the

living God. At different times, there were great flowers on the Tree

of Life, but we plucked them and said, " This is mine; this is mine "

and we are fighting the dead. But in Sahaja Yoga, you will know the

beauty of all these great prophets and you will be amazed how they

have enriched us; all of them. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Christian tradition and Christ

Vienna, Austria - 8 September, 1984

 

 

" The Kundalini rises through a very thin line of Brahmanadi. In the

beginning only a hair like thing rises, it pierces through. In some

people, of course, in a big way it rises also. And then it pierces

this fontanel bone area which is a real baptism, real. Today only

people felt the cool breeze coming out of their heads. Can you do

that by jumping, or by paying money? They felt the cool breeze in the

hand. It's written in the Bible, even in the Bible very clearly, that

it's the cool breeze. Cool breeze is the sign of the Holy Ghost. You

start feeling the cool breeze in your hands and you start feeling the

cool breeze on your head. This is the actualization.

 

Of course, you people don't read other books which are very good,

like Adi Shankaracharya. People don't even like the mention of his

name who has really and clearly said that it is the cool breeze, the

chaitanya, is to be felt like cool breeze in the hands. They do not

want that you should know the truth. And this is the truth that when

you get your realization, you have to feel the cool breeze in your

hands yourself. You have to judge yourself. I'm not going to tell

you. It is you who has to see, it is you who has to feel. And then

you have to grow and you have to know all and everything - all the

secrets of Divine Science. You become the master then, you are the

guru.

 

You are the Spirit, and you should get it. It's your own which is

given to you. I have nothing to do about it. I'm just a catalyst. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Maccabean Hall, Australia on March 22, 1981

 

 

" The Spirit resides in our heart; it's the reflection of God

Almighty. In Sanskrit language, this aspect of God which is all-

pervading and is the first and the last, is called as Sadashiva; is

the Father, who does not incarnate. We say Yehovah, we can say, or

the God who does not incarnate. This great aspect which encompasses

everything ultimately and also manifests everything is the reflection

within our heart as the Spirit. This aspect is just the witness

aspect; it witnesses the play of its power, the Primordial Power, the

Holy Ghost, to see what is created by Her. He's the only enjoyer of

the game. He sees the game, the Leela, the fun. She organises

everything, it is She who gets divided into three powers, it is She

who creates the whole universe, it is She who gives us this

evolution, it is She who makes us human beings and it is She who has

to make us the higher human being. That's the Holy Ghost, the

Primordial Holy Ghost and the reflection of that is this Kundalini

within us. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Sat-Chit-Ananda, Houston, Texas, Oct 7, 1981