Shri Mataji: Death does not exist for you — It is finished... your spirit is fr

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" So this happening that we are afraid of death is absolutely absurd

for Sahaja Yogis. What is there to think even about your death. There

is nothing like death for you because you have got eternal life. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

 

 

" So you must know your position as eternal beings — what is your

work; what is your idea; what you have to do. So one has to get rid

of this idea of death because death does not exist for you — It is

finished... your spirit is free. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

To Achieve Complete Freedom, Cabella, Italy — May 7, 1995

 

 

" Religions are the expressions and experiments of Realized souls —

the seers. They also talk about the inner being, second birth, and

about Self-Realization. In the beginning, in India, they tried to

take the attention inside by introducing symbols that they saw in

this unconscious Universal Being within. This gave rise to pantheism

and the aspirant's attention got stuck to symbols and to rituals

which killed the main objective. So the other type of experiments of

talking only about the abstract (Nirakar) gave rise to many other

religions which ended as dogmas or " isms. " The reason is obvious;

talking about the flower or the honey cannot take you to the honey

but can only create dogmatic " isms " in the mind. You have to be a bee

to reach there, that is, you have to be reborn. This has to happen

within to take you inside. It is too great an achievement and

unbelievable, but I feel the search of ages has brought great results.

The mind with a child-like innocence achieves very quick results.

Whatever may be the loads of the mind, if the longing is honest and

earnest, sooner or later the aspirant can get Self-Realization. After

reaching this state the vibrations start emitting from the

extremities. These are described by Adi Sankaracarya in his work

Ananda Lahari. The vibrations are the waves of Divine Love that can

fill also other persons' inner being and give them the same

experience of Self-Realization. The physical manifestations are as

follows: The pupils of the eyes become dilated. The face becomes

radiant, the body becomes light, all tension is completely removed.

The rising of the Kundalini can be seen by others and felt by the

aspirant. First the throbbing is clearly felt at Sahasrara and when

it stops, complete silence is felt within and in all awareness. The

flow of Grace is felt coming down, cooling the whole being. As the

attention moves to the subtle, gross attachments drop out. A person

gradually loses identification with falsehood and artificiality. In

matter, he sees beauty and not its possession value. In Knowledge, he

identifies himself with Truth and is not afraid to profess, nor does

he indulge in the double standards of life. His flow of Love becomes

spontaneous, generous, without any tinge of attachment, possession or

return. The person becomes ageless — a hollow personality. Now let us

see what happens inside.

 

The attention of the consciousness moves to the inner being. As the

thread of a necklace is passing through every bead of the necklace,

the Inner Consciousness is also passing through every human being. As

soon as our attention moves to our Inner Consciousness we can move on

to everybody's Kundalini. One starts feeling the Kundalini, its

nature, its position in other persons. Collective Consciousness is

thus established. Now you become a universal being. After some days

you cannot say who is the other person. The Power of Love is so great

and dynamic that with the movement of your fingers you can move the

Kundalini of thousands. It becomes child's play.

 

This is how en masse evolution of human beings will take place. These

are signs of the advent of the Golden Age of Truth (Satya Yuga). Let

us forget whatever hardships we have suffered in our search in the

past. It does not matter if some could not find it before. You have

to open your mind and understand that though the discovery is

unprecedented, it does not make any seeker or predecessor small. If

some experiments are made it does not matter if, ultimately, we have

found out the way. It is a collective achievement. Perhaps in the

chaos of Kali Yuga it was to happen and many of us who have been

earnestly searching in many lives, are reborn to have their promises

by the Divine. Maybe we were our own predecessors. On the Tree of

Life there might have been very few flowers but now the Blossom Time

has come. Their fragrance of longing has collectively materialized

the manifestation of Sahaja Yoga. Many are going to jump into the

Realm of Thoughtless Awareness where you get introduced to your Self

and start identifying with your Universal Nature. Those who deserve

will get the Throne of their Inner Being which rules the Skies of

Peace, and the Oceans of Divine Love, and Supreme Knowledge within

which is limitless. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

 

 

" Many beings remain for thousands of years in the casual cosmos. By

deeper ecstasies the freed soul then withdraws itself from the little

casual body and puts on the vastness of the casual cosmos. All the

separate eddies of ideas, particularised waves of power, love, will,

joy, peace, intuition, calmness, self-control, and concentration melt

into the overjoyous Sea of Bliss. No longer does the soul have to

experience its joy as an individualized wave of consciousness, but is

merged in the One Cosmic Ocean, with all its waves — eternal

laughter, thrills, throbs...

 

" When a soul finally gets out of the three jars of bodiily

delusions, " Master continued, " it becomes one with the Infinite

without any loss of individuality. Christ had won this final freedom

even before he was born as Jesus. In three stages of his past,

symbolized in his earth-life as the three days of his experience of

death and resurrection, he had attained full power to arise in the

Spirit. The undeveloped man must undergo countless earthly and astral

and casual incarnations in order to emerge from his three bodies. A

master who achieves this final freedom may elect to return to earth

as a prophet to bring other human beings back to God, or like myself

he may chose to reside in the astral cosmos. There a saviour assumes

some of the burden of the inhabitants karma and thus help them to

terminate their cycle of reincarnation in the astral cosmos and go on

permanently to the casual spheres. Or a freed soul may enter the

casual world to aid its beings to shorten their span in the casual

body and thus obtain the Absolute Freedom. " "

 

Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi,

Self-Realization Fellowship, 1974, p. 420-21.

 

 

" As we approach the end of the second millennium, it seems likely

that the world we know is passing away. For decades we have lived

with the knowledge that we have created weapons that could wipe out

human life on the planet. The Cold War may have ended, but the new

world order seems no less frightening than the old. We are facing the

possibility of ecological disaster. The AIDS virus threatens to bring

a plague of unimaginable proportions. Within two or three

generations, the population will become too great for the planet to

support. Thousands are dying of famine and drought. Generations

before our own have felt that the end of the world is nigh, yet it

does not seem that we are facing a future that is unimaginable. How

will the idea of God survive in the years to come? For 4000 years it

has constantly adapted to meet the demands of the present, but in our

century, more and more people have found that it no longer works for

them, and when religious ideas cease to be effective they fade away.

Maybe God really is an idea of the past. The American scholar Peter

Berger notes that we often have a double standard when we compare the

past with our own time. Where the past is analyzed and made relative,

the present is rendered immune to this process and our current

position becomes an absolute: thus " the New Testament writers are

seen as afflicted with a false sense of consciousness rooted in their

time, but the analyst takes the consciousness of his time as an

unmixed intellectual blessing. " Secularists of the nineteenth and

early twentieth centuries saw atheism as the irreversible condition

of humanity in the scientific age.

 

There is much to support this view. In Europe, the churches are

emptying; atheism is no longer the painfully acquired ideology of a

few intellectual pioneers but a prevailing mood. In the past it was

always produced by a particular idea of God, but now it seems to have

lost its inbuilt relationship to theism and becomes an automatic

response to the experience of living in a secularized society. Like

the crowd of amused people surrounding Nietzsche's madman, many are

unmoved by the prospect of life without God. Others find his absence

a positive relief. Those of us who have had a difficult time with

religion in the past find it liberating to be rid of the God who

terrorized our childhood. It is wonderful not to have to cower before

a vengeful deity, who threatens us with eternal damnation if we do

not abide by his rules. We have a new intellectual freedom and can

boldly follow up our own ideas without pussyfooting around difficult

articles of faith, feeling all the time a sinking loss of integrity.

We imagine that the hideous deity we have experienced is the

authentic God of Jews, Christians and Muslims and do not always

realize that it is merely an unfortunate aberration. "

 

Karen Armstrong, A History of God,

Ballantine Books, 1993, p. 377-78.

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, " jagbir

singh " <adishakti_org wrote:

 

> " Many beings remain for thousands of years in the casual cosmos.

> By deeper ecstasies the freed soul then withdraws itself from the

> little casual body and puts on the vastness of the casual cosmos.

> All the separate eddies of ideas, particularised waves of power,

> love, will, joy, peace, intuition, calmness, self-control, and

> concentration melt into the overjoyous Sea of Bliss. No longer does

> the soul have to experience its joy as an individualized wave of

> consciousness, but is merged in the One Cosmic Ocean, with all its

> waves — eternal laughter, thrills, throbs...

>

> " When a soul finally gets out of the three jars of bodiily

> delusions, " Master continued, " it becomes one with the Infinite

> without any loss of individuality. Christ had won this final

> freedom even before he was born as Jesus. In three stages of his

> past, symbolized in his earth-life as the three days of his

> experience of death and resurrection, he had attained full power to

> arise in the Spirit. The undeveloped man must undergo countless

> earthly and astral and casual incarnations in order to emerge from

> his three bodies. A master who achieves this final freedom may

> elect to return to earth as a prophet to bring other human beings

> back to God, or like myself he may chose to reside in the astral

> cosmos. There a saviour assumes some of the burden of the

> inhabitants karma and thus help them to terminate their cycle of

> reincarnation in the astral cosmos and go on permanently to the

> casual spheres. Or a freed soul may enter the casual world to aid

> its beings to shorten their span in the casual body and thus obtain

> the Absolute Freedom. " "

>

> Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi,

> Self-Realization Fellowship, 1974, p. 420-21.

 

 

Dear Jagbir,

 

Did Paramahansa Yogananda refer to a " Causal " Sphere? My understanding of the

Causal Sphere is that it is the Cause for the earthly, temporal, material sphere

of the physical body and material appearance in general. i understand that Yogi

Paramahansa might have referred to the earthly, temporal, material sphere of the

physical body and material appearance in general as the " Casual " sphere, which

is unique. But did he not mean the " Caus-al " in some instances, in the quote

above? i know that " Causal " and " Casual " are very close. The possible 'play' of

these two words, is very interesting, actually!

 

warmest regards,

 

violet