What Shri Mataji said about Buddha - Part 4

[Guest guest]

Dear All,

 

In Part 3, we concluded with:

 

" Sahaja Yogis are always asking: " Mother, how to get rid of ego? " Ego can be

told: " You Go. " When this 'I-ness' goes away, the Self rises. What is there to

feel hurt [about]? What is there to feel bad [about]? What is there to hurt

others? It's all right [if] you have been cheated. At least " you " have not

cheated anyone! Be happy about it! Means you have surrendered yourself. No one

can cheat you, because there is some higher force which is looking after you. In

this way, we should understand Buddha and know our Buddha qualities, so that our

ego can be dissolved. When you say: " Mother, we surrender to You " that just

means that you give this horrible ego a holiday.... Then you'll laugh at

everything, you'll make fun of yourself, just enjoy everything! May God bless

you. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Shri Buddha Puja Synopsis

Dienze, Belgium

4 August, 1991

 

Here now, is Part 4

 

Enjoy,

 

violet

 

 

What Shri Mataji said about Buddha - Part 4

 

Today we have assembled here to do Shri Buddha Puja. I don't know how many of

you have read of Buddha's life and how He ultimately, achieved His

enlightenment? I don't know how many of you, have really seen the Buddhists or

have met those, who called themselves " Buddhist " ? As in every religion, all of

them got lost into some sort of fundamentalism, because none of them got

realisation - and that's why everybody established their own style of

religion....

 

We have to see how He [buddha] first felt, that one had to seek something beyond

life. He was a king's son, and He had a very nice wife and a son. Anybody in

that position would be quite satisfied, but one day He saw a very sick man, a

beggar, and a dead man, with everybody crying for the dead person. He couldn't

understand how this misery has come, and what is the need to have this misery,

so He gave up his family. He gave up his luxuries of life; everything He gave

up, and went in search of the truth, as many of you have done.

 

He read all the Upanishads and all the books that were possible, for Him to know

the truth, but He couldn't get anything! He took a complete sanyasa, giving up

food, entertainment, everything. Ultimately, He was lying under a banyan tree

and suddenly the Adi Shakti [Holy Spirit] gave Him realization because He was so

true and was one of the ones, marked for a special place in the Virata.

 

In many lectures, Shri Mataji has already talked about how He achieved his own

enlightenment, regarding his " Self " . What we have to see from his life, is that

He discovered and found out that 'want' and 'desire' are the reason for all

miseries - but He didn't know the real, pure want, the pure desire! That's how

[when He got Self-realization], He could explain to people that they have to

take to their awakening through their Kundalini. As He had followed such an

ascetic life, that became the code for the Buddhists.

 

The early Buddhists used to go barefoot, without any provision for food, or

arrangements for staying. They were supposed to shave off their heads and wear

only one long dress to cover themselves, whether it was the cold or warm season.

They were not allowed to sing, dance or entertain themselves, and food was just

collected from whatever villages they visited. Whatever they got (very minimum)

was cooked for them and they would offer to their Guru first, and then eat.

Imagine thousands of people going like that, bare feet in the scorching heat or

in the mud or rain! In all seasons, they used to walk, giving up all their

family relationships. If the husband and wife both joined the Sangha, then they

were not even supposed to live like husband and wife. So they tried to follow

[the Buddha] by giving up all other physical, mental, and emotional wants,

because He said 'the want creates it' - (i.e. misery).

 

They thought that by doing all these things, they would achieve their

realization. Two of His disciples did achieve self-realization, Mogulana and

Sariputra. But the life was absolutely dry and insipid; there was no fun in it.

No children were allowed, so it became a very secluded, harsh life. Though it

was called a sangha (i.e., a collectivity), there was no rapport in that

collectivity, because they were not supposed to talk too much or discuss

anything about politics, for example. The only thing they could talk about was

meditation; of achieving the highest life.

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Shri Buddha Puja Synopsis

Shudy Camps, England

31 May, 1992