Shri Mataji on where religion has gone wrong - Part 1

[Guest guest]

Dear All,

 

Shri Mataji, as the incarnation of the Divine Feminine, took upon Herself the

job to inform human beings where the religions have 'gone wrong'. Shri Mataji

has scrutinized and commented on each and every religion at one time or another,

and recommended where the religion needs to change, i.e. " get back to the

essential truth of the incarnation or prophet around which the religion was

formed " . In this talk, Shri Mataji concentrates mainly on Buddhism. Here then,

is Part 1.

 

regards to all,

 

violet

 

 

Shri Mataji on where religion has gone wrong - Part 1

 

Buddha told about three things which are very important and useful for Sahaja

Yogis to follow. He said " Buddham sharanam gacchami " : " I surrender myself to the

enlightened one " . What does it mean? " I surrender myself to the one who is

enlightened " . In this case, one can say it was Buddha. In your case, it is your

Spirit. You surrender yourself to your Spirit. By saying " Buddham sharanam

gacchami " Buddha means " the one who knows " .

 

Then He said another thing, " Dhammam sharanam gacchami " which means to surrender

yourself to the religion, which is the true religion, which is the balance.

 

Now as you see, all these man-made religions are so funny and you can't make

much out of them. You can't explain if there are 'religions' or if these are

'mafias'. Buddha said, " You surrender yourselves to Dharma " . So the Buddhist

thought 'surrender to Dharma' means that what you have to do is to become like a

Buddhist, i.e. wear a dress like a Buddhist, like Buddha used to wear. You don't

'become that' by wearing a dress like Buddha, do you?! Or when they thought we

should do something more. So more Buddhist got hold of a wheel, because He

talked of a 'wheel of life' and all that. Absolutely, I should say, very

unintelligent way of understanding Buddha. And they would go on, you see, moving

that 'wheel' like mad. You can't talk to them. You say now, " Where is that

Road? " .... " Buddha " " How do we go there? " Everything has an answer, so I said:

" Please answer me " . " This is the answer " . " So what is the answer? " Then these

people thought we should find out new methods so some of them took to the

Upanishads again and from there also started making jataka kathas, like the

stories which are very absurd, funny stories, mischievous stories, 'this' story

and 'that' story.

 

At the same time Hinduism took 'another' funny role, and they had a big assault

of 'tantrikas' and when the tantrikas came in, they brought all kinds of ugly,

horrible things in, say about the sixth century it started and a complete belt

starting beyond Calcutta going towards Dwarika, a complete belt got involved in

tantrism. So the same Buddhist later on, followed the same tantrik methods. So

they tried to bring everything from this place, that place, and a mixture, so

now if you ask, " Now what's your religion? " they say, " I'm Buddhist " . 'What

Buddhist'? Dinayan, Ganayan, Ambaja, " I am Zen " , this, that, all kinds of

Buddhism is there. It's impossible to really understand where is Buddhism there.

So what do these do? One will shave their hair. One will shave their moustache.

Another one will wear this kind of a dress. This is the only difference between

one and another. But the common point is that they're all cheats, they can

deceive you, they can tell lies without feeling funny. They are very sly, very

cunning and suicidal. They can be very violent and the only desire they have is

to kill everybody who comes across. This is where Buddha's 'Buddhism' had ended

up.

 

So now we are face to face with Buddha. But what He talked about was a

spontaneous happening of self-realisation. And He said, " You prepare yourself " .

All the time He said, " You prepare yourself for self-realisation and try to

watch everything without desire " . This was just preparation for Sahaja Yoga

['Spontaneous Union with the Divine'] that He was talking about. But as you see,

all the Buddhists today, if you see them, you'll be amazed that they're neither

'here' nor 'there'. You just don't know how to place them, how to understand

them, how to make them feel what Buddha taught or Zen taught. They are not in a

condition to understand anything. It's like, you see, the brain of a person who

is having all kinds of thoughts, like all the pebbles in one little pot, making

noise. God knows which one is making which one.

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Lord Buddha Puja

San Diego, U.S.A.

23/07/88