Shri Mataji on where religion has gone wrong - Part 3

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Dear All,

 

We concluded Part 2 with:

 

So this kind of a nonsensical sanyasa started after Buddha died, which was so

very shocking. This led people to think that you can wear an orange dress any

time, and then you are a sanyasi. If you wear an orange dress, you become

Buddha, and you become a detached personality. Now you can announce to the whole

world that " I'm a detached personality " . And what is your background? " Nothing,

I was just born out of this Mother Earth and I'm sitting here nicely like

Buddha " . So people stupidly start giving them money. So they get the money. But

actually, the background is that the fellow might have come out of the jail in

India for burglary or something like that, and now sitting down here as Buddha.

How will you make out " Buddham Sharanam Gachami " ? [break Quote]

 

[From Part 1, here is what Shri Mataji says " Buddham sharanam gacchami " means]:

 

" 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 " . "

 

[Resume Quote]:

 

So what we have to do is establish ourselves in Buddha. That is to establish

ourselves within, in our Spirit. Unless and until we are established in our

Spirit, we cannot understand the intricacies of all the ignorance that we have

all around us. So the best way to understand Sahaja Yoga is to establish

yourself in the Spirit. But those who are not intelligent, those who are stupid,

those who are selfish and greedy, do not see this point. And they do not like it

if a leader tells them that you must establish in Sahaja Yoga, that you should

have your Spirit manifested. They don't want to listen to that. They want to be

in the group of Sahaja Yogis because they don't want to be lonely. They're glad

to sing songs, music, everything in Sahaja Yoga because they want somewhere to

fit in, because they want an identity, they call themselves Sahaja Yogis. But

this identity is a false identity. You have to be identified with your Spirit.

That is the part that is " Buddham Sharanam Gacchami " . [Meaning for us: " I

surrender myself to the Spirit " .]

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Lord Buddha Puja

San Diego, U.S.A.

23/07/88

 

Here now is Part 3.

 

Enjoy!

 

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Shri Mataji on where religion has gone wrong - Part 3

 

The second is Dhamman Sharanam Gacchami. What is " Dhammam " ? It's Dharma. What is

our Dharma? It's Vishwa Nirmala Dharma. That means we have now become universal

beings. We are no more Indians, no more Africans, no more English, no more

French. We have now all become Sahaja Yogis who are the citizens of the Kingdom

of God. We have no other identification. This is our Dharma. We are now leading

a universal life. But Sahaja Yogis are not like that. So many of them still

identify themselves with localised stuff. Now, when you think of universality,

we have to understand that it's not only the religion or a country that

separates us, but also a kind of a quality. For example, if there are people who

are Rajo-gunis who are very active right-sided people, they'll combine together.

They may fight later but they combine. Then the people who are left-sides will

combine together - but both of these should cling onto those who are trying to

ascend, who are in the center. And there is where we fail very much. Our

associations and our understandings of each other is deluded by our ignorance

and we cannot understand who is for our ascent and who is for our benevolence.

This happens with us in so many ways.

 

We are universal beings and our culture is 'sahaja' culture. We have given up

all our 'non-sensical' cultures. In every religion, in every country, we have

seen the 'non-sense' of our culture - so we believe in the 'spontaneous' culture

of Sahaja Yoga {Union with the Divine]. So we are universal beings, and in this

state of being a 'universal being' - you have to develop your collective

consciousness. At first, one is for individual: " Buddham Sharanam Gacchami " . (I

surrender myself to Buddha). The second one is the one: " I surrender myself to

the collective " - in the sense of 'into the Dharma' which is the essence of the

collective. [break Quote]:

 

[Folks.... So, " I surrender myself to the collective " - really means " I

surrender myself to the Dharma " - " dharma " being the " essence " of the

collective. Shri Mataji is not talking about anything 'localized' here - but She

is talking about the 'state of being' of a universal being.]

 

[Resume Quote]:

 

Now what is the essence of our collective? What binds us together is 'Vishwa

Nirmala Dharma' - the 'Pure Religion of the Universe'. So once you understand

that this is the thing that binds you to each other - you must understand how

important it is to keep to the Vishwa Nirmala Dharma. In so many ways, I have

been able to tell you what Vishwa Nirmala Dharma is. So we have to understand

the full content of the Dharma that we are following, and also to reflect back

to see, " Are we really following this religion? "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Lord Buddha Puja

San Diego, U.S.A.

23/07/88