Shri Mataji on where religion has gone wrong - Part 4

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Dear All,

 

i have commenced Part 4 with the concluding paragraph of Part 3.

 

Enjoy!

 

violet

 

 

Shri Mataji on where religion has gone - Part 4

 

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? "

 

But in falsehood I have seen, for example, a Christian. Every Sunday he'll get

up, dress up nicely, go to church, get up three times, four times, sing songs,

this thing, do everything, pay the money to the priest, pay the money to the

church, pay something else, and then he thinks he has done the job. Very

religiously, he'll go and confess. Muslims, very religiously will do some things

which we cannot really understand. In Christianity, I was told that people try

to 'crucify' themselves, as a drama of course - but I think that they do it just

to protect 'Christianity' and to crucify God knows what! Then there are people

in India, who are following Hinduism and the first principle, the basic

principle of Hinduism, is that there is Spirit in everyone. So how can you have

'caste' and 'subcaste'?! If everybody has the Spirit you can't have caste and

subcaste. You cannot have religion like that!

 

So what we find in every religion, is that there are problematic things. But

once you come to this 'Pure Religion', then you see the essence of it - and the

essence is that we are all the Spirit and we are all related to each other. We

are part and parcel of the whole. So you go to the collective. So at the end is

that " Sangham Sharanam Gacchami " , which is also the very important one. It's the

most important thing, this " Sangham Sharanam Gacchami " . For example, you say

that you " surrender yourself to the collectivity " . What does that mean? What

does that entail? As I was talking to your leaders here, I said: " All of you

should form one collective unit - " a Sangham " . " All the leaders have to know

that they love Mother from their heart. And they should never try to cut each

other down, because 'somebody's' trying to tell 'something' against them. They

should have the love for each other. For example, this one Mr. X who's a leader:

Now, a negative force incarnates, and comes and tells this leader that: " See,

the other leader is my supporter! " So this fellow [Mr. X] has a bad feeling -

and the other leader has a bad feeling. This is going against the Sangha.

 

First, the Sangha of the collectivity of the leaders has to be fully

appreciated. I enjoy the way, when all these leaders meet and greet each other

nicely, and enjoy each other, 'pull each other's legs' and love each other, and

patronise the younger ones, looking after them. That's the beginning of Sangha.

If the leaders are not 'in Sangha' what other Sangha can we have? So the first

Sangha, is the Sangha of the leaders. All those who try to break that 'Sangha' -

must know that they are negative people, and they are going to 'stab' us.

Anybody who tries that, should be very careful!

 

The second Sangha, collectivity, is among the Sahaja Yogis. Now we are not, as I

told you, Indians, or English, or Americans, or anything - so we should not form

groups. What you will always find, if there are five Americans, they'll stick on

to each other, as if they have been glued together, and can't move away from

each other. All of them do that. If there are Indians, they will stick on

together. If there are other kinds, they'll stick on like that. Now, we are no

more like that. It's finished. So what is the need to glue to each other like

that? But it happens. We always 'glue' to each other. I don't know why! What is

the need to do that? And very commonly we see, that in India, people are

behaving in a very funny manner. Last year, I did not know, but people told me

that some group came and kept saying that: " We are a great nation, we are a

great nation " . They are not Sahaja Yogis. Our nation is the Kingdom of God and

our King is God Almighty and we have no other King and no other nation. If you

cannot transcend those barriers of 'stupid limitations' you cannot become Sahaja

Yogis.

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Lord Buddha Puja

San Diego, U.S.A.

23/07/88