Shri Mataji: You have such a unique Light within you.

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Tue May 4, 2004 10:23 am

 

Today morning i was updating some files and decided to confirm yet

again what has been cross-examined numerous times over the years.

At about 7.30 am 10-year-old Lalita was asked about the Light:

 

Question: What is above Shri Mataji's head?

 

Lalita: The Light.

 

Question: Can you look at it for a long time?

 

Lalita: Yes, you can look at it.

 

Question: Does it not blind you?

 

Lalita: It doesn't blind me.

 

Question: Is it different from the sun you see on Earth?

 

Lalita: Yes.

 

Question: Why?

 

Lalita: It's smaller.

 

Question: Anything else?

 

Lalita: It doesn't blind you. What else ...... It's brighter. OK?

 

myself: Thank you Lalita.

 

 

This Light is always above the Great Divine Mother, and this Spirit

of God Almighty resides within the Sahasraras of all humans. Unlike

Her incarnation on Earth as Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, now an aging

octogenarian, She is eternally youthful and of unsurpassable

beauty. Kash, Arwinder and Lalita have always maintained that they

have never seen any woman as beautiful as Shri Maha-Devi who is

truly the Great Primordial Goddess. (Shri Saraswati, Laxshmi and

Kali are also extremely beautiful but none are comparable with the

Maha-Devi.)

 

 

Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:59 pm

 

A few months ago i asked my ten-year-old daughter Lalita what that

immensely brilliant Light above the Adi Shakti in her Sahasrara

is. She replied " God! "

 

i remained silent for a long time to absorb the immensity of that

single word answer.

 

 

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Jesus answers, " Every one who has known himself has seen it (The

Light). "

 

" As Jesus talks with his three chosen disciples, Matthew asks him to

show him the " place of life, " which is, he says, the " pure light. "

Jesus answers, " Every one [of you] who has known himself has seen

it. " 53 Here again, he deflects the question, pointing the disciple

instead toward his own self-discovery. " (53. Dialogue of the Savior

132.15 — 16, in NHL 233.)

 

Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels,

Random House, New York, 1989, p. 131.

 

 

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" Scholars investigating the Nag Hammadi find discovered that some of

the texts tell the origin of the human race in terms very different

from the usual reading of Genesis: the Testimony of Truth, for

example, tells the story of the Garden of Eden from the viewpoint of

the serpent! Here the serpent, long known to appear in Gnostic

literature as the principle of divine wisdom, convinces Adam and Eve

to partake of knowledge while " the Lord " threatens them with death,

trying jealously to prevent them from attaining knowledge, and

expelling them from Paradise when they achieve it. Another text,

mysteriously entitled The Thunder, Perfect Mind, offers an

extraordinary poem spoken in the voice of a feminine divine power...

 

But those who wrote and circulated these texts did not regard

themselves as " heretics. Most of the writings use Christian

terminology, unmistakable related to a Jewish heritage. Many claim to

offer traditions about Jesus that are secret, hidden from " the many "

who constitute what, in the second century, came to be called

the " catholic church. " These Christians are now called gnostics, from

the Greek word gnosis, usually translated as " knowledge. " For as

those who claim to know nothing about ultimate reality are called

agnostic (literally, " not knowing " ), the person who does claim to

know such things is called gnostic ( " knowing " ). But gnosis is not

primarily rational knowledge. The Greek language distinguishes

between scientific or reflective knowledge ( " He knows mathematics " )

and knowing through observation or experience ( " He knows me " ), which

is gnosis. As the gnostics use the term, we could translate it

as " insight, " for gnosis involves an intuitive process of knowing

oneself. And to know oneself, they claimed, is to know human nature

and human destiny. According to the gnostic teacher Theodotus,

writing in Asia Minor (c. 140-160), the gnostic is one has come to

understand who we were, and what we have become; where we were...

whither we are hastening; from what we are being released; what birth

is, and what is rebirth.

 

Yet to know oneself, at the deepest level, is simultaneously to know

God; this is the secret of gnosis. Another gnostic teacher, Monoimus,

says:

 

Abandon the search for God and the creation and other matters of a

similar sort. Look for him by taking yourself as the starting point.

Learn who it is within you who makes everything his own and says, " My

God, my mind, my thought, my soul, my body. " Learn the sources of

sorrow:, joy, love, hate . . . If you carefully investigate these

matters you will find him in yourself.

 

What Muhammad 'All discovered at Nag Hammadi is, apparently, a

library of writings, almost all of them gnostic. Although they claim

to offer secret teaching, many of these texts refer to the Scriptures

of the Old Testament, and others to the letters of Paul and the New

Testament gospels. Many of them include the same dramatic personae as

the New Testament--Jesus and his disciples. Yet the differences are

striking.

 

Orthodox Jews and Christians insist that a chasm separates humanity

from Its creator: God is wholly other. But some of the gnostics who

wrote these gospels contradict this: self-knowledge is knowledge of

God; the self and the divine are identical.

 

Second, the " living Jesus " of these texts speaks of illusion and

enlightenment, not of sin and repentance, like the Jesus of the New

Testament. Instead of coming to save us from sin, he comes as a guide

who opens access to spiritual understanding. But when the disciple

attains enlightenment, Jesus no longer serves as his spiritual

master: the two have become equal--even identical.

 

Third, orthodox Christians believe that Jesus is Lord and Son of God

in a unique way: he remains forever distinct from the rest of

humanity whom he came to save. Yet the gnostic Gospel of Thomas

relates that as soon as Thomas recognizes him, Jesus says to Thomas

that they have both received their being from the same source:

 

Jesus said, " I am not your master. Because you have drunk, you have

become drunk from the bubbling stream which I have measured out....

He who will drink from my mouth will become as I am: I myself shall

become he, and the things that are hidden will be revealed to him. "

 

Does not such teaching--the identity of the divine and human. the

concern with illusion and enlightenment, the founder who is presented

not as Lord, but as spiritual guide sound more Eastern than Western?

Some scholars have suggested that if the names were changed,

the " living Buddha " appropriately could say what the Gospel of Thomas

attributes to the living Jesus. Could Hindu or Buddhist tradition

have influenced gnosticism?

 

The British scholar of Buddhism, Edward Conze, suggests that it had.

He points out that " Buddhists were in contact with the Thomas

Christians (that is, Christians who knew and used such writings as

the Gospel of Thomas) in South India. " Trade routes between the Greco-

Roman world and the Far East were opening up at the time when

gnosticism flourished (A.D. 80-200); for generations, Buddhist

missionaries had been proselytizing in Alexandria. We note, too, that

Hippolytus, who was a Greek speaking Christian in Rome (c. 225),

knows of the Indian Brahmins--and includes their tradition among the

sources of heresy:

 

There is . . . among the Indians a heresy of those who philosophize

among the Brahmins, who live a self-sufficient life, abstaining from

(eating) living creatures and all cooked food . . . They say that God

is light, not like the light one sees, nor like the sun nor fire, but

to them God is discourse, not that which finds expression in

articulate sounds, but that of knowledge (gnosis) through which the

secret mysteries of nature are perceived by the wise. "

 

Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels,

 

 

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Professor R. Panikkar: " This light is cosmic as well as transcosmic. "

 

" This universal symbol of Light is surely one of the best symbols Man

has found to express the delicate balance that almost all cultures

have tried to maintain, with varying success, between a merely this-

worldly or atheistic attitude and a totally otherworldly or

transcendent attitude. There must be some link between the world of

Men and the world of the Gods, between the material and the

spiritual, the immanent and the transcendent. If this link is of a

substantial nature, pantheism is unavoidable. If the link is

exclusively epistemic, as Indian and many other scholasticisms tend

to affirm, the reality of this world will ultimately vanish. The

symbol of Light avoids these two pitfalls by allowing for a specific

sharing in its nature by both worlds or even by the " three worlds. "

This is the supreme light spoken of in the Rig Veda and in the

Brahmanas; it is mentioned also in the Chandogya Upanishad and in the

well-known prayer of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: " Lead me from

darkness to light!'' "

 

Professor Raimundo Panikkar, The Vedic Experience

 

 

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Shri Mataji: " You have such a unique Light within you. "

 

" One has to know on this point that you have got the Light . . . You

have to give up all that is falsehood. If you are fully enlightened

you will give up automatically. You don't have to be told. The Spirit

automatically feels responsible that it has to give Light. It has to

tell that you please give Light, because it is Light. Because it is

Eternal Light nothing can kill it. There is a sloka, " It cannot be

killed by anybody, nothing can destroy it. Even if you want to suck

it you cannot. " It is such a powerful Light. You can verify it

whether it is eternal or not. You have to see for yourself you have

such a unique Light within you. In the history of spirituality of

this world so many have got Realization — such a Light in them. How

could these stupid, flimsy, useless conditionings dominate you now,

when you are the carrier of Eternal Light. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Being The Light Of Pure Compassion, Istanbul, Turkey

November 6, 1994

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