What a true Sahaja Yogi leader is really like - Part 3

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Dear All,

 

The topic of: " What a true Sahaja Yogi leader is really like " is even more

relevant for all Sahaja Yogis, who would like to become leaders and Gurus of

Sahaja Yoga, as is Shri Mataji's wish, of those who are capable of it, as

expressed by Her Talk in Guru Puja " Purnima " at Cabella, Italy on 20 July, 2008:

 

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We concluded Part 2 with:

 

" The leader should be softly-spoken but strong, like water which can cut rocks

but cannot itself be cut. The leader should know that we are all part and parcel

of one unity, one divinity. Any harm anywhere in the body hurts the whole, so he

has to be very careful not to take sides or hurt anyone who is a Yogi. All

things which are against the whole, create bad vibrations and negative forces

build up - and sometime, they might explode and be a very big force against

Sahaja Yoga. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

first small English book

Chapter 5

'The Leader in Sahaja Yoga'

 

Here now is Part 3.

 

Enjoy!

 

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What a true Sahaja Yogi leader is really like - Part 3

 

The leader should not fuss about food or comfort. He should express contentment.

He should see joy in simple things. The leader should not indulge in any contest

of eloquence, nor should a Yogi be encouraged to pass blunt or sharp comments on

others. Of course, subtle humour and sweet, friendly, mirthful relationships

like 'pulling someone's leg' is to be enjoyed. Whatever is benevolent is good

for everyone and not just for one person. If this principle is understood, then

most of the details will take care of themselves.

 

The leader should follow Sahaj culture, which encompasses all the goodness and

righteousness of all other cultures. Whenever the social cultures, political

cultures, and economic cultures deviate from spirituality, they lose both their

balance and their basic principles. They are not in the centre - and so they

will be thrown out of the circulation of evolution. Sahaj culture is in the

centre, is dharmic and makes you ascend in your spirituality.

 

The leader should know about, and respect, all traditional religions, all the

incarnations, prophets, seers and all the realised souls of the past and

present. They should be aware of these religions, which have been in their

purest forms once upon a time - and might have deviated from the right path.

That deviation can easily be detected by an enlightened soul. The people who

have 'deviated' go into a kind of 'conditioning' which creates a 'blind' faith,

and a complete halt to their further progress of spirituality. When a religion

is professing about one person, then especially, it can create people who start

despising other religions and criticising others, finding faults with others. So

whatever religion they might profess, if they are criticizing each other, they

are just the same. One must realise that they have lost the sense that all

religions come from the same source. They have only partial knowledge, which

should be expanded - and is to be verified through Sahaja Yoga [i.e., through

'Union with the Divine'].

 

Every religion has said that you have to have your Self-realisation, your Second

birth - but these people can just brand themselves as 'self-realised',

'selected' or 'elected' people and can just go ahead with their blindness into

the darkness of destruction. That's why we are sometimes certain that people who

are professing a religion are also creating a society which is completely

decadent. [For example], those people who just believe in God the Father, are

alright as far as their economics and politics is concerned. But after some time

they might also deviate very greatly, because after all, it is a movement

towards the right side.

 

Now, if they [only] believe in God Almighty as the Father, and not [also] in the

Primordial Mother, then they can commit sins against their Mother - and the sins

against their Mother are absolute immorality. Such people will find that they

have the freedom to go into all areas of immorality which will give them all

kinds of horrible diseases and troubles. So one has to be careful. Before

criticising these people as they are getting destroyed in any case, the leader

must tell the group to take a very benevolent attitude towards all of them - to

save as many as possible, by telling them what these great saints and

incarnations have said.

 

The leader can also read books which are written by some enlightened people to

show where they have gone wrong. They should not say: " I said so " - but can use

some book like Khalil Gibran, William Blake or something similar to show how

things were absolutely said in a wrong manner by some of the people who managed

to enter into the scriptures and master [overcome/edit] them.

 

The conditioning of religion 'though people are educated' is very strong and the

strength of these religions is not [in the nature] of morality, goodness and

righteousness - but of destruction because they think they are the best and try

to destroy others. Sometimes when these things come up with such a vengeance,

people lose faith in religion as well as in God, but a Sahaja Yogi knows that

there is God. A leader, when dealing with such people in the presence of other

Sahaja Yogis, has to warn the Sahaja Yogis beforehand, that they should not jump

to any conclusions - saying things that will upset those people who are already

blind and going towards Hell.

 

If you take 'a very motherly attitude' you will understand that these are like

lost sheep and they have to be saved with great kindness, compassion, and

attention. But in case it is too difficult you should not bother about them.

Leave them alone and maybe one day they may work out better because if the

Kundalini has started working in them, gradually they will come around.

 

Sometimes, the people who are lost in 'blind faith' are not seeking their

enlightenment or second birth. The leaders should not force the illumination of

such people because it is a big task. Instead of that, they should look after

the easier people who are earnestly and honestly seeking the truth. If we

understand that all the incarnations are coming from the same source through

their inner divinity that's enlightening them - then we'll automatically know

there's a higher life than just blindly believing in some faith. Somehow, they

should know the basic principle that all the religions are from the same source

and that they came in at different times - and they had to work it out according

to the times: " samayachar " :

 

http://www.sahajvidya.org/SahajVidya/9_SahajVidya/9_Secondary_Index/SahajVidya_S\

horter_Entries_Letter_S.html

 

Knowing the Self-Gnyana [the Self-Knowledge] is higher than reasoning. Reasoning

comes from the ego, but the absolute knowledge comes from the Self. The leader

should follow a spiritual life, enjoying his spiritual values, and his Gnyana

will grow more and more on his central nervous system.

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

first small English book

Chapter 5

'The Leader in Sahaja Yoga'

 

 

" Gnyana or Jnana is knowledge. The central doctrine of this philosophy is that

everything is one, and it can be known. But that knowing is only by being. We

know ourselves not by words but by being ourselves, do we not? And this is

happiness, for it seems that though this consciousness of self that we find

ourselves to be is troubled, we always ascribe that trouble to something else -

something outside - which restricts or annoys us. Who is there who blames

himself for his sorrow? Even the thoughtful person who calls himself imperfect

ascribes his troubles and sorrows to the imperfections, and says that if he

could be without them he would be happy. Generally he tries to get rid of them.

So it is by the study of the self that this philosophy proceeds to disclose the

occult or secret truth which removes the imperfections and leaves the self free

and joyous. "

 

http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/gsoy/gsoy06.htm