Shri Mataji on where religion has gone wrong - Part 7

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Dear All,

 

In Part 6 we concluded with:

 

" Despite all the stupid opposition and nonsense, they [sahaja Yogis] have shown

how they have brought in so many people to Sahaja Yoga and how with complete

concentration they have been able to establish so many in Sahaja Yoga. So it is

for you to learn from it, that despite all the problems and everything, without

feeling bad about it, just see that you move like a big elephant towards giving

realisation to others - creating more and more Sahaja Yogis in America. Those

who have this aim in life, that we have to give realisation to people, that we

have to achieve establishment of Sahaja Yoga [union with the Divine], will never

have any problems of any kind. So never bring yourself down to the level where

you think that: " see, the food was not good.... that was not good.... this one

was not good.... this fellow was torturing.... that fellow was doing this. "

Nothing. This is not going to help you or anyone else. Nor is it going to give

you any marks, as they say. After all, if you have to enter into the Kingdom of

God, one has to know that you have to have certain marks! Otherwise, God will

say that you failed and you'll be surprised why the entrance is not allowed! You

are thinking that you are so intelligent, so great, you see - how much gossip

you have created, how many problems you have created, how many leaders you have

pulled down, how much you have befooled Mother, and all that. [break Quote]

 

[Note: In Her Guru Talk 2008 at Cabella recently, Shri Mataji made it clear that

She wants all Sahaja Yogis who can, to become leaders and Gurus. There have

always been leaders/Gurus in Sahaja Yoga, who are not necessarily on the

organisational stage of Sahaja Yoga. Real leaders/Gurus are those who do not use

what Shri Mataji calls " very subtle types of aggressiveness " , which is something

that Buddha and Herself are trying to control:

 

" Another horrible thing that we have, which Buddha has tried to control, are

very subtle types of aggressiveness. That's one of the games I play - the one of

making somebody a leader. It is a game. Please remember! Even if I tell you that

I'm Mahamaya, you forget that. Even if I tell you that I'm playing a game, you

still forget that. [And they] so seriously become the leaders, you see! It

[means] nothing to feel that you are the leaders. There's nothing like

leaders.... there's nothing like that in Sahaja Yoga. But then I play

something. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Lord Buddha Puja

San Diego, U.S.A.

23/07/88

 

That certain WCASY members tried to wield their leadership right to Shri

Mataji's face and behind a curtain after the Guru Talk, 2008 at Cabella, is a

case in point of this " subtle type of aggressiveness " . That is not the true

leadership/Guruship that Shri Mataji expects of Sahaja Yogis. Certain WCASY

members obviously forgot that there is no such thing as 'leadership' in Sahaja

Yoga - at least not in the way that they are thinking about it - in the sense

that you take control of everything including all of the Sahaja Yogis also!]

 

[Resume Quote]:

 

And there, suddenly you find: " I've failed. What has happened?! " So don't

deceive your Self! "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Lord Buddha Puja

San Diego, U.S.A.

23/07/88

 

[Written in the English way, with the meaning of what Shri Mataji

gave, being retained.]

 

Here now, is Part 7.

 

Enjoy!

 

violet

 

 

Shri Mataji on where religion has gone wrong - Part 7

 

And there, suddenly you find: " I've failed. What has happened?! " So don't

deceive your Self! " .....

 

Self is the Spirit. Don't deceive your Self. If you deceive yourself, ultimately

you will be deceived - and despite the fact that you have been Sahaja Yogis, you

have been to my Puja, you have been here and been certified as Sahaja Yogis,

there's light on your head - still, they will say: " Take another life; after

then, come back. " 'Take another' as you see: failed. You have to go through one

more year. Try another one.

 

So the easiest way to be a good Sahaja Yogi is not to deceive your Self. Watch

yourself! Where is this mind going? What am I thinking? What is my mind working

out? Can I, this man is coming, can I give him realisation? Should I start

talking to him about Sahaja Yoga? Sitting in the train, watch a person: " Ah,

this is all right! Let's manage this fellow. " All the time you have to catch

human beings like fishes are also caught. I've taught you how to do it. To go on

catching them, one by one you create a greater collectivity. If your attention

is on that, then I will say that you have acted like Buddha, because Buddha did

just that. From everywhere He collected people and told them to follow a path of

detachment and He asked that you should detach yourself from your families, from

everything.

 

This, all this He did for one thing, that they should be prepared for today's

life, that they've done all these things. But we don't want you to wear orange

dresses. We don't want you to do all these wrong things, which are not needed

today. They were all right in those days, but today they are wrong, because they

are not needed. When it is not needed, why should you carry [something] on your

head?

 

Like the other day, I saw somebody carrying a big boat on his head. I said:

" What are you doing? " He said: " I'm carrying the boat " . " What for? Why are you

carrying the boat? " He said: " You see, I know there is no need to carry the boat

here because there is no sea, no water, nothing, but I'm just carrying. " " But

why are you carrying this load upon your head? " " Ah, because I'm carrying, you

know! "

 

That is how we are! We are carrying on with things which are not needed. Like:

" Mother, now I've been doing Hatha Yoga. Should I do some Hatha Yoga? " " But why

do you want to do it? There is no need for you " . " No, no, Mother, but I've been

doing it " . " So do it, what to do? " It's as stupid as this carrying of a boat on

your head, that whatever is not needed, is unnecessarily wasting your time. " I'm

used to this, Mother, I used to do this, so I must do it " . Everything is made

very easy for you in Sahaja Yoga. Very simple. You don't have to starve, you

don't have to fast, you don't have to become vegetarians, you don't have to go

and sit in the sun or meditate in the Himalayas. Nothing of the kind!

 

You can sit down comfortably wherever you like, and you can meditate. Everything

is made easy. And once you've found out your Spirit, you can enjoy everything

that is beautiful. Now on the whole, maybe for some people this is really too

much [like] sitting in a Sahara Desert [with] everything blowing on your head:

" What is this? How can we live here? Such a rough life! " You don't feel that

way, because you have the comfort of the Spirit within you. It's the comfort of

the Spirit and with the comfort of the Spirit, you don't need anything. That's

what you have!

 

So do not carry on with nonsensical things, because Buddha went round and round.

As we came to this program today, I was just thinking like Buddha: Going from

this end, again coming from this end, then I couldn't find it, then that end,

then coming this way. Ultimately we reached and this is blocked! I said: " Give

him a bandhan " . Finished, open!

 

So this was blocked, that was blocked, go this way, that way. All right, it was

blocked for him. So he went round and round. But it is not blocked for you! Why

do you want to go round and round again? But that is what today, everybody wants

to do, the same way: " We must sacrifice, we must give this up, we must do that " .

What are you going to sacrifice? What is there to sacrifice? i would like to

know [what is there to sacrifice] in Sahaja Yoga? Of course, mostly people

sacrifice their brains, I think. When nothing is to be sacrificed, why do you

want to become a 'goat of sacrifice'?

 

So from Buddha's life, you don't have to learn that He went into the jungles,

went and did this, also did renunciation, gave up his wife. No! That's not

needed now. That's over. This is where we fail, where we cannot explain to

people about those who say: " But we must have renunciation! " We have

renunciation from within, like the sand [flowing through the fingers], as I have

told you. We have detachment from within, but this is compassion. Pure

compassion is the most detached thing. The most detached thing is the pure

compassion. Anything that is pure is pure because it is detached. It's a proper

mathematics: " Anything that is pure has to be detached " . If it is attached it is

contaminated. See the logic! Absolute mathematics is there! If you have pure

love, then you are detached.

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Lord Buddha Puja

San Diego, U.S.A.

23/07/88